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> Maybe humanities needs to change its target primarily from 18 year olds who are figuring out what to do with their lives, to 40 year olds, who already make money, but want to learn more about what it means to be human.

I think a lot of higher education would be best life-long learning. The amount of stuff you learn before any real-world XP, only to forget (or cling unhealthily to) feels v. wasteful. A professors time might be best spent on adults in the field.

That said, for the humanities, there still needs to be a marketable skill-set that underpins the field.
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I completely agree with your first paragraph but struggle to make any connection between it and your second paragraph
Do you learn oauth, or do you answer multiple-choice questions about oauth? The two are wildly different.
> levels of state

This is the crux for me. Command naming is completely unrelated to and unindicative of state.

It feels like surely there's an opportunity for the basic CRUD operations to be collapsed down into a standard "{action} {source} {target}" style.

There will be nuances, specifically around branching, but the basics should be basic. As opposed to a Swiss Army knife, where you have to pull out the scissors and squeeze them three times before you can unfold and use the blade.
What it's like to be cancelled
There are certainly digital archivists at many institutions/organizations that are digitizing archives and things. The problem comes in from the fact that for most of human history things have not been digital, so there is only a very limited set of data that people can really "hoard." The problem is getting things digitized in the first place, and then not having the results just stuck behind yet another paywall.

In many cases what is already digitized, much like what is shown at museums, is just the tip of the iceberg of information kept in non-digital forms.
> So you consider it a feature of fiat that it is impossible for a saver to maintain their purchasing power over time unless they risk their capital on volatile assets such as stocks or real estate?

Some cryptocurrencies may (in some cases, based on past performance) be good on average as long term stores of value, but even those that are good at this are extremely volatile assets, much more so than, say, blue-chip stocks. So they certainly don’t solve any problem of “you need exposure to volatile assets to not lose value of savings” that you might imagine exists.

> Why is is a good thing that widows, orphans, those living in poverty or on a fixed income have no way to save without having to Rick their principal?

People without surplus income have no way to save by definition, with or without risking their income. That people with surplus income need to participate in wealth generation to recurve additional wealth from storage of their surplus income is obviously a feature.
when this happened to me, they didn't send the letter certified and misspelled my name on the letter(which gave away who sold my info to them). Thus, by my reckoning, i never got the letter and was unaware, though i did know they were suing many others. Lucky for me one of those others prevailed in court and crushed the troll. Sadly the suit almost bankrupted the company that won, but in the end they proved they wont take crap from trolls.
Unfortunately it feels like this is pretty common for the NYT today: they decide on a conclusion they want to make, and then interview enough people so they can cherry-pick the comments that support their conclusion, and don't bother to present any dissenting viewpoints.

It's really a shame; I feel like this transformation happened in the last 5 years or so. Most articles from NYT that I see posted here have this slant.
The Jetbrains IDE git GUI is by far the best git GUI I've used, I feel lost trying to use git without it.

There's a user request that's been sitting around for a while to pull it out into a dedicated application, which I could personally get behind since we have one project at work that's pretty difficult to run outside of Eclipse

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-152437
Using starch and baking soda to harvest mechanical energy
my complaint is merely that they continue to insist she resigned. She didn't- she was terminated without cause.

I personally think Timnit shouldn't have been hired in the first place, but if they were going to fire her, they needed to follow the path, which takes about 1-2 years, of establishing that she was not a good employee for Google.
What does whether it's taxed or not have to do with it? (By the way, if the customer pays with credit card, that tip will most likely be taxed.)

If your automotive repair shop changed a line on their receipt from "20% service fee" to "20% obligatory tip which will be deducted from employee's pay check," it would work the same way.
Can you expand on why the the role didn't work out for you? Was it lack of direction on how to bring the research advances as a product or was it the lack of support for the research itself?
Lexical stress? https://youtube.com/watch?v=dUnGvH8fUUc
everyone can write backwards.

place a piece of paper on a board,turn it 180degree facing away from you,writing on it with the pen pointing towards you.
I agree a lot with your comment. No amount of planning or estimates will ever change that a feature will be done when it's done.

My previous job had about a 4th of the total work week dedicated to meetings. As someone with ADHD, this was very difficult for me. What made matters worse is that they were sometimes spread out and I could lose an entire day of productivity and I was just unable to work when my meds ran out and there was a shortage in the entire country (Mexico).

I am now back to contracting and my client just lists out the requirements in a document and I code away and have been VERY productive. No meetings or calls since I have started working with them 3 weeks ago.
Rooting a phone doesn't give all apps root access. You still need to approve each app.
The Parrots paper is activism dressed up as research in my opinion. It only complains and offers no solutions. This is bad, that is bad, and that other thing, yes, it's bad...
Wife: can you pick up that pencil off the floor please?

Me: picks up pencil with foot.

Wife: WTF?
I think most law firms would represent competing companies in separate cases. Conflict of interest is more representing multiple parties in the same case or issue.

E.g. I once had a lawyer review a severance agreement before I signed it, since it had non-compete language in it. He had to be sure that his firm didn't already have a relationship with the employer.

If there's no common interest in the case, lawyers are expected to be able to maintain confidentiality. Same as an accountant who might have two competing businesses as clients.

But, IANAL.
> when they did nothing of the sort

Would you care to elaborate or link to an article that explores this view?
This is the type of thing my CEO says, and then shows up to meetings with a black screen, muted, and does not respond to any inquiries while things are going on (so nobody directs anything to him) - but if you dont show up to the meeting he will message you and ask where are you?
Damn, I actually forgot about Flux. It was the dark ages indeed :)
House prices house prices house prices house prices house prices.

When will the people who write these articles understand this?

I am convinced that today's house prices are tearing apart the fabric of society, without exaggeration.
I thought non-commercial licenses were an old tradition in the emulator community. Snes9x and MAME code were licensed as such for a long time. I've seen developers release code under GPL/MIT/BSD and then object to how other people using their code. Is this what you mean?

In the end, none of these licenses matter anyway. I seriously doubt anyone in this community will ever sue somebody over license violations. People do nothing while corporations file DMCA claims against screenshots despite Sony vs. Connectix.
Getting a Physics Phd is fine because it looks great on a resume. It shows that you are very good at applied math. A History Phd is almost a negative, IMHO.
>But we are paying all this money for office space, I don't want to waste that.

let's rearrange office into gym, pub, strip club or something else and let's increase profits!

Anyway, my co-workers want hybrid approach, 1-2day office, rest home, with exceptions for ppl that have long commute (tiny minority) - they can 100% remote.

It sounds relatively reasonable
I second that. You regret the things you DON'T do more than the things you do. In 10-20 years' time you might get bitter wondering what could have been, and seeing another company succeed with "your idea".

It also sounds like you can afford to make this bet. You are young, good savings, tech skills, and I'm assuming "asset light" life (no family or lots of bills weighing you down). If the startup fails you can get back to corporate life after a few years, which startup life experience under the belt.

Another answer said that you should love the market you're in. I agree. You'll live and breathe this market for 7-10 years, so you better love it.

That being said, most startups fail. You have to be fine with the fact that you might lose your savings and those years of your life. And if it does, fine, it's an investment that didn't pan out.

What I did when we made the jump (8 years ago) was set aside a pile of money and a 1-year window to see if the company floated. If the time or money ended before we saw paying customers and some small traction, we'd stop. It all worked out fine but we were very lucky.
> Some of these millennials — known as HENRYs — prefer a comfortable, expensive lifestyle.

That is what the article says so seems there is at least some issue with their spending habits.
The USA is actively ending those programs because all of the people in the 'gymnasiums' are Jewish/White/Asian, and this is seen as politically/socially unacceptable.
They originally chose to use x265 to calibrate the bitrates, possibly something went wrong there and the 'Tiny', 'Big', etc. are somewhat meaningless.

At 'Large' and 'Big' settings of this image -- which are still in much less than 1 bpp bitrates, i.e., below internet image quality -- you can still observe significant differences in the clouds even if balloons are relatively well rendered.
It’s a snowball system.
Doing a master. Don’t get a job.
Become a phd, teach next generation of students who won’t get a job. They will again do their phd, and so on ;)
>I don't want to change the way I work

I understand.

> I just want people to join me in the office.

Not cool, don’t make me change my lifestyle.

> My kids are driving me crazy.

I understand.

> Is it weird to say I'm lonely;

I understand.

> I miss my office friends.

I understand.
> why do people subject themselves to this?

Just like military recruiters are able seduce 16 years without much of a future to join an exciting career in the military academics are able to sell academically inclined ungrads on some fantasy that being a PhD in history in 2021 is anything like it would have been in 1921.

By the time your realize you've been scammed you're at least 4+ years into a PhD, and so committed to the sunk cost fallacy, combined with very strong academic conditioning that nothing will ruin your life more than leaving academia, that you can't fathom the idea of stopping at this point.

Once you have the PhD and done your time in post-doc purgatory, and start on your tenure track hazing, you start babbling about how it's impossible for anyone to do real research without a PhD, even though the general state of "independent research" in academia is increasingly a bad joke.

People often fail to mention that the fantasy of a PhD as someone who spends their time working on hard problems and collaborating with other brilliant-like minded thinkers, is derived from an era when a precondition to getting a PhD was largely based on having a well-off family and a good upbringing. It was a time when PhDs where respected, not because it was a better world, but because only an elite group could reasonably be expected to follow that path.

If you talk to any undergrads starting a PhD today the level of naivete is almost endearing. They unquestionably believe that they are pursuing knowledge for its own sake and starting a path to enlightenment. Academia benefits tremendously from this illusion and has absolutely zero interest in breaking it. It doesn't hurt that they mark anyone who has left academia as a failure. I've seen so many people in the PhD life cycle absolutely devastated when they decide to not take the abuse anymore.
There is also the old adage that showing up is half the battle. Even if the company isn't in the habit of misusing meetings, showing up to meetings is important for establishing relationships with different people and departments. It sucks, but people are still social creatures, and meeting and talking to people face to face can have a strong lasting impression then a well written email.
This, and being able to shower whenever I want, and being able to put on presentable clothing for a Zoom call but then return to my sweatpants or even go topless... these sort of things are the reason I want to work from home. Maybe I'm crazy , or maladjusted, or maybe this is just the optimal way for me to work.
You can learn to write modern JavaScript in a browser console or a single script tag just fine. There IS a lot of nodejs based tooling to overcome problems with the strategy, but you don't need any of that to start.

Find a modern JavaScript tutorial (if it tells you to declare variables with 'var', look elsewhere) and just start building. The browser has everything you need to create a dynamic page. There will be pain points, but once you understand them, frameworks will make a lot more sense.

GraphQL is a garbage tech, btw. The hardest part of frontend is knowing what trends are useful, and gql isn't really useful unless you are facebook. It just adds mental overhead.
I'm not sure I see a practical way out of the current system that returns us to a more free market system. Instead we see carbon credits promoted, perhaps as a part of a SDR like system.

Where the petrodollar required somewhat incoherent rationales for war, a supranational carbon credit regime would offer somewhat more self-coherent rationales.

It isn't difficult to imagine how it might play out.

"Nation X's refusal to honestly participate in the carbon credit system is a crime against the Earth. Sanctions have been insufficient. The global coalition must act militarily to protect the Earth from..."

Regardless, I'm not sure there is a practical way to get the US back on track to where markets are more free and investment in domestic industry isn't distorted. A 25% tax credit or outright government funded or perhaps an initially nationalized industry? The difference is only in degree.
"I deleted n pages of someone's rules today"

Does this mean players can just do the straightforward thing and negotiate lucrative contracts with schools and we can forego all the backdoor, indirect compensation and self-inflicted corruption that goes on now? If so then these institutions can just be what they are in a straightforward way; football teams that also happen to fund a legacy educational branch.
Out of the people I know who actually work at Apple, they're either incredibly overworked and constantly teetering on the edge of burnout, or they see Apple's market position as a tool they can use to further some goals of their own. While I'm sure some people do consider working at Apple as high-prestige, that's doesn't seem to be reflected in the employees I know, at least.
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> Especially the ceremonies like retro (exercise in taking notes and throwing them away)

Retro is one of those meetings that I have found very useful, at multiple companies. When done right, everyone should be involved, and useful action items will be taken away to make work easier in the future. I've seen retros done terribly wrong, where nothing is accomplished or taken away. Those seem like a waste, but I think when done right, it is actually a valuable use of time.
Are the founder of this company? This is a bad look and I wouldn't want to use an app from a CEO who responds inappropriately to posts like this (because I want to use products from companies with good decisionmakers).
I’ve used OsmAnd for several years as a secondary maps app. I’ve found OpenStreetMaps to have better data for walking that either Apple or Google maps. One issue with OsmAnd however is that map drawing feels somewhat sluggish, this app is however fantastic. I’ll definitely give it a try for the next few weeks. I imagine I’ll still need to use Apple Maps for transit though - whilst it seems to get the route right I can’t view step by step directions?
As long as the patent is valid there is nothing racketeering about it.
I find people just want to drink at home alone and watch Netflix. Good friends I had unworn for 20-odd years. WFH I imagine many will drink themselves to an early grave.
This already exists:
https://openplacereviews.org/

There is even a plugin for OSMAnd but I have not tried it yet.
So I think this expectation that work provide social connection only works for some people. I like the people I work with, but I have no need to spend time with them in person because I have other social outlets. If I have to participate in another social scene because someone I work with is lonely, that’s gas out of my tank to solve their problem. I don’t really have a lot in common with my coworkers except we work together.

Join a casual sports league or a club or something but don’t make me pretend to be your friend just to draw a paycheck. This is one aspect of work I have no interest in restarting.
Watched a brillo doc by DW the other day, got me all full of chills around how crazy nature is and how we take for granted it's sentient qualities:

What can fungi teach us?- - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcIQpmiZ3Y
Because on my Google account I can turn off all the history settings, same for YouTube. Despite possibly being invasive with YouTube, they actually allow third party clients like NewPipe and youtube-dl. Google Drive offers some of the best storage and you can encrypt your files, and there is no proof that they are using your storage to spy on you.

Google Cloud was also one of the first providers to offer confidential computing. Google also contributes a lot to open source and so Android has a lot of options and different ROMs to use. Compare that to the proprietary OSs like Microsoft and Apple. With Microsoft, no matter what I do they keep uploading my activity history of every App that I open just because I signed into the Microsoft Store to play Minecraft.
It's heavy templated code, which I don't think is very useful without the pythran source, but here it is:

https://gist.github.com/cycomanic/a0b16ab0c45b3d888a818d17a0...
Two days at the office every two weeks is my new regimen, and it's the best of both world for me. I can afford to live pretty far of a big city, and a 3 hour train commute is just easy.
It might be true, but with the stock at an all-time high (and close to doubling over the past year) I would say that not many people have put their money where the nytime's mouth is.
https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/techno...
Hire one of the attorneys who got the case dismissed.
Yeah, funnily enough my experience is based on international tax advice.

No one actually knows anything about this, save for like 3 people world wide for each country pair.

Lawyers will happily bill you for incorrect advice because their liability is limited to the amount invoiced. But you can end up with massive tax bills based on that bad advice.

You can do better by reading the law and tax treaties yourself, then getting someone to verify your interpretation.

Law is just code for humans.
Generally the existing system is appropriate to the business context it was first built for. The problem is that the owning team would like to claim the “impact” of you reusing their solution in a new domain, while maintaining a “not my problem” disposition towards the unique constraints of your domain, and towards the daily ergonomics of your life in their codebase. What’s needed is a proper platform team that can serve both customers.
Yes, Timnit definitely pushed the boundaries of what is considered acceptable discourse at work. But, speaking both as an ex-manager, and an engineer who worked there (and resigned twice), it definitely wasn't a resignation.

To resign at Google you tell your manager you're resigning and then fill out a form (that's the process that makes it an official resignation). What Megan did to Timnit was immediate termination, combined with an advanced exit date, which only happens if you're truly and deeply violating Google rules or your country's laws.

When I brought up the Timnit firing situation my VP literally said: "It takes me a year and a half to fire a bad employee, I don't know how Megan did it so fast".
I remember that. As you said, you couldn't guess what they are just from seeing them, but it was easy to remember. Only years later did it dawn on me that the apples might be food that bait the AI. :-)

For the save icon I agree. This "new" icon has to be learned just like the floppy disk already has to be. Nothing about it intuitively tells me what it means. It actually looks similar to the log-in glyphicon that for example bootstrap is using: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/components/
SolarWinds hackers could have been waylaid by simple countermeasure-US officials
> I'm not saying your point isn't valid, just that the passage quoted is too broad to be a strong support of your argument.

What is my argument? You're making some assumption there that I'm not privy to.

The OP says "Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary". That's a very broad statement that obviously ignores surplus killing even for the purpose of storing more food for later (which is often also abandoned when the animals move away or find something better to eat). Anyway, killing more than you can eat right now and storing it "for later" is exactly what humans do, that the OP is trying to say animals don't do.

Hence, "nope".

I agree my reply is rude. I apologise to the OP, but it's frustrating to see how popular opinions seem to be shaped by the behaviour of Disney animals, and yet are expressed with great certainty. It's very frustrating.
Someone replied here, but by the time I drafted a reply, the comment was deleted, but I felt the information was important so I'll post it below.

> To me, that's the definition of an unhelpful exam. I am curious that these new knowledge-based certifications aren't the new "Java certified associate" exams (which could not be more useless).

This is a case where the devil is in the details though. For example, GCP has five major database offerings: Bigtable, Data/Firestore, Spanner, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. Knowing which one best applies to which situation is a pretty important aspect of being an architect. You can't just use "high level" knowledge here, because Bigtable and Firestore are both NoSQL databases, while Cloud SQL, BQ, and Spanner are relational. They are each optimized for specific workloads and picking the right solution involves knowing how each is optimized.

Using these services is relatively easy. The documentation is fairly comprehensive and Google offers sample applications for use as a jumping off point.

This applies across the GCP landscape. Lots of services have 70-80% functionality overlap with another, so choosing the right one for a particular situation involves understanding the appropriate use cases for each, and this information is what is covered in the exam materials.
"No, just do it without touching your face..." -- doesn't that simply mean "stop breathing"? because that has the same effect. I do this all the time these days when I walk past people and not waring mask ;-)