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Which is much more expensive and risky, just look at the Hubble($4.7B) failure recently, or the Kepler ($600M) failures before that. How many years (decades?) has James Webb($8.8B) telescope been in development? Ground based can't be easily replaced by space based and will leave lots of people and nations out of astronomy, which will truly be a terrible loss.
If a survival stipend competes successfully against a low-paying, high-stress, and absolutely miserable job conditions then the problem isn't the stipend, is it?
It's even worse than the article touches on.
A lot of this article is about fast food workers, who don’t get tips.

The answer is automation, logistics and supply chain improvements so you can service more customers with fewer, but more specialized
employees who can be paid a living wage.
Exactly. This is not about tips, it's about waiter salary being too close to free money to stay at home. We are seeing this problem with waiters at other countries too, where employees are paid "full salary" and tipping is not even a thing.
Adobe's "Press Release" [1]:

> Better with Blender, together: Adobe partners with Blender on development fund and new plugins

> [...]

> First, I am thrilled to announce that we’re joining the Blender Development Fund to help ensure the longevity and success of this dynamic open-source community. Additionally, we are going to help creators work with the best of Adobe right in Blender by launching two new plugins — Substance 3D [2] in Blender and Mixamo Auto-Control Rig Plugin [3] for Blender (both now available, in beta).

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All in all, these plugins sound like marketplaces for Shaders and Animation Curves, respectively

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[1] https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/07/20/blender-develop...

[2] https://www.substance3d.com/

[3] https://www.mixamo.com/
I agree with the parent's post FWIW. However, there is a strong tendency in mainstream thought to have great deference to "the People", however you define it. The voice of the People is the voice of God, in fact. So for a person to claim that well off people turned to radical thought out of boredom and ignorance might be correct, but would be considered not just outlandish, as you put it, but outright heresy.

It's not just the UK. It's the US and every other place. Trump wins 46% of the popular vote in 2016 and suddenly there's a deluge of think pieces about how people are hurting and what not. Yeah maybe. But there's a lot of folks out there who love voting for a guy who "triggers libs" and normalizes pussy grabbing. And we're not allowed to say this, because again, it's heresy in a democracy to imply that a large segment of voters could be ignorant or stupid or racist.

Another example, this time with vaccines. One person decides not to get a life saving vaccine because he was duped by misinformation online - he's an idiot. 30% of the population swallow the same bullshit - they have valid concerns that we need to empathise with and assuage. If they choose not to get vaccinated, we have to accept their choice. We shouldn't require vaccine passports because it would hurt their feelings and their ability to transmit diseases to their fellow citizens.
Came here to post this. Love re re re reading this book.
Go on a cruise and spend some time people watching. People can be awful.
Perhaps the industry is not sustainable then.
It isn't ever a good idea. C programmers are just supposed to know about the conversion and promotion rules, every time they add a line, even though the rules are actually insanely complicated. Compiler warnings can't overcome this because programmers have no way of just discovering one of GCC's 726 warning flags, only a few of which are enabled by -Wall and -Wextra, most of which are way too noisy to serve a useful purpose.
Restaurant work sucks, it's not tipping's fault. I don't work nearly as hard as a software developer compared to when I was a waiter or cook. Software development is lower stress most of the time too.
It’s more like two variables pointing to an uninitialized value that’s lazily randomly generated on dereference. And copy-on-write.

Edit: OP edited their original comment to be more accurate.
It's not really immutable as you can change the parameters of an entangled pair. You just can't communicate any information by doing so, because you need a classical signal to make sure you don't read one of the particles the wrong way.
Re: JH APL, also, there's the Space Telescope Institute, which will be running the James Webb Space Telescope.
I prefer the one where they didnt find WMDs in Iraq despite constantly finding mustard gas and sarin munitions.
I generally agree with you, but we don't have a better term, and it's not completely wrong. I think you have to consider it as something of a homonym. The people who drive trains are also called "engineers", after all, though their job has nothing to do with engineering in either the software-engineering sense or the civil/mechanical/electrical engineering sense.
I like the trend we're seeing towards privacy and proxying, especially if DDG is really lean about logging. They say they strip out all content and headers.

The article is sweet, although one thing I noticed, putting price/discount call-to-actions in an example image like that makes it less clear that the service is free.
Aren't they building a tunnel through it, for conventional rail of course.
while overly cynical, yes, term limits do have such adverse effects. perhaps we could rather have yearly (electronic) reconfirmation votes (negative result triggers a full election), fixed publicly-funded campaign budgets (with temp staff completely separate from governance staff), and a rejection of corporate influence (i.e., citizens united) in elections. that would still hold politicians accountable to the people (not corps), but not impose hard and somewhat arbitrary limits.
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Use Photoshop. Look I appreciate that astronomers, whether professional or hobbyists, may be inconvenienced by more satellites. But the odds that the public/governments will prioritize this over potentially much better rural broadband connectivity is approximately zero.
What is there to do for tech work in seacoast NH? (And why would you leave?)
I don't think higher wages alone will do it.

Profit sharing, on the other hand...
Ably CTO here. Well that went well ...

1) The realtime service and website are different things. The blog post is talking about the service, which has been continuously available.

2) Oops, the website fell over. We'll fix that. Thanks for all the advice :)
A lot of people won't switch to Linux for specifically these programs as they use them in their daily lives or for work. Just availability would promote the growth of Linux and while not 100% supporting open source in a purist sense it would be a welcome way for normal users to get their feet wet.
I don't think HSR is the future, personally. It's too centralized and inflexible, compared to flying. Any metro can plop an airport down and get some cheap routes out, and as planes get cheaper and maybe electrify, you can scale up and down routes and capacity by deploying more planes. Even laying a single HSR line is a multi billion dollar endeavor, and still doesn't solve the vast majority of actual routes. Just look at the airport departure board at any airport -- even small ones -- direct to a dozen cities hundreds or even thousands of miles away. That's never going to be achievable with rail without laying down tens of thousands of miles of rail.
It doesn’t matter if it only happens occasionally. It’s completely inappropriate for C, which has no implicit memory allocation. There’s not even a clear way to include implicit allocation in the semantics of C.
Asking to learn - ex-Algo here. May I ask where else ratios are represented. Thanks and all the best for your launch. Very useful service.

From experience, I would suggest you have way for the manager of a fund or a desk or a bank, to see the usefulness. You will have good pull from the line staff, but selling to the managers is the hard part.
Inexpensive/inconsequential mistakes simply enable bigger mistakes to be made. Systems grow more complicated as long as they're allowed to.

You can recompile a syntax error, but even in software, you can't back track on things like choice of language / tech stack / architectural design decisions without wasting millions of dollars.

For traditional industries, there's (presumably) some best practice or de-facto standard for many things, since most things have already been invented in the past.

For software, you have contradicting best practices with people arguing convincingly both ways. Everybody has their favorite tech stack and some end up being fads. New technologies come out every couple years, and if your project is successful enough and runs long enough, you either get stuck with old tech or spend millions of dollars figuring out an upgrade path. Sometimes the "upgrade" is actually another fad, but sometimes the upgrade is crucial to your future business.

Not sure whether these things fall under "engineering" but I don't think it's inherently less "hard" than what traditional engineers do. Sure your junior dev is not going to do this, but people who make these decisions are often called software engineers ("senior", "lead", whatever).
Those measures are expiring, or already have expired in many places. It'll be interesting to see how many people come back.

There are also high numbers of people retiring and lots of alternative low-skill job options these days. Many people are changing careers upwards as well. Lots of well-paying employers are also short on labor. COVID was a catalyst for many to reevaluate their job situation.
I meant non-philanthropic stuff. What billionaires choose to splurge their money on.
Ought to move any small, self-contained dynamic sections to something loaded by JS, with failure allowed without (user-facing) complaint. Or kick it old-school and use an iframe.

Then again, most orgs have a ton of stuff they ought to do and haven't gotten around to. You just hope it doesn't bite you quite so publicly and ironically as this.
Of course people only put up with it because they had no better option.

The question is, should we force people to take the option of "low pay, no benefits, rude customers"? If those jobs are really the only alternative to the gov't paying workers, then do we as a society think the correct option is "low pay, no benefits, rude customers"?

To me, it seems like the options should be "restaurants provide a reasonable employment" or "we don't have restaurants". One way to do this would be to make laws that force restaurants to do certain things (min wage, benefits, etc). Another option (and a much more "free market" option) is to provide competitive benefits from the gov't and let restaurants compete with that.

Either way, if we as a society aren't willing to pay enough to eat at a restaurant such that the restaurants can provide reasonable employment terms then we should maybe rethink how restaurants fit into our society.
In Germany, and presumably many other countries, "engineer" is a job title that requires a certain degree. As in, you need to have such and such degree if you want to advertise yourself as an engineer.

The B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science are actually amongst those degrees that allow you to call yourself an engineer. If I remember correctly, my diploma specifically says "This diploma permits you to use the job title 'engineer'." (loosely translated).

Of course, the legal definitions are unrelated to whether or not it's sensible to use that title. Honestly, I think it depends on the kind of programming you're doing. If you're designing new systems, for example, it seems to fit.
There isn't really an "explanation" for quantum entanglement. It is a fundamental property of the universe, arguably the fundamental property of the universe. But the Right Way to think about it IMHO is this: the quantum wave function is not defined over physical space, it is defined over configuration space. A wave function defined over physical space is a special case that pertains when you are dealing with a system consisting of a single particle, in which case physical space and configuration space are the same. But as soon as you add a second particle, this physical intuition breaks down.

You might also want to read this:

https://flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
So one thing I've seen very little of, but have written (to great success), is basically a wordpress/etc scraper. I was lucky in that the site was fully crawlable, but it meant that the non-technical website editors could edit things easily using a CMS, and then when they were ready, someone could deploy to prod. A CI pipeline would then crawl the site, saving all the generated static files, diff them, and upload only the parts that had changed.

It meant that we -never- had naked requests hitting the underlying CMS, so our security footprint there was miniscule (to access it you'd need to already be in the network), there was no chance of failure (i.e., even with a caching layer, a bunch of updates and enough traffic could lead to a spike hitting the CMS, and in fact, if there was a bad edit in the CMS that lead to part of the site being malformed, the crawler would die, alerting us to the bad edits before going live), and we could host using any static site/CDN we wanted to, with the only downside being deploys took a while. Even that downside we could have worked around, if we'd wanted to get into the CMS internals enough to track modifications; we just really didn't want to.
From what I recall, OF really took off in the porn world when Patreon banned adult content.
It doesn’t take a lot of rude customers to really ruin your day. Even a 5% rate of toxic customers will weigh on your emotions heavily, given the outsized impact they can have. And the rate might be much higher than 5%.
If nothing else this should be clear already from these past years. Very few journalist has the kind of absolutely maniacal approach to understanding the world, placing a particular story in it and then effectively communicating it that would be required for blindly trusting a paper of record.

I don't think that the typical view of Gell-Mann amnesia is correct. I think there are issues, topics that are pretty much reliably communicated. Probably local issues, politics, and maybe that's it. Everything else that requires deeper context just gets at least one thing wrong. How wrong is of course an important question, and is usually paper and journalist dependent. (But for example anything involving economics, psychology, AI, the sciences... are suspect.)
If we followed your line of thinking, we’d never have Doom. You’re just unabashedly proposing a plutocracy.
The terrible customers are rare. Maybe 1% of the public. However when you service 200 people you will have an ~80% chance to run into at least one terrible customer. If you don't feel protected or supported this can be soul crushing. Even worse if you come home to poverty.
1) True - but was 'sovereignty ceded'? By legislative vote? Referendum? Treaty?

Not so much. It was 'ceded' when the ECJ 'took' the power. 'Ceding' wasn't a vote or referendum, it was more or less recognizing the ECJ's power grab. Justices in the national courts started 'recognizing' the ruling, and because France has a weird constitutional basis in 1958 which recognizes treaties above their own law ... ECJ becomes the supreme court.

Nobody voted for it. There was no specific legislation. There was no specific treaty. It just happened like legal dominos falling over one another after a niche court ruling.

In Germany, we are not really sure what the situation is. The Germans said that their federal court could 'review' ECJ rulings, but never did. So what is the legal standing? Well the FCC (Germany) finally did take an ECJ case to task in 2020 and now ECJ Supremacy will be tested.

It's basically crazy that in 2021 nobody really knows who the Supreme Court is in Europe and in what areas. Here is the case. [1]

By the way - the French recognition of ECJ rulings depends on reciprocity, meaning, they only respect the rulings if the other states do. If Germany decides that it's courts have jurisdiction in Germany ... then this puts France's recognition of ECJ in jeopardy. (They did a constitutional review 20 years ago and had to ensure this 'reciprocity' which will be called into question by this Germany 2020 FCC case.)

It's basically kind of absurd that there is this much ambiguity in one of the major pillars of liberal democracy.

2) Yes, as you point out, the ECJ specific areas, but notably, the 'The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union' is a vague, and therefore very widely scoping document. In Canada, after the introduction of such a charter, a whole host of laws where overthrown and the Supreme Court changes their minds about things and do as they please with vague wording such as 'freedom of expression and conscience' etc.. So this brings up some complicated questions for the EU as well on this. Rulings on this charter can delve into anything.

[1] https://www.clydeco.com/en/insights/2020/05/germanys-federal...
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or automate 99% of the business and free these poor souls from a mundane existence. Also, I think we should support them w/ safety net (see basically andrew yang's platform).

I don't see anyone screaming about ditch digging jobs or dishwashers saying we should "save those jobs!" . Backhoes and automatic dishwashers have freed people from meaningless work. We should do the same for everything we can. There's a stereotype of struggling artists working at fast food/coffee shops, imagine how much better human life could be if we freed them to do their real work (the arts).
Will see how Elon's 100 of Starships per year will affect costs of transport to space.
Perhaps it would be more useful to you to ask a better question.

It sounds like you're seeking to have somebody reaffirm for you that you were right all along and you don't need to change anything. The is that apologies, by themselves, don't mean anything, and of course they don't work.

Because the goal of "work" is what's messed up -- putting in the minimal effort to avoid a problem and keep doing what you were doing.

The real questions are harder. What went wrong? Why? Who has a problem? What can I do to actually fix the issue? Even if you don't perceive it as being your issue.

Because that's a lot of the core here: people have a problem and they resent that you get to completely disconnect and make it all about them. Public apologies come into play when people step into it and want to step back out -- which they often can't do, because they can't give up being black/female/trans/whatever.

And that's not your fault, and your faux pas didn't make it substantially worse in and of itself. But if you're hoping that you can get out of it as easily as you got into it... that's where you're really stepping in it.

Trying to "generalize" is exactly the opposite of what you need to be doing at that point. There are no magic words, because words don't make the real problem go away.

There won't be an easy way out -- pretty much by design. I certainly can't give you a formula for it. Probably "ignore it and wait for it to go away" is the most likely route, since in the end you probably can wait it out. But if you ponder why that is the real reason they're angry, you might choose a different, more difficult path. Which isn't at all about the apology -- though it probably incorporates that too.
I can tell something from a POV of a webcam.
My ex-girlfriend was a webcam model on the biggest website (chatur), and she was successful. It was even before the rising and growth of OF, somewhere around 2017.

She was happy with her job, and as I know, she is still satisfied with the money she gets from it. Usually, it's around $500-1000 and even $2-3k for one day of work.
It's happened because we live in a poor country where it's hard to find a job even with a degree, so you need to survive somehow. And we were younger and more naive.

Anyway, the thing is that she was part of the community of webcam models, and most of them working 4-8 hours a day and got around $300-500 in a week. Most of the money goes to 5% of models that appear on the first page.

It's a super competitive job, and your only way is to find regular customers who will visit all your streams to tip and talk about random things. There was an old dude who takes private and talked about his daughter and family issues. He was lonely and just want to speak anonymously to someone.

But there are also real creeps, one of them even somehow found out where we live and our city and travel here (to Eastern Europe from Korea) to report my ex to the police. He demands that she must have sex with him if she wants that to stop.
He was nice to her, and everything was fine, but one day she rejects his request (some crazy fetish things), and he goes mad, and all that happened.
You're right. The most significant fans are also the ones who go apeshit when something goes wrong for them, and it's scary to think about people like that and what they can do to break someone's life.
At one of my former jobs, we had a tipping system where we took 15% off the top.

We stored every transaction and user in a graphDB. It was fun seeing normal flows, until you see the money laundering flows show up.

It was above my pay grade to deal with them, so I still don't know how that turned out.
> I found it annoying, even a bit insulting, that they kept referring to the people in the capsule as "astronauts".

This is all about poking at Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic cleared 80km, which is the height that earns you astronaut wings in the USA. Blue Origin clears the Kármán line (100km), which is the internationally recognized standard for human spaceflight. So they're digging in hard on, "Jeff Bezos has been to space, Richard Branson hasn't," in an effort to imply that Virgin Galactic's flight from earlier this month doesn't count, theirs is the real first.
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Yeah but the banking products are provided by a wholly owned subsidiary (savings accounts and loans) and a partner company (checking accounts and debit cards), both of which are banks. The products are indeed offered by banks owned or partnered with Square, but not directly by Square, Inc. itself.
I wonder what’s the optimal max speed considering the increasing cost of building it vs the utility of time saved. It seems higher speeds have higher utility for longer distances as the travel time dominates over boarding/disembarkation times.
This is interesting, but is there a version that compiles the examples somewhere?
I was thinking a retrofit of existing rails as well as an eminent-domain type acquisition of the land.
as·tro·naut
/ˈastrəˌnôt/

noun
a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.

They were trained, and they traveled in a spacecraft.

This is such a historical moment and this is what people are focusing on?

What difference does it really make to you or to anyone? Who the hell really cares?

And this is the top comment here. Come on people. Enjoy things for a change.
The Times is known for much worse.

E.g., throughout 43's two terms, the stories were always whatever vice-43 or his enablers insisted was true, and never that vice-43 and his enablers were known to be lying when they said it. It is what got us mired in Iraq.

When a public figure expresses what is factually true or false, and is in fact false, it is actual news that they are doing that. That is the "lede": Public Official Openly Lying to Public. It is not surprising that they do, but it is still news when they do it, and in the public interest to get on record. What they are lying about is trivial except insofar as it reveals that they are trying to draw our attention away from something else.

Finding what that something else is would be a useful activity for a reporter.