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Why do we have violent criminals? Also, there actually aren't that many versus say gun sales.

Can we push the number of violent criminals to 0? Maybe not, but we could greatly reduce the numbers with more intelligent social policies (in the US or Canada, say). The wild-west mentally and the fact that it has been co-opted by certain political groups actually leads to more crime and more fear (which sells guns and regressive politics).

What if no one lived in a state or neighbourhood so shitty that they felt the need to arm up? What if they had not been indoctrinated since birth with a wild-west mentality that linked gun-ownership to freedom?

The "only criminals will have weapons" argument is a really low-quality surface-level distraction from getting to grips with problems we could actually solve.
Different people review resumes differently. Here's my take:

Important questions for me include: Can they build things? Do they have enough experience dealing with real-world deployments to avoid common pitfalls? Do they care about the domain? How long will they stick around?

You're correct that they're going to be of the most help early on, because they demonstrate real-world experience with production software. It's a great sign you'll be able to take a vaguely-specified user need and get something valuable done in production. But even more senior resumes sometimes still leave me wondering if they've worked at sufficiently big/bureaucratic places.

Assuming your resume demonstrates competence without the projects, then yes, they could just as easily count against you as for you.

If the project is one that's related to the domain and/or the tech stack, that's a positive sign that you're interested in what we're actually doing, and so joining us would give you something you could be very engaged in.

Otherwise, I'm going to be concerned that we're going to have to compete for your time and attention with your side project. That this is a day job you're just doing until the side project takes off. I might hire somebody like that, but one of the things I think about when hiring is ROI on my time, so if I can get somebody as good who is likely to focus better and stay longer, I'll hire them instead.

The particular side projects you list are of the kind that would be most concerning to me. They look like attempts to build actual businesses. And you have two of them going at once, which is a bad sign: if you can't focus on one of your commercial projects long enough to make is successful, maybe you won't focus on your actual job either. And there's something cold and unappealing about both of them to me. They are trying to compete with full commercial sites and prominently say they're the best, but when I try them out it doesn't seem that way.

In contrast, the kind of side project that I'd react positively to in more senior engineers is one that demonstrates competence without looking like it will be competitive, and bonus points if it's related to the domain somehow. Modest open-source projects, for example. Twitter bots. Niche Twilio apps. Small, fun services like mcbroken.com or typelit.io.

To me things like that indicate enjoyment of the work, a desire to create things, and an interest in serving users, all positive traits. But they do so without giving me questions about whether they employee will be able to focus on what they're getting paid for.
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This is true at least in part due to the monetization of mindfulness, as a previous poster stated. The import of mindfulness into western culture strictly as a tool to manage stress has turned it into a cure all for general audiences.

There are certainly risks. A long retreat may exacerbate existing psychopathologies like depression due to the extended isolation.

I'd liken meditation to something like exercise. Exercise is good in general, but you still have to manage and work around injuries. I wouldn't suggest you walk 5 miles with a sprained ankle. And so it is with meditation.

But yes, I also figure this isn't talked about enough - especially in the context of mindfulness as a product.
That's the sort of brilliance of Microsoft's approach...Teams doesn't have to be better, it just has to be good enough, and only good enough in the eyes of the procurement teams.

Leadership folks buy O365 because it's the cheapest way to get Office, Sharepoint, Exchange and so on. Enterprise Teams comes with it whether you want it or not, "no extra charge".

Then, when someone wants Slack, the discussion becomes "We already have Teams. I see Slack does x and y a little better, but is that worth X dollars?".
Agreed, but that is not exactly difficult to do. Teams is a total dumpster fire.
Yes. Resume is an instrument for getting through a fairly unintelligent filter so probably nobody will even notice that these were side projects at the resume filtering stage. Be prepared to answer interview questions about how you have sufficient spare time to work on two projects at once though.
As someone with kids and side projects, I have doubts about "not having time".

I could do 2 hours of productivity after the kids go to sleep and I'd still have 2 hours for entertainment. I exercise too.

So let's make it even more reasonable. How about 30 minutes, 4 times a week?

>Meaningful progress

So then do an hour or 2? I make progress in 30 minutes and sometimes keep going. If the point is for a resume, you could even do a 1 or 2 week sprint.

I suppose you could even work on it while the kids are awake. My kids love Alphablocks.

If you don't have a personal side project, the issue isn't children. It's desire.
But the thing is that Vulkan isn't the lowest possible hardware interface, it's still built on top of a virtual GPU abstraction which matches some GPUs better than others. There's a ton of compromises to accomodate mobile GPUs for instance. The only realistic way to achieve the goal of an actually low-level API is to have one API per major GPU architecture, and to create new APIs when new GPU architectures emerge. Attempts to abstract over radically different GPU architectures will never result in an actually explicit low-level API.
Several things have excess costs amounting to 5-10% of the total. The whole reason it's so hard to fix this problem is that there isn't one source of excess or unnecessary expenses. Insurance? "Well, sure, but that's only 5-10% of the cost". Other admin? "Well sure, but that's only 5-10% of the cost". Too-high doctor salaries? "Well sure..." and so on.

Taking the per-capita admin costs from ~$1600 to a closer-to-normal ~$600 is a major win. It is not negligible. Further, all the data have shown so far is that admin costs aren't under 15% of the total. More categories of admin costs (any from health care providers that aren't hospitals, notably) still lurk somewhere in that inpatient/outpatient care block.
As a non-Tesla electric vehicle owner, all of the charging stations that i've used have given me nothing but anxiety. Equipment isn't always working, all kinds of different payment systems, etc... As a non-Tesla owner I would be happy to use Tesla's network. I would imagine if I was a Tesla owner, I would be unhappy to hear that now the networks is going to be busier.
Canada does it that way too. But credit card / bank card transactions still use pennies cause why not. Hasn’t seem to have been a problem there and I didn’t even notice the last time I was there.
It's not a border crisis. It's a climate crisis
I'm not saying security is impossible, just that there are trade offs especially as you try to approach some mythical "perfection."
This is as good an explanation as I’ve ever heard. Seems silly though given the maintenance that already takes place with respect to lawn mowing. If trees are the concern then why not large fabric sails? The park equipment is super pricey to begin with so I can’t imagine we are taking huge extras.
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No. I'M by no means saying nor implying that.
I'm saying tax should not be taken away from people to fund agencies. Businesses are free to do a good or bad job at managing their security posture. And if it is a bad job they are very likely to pay the consequences. The market is fine regulating itself in the long term. Agencies and regulation rather create obstacles and biases.
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Just would like to note that if you use something like this do your own security audits and keep your own repositories or this could be an easy attack vector
Assuming they're modern vehicles - yes you can charge them with the same cable. But that isn't CCS.

CCS is two chargers in one - Type-2 and DC.

The Type-2 / Mennekes connector which provides AC charging at a variety of speeds is available on just about ever charging station I've seen.

CCS adds two-pin DC to the bottom of the Type-2 port.

If your car has CCS, you can charge from either Type-2 or CCS cables.

If your car only has a Type-2 port, you can only use a Type-2 cable.

At home, you'll only be charging via AC. Typically, you'll install a charger which either has a fixed Type-2 cable, or a Type-2 port into which you insert your own cable.

Hope that makes sense!
Every high level programming language fits the same description. So that in itself is not inherently bad.

My problem with this product is selling you the idea that you can evade the responsibility of properly managing your AWS account.
The Fourier Transform (FT) is a linear operator. A Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) can produce a spectrogram of the instantaneous frequency, phase, and amplitude at a given time. Uncertainty that exists in lower dimensional linear systems can vanish in higher dimensional non-linear systems of mathematics. When Maxwell said there are no rules, this is what he had in mind.
They had already announced the retirement of Hipchat long before they made their deal with Slack. They agreed to stop development of their Slack competitor named Stride. IMO Stride had a lot of potential.
Thanks. Ive been trying to make it intuitive without leaning on tutorials because most people dont do them. The advantage over sheets is that knotend lays out the flowchart for you and is purpose built to be a flowchart editor.
Clickbait. TensorFlow depends on NumPy < 1.20. When TensorFlow is installed, pip downgrades NumPy to required version.
Satoshi Nakamoto (i.e., Adam Back) used 2, but now uses 1.

You can observe the change over time in his posts here:

https://marc.info/?a=93329163600001&r=1&w=2
Thank you! We are actually considering Edinburgh as we visited two years and just loved it.
I hope that case study is taught in business schools. That Microsoft did such a bad job is stunning to me.

And Teams is darn near unusable due to interface weirdness, but Windows 11 integration gives me hope that this problem can be fixed.
> The only question is: why is Tesla seemingly giving up this "moat"?

Right now only about 2% of US new car sales are electric. In that small pond Tesla is the big fish, with something like 90% of that market. In the overall new car market, though, Tesla is a guppy.

Over the next decade or two, that overall market is likely to become more and more electric, with at some point ICE cars becoming the niche product instead of the other way around.

Will Tesla be a big fish in that future US new car market? I wouldn't bet on it. They arguably currently have the best electric drivetrain, but they are not as good at many or most of the other aspects of a car. My guess is that the current big car companies can learn to make a great electric drivetrain faster than Tesla can learn to make a great everything else.

By opening their charger network before the other companies get a good non-Tesla charging solution widely deployed Tesla has a good chance of becoming the dominant charging network in that future market where as a car company they remain a niche player (probably with sports cars being their niche). And all those electric cars from all those other companies need charging, so if Tesla can dominate the charging market that could be very lucrative for them.
>if you do sell a "Throat-cutting knife" ... you are responsible for that.

Interesting thought. I can't find an example in law. I'm not so sure the seller is responsible on any level once sold, even with that murdering tagline. Guns are sold as lethal force and users are fully responsible post sale.
I think the market forces point in the opposite direction. With the big regions EU and China having standardized charging, they each created a market for different open charging networks to compete in.

In e.g. Germany Teslas are <10% of the new EVs sold YTD, I doubt it would make much sense for Tesla trying to maintain a Tesla-only network there, as they have to support the standardized connector and communication protocol anyway. They can only gain by opening up their charging network there.
Every supermarket I've been to in the UK offers free charging in their car parks
Except in the US Type 2 is not really a thing (there is a local standard based on it intended for semis and buses), and everybody is using type 1. Even the version of CCS used as the de-facto DC standard in the US is based on a type 1 plug instead of a type 2.

In Europe, tesla uses the Type 2 CCS plug on Type 3. Older models ones used a seldom used part of the Type 2 specification that permitted DC charging without the extra pins from CCS.
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Because we adopted that word.
No, both are the problem. Look at how we solved bribes. We made it illegal both to give and to accept.
You can’t even CC someone ex a vendor) in a Jira ticket without them having to make themselves an account.

Atlassian and all Jira products are ugly, and have more menus and settings scattered around than microsoft.
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Sure, but in person transactions don't scale well and if you act as an in-person money changer for large amounts of money you are likely to be criminally charged for unlicensed banking or money laundering. Most of the ones I've seen limit exchanges to less than a few hundred dollars to avoid bringing down the hammer on them. (It can technically still be illegal to exchange small amounts, but if the amounts are small authorities are less likely to bother.)

They work for hobbyists messing around with crypto and people who want to buy small amounts of droogs on black/grey markets, but aren't going to allow crypto to be mass adopted.

P2P marketplaces can record an exchange, sure, but how do you actually send or receive large volumes of Euros, Pounds Sterling, or Dollars without casting a "summon police" spell?
Trains can still go into the countryside. They used to in much of the US and still do in a lot of Europe. Then there are buses too.
it's not that i don't have time -- i do have time. but i don't want to write code as side projects anymore.

i much rather do something else. play a videogame, read a book, watch series. i already work 8~10h a day, after that, i want chill and think about something else that is not code.
There's a difference between the way our minds work and the way reality works. In reality a physical object can only exist in one place which naturally leads to hierarchal organization being the dominant paradigm. On the other hand our minds operate associatively.

When we started to build out computer systems we based the UX on metaphors of real-life tool equivalents. I would posture though that as we become more of a computing-literate society and as computing moves closer to becoming an extension of our minds as opposed to an extension of reality, the dominant paradigm will shift towards associate models of organization.
Seeking shelter is a protected human right. Crossing borders to seek asylum is not breaking the law. Being a refugee does not make you a criminal. Your question “why do people who break the laws get favorable treatment here?” is a loaded question based on false premise and should not be answered.

However, even with a right to seek asylum many refugees need to smuggle them self into their prospected host country. This is an extremely dangerous activity, and is often done through actual criminal groups and costs a fortune. This business would not exist if the border policies in European and North American countries weren’t so hostile. Over half of confirmed migrant deaths occur while crossing the Mediterranean in unsafe conditions. These crossings could be done using far safer transit if Europe had humane border policies. So yes, you can blame the west for these deaths.

On top of that European and North American countries often influence the border policies in the pass through counties such as Turkey and Mexico.

> why do [refugees] get favorable treatment here?

They most often don’t. But they should. The reason being is that their homes are not safe. They need to flee to a new country or risk a worse fate. In other words, they need help. A humane society would give everyone help that needs it.
From Macy’s to Albertsons, facial recognition is already everywhere
Which brand?
VW has invested $2 billion in Electrify America [1].

With every manufacturer accelerating their EV rollouts, there will soon be more CCS EVSEs than superchargers. This move isn't about giving non-Teslas access to superchargers, it's about giving Teslas access to what very soon will be the majority of EVSEs.

It also about tax incentives: the government isn't going to support a proprietary standard.

[1] https://www.electrifyamerica.com/our-plan/
You write that 50% of nearly 3k Euros is bad. I can see where it would be bad. But in the US, you would have to fight tooth and nail for YEARS to get disability coverage that "good." US Disability payments average around $1500 or so a month, and you often get rejected your first application or for several rounds of appeals.

Source: am on disability.
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Didn't Tesla already receive a hefty amount of government subsidies? Seems like the public already wrote that check to Tesla.
Turns out the system wasn't quite able to handle the traffic that came through yesterday. It should be working better now!
I think a big problem that keeps cars king is just how crap public transport is. If I want to get the bus from where I live, it’s less frequent than once an hour, is usually 30-40 minutes late (if it bothers to turn up at all) and when it does eventually turn up, the card machine is broken and there’s a fourth-generation product of petrol huffing on the seat behind who thinks a bus a good place to use his bluetooth speaker on full blast. I’ll then spend an hour and a half going six miles because the bus companies don’t really cooperate properly so the routes are often torturous.

It’s expensive too, but not as eye-wateringly expensive as the train I have to go well out of my way to get on (by taxi, bike, or car because going there by bus is virtually guaranteed to make you miss the train). These trains are often cancelled without warning ten minutes after they’re supposed to have shown up for an excuse chosen apparently at random from a litany of failure that generally amounts to “the network is crap but don’t worry, the subsidy is being spent on some franchise executive’s salary instead of some government bureaucrat’s salary so it’s way better than the old service!”.

Outside of London, a lot of British public transport is utterly unfit for purpose. They’ve only just got rid of the “temporary” solution dating to the early 80s of putting train wheels on surplus British Leyland buses and pretending they’re trains in some parts of the country. Why would anyone with the means to afford a car bother with this absolutely piss-poor display of failed public services given the choice?
Any recommendations on this self experiments to see how much coffee does or does not affect you?

I ask because I don't get any high or rush from coffee, that I notice. I would be interested in tracking signs looking for impact. But I mostly just like the taste.
I read it on my iphone using the Hack app. Before they had this feature I’d always forget to reply, even in my own Ask threads
A few times in dreams I found solutions to problems I have been working on during the day.
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Possibly something like this:
Caffeine and theanine have opposed effect on attention when stressed (2017)

Based on the definition of emotional arousal, stress isn't 100% accurate, but perhaps better than aroused.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/emotional+arousal
Because that phrase doesn't exist in German like that. They could have used "standardmäßig" but out-of-the box is more widely used when talking about software and tech.
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US has twenty times more people than Netherlands.

A fairer comparison would be with the tax system of a small US state or a large city in the US.

Edit: Downvoted as it goes against the narrative, lol.
The acquisition of Sketchfab and ArtStation will have a significant impact on the productivity of the game developers and the creatives.
Gihub link:

https://github.com/tangramxyz/tangram
And why would that be scarce if we had, say, a way to perfectly clone such items?

It's actually quite trivial to do, only copyright is stopping that.
The original has no intrinsic value over a perfect physical copy. (As opposed to a reproduction.)
Thanks. Ive updated the UI since I last posted in the thread you mention. You can know click on nodes to add new ones, and drag nodes to connect them. Did you try the most recent version? Hopefully its more intuitive, but youre right its probably time I made a tutorial.
In the UK, they get referred to as Chelsea tractor, or Chelsea tank. (Chelsea being a rich part of London where they first got popular)
A bigger question is: What does it take to update it constantly? The problem is that US Tax law is incredibly complicated and changes in impactful ways nearly annually (last tax year and next tax year in particular will require tons of updates, due to COVID-bill related programs).

I think Open Source works well when the underlying work is fun and the software is somewhat timeless to minimize ongoing workload. Tax software by its very nature is none of those things.

Honestly I think OSS is great but this is more fitting for the IRS to do itself rather than hoping that a bunch of lawyers/tax professionals/financial programmers suddenly decide they want to spend their evenings writing the most boring software imaginable.
curious to know if matrix ever resolved their "federated" authentication problem. Can I finally host my own node completely separate from the matrix? this always made portability somewhat of a dicey situation.
Doesn’t this happen in almost every country that hosts the Olympics? If my city were proposed as a site for the games I would oppose it as much as possible.
> The unpleasant truth is that developers don't stand apart as a group that scrunitise or raise uncomfortable questions about online surveillance.

When you're making north of 150k/yr helping to build digital prisons It's called biting the hand that feeds you. I have friends in the industry who have no qualm working on such tech because the money is good or not everything they do is evil etc.
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