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The speed of light essentially prohibits space travel.

The fastest possible speed for any material object to travel at is incredibly slow compared to any meaningful distance. It is millenia just from the sun to the edge of our solar system, let alone to anything "near by".

The universe is not the kind of place where living things can travel "between worlds". This is scifi -- and it is no coincidence UFO sightings peak in the era of Star Treck, and space races.

P(All life is organic | All known chemistry) ~= Very High

P(All intelligent organic life degrades) ~= Very High

thef.

P(Alien Life Lasts Long Enough To Travel | Above ) ~= Very Low

Physics & Chemistry basically rule out alien contact.

Once you insert these priors into your reasoning the "D - it's aliens!" becomes extraordinarily implausible.

It's remarkable this author finds D-Aliens more likely than D-SecretSociety. The latter only requires plausible localised advancements in knowledge and conspiracy; the former requires believing everything we know about biochemistry and physics to be radically incorrect.
>Currently vaccine companies such as the German Curevac (which is the vaccine company Trump famously tried to buy) is being held back by lack of core ingredients which are under American export bans.

Do you know specifically which materials?
> If we could have a NN-driven prefetcher that is able to anticipate cache misses

It’s not that critical for memory prefetcher because cache hierarchy is helping a lot. Most software doesn’t read random addresses. And prefetchers in modern CPUs are pretty good already. Another thing, prefetcher is not a great application of AI because the address space is huge.

Branch prediction is another story. CPUs only need to predict a single Boolean value, taken/not taken. Modern processors are actually using neural networks for that: https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/sense-mi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZRih6APtiQ
It was! And based on quick searches I think it might have been the m60 but I’d have to fire up the game to be sure.
I wouldn’t consider bricks better than wood. Especially in an earthquake prone area.

Now, steel - that would be better.

But if thinking about the future I think wood framing is superior. In many places in Europe the old brick or stone homes have a lot of issues by modern standards and they are expensive to renovate. They tend to have floor plans that made sense 200+ years ago but not today. Like small rooms to better conserve fireplace heat. But again, it’s very difficult to renovate these homes to have a sensible, modern floor plan.

Old wood frame homes are fairly easy to renovate either to modernize or to renovate.
Epic "it used to be a game site"

Apple "oh a store?"

Epic "more like TMZ, but less factual"
You're moving the goal posts, that was not the question.
Aiming for portability doesn't always mean increasing complexity.

If it takes the form of #ifdef WIN32 directives then yes, you're increasing complexity in the name of portability, but if instead you're making an effort to avoid using platform-specific non-standard features, then that doesn't increase complexity, other than requiring developer discipline.
There are many reasons to work for a company and money is not always #1.
Maybe your product is exciting? Maybe your team, tech, industry?
Not enough information. What's your team size? How much prerequisite knowledge is your product?

Otherwise all I can give you is snark: Hire juniors & call them senior engineers. Or hire a senior engineer to do everything & don't hire any juniors
It depends how you define Sr Engineer, but I'd look for people who are less tolerant to volatility in their income stream and value consistently high pay over sometimes consistent extremely high pay. The nature of capitalism is such that is capitalizes on people with bills to pay, and influences them into having more bills to have to pay. So people with families, mortgages, expensive cars etc..
Probably because you speak English and don’t engage in communities that aren’t in English.
How? Higher minimum wages make owning a business less atractive.
The basic mechanism of capitalism is supply and demand.

When you write: "it's pretty much impossible to match day rates", you mean that your company doesn't want to pay the market rate.

There is no secret strategy. You either pay market rates or hire less capable developers who will work for the rates you are willing to pay.
But why? OK, I do understand why people make Quake in Excel – it's the same reason people make clock-perfect emulators for the Apollo guidance computer and use it as a pocket calculator or whatever – it's pure human curiosity. But why is Excel shoe-horned into solving business-relevant necessary problems also when it's not a good fit all?
Was it translucent? Maybe it was a circular beam of light from the local discoteque reflecting from the clouds :D
There are always exceptions, but one slight annoyance in the UK is that you can have the same coordinate but omitting the + or - at the start will change where it is (which if you are in line with Greenwich, for instance, can even be in the same town).

This is effectively the same problem as stated in the blog post where similar numbers can lead to different places. Interestingly this can be seen in your example too.

> - 52.5200 N, 13.4050 E

If I read the "-" as a negative, this is in the middle of the ocean. If I read it as a delimiter from the sentence before, I get Germany. Not so much of a problem as you said Germany as a context clue, but if this was in the UK I would have two possible interpretations.

For instance - 0.5 N, 300 E might be more of a challenge!
In Canada, there's a large gap between full-time and contract rates but it's nothing new - it's been that way for at least 15 years.

Companies here address the gap through other forms of compensation like discretionary bonuses, more annual leave, employee stock purchase programs, RRSP contribution matching etc.
If you read the underlying report that drove the unemployment pull quote you can see they spend a lot of time explaining that the labor shortage is driven by an increase in the population not looking for work. It speculates that increase is attributable to obvious pandemic causes like needing to provide child care, deal with sick family or older family.

https://lmi.mt.gov/_docs/Publications/LMI-Pubs/Labor-Market-...

Missoula public schools were still operating with a remote day per week when those numbers were collected, it’s really hard to work with a young kid in need of care an extra day per week. So it’s not surprising the workforce size reduced.

In light of this, this change seems particularly cruel.
There's also another factor which I think is important. If working was simple enough to be a bit dull but not horrendously unpleasant due to companies that wish to work people to the bone, patronise them, and forcing them to submit to nasty management, it might be a more attractive concept.

If people are desperate for work, they are vulnerable to the absolutely disgusting way they are treated and exploited by employers.

I find that in tech that employers treat me fantastically because I have more of a value proposition and am thus bargaining from a stronger perspective.

If working is so bad that it's actively damaging to my mental and physical health, I would be doing everything I can to avoid it.
That's why SPL is such a nice feature, very little OS specific code. ZFS was ported in ~10 Days over to FreeBSD.
And is (hopefully) in the near future THE open and "real" portable filesystem for Mac/Linux/BSD/Windows.
"Occam's Razor postulates that the simple solution is often the right one. That does not mean it's always so. For the longest time Occam's Razor would have favored a flat earth, before we knew better."

Actually this is problem with the simplifying Occam's Razor. It is not about simple solution, it is about fewer assumptions. Actually with each assumption you are limiting the domain of the question.

Actually before we observed more (like before we knew better), earth being flat is the correct solution vs earth being round.
A LiveLeak showing how people sitting in offices design these narratives and sell them to the public would be genuinely revolutionary - especially if it also showed uncensored video of the gore and horror of the results.

IMO Baudrillard and the rest of Critical Theory are absolutely useless at this.

The language is obscure, self-indulgent, self-aggrandising, and exclusive. Instead of revealing the reality of how these thing work it has the opposite effect of making them even more obscure, arcane, and distant - except for a tiny, tiny minority of self-styled insiders who feel like they have privileged secret insight which flatters their moral and intellectual vanity.

The insight is useless and illusory unless it changes mass awareness and mass behaviour. Baudrillard, Lyotard, and the rest have made a terrible contribution to making that less, not more, likely.
"all you do is" ... there are are lot of possible side-effects.
Another one that jumped out at me is if I own a property from noon one day to noon another day - is that one day or two days?
IMHO, the idea here is nowadays more and more people are using third-party libraries which is hard to trust and even worse while people `npm update` them with no idea what changed between versions.
Then you could buy a Nokia 3310i. Problem solved.
What I don't get is why are the rates so different?

Arguments like: uncertainty, getting clients is hard, certain overhead isn't paid, not always having work are all valid reasons. However, they don't seem to make sense for such a big difference. Based on those reasons, I'd suspect a 1.5x difference to be more reasonable, but in most cases it's like 2x to 4x.
> Why should 18 years olds in the EU/US receive a vaccine before 75 year olds in other countries?

I don’t know what the EU governments kicked in, but the US basically threw tens of billions of dollars at the US pharma giants to bankroll the wide-scale rollout of not one but three vaccines. The patents are largely European, but the rapid scale-up of production was only possible because of US contributions (true on both sides of the ocean as the US paid to build factories in Europe too in exchange for priority access).

But on a larger scale, individual outcomes are somewhat meaningless in the scope of government. Each country’s government has a duty to protect the public health of its citizens, which means trying to get to herd immunity within its own population. It’s like putting on your own mask before helping someone else.
Actually it increases income inequality. Raising wages affects the lowest wage workers most, the same who are impacted by raising prices. The wealthy and ultra rich don’t benefit from increased wages, aren’t harmed by raised prices, but they earn an income on increased prices so result in higher income.

Think of it as the owner has a percentage of revenue. So prices go up, they make more even if most of it is given as wages. Obviously, firms want to raise prices but are limited by the market because of competition. If everyone must raise prices then the competition element is removed.
NA has more forests than europe, so local lumber supply is generally higher. Also, lumber is way more earthquake-resistant than plain brick or stone, which can be very important depending on where you live
Context matters. If you have an existing python app which is CPU bound, 30% faster means ~third of your web infra cost can go away. That may be very significant.

Also unless you have a very trivial app / use only your own code, Lua web environment isn't really comparable to what exists in the python ecosystem. Not yet anyway.
It’s all about the company vision and the candidate believing that they can play an important role in achieving that vision.
that was a misrepresentation of the linked article
Why is that do you think?

To revert self-serving orders, require extraordinary political clout above and beyond. Can that be done regarding every "bad" decision? A competent administration must not undo the "good" decisions as well.
Better conditions.

- 100% remote so you can hire people of areas with lower life cost

- part-time, maybe you cannot match the FAANG's salaries for full time but you can pay better for part-time

- exciting product/tech
From what I’ve seen, you can attract these people by offering them attractive (to them) work. In the case of my employer, we’ve had one very strong guy taking a perm offer because he only wants to work in Scala, and there are very few Scala contracts in town (he also can’t move).
Yeah it's gotta be hard to figure out where the line is between helping and interfering. A few accounts of the Sentinelese suggest they don't want any help but I think some of the peaceful exchanges in the past show that they don't mind contact and are happy to receive packages of food and bits of iron for tools. All I know is that I'm not gonna be the one to reach out, an American preacher repeatedly tried to do so a few years back and ended up killed as a result. It was 100% his own fault, on one of his attempts a Sentinelese kid fired an arrow at him that struck his bible which if I was religious I would have taken as a sign to GTFO ...
> The most important point about Excel in the work environment is that it's often the only tool people have so they make it do things way beyond what is sensible.

> I'm a consultant and at every client (mostly public sector) I discover new ways of solving problems with Excel which would otherwise not get solved because the blockers to buying "the right tool" are simply too great.

I just don't get this. Most of the tasks where I've seen incredibly creative/perverse Excel gymnastics used in real life could have been solved far better with a bit of Python (or whatever). What "tools need to be bought" in the vast majority of cases?
Not everyone can get into FAANGs, so you don't necessarily need to match FAANG level rates.
I was planning to build a timber pole barn this year but am now thinking of switching to a steel building. Steel prices are also up but from what I'm seeing here not as much as lumber.
That sounds nice, but is it true?

Weren't the Vikings, later Normen, far less advanced than the places they raided? They absorbed the technology, the land and culture and used it to conquer and form what is present-day England.

Maybe we'll beat the aliens with our savagery.
How big is IBMs chip manufacturing?

Power seems to be more and more out of fashion and other chips seems to preform way better. They cant be making much of those?
> If a rewrite is necessary, then the sooner you start the sooner you'll finish.

A 8-person team might easily rely on more C/C++ code than could be rewritten by them in 3 years. This jumps to 10-40 years if you include external Open Source codebases like Nginx.

So, the team needs to prioritize and to do things in steps. While they are rewriting some C/C++ code, they'll need to still maintain other code.

...and they need to solve enough business problems to keep the lights on.
'Work' is service to others and the community and is 'meaningful activity' to many people.

When it's about 'creative expression' it's really about oneself.

If you fill up gas in cars all day, your friend lays brick, someone else logs and mills, another frames ... then that's us working together to create warm homes.

So if we can do that without individuals siphoning off the top (or bottom) it works.
And they don't even need to be exciting necessarily, many would prefer a pleasant non-draining place.
It's hard to belive that JavaScript still does not have standard function to encodeHTML to string (as in replace < and > etc with &lt; etc). I know this can be solved by other wasy (as in never using innerHTML), but in reality it's often ignored or just custom implementations put in place.
Typical margins in various unskilled labour jobs are under 10%, and labour is usually one of the big ticket items on the budget. If payroll goes up 30%, prices have to go up - or the business goes bankrupt.

Next up, someone who saw Founder is going to point out that McDonalds makes money from rent, not selling food. Sure, that might be true for McDonalds-the-corporation, but the McDonalds-down-the-street franchise will have to come up with the payroll money somehow.

Your average business is way less profitable than you think.
Exactly this. It's a problem already solved by pagination - but I guess that's not cool and doesn't allow for such granular tracking.
Considering the history of mysql_escape_string it's an important argument
> After nearly 25 years.... we have a logo.
>
> And a new website!

https://twitter.com/SpiderMonkeyJS/status/138998511262073651...

https://twitter.com/FirefoxNightly/status/139020827204140236...
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How they handled the Hong Kong issue was totally stupid [1]. But I doubt it was the main reason why many gamer stopped playing their games. To me it's either this or the Diablo mobile game fiasco.

[1] - https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/hong-kong-hearthstone-b...
Try not to compete with FAANG.

Don't make the interview process stressful. Allow people to work from anywhere. Allow flexible work and fully remote working. 4 day work weeks. Lots of things that can be done to entice the right people.
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> Not sure what you mean by plotting library but I cannot install any software so all I could use was Excel

I believe you, but isn't it baffling that your superiors couldn't recognize that giving you access to some Python or whatever would vastly improve your productivity, what you produce, and your happiness, all for a grant total of €0 and some de-rigidifying of arbitrary rules?
To add to this:

If your company doesn't have the funding for expensive engineer salaries you can compensate with stock options and an exciting product people can believe in.

It means your career page needs to become a pitch, and your interview is most definitely going to be a two-way one where you need to convince the engineers.

Not everyone is after the money alone, a lot of people want to work on something with a mission they can get behind.
If you read some alt right content (like 4chan /pol/), you might agree that some opinions deserve to be censored.

Hate and stupidity breed more hate and stupidity. If we approach this situation from a generic perspective we can defend free speech and argue against censorship; but if we talk about speech such as antisemitism, homophobia or black people hate, we cannot defend it anymore.
I don't know your context, but here are some thoughts on what I've seen/experienced:

Allow remote work -- European rates are much lower than Silicon Valley rates even now, and I imagine the same might be true for other parts of the world.

Flexible working hours -- as a parent with kids, my current contracting arrangement for about 25 hours per week works quite well, and it's unattractive to me to return to a regular 40-hours (let alone 50-60 hours).

Paid time off -- I believe in the US it is still common for people to only get like 2-3 weeks off, or get "unlimited time off" deals that, apparently, often come down to the same thing because of social pressure. For comparison, here in the Netherlands, 5 weeks is table stakes, and I take at least 6.

Interesting tech stack -- in the Rust world that I participate in, there is a lot of discussion about the lack of jobs (especially outside the blockchain industry), so if you can offer something that is more novel, that might help.

All of this assumes that you can't easily change your organization's mission or product, which of course might be another way to attract folks.
They get paid with the state provided unemployment income.
Weighing the lives of billions against intellectual property claims and turf.

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Pay the companies whatever they demand to do whatever it takes to get everyone vaccinated asap. Now and into the future.

Graciously award everyone involved Freedom Medals™.

Then later, claw back any and all windfall profits thru radical cashectomies.

Pragmatism is so obvious and easy. And depressingly uncommon.
The 100% remote part is questionable. IMHO people should be given offices to come when they want to, especially senior engineers.
The rounds fired value is limited by the number of bullets in the clip, so you can select up to 50 rounds (because the P90 is in the comparison) but the MP7 will run out of ammo at 30.

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>I have seen things which have refused to exit my memory ever since, and the exhaustion of having to put so much energy and trust into therapists that ultimately never work out means that they will probably stay there for a long time.

Look into treating yourself with mdma or psilocybin.
The vaccine program was failing to rollout when Biden inherited it.
The Pinecone P2P overlay network
Blockin the electricy is exactly that
There's something special about that stark 1-bit B/W display and the necessary dithering to produce shades of grey. There are patterns to it and a very particular aesthetic.

Early 16- and 256-color systems are great too, but pure B/W has that certain look to it.
IANAL and I am not too familiar with the US constitution, but the paragraph you mentioned seems to have a very clear intention: To forbid the individual states from a) performing diplomacy/foreign policy on their own and b) creating their own currency.

At this point, I want to point out that while a lot of discussion always surrounds the status and the individual rights of the states, I think it really is clear that the US is the state (as in nation) and the individual states, while they have some autonomy, are the inseparable parts that the US is made of, just like in other federal states (nations).

From that perspective, I think the justification for the paragraph you mention is clear: The states are not independent, and therefore they can't have diplomatic ties with other nations. In diplomacy, this has always been the case: Diplomatic ties always exist between independent nations, never between an independent nation and a federal, dependent state. There is nothing like an "Embassy of the U.S. State of Texas to the United Mexican States" since the State of Texas can't have diplomatic ties on its own.

What you mention regarding printing more money does not apply here: The paragraph you mention talks about the US states, but not about the (nation) state itself, the USA. There exists no alliance of states, rather there is a federal republic consisting of states (which in turn are not allowed to have any diplomatic ties of their own). The (nation) state represented by the US government is obviously not a (federal) state inside the US, that would be absurd.
I am finding NetBSD works better on old computers than Linux. The differences are not too great. They are basically all based on the same POSIX standards.
If you don't experience seeing an American contractor getting decapitated by ISIS, then you may never have the gut-punch visceral understanding of how certain parts of the world works. Aside from actually getting kidnapped by ISIS, you can't experience it and truly feel the emotions of that act. Until you see a grainy, badly-compressed mobile phone video of someone slicing through cartilage and bone and sinew, a body twitching, blood trickling out from under the knife, a bunch of guys screaming and hollering and celebrating the victory of a murder. The body, headless, lifeless, being picked up and tossed in a ditch.

Now, watching that video won't help you understand ISIS at all. It may even completely color your interpretation of why the events took place, or who was doing it, or why. Is it better to walk around ignorant to a visceral understanding of horrible things? Or to walk around with new biases, after having seen something horrible with no context? Even if the "truth" is lost somewhere in between, I would rather know a little than know nothing.

We live in a world of "Nightly News" and platforms full of rules and restrictions. "Truth" will always elude us there, as long as someone else is deciding for us what we are allowed to see. It's nice to have at least one place where you can remove the filter.