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Intelligent shorts can look at factors like - is this company an outright scam (Wirecard)? is this company in a market which is likely to shrink? are its competitors on the verge of a breakthrough technology? They wouldn't necessarily have inside knowledge that the government of the country is going to force companies to turn into non-profits (like happened recently with Chinese school tutoring companies). That's like having an asteroid hit.
I love this form factor of phones. It's a shame that no-one else does. I still miss my Motorola DROID 4, it was a great phone with a slide-out hard keyboard, but couldn't keep up with the demands of Android and newer apps.

Since the DROID, I've had several 'normal' Android phones, and I still miss that hard keyboard; I'm awful at typing on a on-screen keyboard even now.

The only hard keyboard phone I know of, that can still run modern Android is the Blackberry Key2. They are still very expensive on eBay, so I know I'm not alone in this desire to have a proper keyboard.
Because at least if it goes wrong, the money being used isn't actually your money until you pay the CC bill. That $2500 is still sat in your account.

Spiral of debt is only a risk if you have no discipline.

For those of us that do have discipline, CC's are great.
Those are non-Han. They aren't considered common people or people at all.
To put it this way is too much of a simplification. There is good and bad.

For now their priorities intersect with the chinese commoner, ie. Protecting themselves via serving the chinese commoner. Another bonus to this is the ability to make harder decisions now for the sake of the future.

The fact of the matter is that with this 'aligned interests' dictatorial style you can more done and plan for the future - so long as that future is aligned with your population.

I'd say the standoffish bipartisan politics of the US is far harder to get things done, but hey, as I'm sure some of you would say, it's better to have the freedom.
Don’t forget that GCP is terrible and untrustworthy. So not many business are willing to chance it.
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I'm a noob when it comes to Lithp. But I'm told what happens with their macros is the language is fairly unusable until you write lots of macros. The macros then become your personal undocumented wacky language, which nobody else is able to use.

I've seen this happen with assembler macro languages, too.

> most powerful

It's like putting a 1000 hp motor in a car. It's main use is to wreck the car and kill the driver.

BTW, D is the first language of its type (curly brace static compilation) to be able to execute arbitrary code at compile time. It started as kind of "let's see what happens if I implement this", and it spawned an explosion of creativity. It has since been adopted by other languages.
Isn't the question nonsensical ? inodes are a property of some filesystems like ext, xfs..., that you can happen to use on Linux. If you installed Linux, say, on an NTFS partition there would be no inode anywhere, no ?
You can get afterpay without having credit. You can get afterpay even if you owe $7k on your maxed-out credit cards. Bank of America doesn't have a shiny button turning those $200 dollar pants into '4 payments of $50' on a website.

It's like asking 'hows flavored vape juice different from cigarettes'. Both bad, but they appeal to different markets and one takes advantage in a more sinister manner. No doubt there are people that can use it in a healthy manner, but overall it's a net negative. Credit cards can be just as predatory in my view though.
-c is for create. Very easy to remember.
compilers are 101 of CS with coding a major part of compiler being just a course project. Honestly, one of the most straightforward and simple things in the industry. At one of my previous jobs several senior undergrads (beside fresh grads which were frequently hired) were hired full-time to work on a major compiler suite. A nearby company doing a lesser known kind of bit more narrow specialized compiler suite were hiring even more of senior undergrads and fresh grads.
Not any worse than cheap crap from any other country. zero attention is paid to security. Software is just quickly checked that if functions on some devises, not tested and no security.

If you fear that Chinese install backdoor's, don't. These devices don't have backdoor's because the front door is open. Country of origin does not matter. Shitty American or European IoT device with no security is just as easy for Chinese and Russians to exploit as Chinese.

Is the product comes with smartphone app, it's worthless and insecure after 1-2 years later even if it's from known brand like Philips or Google. They stop doing security updates soon after they stop selling the app. Philips Hue lights, Google Nest home automation, Sonos spakers, ... worthless crap now.
> Ok fair enough, now lets say I am an Accountant and I work out that I can increase profits even further by hiring 5 people offshore for 30K a year.

Sure and then you'd find yourself without a job, thinking an accountant can understand what a software engineer does.

> Here's the final point, how much do you pay a cleaner, they are a cost they don't produce profit.

If they're cleaning up people's shit in the restrooms? Above market rate to make sure they're happy.
I've never had many good experiences with IPFS (and I've created a lot of stuff for it, including a pinning service). It frequently fails to find content on the DHT, it's very slow, a resource hog, my ticket for improving the pinning interface has stagnated for years, and Juan Benet once called me a Karen on Twitter for complaining about a regression that broke IPNS pinning.

I love the theoretical idea, but the execution? I wish them luck, but it's useless to me.
I've interviewed for ME, EE, FW, and SW roles. It's not better in hardware. There's an equivalent to all the things people are complaining about here. Take home coding challenge -> take home hw design challenge where they expect you to have access to expensive software. I got a FW challenge once that assumed I had two different dev boards on hand. Spot the bugs in this printed out code? Find everything wrong with this schematic in 5 minutes. Now quick what's the transfer function of this filter? I have a dozen more questions to get through.

I had an ME friend who got into an argument with an interviewer about the convection equation. The interviewer was completely wrong, eventually my friend admitted "Ok I literally have it pulled up on my screen right now, I think you're mistaken."
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> the entire question was: What's not in a Linux inode?

Were they considering you as an experienced developer of a Unix/Posix filesystem, who would almost certainly know what an inode is?

Or were they considering you as someone who had been using a Unix so long and extensively that you had a chance of once having had to configure an older filesystem for huge numbers of inodes. Or a chance that, for some rare reason, you once had occasion to learn that the `ln` command isn't always used in conjunction with `-s`?

In either of those cases, you might then guess at what the question was getting at, in a slightly clever way. If you got it, then both of you could share a bonding moment of both knowing this thing not everyone knows, and it could be a quick warmup to better questions.

Or, if you didn't get it, you could feel thrown off, and insecure or negged, which is also a win for an evil interview process.

If I'm feeling punchy at 3am, an alternative theory is that they could be a recent CS grad, who'd had a class in which they were told to recite, after the professor, "What's not in a Linux inode is the filename," and that's what they think is important about that. (By way of introducing the separation between inode and directory entry in Unix, through catchphrase and rote memorization. Other professors would probably instead explain using a diagram or the code for structs.) (Theory variation: perhaps the only professor who ever said this phrase was at Standford, which would make calling for it an especially transparent shibboleth for frat-like alumni affinity, and an overly-precise filter for socioeconomic class.)
How massive censorship and state surveillance have anything to do with need of Chinese commoner?
I mostly agree, but I think this falls under the Black and White fallacy. Just because we understand the mechanism doesn't mean that the magnitude is large enough to matter. It could be that clouds or normal volcano erruptions have such a large impact on trapping energy that greenhouse gases don't matter. What you also have to show is that the basic cause is actually sufficient to explain the effect, and that's difficult when it's on a (planet) scale most people never think about.

Many times I see experts spend lots of time explaining the simple casue and effect relationship, only to gloss over the large amount of work they've done to convince themselves that it actually is significant. University PR departments and ads-driven media aren't helping.
As someone who is stuck with a "junior developer" who hasn't produced a single line of working code during past 1.5years in my team the "one interview and done" isn't working these days.
Oh man, you sure know how to drive a stake in my heart! What have I done! Some curses should just not be uttered. I'm not sure where it is on my backups.

But it was done just like you'd do it in C++. The same thing, just with D syntax.
There is a risk that you accidentally do the thinking for them and give the answers for them without noticing.

Doing a collaborative interview requires careful attention by the interviewer, but I agree it’s worth it.
It doesn't sound that stupid, it checks whether you know the syntax of the language you'll be programming in.
Just easier. I use credit cards, but also have a Klarna account. If the shop uses Klarna, I will often use that because it is to well integrated, and then pay off Klarna with my CC, which in turn is paid a month later. Essentially I don't pay for something for over 2 months.
Your IDE can check your syntax. For people who have to switch between languages regularly, precise syntax memorization is difficult and a waste of time.
> They tend to indicate the interviewer isn't competent freely discussing the subjects at hand.

Ding ding ding.

Even the question, as asked, was OK. The interaction with the interviewee wasn't.

OP's joke was clearly just asking the interviewer to be more specific. Instead of exploring the question with the interviewee (e.g. "well, can you think of something that one might naively assume to be in the inode, but that is not"), they get pissed? lolwat?
I suggest reading the whole comment. I address this concern directly in it.

Yes, there is a global supply chain fragility when it comes to a few companies controlling the supply of microchips. Nobody is suggesting that Apple somehow can do everything from scratch. Even if they had factories making the chips themselves, what if their raw material suppliers collapsed? What if a critical delivery route gets compromised, as happened with Ever Given? What if a war breaks out? What if, what if, what if... You can entertain any number of ideas. Everyone knows that the global supply chains have dependencies, and if something bad happens in the world, the economy and supply chains of the world suffer. This has nothing to do with Apple specifically.
yes, and those companies were big and dominant for long periods of time and endured lots of problems before starting to get really hurt. Antifragility or robustness is not the same as impervious and immortal.
I found this really interesting. Many of the practices which agile promotes - stand-ups, pair programming and so, are decidedly ableist - not surprising given the make-up of the people who originally promoted it. Good to see some discussion around this finally.
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You are correct... it is unfortunate that if you are born in the wrong place to wrong parents you get treated that way...

It's also sad that people praise the CCP like the OP here...

Also, nothing stopping CCP from doing the same to han/everyone else as well... mao zedong's stupid policies come to mind...
I saw a documentary about them employing pneumatics for everyday devices and they were really inventive in this department. They probably also don't use a compressor, so you have to work the air pump to use the mixer.
Design mistakes maybe, but syntax errors are just not representative of any real debugging experience IMO.
> You seem to be unaware that one of the major benefits of 5g

True.

> Up to 15 percent energy savings with software features

'Upto 15 percent' sounds alike it is a very optimistic estimate, (you know when they advertise 'upto 50% discount' most of the products are discounted at much lower rate). And it does not seem that this power saving is also dependent on network traffic. So I am not really convinced.
5,000 years in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ridgeway
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It was before my time, so I can't say with any certainty. They were having issues with database performance as the system scaled, and the decision was taken at the same time to switch from a monolith to a microservices architecture.

Easier to scale out than either a cloud based or on-prem database possibly?
This is such a weird statement. I totally agree that markets can solve this problem. They brought us CloudFlare!

(and a few other companies that offer similar services)

Sadly, all of them appear to require Big Internet Infrastructure. This isn't a problem you're going to solve at the wifi level.
> those don't usually compile on the defined-away platform

Then you're doing it wrong :-/

All these can be made to work.

P.S. compiling successfully is not the same thing as linking successfully. Think stubs and deciding which files to link together.
The later.
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> But they will harass your visitors with captchas for no good reason.
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I definitely see the overspending argument, but BNPL is actually way better than the alternatives in the current market. Credit card companies make an overwhelming majority of their revenue (up to 90%) from consumer penalties, while Afterpay makes the majority from merchants. It's a fundamentally different business model and lines up the incentives with consumers, where as CC companies want actively look to abuse people with poor credit.

IMO we all have engrained in our brains the horror of the credit card death spiral and it's warping our perception of any innovation in the space of consumer credit. I think we will see a bnpl takeover of traditional credit and generally healthier consumer finances.
e.g. a compiler

But yeah, I think I've seen questions like that for an intern positions. It's basically a "have you ever seen this language?" to weed out people quickly.
Sounds like a failure of communication on both ends.
The interviewer should perhaps be more explicit in his question, i.e. "What file metadata is not stored in its inode?". He skipped the explicit part, since it probably seemed obvious for him. The failure of communication on your end was not picking up the obvious context of the question.
The Jetbrains git interface is really quite good. For me the magic is the general combination of git and local history. The search is good and the diffing and jump-to-source from those. The changelist handling is pretty good too.

I think a quick skim of the available features in the docs would probably give a good overview. Then poking around.
That confused me as well (I’ve previously worked a little on Arvato’s AfterPay) but it was cleared up by https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/afterpay-forced-to...
I was asked if I was the size of a dime how would I get out of a blender. I was like "Honestly, what does this have to do with the Frontend role?"
That's not true, electric vehicle batteries will have large quantities of valuable materials worth recycling, and companies are already working on this. https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/lithiumion-battery-recycling-f...
Authoritarian decision making is great until the authority starts making the wrong decisions.

The bipartisan politics of the the US is not a bug, it’s a feature. It was entirely intentional that power was split and broad consensus was required to get anything done.
Rust has so much syntax for similar semantics that reading rust code is insanely difficult. Even well written Rust can obfuscate intent or details about the implementation when read due to the syntax being terse and broad.

Also, Rust doesn't let you do all of the same things C does without using "unsafe", even if they're perfectly safe. Even with all of that syntax, you're still incapable of telling the rust compiler enough information to allow you to compile certain programs.

For example, in a single threaded Tokio application, shared state across coroutines still requires a 1) heal allocated 2) reference counted 3) mutex protected reference to the state, otherwise Rust won't let you compile even though it would be completely safe to pass around a single stack-allocated reference.

Perhaps I was missing something simple but it was the only way the compiler was happy and seemed to be the only way anyone has gotten it to work.
> But it would also be good to ensure people can make a good living and self actualize without a formal education.

How? Wanting magic to be true doesn't make it possible. If your economy is already strong enough to provide a good living to anyone who wants to be a noncontributing poorly educated self-actualizer, then OK, let them enjoy that. But what if it's not? Who supports them? Even developed countries with good social welfare usually make it hard to be voluntarily unemployed and receiving welfare just because you'd rather play on your hobbies than work for others' benefit. It's meant for people who want to work but can't, not those who don't want to but can.
I think they even play the same role. At least the prominent occult authors say that all these effects are nothing but electricity and magnetism (snake is a typical occult symbol for electricity). Levitating a frog by a magnet is legit magick, NMRI is high-end sorcery. Things that are considered magical are various magnetic effects that haven't been discovered (by science) yet, but are known to people who don't quite understand the underlying mechanism. But in each and every case it's the good old magnetism. I'd guess that these sigils are meants to shape a magnetic stream produced by something else, and when properly shaped it tends to capture a "fish" of some kind. As for why the low type occultists use blood to fill these sigils, it's because of its magnetic properties (if you live in medieval ages, getting access to a lab with ferrofluids and 100 Amp generators is pretty difficult).
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The market value of a company or person is determined by the market value of whatever they're shoveling around every day. Shoveling around software is valuable, but shoveling around money even more so. It just doesn't get more pure than that - it's literally the thing we use to measure the value of everything else.
The competition largely either has its own supply like Samsung or is owned by/from that other country (Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Motorola).

I guess Samsung would benefit greatly.
CRDTs are fascinating data structures to me. One question: how would you handle something like cursor position with a DS like this? In the structure itself or a parallel structure with the site-id, insertion-point and expiration date?
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> By “normalization” Vaughan meant that decision making processes and action choices that deviated from formal established rules were reinterpreted by work groups in a manner that allowed for those choices and actions to sit comfortably within the bounds of established performance norms. That is, “they redefined evidence that deviated from an acceptable standard so that it became the standard,” she wrote.

Isn't this fairly common? Often, a lot of top-down rules are more honored in the breach than the observance. In some countries, unions will actually strike by telling their workers to follow the rules. This was also advice given to resistance fighters.
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Not joking. Emacs can't even do wysiwyg word processing, let alone the kind of interactive environments that browsers support.

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Assuming NZ is like Europe, the are no rewards thanks to fees being low due to regulation. Chargebacks exist but are not as strongly defaulting on consumer side; to succeed, you need real proof of merchant not holding up their side.
Might I ask what those git problems are? Thanks!
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> Bitcoin is the obvious example of something that should have been banned years ago (and all proof of work crypto)

not that i would invest in bitcoins (or any crypto), but i don't see it as an obvious ban. The only reason i can deduce from your "obviousness" comment is that proof of works "wastes" energy. But then it is hypocritical to argue this when other modern conveniences also "waste" energy, and yet you don't call for a ban.
Don't equate Turks to Arabs. These guys do have a Turkish Hyundai, Ottocar and their country is quite well industrialized. Also, China is industrialized but not open, which is no reason to dismiss it, as it's currently exerting its influence in SE Asia and also worldwide to some degree. One of Erdogan's ambitions seems to be a new Ottoman Empire, something which does not fare well with Greece, the Balkans, most of Noth Africa and some countries in the Caucaz Region. That's also one of the reason Turkish attempts to join the EU will be met with opposition by Greece, Balkan EU states, along with Romania, Hungary. Here's a map for reference:

https://cdn.britannica.com/89/4789-050-B6176F52/Expansion-Ot...
China's parliament is a literal billionaires club.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/china-parliament...

There is no altruistic motivation to better the lot of the common person. The only motivation is to maintain control.
I am fine that up to the ~3 interviews covering the different aspects (say HR person checking the general personality, IT guy for i.e. Linux sysadmin knowledge mini-test, the team manager).
In 2020 after the Covid started, I got into the endless spiral of I believe 6 interviews spaced over a month or so, then the long wait and getting shorter contract with same salary but different from the advert job title. With the back against the wall I took the job. Within 3 months or so (including a 1 month training) they re-posted a job advert for my position. I had to extract from them an info that my contract described as "with almost automatic extension" will not be extended ("we run out of funds").
I work off my posterior for months to get this.

In short: shit on input does not bide well
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