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> I know the school, and I don’t know the school. I’ve never known any school so far.

Either you're interviewing bottom-tier candidates or haven't paid any attention to schools that are out there. If you're in the US, you should be recognize the names of the top 25 CS schools. You might not know their rank, but there aren't any obscure names on that list, and they graduate a lot of students.
I used to work with someone who had been a manager in 80s Britain (high unemployment) and he said they threw any applicable in a brown envelope in the bin.

It wasn't about skills or experience or culture fit, but about getting the hiring done in a sane amount of time.
We have a saying that "smoke follows the sheep-fucker".

Different kinds of families, I guess =)
No, we are not past that. Just because it is used wrongly it does not mean that it needs to stay that way.
The article that I saw today was contradicting itself. In one place it said that there are 3 mutations and that vaccine might not work on it, and in another place that it should.

My understanding is that at this point we don't know yet. The actual testing would probably require a vaccinated person to be exposed to that strain.

Chances are that vaccine is probably still fine.
No, they moved to their own symbolic computation engine years ago.
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>What learning can be taken from this? Is it a case of the train of thought being very poorly explained?

My first question would be if the rebranding was a success? I generally think people are too dismissive of seemingly insane approaches to work. If this guy or girl needed to channel ancient Indian traditions, golden ratios and numerology to get inspired and make the best pepsi logo they could make, who are we to judge

In particular for creative work, there's certainly a lot of good stuff that's born out of sheer insanity, maybe bullshitting too.
I use a 1 page resume as an ML engineer. I have a section dedicated to keywords called "Skills". Seems to work quite well for me and I firmly believe that a longer resume would have hurt more than it would help.
> Nazis lie, is the way I frame it to myself. I try to recognize the tells, the techniques that are being used, the pivoting and debating attitude, the historical precedents, if possible the escalation as masks are dropped and the ideological payload is hinted at or delivered. There's always a payload. Everything else is the game.

I've actually experienced something like that. I once found myself peripheral to some internet controversy where there was this guy who seemed like he was on "my side" but prolifically posting in a really counterproductive way. In good faith, I spend a lot of time trying to get him to realize that, only for him to eventually to throw random slurs at me. I'm pretty sure he was just an alt-right type who didn't actually care much about the specific controversy, but was just trying to exploit the drama.
> Most those "nicely designed" emails, to be honest, are spam.

Indeed. The number of HTML elements in an email scales pretty linearly with the probability of it being spam.

Plain text is almost 100% certain not spam.
You're taking it out of context. I'm not saying that taken along it's a strong enough negative signal to filter, but it makes me being alert and I'll drill more into these items. But there are a lot of resumes that are clearly low effort and have a bunch of these mistakes - those are in my experience always indicative of the candidates' quality.
> Could You also offer up another TL;DR answer as to why the booster seems to present significantly more side effects?

The first one, some of your cells get told by the mRNA/adenovirus vector (depending on if you had Moderna/Pfizer or J&J/Oxford) to make some 'rona spikes. Your immune system amped up a little bit and your cells feel bad for a bit because of having to spew out spike. Your immune system, which is a little amped up, sees all this and starts to formulate things to kill the spikes (antibodies) and starts to send out other immune cells that clamp down on the cells that are making the spikes.

The second shot? Your cells get the call from the mRNA/adenovirus vector and start spewing out spikes. Your immune system recently saw this so it _really_ starts spewing out more antibodies to get rid of the spikes and more of the other cells to get rid of the spike producers. It it is really ready for the fight and wants to make sure you're ready for the fight in the future too.

The negative side effects are your immune system causing parts of your body to do things it doesn't usually do (like raising your body temperature to help kill off cells that are making these "rogue" spikes).
I wonder if this, along with the Texas winter crisis, will make people further get into off-grid, self-sufficient & all electric systems. Most houses in the US have enough roof estate to put enough solar panels to keep a daily car charged up. Add more panels, large energy storage and more efficient heating/cooling systems, and you might be able to run your house for some hours in an emergency.
Yes. Most of these so called “low skill” jobs are staffed by adults. There’s a reason why fast food and retail are open during school hours.
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The procedurally generated universe in Elite [1] contained 8 galaxies and each galaxy had 256 planets. They were all generated from a single seed number.

Interestingly, they artificially limited the number of galaxies as theoretically they could have 2^48 of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
Oops, sorry about that!

Intention was to highlight how MS, that fought with *nix tooth and nail, now they are adopting more and more ideas from *nix, basically moving towards being best enterprise Linux.
A serious adverse event doesn't have to be life threatening.[1] The difference between groups wasn't statistically significant. And there was no pattern either.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27114261
Not the most efficient. Humans have only about 10% efficiency converting food energy to mechanical work. You could burn that food and power a combustion engine to get more work from it. Or burn some other fuel that's easier to get than food, such as wood or, well, oil.
Sure, when I was younger I remember trying every single package from my distro or that was featured in slashdot or that appeared on freshmeat.net etc. These days my default attitude toward a new piece of tech is a shrug, and the list of techs that I (wilingfully or not) do not learn and skip over is becoming larger and larger with time. I do not believe that's because I'm becoming lazy though; fatigue sure is a thing, but we're living at a time when our universe is expanding faster than the speed of learning anyway. And I believe you too are staying ignorant of most of novelties.

Do I stick to my tools longer than necessary before acknowledging true progress?
Possibly, but not always. I've been pushing ruby over perl/php/python, ngnx over apache, I adopted systemd quite early for some of its practical merits, I pushed for containerd over docker, for nix then guix over Debian, and PL wise I've enthusiastically explored mercury, ATS, and rust way before it was a thing (then decided against it). So although it's true that I would not feel confident in a conversation with young JS programmers I could still name a long list of interesting new techs they have never heard about! :)

One of the hardest thing in a software dev's job used to be to learn to say "no" to product-designers and management. Nowadays it's to say "no" to shiny new techs. Many times this pays off, since most of tech novelties shine only for a brief moment before being superseded by another. The price to pay is to arrive a bit late to the party from time to time. One have to be very passionate and picky to not end up stranded in an isolated ecosystem.

You mentioned IDEs many time. Beware that they are often times such isolated ecosystems. You would not believe how strongly java devs thought no one would ever need to venture outside of Netbean... No I mean Eclipse. No, VScode. Meanwhile, I'm still wondering what problem those are trying to solve; do I have a problem I haven't diagnosed? Must not be the speed of writing or navigating code though, given I'm usually amongst the fastest around.
In programming as well as in real life, things own you as much as you own them.
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"In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population. In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, with the result that there is a chronic shortage of half the necessities of life; but this is looked on as an advantage. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another."
I am a developer. I mainly fix bugs reported by customers and I implement some features asked by PM. But I have no idea how to quantify this value. I'm paid X$, so I assume it is > X$.
Maybe PM knows, but they don't tell me the value of each features.
Am I on the path to downsizing? Or what should I put on my resume?
Using that sort of ad copy is fine IMO. What I take issue with is advertising using competitors' brands as keywords, so when someone searches for "Thermapen", your ad comes up above their organic result.
I think the desire for power is understandable. We need to be able to adapt our environments, and adapt ourself to our environments, in order to survive. Arguably, power is the extent to which we can achieve that.
Japan has several advantages, including relative independence from the internet (they keep pushing paper like it was the 1990s in business settings), disaster planning and well-trained civil protection policies and being an island nation. You might not be off too far.
In a way. It's also pretty easy to send your manager an email saying "My last date at mega/micro-corp will be X." Or ghost them. Don't, because it's not professional, but ghosting is one way to quit.
Benchmarks aren’t everything as you said. I used to have the last gen MAcBookPro with Intel for 3 years, and replaced it with M1 MacBook Pro. It’s almost an apple to apple comparison as they are same spec except the new processor. The difference is night and day. It just simply feels faster to use. It last almost 1.5 workdays of my use, while the intel one would not even last one full work day. I don’t need to lug around a power brick anymore. I charge at home and bring only the Mac to work without feeling anxious about battery.
The cost I pay is that building x86 Docker images are quite slow on M1, but I don’t do it that often to bother me much.
In general, that depends on the programming language though, and not all things in math are easy to parse and rely on precedence rules. Math is far from optimal in this aspect and I guess you just have experience in reading math.
"Incidentally, I use the word reader very loosely. Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a book for the first time the very process of laboriously moving our eyes from left to right, line after line, page after page, this complicated physical work upon the book, the very process of learning in terms of space and time what the book is about, this stands between us and artistic appreciation. When we look at a painting we do not have to move our eyes in a special way even if, as in a book, the picture contains elements of depth and development. The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting. In reading a book, we must have time to acquaint ourselves with it. We have no physical organ (as we have the eye in regard to a painting) that takes in the whole picture and then can enjoy its details. But at a second, or third, or fourth reading we do, in a sense, behave towards a book as we do towards a painting. However, let us not confuse the physical eye, that monstrous masterpiece of evolution, with the mind, an even more monstrous achievement. A book, no matter what it is—a work of fiction or a work of science (the boundary line between the two is not as clear as is generally believed)—a book of fiction appeals first of all to the mind. The mind, the brain, the top of the tingling spine, is, or should be, the only instrument used upon a book."

--Vladimir Nabokov
> Most writers do it because they love writing

The funny thing about writing is that writers mostly hate writing. Writers like being writers. They also like having written books. But the process, they despise.

This is very different from other arts. Musicians enjoy playing music a lot. Performers, in general, love to perform. Even painters, I think, like to paint.

Not writers.
Right but I suspect this is just fall-out from the cyber-attack.
Technically all batteries are E=mc^2, it's just that nuclear fission converts more of the mass, but still, not all of it.

Lithium batteries do get ever so slightly heavier when charged, but it's basically undetectable.
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Consider also that until the 20th century around half of the people born died before adulthood and around a quarter did so before the age of one [0]. Those geniuses didn't even get the chance to be the smartest uneducated subsistence farmer in the fiefdom, the most intelligent 15 year old to bleed out after childbirth, or the brainiest starving war refugee.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past
The US gov’t has a massive incentive to underreport inflation. When they underreport inflation (and people believe it), they are able to:

- pay less in interest on their debt
- raise Social Security payments by less
- inflate away the real value of the debt principal

The US gov’t has reached a record level of debt. It needs to cause massive inflation to devalue its debts, and it needs to lie about it.
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> kombinować

To scheme or connive feels about right to me haha. It's a tough word for sure.
>How is a startup supposed to compete when today's economy has resulted in fresh grads commanding $200k total-comp?

4 day work week.
Although it just uses scaling, Forth also has a nice solution to unit conversion:

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/12-forth-code-example/
Emails are incredibly easy to ab test given a sufficiently large audience size.
Tell that to my Lexus, which 100% does beep and will smash the automatic brakes if I try to drive into a stationary car behind me.
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my coworker's parents caught it. they were in their 50s. the mom became severely ill and was hospitalized for weeks. the dad died. my coworker himself got it and was mostly fine.

it's really hard to intuit how wildly variable this disease is when you only have a couple personal data points and distrust/feel detached from the statistics being reported, but it's real.
Another thing to note here: When people take a driving licence in Denmark, a CPR certification is mandatory. So a lot of people in Denmark has CPR training, myself included.
BabelJS's idea is so simple, yet huge. BabelJS, or, as I like to call them in my talks, is the "Age of transpilers".

The idea of having some sort of meta layer that you compile from to another source is old, but totally underrated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler

With my team we optimized render processes using transpilers/meta language and this totally rocks.

I hope that BabelJS will continue to follow their vision and gets more sponsorship from company-side. For me, they popularized the idea of Compilers in unexpected areas.
If they’re the sole US distributor doesn’t that mean they’re the only ones allowed to sell them in the US?
In China we call it Fosun/Biontech and that's fine. I would never call it the Fosun vaccin out of respect for the people who actually made the breakthrough.
It took less than a day to declare the state of emergency because of a gas outage.

How long it took to declare the same when COVID came to US?
Oh, I forgot to mention HTTP uses TCP port 80, and HTTPS uses TCP port 443.
Businesses can't expect claims for theft insurance to be honored if they didn't take reasonable measures (install security cameras, alarms etc... and lock the valuables). How is this different?
The Snapdragon 888 only has one X1 core.
yes, as with all the other variants they should just say "we don't know yet, let's find out", but instead they defer to some scientific language of "no evidence that it protects" that the general population cannot relate to
The coolness glamour factor in the entertainment industry goes away when you've been a PA for 10 years. That being said, there are a lot of industries and fields where you spend like your entire 20s just treading water and suffering, and only after that when you emerge, bloodied and standing on the pile of your burned out former coworkers, do you get a crack at the lifestyle you envisioned that profession being like as a kid when you began the process of cementing yourself into this life.

As a kid I thought this included some obvious jobs, but now as an adult I realize a lot of professions are like this. Some of my doctor and lawyer friends have been dealt the worst hands of all.
It's actually extremely rare for journalists to state facts as simply being true. They're almost always presented as being a quote from some expert or authority or whatever. Even obvious things like after a car accident "The car was seen upside down" not "The car flipped over" because they don't really know for sure how it got that way or even if it was some optical illusion. That's honest reporting. They're not trying to push any agenda about how cars end up appearing to be upside down so they don't have to beat us over the head with it.
Deployed mail servers are very homogenous, there are probably 10000 implementations of MTA software but 99.999% of mail is handled by the top 10.
HTML e-mail fill an important function. If it's html, it's a promotion and it gets trashed...
If you're in the US, this is one of the dumbest reasons to use against COVID-19 vaccines, since all vaccines have had the same treatment since 1986 via the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
It seems backward to try and understand a known math technique or fact from code when there are likely pedagogical presentations of the same material. And if we're talking about novel math, it seems more than fair to ask that the reader is comfortable with the domain.

Can you imagine someone learning math by contemplating the sum of effects in a program? Heaven forbid there's any emphasis on performance whatsoever.
Fuji re-issues warning over fake camera batteries and how to spot them
The Scalability Trilemma is either Irrelevant or Wrong: here's why
How we built a real time privacy inspector (2020)
You can't trust a compromised system. It has to be purged and rebuilt from the ground up. I really miss the days of write-enable jumpers for BIOSes...
Sorry doomers, you will have to get out of your houses.
The Seychelles are using Chinese junk.
I get where you're at but if you go to the pharmacist and ask which one they have they're going to call this one the Pfizer one.
And what are people who don't own a smartphone doing? Do they just throw their cards to the trash, since they have become useless?
Some of the best developers I’ve worked (and work) with are from a music background with an interest in computer music also. I guess maybe part of it is that at a certain point in writing music software you really need to be using C++, and audio software in particular is quite unforgiving due to its real-time nature, so you have to learn some fundamentals to write performante code? But I’m sure there’s more to it than just that.

I’ve also worked with some really smart people from a physics background.
Good to know. That sounds more reasonable than just Pfizer.
> But their choices affect me, and, more importantly, those I care about. So no, I don't respect anyone's "choice" to be an unvaccinated asshole, increasing the chance that people I care about will die

I only respect those that choose to be unvaccinated if they:

1. have had adverse effects to a previous vaccination (like the Anthrax garbage they injected into military personnel or have allergies to PEG)

I really thought I had more than one
> But replying from Outlook simply broke the styling completely

This is an Outlook problem, not an MJML or even an HTML problem.

If you inspect the HTML for the email sent vs what Outlook sends on a reply you’ll see it has changed the code.

Here’s an excellent highlight of this bug https://www.hteumeuleu.com/2016/super-mail-forward-an-email-...
I came up with a slightly different reasoning why you should switch: When the host is about to open a door there are 2 possibilities, he can either choose between 2 goats, OR he can choose between a car and a goat.

In more than 50% of the cases the host encounters the situation where he must choose between a car and and goat. Why because in > 50% of the cases the user's initial choice does NOT have car behind it, so the host must choose between a goat and a car in > 50% of the cases.

And of course he chooses the goat. So in > 50% of the cases the remaining door will have the car behind it,

So by switching, you have > 50% chance of winning the car. Is this the correct answer? It would seem to me your chance to win if you switch is 1/2 x 2/3. Is this correct?

What is counter-intuitive is why the action by the host should give us any information about which door has the car. And it does not do so always. It only gives us information in 2/3rds of the cases. If the host chooses between two goats that should not give us any information at all should it? But that is good enough for us since we play the odds, and switching seems to increase our odds.

But, now I have my doubts. This kind of probabilistic reasoning would seem to apply only if we repeat the experiment many times. But no contestant gets to play this game more than once. Probability theory does not tell us anything about what happens in a single experiment. So is it rational for the player to think they should switch if they can play this game only once?

How much should they be willing to pay for the option of being able to switch the door, if they know they can only play this game once?
I have no clue why something this obvious is not taken care of.
So if I buy one, I'm not allowed to sell it after I'm done with it? That's irregular, to say the least.
That is an excellent example.

Given a situation where labor supply is in excess, one could say "let them work for pennies because they love the craft, i.e. let the company pay them nothing because they're easily replaceable." Or one could say "they should unionize so they can bargain for better salaries, and still do what they love."

I suspect that since game devs still make above the national average for salaries, there's less incentive to unionize and demand wages that actually reflect the value they bring to those multi-billion dollar game publishers. It's like "well 50k-60k is good enough" even though the industry they work for is flush with cash and could easily compensate more if they were made to do so.