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I feel exactly the same way.

Non-geek friends are always shocked that I do not typically want additional new tech-stuff in my life unless the payoff is very high.

Novel and interesting are not sufficient on their own.

I am immersed in layers of technology (and poorly-thought-out Authentication schemes) everyday for 10-12 hours and it presents a noticeable amount of frustration.

I rarely am looking for more of it. I am pretty sure I don't want my dryer on my network.
You could run a (hypothetical) proprietary third party full-stack TV implementation on non-Tivoized hardware just as well as a corresponding open-source implementation, because the TV just wouldn't care what's running on it. That's why I said they are orthogonal.
As somebody who wants to try out nix, but has almost no knowledge of it, I would like to find resources that show the "right" way, or perhaps the "best" way to use nix. Do you know of existing documentation that explains that, according to your opinion?
What are the EU/UK rules like for people who get banned but have purchased hardware that only works if you have an FB account (like an Oculus headset)? I think in the US you're SOL if you get banned outside of the return and chargeback windows
I think it depends on your circumstances but I don’t think $15/hour is a ton of money.

Warehouses are frequently in rural settings and $15 isn’t so bad. I have friends who are doing ok on $12/hour but they only have $300 rent and really low expenses. Rural America doesn’t have many upsides, but being cheap is one.

And my point wasn’t that Amazon was wonderful, just that it pays more than the alternative since the average pay is much lower ($11 vs $15 I think) at other companies.
That's not at all how our tax system works. Progressive tax brackets only tax you at the new rate on the money that you've made within that tax bracket. Getting into a higher tax bracket does not result in you making less money. Ever.
That’s a common misconception in 99% of cases, save for some welfare cliffs for really low earners. Tax brackets are graduated tiers, so not everything is taxed at the same rate.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/071114/can-moving-h...
Don't ignore it for a year.

She did very well to tell her lead that behavior made her uncomfortable. When it continued, it was time to bring it up with HR or her manager. Looks like the stress of living with it for a year made her want more action than HR provided for a first offence.

If you re-read the article, it's not clear where Google HR is at fault. The investigation took too long? They didn't make him move his desk, work from home, or take leave?

He was likely told a repeat incidence would lead to termination. She would have mentioned if the behavior continued, and doesn't.

Her peer group/friends thought the behavior was mild, but she wanted Google to punish him for betrayals of her past. A more severe response wasn't warranted for a mild first offence (lots of people like this never reoffend). It wasn't bad enough to change his position, and obviously you can't ask the victim to change teams. Maybe more could have been done to help smooth their relationship, like an apology.

Her career unravelling comes after this.
$144/month is expensive for many.
Do you mean The first dotnet language?
Relative to buying software outright, yes, it's a big cost. Any it's also annoying. You don't own the software, which ends up effecting you negatively in a myriad of small ways.
All that is understood. The big question after the article was - the how is delved into so much detail.. but the why seems a little hazy. Is it just security that your customers want? What is the primary motivation of doing this? Your raison d'etre mentioned somewhere would be cool..

Edit: from their website "Deploy App Servers
Close to Your Users
Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required."
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The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union hasn't always worked out for those workplaces that have brought them in.* In this instance, maybe unions aren't the solution to the "problem" or maybe the problem doesn't really exist?

* https://www.unionfacts.com/union/Retail,_Wholesale,_and_Depa...
I like to think this is due to the bad reputation unions have.

Digging a two mile tunnel eats half of the state budget? Police refuses to wear body cams? Schools are slow to reopen after covid? Rightly or not, in many people's minds unions are to blame.
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Curl does loads of stuff, supports so many protocols - HTTP, LDAP, FTP etc.
The FCC is an unelected, mostly unaccountable entity. I think George Carlin had some things to say about them. That they have any control over transmission of anything outside of a technical, practical scope is a travesty, imo.

Beyond the hardened strawmen of actual written law, we have a shifting sense of what is publicly acceptable. Given that most people do what everyone else around them is doing, or at least what they believe others are doing, there exists a powerful tool in that to control the public discourse. We've gone from "I disagree with what you say, but I will die to protect your ability to say it," to "I think someone will find this offensive, so I will also find this offensive, despite my not knowing anyone who'd actually be offended by it."

The laws are a harder target, so those who would wish to stifle inconvenient discourse likely would find it easier to convince a mostly pliable, trusting public to not say the things they don't want said. That there still are a small number of companies controlling what a majority of people consume might be convenient to this.

All conjecture, of course. More of the Paul Harvey "If I Were The Devil" kind of thing.
That’s not how tax brackets work. It is, unfortunately, how some welfare programs work. This results in benefits “cliffs” where you can lose thousands of dollars of welfare for earning a single additional dollar. If those welfare payments are how you keep a roof over your head, it’s pretty easy to get trapped right below the ceiling.

That said, you are unlikely to be eligible for these benefits at all if you are a full-time warehouse employee. They are aimed mostly at those in genuine poverty.
My point was more that calling someone social-media-savvy on HN is usually code for (at best) someone who works in marketing who does something that’s “not real work.” Not accusing you of that (and your explanation makes perfect sense) but trying to keep in mind that HN in itself is social media and a marketing tool for a VC fund.
That. Is. Not. How. Tax. Brackets. Work.

The. Higher. Rate. Only. Applies. To. The. Income. Amount. Extra. Above. The. Prior. Tax. Rate. Bracket.

Yes the emphasis style here is annoying but it’s such a widespread and damaging misconception
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That's why studies of the PCR have focused on more southernly areas, in particular the PNW and the Channel islands. If you want lots of details and citations, I'd recommend perusing the 40th anniversary review paper: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2019.80
Related, maybe interesting to this crowd: In FreeBSD, the RB tree implementation has been replaced with a "weak AVL" tree implementation:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/504ba65c8c9f7a...

> Weak AVL (Wavl) trees sit between AVL and red-black trees in terms of how
strictly balance is enforced. They have the stricter balance of AVL
trees as the tree is built - a wavl tree is an AVL tree until the
first deletion. Once removals start, wavl trees are lazier about
rebalancing than AVL trees, so that removals can be fast, but the
balance of the tree can decay to that of a red-black tree. Subsequent
insertions can push balance back toward the stricter AVL conditions.

> ...

> Testing has shown that for the cases where red-black trees do worst,
wavl trees better balance leads to faster lookups, so that if lookups
outnumber insertions by a nontrivial amount, lookup time saved exceeds
the extra cost of balancing.
I should clarify my earlier statement, I didn't mean to say there wasn't some form of morality involved, as you pointed out it's likely to some degree there was, just that I don't personally believe it to be a major contributing factor. Just that it was what I was personally taught, that England suddenly realised they were being immoral and sought to right that.
The conflict over the investigation is justifiable. It's necessary to understand how the virus got started. If it's lab-grown we will want to be very careful to scrutinize each other's labs. If it's natural we will want to be very careful to scrutinize wild game. The implications of any scenario are broad and complex, but clearly we don't want a repeat of 2020 if we can avoid it.

Another point: just because there's some uncomfortable conflict over the investigation doesn't mean we should abandon and investigation, in fact it probably means we should investigate more vigorously.
I've heard that the "wonky looking" stuff typically gets processed into other products - apple sauce, e.g. and that some of those defects can actually increase the likelihood of a whole container developing mold.

https://twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/108605509324443238...
Kinda surprised that XML is officially retired, since it's still in use for a lot of enterprise APIs.
This exactly.
I am not asking my employer to spend so much money on something I am not using for free in my free time.
It's important to not drop good ideas. Things have a way of circling back to needing it in the future.
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> In devloved areas like Scotland suffrage is even lower (16)

Only for certain elections -- local and Scottish parliamentary. You still have to be 18 to vote in elections for Westminster; the same was true of European elections when they were still a thing in the UK.
Yes and it still outweighed that especially if you were loading a lot of images or a stupid amount of different JS/CSS files
> One doesn’t have to like him, but one should respect him.

I'll pass, thank you.

I have no respect for a racist AF person: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/8/13/the-priceless-r...

There are other failings too; his image has been carefully managed with skilled PR.

That I am a citizen of a country that his country once subjugated might make me a little salty towards the monarchy in general.
In all of this 200+ comments thread, this is the first time you've clearly articulated examples of the pain to solve. Here's what to notice about these three comments:

In all three, you still want to ideally be using Excel. In a sense, these are three feature requests for Excel...and each of them is valuable:

-Getting a tool that instantly turns Excel into something made available online, that can be easily manipulated - that's great. (Not Google Sheets. Not Tableau. Not CSV. Excel)
- A Diff tool for excel spreadsheets, or a version control tool for them - also amazing.

Your tool is none of those things. It demands so much upfront, and supposedly targets those who have neither the time nor the desire to spend that time fiddling with what is ultimately pitched as a sort-of-Excel-but-not-that-solves-maybe-one-problem-but-presents-five-new-ones.

Beware of the sunk cost fallacy. You've put all this effort into this and now it becomes how to patch it up into something someone will buy.
Your take home is what most people consider "making" even they know their actual salary is what they "make". I made a higher salary working in a state with state income taxes. Took a pay cut to move to a state without state income taxes. My take home went up (obviously). So I "made" more in take home by "making" less.
I was shocked to find that on Windows, Teams refuses to run in any browser except Edge. On Linux, it runs quite happily under Chromium. It's the worst sort of anti-competitive behavior, in my view.
It starts to get inefficient when you wanna copy some of this and some of that from the same directory.

I can easily hold CTRL and select what I want based off of the thumbnails alone. In a terminal that would be painstaking.
Amazon defeats Alabama union effort
This never happens in the USA because this is not how tax brackets work. When you hit the next tax bracket, you only pay the higher rate on the income over the bracket threshold. Any income under it pays the lower bracket(s) rates.
> it was good if you were in the union and employed, but was much harder to get work and join the union.

This is my fundamental problem with unions—it helps the insiders and hurts everyone else.

Amazon’s working condition are rough (and I really hope that changes), but there are plenty of jobs out there that are much worse and don’t pay nearly as well. They just get all the attention because of their size and impact.
The point is that even if we didn't observe such cases originally, given the incentives now, I would have expected China to investigate and surface evidence of such cases, even if circumstantial. So your second point is not a real point: the incentives don't determine the likelihood of it occurring, but they do dictate the likelihood of an investigation to determine if it did occur.
Wow that’s amazing I didn’t think the USB api in the browser was able to do things like that
The opposition to the idea comes down to one thing 1)Donald Trump et al supported this hypothesis, and thus disagreeing with the hypothesis becomes reflexive for many.
> xenophobic people really love to talk about it

Guilt by association + Overton Window enforcement.

I guess you're pointing this out and not endorsing it?
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No one seems to understand this. They lament their stuff getting stolen and in the same day plan their next anti-police protest.

I personally believe the police have totally forgotten their mandate. They’ve become so focused on the big fish, they’ve lost all appetite for anything that doesn’t have the potential to lead to a big press conference.

I want every single little crime investigated like NCIS, not because I think it will lead to less crime (I know the jury goes back and forth on this one), but because I think people don’t feel safe in their neighborhoods anymore, they constantly feel like their neighbors are gonna steal from them and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. If instead cops started taking all this stuff seriously, and the courts had a better way to handle it, people would be happier and feel less antagonistic against those they perceive as other (white, black, etc)
Hi patcon - thanks for the comment. I can see why you would read my comment as anti-narrative. (It looks anti-narrative to me in retrospect!)

For the record, I'm not anti-narrative. I love narratives. I think great narratives are made of engaging sequences of actions, characters faced with decisions where the stakes matter, great writing, and a persistent thread of surprise that emerges from the weirdness of life. They are enlightening and moving. (If you like great narratives, too, I highly recommend "Naples '44".)

I did not find any of those traits in this sometimes autobiographical book review, which suffered from a weird passivity, and attempted to create emotional effects in predictable ways.

It was more like a series of ahistorical snapshots, a medley of impressions and allusions, which is typical of much creative non-fiction being produced in universities and workshops today.

Was there a protagonist who struggled? How much agency did they have? If so, what was the outcome? Did they surprise us? I didn't have clear answers to those questions after reading the piece. It left me neither moved nor enlightened, so from my perspective, it failed.

You mention one of the reasons why I like narratives. They capture the paths through complexity that hint at what can be done, without prescribing rules for everyone. Narratives and case studies are one of the only ways of conveying those lessons, without over-reaching as a formula might.

But, for that to be valuable, we need to follow someone down the corridor of their experience and have some idea of the context they could observe, which led to the decisions they made.

Narratives do not have to be fuzzy and meandering. In my experience, the best ones are not. I think the work of the writer is to distill from life a sequence of words that intensify and condense the writer's experience when it is reproduced in the reader.

Yes, you can add "for me" to the end of any sentence, and that does make the author's sentence indisputable. But I believe that when we write, we are writing to try to convey something beyond ourselves, a truth that may be shared by others. The more an author retreats into "for me", the less they are doing the work of keeping their readers in mind.

The central question answered by a published piece of writing should be: why would anyone care? I care about "reading in an age of distraction"; I might care a little about Sven Birkert's opinions about that; but if you asked me before breakfast whether I care about a stranger's medley of impressions about reading in an Internet age, the answer is probably not. So part of my objection here is to the bait-and-switch of clothing a memoir in the form of a book review with a title that seems universal, when the substance of the piece is utterly subjective.
Unions operate on a voluntary membership only basis most places, and plenty of countries with such systems have far higher unionisation rates than the US.
Surely a person that posts fake reviews online in exchange of money and/or goods wouldn't lie.
Service? I didn't mean conversations with or visits from a stranger. That's moot. The closest they are to the person(s), the better. I was thinking you / your family calling them regularly, but it seems like you might not have a great relationship.

I feel like I'm lacking a lot of context to give you useful advice.

How about asking with more context at Interpersonal SE?

https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/
Just because the motivation for the argument is bad, it doesn't mean that the argument itself is bad. I think you agree by saying it's not "inherently" xenophobic.

All we need to do to take xenophobia out of this discussion is to not be xenophobic ourselves. The xenophobes may talk to themselves. But let's make sure we are talking about this problem instead of falling for the "guilty by association fallacy".
Not only that, but the SaaS model has not netted any 'killer' features at all. I haven't found a new feature indispensable since at least CS2.
I’d imagine this would be most useful for Personal brands and B2B marketers considering LinkedIns power users.

Good luck!
A short moment of quiet introspection, wherever or whenever, which usually results in deep appreciation for both the moment and my life as a whole.

Also, really good espresso.
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Study flags gender bias in Facebook's ads tools
> Imagine if that was your run of the mill well-hated big corp

I don't know what the general perception of Zoom is. Our opinions of it never really come up at work. The discussion I see of it online largely focuses upon the security issues so that is going to be negative. There is one thing I am grateful for though: it seems as though the masses settled on a product with decent cross-platform support for once. You rarely see that unless the product is intended for a niche market (e.g. science, engineering, software development). Heck, they even package it for Arch.
Had an amazon Kindle but it was practically useless for me due to how locked down it was. If I wanted to add something esoteric I had to mail it to amazon for whatever reason. I don't mind paying for book, but I would hate to have amazon decide what books I read.

Is the kobo better in this regard?
Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes and paves way for safer reactor design!*

*citizens not yet evacuated from radiation zone
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And in this case your take home would go up 100% of the time you got a raise - only the raise amount itself would decrease proportionally to your increased income.
For an American libertarian, fairy stories about how the think the world would work count for much more than looking at how things actually work in other places.
Thank you for your comment, but your comment is precisely the kind of comment I disagree with.

What difference does it make? Let's say that it's both lab-grown and wild game. OK, so that means we should scrutinize both. OK, then. Now what?

No amount of scrutiny can prevent an accident from occurring. It's not as if this pandemic happens every year. We're talking about a once in a century event. Not to mention some countries prevented the virus from spreading within their own countries very effectively, and others, well, did not.
I wish hypercard was still around. It seems like an ideal way to build flexible reference material, like a full repair and maintenance guide for vehicles or equipment where everything could link to each other in an intuitive way.
If you're below the poverty line, it's possible to make less by making more by disqualifying yourself for public aid.

But if the Amazon workers are in that situation then we would need to expand this conversation anyway.
> separate out your infrastructure from both your product and business

By infra, you mean for example a postgres DB? That makes sense. Don't want marketing to take down your website with a mail merge.
Yes, you don't need a GUI to run and do programs. But it is essential for the masses. For a guy who has no background in computers, running a program without a GUI would be hard.
The walled garden rant is anachronistic. HyperCard died because Apple stopped major work it. Circa 1987! There was no HyperCard team to put out a new version when Jobs returned in 1997, and a dying Apple couldn’t justify building one from scratch. It’s that simple.

(Yes, there were post-1987 updates, none of which added fundamental critical features like color support. Which was introduced to the Mac lineup with the Mac II, also in 1987.)
That's true, but unionized spots have such a strong individualistic component to the work. However, in industries such as warehouse workers, the employee ability is a lot more uniform, so I doubt there would be provisions for superstars to negotiate salaries.

It would more likely be something akin to a teacher union, with teaching being in between performance athletes and uniform workers. And even there I don't think individual teachers have much power to negotiate salary, but I could be wrong.
For someone making 20 an hour that would amount to about 400-2000 less per year (1 to 4 percent). With nothing to really show for it at first. At my current pay scale I would grumble about that amount but not be too worried about it. But at the lower end it matters more and I would probably be very angry about it.
"Selective highlighting"? "Making a list and going from the top"? Looks like my comment went completely over somebody's head.

If you read the complete thread, you'll see that it's not random. And I disagree that bringing up something negative after someone dies is bad taste.

Yeah, I don't think we'd get along.
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