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> No offense but this is such a silly thing to say. EVERYONE sees race/age/sex.

I strongly disagree here. When I'm reviewing code, I look at the code. It could be written by ANYONE. I don't ever think "this woman" or "this <religion>" when reviewing code!

> "I like those earrings, they look great" - no problem.
> "Hey I really like the way that shirt fits your body" - problem

You don't see how it can be easy to accidentally state the latter? If you don't... I just don't know what else to say. A major part of fashion is accentuating or hiding parts of someone's body...

In any case, as I said, I acknowledge that it's an irrational fear and I'd just rather not take the risk.

I think your main POV here is that if your heart is in the right place then everything will be fine. I just hard disagree with that.

> And my point is that you're saying you are knowingly and intentionally treating your female coworkers significantly different than your male coworkers, and that's kind of weird, and will likely lead to more issues than if you just treat them the same...

No, I treat them both equally but I avoid expressing any opinion whatsoever becomes I'm worried about being perceived otherwise.

I don't give female coworkers critical reviews, but I don't give male coworkers bad reviews either.

What I'm saying is that I very strategically avoid ANY situation where my I can express an opinion that MAY be perceived as "-ist".

In other words, think of any situation where intent is a major factor.

Example: A very veeerrrry nit picky code review. Some people are nit picky about every single thing to every single person. That's fine. But if someone is nit picky ONLY to female coworkers then that's a problem.

Intent is what matters there. My (again, irrational) fear is that my intent my get mis-read due to bad luck. My code reviews can be inconsistent sometimes. Some days I might point something out that I wouldn't on other days. Just human error. See what I mean?
I don't think you should have apologized. She was clearly being unreasonable.

In a situation like that it's fair to ask what in particular was a problem. If they can't give a reasonable response you should ignore them.
I could equally (and accurately) argue that in practice public school means discriminating against people by wealth, using zip code as a proxy.

And anyway, why would "discriminating based on competence" exacerbate inequality? Shouldn't competence-based discrimination lessen inequality e.g. by giving bright, poorer schools a shot at more prestigious institutions while financially-but-not-intellectually privileged kids move to more middling institutions?

Given the choice between wealth discrimination and merit discrimination, I would prefer the latter.
I have wondered about this but we record a lot of our meetings and I have heard myself and I sound pretty clear. Admittedly this is me judging myself, but I do listen critically to see. Also I was interviewed for a podcast recently and I asked a few friends if I was clear and they all said yes, even when I said why I asked.

FWIW.
Absolutely, I still think it's important to deeply meditate on suffering and to ask ethical questions like the ones you've pointed out. The alternative is to be sort of nihilistic, shrugging the creation of suffering off as inevitable and to keep on causing unnecessary harm.

I mean, an entire religion was formed around insights around suffering, so clearly people have been thinking about this for a long time!
from previous threads,

"I like working from home when everybody is working from home"

is not the same thing as

"I like working from home when some people are working from home and some people are grabbing lunch with the boss",

and I think a lot of us are about to figure that out.
I've been at several places which would have been improved by higher levels of management-directed firings. It's not at all obvious to me that the success rate at Amazon should be expected to be significantly over 85% of hire-to-performing employee. Given that, what should they do with the 15% who don't turn out to be performing employees (for whatever reason that isn't itself protected class membership)?
Keep your job, hire freelancers to build the MVP, reduce your working hours once you confirmed the market fit with a few customers, switch to consultancy or part-time job when your startup makes enough money to pay your bills for at least 6 months in a row, quit your job when your startup makes enough money to make you happy but you feel it needs to grow faster than before.
> the Oculus platform they have to build up from scratch

It's Android, right?
> It’s a bit hard to teach these concepts to somebody that has no practical knowledge of [...], etc. The ideas will seem far off and abstract.

what do you think _can_ be taught to people (K-12 students) who have no practical knowledge of anything?
It also demonstrated the almost limitless possibilities of the UI. Smooth scrolling textured windows! Tap a button and they curl over to reveal a new pane! And it comes with a UI that was designed, not thrown together by a coder!
No idea as to the number you're looking for, but (at least in the UK) most of those with doctorates wouldn't dream of using the title outside their department for fear of being though a medic (and so called in whenever someone collapses).
Liberty != Freedom

If you allow unvaccinated people you force people to make the choice between their safety and a bunch of additional restrictions like reduced capacity, social distancing, mask wearing, and individuality portioned food.

High freedom, low liberty.

If you ban the unvaccinated then everyone can roam freely unencumbered by all those safety precautions.

Low freedom, high liberty.

I know which one I think is better.
I just don’t get why a university amateur golf team needs anything but a few people and their golf gear. Why take it so seriously?
They will fail in multiple ways and this will be a factor in what eats them out like a cancer. But it will take decades so really is it an issue for them? Unlikely. They'll still be profitable. It won't necessarily kill them either.

Its the equivalent of the corporation being a person smoking cigarettes. It imparts some benefits and doesn't kill right away but given enough time it still causes disease. They'll start to miss opportunities. They'll run slower.

The metaphor vanishes in a lot of ways though because the corporation can pivot and simply say "we were wrong". Microsoft is a perfect example. It regularly threw away people and this caused damage and various big failures but not enough to scuttle them. They are still successful. Still growing.

Students of history know that Microsoft's story of success hides a lot of messy details including behavior where plenty of law had to get involved. Amazon will go down a similar path. Or has likely already begun.
My brother-in-law is 24 years old, autistic and worked at the local grocery store. He was in the union. One time, he made a stupid joke about “juicy melons” he was physically holding to a female co-worker.

She claimed sexual harassment and he was immediately fired. No investigation, no support from the union.

There was no third party witness, just he said-she said. Don’t think unions are there to protect you.

His mother also works at the same store in a different department. Didn’t matter.

The mob had judged him expeditiously. The poor kid has never even kissed a girl.
This mirrors my impressions from friends and family who work at Apple as well. My friends do get paid well for working there but its quite a stressful place to work.
social network lack of structure is their main issue .. it's freeing until you start to see all the work to ensure sanity then you start to miss the slower / hierarchical layers that used to exist.. the natural brakes.
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Train Rides seem to be ideal for any trip less than 4 hours.

You don't have as much security concerns, you have far more legroom, and the constant ability to walk around the cabin at all times (often to the dining car where you can get overpriced beer / light meals, but... better than nothing at all). Hour-for-hour, a train ride is far more comfortable than a plane ride.

However, once we start looking at 4-hour or 8-hour train rides, the idea of a 2-hour or 3-hour plane ride just starts to make more sense, even with 30+ minutes of security + many minutes of "Taxi'ing on the runway" involved. Flying at 500mph just makes more sense than train rides at 50mph.

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An exception is when the ride itself is part of the journey: if you want to see the entire countryside, the train is superior.

Planes fly over everything and are often high up in the clouds, so you don't get to see the whole ground.
Totally.

Back in 2020, after one update, windows 10 was taking about 5min to boot on a thinkpad, if not more. Had to install a SSD, changed everything.

Pretty curious to hear what kernel developer or filesystem developers have to say about this, because it doesn't really make sense to me.

I can understand why something would stop working, but not to just become slow. In what world does a system change result in worse performance in certain cases?

Maybe deep inside, w10 stopped using any optimization that allowed it to be fast on HDD, considering SSD should be the norm, but I fail to understand if this is choice that implies a difficult compromise, or if it's just laziness and negligence.

Any linux dev could chime in?
Sure. My point is simple:

1. Every movement has the vast majority people as quiet supporters, not taking concrete action in the streets or wherever. This is not unique to meme activism.

2. I don't buy that meme activism actually trades off with physical action.

I do buy that meme activism doesn't translate into physical action, but I don't think that those people would be taking physical action if they didn't have the memes.

None of the evidence you've presented is contrary to that hypothesis, and if anything, supports it.
often through direct state sponsorship
Also, don't eat legumes that have just been soaked or that are still cooking, you'll get a huge stomachache. I learned this the hard way while tasting kidney beans while they were cooking.
You could try writing a few kernel modules, then implement a basic os (there are loads of great tutorials out there). Other good projects in the same space are implementing a shell, a memory allocator, a DB, a buffer overflow attack...
Actual opsec is a lot harder than that.
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They already have emotional algorithms. Tilt the scales to happy stories instead of outrage porn.
I actually gently disagree. There is a lot of statements that education doesn't teach practical skills, but i think that's a mistake.

We don't teach specifics like 'how to do your taxes' or different retirement account types. But we teach general skills that enable those.

And frankly, those change too often (both time and jurisdiction) and are far too broad to be very useful.

When English teachers discuss Shakespeare, or history teachers discuss analyzing documents: they are generally not expecting students to have to read those particulars, but instead aiming for attainment of a more general skill (literacy, analysis, veracity).

Basically, I think it's better to just teach math and literacy in general. Then if they want to know how APR is calculated, they will have the ability to research it.

School cannot possibly teach everything one could want or need to know in life. It's more about setting a foundation.
Someone with a chip on their shoulder didn't create a bunch of accounts to invent a narrative is the point. It's absolutely an input to consideration.

And FWIW, to use Animats' argument that lack of court proceedings is evidence, surely there's a lot of actionable libel in some of those twitter threads if they are invented. If there isn't such proceedings, is that proof that they're all true? I think we've hit a halting problem!
By design. Apple can’t let Safari function properly as a modern browser, otherwise PWAs would be able to compete with their App Store money printer on iOS!
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Wow, very similar experience here, except the sweetness I smell isn't likable to rotten meet, but rather sort of like aging strawberries/fruit. I smell this semi-sweet fruit-like smell particularly strongly with anything alcoholic, including hand sanitizer. I had covid anosmia for about 6 weeks during December-January '20, but this sweet smelling parosmia has only been around the last 2 months or so. Such a mystery to me.
4 GB RAM seems impossibly tight as well. I'm not sure if 4 core and 4 GB was ever a common or representative setup for PCs; perhaps 2 core and 4 GB in the Vista timeframe...
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I think it should be consensual. Let's just ask the plants. And we must remember that affirmative positive consent is the only sort that matters.
Yeah, my favorite bit is the whole freakout about teaching CRT in K-12 education.

(If anyone was proposing that, it might be worth freaking out over, but not for the reasons being cited, but more for the same reasons you’d freak out over proposing Quantum Chemistry as a high school graduation requirement. Except moreso, because QChem is at least reasonably common in undergraduate curricula.)
> So far, we have very few examples of them actually working.

That's not the purpose of an apology. An apology is something you do to help the victims move forward, not something you do to minimize consequences.
Apple keeps trying to make AR a thing. Bless their heart...
The more I see, the more I think we need a mandatory „Life School“ curriculum in classes. Financial literacy is just one issue, but all that stuff like media competency, scientific method, cui bono, negotiations, assertiveness, how to deal with bullies, mental health basics, economics 101, mechanics of addiction and manipulation aaaand so on, all explained by first principles, would go such a long way towards a better functioning society.

Then again, that‘s not going to happen as it would eventually destroy whole industries and populist voter bases.

I smell a non-profit I should do one day…
Not sure why you were downvoted.

I nice worked for a Big 5 company. I'm not aware of Machiavellian efforts to destroy competitors; they just bought them.

I've worked for an international software company with ~1,500 staff. I do not think our management were inclined to collaborate with their competitors unneccessarily; they had a fiduciary duty to their shareholders.

I've worked for two small-town website developers, with say 10 staff. There's four or five competitors in this town. My management were happy to collaborate with competitors to stage conferences; but I know in both cases they wanted to crush them.

None of these jobs was in SV, or even in the US.

I note the story about IBM's threats (above); so my limited view is that aggressive behaviour between companies occurs across the range of scale.

Incidentally: it doesn't make you seem weak and defenceless that you seek a collaborator in fighting a patent troll. The trolls are backed by venture capital; you are a sole trader. That you are considering defying them is courageous.
icons are symbolic representations. They may have started out as representations of physical object but they can become abstracted become conventions. The save icon may have started as an image of a physical disk/disc but by convention it has moved into an abstraction for storing changes.

Taken to an extreme icons can morph from hieroglyphic symbols to alphabetic characters to the point where it can be hard to see what the original object modeled was.
Mouse research identifies new types of neurons in the “gut brain” (2020)
The key is to not apologize and to have you career be semi-insulated from such a cancelling, in whatever form that takes (whether it's being self-employed in a way where a boycott doesn't hurt you too much, or working for someone that agrees with whatever it is you're saying and will stand by you, or just being independently wealthy).
Yes, IIRC the Medium post that made the situation go viral beyond MIT was written by a student that just compiled other peoples' stories about Stallman, not based on any of her own experiences. Personally I can't imagine initiating calls for someone's head without first hand knowledge, but I don't think she had any hidden incentive to make the post. My guess is she had her own negative experiences with someone else in the past and thought she was doing the right thing by speaking out for others here. I recall the post reading as very emotional, like a rant you might send to a private group chat of friends. So definitely not manufactured.
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Yes. The first step is to NEVER EVER apologise. With the mob, they will create libellous accusations and label you everything under the sun until they eventually spin your character into 'a Nazi'.

Perhaps they were playing too much Wolfenstein VR and they see Nazis in everything.

As you can see with the OP and the comments in this thread, it seems there is little to no redemption anyway. So apology is not an option. Especially on your own Twitter account.
How is that not just good old “application programming”?

My own definition of “system programming” is exactly “developing on top of the system” vs “developing in the comfort of a helper library” (and its limits). I consider myself a decent application programmer, but I'm not a system programmer (at least not yet ;).

The OP was talking about Postgres, if you don't know how the pitfalls of write(2), or don't know how to use mmap(2), you're going to have trouble making a database on your own.
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It's disappointing how many people say "apologies don't work". The purpose of an apology isn't to salvage your reputation, it is to help victims move forward.
Somewhere else it was pointed out that Biden has more experience in international relations than possibly any predecessor, at least if measured in years. He was dealing with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the early 1970s.
You aren't allowed a vanity plate that makes the car look newer, so 'SU51 100' (Susi) can't go on a car from before 2001. Vanity plates must fit a pattern of issue, you can't just ask for "SUSAN" (SUS 4N is from the 1970s or something though).

However, people do sometimes put older vanity plates on newer cars to hide the age.
That's easy. We don't need CVE numbers in titles. The information is trivially available to anyone who needs it.

(Submitted title was "CVE-2021–20226 a reference counting bug which leads to local privilege escalati".)
The most fun experience I've had was when I ordered a Vega fence for my tablesaw. I'm like 98% sure the guy in Illinois that I talked to is also the guy who owns the company, makes the fences, packages them, and physically walks them to the UPS store.

It was legitimately interesting to hear his perspective when I had an issue with my shipment. He literally remembered my order off the top of his head and helped troubleshoot without any sort of reference material.

Woodworkers are an odd bunch.
Good to know! When I was in school, they'd camp out for the day near the student section in the football stadium and hand out free stuff to anybody who took a card. Free gifts and big credit lines to drunk 19 year olds - bonkers.
Rent, Traveling, and entertainment seems to replace the diligence of saving in my generation.

Anecdotally, the sacrifice required -- living a draconian life of cheap groceries, awful living conditions and long commutes -- is simply not worth it to lots of millennials who instead choose to enjoy their 20s and the healthiest years of their life having a good time balancing a regular job with a relatively lavish lifestyle off of work.

The tradeoff will probably mean much later home ownership (if at all), marrying someone who has money, or inheriting property from their parents.
Yeah. I wonder why more people here aren’t mentioning that this could be used to help unmask throwaway accounts for people who usually post here with a different account.
This is what the automatic update mechanism is for (and which should be opt-in as well like an OS would do it).
This is the one thing I took with me from The Design of Everyday Things: usability design matters, and it matters a lot.
In capitalist system, if the sport league doesn't make money should the workers be paid anything more than minimum wage?
It felt organic but more FAANG centric than, say, broadly OSS centric to me.
Vegans would be in trouble. I'm eating almost only fruits and legumes, but the "animal pain" argument is a bit ridiculous (there are way better arguments like health and environment) above all with this article. Plants also have senses like touch, they feel gravity (else they wouldn't grow vertically, even in the dark)
I got the name in English wrong, it should have been Thomas.

“You believe because you see me. Great blessings belong to the people who believe without seeing me!” (John 20:24-31 )

Bringing it into the IT context, there are the visionaries that believe something is possible no matter what, and then there are those that even with stuff running in front of them cannot move beyond "yes but...".

Ironically, in the 80's in what concerns home computers and game programming, both C and C++ also belonged to the "yes but..." group.
In 2020 if you can't figure out that a white man firing a black woman for something related to race and AI is going to be a big problem for you as the head of AI for perhaps the world's most potent AI juggernaut facing increasing calls for regulatory scrutiny you really have no fucking clue what you are doing. Overall the entire situation needed to be handled far more carefully even if the outcomes were the same. He thought that because he was the boss he could do whatever the hell he wanted to, and the fact of the matter is that there are forces more powerful than him.
similarly, it renders light on black/dark grey for me in safari.
I've been using hibernate for years now. I start my computer once per month. I really wouldn't care if it takes 5 minutes.

I'm not sure why that isn't shown by default anymore. But you can still add it to the menu and map it to the power button.
How common is it for a candidate to be able to get offers from multiple FAANGs?

I would imagine it isn't common, though I could certainly be wrong.

The FAANG engineers that I know personally all seem to have cracked FAANG with a lot of difficulty, and claim that odds are they would fail if they had to re-interview for the same position.
You might want to prepend the title with "Ask HN:"; i.e.:

Ask HN: Acknowledging OSS Contributors
For a moment, I thought 'escalati' (in the title of the submission) was some kind of professional term that had so far evaded me. It sounds pretty elegant. But of course, the title was just cut off. Almost disappointing.
If they can't make money to pay athletes, maybe they do not deserve to survive. We don't subsidise aspiring people in most other fields, why should sports be any different.
True, but having a vaccine also doesn't mean you are immune.
Can someone please define 'metaverse' in the context of... whatever this article is about?

Like jfc people, 'End users will experience the metaverse through the default device delivered experience.' sounds like the most doublespeakiest doublespeak ever to have been written.

I love tech and this lofty shit makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Speak plainly and simply, folks.
>0.3 MB/s read/write to brand new HDD on W10
>Disk usage 100%

It's a conspiracy.
It runs on more modern hardware.

And has more adware!