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I've done this twice: the first time back in 2007 when I got made redundant and decided to use the time and money to study and indulge in my dream of writing a book; more recently (which is still ongoing) to recover from burnout and rediscover the joy of coding.

I do not consider this time to be "gap year", but rather an investment in, and a reward for, myself. Why do I need such luxuries? Because time is short and nothing is destined. None of us are guaranteed to make it to retirement age. My Dad died when he was 54; my brother when he was 53. My sister survived her heart attack when she was 60 - luckily it happened when she was at work; she was a cleaner at a hospital.

Keep a roof over your head, make sure you have enough food to live on. Don't leave it until the last minute to start looking for paid work. Most importantly, enjoy your time away from the capitalist treadmill - with good fortune this can become an investment in yourself that you'll never regret!
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I think the advice is a reasonable thing to consider; a lot of responses (and presumably downvotes) are either "It doesn't matter to potential employers", which is categorically untrue - it'll matter to some, raise a question to others, and be irrelevant to others yet. How you answer that question is important, and it's fascinating that other half of comments is, basically, "Lie!".

When I'm interviewing candidates, a gap year is a data point - no more, no less. It may lead to more substantial data points, or it may be a non-issue. If you do as many here suggest and lie through your teeth about it ("I was a CTO! I was working on startup! Independent consulting"), you may get away with it, but likely not (even if you think you did); and if caught in prevaricating or lying about your experience and work activities, that is a far far bigger and more immediate red flag than the gap year itself.

Also - sure, knowledge doesn't expire, but oh boy skills do get rusty! A year into my new management-y role, I felt how rusty my sysadmin skills were getting. Two years in and you shouldn't give me root access again without some catchup :-).
I’m not familiar with Fire, but I assume it uses argparse under the hood? Do you put the Gooey annotation on the function that calls fire.fire?
wow who would have believed that doom could be easily ported to any sufficiently powerful cpu+framebuffer hardware
Go back to using the software of the 80s then, before the evil software engineers made it all so bad.
I thought this was posted because it was a change but the Wayback Machine's information indicates it's been the case since at least 2017.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170308160950/https://issuetrac...
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Yes, the problem is that on the far past, "believe the man" was the unwritten rule, and instead of just abolishing it, people decided that to correct that we should move to a explicit "believe the woman".

It is just another instance of our tendency as a society of over-correcting on sensitive and politically charged issues. Maybe this is a cultural artifact of our heritage of abrahamic religions. Probably this is not the case in a Confucionist heritage like China.
> The basic economics of rent, groceries, child care, car payments, etc have not changed.

For some people, they have though. Quite a few people moved out of the bay area/NYC, some have partners that lost jobs and have chosen to focus on child care instead, some have sold 1 of 2 cars because remote work no longer requires a commute.
That's a great point, hadn't considered that. You changed my opinion.
Crypto organizations hire, give grants & ofc anyone can buy a token [if there's one present] & start writing code / content etc. to make that token more valuable.

For many, their wealth is derived more from crypto / token capital gain than traditional income. Its increased risk no doubt. More upside & downside.
Are you sure about middle class O_o

Higher-middle and upper class more likely? Kids which need to earn their money usually go straight into apprenticeship or university and earn money promptly.
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Harley Davidson is on the ropes long term though.

They made the mistake of pitching their entire product at a very singular niche and the people in that niche are now getting older and in many cases too old to ride.

Fantastic overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOwxxsPaogY

Simply put HD make nothing that appeal to rides my age (41) and younger.
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The price of something isn't (usually) the cost of the parts + a profit margin. There's a whole theory behind pricing.
Actually, this is a failure of private bank issuance of money. If you don't let the government issue money you get shrinking interest and when interest hits 0% the economy has to end as people hoard money and eventually return it to where it came from, namely the private banks.

The reason issuing money via gold backing was a mistake is also the reason why issuing money exclusively via debt was a mistake. We can't generate enough debt so that the money supply keeps up to what the economy wants. When you have negative interest rates, the government can issue money via a pseudo public method that doesn't depend on endless growth. The benefit is that if governments issue too much money inflation will catch up and so will interest rates, which then stops issuance of money exactly when there is too much money in the economy.

In other words, your money becomes "complete". It can recover from every recession/depression and moderate every inflation boom back to sustainable levels. Central bank managed fiat has an extremely good track record against inflation, it just needs the same power against deflation.

Just look at Turkey, Erdogan took control over the central bank and things went to shit. Democratic control isn't what you want here.
Sounds like the disclaimer they use when selling e-scooters... ("this is not for the road etc.")
While I don't fully agree with you, it is annoying that your comment is being down-voted instead of argued with.
As an interviewer I recognize people might take time off work for a variety of reasons and never give a lot of thought to unemployment gaps. I’ve found very short stays at previous positions (say less than a year) to be more of a warning; I want people who are likely to stick around.
Sounds like PHP....
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"human resources"

Well. As long as you treat people like that it is now wonder that the leave you as quick as possible.
"rechargeable bike light" on aliexpress (hell even amazon) yields several significantly below $20 options.
It costs $20 and up because somebody priced it at $20 and up.
Huh. Funny that you mention it. I decided this exact same thing for myself this winter, and just started. Same reasoning too. Is it only among technologists who have great recent returns in the stock market, or is this a wider trend?
This directly contradicts the fact that they voted against an additional mandatory week of holidays back in 2012. The consensus was that people did not want the short term benefit of more holidays for log term harm to small business who cant afford to give people more paid holidays.

I think you are grossly underestimating the voting population. They are supposed to vote for whats best for the country not for themself. The main problem the Swiss system has is dis/misinformation not people being selfish. Every other political system has this problem too but the Swiss system depends more on a well informed populace than other systems.
Indeed.

For an extreme example, "Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" is a short poem in Classical Chinese in which every word is pronounced shi when read in present-day Standard Mandarin, with only the tones differing:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Ston...
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The term for this is "binning", and the explanation is wholly innocent. Manufacturing silicon chips is not an exact process, and there will be some rate of defects.

After manufacture, they test the individual components of their chips. These chips are designed in such a way that once they identify parts of a chip that are defective, they can disconnect that part of the chip and the others still work. (I believe they physically cut stuff with lasers but my knowledge is out of date). This process can also includes "burning in" information on the chip itself, like setting bits in on-die ROMs, so that if your OS asks your CPU for its model number it can respond appropriately.

Interesting side note: The same thing happens when manufacturing even basic electronic components like resistors. All the resistors that are within 1% of the target resistance get sold as "±1%" resistors, which means it's pretty likely that if you buy the cheaper "±5%" resistors and test them, you'll find two clusters around -5% and +5% and very few at the target value.
I've been unemployed for a long time, living on benefits, without guilt or remorse. For health and other reasons.

One problem being lack of social integration and interaction.

But honestly I don't think I can believe in the necessity of having a job, if I can't see purpose or meaning. There are few jobs that matter, and a lot of barriers and filtering.

/r/antiwork is really a viewpoint I can understand and defend.
Great, now if you are YouTube, that will cost 100m to automate, you won't notice this cost. If you are Vimeo you either declare bankruptcy or have more semi-manual processes to implement the same eating your slim profits each quarter and further limiting the competitiveness of offers you can make.

Your arguments are largely similar to putting regulations on a Telco monopoly to give a little back as if there were competition. We know how that works, it doesn't address the problem and certainly doesn't make competition appear.
Because they can charge that much?

Actually, I find funny that the traditional solution of light and dynamo is 6€+5€ shipping+taxes...
As an Icelander raised on Lýsi (cod liver oil) I remember fishy burps all day long as a kid. I still take Lýsi every day but the burps are gone, it's probably a couple of decades now since they perfected purification of the oil to make it mostly taste/smell free. My kids still get lýsi every day to no complaints (and it's a part of the daily routine in Icelandic kindergartens).
> The references I shared make it very clear that Instagram is losing market share. Not sure why those dots were difficult to connect.

I said that in the context of breaking up G/FB. Why isolate that sentence for no apparent reason? It was a very short comment.

> It's interesting you said that. Obviously a lot of people are in favor of breaking up Facebook from Instagram, but my guess was that it was always for antitrust concerns. More recently, I started to sense that an additional flavor has entered this conversation recently, something like "Facebook and Instagram would be better products if they were run by independent companies."

There is no additional flavor. Ask yourself why we bother about antitrust. It is to raise the level of competition. Do you believe innovation is best nurtured in a competitive environment? Literally, the title of the bill consists the words a "stronger online economy", for "innovation".

Pooling all your resources into ads targeting because you are comfortably sitting in a dominant position is exactly the problem. YouTube and Instagram with independent leadership would have the flexibility to focus on their market -- image/video media. That is why TikTok and Snapchat were able to catch Instagram with their pants down -- Facebook had no idea alternative forms media (and did not care) was possible and were simply focused on milking their existing platform. Better ads targeting does not bring in users, and market share is driven by users, not ads. Why does it matter if it increases their cost of operation and slows down their rate of development if the majority of their development is focused on ads targeting - an ineffective user growth strategy? The blame lies on nobody but Facebook or Google if their products have been losing marketshare in 2021.
We do not have conflicts with other groups.

I am not so convinced that there is no fault with Islam considering history as well as the neighborhood.

It takes a lot of self loath and stupidity to buy into this argument mostly made by young or ignorant leftists.
You never know, I used to be against nuclear energy, now I'm pro - I was a member of CANE - the campaign against nuclear energy in my youth :-). The most significant problem is disposing of the waste, there's some reading on it here [1]. 1000 years is tomorrow in geologic terms, in [1] they're talking about a single canister failure in 150,000 years. Imagine the tech we'd have available by then if we're still around. There's a lot of low level waste to when you have to pull a reactor to bits - all the buildings are a bit radioactive, but its easy enough to put in a hole. The one thing you don't want is the groundwater to be contaminated by radiation leaking out, vitrification seems to be the best current solution - turning it into glass. Have a read, you never know.

[1] https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pile...
Global Foundaries pulling the plug on 7nm was by most accounts a financial decision, not a technical one. Their 7nm process was essentially ready, but the owners of Global Foundary (Mubadala Investment Company) haven't seen a profit for the past decade, and decided to stick to older and less expensive process nodes rather than spending billions retooling their factories and trying to keep up with TSMC and Samsung.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13277/globalfoundries-stops-a...
Unless I see evidence in a communication that they have read something in my info, I assume its a bot/script. I'm amazed this hasn't been commented in this thread especially because I'm assuming most people work in software here on HN. They have databases of leads and scripts that send out personal sounding emails about jobs.

I believe they want to talk live because that shows you are interested enough to put some effort in. If someone can't commit to a 30min call, then they probably aren't actually looking for a new job. If a candidate will only deal with them via email and never talk live, they may make conclusions from this related to the communication skills (not judging but think about it). For a lot of companies, communication skills for developers are as important as coding skills since you will be working with other humans.
The purpose of currency is not to retain long term value. The purpose is to act as a means of exchange so we don't have to barter for transactions.

If you want a long-term hold of value - buy some sort of asset that has utility beyond it's trading value.

This is the key thing 99.9% of the crypto community does not understand.

The winning crypto, one day, will be the one that DOES NOT make you rich.
Capital assets went up a surprising amount during the pandemic. My stock portfolio and my house are worth a lot more than they were 2 years ago.

I feel a temptation to use that money. I also have a nagging feeling that it’s somewhat artificial (the govt pumped a ton of money during the pandemic) so I should cash out before it falls.
But do these production defects really meet the demand of the lower tiers? Also how is it possible to predict the number of defects in advance so that they can make useful promises to distributors?
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RavenDb would be what I would use.
I agree. This would work, but you still need to get the data off the tape, and onto the SSD. The only way to do this is 60MB/sec.
After I left Airbnb, I paid $680 a month to keep my previously employer-paid health insurance. Very cool, loved to have the “freedom of choice” to “participate in the market”. Insurance feels like another little way businesses seek to own people in the US. Want to own yourself? Gotta pay the lease… on your own body.
While I'm a great fan of ubiquitous tech/computing in general, I must also say that it feels weird applying firmware updates to light bulbs.
However, you want to stay safe these days, so it's better to keep up to date, right?
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No one you work for has a "relationship" with you unless there is nepotism involved. They will lie to you. They will throw you out when you don't make them money. The only "lie" is that there is a "relationship" and if you believe it, it will end up making you very unhappy. Live for yourself and your family.
I'm literally on that right now, working on fun projects. When you get older you just call it a sabbatical.
There might be a bump as a few employers try to capitalize on the work-from-home to get good talent. ...but in the long term, employee performance will be better in the office, and so most employees will end up back at work.

The thing the that the article misses is that the vast majority of CEOs want all employees back in the office.
Math is based on human chosen axioms. Actually, there are a lot of different sub fields of math that have different subsets of axioms to solve different types of problems. The axioms can never be proven though, they are just grounding.

Isolating a human is analogous to removing oxygen. Few would argue that someone brain dead could create anything.
I think we already have those, even without Ubiquitous computing. Hell, we had them even before we had any computing whatsoever. Sure they are more efficient now (what isn't) but they always existed...
It's true, though it wasn't the first use of these techniques. They beat the British this way at the battle of Gate Pā.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_campaign
And people can still rely on unemployment insurance

Pretty sure most states won't accept you if you voluntarily leave.
>desertified country

You should probably look up Switzerland on a map. Its where central Europe fresh water comes from.
If I remember rightly, one of the big differences of the FTDI fakes in common ciruclation was that some of the advanced functionality worked and behaved according to the spec. This happens from time to time... the NRF28L01+ radio clones are incompatible overr the air with the original because they followed the datasheet, which was wrong.
Lebanon as a country was never a real threat to Israel but the PLO terrorist organization that started the civil war after trying to take over Jordan.

The Lebanese government let Hezbollah get the way it is by first allowing the PLO into south Lebanon bowing to Syria and having no backbone and shit military and now they suffer for it.

Do you think Israel was jealous of the Paris of the middle east and set up Hezbollah to take over?

> And? Not much has changed from that fact

Your whole argument was that Hezbollah is good for Israel, how thousands of rocket aiming at your population centers good for Israel? That's why what you wrote is bull.
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"suck dry" is excessive editorializing for a practice that make sit possible for a market to exist without, well, "sucking the manufacturer dry".
IRTFA and links.

I think it's true that timing is related to potential IPO, but if the claim has merit, impossible to say.

IBM is suing for compensatory and consequential damages,restitution, equitable relief and punitive damages arising from the fraud and intentional breaches of contract committed by GF. This was no mere supply arrangement. GF did not commit to long-term strategic and financial commitment to the development of High Performance chips. IBM provided money and technology to develop those chips. ...
IBM reserved all its rights with respect to GlobalFoundries’ breaches with 10nm when GF moved to 7nm. It turns out that GlobalFoundries was never committed to developing High Performance semiconductors for the long term. GlobalFoundries admitted that it "never planned to be a leading producer of 7-nm chips in terms of volume".

GF says those are outlandish demands and claims have no merit under the plain language of the Parties’ Agreements. IBM tries to fish because there is potential IPO.
This is what you have to do if you run out of chips.
I have worked for a few years in person before too. About quality I'm not really sure. It's probably dependent on the company / team you join.

But it's true that I got most of my workstation/tooling out of my previous supervisor, who installed his stuff since I had no preference and it made it more similar to his own machine, making the process of helping me on my desk easier. That probably would not happen remotely :)
It's not "believe the woman", it's "believe the victim". I'm unsurprised that you registered a throwaway to hang all your dirty washing out for the world to see.
Indeed, that is exactly the "solution" I have deployed in this case.

But you seem to have missed my point. Mostly it's not hard to circumvent the existing paywalls, and mostly it's not hard to sign up blind for things, and certainly you can just close the window and move on.

But I'm not complaining about paywalls, I'm identifying the compound problem of producers wanting payment, readers wanting to be able to pay when they know it's worth it, readers being unwilling to sign up to things without first evaluating them, and all the while enabling readers to find and evaluate that content.
I should have been a little more clear --
the urban planner managing the house building / copying and neighborhood destruction (the realtime controller)
The rules are:
1) You can build a house kinda quickly
2) You can't modify a house once it is built
3) you can only build a house on a vacant lot
4) you can change the "mailing address" (relative to the physical location) of the house
5) you can only knock down whole blocks of houses at once (not one at a time)
6) each time you flatten a block more crap accumulates in that block until after a while you can't build there anymore.
7) the flatten / rebuild step may be quite slow (because you have lots of houses to build)
8) You can lie and say you built a house before it is finished, if you don't have too many houses to build. (if you've got an SSD with a capacitor / battery or tiny cache and reserved area for that cache)
9) you've lied to the user and you actually have 5-100% more build-able area than you've advertised.
10) you have a finite area so eventually the dead space accumulates to the point where you can no longer safely build.

So -- you keep track of vacant lots and "dead" houses (abandoned but not flattened); whenever you've got spare time you will copy blocks with some ratio of "live" to abandoned houses to new lots so the new block only has live houses.

These pending / anticipatory compaction/garbage collection operations are what I refer to as "buckets" -- having to compact 300 (neighborhoods) blocks to achieve 300 writes is going to result in glacial performance because of this huge write amplification (behind the scenes the drive is duplicating 100s of mb / gb of data to write a small amount of user modifications)

As you might imagine, there are lots of strategies to how to approach this problem, some of which give you an SSD with extremely unpredictable (when full) performance, others will give a much more consistent but "slower" performance.