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Is it now? I heard renewable is barely 5-10% of what would be needed to replace fossil. Nuclear would surpass fossil easily (nothing to say about cost or safety here, just output).
Ask a colleague that has different political beliefs to fix it for you :)
I’m curious, what is your education background in?

Do you have some sort of medical education or this is a regurgitation of some sources you’ve read as a hobbyist?

I ask this because you seem to talk from a place of authority and fact and i respect that but typically thought of Ycomb as a place comp sci folks usually congregate.
In Germany, almost everyone refers to it as the Biontech vaccine. For obvious reasons. I would even go so far as to say that most people here don't realize it's the same as the "Pfizer vaccine". (On the other hand, the Moderna vaccine is referred to as the "Moderna vaccine".)
A quick scan of my inbox and spam folders would refute this
The side effects you get is your body immune system fighting an intruder. The reason why second shot is typically worse is because your body already produced antibodies so when you get 2nd shot it immediately goes into attack mode.

BTW: different people have different immune systems, and their body reacts differently. I got my first dose in the morning. By afternoon I just felt tired and wanted sleep (I felt like I didn't sleep the previous night). I went to sleep and next day felt normal. For 2nd dose the same thing happened, except I felt like that one extra day. My vaccine was Pfizer.
I wish they were this well intended, or even that it’s actually what’s happening behind the scenes.

More often than not “don’t negociate with terrorists” [0] facades are just a message sent to the world, only enforced when the stakes are low enough and the ‘terrorist’ party has nothing actually valuable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_negotiation_with_te...
The concept of a living wage is fluid. Things tend to go from luxury, to aspirational, to ubiquitous.

Electricity, cars, internet, non-dirt floors, children having their own bedrooms... none of these are things my grandparents had access to.

But now you cannot even build a house like the one they grew up in--it would not meet code. Even a poor person is expected to have access to running water and electricity.

I know it's controversial, but I think there is an upward sliding of what we expect the bare minimum to be. You could easily raise a family on minimum wage if you lived like a family 100 years ago.
As others already pointing out, seems like you're making huge generalisation here, which appears to be incorrect.

Being on employers side, I give little-to-no attention to education. Seen MBAs with no critical thinking or skills whatsoever and dropouts with very diligent and knowledgeable approaches.

For me, resume is not just a boring list of what you did, but also the way it is written - lucidity, points emphasised, etc. It all speaks loudly of personality.

And yea, if there are grammar mistakes it most likely will go to bin. Not because I particularly value grammar (which I do not) but because resume is usually supposed to be diligently written/reread by the candidate. If he/she didn't bother to do that properly - the damn thing that potentially land him/her job - this negligence says for itself, further projects, had there been any, will not be cared properly.

That's my opinion which is in no way representative or absolute in it's truth. I'd like just to pinpoint that there may be few opinions on the matter.
Yeah, I don't think anybody looks at cover letters, but tweaking a resume for the listing still makes sense. And you can just write a short cover if you're sending correspondence with the resume.

Hi Person (if you got a person),

I heard about your opening for X from Y. As you can see from my attached resume, I've got relevant experience working for company Z (that you might have heard of). Looking forward to blah blah blah

Sincerely

me
phone number
email
I just looked through my Junk folder and it took me about 30 seconds to find an email that was sent as plain text. Most of this time was spent digging through Mail's menus to figure out how to show the raw message.
The fact sheet doesn't define substantial. The University of Iowa page says a sick day counts though. Thanks.
While the article is heavy on philosophical extrapolation, it's pretty light on facts. The original example of this art style was commissioned by Facebook and is called alegría: https://jsweisart.com/facebook-alegria
Rail firm's Covid bonus email to workers a cybersecurity test
You misunderstand Occam's Razor. The idea is that the least informationally complex theory should be the default.

So,

> Occam’s Razor also says all planets orbit the earth

yes

> because we are God’s finest creation

no
> You are aware that paying ransom may or may NOT work.

The ransomware campaigns are pretty good on support. You will get a key for a sample of your data as a proof. You can sometimes pay progressively to get more trust. Getting your data back is just as important for the criminals as encrypting it in the first place - otherwise their business goes down.
There are airless bike tires.
Hmm, I guess now we need an article about what cost-based adjustment is.
Amazon does allow companies to register their brand and prohibit others from selling it on amazon. Or maybe ETI is pulling the same stunt and claiming resellers are selling counterfeits when they are actually just reselling the same product.
Google, Amazon, and Apple together almost certainly hit 100k by themselves. Facebook is a bit smaller than those 3 in terms of engineering headcount but not by much. Netflix is tiny, relatively speaking, I'll give you that.

But, I mean, new grads at MSFT can get pretty close to 200k, even though the comp scales up poorly with career progression compared to FAANG. There are a bunch of other companies where you can hit numbers that are in that ballpark, and they also employee a non-trivial number of engineers: Snapchat, Uber, Lyft, Twitter, Square, Stripe, Doordash, Roblox, etc, etc, etc. Sure, add them all up with FAANG and you probably barely touch 200k. But, uh, 200k is roughly 5% of the software engineers in the country (_very_ broadly classified; I think a more reasonable classification would put it closer to 10%). So, sure, it's not the _default_ outcome, but "top decile" is hardly shooting for the moon.
On the VCS, you are supposed to set up a scanline, which will be then drawn by the graphics chip (TIA) automatically. Manipulating this setup on the fly as in "racing the beam" is really more exploit territory. The vertical aspect of the image is left to the program(mer), but the VCS gives you a helping hand in form of a critical feature: The graphics chip can halt the CPU until it has reached the start of a new scanline. So your program can sleep and will be woken up precisely at the beginning of the horizontal blank interval. (The 6502C "Sally" MPU used in later Atari 8-bit computers had a similar feature: an extra signal to pause the processor, when pulled low.)
I've used various distros on my recentish Dell laptop. I get the advertised 8-10hrs without configuring anything.

It just werks.
More like what I’ve noticed is developers have just stopped writing real test frameworks. Instead spot-checking pieces of the code, occasionally with a few automated integration tests.
I would say this is probably not too close to reality. Artists, writers, actors, qa can drop into a new game a lot easier than spinning up software developers. From my experience they're treated less like a commodity than the other disciplines.

That said, not all games are services yet so once the game ships anyone can make it to the chopping block.
I read that certain ransomware distributors have been found to operate their own cleanup/“negotiation” service. Can’t be bothered to find a reference now, but this type of behavior is perfectly logical, and has been going on since forever in many traditional shady enterprises.
> It's pretty wild that this probe, launched 44 years ago (1977) and now well beyond the solar system, can still take novel measurements and transmit information back.

Through (according to Wikipedia) the party might end in just a few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1:

> Voyager 1's extended mission is expected to continue until about 2025, when its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) will no longer supply enough electric power to operate its scientific instruments.
No, but some area already trying to blame Russia and China.

However it appears to be a standard ransomware attack which was probably targeted because of the size of the company (larger ransom) and the fact that this company has such a poor administrative IT infrastructure that they can't deal with this swiftly (Wipe, restore from backup).
> would people want to buy it?

I think we (the consumers) have also been conditioned hedonistically upwards (for lack of a better term) in the last 30 years, as in we wouldn't probably transport our family anymore in a car with no airbags or very few airbags, to say nothing of the crash-test characteristics of new cars compared to cars made 30 years ago.

So, to answer the question, because we (the consumers) have also changed we wouldn't probably purchase as many new 1990 Ford Mustangs or Honda Accords at $9,000 or $12,000 (meaning half the price for the latest models) as we have bought 30 years ago if said models would have costed $4,500 or $6,000 (meaning half their price at that time).

But, nevertheless, I think there is a sweet spot between our new hedonistic expectations (we want airbags now) and a fairer (meaning cheaper) price.
>> And burning alive because they couldn't escape the car. No big deal.

>This isn't uncommon in motor vehicle accidents, however.

Don’t gaslight me. You’re playing up vehicle fires to downplay the fact that lithium ion batteries burn easily and are hard to extinguish, and Teslas in particular are harder to exit when the power is out.

The saddest thing about this whole thing is that you’re carrying water for a charlatan.
Yes, if your company pays so little that your employees need state aid to eat and pay rent, they aren't on welfare, you (the employer) are.
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I imagine this is true in theory. The math checks out. But every FAANG company has been around for at least 15 years now and we don't hear many stories of their early hires retiring. Where does it break down in practise? Is it just too hard to give up the high paying role? Is it that retirees don't talk about it? Or is it that the theory is actually wrong for some reason, and working for $200k for 20 years doesn't actually leave you with fuck you money after all?
As someone who got heavily into baking bread / pastry and occasionally meat during the pandemic, I can't recommend Thermapen enough — it's the ultimate cooking thermometer. Also, I live in Europe so I ordered it from the UK, and ETI's support is awesome and they ship really fast.
For online transactions almost all liability is with merchants. Seems like unless chip is used then offline transaction fraud liability is also on the merchant (otherwise that shady convenience store wouldn't have any reason to check your signature/ID all the time).
Does someone make an old school, non-hedonically adjusted index?
I don’t disagree, they should definitely just use WSL anyway for their own peace of mind. Most node tools nowadays seem to be written for macOS first, something I would have never thought would happen 10 years ago, given how popular Windows computers were “for real work”
At the same time, “he/she used autopilot while it is only drive assist” is a similarly overused excuse made by Tesla all around. If so many do so, maybe they did buy that car anticipating that feature, which makes it at least misleading advertisement.
We place too much value on intention, when focus should be on the outcome
If the trials were comprehensive enough to prove both efficacy and safety, why did they not catch the AZ & JnJ blood clotting issues? One theory is that these problems primarily afflict those under 40 and this population was not adequately represented in the clinical trials.
> For fiction, however, the dream combination is probably publishing in-progress with subscriptions

As someone who likes to write fiction myself, the idea of publishing in-progress feels incredibly alien. Typically, if I finish writing something, it's a first draft that I would revisit a few months later and rework. How are authors handling this aspect of wanting to re-edit if they're publishing chapters on the go? I seem to recall Stephen King describing locking his manuscripts away for six months before revisiting them. The in-progress model seems to work against this type of workflow, or are there ways of dealing with that?
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You failed to take account for the fact that cars are two orders magnitude heavier than bicycles.
How can I make sure the next hedge fund I interview at know I'm a mediocre guitar player? Or is mediocre not worth mentioning?
It's a lot of fun, and conditions across the industry vary a lot. I burnt out in the games industry (twice), but it was the most fun I've had at work. Intense.

All-expense-paid trips to GDC / San-Francisco from Toronto, Canada were nice. Having people recognize my T-shirt and come up to me to tell me they loved our game ... superficial, but enjoyable. In your '20s you're basically doing what you'd be doing anyway (as a gamer), but getting paid.
Learning Skeletal Articulations with Neural Blend Shapes
What does it mean that they underpay their workers, except that they pay them a smaller percentage of the economic value produced by their labor than you think they should? Is that just a deontological claim? Because I imagine "my moral system says software engineers should be paid more, no, don't worry how much more, I'll tell you when to stop" is not very convincing as an argument.
And yet everyone keeps using it, because everyone ELSE is using it and FOMO, real and imagined, is your lord and master. Due to the stupidity of the crowd we seem to be progressing backwards in tech now. I wonder if the Internet will eventually self-destruct and we'll all end up back on 1980s tech.
Not this event alone, sure, but it is a step in the right direction. The attitude will need further adoption and it may drive pre-emptive actions actions ransomware instead of the "do nothing and cash out on insurance" approach
Walstad method no CO2 nano tank 22 months later
If we look at majority of "climate change" propagandists, we may be very surprised :) Well not we, but those who do blindly follow those notions.

Follow the money, not the virtue signalling.
Interesting read. I'm 62 but hang out with a lot of people in their 20s and 30s. I enjoy learning new things and fiddling with technology. Age is just a number. My long term gosl is to be the oldest person to through hike the AT. I also plan to have a work+free income of no less than $100K per year by age 70. These goals keep me interested, active, and learning.
Yeah, but the work is pretty boring to the kinds of personalities who like to work on games, even if it's often more important.
Not cynical at all. Insurance business is mostly predatory. If it doesn't make them money, they're not gonna cover it.

Regardless, in this specific instance I'm all for it. This will hopefully wake enterprises up so that they invest in good IT practices, which will have lasting effect on other parts of IT within firms.
MAP is only enforceable if you have a contract or agreement with your supplier.

Any business can buy any product off the shelf and resell it for whatever price they want.
I doubt the C-suit bought into the gravity argument. However there is a smile like quality to the new design, as is pointed out in the design docs, and this is probably what resonated with the executives during the pitch.

I also wonder about whether this document is actually the real one as presented to the company. For example am I the only one that sees the hint of a 'P' shape in the new whitespace between the red and blue colored elements? Wouldn't this have been a more convincing feature of the design to highlight than the pages about DNA, gravity and special relativity?
I've been using thunderbird for probably 15 years and have forgotten about html emails. I can imagine they are popular but it is probably the great fishing surface the average user is exposed to.
Security researcher successfully jailbreaks an Apple AirTag
Yes this is true.

Basically every Tesla owner that saw the story knew right away that it was being sensationalized.

I was very surprised to see the LA times jump on it when they certainly have numerous employees that drive these vehicles.
BeMyEyes, another Danish app, is pretty good too.
That's not true as soon as anyone else is relying on your schema (and data warehousing certainly does). At that point, you're maintaining an API contract whether you like it or not. Fortunately, databases also provide mechanisms for abstraction (like views) that can make this much easier on both the developers and the DBAs, which is an approach I've personally had good success with in companies with similar requirements. The key is to stop thinking of your database as an application-specific store and start thinking the same way you do for normal development--which tables and schemas are internal and subject to change, which ones are exposed to the outside world, what your stability guarantees are, etc. etc.

Indeed, you can even guarantee backwards compatibility by versioning views you expose as APIs to other applications, and having each depending application create a view in its own schema that references the view--in Postgres, this means that only backwards-compatible migrations to the original view will go through! So when you find you can't make a change you need backwards-compatibly, you know it's time to make a new version, and you can keep the two versions of the API in sync by recomputing data in the new view to the old one until the depending applications can upgrade :)
Not a fan of chinees phones. But have you used a mordern oppo, Huawei or xiaomi recently?
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This is absolutely not my experience. Spam uses HTML formatting, sure, but it's not "nicely designed".

"Nicely designed" emails are things like flight confirmations, invoices, shipping notices, and that kind of transactional email. The common thread is that some entity with Real Money To Spend on a graphic designer is sending a (usually form) email to lots of people. Most spam outfits do not have those kinds of resources, especially since they need to change up their emails constantly to avoid spam filters.

The closest I would say that the "pretty" stuff gets to spam is newsletters and particularly political fundraising emails; I'm on a lot of political party lists after spending copious college free time working on campaigns.
I have seen other well-known companies sending fishing emails to employees. I think it is a good idea in order to drive home how easy it is to fall for it beyond the standard corporate training (we'll, of course I won't click on any links from dodgy emails, right?)

In this case some people seem to think that using a "covid bonus" as bait was poor but, on the contrary, I think that it's good because fraudsters would do exactly that: they know how to make people want to open their emails and click on links.

I'm sure people will remember, which is the point of the exercise.
This is a very interesting concept. The bot implementation seems a little too noisy to catch on in most of my group chats, but I love the concept and I hope moderation ideas like this get tighter integration with chat apps in the future.
Thanks! Yea planning on adding some different plans to make it more interesting for smaller blogs as well.
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Respectfully, what planet is the author from? Artists, and art students, are often the most vicious pit of vipers imaginable. On the flip side, there can be a lot of ego wrapped up in engineering and coding as well, but at least the field in general tends toward a more practical approach.

As someone with a foot in both worlds, I'd say it's infinitely easier to collaborate with someone on a programming project than an artistic one, because it's easier to set ego aside when you're just trying to build a good tool instead of express something deeply personal.
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This was incredibly common back in the early 1900s. Whole books were at first published in one-page installations in newspapers. Including the most famous Czech novel, Good soldier Švejk.

Prior to the advent of radio and TV, this was the best way how to hit a huge audience at once. And for the newspaper, it was a way to entice people to buy the next issue.
I've had well over a billion rows in multiple tables with PostgreSQL and it wasn't a problem at all.
I'm not going to dig up the article but you should be able to find it very easily:

A writer in the LA times straight up called for federal regulators to step in based off this. I've seen newspapers go full activist before in the past but this was shocking because they were doing so based off of what is obviously a false premise.

It doesn't take long to speak to a few Tesla owners and realize that autopilot even the non-FSD doesn't operate this way.
Building a Mosaic Chart in JavaScript
thank you, great podcast channel and episode you shared there.
Wikipedia disagrees:

> Provided Voyager 1 does not collide with anything and is not retrieved, the New Horizons space probe will never pass it, despite being launched from Earth at a higher speed than either Voyager spacecraft. The Voyager spacecraft benefited from multiple planetary flybys to increase their heliocentric velocities, whereas New Horizons received only a single such boost, from its Jupiter flyby. As of 2018, New Horizons is traveling at about 14 km/s, 3 km/s slower than Voyager 1, and is still slowing down.
I'm pretty sure that this comment was sarcasm
> That said, if a given city only speaks one language, that is a good indicator of how homogenous and monocultural it will be

Which is not intrinsically bad, as you implicitly depict it.
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...and that's why I've been terrified of bioterrorism. your plan is simple and elegant and horrifying. making such viruses is getting easier every day. eventually it will be easy enough that some crank will do something like this. Jesus..

we should increase funding for developing pathogen sensors, and put them in public transportation hubs. eventually we'll probably start requiring saliva or nasal swabs from randomly-selected travelers. it sucks but I don't see a better way..
Not according to this stack exchange answer[0]. It quotes a page from John Hopkins University, although that source page doesn't seem to exist anymore.

> Though New Horizons will also reach 100 AU, it will never pass Voyager 1, because Voyager was boosted by multiple gravity assists that make its speed faster than New Horizons will travel. Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at 17 kilometers per second. When New Horizons reaches that same distance 32 years from now, propelled by a single planetary swingby, it will be moving about 13 kilometers per second

[0] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/when-will-new...
Saying you're used by millions when you're a javascript library is a bit disingenuous. It's not like whoever happens to hit a website using your scripts is a user in the common sense of the word.
I've used https://www.hnreplies.com/ for a couple of years and it's served me well.
Jail leads to the scummiest who don't care much about jail doing it, or it being impossible to find the service anymore because nobody wants to do it, and for essential infrastructure, you don't want a large amount of avoidance in providing infra.
My impression is that there is no breakdown, people who want to retire do retire, but people who want to retire is minority.
The end user doesn't know that, and doesn't care.