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> To play devil's advocate, having a standardized process for all candidates has some benefits. I've witnessed otherwise stellar candidates with amazing open source contributions absolutely bomb coding interviews. Real "write a function that does X" in whatever language you're comfortable with and whatever tools or resources you want. Simple stuff.

I'm not sure if you're playing devil's advocate very well here, because this suggests to me that the interview process did not work well. Do you want to hire someone who can write a binary tree insertion in 30 minutes, or someone who can make amazing contributions to real software projects?

> So yeah maybe the Big O stuff is lame, but sometimes it's also a filter for entitlement on the behalf of the candidate. Hiring isn't hard, but it's not easy.

My point wasn't that hiring is easy or even that programming quizzes do not have a part in interviews. It is the level of contempt that some of these companies and their recruiters and hiring processes show to people.

To be fair I did open myself up to it having responded to an unsolicited message, but I always try to politely decline if I get a message from a real person. They responded with something interesting and hooked me to agree to a call. I made it clear I was not interviewing for any position, and again while on the actual call I declined the Big O question. It just shows they were perfectly happy to send out probably mass spams and waste people's time, but were not willing to even read what I wrote or listen to me, or worse they did and decided they'd just ignore what I said anyway.

My point is treating people like people, not like bycatch in your drag net. Simple stuff.
Uh, use a light meter? Your comment assumes that that only way to assess the presence of light is with your eyes.
What basic phone did you switch to? I ended up getting a cellular Apple watch because it’s “smart” enough but no distraction apps (unless you count iMessage)
> I have converted excel spreadsheets built over years to SQL, and typically it did not take weeks to do that.

The "years" of work are typically not for implementing the spreadsheet, but to define what it does. The requirements evolve over many versions.

Of course it's fast to re-implement it after all the work to define the requirement is done, but it's only possible because Excel allowed all those prototypes.
All PIs always call for more research. Its another way of saying I need more funds.
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>progress of a civilization is efficiency with which ideas can be communicated

While I agree, isn’t the flip side of this that _bad_ ideas can be much more efficiently communicated as well? I know the counter is that the best remedy for bad information is better information but at least when poor ideas are amplified by human cognitive biases, is transmission efficiency a good measure of progress?
Most people don’t know what cryptography is let alone RSA keys. Hints why I mentioned steganography. But I was mostly spit balling here, you aren’t wrong.
Sadly, not really. The last time I looked the only thing I could really find was commercial grade TVs.
That's like saying it's only their house because we allow them to own a house. Or, those are their children because we allow them to keep their children and not assign them to the state.

It's as if in lawless lands with tribal warfare suddenly people don't earn a living.
>deeply associated dense, urban environments are with random violence and crime

It's true that people think this, but it's not true in reality. Many people who don't live in cities believe in the 1980s TV and movie version of cities because they're afraid of anything new or diverse.
The West has money to build drainage networks. The most of Asia, doesn't.
Looking at the comments here right now, it seems like "don't build in valleys" is the new "but humans didn't cause it" which was the new "climate change is a hoax."

The thing is, in the case of Germany at least, the reason people built there is because it hadn't flooded in those places in nearly a thousand years. That's why it's called a 500-year flood (due to the probability of it occurring.) They would have been washed away long ago if that weren't the case.

I didn't follow the weather running up to or the analysis following the flooding in Henan but in Germany the flooding was caused by a dense low pressure system hanging around too long and there seems to be consensus that this was caused by the disruption of the jet stream and increased temperatures.

We're not going to solve climate change by blaming people for living in the wrong place.
Well, I am not an Apple devotee, either; moreover, my impression has been that, unlike IBM or Microsoft or Sun, neither Apple itself nor any of its products have so far made any impact on my life or work whatsoever. I may well be wrong, but I am not even sure if anything was much different had Apple never existed in the first place.
I'm convinced that suburbia is popular enough that it would survive pretty well without government intervention, just not indefinitely in the same locations.
So they are stellar candidates with amazing contributions. Yet they can't do your whiteboard questions.

So, are you trying to hire someone who will make stellar contributions to your codebase or are you looking for candidates who are good at answering dumb questions?
China’s space station is preparing to host 1k scientific experiments
It's because China isn't white. So people first look for explanations how it's about them not being proper white protestants and doing it all wrong.

Here in the Netherlands we always had this problem and we engineered around it. We were prepared for a once in a 100 year event (based on models on the 90'ties). Our current calculations however suggest this will happen once every couple of years now.

It is the reason we have 0 casualties thus far. But all those investments we made only made economic sense in the assumption it would solve the problem for a very long time..

It looks like to prevent property damage (and the emotional price of not feeling safe in your own house) we would need to spend that money again and again. Unclear if it will be enough, because the as a society we lost the ability to predict the climate changes . It's too chaotic now. We need more datapoints
The tables turn if you consider ownership of your app settings and internal data

On Android it is locked down in an inaccessible /data partition, unless rooted. (Ignoring /sdcard and the iOS equivalent Files app)

On iOS you can access almost the entire filesystem via extracting iTunes backups. You can freely dig into app internal database, files, message history, etc. You can even edit these backups and restore them, allowing full write access
History isn't always written by the victors. Often, it's written by the losers, who spend time dwelling on it.

The most prominent example is the American Civil War, where great effort was made to propagandize it as The Lost Cause. But other examples include German histories of World War I and Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War.

The Onion made a joke out of it, but in a sense it really is an example that the history of rock was written by the losers.

https://www.theonion.com/history-of-rock-written-by-the-lose...
I got few notifications yesterday for our golang projects. I was pleased to see less noisy alerts as compared to React based UI we have. It is terrible to say the least for npm projects.

Would love to know if dependabot creates noisy alerts for other languages too.
I’m tempted to be flippant and dismiss the whole idea, but the author’s explanation are interesting. I did keto for about 3 years, at first to lose some extra belly fat, and then to manage my narcolepsy. It’s a really tough lifestyle, sort of like being vegan but with far less dining options. You become that weird friend who can’t just go out for a slice of pizza, or even eat some cake at a birthday party.

Strange enough, I’m older now and most foods with refined carbs give me issues like bad sleep or abdominal cramps. The idea of eating a croissant in the morning is a bit horrifying! Will it put me in a food coma, or will I have brain fog until the evening?

Does anyone else get this?
This person... so much talk about convenience of payment, and a total misunderstanding of why goverments want CBDC. And she call herself a PhD? And no word about the threat of CBDC.
If the fathers are bad at sex and relationships maybe doing nothing and hoping for the best is the right idea?
Man, I've been wanting for this for YEARS!
Can anyone explain the "We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship" expression? I understand the overall point of the article, but I'm having trouble parsing the last paragraph, where he seems to assume that one reading of that expression is somehow obvious. Is it the ship that's ephemeral, or the iceberg? (It seems like a reference to the Titanic, and at least in my mind, both the Titanic and the iceberg were ephemeral.)
I'll never understand it. If you look at the places that suburbanites visit - the vacations they take, none of those places look like the ones they live in. Paris. Manhattan. Smaller locations like Niagara Falls still represents a level of age and density far beyond suburbia.

Heck, even Vegas represents a level of density when you think about the fact that nobody's visiting the sprawl.

It's like we know what nice places look and feel like, but choose to build the exact opposite because of parking convenience.
> As a candidate, I landed a FANG job early in my career almost exclusively on the basis of my (poor quality) tech blog attracting the attention of a recruiter.

I would be careful attributing this to your blog or thinking that wouldn't have contacted you if you hadn't had a blog. I've never had a blog, live in the midwest, haven't contributed to my Github repos in years, and I don't even work as an engineer anymore (I've switched into product management), and yet I still get the occasional recruiter email from Amazon, Facebook, and even Google. Recruiters cast a VERY wide net because most people don't respond to their emails. I'm not saying I would necessary be qualified for any of these jobs, but merely haven't a recruiter reach out to you doesn't mean much.
Yeah, that sound right to me, but OP used vintage and retro interchangeably, I didn't really think too hard about it.
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C++ is the most popular programming language.
It overtook Python in the number of active developers this month:
https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?utf8=%E2%9C%93&mea...

It's share of developers has been growing since early 2013, when C++11 began to be widely available, and more recent revisions have apparently boosted its growth.
I did mention that I don’t have a problem with them altering the results as they see fit, I just think it would be ethical to mention that they have done so.
Wouldn't power cycling your bulbs like that lower their longevity?
Beyond what other people list here:

- Hugh Howey. His Silo series is worth a read. He published it in some episodic form. However, I'd recommend just getting the whole thing. Beacon 23 is a bit shorter and also nice.

- Ramez Naam. His nexus series is a decent series. Not the best written but I enjoyed it.

- James S.A. Corey, the expanse series. Makes you appreciate the tv series more.

- Authors others already mentioned: Neal Stephenson & Peter Watts.

Other authors that go more in the direction of space opera: Iam M. Banks, Ernest Cline, John Scalzi, Ann Lecky, Richard K. Morgan (Altered Carbon).
the larger cities have been on a trajectory like what you describe - it’s difficult to increase density, home owners are resistant to it, but it happens gradually anyway.

but in small cities, there’s just too much empty space available. people just build further and further out from the old city center, so they can have their giant houses and enormous yards.

my state, Oregon, has a concept of an “Urban Growth Boundary” which is a zoning rule meant to reduce sprawl, and it helps somewhat. But generally people in the smaller cities vote to keep density very low.
> A simple question. Is there any reason not to put a Fed backed stablecoin on Ethereum and the other major blockchains? Even if you're crypto-skeptical, what is the downside?

Without a substantial benefit that advances the Federal Reserve's core mission, there would seem to be no reason to do it. "Why not?" is one approach, and a perfectly valid one! It's perhaps often not how central banks approach decisions though.
Great points, I will definitely look at the solar value deflation data, thanks. Your conclusion may be mine as well, I just want to understand the tech and market well enough to be able to make a good decision when it is time to jump in.
> And she call herself a PhD?

You don't call yourself anything. You either have a PhD, or you don't. It's not conditional on having ideas others agree on or being 100% correct.
I've been using Process Street for a year or so. It's not exactly simple.
Personally, I'd prefer to pay up front for a machine that offers all this performance that I will own and can do whatever I'd like with for years instead of renting. I lean towards this for most things (housing is a bit different because of the size of the purchase). A computer isn't the kind of thing I wouldn't be sure of it's use to me, so I'd definitely pay up front, get better specs, and save money within a year.

If this didn't have the minimum hours of usage, the concept would be neat if you only spend 8 hours a week in some intensive software. That would be a great use IMO. I bet there are already a handful of those offerings though.
Absolutely, and it's set up this way on purpose by people who believe that filing taxes should be as painful and difficult as possible so people associate the idea of taxes with the artificially difficult process. It doesn't have to be this way, the rest of us are just held hostage by anti-tax zealots.
This looks very similar to the argument that there's no problem with black-box DNN-based algorithms making important decisions about people, because humans are also black boxes and their explanations are just after-the-fact rationalizations.

To which I counter: yes, humans are black boxes too. But they're all similar black boxes. We all share the same brain architecture, the same firmware. We have specialized hardware in our brains to simulate each other, predict other people's reactions. This is what allows us to work in groups and form societies.

Additionally, as societies, we've learned to force predictability on each other. In the past, high-variance individuals - ones that are too unpredictable - were shunned or outright killed. Today, we isolate most severe cases from society entirely, by putting them in prisons or mental hospitals, and isolate less severe cases from high-impact responsibilities - e.g. by gating pilot licenses, driver licenses and gun permits behind various kinds of physical and mental health evaluations.

For the day-to-day needs, humans are very predictable indeed, and their explanations are good enough. We know how to compensate for unreliable introspection. That's not the case with modern machine learning - the way DNN models "think" is completely alien to us. We can't work with this. We also don't have to, those algorithms are our creations. We can make them explainable. And we need to.
I don't think John von Neumann would be particularly impressed by fusion reactors that don't really work after decades in development or papers with thousands of authors out of CERN.
There are both sweet croissants and salty croissant. More or less they are like bread
I wonder if balloon wind turbines might not be a better approach in those circumstances. You have to accept smaller blades but I'd think the other advantages would be worth it.
Please please launch this in non-US countries as well
Just because I might like to visit Disneyland doesn't mean I want to live there.
Your stupidity is unrivaled. I have seen enough floods throughout my life, I am from a city in India which is near a river basin.

That does not mean that there are not enough century-defining new floods happening in many other parts of the world.

Just saw the ones in western Europe. And you still wanna play the game of rephrasing things?

This is a personal issue now, for many people. And let me tell you - the day will come when you are either with the ones who are suffering or against. Tread with caution.
Yeah, at least in the US T-Mobile already has 5G deployed in most of their network footprint and AT&T and Verizon are quickly playing catch-up.
For my own amusement I just had a quick look at eBay and it looks like old SUN gear has got expensive since last looked.

NeXT gear has always been expensive, that doesn't seem to have changed.
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No, it wasn't lighthearted, but it wasn't vitriol, either. I touched a nerve, and got slapped.

It's cool.
> Outright famines are becoming very rare

Add climate change and the story may change a bit. Its a good thing to be better at making foods that are the backbone of (many people's) diets. We need other things too, but that doesn't make this less beneficial.
From experience, both are very good. They're also great just alone if you get them fresh.
> taller they get, the harder they will be to repair

If they’re floating couldn’t we have a mechanism to sink them to a reasonable height during repairs?

Or it wouldn’t seem to be that hard to have ships with large ladders or a crane for repairs.

(I couldn’t read the article because it’s completely paywalled.)
It's worth noting that Japan also has a depreciation-based model of housing construction, but in Japan they don't endlessly sprawl outwards - isntead they knock down the old depreciated homes and rebuild in-place. Their permissive zoning model allows this to provide intensification naturally without the kind of protracted legal and PR battles required for intensification redevelopment here we have here in North America.
How are the melons doing or is that just Hami?
Savory croissants are a thing. Ham and cheese, smoked salmon and capers, chicken salad and lettuce, egg omelet with prsto and caramelized onions, headcheese/liverwurst if you're lucky, etc.
Demographic collapse refers to population structure (number of people of each age), not total population. To take an exaggerated example to show the problem: imagine one 25 year old and 10 million 80 year olds. That society is obviously going to have huge problems. Most Western populations are trending that way (obviously much less exaggerated)
Even so, I would love recommendations that take full AR as seriously.
The blockchain is massively energy inefficient with high transaction costs. That seems like sufficient reason not to put actual economic transactions on the blockchain.

Regulation and criminal penalties is sufficient for dealing with the frauds of the world. The answer to Madoff wasn’t “outcompete him” it was jail.
If you ever find out how to explain it to them, let me know.
Bill suspends social networks' Section 230 protections for anti-vax conspiracies
Eyes have certainly been batted, e.g.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/whats-behind-fox-new...

I don't know the reaction among Fox News' viewers. It'll be interesting to see if vaccination rates tick up markedly in red districts.
The first US income tax was in 1861, I find it hard to believe "we got along" when we held a significant portion of the population as literal slaves.
Maybe a lot of people are struggling to get by? "Their money" represents the ability to pay for food and housing so I'm not sure it's only about wanting others to suffer, as you imply. I think it's at least partially about their own sense of security.
You're just being inflammatory. And the European floods are the same problems as well.

In the USA, every other year there's some awful looking flooding on the Mississippi or the Missouri or the Ohio, because some heavy snowmelt, or heavy rain, and then a levee breaks, and the people that built in the floodplain get swamped out. It's a thing that happens, and has always happened, and will always happen, so long as human beings build cities in floodplains.
Smithsonian is American so they translate it.
> Why

'coder' gets the point across with less syllables to stakeholders, general public etc than any other term.
It should be relatively easy to calculate the max flood height and path of a area, with a given amount of rain on google maps. Anyone know such a tool?
Yep, I know that if I chuck stuff into my synced folders it goes around my machines, onto my NAS, and then onto Backblaze.

Check it out every now and then to make sure, but it just kinda works
Have you never heard the common English expression, "It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there?"
I want this. Esp in DSLs. Bonus points for first class support for fragments and so forth.

(aka Intrinsics?)
Why didn't you write it in C?
Why you should use Suricata IDS to alert on IOCs
> such as JAR

Not to be confused with the other JAR: http://www.arjsoftware.com/jar.htm
Same. I sync my working docs between a Windows PC, a Windows laptop, and a FreeBSD NAS. It just works and that's awesome.

On Windows, SyncTrayzor is the way to go.
fairplay. thx for clarification
https://frame.work/products/laptop

> Display

> 13.5” 3:2

> 2256x1504, 100% sRGB color gamut, and >400 nit

I approve.
For most meteor impacts, the meteor itself completely vaporizes and doesn't deposit any solid chunks into the target. This is why moon craters are almost always circular despite the impacts occurring at all angles of incidence.

It seems the implication here is that the limit where the masses are comparable plays out very differently. Seems like it should be possible to estimate the hypothetical collion energy from the size of intact chunks.
They need total control. Why would they want to do that, that will make the price of ETH to skyrocket. The Fed will never run on blockchain, imagine someone guessing the private key. The Fed needs total control and this is good. All the transaction will pass through them and no one else.
Where's your bin?
"I's been on holidays"
No, No. Where's your wheelie bin?
"OK, OK, I's really been in gaol"
Would be nice too if it could run non containerized applications like Nomad can.
GitHub and Semmle
IMNSHO, the knowledge of assembler and linker is already quite specific - continuing the bread metaphor, "how many people trying to make bread from scratch have a clue about sourdough or yeast?" Yup, I have a nagging feeling that those exist and are fairly important, but how would I have to use them, not much knowledge there.

(Also, why stop at assembly - a macrolanguage, even though it strongly corresponds to a specific architecture?)
I can think of at least two potential downsides

Fear of losing control in future. For example Ethereum presently seems to be quite secure based on the potential reward of an attack vs the assets that might be deployed to attack Ethereum. But if a Fed-backed stablecoin relies on Ethereum, then a very expensive attack on Ethereum could become more attractive to an adversary. And how about the risk of an accidental coding error by Ethereum developers in a future update?

Fear of lending legitimacy to other cryptocurrencies and tokens. Their values would explode if the Fed issued an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain
Unless we choose not to use it. Our culture values growth and extraction. Other cultures have lived far longer than the period from the Industrial Revolution until now, often with higher marks of health, longevity, abundance, and prosperity without lowering their environments' ability to sustain life. Only very recently did our lifespans pass typical ones for other cultures, but in the US they're already dropping again.

We sometimes do so protect. We have national parks and protect endangered species, for example. We can do plenty more. Jevon's Paradox and rebound effects don't have to happen.