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Yet the education & healthcare system are funded more now than ever. It seems like throwing money at the problem does not make the problem go away; throwing money at the problem may make it worse. More expensive government has opportunity costs & enables the state to have more totalitarian control. How & why did education & healthcare get bloated?
I was specifically thinking of the ATtiny85 when I made my comment. A beginner's first electronics project is often blinking an LED on and off. When I'm teaching a room full of kids electronics for the first time, the simplicity and low-cost nature of the ATtiny chips are hard to beat. I get it, ARM chips are great for real projects, but there is still a place for 8-bit AVR.
Orwell wrote a dark mirror of the world he already lived in — a world where the literal Soviet Union switched from the role of “ally which helped us defeat the literal Nazis” to “evil bastards we’ve always hated”.

Likewise, 1984’s Ministry of Truth was based on the real UK Ministry of Information, which did actual propaganda and censorship and only dissolved in 1946, shortly before he wrote the novel.
> Only thing useful I can come up is monkey patching without changing the function signature. E.g. smuggling additional data to a function which expects a string like thing.

Yeah this sounds terrifying to me, if I were to debug something like this.

Also the fact they identify as objects:

typeof new String("Foo") === 'object';

Case closed, I will never use it :D
Apple's Universal Clipboard is probably the culprit.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209460
> And inability to easily quantify it, opens up door for corruption.

Yes, and since it's not readily quantifiable, any notion of something analogous to a payoff schedule is not possible. This makes it difficult to make a concrete and specific case for doing code cleanup or debt paydown often just before it's absolutely necessary.
It's pretty common around here for firms that don't "face" the customers (a software shop is a perfect example) to install magnet locks with RFID card readers at the office entrance, and give the key cards to the workers (and the office building owners, obviously). Throw in some primitive software to count timestamps of enters/exits, and here's your punch clock for the digital era.
I would disagree wholeheartedly with you on that point.

Consider thefact that US external policies are always the same, Bush was the 'opposite' of Obama and yet US is still in Afghanistan and they still commit war crimes across the globe despite the fact since Bush Jr there was Lib/Rep/Lib presidents.

US - which still shapes worlds events by far - can start wars and fly drones in foreign countries that kill people there.

Russia can only send 'green men' to Ukraine or provoke a short term strike with Georgia.

This is not a result of a short term thinking nation.
How many cave paintings were just some whiteboard equivalent of hashing out an idea
You seem to be putting a lot of words in OPs mouth. I didn't see OP making any sort of suggestion about whether to avoid the vaccine or not. It looked like they were simply explaining some possible outcomes of the vaccine that are unknown.

OP also didn't say 10 years is enough time to know the long-term effects of these vaccines, just that it's traditionally been the minimum amount of time needed for some other drugs.
I'd rephrase: it's ok to monitor that the jobs are being performed, and sometimes this involves an employee doing something in a certain place at a certain time.

Though highly-overlapping, this is not a 1:1 correspondence with "tracking employees."

You may need to know that a security guard visited this station at 1:00 and this station at 1:30. You do not need to track whether he was in the bathroom five minutes longer today that yesterday.
Also I can't get Ubuntu 20 to play nice with NVIDIA graphics cards. Randomly spazzes out when you change the screen resolution, and a bunch of text saying the graphics card is not compatible. A bit sad really.
And if it is a Saturday morning, do they wake you up for field day too? :-)
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If nobody notices any difference then is there a problem? Why can't they work harder on even days and less hard on odd days if they want?

In your sysadmin example if someone prevents problems from happening they'd look worse than someone who constantly reacts. This already happens, why make it worse with an automated system?
In a way this app is better for the employee, because the alternative is to have the employee punch a time card. In my wife's case, her time card machine is a web page. She has to start up a computer, sign in to the computer, sign in to the web page, and punch the virtual time clock. Some days she has been working 30 minutes before she starts getting paid. Same thing happens in reverse at the end of the day. So she must work a significant amount of unpaid time each day because the process of clocking in and out is itself so time-consuming.
We don't know. They didn't have a free and fair plebiscite.
> While that doesn't mean we shouldn't investigate, it does mean there is no reason to be alarmed at this time.

Except to the general public this overcautious behavior and resulting media hype raises vaccine suspicions, and will decrease public trust in J&J (and even vaccines in general) as a result. It’s already happening.
The "civilization will collapse and the remainders will be hunter-gatherers" seems some weird form of the "dark ages" mythos that is certainly attractive to many. I wonder why that is.
You blame the anti-vaxxers for the vaccine not being up to spec? Isn't this what they were saying the whole time?
What's the answer to this question?
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It is managed by Russia so it is Russia, now. The same way Ireland one day was administered from London and now is not (excl. Northern Ireland). The rest is emotional talk.
society still benefit from it
The catch is that the dance is so technically complicated and physically demanding that you need to take years of very expensive dance lessons and be exceptionally fit in order to be able to pull off some of the moves, and even then nobody will tell you what order to do the steps in, where to acquire the huge feathers, or the specific song you need to dance to. Also even if you execute the dance perfectly you may get told you "aren't a good cultural fit", if they even bother to call you.
Yeah, you need to feed, house and give free healthcare to slaves. That's not happening any time soon.
Who said I did? I don't particularly; I'm self-employed and have been for a long time.

When I see people getting all het up over technical interviews on various moral grounds, one notes that they often forgo reflecting over the possibility that any replacements could be even more bullshit/arbitrary/exclusionary.
Does "what the people of Crimea wanted" change whether or not Russia annexed the territory against the wishes of the current owners of the territory and against international law that Russia claims to respect?
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Yes and we should compare apples to apples not a ripe apple to a green one (or a unicorn). PRC and the US are in two totally different places in their development and you cannot compare directly. China won't go from 0-60 in zero days just because other nations are already up to speed. They have to go through development itself and it is, much faster than the US did. It isn't an attack on the US which your comment reads like you believe. It's just that a country that is going through a metoric rise does not get everything right from day one because others have it somewhere else. It takes time.
> I switched to Dvorak because of wrist strain/RSI issues.

I did the same with Colemak, and had the same effect. I think the main thing really is just to not use qwerty - that layout is just extrarodinarily unergonomic.

It probably also helped that, around the same time I switched to Colemak, I took an interest in overall keyboard ergonomics, and invested in a split keyboard.
>The rules are not some holy writ handed down from above

I'm sorry, but when dealing with healthcare organizations and policy-makers, it's more like the "holy writ" than the idealized system you describe later.
> Rather than driving around the country to comic book conventions, he was able to do more in one month in online auctions than the past decades he had been collecting.

I personally try not to collect things, but for those who do, I wonder if this ruined the hobby because of instant gratification.
> This syndrome has taken only 1 to 3 weeks, I read 2-12 days elsewhere, to show up in people who've received Janssen's vaccine.

You are falsely assuming that they had zero risk prior to getting the vaccine and then the vaccine set off some clock of development time. In reality, there is a constant risk. Any cases from prior to the vaccine being administered would not be counted, and only so much time has passed since the vaccine was administered. What you are really measuring here is what are the odds that someone who has received the J&J vaccine did so in the past 1-3 weeks, which is in fact extremely high with nearly half administered in the past week alone. Further, the longer the delay between the vaccine being administered and the development of a clot, the less likely it is to be reported in connection with the vaccine. We should thus expect nearly all cases of background CVST to come from people who have recently received the vaccine.

> plus we have to consider this very same thing showing up in the other vaccine of roughly the same type that's been widely prescribed in open societies, AZ/Oxford's.

The AZ/oxford vaccine produces a different kind of clot, and its incidence rate is likewise not significantly above background levels. The fact AZ is being investigated with regards to blood clots is only more reason to be confident that blood clots in people who have recieved the vaccine are being accurately reported.
The situation in these areas is substantially more complicated than that. They're part of Ukraine's internationally recognized territory, yes, but they seceded in response to a 2014 overthrow (very arguably a coup) of the democratically elected president they supported. So there are good reasons that a Ukranian military takeover would be seen as aggression.
They/them works if you don't want to think about it. A very few people take offence because they assume you're taking a political stance; a few more are unaware singular they has a many centuries of history in English and may correct you.

It may seem odd to some in English in contexts where the gender is well established and/or obvious, but they'll get over it.
hmm... can you leave?
Scantron looks pretty awesome! liwasc isn't using nmap internally, the entire network scanner part (https://github.com/pojntfx/liwasc/blob/main/pkg/scanners/nod...) is <150 SLOC and the port scanner is <250 SLOC. Go has some really nice low-level networking APIs, especially when combined with `gopacket`.

I haven't really tested it on anything larger than /28 - it should probably work on larger ones as well though (it limits the maximum concurrent port & network scans so that ulimit etc. aren't an issue) :)
Can you elaborate as to why you think someone should avoid going to NA or AA because it's not "evidence"-based? It's essentially just a community where people share stories and support each other, not some religious cult.
It does actually. The time you spend practising French is time you are neglecting German and hence, your knowledge will decay. If it's not a long time you won't notice it (maybe some very specific words that you rarely use will be forgotten).
No because i don't pretend i have the best solution to every problem. However, i'm convinced not doing anything is the worst possible answer.

https://ttm.sh/uzm.jpg
Been using Dvorak full time since 2004, very happy with it, never looked back at QWERTY. I wrote a long self-interview here: https://www.nayuki.io/page/i-type-in-dvorak

One new point that I haven't worked into the article is the fact that many keyboard shortcuts require a Right Ctrl key or else they can't be done on one hand. At the same time, many laptops on the market omit the Right Ctrl key, to my utter frustration. Manufacturers need to stop messing with keyboard layouts! Even my humble 13-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X220 from year 2012 had a pretty good layout while being compact, while newer machines keep making keyboards worse despite having the same physical dimensions.
>Note that the West used to be a much higher percentage of the world population in the past.

I wonder about this quite a lot. This is obviously mainly due to the boom in developed world esp China, but do you have any opinions about 'fixing' the fertility rate in the West? Is it futile when the developing world incl China will always have higher rates?
I disagree with some parts of this comment because I think it misunderstands that there are real, historical, unaddressed grievances commingled with an entitlement mindset. (The rich also have an entitlement mindset, as it turns out.)

But the bit about schooling hit home for me. I'm supposedly in one of the most successful school districts of my city, but the stories I hear from parents ahead of me are disturbing. There is some real wackadoo stuff being exported directly from the university into young teachers and transferred into young minds.

I just heard one about a teacher refusing to mention how civil rights leaders prayed before their marching--literally skipping those pages of the book. I was creeped out when the TX schools were trying to downplay Jefferson's racism, but this secular, CRT re-narrativizing of history is just as bad.
I thought micro plastics and chicken bones were going to be the lasting remnants of our current civilizations see [1] and [2].
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chicken-bones-may-...
[2] https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/chicken-bones-and-plast...
Counter point: Islamic empires until the Ottoman empire collapse post WWI. They flourished, yet were not "progressive" in the modern Western sense of the word.
I think you should acknowledge that some people fail despite studying about 40 hours, and failing an interview takes a significant emotional toll that needs to be dealt with.
But there are 2 other vaccines that are still available so it's not like they're stopping all vaccinations. Another consideraton: J&J was/is having production problems so deliveries have been cut considerably - as such this probably won't be a very significant change to vaccination rates. I suspect the FDA will allow J&J vaccinations to resume in a couple of weeks. Maybe they'll recommend it not be used in women under 60 as has been done with the AZ vaccine in Europe. Even if they do that there would still be plenty of men eligible to get the J&J.
I got hit by this when Apple discontinued Aperture. They did a Lightroom promo with Flickr and I figured that it was worth a try. The performance was unusable slow compared to Aperture but I had to threaten to contact my credit card company before the sales gym pretending to be product support would stop telling me to buy a new Mac to run their software and processed the cancellation without a penalty.
If human nature wasn't greedy, vain and materialistic, the modern economy would not exist.
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> If every investor is passive, there is no mechanism for the price to reflect the company's underlying finances.

Sure, but that's a big if. We're a long way from 100% anything.

Also, a company can drop out of an index even when it's doing well just because investors are running a short campaign against it, so I would caution against the assumption that all market performance is because of poor company performance.

In general, the trend has been for most active investors to underperform the market, in part because they charge higher fees, but also because successful active investing is very hard to do consistently. People moving away from those active investors and to index funds won't hurt the market because they generally don't do as well as the market.

Now, if people move away from effective active investors, then that could lead to the problems mentioned, but I've never heard of people moving away from effective active investment.
Flow-based programming is also what came to mind when I explored the site.

For interested readers there is a decent article[0] and previous discussion[1] a few months back which discusses this topic.

[0]: https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/index.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848542
Yes. The rabbit hole that took for me was writing my own firmware using QMK. Make every key close to home row a tap/hold key accessing either modifier keys or extra layers. My fingers finally travel much less (the apparent promise of Dvorak/Colemak) but for the actual work of programming and operating a computuer.

https://github.com/Syzygies/log_folders/blob/master/keyboard...
It's not clear if increased energy efficiency is one of the benefits of this technology. My guess is no.
> it depends on critical thinking and there seems to be a decline in that area recently.

Respectfully, I call bullshit. There has always been a lack of critical thinking, we just didn't have the internet to bear witness. I think people are complaining about a lack of critical thinking more now because there are more educated people around to think critically.

So I agree that we need critical thinking, but let's not be alarmists about it just because some people are dumb or voted dumb people in.
There's the question of timing too. It's not clear if the number includes all CVST incidences or only those ocurring in a time window after vaccination. (Update: according to NYT these cases are 1-3 weeks after vaccination, so the background rate is too low to matter here). If there is a strong correlation in timing you can not simply use frequency data to rule out causation.
I'm not going to defend asking algorithmic questions in a whiteboard coding interview – there are lots of issues with this, but...

If you don't know how to reverse a binary tree, it's likely you won't ever think of it as a solution to a problem, so you won't encounter cases where you put these skills into action.

Either through self-selection or through lack of ability to identify opportunities, if you don't have certain skills you'll be unlikely to need them!

Web development or similar disciplines do sometimes manage to avoid these sorts of things, but debugging database index performance/size can lead down this path, processing data for complex business logic, data analysis, there are lots of cases in "web development" where these things can be applied, if you know where to look.
Their "invaders", our "liberators"
Not a mansion in SF, but a super computer in their pocket? Point being, only some resources are limited, but wealth in general is not.
Why do I get the feeling that 'unpopular' is just a euphemism for 'racist' here. You're saying you want to cancel cancel culture?

Like look, I'll give you that there exist an incredibly small fraction of people that actually embody the spectre you are trying to conjure here. We have so so many more pressing issues in this country than fear of wokeness--like the rise of domestic white-supremacist terrorism.
> Discord should just release the iOS application themselves

Who knew when we got PC software on floppies, without IBM's permission, it was the good old days?

After decades it seems apple and google closed the barn door.
I'm talking about tech companies being forced to help governments distribute large scale mass surveillance tools.
> They are still funneled through the exact same process that often ends up with them being rejected.

You can always count on Human Resources mucking up hiring good people.

That’s why we have a ‘Talent Shortage’.

If the actual Hiring Manager has any true authority—- tell them to interview these individuals directly.

Leave HR to handle administrative details.
Russians want to live in Crimea, so they packed up peoples of Crimea and sent them to Siberia. Can you travel to Siberia and ask them, please?
Right, and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to remove the permissions by app (only for all apps by turning off Handoff).
> They are not alleged at this point, they are real, and we have enough data that proves it.

What was it? 6 cases out of 7 million doses? That doesn't even look like a correlation, let alone a side effect.
It’s not a fantasy at all. Just an ex post facto rationalization that those with authoritarian personalities tend to come up with.
Sure, and when smart people come together, great ideas are shared and rubbed together, which generates other great ideas.
Plus, they have links to other interesting and smart people. So that collectively becomes a force.
https://deephn.org/?q=procedural+planet&filter=%7B%22domain%...

A bug probably. Huge amount of text in title here.
At a previous employer we would only push changes to production when all regions were outside office hours, which ended up being around 3AM for us. Only a few people had access to push changes, which they did from home (run deploy script, go through a checklist of what should have changed, run revert script if there's a problem). They'd get paid for being on-call, and used an authentication app to access our systems.

One day my boss asked if I would install this authentication app on my phone, so I would be able to push changes. I refused, stating that my phone is my private property. This resulted in quite a long conversation, with reassurances about security, etc. but I didn't budge. At one point they stated that my "argument wouldn't work" if it was on a company-provided phone. I completely agreed and said that would be fine, which seemed to surprise them.

I don't think it had even occurred to them that I was being honest: I didn't want to install random things on my phone. I wasn't making up some excuse to avoid being on call in the early hours.

(Of course, I also wasn't going to suggest a way to end up on call in the early hours!)
Could equally well say "C++ is for professionals", or "Java is for professionals" and so on ad nauseam, with pretty much the same specious justifications.
Oh man. This is such a hit piece.
RMS is an innocent, authentic, (autistic) man. His intentions are pure and not abusive. People can rile themselves up to get offended, but that doesn't make him guilty of...making people feel uncomfortable? I'm not even sure what this article is saying he did aside from being awkward.
I didn't say she's a fake physicist, just that I don't think she's a very good one.

> She's as qualified as pretty much anybody else who's going to appear in public to talk about such things.

Not at all. There are thousands of people who clearly have a much deeper understanding of fundamental physics and some of them are popularizers too. Lenny Susskind is a good example. Peter Shor, who sometimes comments on her blog. There are plenty of bloggers who aren't famous.
> Let us start with an assumption that most of us already suspect to be true: that civilization will not survive more than a few centuries into the future.

If no big new innovations are made (e.g. finding a way to exploit previousely unused raw materials), how long will the current earth reserves allow technology to last?
Yup, and I wish the compiler would give a warning on a use of a copy constructor...
There’s really no need to make an extra effort to bury anything. The world’s landfills surely already contain more than enough weird durable objects to puzzle future archaeologists.

Also, pessimism is so lazy.