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One of their root servers PDFs said

"Due to the critical role that root name servers play, combined with the fact that they are themselves
often targets of DDoS attacks" [1]

That made me sad. Why mess with the internet which gives us such joy.

[1] https://root-servers.org/media/news/Statement_on_DNS_Encrypt...
So then, why single out diabetes for the headline? Why not "76% of those who died from Covid-19 had cardiovascular disease"?
People who can't get vaccinated don't deserve protection less because people who won't get vaccinated outnumber them. And the vaccines aren't 100% effective.
I'm not trying to humanize Capital. There are plenty stock market analyses that matter-of-fact-ly complain about wages and demand more buybacks/dividends. And the profit have also been increasing more than wages or reinvestments.

To the extent the "new inequality" is these institutional investors, well it's "first time as tragedy, second time as farce" all over again.

> https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2020/10/25/who-owns-the-st...

That's a neat graph. I would also like to see some measure of foreign assets with US owners to put that in perspective. "Foreigners" I also want to break down; that label makes it sound like all the rich individuals families went abroad (!), but I assume the foreign investors are institutional too?
And what about breaches where they have not implemented MFA?
Yep, I’ve been there too. Mom’s new Camaro, ironically I hit my neighbor about 10 miles from our neighborhood. No one was hurt but I have never dreaded a phone call to mom more heh.
My 2018 Subaru Forester will absolutely emergency autobrake at highway speeds. I've seen it happen when it detects a car exiting out of the lane as still being in the lane (road is curved so car is still in front, but I have no intention of following it).
> All to arrive at a blob that looks like a fat person with a red shirt and blue pants separating from each other at the waistline

So what you're saying is that their new logo was really just their old mascot [1] who had let themselves go?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=pepsi%20man&tbs=img...
> Employers are looking at your education, companies you worked at, years of experience, and maybe a vague idea of what your work area was before this.

Isn't this what a resume is? Just the list of those things that Employers want to look at.
I hate to admit this, but I’m definitely one of the folks who isn’t a fan of the BI gang that operates in my workplace. They seem to have a very superficial understanding of how anything works. Their stuff constantly breaks on schema changes, and their response is never “hey, this seems like a broken workflow. How do we improve it?”. Its always “@here our DW may be broken but we will get it back up soon” and radio silence as they try to privately figure out how to fix something they don’t quite understand.

Not to mention that they have hardly any monitoring/alerting, which means that the data in the DW is not reliable, which can be really frustrating for users.

Overall I get the sense that these are unskilled folks who oversold what they could do but ultimately have very little clue what’s really going on.
>Its about 50% above median family income in California for a family of four

You're missing a key point, that this thread is about game dev salaries and most of them tend to be in major cities (and require you to go in). Sure you can central California and work on a farm, but that's irrelevant.

>Yeah, it is. I mean, its not “eat out every day” money, but its quite comfortable.

It depends on where you are and for most game devs, I wouldn't consider it "quite comfortable".

>150K is almost the median household income of households headed by a Ph.D. holder

Sure, but they'd still won't have it easy if it's a family of 4.

>but you can drop to a much lower CoL within a reasonable commute distance, either within the 9-county Bay Area or adjacent, such as southwestern Solano County

I used to work for Ubisoft in San Francisco and let me tell you there isn't a single county within "reasonable" commute that is cheaper to live in. My commute was one and half hours each way and was still paying $2200 for a single bedroom apartment (two bedroom was unaffordable).

There's no denying there's people in California who make way less and live far from the big cities. But there's a reason why the limit to be considered "low income" is $120000 in San Francisco for a family of 4 (and similar in other big cities where game studios have offices).
On my Ford Sync 3 system, when I plug my phone in to use Android Auto the GPS sometimes goes haywire (the map keeps spinning in random directions like the car is drifting at sea out of control). Rebooting the phone doesn't fix it, only pulling over, turning the car off, and opening the door (so the infotainement system shuts down completely) fixes the issue. Based on this, I'm assuming that Android Auto gets its GPS from the car's GPS unit when plugged in, as the car GPS would have a better signal than the phone sitting down in the cup holder. If the phone isn't getting GPS signal from the car, then something the car is doing is seriously jamming the phone's GPS signal until the infotainment system gets rebooted.
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Not sure about every HTML being plain text but I do wish I had $20 for every overly image heavy email that has no meaning what so ever unless I do "show images." Don't brands understand a fair number of ppl have their email client *not* display images by default?
Cannot say enough about their customer support. In 1:45 I called and got a replacement part shipped to me free of charge. That's one minute, 45 seconds. About 30s of that was me telling them I had ordered something earlier that day and them checking if it had shipped already.

Great products as well.
I think you honed in on the cost of a GT3, misunderstanding the point - to show that Tesla Model 3 Owners are not the Happiest Car Owners. The headline is false and also doesn't reflect the contents of the story.
> Now, with the emphasis on imagery across the web, users strongly preferred images that could be seen full screen or at a larger scale, looked high-quality, and showed detail clearly.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/newsletters/ (2017)
I still remember the first time someone pointed it out to me all those years ago... I'll skip the steps of charting out hundreds of circles for millions of dollars and just say that I interpret it as a hyperreality.
The operative question here is who is benefiting from comparative advantage? In this case quite literally no resident of Hawaii benefits from the current situation. Sugar cane and coffee do not create good jobs relative to other agriculture and the exports drive up land and food staple prices.
Amazon / eBay arbitrage is a thing.

Made some really good money until my Amazon prime account got banned.
My prediction is "the collapse of society", because past the waste and corruption there is also a pretty mind-boggling amount of expertise that goes into allocating dollars to projects, and, if you're delegating to individual voters the task of replicating that expertise, you're not going to end up with a functioning NOAA, FSIS, FDA, NERC, &c. Beyond just knowing what NERC is, you have the coordination problem of knowing which worthy agencies need prioritized funding.

This is an idea that's trendy in local government, especially among progressives; "participatory budgeting". I don't think it's going to work much better in municipal government, but you can watch and see whether the participatory budgets outperform the competently-managed ones.

The cliched libertarian trope is that all our money goes into the military; the sharper libertarian critique would be that the United States is a health and benefits management provider with an army attached.

I don't even know what a "globalist" is, by the way. Maybe you could pry that phrase a little further open for us.
And somebody may answer "The X-Files, probably".
Has anyone else started to change their buying habits to buy direct from brands websites instead of buying on Amazon?

I simply don't trust Amazon for certain purchases. I feel like it's actually made me trust brands more instead of commoditized products.
Last time they had a breach, they took 6 months to notify the public and did everything in their power to blame anyone else. [0]

The breach was limited - but it doesn't inspire confidence.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/whats-the-truth-about-the-nor...
I’m not the person you are responding to and I’m also a software dev (ie. not the average user), but I prefer a nice looking email that includes some simple graphics and formatting. So that’s at least one person that prefers that kind of thing to a plain text email and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone. I think we can probably agree that there is a large subset of the population that likes “nice looking” websites, so why would emails be different.
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Because design/illustration can be demonstrably meaningful and/or useful and/or informative &c. Whereas this is a nullification: at this point in time [as it reaches a kind of saturation point] it's a mass-produceable toolkit for generating inoffensive fluff to fill space. In the sense that it cannot fail at doing nothing much, then sure, it has succeeded. But the goal is to...do what exactly? It's kitsch. Good design tends to take quite a bit of thought: this takes very little. Hence, lazy.
There is only one way to find out. Be sure to post your findings here.
Yep, remember that time. It is completely nuts to me that those same games that were 13 "the hard floppies" that took hours to install can now run within a few seconds of visiting a web page, let alone RUN in said web page.
Thats what the average web dev thinks the average person wants.
Rule #1 - Realize and embrace that your resume / CV has one purpose and one purpose only...to get an interview. Full stop.
I haven't used Amazon in over 18 months.
this looks really awesome. I don't know about engineering IDE, but i definitely see how useful it is.
Congrats
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ICANN does allow non-Latin TLDs. The very link under discussion in this comments section uses one.

Emojis are something else though.
Doesn't seem to work correctly on my Android mobile. Sharing to the telegram bot does not add the object to the Shelf; I see no updates on the browser.

Interesting concept, look forward to using this.
Remember the dvd shirts with the code to break the drm printed on them? I use to have one, can’t remember what happened to it.
Probably not federal, but I pay that much in state and federal combined. It’s believable for a tech worker in ca.
A policeman would just write up "Too fast for conditions".
Yeah that's punycode. The UTF8 version of it doesn't work in all contexts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
MJML is abstracted from Mailjet’s email builder. It’s based on real-world HTML needs and the stuff it renders is pretty easy to read. You’ll end up re-implementing something like it if you try to go simpler but have a lot of work to do.

It’s also easy to teach to designers.
Again, is it worth the risk to potentially millions of kids for a small % of folks that could quarantine? Not obvious.
Well you have this at roughly $2000 total: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sarasarasa...

And this at almost a million dollars: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.modelmaker...

I'm not sure if these are outliers, and my "random" sampling is just picking out highly visible apps. But I've made good money off an app built in a month, and I've made relatively little from a book written in 3 months.

Software has a lot more variety. You can make say, a communist themed productivity app vs a forest themed one and these will appeal to different people.
If they didn't have erratic hours, provided benefits (or if we had universal healthcare) and paid a decent wage those restaurant and store jobs would at least have some meaning. Many people working at Facebook or Google making the big bucks often wonder if their work has any meaning - getting people emotionally charged so that they engage with your site doesn't ultimately have any meaning (it's even worse than that it's leading to societal trouble). But it pays really well so they keep at it.
I could be totally off my rocker, but weren't the 5.25 1.2 MB?
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Yea---I feel there's a happy medium.

People here blame it on age, but very high resolution always screams it was shot on video. I don't need to see every pore on an actor's face. I'm usually wanting to get away from reality when watching a movie, or a tv show too.

I am very content with the visual quality film gave us.

I love black, and white film for the same reasons, and others, even more.
If you keep them in a cool and dry place - yes. Like in your basement. Not so sure while being transported.

In addition, the difference in food prices should cover the price of transportation and the risk of far journeys.
I can't think of a case where this was addressed, so I agree that one might think of it as up in the air, but are you aware of any prosecutor who maintains or expresses this position?

Closely related to this, why wouldn't this position create criminal liability for running an open wifi network, if it turned out to have been used by a criminal? How about for a public library that allows unidentified members of the public to use public computer terminals? How about for running a commercial ISP?

Is the likely argument some kind of common-law imputed duty to not provide too much more privacy to network users than the average ISP does?
I think the allure is that a large number of people haven't had something go viral are in awe/impressed, and they probably don't realize that this stuff is extremely luck based.
To Quote Dave Barry:

A resume is not just a piece of paper, it is a piece of paper with lies on it. And it can mean difference between not getting a job, and not even coming close.
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Yes, I didn’t want to predict that far, but could be even higher, right?
It's hardly fair to judge a crypto fund on the last year. They would have had to be spectacularly incompetent to lose money.
I think you'll get a lot of one variety of responses so I feel compelled to share:

I don't dismiss any of the concerns regarding Amazon and authenticity and quality. But I have yet to have it affect me after hundreds of purchases for many thousands of dollars.

Maybe it's just the kinds of things I buy. Maybe I don't notice the occasional knock off. Maybe I'm just naturally good at avoiding dark corners.

As a result I haven't changed my behaviour at all.
You can't avoid some level of exploitation when you have little power; and you have little power when there are 5 other people willing to do the job at a wage you think is too low.
My colleagues and I made a chart about this issue when I was working at EFF:

https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
In the U.S. I don’t think it’s really possible to (legally) segregate benefit packages by pay range. What they do is segregate based on part time/full time, and barring that, use contractors for their low paid positions.
In what sense is the GT3 comparison appropriate here?

I think you are focused on showing the headline is false, but not on this comment thread.
I don't think you understood what your parent meant. In their case the GPU was detrimental cause it was reducing the ram available to the rest of the system to 5gb.
I don't know, I hear this argument a lot, but it does not make any sense to me. With `foldl1 (||) (map ($x) tests)`, my guess is that I am folding an operation denoted by || (my guess is or?) over some sort of collection that was obtained by mapping some function denoted by $x over what must be another collection called tests. I have been staring at the javascript example for like 5 minutes and I think I know what it does, but I am still confused by it.
This has not been my experience at all. I would say that cruise control is enabled for about 90% of my driving in the city, and nearly 100% on the highway.

I have had it brake hard when (for instance) somebody is turning into a driveway, so they come to a stop in the lane. But...I am still paying close attention, notice this before the car reacts, and lightly tap on the brake to temporarily disengage it. It has just become a part of driving the car.
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If you just want text and images, you don't need CSS. Just the <img> tag - and even there you'll run into differences if you try and use the alt attribute.

And even that isn't trivial. For example, say you include an basic black on white icon, what happens if the user is using dark mode? If the image is transparent, it becomes entirely invisible. If it's non-transparent then it's ugly (white box). If you want to make it change depending on dark or light mode, now you have to use responsive CSS which works entirely differently in different mail clients. What happens if the image is bigger than their viewport? Hint: it is different in different clients.

And speaking of mail clients: one of the most popular mail clients is Outlook, which on Windows uses the Microsoft Word(!) HTML renderer and on Mac it uses WebKit. Gmail on web has its own HTML parser that outputs different HTML to what you wrote (and mangles your CSS class names). Apple Mail is probably the easiest to deal with.

It's not worth learning this stuff if you don't have to. It will not benefit your life in any way. The common subset you want is text/plain.
That's what you wanted to read there. So it would fit within your history or whatever baggage you're carrying; none of which is my problem, and I mean that with sympathy. You need to stop projecting onto others.

I'll rewrite my initial post with more detail and clariry, I hope:

• I've had a few "artsy" startups in the past.

• Because of this, I have employed about 200 people in creative roles.

• Some of these people had issues with drug abuse, as they straight up told me or came out on background checks.

• (Bonus) Since I am a super nice guy :), I gave them a pass on that and a chance to perform. This, in stark contrast with 95% of similar businesses which just had probably smiled them goodbye and then ghosted them.

• I found out that there was no difference in the amount of "creativity", to put it that way, between the drug addicts compared to people who were not.

• Since I think this is an interesting insight, I decide to share it here.

• Somehow, that's a bad thing for some. I guess you can't please everybody, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Metro was minimalist in a highway sign sense - less color, lots of emphasis on text and distinct shapes/outlines. I don't think flat designs we have now are all that similar.
Careful with the "of course marginal" and lumping all of Europe into one bucket :)

E.g. Germany has a progressive tax rate system and the salary ranges this applies to are rather small. Quoting from: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/germany/individual/taxes-on-per...

For a single taxpayer:

Free amount: 9744 EUR
Progressive tax from 14-42%: 9744-57918 EUR
42% on your entire salary from: 57918-274612 EUR
45%: > 274612 EUR

Also see a nice explanation and graph here, though the numbers they use are different, because different tax years are assumed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#Income_tax
> even 10 years ago hardware was already fast enough (and any gains in speed are just being taken by increasingly bloated software)

This point doesn't stand the test of time, much like how Gates said "640K ought to be enough for anybody" (except he didn't[0]). Computers will keep getting faster so that developers can keep abstracting away 'hard' parts of development, leading to modern-day bloat most would consider Electron and React/Vue/Polymer. This is only considered 'bloat' until the hardware is fast enough and has enough memory to where the slowdown caused by the bloat is negligible and it simply becomes a tool that increases productivity and the amount of products/features consumers see each quarter.

0: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/
One trick journalists use, is they cite each other. They'll write something like according to WP, so and so did this. You're supposed to believe because WP is a credible newspaper. They'll do this in a circle, and cite each other. I guess this is where the term circle of lies comes from.

The real problem is that appeal to authority works so well.
Japan has a 99% conviction rate, because their culture is so differential to Authority. The state brings on an expert witness, and the jurors accept it as fact. Its how humans work. You would think people are critical thinkers. Sadly, more often than not, people will defer their thinking to someone with higher status.
Sure; I'm just trying to clarify which parts of the blog post are still accurate.
The other thing that's kinda missing with these emulations is that back in the day, most PCs would kinda be useless without some kind of Joystick.

Gosh, I see this stuff and I just want to be 10 years old again. (And not retain my memory - otherwise I will be a crazy guy on the street corner yelling about the virus in 2020)
I just bought a Sony A90J TV for more than $4000, and I had to reboot it on my first day of usage, because it got stuck inside an application (Google TV based, Android TV was so much better so far).
I thought this would be a problem, but that has not been my experience so far.

I'm far more annoyed with other screens I've used in rental cars that still had physical buttons. If you have to glance at the screen to understand the current state in order to know which button to press, there's little advantage to the physical buttons.
In my experience with SNOW middle clicking on anything brings me to the page I want, but it removes the navigation bar from the side which makes it almost less than useless. And not to mention the weird thing where it kicks you out of a ticket after you put it in.
Not everything needs to be sales based or even numbers based.

The lesson here is fact based, not baseless claims.

I write high quality code.

Vague statement, nothing backing it, don't even want to ask how or why you think you do because its pure fluff.

I leverage code review and unit testing to ensure my code is modular and resilient to change.

Fact based and easily verifiable with an interview question: Tell me about your code review and testing practices, do you use ci?
> Disproving anything takes substantially more time and work than just saying any old nonsense in the first place.

The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law