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> without an understanding of math and some amount of formal computer science are necessary evils rather than assets

I mean it's not like you need to be a prodigy to pick up enough math and computer science concepts without a formal education.

I'm a high school graduate and I've made it far enough to be an L6 at a well known tech company. I'm not prodigy, I just I spent large amounts of time coding over the years.

And I certainly don't consider what I do low-level, low-thought work, even though I can't invert a binary tree without looking it up.

If someone who's from a more traditional background grills me on CS topics they'll probably find me quite lacking. But the reality is, prodigy or not, if you're curious enough to teach yourself programming, you're not going to suddenly fall short trying to learn "enough" of the math and formal CS stuff.

Enough to me is not being able to whiteboard implementations and manipulations random data structures, but rather knowing which ones exist and when to use them... then hopping on Google to find the details.

And I mean, someone has to write the search engine processing more data than I can fathom, and maybe their work would be prohibitively difficult if that wasn't all literally on their fingertips, but there's infinitely more people doing complex system design that can afford the few seconds of context switching.

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I find if anything people from a formal background overestimate the importance of math and CS sometimes.

It's been so long I forgot the details, but I remember as a fresh dev in my first "real" job a co-worker very proud that their refactor of a function in our hot path was working 30% faster than before.

I took one look and saw something like

void blahBlah(blahblah){ //made this faster
loadABunchDataIntoStringsUsingPoorlySizedBuffers()
processABunchOfData() //by making this very fast
}

Use a simple memory mapped file instead of "loadABunchDataIntoStringsUsingPoorlySizedBuffers" broke his benchmark. Now the "blahBlah" function took "no" time.

Stuff like that is everywhere in programming. Times where people choose the most formally correct data structure instead of a simple cache friendly array. Or destroying performance with GC unfriendly, but highly "type sound" code.

At the end of the day, to me nothing can replace time spent coding. And in my experience, people who can make it over the initial hump of difficulty in coding are people who end up spending a lot of time doing it (of course I might be a bit biased there)
> "Fertility statue addiction" has never been a thing

I have a room full of phallic statues from various tribes that proves this wrong.

Also I don't know how familiar you are with fertility statues, but a lot of them actually function as dildos too. And you can DEFINITELY get addicted to those!
Just because there's a correlation doesn't mean distortions inherently imply psychosis. It's difficult to know your experience just from your brief comment, but it's possible that you may have something like depersonalization-derealization disorder, without any psychosis.

Psychosis generally involves delusions and hallucinations. For example: hearing things that aren't real, believing governments or other powerful entities are specifically targeting and watching you (much more so than just being caught up in the standard dragnet surveillance), thinking you're a divine being or on a divinely-mandated mission, frequently thinking people you see IRL are stalking and following you, thinking some external entity or machine is inserting invasive thoughts into your head via photons.

And as the other commenter said, psychopathy and psychosis are unrelated, and as far as I know not even correlated. But I understand you're probably just referencing that story as an example and weren't suggesting a connection. (The context, for anyone unaware: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-neuroscien...)
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This kinda seems like it's creating a tweaked ASCAP or BMI regime for "postopen" developers. I'm not sure what to think of that at this moment.
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Ethanol and other such fuels have even higher octane.

And yes, it WOULD suck in the interim, would have been more disruptive to general aviation, range would have been impacted (in the case of alcohols), but this is such a MASSIVE public health issue, it would clearly have been worth it IMHO. Pilots would’ve absolutely hated it, but the wrath of pilots is not a good enough reason to justify lead emissions over the last several decades which may have depressed intelligence and increased crime rate.

I am NOT saying this wouldn’t have had negative, perhaps even massive, temporary disruptions in general aviation, including grounding some planes. I am saying it would be worth it.
I mean I think a lot of people want to build a SaaS, but it's a lot of work. You need to build a landing site, set up pricing plans, integrate with Stripe, build user authentication, build company accounts + team invites, and that's just for an MVP, not including the product itself.

If you can get all of that for free (to start), and that saves you months of building, that's pretty worthwhile. At $1m ARR you're only spending $30k/yr on the platform, which is roughly what your AWS/Stripe bill is anyway.

There can definitely be more features too like user permissions, A/B testing, CMS, analytics/tag manager integration, etc, etc that continue to deliver value / save you time/money/effort as you grow.
A new Prius MSRPs for $25k and a Model 3 MSRPs for $40k.

I don't see how you can say $25k and $40k are basically the same price.
I don't find the slippery slope argument to be a very convincing one. Given the delta variant the suggestion that we may need a booster shot is not absurd nor unexpected.

There's been talk of a booster shot since the development of the vaccine started.
Yes, that works.

I am not comfortable giving a container full control over the host network though. I have not looked into the security implications of it but I would expect it is dangerous for the host.
It just says they'll tell us later about their "exceptions process". Which probably means, they'll decide later when they see how many it concerns.
You’re right - this gated world didn’t need to happen. Sure would have been nice if American scenarists and eco health didn’t continue gain of function research after it was outlawed in the us.

So uh what about this?

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/10/21-1427_article

If it’s true the vax causes antibody dependent enhancement and that YOU, as the individual who took the experimental therapy, is producing higher viral loads would you take your punishment if you where responsible for thousands of deaths?

Also - what do we call people who are currently vaccinating their children yet refuse the experimental therapy? Clearly they’re not antivaxxers.
> If someone at Google died from drunk driving, would it be fair to ban alcohol? Of course not.

I would expect Google to ban alcohol consumption at work if this causes safety hazards. So the answer is yes.
My Samsung S10 has an option to "enable lockdown mode" in the power menu which disables notifications, biometrics unlock and smart lock.
I would like to point out that the FCC has a mobile app now called "FCC Speed Test". It measures your ISPs speed and reports the results to the FCC. If enough people install it. It will help improve FCC data about where the most pressing needs are.
> The fine author of this article sadly passed away earlier today.

Aw! :( I hadn't heard that yet.

I'll have to read through Pelican's Perch again. So much knowledge, so densely collected.
I'm curious about the experience of having taught a senior dev GenServers so early on. I guess it depends on what they are working on, but I think for most people (senior devs included) GenServers are YAGNI -- I have not once written a genserver for my current job, the senior might be tempted to be clever and use GenServers as code organization or as a circumvention to write stateful code, a la "objects" because GenServers are rather close to Alan Kay's original objects.

But I guess that's what code review is for!
Leaky vaccines, like ones like the ones we have for COVID, also put evolutionary pressure on viruses. Anti-vaxxers are a convenient scapegoat, but the problem isn't that simple.
Google can easily manage that by having employees who claim to be unvaccinated or who don't wish to state their vaccination status to permanently work from home. No one is suggesting to send them back to the office.
You are right, it is a stupid argument, but does answer "why?"
I'm not a biologist, so this is my rough understanding.

ADE is antibody-dependent enhancement, a phenomenon that could occur when your body is exposed to a virus for a second time. Normally, your body has developed antibodies and therefore can fight off the virus easily. However, if the second infection is a different serotype, then (in rare cases) the body's antibodies might actually help the second virus infect your body's cells and cause worse disease. Or, they don't properly neutralize the virus (and your body might not develop new antibodies). This has happened in the past with previous vaccines [1].

We know that ADE is a risk; therefore, we specifically designed Covid animal trials to look for ADE events [2]. Also, we monitored for ADE events during human trials. There hasn't been a single confirmed case of ADE to my knowledge. That hasn't stopped antivaxxers from using ADE fears to claim that the currently approved Covid vaccines aren't safe.

[1] https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cent...

[2] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/12/an...
Ah, but the bloodsucking and profiteering is predictable, so it was already priced in. If they stopped and acted like responsible global citizens instead, now that would be a surprise, and their stock price would drop precipitously.
>We went through a lot of laptops...

Why? I'm not seeing the connection
I'm American! Stop doing it! It's not even the traditional law-and-order conservatives calling for this; it's leftists who just want to redirect the industrial prison system at a new target!

The system is bad, no matter who you target!
I think the elephant in the room is always going to be people who can't afford new cars and have to contend with used cars. 25% of cars on the road today are at least 16 years old (1), and the trend is the average car continues to get older. A working class person might buy a car for $2000, then junk it once it has some catastrophic repair bill they can't afford, and buy another $2000 car afterwards that might be slightly newer and cheaper than the repair on the first one. What will a $2000 used EV look like? Will it have a decent range? Will it need an expensive battery replacement? Will it even be competitive with a $2000 gasoline car? These are all open questions, but I think they will have to be answered sooner than later if we are to realistically imagine a future without gas cars. It's just not going to come by everyone in America buying or leasing one new from a dealership, even with the government subsidies in place it only knocks EV prices down to brand new entry level gasoline car price, nowhere close to used car prices.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/25percent-of-cars-in-us-are-...
This just looks like a content aggregator to me. Links to other articles on other sites.
You only responded to my first sentence. To be clear, what the two sentences mean together is, "It is obvious we need intranasal booster vaccinations."

I am not in any way saying the intramuscular do not protect the internal body tissues against variants. I am saying that it's important to protect against mucosa infection too to prevent spread and that requires intranasal vaccination.
Look, if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, I've no sympathy at all.
> it's dystopian

It's already the law, and has been for like half a century (edit: more like 80 years, actually). If you aren't vaccinated you can't attend school. You can't serve in the military. You can't work in many health care fields. We requires our citizenry to be vaccinated against major preventable diseases. We always have.

And this policy is, objectively, the second[1] biggest success story in the last few centuries of public health policy. Period.

Why did no one care about "keeping federal powers in check" in 2019? Why do you only care now? You don't think maybe that there's something polluting your priors?

[1] The invention of antibiotics gets #1.
C. and D. are both false, you are free to take the Moderna, Astra-Zeneca or J&J Vaccines, particularly J&J if you have insane worries about safety since it is an old fashioned viral vector vaccine. The choice is of course yours and no where in the US constitution do you have a right to work wherever you want or enter private businesses at will.
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Not sure if there's a clear definition, but the article lists these as symptoms:

>These early perceptual distortions included a heightened awareness of sound or color, uncertainty about the boundaries of one’s body, feeling that the world around them is tilting, and similar experiences.
It can come on quickly. I'm at over 30 years experience now and once, about 11 years ago, my shoulder just started having this shooting pain almost immediately whenever I sat in typing/mousing position. It was kind of terrifying. At times, it was so bad that I legitimately thought that I might have to give up sitting at a computer. I ended up investing in a better chair, focusing on better posture, taking breaks, doing exercises, and also switching my mouse to the left side for about 6 months (the pain was in my right shoulder and was particularly bad in the mouse position, so I thought learning to left-mouse would be a good idea). Ultimately, it worked out, but I had to make some pretty serious changes to make that happen, and now that I'm in the better habits, I wish I'd made the change much earlier.
I could not disagree more. Pfizer should be able to profit from the vaccine. If the govt steps in and takes away their ability to benefit from the vaccine what incentive is there for bio firms to respond like Pfizer did in the future? Why work on risky and expensive vaccine technologies if, in the unlikely event it is ever needed, you won't have a chance of recouping your costs?
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Read my comment again.
> The US government should have limited Pfizer's profit margin, and they should be using the money saved to cover people's medical costs for complications arising from the vaccine (removing the need to sue).

They didn't have to limit Pfizer's or other suppliers profit margin to cover people's costs for recommended to diagnose, treat, or prevent COVID (or used in conjunction to enhance effectiveness of or mitigate risks or complications of such a diagnostic, treatment, or prevention measure); that's covered by the same law which shields the makers of those things from liability. [0]

[0] https://www.hrsa.gov/cicp/faq#covid
Society has a hierarchy right? The top of that hierarchy. At least in regards to Western states.

France has transformed into a full blown police state (Australia, NZ close behind) in just 1.5 years post Covid new normal.

I just don't think any of the signals that would point to an inevitable conclusion look all that strong.
Yes, there are already clinical studies underway with altered vaccines and the turn-around on developing these is apparently pretty fast (at least with the mRNA vaccines). I have also read that yes, authorization can happen much faster for vaccines that are slightly altered versions of vaccines that are already granted authorization (but I don't know the details).

Here is a random article on the topic that happens to be ovr 2 months old! So this has been going on for a while now...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/tweaked-modern...
As others have pointed out, the long term side effects of this vaccine could take years to fully be known. To make matters worse, it's not a traditional exogenous antigen vaccine -- it's literally synthetic biology... an entirely man made RNA sequence. The idea that the long term side effects of a therapeutic that uses genetic engineer at this level are known is absolutely laughable. They are just setting the precedent for future mandated gene therapy injections (which will grow more complex, and are essentially little biological computer programs).

The future is here folks. We live in a science fiction movie. I expect full blown societal collapse soon if the totalitarian take over plan doesn't work. Maybe folks should have listened to Peter Thiel in 2019 when he called Google treasonous.
> Delta is not a joke

Latest official numbers for the UK, Delta variant:

CFR 0.03% for fully vaccinated < 50 years

CFR 0.03% for unvaccinated < 50 years

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1418562741246300167

(I checked his numbers with the official source, they are correct in this regard, although rounded from 0.026 and 0.028 respectively)
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>It is not obvious we need booster vaccinations.

Of course, but to be fair, I don't expect any EU government to publicly acknowledge that we need a third dose when many EU countries are still struggling to get two doses to everyone, let alone a third.

Like how at the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020 the governments said that masks are not useful at protecting against the virus in order to prevent the general population from scalping and hoarding masks that were needed for medical personnel instead, and later did a 180 on that decision, making masks mandatory when mask production supplies caught up with the demand.

Such decisions are not 100% driven purely by medicine/science but also economics/politics.
I'm in my mid-50s, and have been programming professionally for over 30 years. I'm not the oldest or most experienced person on my team, though!

I have no intention to stop programming. I don't program because there's money in it, but because that's what I truly like to do -- so the thing that attracts me to certain positions isn't pay, but how interesting the work they're offering is, and whether I'll learn new things from it.

The question I face isn't if I will me doing development in the future, it's if I will be doing it at the place I currently work.
I agree, punishment is revenge. It doesn’t work.
You are mentally ill, get help: https://www.zocdoc.com/psychiatrists
HPPD would definitely be a major confounder, here. I really wouldn't be worried. If it's been many years since it happened and you haven't ever experienced anything that seems like it could be psychosis, then it very likely isn't something to be concerned about, I think.
Alas, I have been promoted to the rank of the "clueless,"[0] but I am happy that I am able to continue doing mostly programming work as before.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
I understand ISPs giving people subnets because there's an expectation that you'll be using a router. Each of your devices will have a public IPv6 address, obviating the need for NATs and CGNATs. That's neat, and that enables you to do all sorts of things like reliable p2p communication and servers.

But what doesn't make much sense for me is when you're given a subnet many IPv4 address spaces worth addresses on a single network interface on something like a server. Sure you could use that for a VPN, and I did set one up like that, but are there any more use cases? Surely there must be a good explanation why everyone is doing that?
There's also still a market for horse drawn carriages. I don't meant that flippantly, but that the advancements in technology make things like the Novena laptop a possibility. It sounds like something like the GPD Micro PC is much more your speed.
It is the totality of it all.
Every bit of advice is usually contradicted within 3-6 months.

This is a coronavirus that mutates easily. As many have suggested, it is likely here to stay. Are we going live in fear forever? Wearing masks, social distancing or whatever else they want us to do? In Australia, they are now saying you can't talk to people.
In what way? I'd like to tell them about it; they've explicitly asked for feedback on this.
In your mind what does the word often mean?
Never, when I'll take advice from a point-n-click infrastructure jockey.
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(I am very comfortable with a few million deaths, and maybe the variant turning more deadly in the process)
Facebook chat was originally written in Erlang and then migrated to internal C/C++ framework.

Giants use and experiment with a variety of languages.
It's not the making of money that's addictive, it's the spending of money.

It's easy to forget, but remembering this fact results in a wider range of life options.
We will see. One thing programmers have always seemed to be really good at is producing more work for programmers :)
Biggest success story? Have you heard about the delta variant and the surge in cases among both unvaccinated AND vaccinated?
The flooding, drought, heatwaves and wildfires in the US and Europe are significant impacts on the western world. That's happening right now. There's no question at this point about whether Western and developed countries are going to be hit hard.
Those are really just issues with your government and their decision about what are the appropriate responses. It's not the unvaccinated that are hurting you here, but the government response to them. If the unvaccinated are fine dying and not killing those who fear COVID, why have all the restrictions?

Imagine if the government told you you can't wear a short skirt because a religious extremist might stab you. In what world does is this edict fair? And to make this comparison fair, this case, the religious extremist is also wearing a short skirt!
That still doesn't fix my home life issues that won't give me the time to transition and learn a new company/language/tech/etc. I'm stuck and I'm thinking that's just how it'll be.
There are three things put forth in the declaration of independence: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - for some reason America has decided that #2 trumps 1 & 3 to an extreme degree - but in the rest of the world 1 & 3 are also viewed as fundamentally necessary freedoms.
> bypassing some timer in an API service requires the API to accept the string „Infinity“ and convert it to the JavaScript value Infinity

Yeah, a more realistic bypass would be entering “3000000000”, which would trigger the same behavior.
T and VZ pay substantial dividends.
Google mandates vaccines for all employees returning to offices
FOSS used to be about developers scratching an itch but now it's about developers who are itching to get scratch, hohoho.

(For non-English speakers, "scratch" was formerly popular slang for money in the US.)
Server-side rendering (SSR) is an ass-backwards attempt to recover what is lost when you go all-in on the SPA approach. SPA buggers-up SEO, navigation and history so what's the answer - duplicate the "page" on the server. Why not just render on the server to begin with and spice-up the front with JS as needed a la Phoenix Live View (Elixir), Laravel Livewire and Rails Hotwire?
> This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
I programmed for a long time (decade or more) before I went to engineering school. The difference in understanding is night and day. Like I said, if the programmer is doing relatively low-level tasks, they won't understand their deficiency.