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I think it sometimes depends. If you're doing a lot of stuff with your system, the rolling release schedule means you get fixes faster, and Arch's documentation is pretty good for a lot of other stuff. Manjaro is more likely to "just work" with things, because it has newer drivers.

On the other hand, Ubuntu is pretty stable as long as you stick with what it provides and you're not going too far off the beaten path. Ubuntu feels very consistent to me, it just also feels a lot more stubborn, and I find myself fighting with it more whenever I plug in devices or configure it in a non-obvious way.

I think I just misjudged what side of that divide my nieces would be on. Small stuff like, I got them a drawing tablet and on Manjaro, it plugs in and the Gnome settings detect it, and the config is all graphical. Ubuntu has the same Gnome settings and the tablet works, but the settings don't detect the tablet at all, so to get buttons configured and left-handed mode working I needed to wire up xsetwacom and use dbus to detect when the tablet was plugged in. And that was made harder by the fact that there wasn't a lot of Ubuntu documentation for how that stuff worked, I basically used the Arch documentation and mentally translated some of the commands for Ubuntu.

But I think that's dependent on the person and what their needs are. If I had bought a more mainstream tablet for them, maybe they wouldn't have had that problem. My regret with Ubuntu is that I didn't realize how often I would want to be able to get things like a more recent kernel without compiling it myself. Ubuntu seems a lot more obtuse to me when it does break.

Everything is relative, they're both still Linux under the hood, and both are less likely than Windows to randomly break imo. I've gotten support calls from Windows family members about drivers just randomly not working one day because something updated behind the scenes without their input and started conflicting, about buying external displays that just don't get detected at all, and I don't even know how to start debugging issues like that. Even with Ubuntu, I don't really get that many support calls, mostly the computers just work.
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How to contact you? I have a suggestion for this effort of yours. It is a nice thing to do, but there are certain things that you need to consider for this.

Cheers
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If 70% of your population is vaccinated, it doesnt mean the virus spreads 70% slower.

It instead means that there are 20 million potential virus hosts in the UK instead of 67m. Way more than the population of lots of EU countries.
Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien
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Also GNU/Linux phones running mainline Linux kernel (but they don't exist for 5 years yet).
How is this realistic to implement though? Unless it is done in the motor itself, I have to believe someone will have a hack for it very soon.
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Okay, give me my money back then. Let me count how many thousands of dollars my Steam account is worth.
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I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, and in light of the role unconscious biases plays in hiring, I'm challenging my own beliefs on how to run an interview.

How does an interviewer ensure all candidates are offered help fairly and equally?

What is the purpose of asking a question, that if a solution is found after "hints" are offered, would be acceptable for hiring?
I don't think you're wrong, but to air the other side: people don't want breakthrough tech, they want cheaper mortgages. That's why we spent trillions on mortgage subsidies and haven't even tried to build a Mars colony.

The USSR fell because people didn't care about space exploration and Opera, they wanted washing machines and pop music.
Have you not noticed corporations and the very weathy fund almost all candidates? What you are saying only happens when we get money out of politics.
> For intellectual work, I suspect it would probably not lead to much less work being done.

I think the other big thing is, hasn't overtime only ever applied to people below a given salary level? I wonder, if this passed would it actually change norms at places that have institutionally always had people working a lot of hours? I'm thinking not just of some tech companies, but e.g. lawyers racking up billable hours etc.
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That's very interesting! I myself have not worked as a MM before so I don't know much about it. I can imagine it is possible since these days there is a lot of cross pollination between traditional finance and crypto. Most exchanges will do Json, though I know of several who have FIX interfaces also.
Something to take into account for manual labor is a great deal of it happens outside. Due to climate change, many parts of the USA will experience dangerous heat in the middle of the day, and even some indoor locations like Amazon warehouses have inadequate cooling. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-safety-crisis-could-be-heat-...

If workers took a siesta in the middle of the day, they would avoid the heat to some degree, which would be better for the workers' health and may not greatly change how much work gets done. Workers operating in dangerous heat will either reduce their physical exertions in order to moderate their body temperature, take frequent breaks, or collapse (in which case they are getting no work done, and depending on how badly injured they are, they may need to be replaced, which requires training etc.).

In other words, depending on the weather/climate in the future, reducing the work week to 32 hours may not negatively affect results from manual labor either.
I can't imagine confusing them with limes given their size. I had a guava tree for a while and it's ... hard to eat that much guava.
Tax loopholes would be accounting, not technology.
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The scale that these companies operate on requires huge innovations in software engineering and computer science. Think about all the distributed systems that have come out of places like Facebook and Google over the last 2 decades.
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It wisely steers clear of a topic which would derail its point.
Fully agree. This is one of the implicit advantages of most corporate structures; the ownership question has default answers.

Who owns the product? The company.

Who maintains the product? Whoever the company pays to maintain it. Usually, companies will build out trees of responsibility so some sub-group is responsible for smaller pieces of large products (with ultimate responsibility "rolling up" back to company ownership).

How can I contribute? Your boss will tell you what needs maintenance or improvement. Do it or you're fired. If you have something else you want to work on, a good company will respond to your feedback and shuffle responsibilities around (you get better work when employees are satisfied), but ultimately, someone needs to maintain the build tools and if that's what they hired you to do, that's what you're doing until you decide to stop taking their money for it.

There are lots of disadvantages to the corporate model, but (like the old chestnut from Thomas Paine's writings), it has the advantage of simple ownership.
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I'm not advocating NOT rewriting it. I'm just saying, back to the great grandparent's point, that the issue is a dev went rogue, NOT the language the rogue dev chose. The difficulty is the same regardless of the language the rogue dev chose; it's not that they picked Clojure, it's that they picked a language there was no organizational adoption of.
It's interesting that my ACA (Obamacare) premiums are lower than the premiums were at my last employer for similar coverage (using COBRA numbers for comparison). This might be because my last employer was bad at negotiating but I think it's mostly because they had an aging Rustbelt workforce and lots of people in roles that were unhealthy long term (linesmen and call centers). Because rates are set based on the pool's group risk, the risk in the public ACA pool is lower than the employer's pool of employees. So even though my job was white collar work at a desk, my premiums were based on an unhealthy pool of workers. If I went to work for a startup made up mostly of 20 somethings, I (and my employer) would likely be paying less than my old employer and less than ACA.

So this is another way that tying health insurance to employment creates pockets of unfairness and undesirable outcomes. While I'm not sold on having a government run healthcare system (the pandemic only reinforces this), there are plenty of hybrid systems out there in other industrialized nations that might (must recognize each country's situation is unique) have better outcomes.
But you did agree Nehru fought for the independence, who's these current Gandhis are direct descendants.
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Absolutely! We're in the early stages of developing an idea like this. We're working with a californian construction start-up to reduce embodied carbon in their building materials.

We've also thought about working with some big name companies like Apple, Amazon, big name hotels etc. to build a carbon neutral office/store/hotel. Haven't been able to reach the right people here yet though. Any intros/suggestions are appreciated!
With the political realignment, I guess it's not surprising that some politicians are trying to bring back the glory days again with New Deal ideas. Most people can probably agree the 40 hour workweek is an outdated idea. But a 32 hour workweek is just a modification of an outdated idea. Not a modernization of it. I'm not quite sure what the modern version of a 40 hour workweek is, but it's not a shortening of it. I'd guess it's a change in default pay maybe ownership structures, and probably scheduling.

Honestly in my opinion, gig apps are a great start, but they suck at the moment in a similar way jobs before the new deal sucked. The worker needs more rights, they need more control of their pay. A New, New deal in my opinion would probably be giving employee rights to gig workers, who control their own time, and pay. And probably adding a basic income floor to prevent a race to the bottom.
If the task is coverage-related (“be available to run a cash register” or “answer any phone call that comes in” or “watch this area for security purposes”), it’s exactly that ratio.
I think supressing it makes it spread. Nothing confirms the beliefs of people who see a Global Jewsh Conspiracy like having their posts deleted.
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Ah, good to know. That explains it. I feel like this aspect was lost in reporting this. It was all made to sound much more deliberate.
> Everything else being equal, I'd rather take someone with a 9 (out of 10) on soft skills and a 6 or 7 on technical skills, than someone with a 3 or 4 on soft skills but a 10 on technical skills.

I agree, I've even had to reverse my own team's policy on this at work : I used to think the technical stuff was the most important and pushed my team towards hiring exclusively the technically smart people, but I have been proven wrong over and over again by those "smart" engineers I vouched for.
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Family lore has it that my great grandfather, living in Manhattan in the last decades of the 19th century, was a race walker, and pretty good at it.
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I liked that. I was a manager for 25 years. I think I did OK with my decisions (for the most part).

One thing that I noticed at my company:

When I first got hired (in 1990), it was made clear that I was a desired and valued employee. They were a very picky company, and might well have rejected me, but I felt respected and valued, from my first interview (I was flown out to the West Coast, and interviewed by two managers at a trade show).

As the years have gone by, I noticed that our HR department started to have a very different posture. They had to be the ones in charge. Applicants were supplicants. The company was doing them a favor, by considering them for this position.

Also, the HR department started to project this attitude to current employees, to a visibly increasing degree, over the 27 years that I was at that company. By the time I left, the HR posture was that employees were little more than serfs. There was no illusion that employment was a two-way relationship. They started to impose some really draconian policies on employees, with "termination of employment" as the only choice, if the new policy was not acceptable. No negotiations.

I think that this is an attitude that has become a standard in HR, these days, and that part of the reason for this interview process, is to filter for people that won't talk back to HR, and are willing to abase themselves for the company.
This is just a sleazy marketing tactic, no matter how you sugar coat it.

Do we really need more manipulation in the world?
maybe you should go back and read your own comment. Also, it's not terribly hard to install extensions through the App Store — what makes it more difficult than going through the Firefox/Chrome extension store?
This bill doesn’t appear to do so, but I hope the exempt occupations are revisited at some point. Companies like law firms and software consultancies have no trouble billing out many of these exempt jobs at an hourly rate. I don’t think there’s a great argument that the workers shouldn’t get the same labor protections as other employees.
I'm pretty positive on this idea. Driving on roads imposes an externality on other people, why shouldn't we attempt to make drivers/companies internalize that cost by charging a toll? I'm not so positive on it that I would support it if it were clunky and imposed a big transaction cost (having to stop and pay). But if it were automatic like the tolling via camera that happens with a certain bridge near me then I would support it.

Of course it's probably low in importance compared to certain other modes of travel that have big externalities that aren't tolled/taxed appropriately...(air travel).
Facial expressions are still a bit off
It wouldn’t have helped in the interview if they did use the NATO phonetic alphabet because when you read CLI commands or talk about them in the office, you don’t spell it out using the NATO alphabet.

The point was the interviewer read a written command differently to how I’d typically hear it. It’s a little like the S-Q-L vs Sequal debate and how that can sometimes throw people.
That's a neat system. Looks like it works by allowing any phone with the Milwaukee app to identify a nearby tracked tool regardless of who actually owns it. You'd really only be able to keep using a stolen tool as long as the lock-out time is still active and no one with the app comes in range. I wonder if they are able to integrate it with Apple Airtags to at least provide location data.
We may have had the same interviewer- tbh I thought this was pretty reasonable and more of a warm up really. I think this also lead to a discussion on some questionable logic and how you could improve the code.

I had 10+ years experience in C++, I thought it was completely reasonable. Especially compared to their later questions around something along the lines of finding a shortest path in a tree. I interviewed there a bit before their process was so well known to be game-able, I went in with zero study time on obscure algorithms outside knowing the O(N) of the most widely used, and certainly did not practice actually writing or interacting with trees and such.
If you want to mechanically apply a trivia test, then at least make it multiple choice.

You will still be choosing people through a mechanical procedure, what is quite stupid, but it's less stupid than that way.
Outlook has a PWA, but the thick client is still here and will be for awhile to keep legacy plugin infrastructure running.
If this passes, remind me to buy shares in robotics and ancillary like ML & AI companies.
A consumption tax that exempts groceries, non-designer clothes and shoes, school supplies/fees, and household utilities could be much more aligned to helping out the working class than the graduated income tax.
> Usually it is not hard to notice whether you'd like someone to succeed and then factor that in.

What about the opposite, that you don't like someone, or worse, you are indifferent to their success?