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I agree with so much of this! I think it stems from so many software engineers have a quantitative background, where solving for x is either right or wrong. Much of “good” software engineering, however, is subjective and I think many of these folks have a difficult time reconciling that. So you get into these battles on which is the best way when, unless it’s something egregious, is probably good enough.

I have a writing and liberal arts background and so while bad writing is obvious, good writing comes in many stylistic forms. I think this has allowed me to see varying perspectives on “best practices.”
I have an ASUS RT-N16 router from about 2013 that has been doing this duty since about 2015. It's running the old Toastman build of TomatoUSB. It's only WiFi G (not N) so throughput wasn't so hot. But it really served me well until I decommissioned it last week.
One thing that can happen is that you have more control and say over your own work than you realize. Not in every job, but people might be expecting you to be more authoritative than you’re behaving. You don’t have to go along with your peers ideas all the time.

It takes courage to exercise this.
The solution is to ask those customers to pay for the extra work required. If they refuse then it isn’t important enough for them.
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Socialists and crony capitalists can't stand competition, especially when it comes to the right to print fake money out of nothing.
I already said that not all masks are the same.

But any mask is better than no mask. Which is what happens if you mandate a far more expensive and harder to get N95 variant.
I agree that at first autonomous cars won't do better. It is much easier to program within parameters like "stay in your lane". But in 100 years time I think they will have more options.
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I'm kind of fascinated by how many comments in here are of the "Gee, why use something so complicated? Why not just tie on a rope if you go in the silo?" variety.

The inability to imagine that people who aren't tech bros can and actually do sensible things to address problems they encounter--and that some of their problems might still be harder to solve than coding a signup form--is impressive.
My wife received a prepaid visa in the mail from the state for unemployment benefits.

It was in her maiden name but she never requested unemployment benefits.

When I contacted the state about it, they had an automated system with a recording for the fraud department saying they were dealing with an overwhelming number of fraud reports and to leave a message.

It's been several months and I never heard back from them.

Yeah, I can believe that 1/2 the pandemic money was stolen.
Cause that's a single node, this is made for clusters. Maybe what you are looking for is a replication of another data? What use case would you have for multiple browsers syncing over a network?
This is a really good piece. I’m sorry that my comment doesn’t add that much to the discussion, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading this and seemed to confirm or put into words things I was on the periphery of thinking.
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its only an issue for my girlfriend and I when we're both on calls at the same time. I use a wireless 2.4Ghz headset so I can go outside on the patio - solves the issue nicely :-)
The other day Zoom posted a status update that listed the time in both CEST, and PST... How did they get daylight saving time right for one and not the other? PST isn't a thing for another few months yet...
The stock market is $89T and the derivatives market is $11T.

Notional value is somewhat meaningless, tomorrow you could buy a single out of the money SPX 0DTE option for $100 that has a notional value of $423,900
I've done safety critical that wasn't MISRA. But you have reminded me that for years we were leaving optimization off so we could verify full code and branch coverage in the assembly. At which point Java is almost certainly faster, though we never would have fit in memory with Java. Eventually we started turning optimization on and it was harder to verify but not impossible.
Of course not, almost by definition. Projects are scoped based on needs and based on the amount of employees available. I will not sign up to deliver Google Chrome with three employees.
If the driver is not wearing a seatbelt but the passenger is and the car gets into an accident, would the passenger be worse off than if the driver was wearing the seatbelt?

If not, this analogy does not stand.
> the process by which one conceives, tests, refines, reviews with peers, and converges on settled models and practice as in engineering is one of consensus.

No, it isn't. It's one of testing and evaluating the results. That is an objective process; it does not require consensus. If I have signed off as the engineer of record on a bridge, and someone asks me for the basis of my doing so, I'm not going to say, well, I had a consensus. I'm going to show them my measurements and calculations.

The same goes for models. If someone asks why I believe that the structural engineering model I used to design the bridge is valid, I'm not going to say, well, the consensus of engineers says it's valid. I'm going to point to its track record of past correct predictions.

> Like, again, the consensus that smoking is bad for you, right?

I don't believe smoking is bad for me because there's a consensus. I believe it because I've looked at the evidence and how it was gathered and used my own judgment and common sense. (Plus the fact that just the smell of cigarettes, when my dad and grandmother smoked them while I was a kid, made me feel ill.) That's what every citizen of a free society should be doing.
This is what he said and he could be wrong but I'm not making up anything

> that the mRNA vaccines do is to add a dose their own specialized sequence that then makes your normal cell
machinery generate that spike protein so that your body learns how to recognize it... your body now knows how to
recognize and fight off a new foreign protein

So what happens if some faulty proteins are created from this process, any chance they then be used to build new cells and cause disorders?

I'm not on the "change genetic" argument anymore as I'm not sure what even defines that, just trying to understand the risks here.
Zinc is still running! Xiang Li (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xli88/) is at the helm and pushing it to bigger and better things.

For why we took VC funding for Assembled: the full explanation is probably worth its own article. But the short answer is that the space and the opportunity are really big in customer support and the money helps us move much faster.
In other words, things you should probably expect at a place you would want to work?
Bret Weinstein (evolutionary biologist), Robert Malone (inventor of mRNA tech), and Steve Kirsch (researching adverse reactions to covid vaccines) talked about this today on Bret's YouTube channel. It's somewhere between the middle and the end of the stream iirc.

I highly recommend watching the whole stream.

https://youtu.be/-_NNTVJzqtY
let it crash is great for unrecoverable errors as it gives you clean state as if the thing that caused the error never happened but it's terrible for cases where you want to actually capture the error and react to it. give me a structured log event or an error code every time over a stack trace
(Apologies for hijacking)

I booked recently for 35 nights in SF. Around $3.5k booking, turned up, completely unworkable construction noise from next door, to the point you couldn’t hold a conversation. Tried to make it work, didn’t work.

Told the host I needed to cancel, who told me to contact Airbnb about the refund. I speak to Airbnb, they say I will pay for the days I had the keys and get refunded for remainder. Heard nothing from Airbnb for 10 days after, despite prompts.

At this point Airbnb informs me they can’t contact the host. I contact the host, they immediately respond. I have to act as the go between, this lasts for days.

Host had a 30 day cancellation policy. At this point Airbnb tells me that because I didn’t let them know within 24 hours and because of the hosts refund policy. I will get nothing and their decision is final.

They offered a $20 credit against my next booking and wondered why I laughed.

Interesting side note, requested all information including phone calls via Subject access request. They provided inaccurate/bad transcriptions instead of audio recordings.

Now exploring arbitration / legal action. If anyone has resolved a similar situation I’m all ears.

Seems insane to me there is no other option to escalate. Are they assuming people will just drop it at this point?
I was so glad to see iOS offer the ability to grant apps access to a subset of your photo library, rather than your entire photo library or nothing at all. I hope they take this approach with notifications too.
Back when I was struggling to develop features in overengineered hell, I commented to my friends what a breath of fresh air updating a personal site with scp was.

They all gave sighs and shudders of disgust, but then again, they had normal programming jobs, so I suppose it seemed quite backwards to them.
I second the OPs sentiment: we're "solving" the wrong problems in my opinion when it comes to transportation.

But I think I disagree just a little with you that autonomous driving is extremely difficult, when the real difficulty is teaching a car to drive while sharing that road with human drivers. To the OPs point, if we were solving the problem of moving people from point A to point B, we'd realize that autonomous vehicles should not be on the road with people. They need dedicated roads, where the the problem is substantially easier to solve.

We're working on the wrong problem. The question isn't "how to do we make cars drive themselves safely while people are on board" because we have mostly solved that ages ago (see airplanes, drones, etc). The problem that needs a solution is "how do we safely and efficiently move people from point A to point B in <any vehicle>". The former cannot be solved. The latter is substantially easier when you remove human drivers from the road.

Now I'm not suggesting I know the solution here, but I'd like to think its pretty straightforward. Re-allocating roads for autonomous vehicles only seems like the right direction to start in. Because ideally you want to encourage people NOT to drive any way (its very expensive for most families and dangerous and tedious). You simultaneously begin to solve a host of problems: safety, remove gridlock, faster travel, cheaper. And I'm thinking all forms of transportation here, cars would be the least efficient of them all but they have an important role to play. Especially for last mile travel.

Putting aside the challenges of car-culture and entrenched interests in the auto industry, if we can give autonomous vehicles their own roads, half the things we're trying to "solve" right now would become irrelevant.
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Same thing which happened in the past won't happen now. Most the crashes are due to something which haven't been seen before that.

Market might stagnate, less returns. Some startups or new companies valuations are too high. If analysts start to value them truly for their current worth not the distant future worth those prices will drop in a big way.

There was once in late 60s Buffett sold all his stocks and was waiting for market to crash for 2-4yrs. Now sort of he is doing a similar thing. As his cash levels grows he is basically planning to buy something big.

There's always war scenario.

Coins mcap is low.

Low returns is what iam expecting....
Right, I was trying to articulate that I could sort of see where prosecutors might try a facilitation/aiding and abetting angle.

I just don't see how they can make "distributing a thing" alone stick without running into some really hazardous waters in terms of set precedent if they succeed, or straight up having the cases dismissed. Making something popular isn't a crime.

I do agree with your entrapment take though. That's exactly what it shakes out to for me no matter what angle I tilt my head when looking at it.

Then again, stings are a thing, and somehow, they aren't considered entrapment, otherwise, I'd assume LE wouldn't do them so often. Plus, it may be wasted effort. As hub nodes in the criminal enterprise graph, their credibility has already been heavily shot.

I smell prosecutor's or LE trying to get people to roll through piling on as many charges as they can even if they don't have a clear shot at making them stick.

Keep in mind, not a lawyer, I just read stuff lawyers do and read a couple books on legal reasoning once. I don't even have a Holiday Inn Express stay to bolster this bold attempt at armchair prosecutorial/LE strategizing.
I was a part-time, paid firefighter in Woodinville, WA for seven years. That was about twenty-five years ago now.

I worked twelve hour overnight shifts about ten times a month, supplementing the full-time crews (24 hour shifts.) I was a signed off as a firefighter, driver-operator, EMT Basic, and acting lieutenant.

Maybe it's different elsewhere, but in our city no one spent their time doing nothing. There was always training and drilling, classes to attend, physical training, station, rig and equipment maintenance, and usually, a few calls to run.

Most people were friendly most of the time.

We did usually watch a couple of hours of television or a movie most nights before we racked out.
This is a bang on article and I would say that more people should be less confident in general.

I also love his technology substitutions:

springy search = Elastic

Stoplang = Go

IronOre = Rust

BeetleDB = CockroachDB
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The expert you quoted addressed a ~64% drop to mid-February, not an 80% drop. If you have a different source espousing a similar sentiment from the end of February, feel free to share that.

The explanation for that is probably largely similar to the explanation for the 49% drop between 20 July 2020 and 12 September 2020.

As a reminder, the claim you responded to was addressing the 94% drop from early January to now.
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> I think a good understanding of the scientific method, skepticism and fact checking should be taught in school as early as possible.

It is taught in schools, and taught young. The people who understand the scientific method have been doing it every year since the sixth grade. They did science fair projects, etc.

I just looked up modern educational standards, and kids are taught in grade six the scientific method and how to execute experiments using it.

The problem is, lots of people suck at school. They didn't care about it and their parents didn't care about it, so they didn't retain anything. There are an awful lot of adults in society that couldn't pass a fifth grade math test.
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>Being broadly anti-covid-vaccine essentially acknowledges holding generalized anti-vaccine opinions since the majority of vaccines on the market make use of legacy manufacturing techniques.

You're assuming everyone has the same knowledge base as you and then inferring their decision making process from that. More likely is that people have formed broad opinions about a new event based on scattered information. That's the sort of information that would be helpful to provide, not Wikipedia pages to generalized propaganda techniques.
So consider the position the people asking the questions are in. They're facing a problem; they need it solved.

All of us, when we're in that position, desire a solution. I'm not sure what differentiates those who want to fully understand the whole solution space, and all the context that dictates -why- a particular solution may be the 'best' (given a specific set of tradeoffs), but certainly, whether we are like that or not, we all desire the right solution ASAP.

I'd be super interested in how you respond to those who ask such questions; do they seem interested in explaining their problem in detail? If you, rather than say "it depends", instead immediately launch into questions, are they engaged in answering them? Can you then finish with a "given what you describe, because X, Y, and Z, I think (solution) would be the best fit for you. It has the downsides of A, B, and C, but those don't apply to you", or whatever. I.e., basically change the tone to always be focusing on solving their problem, while also allowing you to inform them, rather than "it depends" which could imply "there isn't a clear-cut solution to your problem".
So what? "Wealth" is NOT income. Geez.
"There could even be an option to hide the most distracting parts of an app, like Facebooks video tab"

The iPhone Facebook app DOES currently let you hide certain icons in the shortcut bar, including the Watch, Events, Groups, Profile, and Marketplace sections.
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You're perfectly welcome to dislike hard pretzels. But that's no reason to dismiss the rest of the pretzels from the state (or country) -- in fact, the article explicitly calls out soft pretzels from PA (which similarly derive from the Pennsylvania Dutch heritage).

It's a little like calling Oscar Mayer wieners "Chicago hot dogs" and dismissing all sausages in the US.
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I can't use Edge for one stupid simple reason: Ctrl+Tab can not be made to cycle tabs in most recent use order, only in the order tabs are displayed. It is especially weird considering Alt-Tab in Windows does most recent.
I'm with you on this one. I think perhaps my favorite car interface to date is my '01 Camry. Let's look at the HVAC system:

Three knobs: temperature, speed, vent selection.
Three buttons: a/c, recirc, rear defroster.

That's it. The entire system. It's a 20 year old design at this point. I have never once thought that I, a mere mortal, could improve on the design in any meaningful way.

The buttons and knobs are big enough that I can work them w/ my huge gloves on, I do not need special gloves that work w/ a touchscreen, the buttons are not context sensitive, and I can hit all the controls in the dark without even looking. Another point, which I've now learned I had taken for granted, is that no software update will ever mess w/ my muscle memory. Those switches cannot be programmed to do anything else in software, as they're physically wired to the functions they control.

The beauty of the system above is that the physical controls are the state machine. I can literally feel the state the HVAC system is in. Nowadays that state machine is all in software, and I have to hunt through menus, look at a display, sometimes multiple displays, just to figure out what state I left the system in. That's just unacceptable.
One way to get that is to do an EV conversion. Unfortunately, it tends to be expensive and time consuming, but in the end you get something that's just a car and not somebody's notion of an ideal consumer electronics experience.

That's not to say there'll be no software, or even that it won't be proprietary. But at least it's a lot nicer to buy a motor controller, a charger, a battery management system and whatever else you need from companies that know the parts have to be easy to configure and interoperate with other components from other companies, because if they aren't people won't buy them. Modularity is a wonderful thing.

(I just ordered the charger and BMS for a project I'm working on yesterday. I ended up opting for more expensive components because they're configurable by the end user, whereas the popular cheap option you have to send it to someone to reprogram if you change your battery pack configuration.)
Right, but often you should punt your retry logic. You already need to handle process crash at high level, so you already want some kind of restart/backoff in your supervisor. Unless there's something specific that you want to do differently for this particular kind of failure, having separate retry/backoff logic for each kind of failure is just clutter.
I think people feel stuck when they're trapped in bullshit. BS being defined as things that you feel are a waste of time. What's the path of least BS?

Bouncing around for a 10% salary gain seems like BS. Going back to school seems like BS too. It doesn't sound like the goal should be more money, rather that the stagnancy is a symptom.

It sounds like there's something else that you'd prefer to do, but maybe you don't see it? Maybe it challenges your identity, and that makes it invisible. Maybe the cost of failure would hurt too much.

The ambitious route is to look for what you really want. It could well be an important question to answer. There are plenty of mentors and books on this, and motivational classes/coaches are particularly good at finding this.

The less ambitious route is to learn to love what you do. It doesn't have to be anything major. You could just learn to enjoy drawing UI more or writing tests, or documentation. Something really small and common that puts you in flow.
There is a very similar problem in advice-giving for technical questions, the problem of "Why do you want to do that? You should do this instead." I've seen others recommend trying to ask binary yes/no questions ("I think it's like this. Yes/no?") or to turn an open-ended question, when asked, into a set of binaries rather than guess at the intent.

The property that seems to be common in addressing both is benchmark-setting. The advice of "kick the can down the road" for less productive advice is premised on knowing that it doesn't fit your success benchmarks, but not wanting the confrontation(since a hedgehog benchmark is going to boil down to a single-issue attachment). Likewise, a battery of narrow binary questions that have a definite pass/fail characteristic constructs a form of fox knowledge - it's pragmatic in how it describes the "potential shape" of the outcome, so it makes for a better holistic benchmark than asking "what's the best way to do this?"
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"Hiding certain sections like "Watch Now" is NEVER going to happen. Don't be delusional."

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And if they could do it workout gathering that much personal data? Isn't that what FLOC is trying to do?
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*biting above its league.

I'll see myself out
Oh, but scp won’t update it atomically, so you should switch to a scheme that will. Then all you need to do is set cache policies correctly, coordinate with your CDN, and maybe do a staged rollout, just in case.

/s

Seriously though, rsync is your friend. :-)
Hmmm, something seems to be missing from the explanation there?

Why would the teacher be expected to know anything about cryptography, let alone know that a particular student has any interest in it?
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Exactly this. If you are a single point of failure knowledge silo, the business sees you as a liability since if you decide to quit, their business is then screwed. This is why turning yourself into a silo is making yourself disposable - it gives the employer a very good reason to try and find an alternative to continuing their reliance on you.
I get accused of something like this daily.

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