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> Outside of software and data science, is there any industry where the software landscape is dominated by the OSS players?

Academic publishing, maybe. Many of them rely on LaTeX, especially the mathematics journals, but even this is changing if I understand correctly—more journals are accepting submissions in Microsoft Word format.
You don't have to go full keto, and I don't. Just be cognizant as you eat that hamburger at lunch time that this is directly going to cause me to feel lethargic and bad for awhile this afternoon. If you still eat it, that's fair. Just being aware of the tradeoff was a step forward for me though.
Hey now, medieval metaphysics got us Occam's razor...
Are there really hundreds of different jobs or careers that you want? I have only ever tailored my cv and cover letter for the exact position that I was applying for so that they knew I knew everything about the company and what they were doing and why they needed me to help them solve their problems. When they read my Cv they are like thank god our search is over, this guy can do it. Because it you are going to get the job you can do it and you will do it! It might take some training and some extra hours to get up to speed if your experience isn’t an exact match but you can say that, I’m going the extra mile to make this relationship a success, to make this deal work so that we both get what we want.
People want to work with people that are happy to be there. If there are hundreds of different jobs you could have to me that says you don’t really care about any of them. Find the one job you desperately want and go after that.
In the corner of rust I have experience in (web servers, ffi for cli's) you just use the system allocator. I know it's not that hard to switch that default allocator to something like jemalloc, but I've never needed to do that. Rust is currently refactoring the standard library to be genetic over the allocator like c++ so you you can have two vectors with different allocators, but I don't really understand the point outside of stuff like kernel development.
The government has no responsibility, nor should it, to subsidize your business.

If you can't pay someone a living wage, then you shouldn't be in business.
It's what happens when countries don't control their currency.
No. I’m not making absolute statements but casting doubt on one persons claims that a product is probably bad they have no experience with vs. a large number of professionals who use it as a tool every day including several organizations conducting comparative equipment tests.
It's really about the speed here. I have one that takes ~6 seconds to stabilize, which is by no means bad but is still a noticeable pause.

The Thermapen is rated at 3 seconds, which I imagine feels much better when you quickly want to get the temperature of a steak or something while preparing other components at the same time.
Yes and no. I work at an engineering/R&D firm. It's a mix. If you check research in those areas it tends to, at least by my estimation, newer software packages typically based on Python or C++.

I'm aware there are existing tools that see heavy use but that does not make them state of the art or cutting edge, merely sufficient. And yes, that can be enough. But for new work? Why throw in behind these guys?
It is 1000% rational for individuals to hoard and over-purchase during a shortage. Your charity will only lead to prolonged pain for you as everyone else hoards and over-purchases basic supplies. We saw it with a bunch of commodities last spring.

The correct solution for shortages is not to call upon a bunch of suckers to deprive themselves of basic goods, but to enforce rationing, by whatever means necessary.

That is, if the goal is to reduce the pain from the shortage. I'm sure people actually hate rationing and love feeling accomplished and resourceful as they screw their community out of supplies. So maybe calling upon suckers to be suckers is, in fact, the rational choice for governments as well.
> I didn't have to do any algorithm questions for those organizations.

okay. many organizations would not make that exception. and there are many stewards of key open source dependencies that have talked about how they couldn't pass interviews to places that heavily use their software.
> We DO have carefully selected, authorized resellers.

USA is a free market. Everyone is authorized all the time to sell every safe product. The term "authorized reseller" is a linguistic manipulation which benefits manufacturers at the expense of everyone else in society.

> We cannot vouch for the quality of products sold by unauthorized resellers, therefore, we cannot provide warranty or technical support on any products sold by unauthorized resellers.

This is not true in California. Manufacturers must honor the warranty on all products they originally sold in USA, no matter who later re-sold it. And for products they sold for >$99, they must provide technical documentation for 7 years. I wrote about this in [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426635
They havent, or at least any search on 'thermapen' or 'thermoworks' does not list that as a brand in the sidebar.
I'm thinking of the win32k.sys filter, which, my Windows-literate friends inform me, only blocks a subset (a gnarly subset, but a subset still) of the total kernel attack surface; it's not a general-purpose filter.
Since it’s based basically on the same mRNA technology (and has the same reported efficacy) I would assume it works as well as the Pfizer one. No hard data to back this up, though.
One of my favorite books! Pure mind candy.
This is really cool. Is the main use case for something like this over wolfram alpha the use of writing the equations directly? Are there any other features that this has hidden that I can't get on wolfram alpha?
This is why companies like Mercedes use a very firm snaplock (button thing).
The picture seems to be different here in Sweden. It's possibly related to the difference in wages being less extreme overall.

The best salary I ever had was as a software engineer at a AAA studio, and I used to work outside the game industry and had offers from a consulting firm which I know offer competitive salaries.

I did end up leaving for a smaller studio who couldn't offer quite the same level of compensation, but the difference is still less than 20%.

I've thought about it a lot and even if the pay difference was much bigger I couldn't imagine leaving the game industry. Being surrounded by people who love games, getting to spend my days on serious technical challenges in the service of making something which brings joy to millions. It is an amazing feeling. I make enough that money isn't something I need to worry about and I love what I do in a deep and intense way. No regular frontend/web/dev ops/ whatever development job will ever be able to compete with that.
I was, when pointing out the articles are not on the Wikipedia, answering the direct question “please explain to me why "Constructions of the b—by", or "Atrophy of the ti—ies" are things that should be on Wikipedia?” (I have gone to the bother of bowdlerizing the cuss words) where the answer is “they haven’t been on the Wikipedia since 2015”.

That poster was being, to say the least, quite disingenuous asking me that question: They were making a direct personal insult against me, and they were stating that I advocated a position that I do not advocate. In other words, they were asking me a “are you still beating your wife?” type of question, and they worded their question as if those redirects are still on the Wikipedia.

Indeed, a point you missed they never stated the redirects went away.

Let’s look at what they actually said: >>>What is more sad in this case, is that every other admin knew very well that thousands of such pages were created, but nobody did anything. This is the usual situation when the clique will never go against one of their own.

It took them an incredible amount of time to do anything with that rogue admin and at the end I think he wasn't even removed from his role and banned, he simply stepped down on his own.<<<

Did this poster state the pages were removed? No, they did not. The poster only stated they they “[did] anything” with the admin, inaccurately stated he wasn’t banned (he was topic banned, which is a pretty serious punishment on the Wikipedia), and the OP never said what happened with the redirects.

A reasonable person reading what the OP wrote would not be given the impression the redirects were removed.

Now, back to me: I merely stated that the Wikipedia is a little more loose about redirects than about articles (“if you can make a redirect to something, it’s usually good to do so, even if the redirect uses a term which is not politically correct”); I agree that the particular redirects the OP incorrectly accused me of supporting go beyond the pale, and are examples of why I said “usually good” and not always good. The Wikipedia community agrees they went beyond the pale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...

It would be like if someone asked me “Why is it that pro-pedophile advocacy should be on the Wikipedia?”; it is in no way “disingenuous” to answer “that hasn’t been on the Wikipedia since 2007”, even if they previously pointed out that the Wikipedia did “something” about pedophilia a while ago, and even if I previously said that Wikipedia errs on the side of supporting free speech.

Personally, I think it’s pretty disingenuous to defend someone who was flaming me so hard, @dang had to intervene, and to incorrectly imply they OP said something they never actually said when falsely claiming I was being “disingenuous”. But that’s just my opinion.
After having to read through about 50 resumes today, so we could interview a max of 4 people for 1 position it's really hard to tell who's is good / bad.

I found the easiest thing to look for was some portfolio of work to try and differenciate the candidates
Like a relationship jobs seem to be easier for to get in to than out of. Definitely need to choose wisely as 1 year can turn in to 10!
Should a high schooler working part time for gas money be paid a living wage? If the answer is yes, most jobs for high schoolers will disappear.
But you couldn't write to CD-ROM, so they weren't a full replacement. What killed the 2.88 MB disk IMO was Iomega's Zip disk. By the time I was in high school, they were commonplace and moving to replace the floppy disk for carrying files around in your pocket. For larger files we did get CD-R and later CD-RW, but they were never convenient for e.g. saving your spreadsheets and word processing files. Eventually USB came along, and soon after that thumb drives, and that was the final nail in the coffin for both Zip disks and floppies.
> Simply looking at one aspect of immunity - detectable antibodies in the blood - is a very incomplete way of looking at the overall level of protection. For example, it's well known that mucosal immunity is important, and injected vaccines have a hard time inducing that kind of immunity: https://theprint.in/opinion/why-a-mucosal-covid-vaccine-has-...

I have not seen an actual credible claim that injectable vaccines can’t produce mucosal immunity. IIRC the HPV vaccines seem to generate strongly protective mucosal immunity. The opinion piece you linked seems off, too: the mRNA vaccines and (possibly to a lesser extent) the viral vector vaccines do seem to prevent most infections.

But it’s definitely true that antibodies in the blood are an incomplete picture. There are also memory B cell and all kinds of T cells.
True, but LaTeX only exists because of computer science researchers (largely Leslie Lamport from what I understand.) They had a need, and built a tool to meet that need, and the rest of the industry benefited.

There's less overlap in needs between software and mechanical engineering, for example.
trolling can be a lot of fun. especially ideological adversaries. people will get incredibly twisted around their own axles And literally enraged over the opinion of some anonymous joker who they will never meet or have another interaction with. these feelings can follow you around for days vexing you and bringing you back to that negative state of mind. and that is hilarious to people who have learned to not give a shit about what some stranger thinks of them on the internet.

You have a lot of control over your own mind and emotions, so don't relinquish it to malevolent tricksters. And if you can't do that quit social media. but really everyone should quit social media probably.
I’ll second the utility of “pint” for anything unit or quantity related in Python.

I’m literally in the middle of writing a rate limited continuously run service wrapper around some existing one shot task code and while I initially thought about just parsing the rate definition out myself because it’s pretty simple to just split on “/“ or “per”, but after thinking through the usage scenarios I just ended up using pint to convert anything it can understand as a frequency.

So anything of the form x / time unit or x per time unit, and converting it to the appropriate scale for use by the rest of my code. A whole bunch of string matching code replaced by a one line (two if I count the defensive unit type check to prevent false positive parsing problems) that looks as simple as this…

default_sleep_interval = (1/ureg(default_rate)).to(“seconds”).magnitude
Sure, which is the point of the pair of questions - and well covered by critiques of this article elsewhere. As people have noted - the ideas in the article aren't realistic because once you think on it or research it, the exclusionary factors become apparent.

That's the whole point of stressing the question though: to identify whether you have any unique advantages which mean you should succeed (or alternatively: to work out whether the idea is actually unique).
This is a false assumption as they have different mRNA instructions. As you point out, wait until there is data and treat the vaccines independently.
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I used to work at a company (not Amazon) with a similar "cut x% each year" philosophy. In spite of this on one high-performing team there was one very poorly-performing person and it was completely obvious. One day over drinks the manager told me "He's my designated fire-ee. If I don't have turnover from people leaving naturally then he's there to take the bullet when the cut comes. If someone leaves during the year then he survives until the next cycle". I even know a manager (as here) who specifically hired someone so they wouldn't need to cut any of their productive people.

Stack rank and cut produces perverse incentives.
It's what happens when you use Java.
Can you recommend me a good PC computer display at any cost that has an objectively good gamut so I can see what you see?
I mean I guess that makes sense for a mathematics-oriented language. Generally, literate coding would encourage you to come up with friendlier variable names as software engineers aren't mathematicians per se and code is meant to be accessible to more than just academics/mathematicians.

In particular, I see a lot of this done in machine learning python code. Lots of "z", not "zeta", etc. Pretty tough to understand as a non-researcher.
One of my favourite games of the era. It could really use a reboot.
What you spend on a thermometer, you save on cooking pans.
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I can't figure out the name or URL of it, but there is a really delightful in-browser HTML/JavaScript string toolbox out there on GitHub. I think it was developed at a U.S. Government agency, IIRC...
The spike protein is what is in common between all the variants. Getting a more diverse response doesn’t mean better protection.
Popcorn time.
Sympy[0] is the major Python package I go to for symbolic calculation, it’s been more than enough for what I’ve needed (except for a few shortcomings I found in higher dimensional symbolic geometry, but I’m not going to fault them for not having my own weird esoteric use cases covered)

0 - https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html
I think they'll catch up pretty quickly - there's a limit to architectural improvements Apple can make to stay ahead.
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The network would either fragment or die. Depending on how many local/regional networks still exist or are brought up, there would be too many forks to count and then any spends are impossible to really rely on, or just no stable forks at all.

You can sign things offline, sure, but you can't really verify them. I could spend the same coins a thousand times if the people accepting them can't reliably check for verifications using the same consistent chain.

I don't even understand how the scheme in "c" would work to be honest, and I have a decent background in crypto and cryptocoins. How many people are going to be able to make that work?

I just can't see any of that happening. I'd expect a combination of a barter economy, some precious metals and whatever physical currency is around.
Having been on both ends of the hiring process (in tech):

1. You don't have to be 100% qualified. Just show me that the skills you have are transferrable.

2. Tailor your CV & cover letter to the vacancy and company. List at least one work/life/volunteering experience (preferably a project with end results) that is linked to each of the requirements.

3. Keep it short and to the point. A quick glance and relevant keywords should jump out and pique my interest.

4. If you go "but..." to any of the 3 points above, you're probably wasting everyone's time.
If they patent ways to analyze more complex eBPF programs that would be extend in a very literal sense of the term.
For what its worth, I've bought 5 of these. 2 for myself, and 3 I've given as gifts. They're amazing and have completely changed the way I cook. Nothing compares.
Naturally there going to be a bunch of detail beyond your quick writeup but it feels to me your not as upset with this change, as the way the change has been handled?

It may be too late now you are cut from the discussion, but would a good approach been along the lines of "hey guys after the phone call are you happen for me to have legal document this to make sure we're all aligned and the contract is updated?"

Not sure if it was originally approached too strongly as I dont see why they would resist updating the contact. Also if you document the summary point in that email it does give legal weight and record if they dont follow-up anyway (obviously lawyers are better but its something).

Generally I've found when you see a shitfest arriving, see if you can suggest alternate push it a couple times if really serious but ultimately some people will follow their course and it only makes things worse to fight a brick wall. Once you see the course is set document your resistance in a friendly email and move away from said decision.

And if you are going to have the fight, do it in person (or phone at least) as text is too easily taken the wrong way (tone or meaning of a word) if people feel criticised. After the chat follow-up with an email summary in a nice/helpful way but really 'for the record'.

So to circle back, Id pick the right person to talk to be it CEO or Director or Sales and have an in person chat if you feel its that important. And go in with the view maybe Im wrong and there are good reasons I dont yet know and dont try to fight a brick wall if thats what there is.
The green new deal just got more real. How long before we are all riding bicycles like the Chinese used to do.
Um, what? We do in fact control our currency.
Mathematica as well.
The people behind the cyberattack messed with the wrong people. They will have no peace of mind for the rest of their lives.
It's the natural outcome of publishing being cheap and supply of aspiring authors being much higher than the demand for novels. The money which used to be concentrated in the hands of the few who could convince publishers to do business with them is now spread thin among many niche authors.

Further, every modern author is competing with every author who ever lived. I could read the science fiction you wrote last year or I could read Asimov, Herbert, Card, etc. and they're often cheaper and more socially relevant.
So all things are of the same quality and the only reason someone would purchase a more expensive item is to signal their wealth on social media?
Or let the price rise to equilibrate supply & demand. Rationing tends to create a black market as people who need cash more than they need fuel trade their fuel for cash with people who need fuel more than they need cash.
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Why is MJML a non-option? It was a huge time saver for me. Combine it with react-mjml and you can get typesafe email templates that work in pretty much any browser. I managed templates by hand for a long time, and it took me a couple weeks to replace everything with MJML, but it was worth it.
The vaccines target specific (and multiple) regions of the spike protein, so a given mutation of the protein is not likely to make a vaccine null and void (hence the current success of the vaccines against variants). A "natural" COVID infection could lead to similar protection, or less; but it's not likely that a natural infection gives you some kind of AAA protection. Being infected can also hurt you, after all. There is literally no downside to receiving the vaccine if you've already had COVID, so I would encourage everyone to get vaccinated regardless :)
My point was addressing moving out of state to just buy a house.

However, owning has massive drawbacks like less flexibility to move, increased transaction costs, risk of decline in home value, mortgage costs, home maintenance costs, hoa assessments, etc

Also, taxes on housing increases every year as do maintenance costs, insurance, hoa fees … rents sometimes decrease by the way.
Does your product make a clear promise?
So, you think you will be happy with your car if you're unhappy in life?!
That has got to be the best idea for an app I've seen it years.
I'd argue it's just being familiar with the tools. I'm biased, no doubt. Windows sysadmin work has paid the lion's share of my bills since the late 90s.

I've been using Group Policy heavily since 1999 (during the Windows 2000 beta), so I'm used to knowing what applies when. Being familiar with which client-side extensions (CSEs) do which processing helps. The documentation for Microsoft's own functionality is reasonably good. Third-party software is a mixed bag.

Remotely rebooting machines is easy. There has been a remote shutdown API in Windows NT since the at least Windows NT 4.0 (and probably going all the way back to the beginning). Since Windows 2003 there has been a command line tool included to actually use the API. Likewise, there are command line methods to remotely logoff users, refresh Group Policy, etc.