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Oh yeah? What is your explanation for Sykes-Picot?
"We don’t actually know why anyone in power does anything."

This is a not true. Dictators do long speeches. Often quite explicitly stating why they do what they do.

Funnily sometimes in democracies there is a bigger space betweeen what is done and what is communicated.
I once interviewed for a director role and the first round went something likes this:

Interviewer: How would you reverse a string?
Me: boggle Any language I want to use?
Interviewer: Yes.
Me: Okay, Ruby. "somestring".reverse!
Interviewer: boggle
Me: I don't think we're aligned on what this role is. says thank you and leaves

Interviewers need to understand what they are interviewing for.
I bought those games decades ago. Anti-cheating software used to be a lot more tolerable back then. They were still obnoxious malware but at least they were not literal drivers with vulnerability-as-a-service ioctls that give the games and everything else free access to ring 0 from user space. They were also optional, I could find game servers that didn't require the software.
Stuff like this should have a warning label, "generated by a machine" or something similar
If there's only a single correct answer that the interviewer doesn't understand and an expert might get wrong, it's people who google the answers that have the best chance of passing.

I tend to ask open-ended questions. Let them talk about code, and I can probably figure out whether they're full of shit or not. And a real coding challenge proves better whether someone can code than any code question or whiteboard challenge.
Hear, Hear! For me it's when they put junior people doing interviews to senior roles. I get the point - not enough resources, culture check, etc - but at a certain level we're not even talking the same language or even working experience.

On the other hand, any Amazon interview has tons of people :)
sounds like a literal nightmare, and your prize is... working at Google? No thanks!
> This is mostly bullshit. Crime rates in California and SF are comparable to the rest of the country.

No, I live in SF and:

1) the police don't even show up for thefts under $950. That's why Target stores have 3x the security staff and still close at 6 pm.

2) so crime stats are not reported, since they're not even collected

3) every time I go shopping, I see shoplifting. The retail staff look like they have PTSD - it's really that bad here.

Let me guess - you're some kind of SJW Marxist and hate a functioning Western society? Because that's where we're at in SF.
> Why does every problem need a *TECHNOLOGY* solution?

Cynical view: because a third party vendor bullshitted a company into thinking they need this overcomplicated contraption that they're selling, and the manager being bullshitted is too far away from the shop floor to realize it's a dumb idea (or they just don't care).
Cyberspace does not exist in isolation, it's a network reflecting to a large extent the sum of its parts. In the early / mid 90s, before the masses moved in, "cyberspace" was for the most part what Barlow imagined it to be.

The race to the bottom, adtech, consumerist takeover only started when the "stupid" society at large became the majority, so for the west this process was really inevitable. China, being a dictatorship on top of a closed-feedback system and unwilling to let capitalism run unrestricted, has a much better chance of controlling the process and using it to shape society according to a central vision. We should be worried.
I'm not at all knowledgeable of how rebase works. Can you elaborate on this approach so I can research it more in depth for myself?
Finance is the more broader term here. China likely also doesn't want their greatest minds working on High Frequency Trading algorithms.

The article is about tech, but from a broader perspective letting the free market completely decide allocation of resources in all sectors of the economy is something China never completely bought into. After all it is technically a communist.
> you just pay each worker 10% less and hire 10% more workers, right?

While the rest of your comment is a fair concern, I want to push back on this default assumption.

While I'm sure there are roles that are pretty much 1:1 with output to hours worked, I don't think it's always true.

I think for software developers, for example, I get 90% of the productivity out of the first 32 hours of work that I would get out of 40 hours of work.
Really cool! Looking forward to follow your journey.

I understand that you might not be ready to share numbers, but you mention both hydrogen and desalinated water as byproducts, which both are quite energy intensive to produce. Any chance to give a hint along the lines of:

X kWh of power + sea water + sorbent (consumable?) => Y% CaCO3 + Z% H2 + W% H2O

When at scale, will your synthetic limestone be much more expensive than mined limestone or roughly the same?
Steam deck could conceivably use a signed bootloader to provide some of the guarantees that an Anti-cheat is looking for. But regardless, Valve sounds committed to describing the steam deck as "still a PC [that you could put windows on]".

For non-steamdeck Linux users, at least running on Linux shouldn't be a disqualifier for the Anti-cheat software.
Same here! I think at least outside of your day job if you have one, as a tech-savvy person you should use your OS with its standard tools as the TODO app.

Of course you could find a better 3rd party mail client, probably a better Notes app too, but the improvement in terms of your productivity will be marginal (if not negative in some instances). Good OS makers copy many of the good things from 3rd party apps anyway, right?

Team collaboration and productivity though is a different beast of a problem. I hate Trello, Asana, Jira - all of them. Because this kind of tools are generally B2B, the decision to buy is usually made by the wrong people. They are generally made to please the decision makers more than the actual every day users. "Let's use X, it has the timeline feature!". Well how about its UI for actually dealing with tasks (creating, closing, moving, etc) is pretty awful?

All in all it feels so strange when looking back at the decades of the evolution of the PC (and the Internet!) that we still haven't figured out how the computers can help us collaborate more efficiently. But then maybe it's because the way we collaborate changes all the time - just take the move from corporate to modern startup-y way of running companies.
People in the UK are forced to buy these calculators also? Thought it was an exclusively US racket. Another hit to american exceptionalism.

With the rise of smartphones, I figured I was part of the last generation forced to buy these overpriced TI calculators. It's so sad to see this racket going strong today.

You spend $100 ( a lot of money to most people ) on a useless device that you don't ever use again. Never once in college or thereafter have I used my TI calculator.
Asia is headed towards war - it almost seems inevitable. Xi has publicly committed to not leaving Taiwan invasion to the next generation.

China is focused on building an industrial base that complements its military power while generating cash, and internet software startups aren't going to help.

For the rest of Asia, they'd do well to militarize; for Japan and Australia to consider getting nuclear weapons or hosting them, and for India to rapidly increase stockpiles.
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Calculators are still distraction-free. They're a purpose-build device.

Our exams in engineering school took into account we could solve 5 equations/unknowns problems with our TI-92 Plus (at the time).

Can't imagine students with Chromebooks during exams (edit: or maybe I'm just from a different time)
I wouldn't mind it flopping an having the option to get it for 50 buckaroos :). But that's highly unlikely.

Even if it fails as a portable gaming platform the hardware sounds very decent and I wouldn't expect them to have Apple level margins on those.

I've skipped the link/steam machine because "livingroom entertainment" isn't my thing, but I was pleased with the quality of the Steam controller. Although I would have liked them to be bold with the design and keep just the original prototype (without thumb stick/face buttons) (wouldn't have minded a novelty controller that works well with just a few games).
I do my own Graph algorithm implementations sometimes

Especially when I'm not sure the Graph approach is the right one, it's easier than either

1. Getting the Boost.Graph in the source tree to actually compile

2. Dealing with the bureaucracy of getting some, other, Graph library requiring feats of compilation possible for mere mortals into the source tree

This is, however, not something I do from memory - much like the ancestor comment I see the relevant skill as closer to recognizing positive-weight Shortest Path and knowing you want Dijkstra than being able to write Dijkstra without wifi
I always thought tomatoes were pretty good and then I had tomatoes in Europe.
That's not fair. `range()` is a function which outputs something and understanding what that something is is imperative to understanding what that Python code does. I didn't start talking about the internals of `range()` or how the language is interpreted/compiled because none of that is necessary to understanding what the code does.

I'm not just sharing my personal thoughts here. I know half a dozen people who tried and failed to start learning programming with Python. Some of them moved onto other languages and had a better time while others gave up on the skill entirely. This is just what I've learned from discussing the issues they had. I have no reason to disparage Python. It's my favorite language and by far the one I use most.
And therefore a priori wrong and deserving of government censorship, in your opinion?
Ironically, users themselves are disallowed from rooting their phones.

Right to root, is right to repair.
If the IC does the wrong thing, that could screw up the coordination between all these other parts.

I don't envy the politics, but the coordination and meetings are easy. I'd rather be doing that, but you can't get there without moving up the ladder. I was a tech lead for a year and it was probably half coordination and meetings and the other half was troubleshooting and development. It was great... except they didn't promote me to that level.
Is there something in the article you think is untrue?
You should move to France then :p

The work week here is 35hrs/week, with exceptions allowed for up to 40hrs/week, but the extra has to be compensated 1:1 with extra paid vacation time ( on top of the minimum of 30 days paid time off).
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How does one mitigate the pain of having to move out of company housing because of a job change?
Another good report about what Clojure does well is this article by metabase: https://medium.com/@metabase/why-we-picked-clojure-448bf759d...

I have had the pleasure of contributing to their code since we used their product at a previous company I worked at, and I must say I am sold on Clojure. Definitely a great language to have in your toolbox.
Why is Taiwan not called Taiwan at the Olympics?
I always wondered who paid for those low deductible plans.
> While I'm not sold on having a government run healthcare system (the pandemic only reinforces this)

A reminder that government services suck on purpose. There is no reason for government healthcare to be ineffective other than the malicious intent of those who run our government (D or R).
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How "flexible" is the production? I mean during peak-sunny hours the price of electricity is well below that mark in some regions of europe? And would it e.g. make sense to scale up in a very sunny region & produce your own power? Last question: Do you need electrical power or heat? If latter, would a more efficient thermo-solar power plant make sense? Best of Luck! :)
I was once asked to prove that K-means is not NP-hard in 1-d ?!
This may be true, but that is distinct from closing before dark (which I haven't seen in any other place.)
We can't handle the truth.
Some developers may have avoided it, but IT definitely hasn't. Network engineers, server admins, and DBAs routinely have to work a full schedule, plus change windows, and have to be on call. Some are on call 24/7 with no extra pay. When I switched companies almost a decade ago I went from being a network guy who knew how to code, to a coder who knew networking. My quality of life increased over night.
How can macOS cause more problems than Windows when its TCO is 1/3-1/6th that of Windows while Linux is around 1/3? Productivity loss being the #1 IT expenses/driver of TCO, it’s hard not to see Windows as an idiot tax comparatively.
Sorta, I view taxing labor as bad policy. We should not disincentivized labor. But… just saying stop this tax usually has people upset at bigger deficits. So if we tax consumption instead the end result is lower (or no) taxes for income and higher taxes on wealth (indirectly).
Relevant song ‘bout how Johnny Cash ended up driving a “…49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57,
58, 59 Automobile.”

Recorded in 1976 as domestic steel & car manufacturing tanked in the United States taking Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburg and much of the Great Lakes with it.

https://youtu.be/18cW_yHo3PY
> Most of what you believe to be syntax are convenience "reader macros"

And yet, you need to know what all those ASCII symbols mean, where they are used, and they are indistinguishable from syntax.

Moreover, even Clojure documentation calls them syntax. A sibling comment provided a wonderful link: https://clojure.org/guides/weird_characters
Yet, she probably still needs to bill hours during those down times.

I've always been amazed that those fancy attorneys manage to bill the same $1k per hour when they're super focused as when they're eating a sandwich or shopping for engagement rings online.
> When it's out of alignment, usually it's because of regulatory capture.

No. The GGP's examples are a direct counterexample to that idea.

Being a little more general: based on past experience, I interpret general complaints about "regulatory capture" without further clarification as complaints about regulation in general and advocacy for "market solutions" as an alternative. However, a poorly regulated market will almost certainly result in a great many monopolies and businesses that convert some negative externality into private profit, which are the apotheosis of the idea that financial value != value to society.
Except, of course, that specs are only tested correct, not proven correct like types would be. Types (in a reasonable static type system, not, say, C) are never wrong. In addition, specs do not compose, do they ? If you call a function g in a function f, there is no automatic check that their specs align.
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Or, that npm package

a) is deprecated

b) has security issue, with no patch

c) web framework has major changes, making it challenging to upgrade, so you need help from framework maintainers for upgrading

Any code that you have not written yourself has pontential to break. It's same for every programming language.
Burnout: The Price of Passion
Unfortunately, the best and brightest often also like money.

This incentivizes said people to emigrate.
Not to mention linear time shifts
Our solution to this is that we are clear that we're looking for Haskell programmers (as in that is what they should expect to do) but we have very modest requirements in terms of prior knowledge. I made sure to relay to HR that almost nothing is required in terms of prior knowledge (language-wise) and that we should expect to teach Haskell to people instead.
dismay is I think due but "turned out to be" is not at all how I see it. the conquest of massified consumerism over the frontier is a true story, but the frontier is still out there, still ready, still awaiting, still vast beyond our wildest imaginings. the excitement of a new liberation, out of corporate data centers & back in to power, back into freedom & exploration, building new connective mediums and places, is more compelling to me personally than ever. and increasingly more feasible, as we get better at developing systems and software.

in the aughs Tim O'Reilly was talking about chasing the alpha geeks. by contrast we seem fixated on the muck & mire of the lowest experiences, these days, and we have few visible free radicals pushing the ascent. I believe the former to be not worthy of fixation, and the latter to be imminently close to rediscovering themselves, & they will be equipped with vastly better means to pioneer onward with.
Can you elaborate how you reached that conclusion?

It’s obvious there is anecdotal evidence of freeloading across all classes (as has always been). What’s not clear to me is what constitutes a real tipping point where we can claim a destabilizing effect that makes the system unsustainable
I love when you can tell an interview question is someones very personal pet issue that no one on earth could reasonably care about.
Well, you can still go back and buy 2 two packs at four pack prices and then you wouldn't be a shop lifter anymore.

This post almost reads like "well home depot's UX wasn't very good one day and I was in a hurry so that entitled me to steal guilt free"
This is what I loved about Craiglist, but the public didn't seem to agree as the classifieds market has very unfortunately started to become fractured - and primarily to Facebook Marketplace, the worst of them all.
RAM matters too. I never had much trouble running Windows 7 with 2, 3, or 4GB but since upgrading our office machines I've noticed they feel sluggish with anything under 8.
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That is an interesting situation. I’m surprised your employer didn’t seek out a consortium to improve the group; it would’ve been a huge financial benefit to them, assuming they were paying a share of premiums.
> the same would be true if the author did this with a C++ std::vector, or a Java ArrayList, or a Python list, or a JavaScript array.

...or, to be fully honest, a Common Lisp VECTOR that is then CONCATENATE'd with a new element at its beginning.

As I said in another comment, this isn't the problem of using a given language - it's the problem of using a wrong data structure for the job.
I disagree. Apple moving to ARM is going to push the industry more towards that architecture. It's going to be monumental.

Not only that, but the M1 is a fantastic chip. If Apple is able to iterate on the M1 they'll outshine AMD/Intel in no time (if they don't already).
Congress Likely to Pass $550B Infrastructure Bill That Threatens to Kill Crypto
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I'm happy for you. Does your department get money from Google?

Your use of "waive" where I said "wave" sent me to the dictionary [1]. I think either is OK but probably "wave it through" was preferable the way I used it.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-of-wave-...
If you really believe that mass culture doesn't denigrate the human experience, I feel sorry for you.