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Literally seen this almost all the time at three different gym places...

I went to the gym I was asked to come back "later" as "the gym is near full (50% full actually) and we prefer 'regulars' to come and train for something instead of... kind of you...".

So, if I am like you - just seeing with my own eyes and not follow the feeling and facts from other persons - I would say that gym regulars are just full of s*** :)
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Lobbying is primarily aimed at lawmakers.
I'm sure it's a much better experience if you fly first class.
Cool! Is there a way to try the feature already? Can I just install the development versions of synapse and element?

Many thanks for the work you do!
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They're not incentivised to do anything other than maximise their quarterly profits.
Except in the case where the judges are getting kickbacks from the private prisons in exchange for harsh sentences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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I've never seen it happen in person either. As someone who used to be terrified of going to the gym because I didn't want to look like the new person at the gym, I can say for myself that it was all in my head.

"..you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." - David Foster Wallace
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Yeah, I'm confused as well. I've been using my yubikey for ssh auth for years now with github and other services.
I host a pet project Slack bot on a Digital Ocean droplet. You can compile an Elixir app into an executable that treeshakes the BEAM. I can't speak to memory usage, but deployment for me is as easy as compiling an executable and putting it on the server.
it's great! It's exactly what I need. Thanks again
Underpaying but still making the other person happy because it's more than they earned before.

Giving them the shit jobs, unpaid overtime, etc.

Remarks behind the back about things like weight, eating habits, and being ashamed about things they take for granted.

Having your existence denied completely (e.g. the cleaners mentioned)
Bitcoin’s future value is in the hope that any kind of government or large institutions support, which is not/never coming now. I think Tesla also dumping their coins very soon.
I agree. Anything higher and he might have got paid, but not got offered the job.

The fact he DID get the job means he got the better deal in the long run.
wow never thought about it like that thanks im cured
There are certainly more than one set of problems indeed. I suppose that was your point, and not just a whataboutism?

Edit: To clarify, since I assume the immediate downvote was from the parent. A "typical distraction from deeper problems" is not relevant here, as, I am in fact, explicitly, and quite deliberately pointing out the moral issues of privatized prisons and health care. The definition of the logical fallacy I am asking whether or not you intended is the "attempt to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument". Now, as I mentioned, I do not think the issues you've pointed out are non-existent, or non-problematic, they are just irrelevant to the issue and point I made. So, if what you wanted was to give particular examples of issues in non-private institutions, then, by all means. I don't see how that relates, and it would be a pretty spot on example of a whataboutism.
Time Magazine's "person of the year" was about running a feature on a figure who had a significant impact on the world recently, not necessarily about celebrating and approving of said figure.
>What kind of society is this that Google is building? Aren't you even allowed to acknowledge someone else's humanity?

The social interaction dynamics that happens at the Google building is a reflection of society at large. As another example, I've worked at the offices of charity institutions where the higher level white collar workers ignore the cleaning people. The common theme is that humans in general (and not Google employees specifically) like to stratify people.

I recently flipped through a high school yearbook (these books were more popular before the era of Facebook) and noticed that the cafeteria ladies were relegated to a tiny group photo. However, the teachers got individual portraits. So a public institution funded by taxpayer money implicitly stratified 2 different types of workers. Each page of printing a hardcopy yearbook costs money and the food workers are not the same value to the yearbook staff. See the common pattern across humanity?
I used to be a "gym rat" but the general "guy culture" at most gyms is thinly veiled bully behavior. I can not count the number of times I interrupted normal, buff, and outright fat guys giving less-than-babe-status women grief. I finally found myself getting prepared for anger when going to the gym, and after switching gyms a number of times I gave up and now work out in parks and at home, away from the public assholes that ruin it for all but the beautiful.
> There's a market for having a plug-and-play videophone now that we have the software to go inside it.

> What are Zoom, Facebook or Apple waiting for?

This is already a thing?

Facebook has Portal, Apple has iPad, Amazon has Echo, all of whom support Zoom and other video conferencing apps. The portal even has a moving camera to keep you centered if you're moving in frame, and the iPad does the same thing with an ultra-wide lens and some post-processing.

As far as dedicated videoconferencing hardware is concerned, Starline seems pretty late to the game. Although, I'll admit the fancy 3D imaging features is pretty insane.
There are quite a few papers out there on the subject. As someone who has studied a little bit of sociology, I can tell you there are numerous sociological factors which basically determine that wealthier people have access to better food, better medical care and live healthier lives in comparison to lower-socioeconomic people. Where you live alone determines your health equity, if you live in a remote area or small town away from a large city, your access to fresh and non-processed foods is heavily reduced.

This is a great paper I suggest you read: https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/29/1/29/433380 -- this is a good starting point, there are others spanning back the last three decades or so.

It is also worth noting that it's not necessarily how much money you have that is the contributing factor, it can be other factors. The lack of green areas or pathways to walk/exercise (especially prevalent in remote Australian communities), the number of hospitals or doctors close by. But, ultimately, lack of health services and fresh food are correlated to obesity both of which are determined by your location which, in turn, is determined by your financial status.
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That was great! Thanks for sharing it.

> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because they thought I was kidding when I said I had a GED.

I feel that. I have almost no formal training at all. I have a GED, and attended a redneck tech school. Everything since, has been OJT.

As a manager, one of the things that I looked for, was minimal formal training, yet experience doing things that required it.

Good sign.
Damn, I never knew this. I think the first time I ever needed sharding it was just available in whatever version of MySQL we were using at the time (through some plugin, presumably). I never needed it again and ever since just assumed it was the default.

Thanks for the correction!
Sure, but it’s quite a flight from San Francisco
Being poor doesn't make you fat per se, but if you look at most stats, higher social levels(whatever that means in each country) usually means less obesity. When I worked in construction, most people were eating an absolute crap and were often overweight. Then I joined a professional services company and I literally walked into an office of 50 or so people, where everybody was slim and most people ate pretty healthy, home made food.

There are lots of factors why that's the case,but to say it's not happening like this wouldn't be right either.
I don't think that's rich vs. poor. I think that's sociopath vs. non-sociopath. Maybe she was the only non-sociopath at her company?
The author said in a postscript that he was worried about seeming elitist. I didn't think it was elitist at all, and I completely understand why it was a good choice for him to write BASIC code.

However, I also did manual labour in the summer when I was ~20. There was nothing wrong with it. I would certainly recommend a brief stint of it to a young person, especially if you are training towards a sitting down/talking type job.

You are outdoors, you end the day physically tired but with mental and emotional energy for other things. You gain skills and improve your health and fitness. There's usually a good atmosphere among the workers. And you get to point at something concrete and say 'I helped put that up/knock that down/repair that'.
Ok but… why? Does anyone have enough knowledge to speculate why that bit would prevent you from reading the code?
It’s not just food education. If you’re poor in the US you’re much less likely to live near a source of fresh meat and produce, which makes calorie-rich fast food more tempting. You’re more at the mercy of many multi-billion-dollar industries that serve unhealthy food to the masses.
Was in a gym that put signs on the wall admonishing people from commenting on those trying to get in shape. They were not getting the new members they wanted.
Or peek into my four-year old codebase, and try to give a usefull meaning to the error 'function has no local return' that pops up in dozens of functions which, honest to FSM, have a local return. (The message usually, but not systematically, mean that the function is calling a function that is calling a function that is ..[skip].. calling a function which spec is not exactly respecting the `@spec` comment - because how could it, there is no static type checker ;) ?)
I don’t understand a word of what you’re trying to say.
Thank you for the explanation! I actually didn't know that.
This is true in a superficial sense. But healthy food is generally more expensive than junk food. Gym memberships, exercize equipment, personal trainers, and outdoor recreation costs time and money. It's hard to prioritize self-care when you're struggling with the day-to-day stresses of poverty, like how do I get to work after my car broke down for the third time this month. Poverty is stressful and stress-eating is a thing.

Sure, there is no law of physics that makes poor people overweight, but it is much easier to have a thin waistline when you have a fat bank account. And indeed we observe that in the US, poor people are heavier than wealthier people.
If by "change" you're asking, "when did I stop underselling myself and getting in over my head" then I am not sure I could identify a single point in time where that happened. It's been an improvement on a continuum.

Those early years certainly felt painful but in retrospect provided valuable concrete experience in negotiating, marketing, and self-assessment. I learned how to figure out what others really wanted, how much they should be willing to pay to achieve their goals, and (probably most importantly) whether or not I could deliver. That period of time, when computers were exploding into small businesses, was a little magical when it came to freelance programming.

Now, ~40 years later, I find myself applying those learned skills at my current job every day. I got lucky.

My apologies if I misunderstood your question and blathered on about something else.
Can someone explain the Advil argument?
I don't think the status counts as medical information. It is an indication of whether you will participate to the event or not. Not participating may mean that you didn't want to participate, or that you didn't have a valid health pass. The database doesn't allow you to make the difference between the two.

Otherwise, any guest list would now be "medical information".
I brought my lunch to the office for many years but then I went in consulting and had to work from home and live in hotels and then its quite hard to prepare lunch or bring leftovers to work. If you stay in hotels
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Wonderful. I was hoping there was a version without the obnoxious commercial branding, and indeed, these are both free of it. (And the MSN scan also without the harsh thresholding)

Thank you!
This runs on 256mb VMs and works well even when it gets busy: https://liveview-counter.fly.dev

And I'm biased, but we are a pretty good place to run an Elixir app: https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/elixir/
Do you mean actors? I kinda hate how they’re always referred to as processes.

https://github.com/actix/actix
https://github.com/akka/akka
Interesting. Coming from a rather poor background (refugee) i was lucky enough to not experience this in tech.

I do notice a disconnect in perspective and priorities though. Also i live in europe, where this is maybe a tad different.
I'm guessing lower pay, larger workloads, etc. I'm not surprised that many managers/founders will exploit your fears to get more work out of you for less. Same way that those on an H1B get the short end of the stick.
Yeah, so until just 3 years ago.
The Commander X16 is a computer that you should be able to understand how it works. You should be able to start the computer and poke away at the hardware and see results immediately. The Amiga is better and more usable, but it is a lot of complicated hardware.
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You can use dollars for that.
I'm not a pilot, but a favorite of mine is Blueberry Hill in western MA. It's perhaps a quarter mile from the Appalachian Trail, and it's also a pick your own blueberry farm! I came through in blueberry season in 2010, and delighted in picking and eating 1.5 pounds of blueberries (metric conversion: far too much for a single serving). Surprisingly: no repercussions. Lovely owners, and fun to talk to.

The wind took a plastic bag from me as I was rejiggering gear, and I had to chase it the length of the runway to get it back.

https://www.airnav.com/airport/MA77
We don't hate anyone. We hate lies. Truly. Could you perhaps find the empathy in you to understand what it's like to hate lies and see that it's not the same as hating people?
The streetlight effect, we are searching in our close neighborhood, for signals that we would use in our current kind and stage of civilization, and because we didn't find anything we conclude that in the whole universe there is no life or intelligent life at all.

Maybe SETI search should add several terms to the drake equation to understand odds of hitting gold. Is not enough to be intelligent life, to be found in the way we are searching for it, distance, way of communication, culture, kind and stage of civilization, wish to be found, wish to expand, biology, and probably more are just terms in the equation that lowers the probability for us to find anything. There are too much implicit assumptions about what we are searching for, and maybe there is none that fits that because some basic rule that we don't know yet, as we are not advanced enough (a dark forest is just an example).

Is like assuming that advanced enough cavemen will be communicating across the galaxy with louder drums. And that as we hear no drums in space, there is no life anywhere.
I'd read a follow up with the Postgres part. I did a cmd+f for Postgres guessing that's what you used and was disappointed not to find it.
Specifically, Security Keys sign a blob of data to authenticate. Most of that blob is nonsense to the Security Key. It might mean something to a big complicated web browser or your SSH client, but not the simple, and thus hopefully secure, Security Key.

But, there's a field of bitflags. The Security Key knows what those mean. One of those bitflags is "User Present" or UP, which means, "I promise I have some means to verify a human interacted with me and they did".

For U2F and WebAuthn UP is just mandatory. So, most devices you will find just always set UP, even if the Relying Party doesn't ask them to. However some devices you could choose not to ask for UP, and a device could in this case just skip the touch step, but it must not sign a message with that UP bitflag set in this case.

Some of the flags are currently unused, one that's also interesting for SSH in some environments is UV, "User Verified" which means the device claims to have some way to know if this is its real owner or just a toddler clicking the button. UV is typically set for fingerprint readers, facial recognition, or the cheapest option, a Yubikey with a PIN can set UV if you entered your PIN.
If you were wearing a size 13 (EU 48) shoes, walking into a store and asking for what they have in your size was exclusively met with "but which do you like". It turns out none of the top 10 choices I asked about would be available, and we'd eventually retreat to "which do you have that I dislike the least?"

With online shopping, I think the biggest wins are for anyone not being in the "common" category (be it the 5-95% size, fashion, usefulness etc): if what you generally need is suitably common, you might miss the physical shopping (try-ons/try-outs for wearables/tools are very useful).

This also means that there is more incentive for non-common products to be produced because the market is larger.
$100 in 1982 is about $275 today. $1k ($2.75k today) feels high to me because of the combination of unknown teenager and the fact that programmer pay was relatively lower in 1982. And if you scale that up to $4k per week that’s $11k per week in today’s money which feels pretty crazy for a teenager. $400 per week in 1982 is a salary of like $60k in today’s money. At 20 hours per week that sounds like a good deal.
There are many distinct PDF readers. Making a document browser shouldn't be more complicated than making a PDF reader. PDF readers is how it works in practice.
I don’t think the complexities of SE, on the whole, have changed substantially in the last 10 years. If anything the tooling has gotten better.

Lotus 1-2-3 was 40 years ago, not 10, but still. The Lotus devs, of which there were only a handful, were writing in ASM, for an insanely memory constrained platform. I bet Google Sheets is insanely complicated too, and has all the multiuser requirements. But those devs have all the resources of Google backing them up. I’d call it a push.
To me, this sounds more like a car game on the C64. For reference, here's a trombone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-fkvWFSeYc
I don't think there are many devices that can create ad-hoc connections between them using WiFI. Maybe they should, but are there many devices that can do this?

I.e. I connect my Windows laptop to my Android phone directly through WiFI, in a very simple manner.
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Understanding how GADT works only comes next to understanding how leveraging the typing system during design can be beneficial. The motivation to go through this tutorial stems from the desire to let the typing system strengthen the programs and API. I'm coming from the Java world and I've spent some time learning Haskell for my own culture. At the time, I was trying to use Java generics to encode some restrictions in my design. It was interesting but alas a bit limited by the Java generics implementation and the results were most of the time hard to use or understand.

I'd like to see more articles on how GADT (or any other mechanism) can improve a concret design, with real-life examples. Starting with a native design leveraging only a few tricks from the typing system up to a final version where constraints are properly encoded.
Absolutely this. My wife and I both grew up very poor and even though we've worked up to being relatively well off in adulthood, we both still have a mindset in certain contexts that's very similar to this article.

It's very scavenger-like and I suppose we may lose it if we manage to stay well off long enough, but it definitely colours our decision making even in little things. Being poor definitely stretches beyond the literally financial.
>When hiring for frontend developers, I don’t think there’s any point to those questions

I've been at a company in which the website had very slow performance because the FE did not know the differences between those data structures and did a O(n*m) algorithm to match elements from two collections (`listA.forEach(i -> listB.indexOf(i.foo))`). The backend returned JSON objects with the keys ready to be queried correctly and the FE converted it to arrays for some reason.

Nobody in the FE team realized this was a bad idea until someone complained about how slow the site was.

>The goal of the interview is mostly that I trust that someone will understand (and listen) when I explain things like this. Not whether they know already.

It hugely depends on the expected experience of the role for which the candidate is being interviewed. I would absolutely expect a mid-level engineer to know those concepts.
The lesson China took from 2008, when they successfully avoided a financial recession and ensuing political chaos that was widely visible across the West was to start a campaign to clean up the financial sector. China is acutely aware of the risk that unregulated private finance poses to the security of the state but also the economy, and this is why they're hyper-vigilant when it comes to financial products, and I don't blame them to be honest.

There is virtually no social upside to people YOLOing their live-savings into crypto. "Well people should be allowed to do stupid stuff" has never had much pull in China. It's not the US.
> since the vaccine is widely available for all...

They sure as fuck aren't. There's three countries in the world where the percentage of fully vaccinated is over 50% (two of which have <1m people, and the third one being Israel that doesn't even pretend to count Palestinians). In France that number is 14%. In my country we haven't even reached 1%.

> If the vaccine works, why in the world do you care who doesn't want to take it?

Because there are millions of people that can't receive one due to the weaker immune system, which is where herd immunity is supposed to kick in.
This will achieve nothing, just don't update the drivers.
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The main thing here is the radically improved UX (as advertised). With this kind of tech I might actually hook up with some remote friends with whom I currently just text (I don't really use video calls for anything other than work).

Edit: And even 0.01% of the video call market would be quite large. Naturally this idea wouldn't work if something like 10% of all video calls were replaced with these booths, they would be fully booked for weeks forward. ;)

Edit2: And we already know most people don't care that much about their privacy since they already use services like Google Meet and Zoom and whatnot.
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