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The title is misleading. “ Some Apple staff have quit…” this is more in line with the content claim “Ten employees say they're quitting or know someone who is because of Apple's position.”

Apple has about 147,000 employees.
Spotify CEO doesnt believe the platform has editorial responsibility on podcasts
Worst take in this entire thread.

The draft - get sent to war against your will, potentially die, get maimed or get tortured.

This - get the vaccine tens of millions of people around the world have already got, or work remotely (or very worst case give up your cushy tech job and find another cushy tech job).
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One way I like to think of application contexts in frameworks like Spring is as a huge product type with one "field" for each managed component. Objects have views of particular sections of this product, namely, their own dependencies. Viewing the full product would increase coupling.

Seen in this light, the van Laarhoven Free Monad seems closer to how application contexts work that the typical "free monad" type used in functional programming.

Because it's polymorphic over the underlying monad ("forall m. Monad m => ops m -> m a") I believe it lets you express the idea of "pure component whose effects are carried out only through its own dependencies". For example, injecting java.time.Clock in your program logic instead of calling LocalTime.now().
Introvert vs extrovert.

I couldn't disagree more strongly with the author of the linked article. I'd almost call it pro-remote-work propaganda.

But, I say that as a software developer who is extroverted (at least relative to the profession as a whole), and is in my early 30s. Working from home can be super isolating and depressing, and I would rather leave a lucrative career than start another remote job (I already quit my previous remote job, currently living off savings rather than work remotely).

I know some people who like working remotely. But I also have friends who hate it as I do, and are super eager to return to the office (some already have, at least on a part-time/hybrid basis. The two biggest factors are see are introversion vs extroversion, and whether they live with other people. My extroverted friend whose wife works at an in person job, and is thus alone all day, hates it. Another friend who lives by herself hates it. A third whose social life centered on work hated it, and wound up moving in with her parents despite being in her 30s just to have some other people around.

Productivity-wise, I agree with the studies I've seen showing more time, but no more results. I think of my friend who is not confident in his job security and is working at least 50% more hours than in his pre-pandemic in-person job; I've told him several times his colleagues probably don't realize how many hours he is putting in or how effective he is, because he only interacts with about three people and it's all remote. In the first couple months of his job, before his workload went sky-high, he complained that some of his colleagues were completely burnt out and unproductive; now it's no mystery why some of his colleagues are like that.

Another reason I think it's introvert vs extrovert is my conversations with recruiters. I'm that odd software developers who enjoys talking with recruiters, at least the ones who take the time to get to know you. Almost if not 100% of the recruiters I talk with miss being in person. Most of them are young. And guess what, recruiting is a highly extroverted profession.

My prediction for the software industry is there are going to be a lot of people switching jobs over the next year or two, as the people who want to be in the office but are stuck at remote gigs leave, and similarly the people who want to be remote but are stuck at in office gigs leave. Some people will probably prefer hybrid too, but most of the people I know have strong opinions on the topic, and I wouldn't be surprised if hybrid mostly falls by the wayside once uncertainty around covid protocols subsides.
I would be a buyer too. I suspect the only reason it hasn't happened is that it would mean less revenue... why would I buy a laptop/desktop AND a phone then?

This rumour about Apple sticking one of their SoCs in a monitor [0] popped up the other day. Relevant here.

And their current Lightning->HDMI adapter uses an embedded chip that decodes a h264 stream of the "screen", potentially the exact same stream that would be sent via AirPlay to an AppleTV. CarPlay does something similar.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/23/exclusive-apple-testing-new-e...
I expect for the most part it’s a fig leaf, and when it is approved the goal posts will move. Then it will be, “the FDA rushed approval” with no evidence presented or required.
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There’s a ton of companies which exists solely to burn other peoples cash.

I think VC funding makes IPOs a bit more confusing. It makes sense to IPO, if you need to money to boost your business. Duolingo needs money to update their app, so they can use the IPO to fund it.

The problem is that if you’re VC funded it now looks like the VCs have lost faith in the company. They paid for the bill for ten years and now they won’t help push the company into profitability? That makes an IPO look like an exist strategy.
If someone makes the Java GC 3x faster, that will most likely positively impact all Java and Clojure programmers. Similarly, if someone wants to invest on Clojure performance, they most likely need to do so by investing on the JVM and core libraries, which will benefit the overall ecosystem. Plus one main reasons people use to pick JVM languages is the access to the whole Java ecosystem and related packages.

Therefore, if you are considering the performance of the platform, improvements to the runtime and virtual machine, package ecosystem, etc, lumping them together makes total sense. On the other hand, Clojure and Java are quite different languages, with complete different paradigms, so there is probably a ticker layer specifically dedicated to Clojure.

Erlang and Elixir are much closer to each other than Clojure and Java or even Scala and Java. The data structures are the same, the language constructs are mostly the same (different syntax but the same semantics), etc. You can call each other with no performance cost whatsoever. All of the companies investing on Erlang will directly impact Elixir and, if you want to make the Elixir compiler or runtime faster, odds are that this efforts goes to Erlang - it is one of the reasons I have ~100 PRs merged upstream, mostly focused on the compiler and/or performance.

So, once again, if your goal is to assess the healthy of the ecosystem or how many companies are investing on the platform, then they must be considered together. The contributions done by Ericsson, Whatsapp, Klarna, Erlang Solutions, etc. benefit all languages running on the Erlang VM. In fact, if someone asks me how they can financially contribute to Elixir, I will 100% direct them to the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (https://erlef.org/), which focuses on domain areas around the ecosystem, rather than languages.

Since you seem to use Ruby as a reference, I don't expect the dynamics to be much different. Most companies and contributors are likely working directly on the Ruby VM and the runtime, rather than the language itself. However, because Ruby is the only (main?) language running on it, we don't tend to separate them. But in practice the language is only a small surface into the complexity that is its underlying platform and working on said platforms requires a completely different set of skills and technologies.

EDIT: this applies to the ecosystem too. For example, every Phoenix application is running a web server written in... Erlang. :) All Ecto database adapters are using the tcp modules provided by Erlang. The package manager that powers all languages running on the Erlang VM is written in Elixir. And so on. You don't need to know Erlang in order to write Elixir but, if for some reason you need to pick up, it is straightforward because of all of the above.
Very bad advice to take that vaccine in my opinion. It's dangerous and not worth the risk at all.
> Then you'll need to homeschool them.

This would be fair if the equivalent public school spending for that student were instead given back to parents as a voucher to spend on homeschooling or on a different education provider of their choice with different vaccination requirements. But otherwise there is a financial coercion into divulging health choices or giving up bodily autonomy that doesn’t feel right to me.
Yes, I'm hopeful for the day they work well as phones, too.
My GF is diagnosed bipolar, and had a breakdown before Christmas and got sectioned. I didn't see her at that time, but the behaviour that she describes sounds mildly psychotic.

She was home by the end of February, on a mood-stabiliser, an anti-psychotic, and a minor tranq.

She's off the minor tranq now; she'll be taking the mood-stabiliser until she dies, and it's not much of a problem.

But the anti-psychotic is troublesome. It makes her sleepy, so she needs a nap every two or three hours. It makes her shuffle around, a bit like a drunk; she used to run several miles daily, but she can't do that now. And she's gaining weight. I hope the shrink weans her off the anti-psychotic soon; I don't think she needs it.

> But the doctors kept her on tranquilizers anyways.

That sounds wrong to me. Tranqs are horribly addictive (meaning the withdrawal is horrible and dangerous) - even minor tranqs. You need to get off them within a few weeks.

IANAP.
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> One has to believe at some point that liberty is worth a certain amount of risk.

But you are not actually discussing anything related to freedom at all, right? You're just defending that your personal preferences should be unquestionably imposed onto everyone around you, aren't you?

I mean, do you feel the measles or tetanus shots violate your freedom?

I mean, if you really valued freedom then wouldn't you be doing your hardest to ensure that everyone around you should, say, not risk death by an easily preventable disease in spite of everyone except you taking basic precautions?

> Do you get asked if you've had a measles vaccine before you get seated at a restaurant? Are you suggesting this is a reasonable action?

You need to prove you are vaccinated when you travel internationally or enroll in a job or join a school.

And this is an absolutely mundane thing for the entire world, because it's easily understood these are very basic precautions to not contract or risk transmitting diseases.

There is no measles outbreak or even pandemic. There is however a covid pandemic. If you wish to get back to a normal life, the very least we can do is to mitigate the risk covid poses to society. This involves basic stuff like respecting social distancing, wearing a face mask, washing your hands, and get the vaccine.

If a small but militant group insists in putting everyone at risk by intentionally and systematically violating basic health and safety precautions then the only hope society has is to mitigate this risk.

So why yes, obviously yes. Don't you agree? Or do you actually believe that an individual's whims and irresponsiblr and reckless behavior should simply put everyone else's life at risk just because?
Yeah I used Babbel to pick up some basic Italian a few years ago and thought that while a bit more “boring” than Duolingo, I felt like I was learning more useful stuff. It’s structured more like a language class at school.

Memrise is worth a look as a Duolingo alternative. It’s similar but feels a bit more “serious”, there are some nice features like you get videos of native speakers saying phrases with a variety of accents.
>Palantir is coming up on 20.

Palantir is a dumb shitty company that will file for bankruptcy. Unfortunately the VCs have already dumped it on to the dopes on Wall Street bets.
I find it strange that US power consumption peaks in summer, and not in winter.
It’s useless for properly learning a language. For getting the basics of a language in a game-y way that doesn’t feel like studying, it’s great. My wife managed to pass her German A1 (CEFR [0]) exam almost completely by just using Duolingo. She took some free Deutsche Welle exam prep courses in the week before, but to even get to the level to understand those, she used Duolingo.

If you need to learn a language quickly, I’d call it the wrong tool. If you are okay spending time properly studying a language, I’d say that will be better. But for certain cases, Duolingo is great.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_R...
Cute. Although rather complex for just basic gates. It's good that he figured out a way to make an amplifier. Although it's rather complicated.

Mechanical logic used to be much more popular. Adding machines, calculators, and tabulating machines used it. So did railroad interlocking systems and race track totalizators.

A Model 14 or 15 Teletype machine's printer is a mechanical logic chain. It's a triggered clock driving an amplifying 5-bit shift register with latches. Those 5 bits are transferred in parallel to a 1 out of 32 decoder, where another level of mechanical amplification drives the typebars. None of the historical documents describe it that way, because there was no general language back then for talking about logic elements.

The simple way to make a mechanical digital amplifier is with an interposer. You have a "clock", a constantly rotating shaft, with a cam generating reciprocating motion. After the reciprocating part, there's a gap, and then something that needs to get pushed as the output. The interposer goes into the gap during the "off" part of the clock cycle, which takes little energy, and gets pushed by the high-powered reciprocating part. This can easily provide a gain of 10-100. This classic mechanism appears in many punching devices, from little ones punching holes in paper tape to big ones stamping out car bodies.
You and I may be using these words differently:

- intrinsic (vs. extrinsic)

- price (vs. cost)

And your wording (like the use of the word 'charges') may suggest that you consider that suppliers of housing unilaterally set prices. When, in fact, a transaction can take place only when a buyer and a seller can agree on a price.
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Sazae-san story is now basically like that. Their lifestyle is frozen at around 1980s. The anime production also had been used analog cel rather than digital until about 2010. It's last TV anime show uses cel (oh I must put this word: "at least in Japan").
I just read the description of funky, and it is like Windows 98 CD-ROM autorun.exe, but the next level. If you clone my repo and enter the directory - I own your system. Funky indeed.
I'm likely biased in that I've run a nearly 100% remote team for almost a decade. I don't find it difficult (most of the time; some days trying to manage multiple geos when multiple escalations are in play can be trying, but having excellent, competent staff helps) but I do think it requires mindset and approach that is different from folks who operate from a "I need to see them in a desk" mentality.

It starts from hiring people that inspire trust, and then...trusting them. Get them their assignments, mentor/coach them when and where needed, but otherwise let them do the work. Let them shine on their own.

Metrics are largely measurable anywhere, if you picked the right ones.

Build esprit d'corps. The rest starts to fall into place naturally after...
> During Covid-19 vaccine negotiations, the company sought indemnity against civil claims from citizens who had experienced adverse vaccine effects — meaning that the government would have to cover the costs instead.

Aren't those "unreasonable" terms already the case in the U.S.?

There's no liability, right?
I remember the time when Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO and canceled WFH saying that it was ineffective.

Pretty sure there was no correlation in the firm's demise (Yahoo was already underwater), but not sure it did help either.
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> We reported the sites to both CF and Google, and to my knowledge, not a single site were removed before the people behind it took it down.

As someone that tried reporting spam sites because they were using content scrapped from my website, I'm not surprised.

Cloudflare has a policy that they will not stop providing their IP hiding/reverse proxy services to anyone, regardless of complaints. The best they do is forward your complaint to the owner of the website, who is free to ignore it.

They say "we're not a hosting provider" as if that's an excuse that they can't refuse to offer their service. I'm sure many spam websites would go away if they couldn't hide behind Cloudflare.
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I’ve typed out 3 comments to 3 separate people before deleting them. I didn’t see the point.

Folks, it’s a good idea to heed dang’s warning at the top of the thread. I’ve read all the comments and can confidently say there’s nothing worth reading here. Just people absolutely convinced of their ideas and principles, shouting past each other. Nothing we haven’t seen on this topic 50 times before.

You’re better off going outside for a walk.
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In Germany the market decided already. After years of propaganda by consulting firms how India will develop all software for pennies soon, companies in Germany are abandoning near and farshoring to eastern EU countries and India en masse because it caused more problems than it solved. VW for example ended all software contracting and now does software development themselves. So I'm not worried.
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
Or doing nothing!
Same thing happens with the Simpsons but it's more subtle than Shin Chan.
"they inspired me, helped me grow, and left me in a much better state than they found me.

Having managed multiple teams myself, it can be a fuckin' slog. There have always been one or two extremely high maintenance people on the team, conflicts to resolve, bullshit HR stuff to take care of, commitments to defend, bullshit to block, misses to explain and some amount of time tending to vestigial organizational dependencies that somehow are impossible to shake."

And that is pretty much what the gig should be.
We have our concrete jungle like most places, but the parklands surrounding the city are great (though parts resist activation) and older/richer areas are typically very green with street trees and creek systems running through suburbs. It's a great place to live (third most liveable, supposedly) but the downside is you're a long flight from most of the rest of the world.
This phenomenon is also known as solvated electrons [1], and is used in organic chemistry in reduction reactions e.g. Birch Reduction [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvated_electron

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_reduction
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Before digital TV (2002), we had just 5 channels in most of Britain.

CBBC existed as a brand, but was a few hours of content on either BBC 1 or BBC 2 (I can't remember) broadcast at suitable times.
On most other topics I would agree with you but here I don't.

Because one of the problems with critical race theory is that it is not at all rigorous and won't ever have one definition or set of concepts that everyone agrees with. So if you try to drill down and critique it, it is incredibly easy to shape shift the arguments and accuse the critiquer of not truly understanding the theory.

Another piece of this is that CTR is packed to the brim with motte and bailey arguments where they'll make one claim and then defend another making any attempt at formal debate a total waste of time.

Not every topic is worth debating on merit. If you tell me the earth is flat I'm not going to spend my time exhaustively critiquing your position which you almost certainly didn't arrive at logically anyway. I'm just going to understand that that viewpoint is indicative of some other underlying pathologies, tells you I disagree and try to distance myself from you.

This is somewhat similar to how I treat CRT
> The design maximizes the storage area for honey while minimizing the amount of wax needed.

Wouldn’t a triangle shape be even better?
What happens to people with health problems preventing vaccination? I assume they would ask for proof, at which point you have to reveal your private health condition.

EDIT: I suppose a doctor's note could say you can't be vaccinated without revealing why.
To be fair, the decision to make the original Baldur's Gate real time with pause instead of turn based was supposedly due to the popularity of diablo at the time. That doesn't take away from your point, but I do think it's an interesting connection to note.
Those aren't the only two options - there are loads of contracting agencies. You can deal with (and pay) their US office, and that money goes to their in-country subsidiary. You can get a modest-size team in Latin America this way.

Thing is, the rates at these agencies (at least the LatAm ones) have run up to the point where they're not so far from the US. You can spend $80 USD an hour easily.
Oh that is interesting. Most Data have shown previous infection tends to have much better Anti-Bodies than all vaccines. And I was under the impression that previous infection automatically equaled to have vaccinated, at least in the few countries I know of.

So that is not the case in US and you still have to get a vaccine? Or is it simply because there is no "proof" that you have been previously infected?
It is wrong wrt scale, but biomass burning electrical generation is a thing.

As an example, I had a massive old oak tree that needed to come down for safety reasons. I desperately wanted to keep some of the wood from the trunk either to carve a statue or convert to lumber, just so that something from the original tree stayed with us.

None of the professional (i.e. insured) services around could do that; all of them had a contract with a local power company to grind up everything they cut so it could be burned for electricity as part of their "green" commitment (which admittedly also included solar and maybe wind).