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They're concerned about it, but non-technical people get hooked on the familiar. They often don't want to learn a new UI when they know one already.

I have a friend who has a 2015-ish Macbook with 4GB RAM - and she is getting into Photoshop.

So her computer works well for her. The monitor is good enough, the CPU is good, and so on. 4GB just won't cut it.

Since she can't upgrade her RAM for $150 like she should, she has to get a new computer. But she likes the trackpad and the Apple UI so much, she is going to get an iMac with 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD for $1600, instead of a Windows PC with a top-line processor, 32GB RAM, 27" screen and 1TB+ of SSD.
How Linux is more productive than Mac? I think it's true only if you use a lot of customization, like a custom shortcut to switch to a specific app/virtual desktop, and do some stuff. That would be extremely time-consuming but also really cool. I'm thrilled to try but with how prone I'm to falling into rabbit holes I'm really scared how much time it could consume. I already spent too much time on creating my own fork of Colemak and a lot of custom shortcuts with Karabiner elements.
> Sure, some places (and individual interviewers) are better at it than others.

In my, admittedly not super extensive experience, I tend to believe that about 1 in 10 companies actually knows how to run a hiring process. I'm not sure precisely what kind of error bounds I'd put on that, but I doubt I'm off by more than a factor of 2 either way.
Performance analysis: sort of 10 elements in 256 seconds (4:16 min.).
Good to see Glowforge’s pioneering work is starting to have an industry-wide effect. /s
I tend not to have a long list, and I don't even do it on todo apps. I just put them on somewhere in which I can remember and create some bullet points to simplify the tasks and not become overwhelmed on the following tasks.
I work in a vanilla MM space and have had limited exposure to systems/technical side in the crypto space, would love to see the weird/cute crypto-specific problems that exist.

For instance I was surprised to learn the other day that FPGAs are becoming standardized in the crypto space now as well, since to my knowledge network bottlenecks are more difficult to be precise about due to the common usage of websockets, the non-standardized colocation services offered, etc. But what crypto MMs are using FPGAs for, is to do actual JSON (maybe it's FIX by now?) parsing since that became a common bottleneck due to the lack of binary protocols from crypto exchanges.
I used to do a lot of product demos that involved network equipment. All the patch cables I carried were either pink or purple. They were never confused with customer cables, and I do not ever recall one of them being stolen.
I can't speak for other trades, but I have enough experience doing carpentry (mostly on the side, but paid) to say that Home Depot/Lowes/Local equivalent building supply stores are where carpenters and general contractors buy their tools, or at least that we're buying the same models that are available at Home Depot regardless of source.
I agree w/ the sentiment of your last statement.

However, I wholeheartedly could not disagree more w/ "having won the <insert_x_silicon_valley_company_here> hiring lottery". 80+ hours of interviewing? No offense, that doesn't sound like winning the lottery. That sounds like you don't value your time. Unless you're getting paid for that many hours of interviewing or receive a signing bonus to make up for it, any company that does 10+ hours of interviewing can take a rusted iron rod and shove it up their own arse.

In a market where software engineers are in super high demand, if a company cannot refine the technical interview(s) down to a max of 3 hours for any specific role, then why waste your time? I understand wanting to gauge a candidate's technical abilities. But there's a balance between understanding the candidate's technical abilities, the technical knowledge required for the job, and (the most important bit) what can be learned on the job for the role.
No, theft requires intent.

You can go back later and settle up if you make a mistake. If you don't... well now it is theft.
A History of the Bronze Age: Art, Fashion and Jewelry
I made an app that showed a fake 'wiped data' screen. Teachers wouldn't think to actually watch me delete the apps lol
Java doesn’t really have a nice interface for interacting with objects in general. Closure does have a nice interface for interacting with dictionaries. They have namespaces keyword symbols for keys which are much more ergonomic than typing strings, and they have lots of functions for modifying dictionaries. I think the big difference is in the philosophy of what the language thinks data is, and how the world ought to be modelled.
My favourite is currently NixOS for a router, entire configuration (system packages, version, firewall rules, interfaces, VLANs, etc) is declarative and can be deployed with automatic rollbacks in the event of misconfiguration.
Tentative signs the virus has burned out, either through infections or vaccinations. The wave has been entirely confined to the younger age brackets who are far less vaccinated.[1]

Being in central London right now, through anecdotal evidence I don't think we've suddenly become less sociable.

- [1] UK infections grouped by age. School years 6, 7, 11, and 12 are ages 11, 12, 17, and 18 respectively. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
Can the Mad Rush to Deliver Your Groceries in 10 Minutes Be Profitable?
>Which means people who want a different life have to leave for somewhere else, like colonists did in coming to the US centuries ago

I couldn't agree more. I'm surprised by how US-centric the housing view of many of my Americans is ("well housing can go to infinite levels and I'll just have to suck it up and accept a life of debt slavery...")

I know one guy who just bought a (small, old) place in Italy an hour east of Rome for $10k. Not the exact location that I'd choose, but at some point I'll just live elsewhere too. The US doesn't limit the exfil of legitimately acquired and taxed money in your bank account and it's a big world out there.
They didn't patent math. They survive for a few reasons:

- Standardized testing calculator requirements are crafted in such a way that graphing calculators are allowed by specific model: https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/exam-policies-guidelines...

- Textbooks contain instructions on using TI calculators (and sometimes, if you're very lucky, Casio). Teachers can only provide personal instruction with TI because that's what the schools buy (presumably thanks to marketing and dealmaking).

Math classes are already hard for high schoolers. Having to deal with the disadvantage of being on a different platform from your peers is hard.
That’s an effective deterrent from a certain type of theft. Mostly casual/thrill seeking thieves.

CompUSAs big shrink issues were more organized criminals popping boxes open or flooding the store. I worked at one that was hit by a crime bus — 50 mostly non-English speaking Asians would occupy every employee and loot the place. (They hit all of the big box retailers in our area). The biggest issue was internal fraud.
Locally, right now, it's hard to find ANYONE in the local Home Depot or Lowe's stores who actually works there. The registers have a skeleton crew, there's basically no one "helping" in the aisles, and usually only 1 or 2 people at the customer service and online order pickup desk.

The people you are able to find seem to be brand new at the job and are basically useless, even for simple things like getting the right online order picked from the shelf behind them as they have no idea what the organizational system is.

It's not just that you have to pay someone to do this, you have to be able to simply hire a warm body, and right now that seems horribly hard in retail where I am.
One issue i have with Proton is that it seems to run these popular games fine, but when faced with something more obscure there are issues left and right.

For example recently i installed Arch on my GPD Win 1 (which is essentially a much weaker Steam Deck that comes with Windows 10) and tried:

* RoboBlitz - it needed Ageia's PhysX installer which always failed to install at startup

* Clive Barker's Jericho - Didn't start at all

* Cherry Tree High Comedy Club - Worked fine (but it is a very simple 2D game so i kinda expected it)

* Mars: War Logs - It started but 3-4 in the game (actually during a cutscene but was rendered using the game engine) always crashed at random points

* Blood Knights - Worked fine

* Marlow Briggs - Didn't start at all

* Chaser - Didn't start at all

All of the above work under Windows 10 fine which makes me suspect that Valve is just going to make game-specific patches for the next Proton in Steam Deck. After all being able to play "the entirety of your library" sounds implausible when you can't do that even under Windows :-P (many games - especially older games - need custom fixes, etc).
X-rays and CT scans involve some expense and radiation exposure. It makes no sense to subject every patient to such imaging studies. We have cheaper and safer tests to diagnose most cases of COVID-19.
You can teach the students trig identities to expand the choice of angles. Moreover, the purpose of the lesson should be to teach the method of solving the problem. Pushing the buttons on the calculator to get a final answer in decimal form (only an approximation) is extraneous to that goal.
Graphing calculators for school use infuriate me.

For the price of a calculator[0] you can instead buy an entry-level Chromebook[1]. You would get a general purpose-ish computer instead of a highly specialised, highly limited, woefully underpowered device. It feels like a weird case of regulatory capture.

0. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Texas-Instruments-84PLCE-TBL-2E5/dp/B01086MEM2/
1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dell-Chromebook-3120-3120-7898-Resolution/dp/B016DP0XUW/
Any response is better than nothing and it is sad that is the line to be above. But I know I appreciate letters actually explaining why I was declined, if they are informative it can actually be helpful for me to improve.

Especially if there is an assignment with the interviews I really think that feedback should be required. I spent about a week on an assignment like this with 3 interviews and just got back a "nope, sorry". And it wasn't even from anyone I had interviewed with, just the original recruiter.
Hah! You did that too?
Trucking companies must transform into software businesses
>ex-colleague of mine who is not specially bright studied 3 months how to "crack the coding interview" and got a job at Google.

Sounds bright to me.
I don't think the sarcasm is needed. Human ingenuity coupled with desperation when conditions truly worsen can be a powerful motivator.
Unless you’re using machine code, it’s all frameworks on frameworks.
This is an interesting question.

One would think, since OpenBSD is BSD licensed, it would be more likely to have vendorized forks available on the marketplace. Companies being obliged to share their code is allegedly a disadvantage of GPL-licenced Linux. But with OpenBSD, there are no prominent commercial forks. The one "active" OpenBSD fork today is HyperbolaBSD, and it hasn't made a single release yet after 2 years. Previous attempts at OpenBSD forks have failed (Bitrig, ÆrieBSD). Somehow, OpenBSD appears to be less fork-able than other BSDs.

Why does the OpenBSD project subvert our expectations of a BSD-licenced OS?

I'm asking as someone who had a positive experience setting up an OpenBSD router and VPN, but not much beyond that.
It’s not the users decision though. They don’t even realize this creepy software gets installed and they don’t know what it does
Probably both. We should remember what was the 1st approach to the Covid problem by Johnson (that is, well over one year ago): he wanted to achieve herd immunity without having enough vaccines or not having them at all, and initially there were no imposed lockdowns or infection prevention rules. The point is that along the extremely high death toll caused by that approach, a huge percentage of people over there might have caught the virus without symptoms, therefore becoming immune to a 2nd infection or at least immune to nasty symptoms. So it's entirely possible that the herd immunity was eventually achieved, although many, including me, would agree the price to pay has been not fair.
Yeah I'm aware of contexts, but I was thinking more of things like deferring until certain dates and also having task sequencing (so for example if I defer the first task in a sequence, it won't show me the next tasks, since they're not available).

> GTD has a lot of solutions for various types of todo list problems, but then again, you have to be a quite conscientious person to follow through on all of the details of it. At which point you probably have no problem with plain scribbles on some loose paper.

I kinda disagree with that. Like I agree that you need to be studious, but not to the level of not needing the organization. "Being able to orgainze a list of tasks" and "being able to hold a list of tasks in your head" or "being able to work off the list of tasks without it being organized" are different things on different axes.

I would also much rather be like you wife, but absent that I'll at least do a thing that I know is better than nothing. Sometimes the results get thrown out but nothing is zero effort.
I had the same experience, some internal recruiter reaching out that they were super impressed and wanted me for some special group, then a phone call where they never bothered to show up(!) so we rescheduled, then some stupid interview where they asked me to estimate the value of 2^10 or something and then told me they didn't want me for the special group after all. Complete waste of time, especially given I didn't really even want the job, they reached out to me. Taught me a lesson, at least: I'll never work at a big company, no salary is worth that kind of treatment of other people.
Developers Admit to Blindly Downloading Code from Internet
Spec will give you stronger feedback than a docstring or function signature. It can tell you (in code terms, with a testable predicate) if a call to an interface wouldn't make sense.

Eg, spec can warn you when an argument doesn't make sense relative to the value of a second argument. Eg, with something like (modify-inventory {:shoes 2} :shoes -3) spec could pick up that you are about to subtract 3 from 2 and have negative shoes (impossible!) well before the function is called - so you can test elsewhere in the code using spec without having to call modify-inventory or implement specialist checking methods. And a library author can pass that information up the chain without clear English documentation and using only standard parts of the language.

You can't do that with defrecord, but it is effectively a form of documentation about how the arguments interact.
One point about 1. Even if Store Security DOES catch them at the door. What do you do when the person says "I dont care im taking this and going" and refuses to stop for the security person. The security person is not a cop, and is probably not the very expensive armed security that banks have. If the person calls their bluff not much can be done at that point. And thieves know this.

They then head to their car and leave. You try to take their license plate number. Oh wait it says "tag applied for".

Criminals regularly take the plates off when they do their work, if a cop pulls them over, they can say some story about how they needed to get it reattached, and no cop pulls over a car just because of a "tag applied for" sign because they know it will likely be just that 9 times out of 10, so if they did pull over that car its some other ticket-able offense, but no registration wont be likely part of that ticket.

Maybe you got a picture of their face? Except everyone wears masks now....
But maybe someone has a contract with some schools so it's good money.
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Also people ditch the mask when they are "close enough" to the day. I saw the masks drop as early as a month before that date. I really don't think 100% of the shoppers in my grocery stores were vaccinated.
Been many years now. SOL lapsed long ago. I'm free and clear.
And Rails is just ruby. But like React, it’s a framework for the web built on top of the language. It’s additional complexity you don’t need to use when it’s not beneficial. React is great for web apps. The author is building websites. Those don’t need React.

The problem the author identifies is when really popular frameworks overshadow their respective languages such that people think you have to use them for everything.
> I paid for two 2-packs of rat traps when in fact I had taken two 4-packs. Do I go back and correct this crime?

I'm curious what you believe the crime was? It's possible the item rang up wrong and you inputted the correct numbers.

And whether you should have gone back--what would you have done if you relised you made the opposite mistake--you paid for two 4-packs, but only taken two 2-packs?
My favorite documentary is Earthlings

http://www.nationearth.com/
Speak for yourself. I actually do need to schedule a dentist appointment once a year, and having software deal with that for me is nice.

Some people actually organize their day-to-day "stuff that they need to do" through these lists.
He didn’t
> the question of 'others' not belonging to the same country never enters the discussion

Agreed, no one AFAIK thinks the other does not belong to India. There is a bit of racism in certain corners about the North East folks, considered as 'non Indian' primarily due to lack of awareness, since they do not conform to an 'Indian look'

The issue is more on 'outside my state' - as seen in response to the various riparian struggles across the country.

Some examples:

- The Shiv Sena in Mumbai was formed for this very reason

- No state except Tamil Nadu will accept having as its chief minister, someone who is not born from or speaking its language etc. The roots run deep.

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Coming to the feeling of patriotism, Tamils are as or more patriotic than any other people when it comes to the concept of 'belonging to India', but these feelings are put under a lot of stress because of the unique situation, where people of their own race (outside of India) were given a short shrift both by local and national politicians. There is a lot of soul searching on what it means to be a Tamil. Obviously there is no consensus.
Politicians won't do that as long as there is any sort of political cost for them. They will just react, slowly, to what the society as a whole accepts as good.
> After the Federal Court ruled Troy was in fact an Australian citizen in 2019, The Department of Home Affairs appealed. It still claimed he was an “immigrant” and should not have the Australian citizenship he had held for more than 40 years.

The Department was not acting in good faith, expecting them to provide any accommodation is unrealistic.
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You know exactly why, because of how anti-semitism is used as an excuse to ignore all the Israeli and/or Jewish terrorism.
governments kind of act a bit like a paper clip maximising AI. once they find some good metrics to optimise on then they will just try and increase them without any thought of tradeoffs.
Applying questions of the morality of eating meat to obligate carnivores makes no sense; there can be no moral question if there isn’t an option between two paths. Obligate carnivores MUST eat meat, so whether or not they “should” makes no sense to ask.

Humans are not obligate carnivores, though, which is morally relevant. We can hold human beings to a standard (don’t eat animals if you can avoid it) but not carnivores to the same specifically because we have a choice and they do not.
¿Cómo liderar una empresa con éxito?
These are also all negative externalities at this point.

Even straightforward engineering problems need funding to get engineers assigned to them.
This is the Opportunity Cost of entrepreneurship. You should read `No, You Can’t Have It All`[0] by Mark Manson. Sometimes you just have to forgo certain things to follow your dream

[0] https://markmanson.net/you-cant-have-it-all
> Does anybody know of open source alternatives that could be pushed in the classroom?

I have no idea to be honest but they wouldn't be that hard to make given the wide choice of portable computational power. Surely wouldn't be all that complicated to 3d print a housing and shove a rpi zero in there or some of it's most powerful cousins. That said, with all the parts and effort I doubt it would come a whole lot cheaper.
Sorry for the long delay on replying to this - what packages depend on files being there? I've never had a single issue with pnpm's approach to package management, minus some poor support from github.
This is rediculous. Just a few years ago there was an article about silicon valley casual fashion being challenging for minorities who grew up outside the bubble and were taught to dress their best in a work suit or similar. The LGBT is huge on visual signals of allegiance. Popular brands are built 80% on what their brand signals and not on their build quality. There are countless examples of clothing being used to signal elements of personal identity but for some reason you seem to consider this 'fascile' because our wardrobes aren't full-on biographies of personality.
Oh I think its a mix of both. But I do not have your insight ofc, so just guessing.
I think banks should move slowly and pay extra attention to security. Examples like N26 show that not doing so can cause significant issues.

But its also a great excuse to justify your vintage cruft.
Heap-Sort

https://youtu.be/Xw2D9aJRBY4

Binary Search

https://youtu.be/iP897Z5Nerk

Quick-Sort

https://youtu.be/ywWBy6J5gz8

Bubble-Sort

https://youtu.be/lyZQPjUT5B4

I will bring my dancing shoes to the next
FAANG interview.
It seems to me that ageism actually has some value.

People never got any smarter, but the nature and details of group activity have changed over time.

After a career of delivering products for boutique manufacturing companies, I'd say that my ability to pass a modern interview suite is essentially nil. My last gig for a company with modern practices taught me that it's no fun in any case as design devolves into manufacturing (perhaps for good reason).

Give me a young body, and I'd look into purposefully arcane careers with little remuneration. Blacksmithing perhaps.
You've seen a case where someone wrote something in Python that later devs could not understand and then rewrote it in . . . what? And you've seen that with Java?

There's a big difference between a developer going off and writing something in one of the top five most used languages in the world and doing so in Scala.
The rest of the week is happening either way. It's not changing because of the dancing.

Let me put it another way: Nir's argument seems to be that motivation is derived entirely from avoiding negative consequences or outcomes.

That doesn't account for things like personal hobbies, where a person is more motivated to pass the time in a particular way.

There are people who do what others would call "work" just for fun, when they could otherwise just be relaxing with a glass of wine. There's no aversive experience from choosing the wine instead -- they just prefer to do the hobby.
"(And obviously have the ability to disable this feature if the user wishes)"

True, that didn't really come to mind since they don't generally talk about allowing that for guns. The best thing is probably using one's phone as the token since the phone has bluetooth and this article mentions that the tools are unlocked with that.

The reason I brought up biometrics is that the unlocking 'token' is less likely to get lost than the bracelet, etc. But that does bring up another good point, that some of the common biometrics like fingerprints wouldn't work since many people wear work gloves.

Although, it would provide a good large-scale proof of concept for smart gun tech if it worked the same as the proposed smart gun tech.