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I do IT but I am not really a CS guy.

Too many programs that I was not able to install due to dependency problems. This is rarely a problem under Ubuntu. But I admit that it has been ages that I moved away from SuSE.

I will likely leave Ubuntu if snap becomes too common or the rule.

By the way, SuSE does an IPO soon but the IPO price looks steep.
You can be quite far from a QR code and it’ll still work. In addition, QR codes can be shared with others and saved for later.
Roughly speaking, '?' means that the operation might throw an exception, which should be propagated if thrown, and '!' means that the operation should never fail. (In Rust terms, '? ToObject(this value)" -> "ToObject(thisValue)?", and "! ToObject(this value)" -> "ToObject(thisValue).unwrap()".)

See: https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/notational-conventions.htm...
IIRC their development cycle for a ground up design is about 30 years.
But that goes back to the original point. In cultures where drinking is accepted, you don't have to put your alcohol in a paper bag or hide in an unmarked container. You buy it and drink it however you want so long as you aren't bothering others.

In the US, you have to be sneaky about it and you're always one bored cop away from trouble.
I’m not too shocked by this. Firing people is really, truly hard. Traumatizing even. It’s so much easier to keep a low performer around and try to encourage and coach them up - and sometimes, over time, they improve enough that it works out!

The easier “solution” most teams default toward when someone is underperforming is to hire more people. But what I think most people don’t realize is just how much of a drag the low performers on a team are. Not only is their output below everyone else, but they lower everyone else’s output because they mess things up and other people have to invest time fixing the mess and trying to teach the person how to avoid it in the future.

I think there’s some opportunity to create more structured apprenticeship programs and other kinds of intensive training to help build up borderline performers into solid contributors. But in the absence of that, a good manager has to be able to recognize when someone’s performance is dragging the rest of the team down and let that person go.

“Mandatory firing” practices try to force this to happen, but just like stack ranking, it ends up being too crude an instrument. Within any large organization there are teams where every person on the team is a high performer, and teams were all or almost all the team are low performers. When you do any kind of stock ranking or mandatory firing across the company, you end up in situations where managers play ridiculous games like “hire to fire” in order to hang onto their talented team, or intentionally spread high performers out with a lot of low performers around them so they can always be “stack ranked” at the top.

Incentives are hard, managing a highly effective organization at scale is hard, and at the end of the day there’s no substitute for well-trained and highly skilled front line managers using their own judgement to make the best personnel decisions.
Agreed, but the differences between the 737 undercarriage and A320 undercarriage is a quirk of Airbus not being around to launch its first gen narrowbody in the tiny turbojet era of the 1960s, not a reflection of Airbus doing anything particularly innovative in that market since fly-by-wire when it first rolled out.

The market for 767 replacements had different demand characteristics (they didn't have many customers with all-767 fleets asking for a new jet with the same type rating), and the launch of the 787 was badly delayed by the new technologies, which are major factors other than program cost why they went for another 737 generation rather than a clean sheet.
Ukraine was against nuclear power and nuclear weapons until war. Now, we need to have an ability to quickly produce few plutonium nukes in case of emergency, so we need weapon grade nuclear reactors to produce nuclear waste with plutonium.
Not in the US, but it‘s happened. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37398/deadly-taliban-a...
You could try an aero press with an additional attachment, such as [1], but it probably wont be able to replicate the full range of flavours of an espresso machine.

If you havent tried the classic pour overs with freshly ground specialty coffee, I would really recommend it. I used to be an espresso guy, but now I only drink filters.

[1] https://fellowproducts.com/products/prismo
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Somebody make a website to hire people with the purpose to fire them (faangcannonfodder.com). If the deal is straight forward I'll take a big paycheck for a year.
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Isn't that really a pattern that the runtime adopts (i.e. not the language itself)? For ES, the libraries are dependent on the runtime environment; for browsers, there are the web APIs, and for Node, there's npm. I'm not sure how you could have anything more standard given the nature of things.
Minivans are ridiculously practical and I love it. I think a better article would be "bring back the mini van." They are inexpensive (especially used), they comfortably fit lots of people, they are fun to drive, and if you take the seats out and they are incredible stuff haulers.

All of that said, I've never been able to fully convince my wife that we should get a minivan, due to all of the negative stereotypes. All I get is "No. I'm not a soccer mom."

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A $200 coffee grinder is just a throughput optimization. If you take away the $170 motor and use your hand instead, you can get a great grind.

It's a pain in the ass to hand-grind coffee every morning, and I wouldn't have the ability to do it before coffee, but... if you don't have hundreds of dollars, don't let that stop you from having a great cup of coffee.
Perhaps much of the same should be said of other industries.
I heavily agree. On both Netflix and Hulu, I frequently find exactly what I’m looking for. Even better, Hulu will sometimes tell me that they don’t have the item I’m looking for. It’s insane to me that they include items they don’t have in their DB just to enhance the search experience.
Just curious since I'm not too close to that world, how hard is it generally to get fired from say Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, or generally other big tech companies?
This looks awesome, how does Deep note compares to Enterprise notebook solutions like Google Notebooks, Sagemaker or Databricks. My company cares about data exfiltration, PII data, CMEK. Our researchers have access to data that is very valuable and posting a Notebook that may render some information could be a problem, is there a way to render notebooks (stored in a private GitHub) to only a subset of authenticated users?
This sadly isn't surprising since it's been happening in one form or another at least since Jack Welsh, and probably earlier. He was probably just the first one to give it a name.

It's never been any secret at places I've worked that there's a team bonus "budget" - if you give one of your reports a higher bonus, that money comes out of the pocket(s) of your other reports.

It all results in the same behavior - you don't have to be good, you just have to be better than everyone else on your team. A smart engineer knows how to find that team.
In what body-position do you prefer to read while in bed?

Before I switched to listening to books before bed I mostly read lying on my front, propped on my elbows, with book or e-reader flat or propped up.

Do you tend to fall asleep while reading? A device that holds the book and gets out of your way when you doze off sounds lovely.
Your whole original comment just seems pretty anachronistic in 2021. Especially as Pride month kicks off, I’d caution you against holding on to antiquated views that the fashion industry is only something for women or has to do primarily with their insecurities.

Whatever else it is, fashion to me is about both aspiration and inspiration. It is something that is creative not just for designers, but also their fans and customers. It is fundamentally about encouraging people to imagine themselves in new ways.

It is emphatically not just some one-way broadcast aimed at a certain, supposedly more impressionable, gender.
IIRC Amazon has a fairly high PIP rate, it's something like 10%. Although what this article is talking about is probably separate from this.

https://www.viamaven.com/blog/amazon-pip-what-is-it-what-to-...
It's stack ranking, with a dose of "whatever you measure will become a target" thrown in.
Legalizing doesn’t prohibit regulation.

You can legalize with requirements such as prescriptions or require sellers to ask questions and not sell to people with certain conditions.

Alcohol is legal yet regulated such that it can only be sold to people of a certain age and trust people who have a history of alcoholism or are pregnant to self regulate.

Is there evidence to suggest other drugs should be treated differently?
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> What an awful, awful place to live that must be.

Welcome to the fundamentalist theocratic Christian hell that is (parts of) America.

> Is that like a written rule somewhere? Surely it could be explained to a person with like, 2 functional brain cells that an article about art will have a picture of said art included.

While I have personally been fortunate enough not to fall afoul of such people, I have absolutely heard from people who had to deal with librarians or other school administrator types who, whether or not they had 2 functional brain cells in other contexts, were absolutely inflexible in their treatment of students on computers.

Naturally, this would've been back in the '90s, so having computers at all was a fairly new thing, and computers with Internet access were (for a public school library) positively bleeding edge. But students doing anything on computers other than very obviously typing papers were, at best, Goofing Around With School Resources, and, if there was anything on the screen that might remotely resemble porn....frankly, that could have been enough in many places in my youth to get a student expelled, without the possibility of appeal. Today, such a reaction would be much less common, but I would not be at all shocked if there were places in the Bible Belt where it was still totally possible.
I didn't read any evidence that this actually happens, and I read the incentives differently. If I was a manager I would feel that this lowers the risk for me to hire a person - if they perform well and it really works out, then great. And if not, then I know they'll just be part of the "unregretted attrition" number that I have to hit. Basically I can just hire a bunch of people and see how they work out, keeping the ones that nail it and allowing the others to go find jobs they are better suited to.

In a world where firing or laying off people is stigmatized or penalized, I have to be much more sure of the people I hire, which isn't so great since so often you don't/can't really know until you see someone in action.
It's absolutely happening in software roles.
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The most obvious difference is color. White marble is "clearly" "art". Flesh-colored paint is closer to "real", so might be ambiguous if you're sensitive to that sort of thing.

Either that, or it's the lusty way she is regarding the conch shell. Hey, people are into stranger things!
If there was a lesson from covid, it's that governments need to step in where markets fail--markets aren't interested in maintaining a strategic n95 mask (or oil) stockpile. Government subsidies on fossil fuels, like subsidies on food production, should be seen as "buying" stability and resiliency. This doesn't mean green energy shouldn't be subsidized at more dollars per watt (or mile) than oil, just that oil subsidies still have a role.
Idk if it’s Bezo’s roots in finance, but Amazon seems a brutal workplace for all levels of employment (I don’t know anything about the lives of senior managers). The company outright abuses its blue collar employees, and routinely mistreats its engineering staff. Stories of its toxic practices have been spread for at least a decade now. What’s especially baffling to me, and I admit this is merely rumor, is that they’ll actually adjust your raise schedule to take into account the price of the stock, so it’s hard to imagine it being highly lucrative. Of all the big tech companies, I think Amazon is most likely to unionize.
I think we are constantly tweaking things over time.

For much of human history, consolidation was natural but the relative simplicity of technology kept barriers of entry low which enabled competition and new entrants. Also, poorer logistics and transportation meant you have many smaller semi-independent markets instead of fewer monolithic ones.

Industrialization and powered transportation upended that and gave a lot of power to consolidation. That led to the era of robber barons.

That power concentration was so bad for society that eventually the labor and antitrust movements came around to somewhat correct it.

I think now we're seeing another oscillation. Software creates huge network effects and economies of scale. If a business writes a single program once, they can run it on as many servers or sell it to as many users as possible. Services that let users interact benefit exponentially from network effects. AI generates a lot of value, but requires extremely large datasets that only the largest corporations have access to.

We are essentially in the era of digital robber barons right now. Six of the top ten richest people in the world according to Forbes got there through software. (Arguably seven if you consider Musk's wealth to be software-driven.)

We are clearly nowhere near the optimal point on the consolidation continuum. With luck, we'll get something like an "information labor movement" and more teeth in our antitrust regulation to correct that.
>n Germany, you can choose electricity providers that only use renewables.

That is a false choice - unless electricity providers have wires all the way to your house you have no idea where the electricity came from. All you know is they buy enough renewable to cover what you use. However if you didn't use them the renewable power would mostly be generated at the same time anyway, just at a lower cost.

The above isn't completely true, as the higher price you pay does get a bit more renewable power into the mix. However overall it isn't a big factor unless most people choose the same provider.
> Is there any intelligence that a drone that size could provide that you couldn't get from a combination of satellites and just driving around a decent camera?

Dropping disguised sensors for espionage comes immediately to mind
This sounds like a great idea. Do you happen to know of any documentation to assist with this? I'd love to create a custom, bootable USB which I can upgrade periodically, keeping my SSH keys on a Yubikey.
You are correct: I think the definition has been fixed in time even as the underlying meaning changed: I've programmed "embedded systems" that were based on x64-class processors.

But that's not the important part. I think one major problem is that the term "embedded" puts a lot of engineers into a frame of mind that rejects programming in anything high-level. We have done lots of projects where something like MicroPython would have been perfect, but every time I try to sell something like that, I get a bunch of excuses that really aren't grounded in any concrete objection and we go right back to twiddling bits in C.
Twitter and other media are abused by authoritarian governments, and this abuse is dangerous. Unfortunately despite the manipulation on FB , twitter etc, because the problem does not affect 'rich and important' countries it gets little attention. All of their algorithms are being manipulated by sneaky actors, and their own systems lag behind them significantly to matter.

Social media should switch back to how it started, i.e. a replacement for RSS in chronological mode.
Absurd goals defeated by Goodhart's Law seems to be common for large organizations.

It is easy to see the limits of the so called invisible hand of free market, it might be more efficient than state-driven bureaucracy but it is still far from optimal.

Is it even possible to avoid for large organizations?
Almost any system can do that.

Package managers typically have a concept of a “selected set” or something o that nature which is often simply a file that contains all the packages the user wants to install on a new line at some places. Simply copy that file and do a world update with the package manager and it will install all those packages an their dependencies and typically uninstall what is not needed.
What's the most expensive cup?
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The research paper this article is based on covers a pretty broad spectrum of political (pro- and anti-Erdoğan), and non-political topics in Turkey.

I always assume that probably 95% or more of accounts on Twitter are fake, based on my experience. Back in 2017 or so, when QAnon was being heavily pushed by botnets, there was what looked (to me) like a leftist analogue of it[1] being pushed in the same manner, and it just didn't catch on the way QAnon did. I figured it was probably being promoted by the same people, to inflame tensions in the US. Basically, I think if you go looking for evidence that Twitter is helping people you disagree with, you'll find it, regardless of your political beliefs.

[1] No, not BLM/Antifa. It was an actual conspiracy theory with a token figurehead like "Q". I don't want to include too many details here because it seems like it died off, and I'd rather not help revive it.
Not PP, but the only thing I can figure as an end user is rpm does have a reputation for dependency hell, which is pretty much moot with front ends such as yum, dnf and zypper.

I can see if I were a package maintainer I might have a different opinion, and get "tired" (more like "fed up", no pun intended) of a format.

I only had to make my own packages once or twice when I was a Debian user, Debian packages seemed a chore, and I always resorted to using things like checkinstall and debhelper.

With RPM, I don't hesitate to write a spec when I need a package of a piece of software not provided in the repos, and spec files are pretty easy to work with.
(I tend to favor using packages over 'make install').
It could either be a hybrid with the engine running a generator or use variable pitch props.
If it was Batman, it would have a black LED.
The status indicator actually meant something when you had to "sign on" and "sign off." You were available; tying up your phone line. Now I don't trust the green bubble with availability with modern messengers. Maybe they just turned on their phone for a minute to check a post/email and are busy again. So I ignore it mostly. ~ I remember setting special alerts for people when they would sign on, setting schedules explicit or implicit to talk to people. Maybe we need to revisit how to intentionally capture presence in our messengers.
Here's a video showing a grasshopper escapement in motion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TBWJC0HYRE
> Delta Air Lines' entire business model is [...] It's worked for them.

In the last 20 years, they’ve gotten two government bailouts and gone bankrupt in between, so “worked” must be being used very loosely when referring to any but the shortest-term business tactic besides maintaining (with the rest of the industry) political pull in Washington.
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For example, appealing to voters of this party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

Its an officially extremist party (observed by the "Verfassungsschutz" [or: "Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution"], that traditionally kind of ignored the far-right), one of their leaders can officially be called a fascist (court ruling), and another leader says the 3rd Reich was kind of not that big of a deal.
Back in the 2000's I heard Cisco also was like this. You'd hire your "cannon fodder" for the next round of mandatory layoffs.
Oh, but those R’s are hard and not fun.

What’s really fun is throwing all anything plastic including wrappers, #5, #7, any metal, any paper basically anything but food into the blue recycling tub that someone comes to pick up and then I can smuggly look down on people that “don’t even care about the planet”, I’m doing my part by blankly assuming all my “recycling” isn’t going into a landfill!

... I wish I would still count the number of people that think that, but it’s too many.

I try to “not buy shit”, and Im pretty sure it’s a lot harder than wishcycling.
Well for one, they can probably get you pretty close to if not over 500k if you’re senior. I also think Amazon and FB stand out for that kind of mean spirited meat grinder vibe. Netflix doesn’t screw around with any of it and lets you go without the fuss, but my understanding is that you get a lot of signals from your manager and they aren’t about doing weird psychological tricks to push you harder. It’s just a matter of meeting a reasonable productivity bar. Google is very far from this and a nice relaxed place to work.
How interesting that a 10% PIP rate aligns so closely with the bottom distribution of stack-ranking: https://lattice.com/library/what-is-stack-ranking-and-why-is...