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are you capturing Carbon or CO2? It seems we've released Carbon from prehistoric oil, but not O2. what is the consequence of capturing O2 as well?
One idea that seems to make sense to me is that social mobility is the equivalent of starvation in a socialist setup. What we see today with the poorer sections of society especially African Americans is a strong indicator that all systems of power should be viewed critically and with compassion. The vast majority of the poor in America for example are obese and that's one cost I can think of that we pay for the current system. Btw, I'm not saying poverty is the cause, just that the system is setup to maximize free market outcomes that are not good but we put up with them, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-true-conne...
I miss that aspect of New England. Agriculture there is much more local. Apple picking in the fall was a delight.
The devil is in the details.

At least on Ubuntu, and possibly on Debian, the Bluetooth stack has been broken until around 20.04. It's still partially broken as of 20.04 (the discovery module is incorrectly configured). This applies to any machine with such distro(s) installed.

I have the reference Ubuntu-supported laptop, and it's misconfigured by default, so that on standby, the battery drains very quickly. The keyboard lights also are buggy. And something else I can't remember.

Oh, and just for reference - Nvidia users can hardly even start a standard Ubuntu, because Nouveau has poor compatibility (GT 710? Nah, and let alone the RTX cards...). Nvidia's ferociously guilty in this case, but to a end user, matter-of-factually, this is a Linux problem.

A fair description of Linux is that its compatibility is "fine". More than that... it's a stretch. Nonetheless, I'm still a Linux hardcore user :)
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>it seems clear that it was passed in response to poorly-funded educational programming not being able to compete with high-budget commercial network TV.

>The breadth and depth of educational content available just on YouTube is incredible.

It seems like the second statement I quoted shows the failure (at least on the Internet) of the first.

When we can have decentralized, or at least widely used non-profit distribution channels like PBS provides for TV, that will be a very good thing.

But as long as the primary distribution channels are focused on raking in the cash rather than providing access to good educational/cultural content for that purpose, the free exchange of ideas is at risk.
yes, and that is generally worse
As someone with ADHD, this has been the most advantageous change for me. Another things I can do now is play a game on my phone during meetings - it may be counter-intuitive to others, but occupying my visual cortex and hands with a simple game allows me to pay attention to what someone is saying without having my mind wander.
I cannot help but chuckle at how what is old is new again here. In the 70's and early 80's all of IBM's mainframes supported liquid cooling. Basically when a computer "uses" X kW of power it really means that it generates that many kW of heat while it is operating. Removing heat at scale has been a thing for a long time.

And what was alluded to in the video is the thermal mass of 'air' kind of sucks. So the old design of chilling air down to 67 degrees and filling a room with that air so that it can circulate around electronics putting out prodigious amounts of heat, and then collected and re-cooled, is not nearly as efficient as one would like.

Cooling water, piping it to the heat exchanger in the back door of the rack and then (unlike the video's idea) sucking air through it first, and then pushing the cooled air over the electronics to 're-heat' it, works better. Then you don't really care what temperature the air in the data center itself is as long as the heat exchanger can remove 'x' watts of heat from it before it gets blown over the computers. Suck air in from the floor (the coolest air) and blow it out the top (where it continues on to the ceiling).

Still, that only doubles the power capacity of the racks (maybe 2.5x if the heat exchanger is filled with actively chilled water)

Prior to heat exchanger doors people would have "cold" aisles and "hot" aisles. The cold air from the CRAC units would come up from the floor behind the servers, get sucked through them and exhausted forward into the "hot" aisle. There is a whole little mini industry of "cold air containment" which has stuff to build doors/covers for the cold aisle so that all of that air is sucked through servers.
I remember Jim Cramer on CNBC saying he wouldn't recommend fossil fuel, gun, and cigarette companies because of ethical reasons. then he went on to push one of those gambling companies, who on his show said it was their goal to get every family in America gambling on their platform.

I'm like, you said that? are you trying to get banned?
Yes that was my point. You don't need DI or to structure your code any differently in Ruby/JS/Python. You just mock a method.
Granted, I'm shopping for myself, but buying goods for only a week or two out I don't feel like I spend $70.

If you go to a bulk store like Costco it certainly adds up. I don't go to those places because I can never use the stuff up fast enough before it goes bad.
Hopefully France does not view all French youth as the USA views welfare and other voucher recipients.

In theory, democratic capitalist society offers non-zero paths to upward mobility, for welfare recipients to re-enter normal society and earn national currency for market use.

As WeChat and social credit systems have shown in China, widespread adoption of digital payments tends to reduce acceptance of less-restrictive payment alternatives.

Time will tell if CBDC aspirants can displace incumbent currencies, or if CBDC users can have the same upward mobility hope as EBT voucher users.
Why bother to exist at all (besides profiting) if nobody is changing their actions based on the reporting or programming you provide?

It's a fantasy that there was ever objective reporting, or that NPR/PBS was ever capable of producing it. All news media is propaganda and always has been. Even "liberal" outlets like NPR News spout extremely right wing, reactionary, pro-capital viewpoints while they pretend to dig deep for objective truth.

Smart political actors and media types have woken up to the fact that there isn't much value in pretending to be "fair and balanced" anymore. This is the reason why middle class people who think of themselves as centrists (meaning that they had accepted the liberal consensus which dominated popular media for decades) have begun decrying "polarization."

Moving beyond news content though, PBS also makes entertainment content. What does it mean to have a factual/objective version of /Arthur/? Do we need political officers in PBS Kids storyboarding sessions to make sure left wing concepts like sharing or feminism aren't accidentally introduced to the population?
And ... is the whole user being mocked or just the method?
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You are not forced by the language to wrap libraries. In fact "Programming Clojure" by some of the authors says the following:

"Clojure embraces java and its libraries. Idiomatic Clojure code calls Java libraries directly and doesn't try to wrap everything under the sun to look like Lisp. This surprises make new Clojure developers but is very pragmatic. Where Java isn't broken, Clojure doesn't fix it"

So the ecosystem is a superset of the Java and JS ecosystems, which are pretty developed.

I do agree that the cost of required to know 2 or 3 languages is real though.
Agreed. At a bare minimum, human thought patterns have to be rare. At some point we're either going to murder ourselves or create a Von Neumann machine capable of interstellar flight. After that humans or human-derived machines will fill the universe. Since that obviously hasn't happened with alien machines, the aliens are either not alive or totally unlike us.
The key thing here is: Bayern has the best striker in the world, Lewandowski. So they will keep passing the ball around, until the opportunity arises to pass to him, and he knows what to do with such gift. Spain in the Euro tried to play the same tactics, but they lack a good striker, making the whole game incredibly boring.
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Duration_...

> Added time was introduced because of an incident which happened in 1891 during a match between Stoke and Aston Villa. Trailing 1–0 and with just two minutes remaining, Stoke were awarded a penalty. Villa's goalkeeper kicked the ball out of the ground, and by the time the ball had been recovered, the 90 minutes had elapsed and the game was over

If you didn't let the ref continue the game to their discretion it would make time-wasting tactics even worse. At least now if a team is adjudged to be taking the piss with the timewasting the ref can just mentally tack another minute or two onto the game. It's good that there isn't a "hard stop" that will end the game even if an attack is in full flow.
If it's clearly not a big deal, can you explain why the Israeli defense minister is in France?

An Israeli company made a weapon, assembled it, loaded it and acted as a spotter for Morocco, who's the party that selected the french targets and then pulled the trigger. Even if the intelligence wasn't shared, the Israeli government should be held responsible for its arms exports.
You're exactly right that our schema could be better and that it's non-trivial to execute on a schema change, especially because we actually run a distributed Postgres cluster via Citus AND we use a special sharding method that we manage manually.

We actually just started working towards how we might do a schema change for the 1+ million shards in our cluster. Hopefully, we'll be able to write up some learnings on the schema change after its done. :)
Afaik 16px only relatively lately became the ‘default size’ on the web. I'm not even sure that ‘css pixels’ were a thing ten years ago. But it's possible.
Was it a HP by any chance. I got a Zbook and its the first laptop in more than a decade i can't get to work with linux. Starting 20 or so docker containers with docker compose kills something and makes it freeze / lock up.

I didn't think it was hard not to be compatible i suppose HP tried their best.
At risk of being that 'Yer doing it wrong' guy... I really find that the best approach is using the mbp for browsing, email, occasional graphics work. And then living mostly in iterm connecting to Linux boxes.

This way I can avoid all the crappy Linux desktop stuff, and simultaneously avoid all the crappy OSX dev stuff. The hardware I actually look at and touch all day is top quality (because face it, Macbooks are supremely well built and comfortable), while all the mad hacking happens in a serious environment.

But if pressed I'd have to admit to keeping a late model ryzen/win10 machine on hand for entertainment.
I always had trouble with Linux. I mean, it always kind of works, but never quite right.

Graphic cards are difficult, sound is a pain in the ass to get working (Pulse + ALSA omfg! It's a clusterfuck).

Another thing that has never been quite right is power management. Deep sleep modes, etc.

Dynamic hardware coming and going (monitors especially).

Battery life tends to suck on notebooks.

I don't know. Apple still makes the best notebooks for my taste in terms of overall experience.
In counterpoint, many people in the US will never forget when the political leaders have transformed an mainly industrial country which gave stable jobs for their households, into a deindustrialized husk of a country led by greedy bankers, rentiers, and scammers. All this is the two parties of the US's doing, and the people won't forget it.

We've seen plenty how democratic countries can go through civil war and political struggle, this isn't something that only happens to dictatorships. And I am just so tired of the dichotomies most people have in their minds for the current form of state governments, both China and the US's political systems are complex and nuanced enough that you can't really call it communism/capitalism or dictatorship/democracy anymore. I was just comparing about which government is actually more competent than the other for dealing with the current problems in the world. One seems just a little bit more competent than the other, but that's as far as it can get.
> Theft shouldn't be tolerated from either side.

It shouldn't, nor should it lead to long custodial sentences.

> The agenda seems to be it's ok to steal, commit crime if you're a specific skin color.

Wow. Wasn't even going to go there, but if you are going to let your racist flag fly I guess we can just let you run with it. The rest of us will continue to explore radical ideas like attacking the causes of criminal behavior rather than just criminalizing poverty and when necessary treating offenders with rehabilitation rather than the sort of simple-minded retribution that you seem to favour.
Here is a wild guess: a new kind of store sells only the top, say, 50% of items in terms of sales numbers, and sells them for a little less. People out shopping for things all from that group go there. But everybody needs the bottom 50% sometimes, and when they do, that store is no longer around.
IANAL but arguably, those indicator files are merely lists of information, and therefore are not subject to copyright. They are not, on their own, a creative work.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/types-databases-that...
This is all ridiculous. Of course you have to test that people can code, but it doesn't follow that people must be able to code without any references available, or without using standard libraries. I can code just fine, but I still have to look up the arguments to functions I don't use very often, etc.

As far as algorithms/data structures, most of what we do on a day-to-day basis is more about selecting the appropriate data structures and algorithms that fit the problem, and assembling them together correctly. I've never needed to code a hashtable, but I need to think about their characteristics and whether they're appropriate all the time. I've never written a btree, but I do understand database indices pretty well. So in my view, asking candidates to code up these things on the fly in an interview with no reference materials is a total waste of time. What matters more is if they can correctly apply them. If you're really sure someone needs to write these things, then a more realistic move would be to sit them down with a standard textbook or paper and see if they can get the code working.

> After all, we expect you to be able to write production-level code that servers billions of users.

And you do all this through sheer clairvoyance, rather than using tools like unit tests, code review, design specs, etc, right? No? Then why are you expecting people in interviews to do it without those things.
By virtue of preferring green apples, I've only had a local Red Delicious a few times in the past, but I don't recall having had any problem with the taste - except for, well, being too sweet for me.

I guess I'll have to buy some the next time I see them to see what the fuss is about (and if there is any fuss to be had in the first place).
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Thats a quite different statement from vcs not being a tool you use. At least how I read it.
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I’m confused; wouldn’t you want it to reflect the solar radiation, not absorb it?
The energy has to go somewhere!
Unless the energy is going into something else, like increasing some chemical potential energy, or producing electrical power, or something, if it is absorbed, it is as heat.
While, if it is reflected, (some proportion of) it may leave the earth as light.

I guess something which might help is if you could change the wavelengths that went out from it to be ones that would be more likely to leave earth rather than being absorbed/reflected by the atmosphere? But I don’t know if that can be done efficiently enough to not produce more heat in the process of changing the wavelengths than just reflecting it would, if it is even possible.
> Nearly everything worked out of the box, even when it was brand new.

This is not a common experience. Brand new hardware is especially problematic, but at least much of it tends to get supported eventually. But there's a lot of random junk around that is just very unlikely to get meaningful support.
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No thanks, the equinix DC I have dealt with has had so many chiller outages I am glad that the fans were able to keep the temp low enough to prevent damage.

If I lost all cooling the equipment would literally be toast.
FoxMarks, then XMarks, used to be great (though a little too eager to duplicate at times).

Then it was acquired by LastPass. Then killed. I relished the day I could log off LastPass for the last time.
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The official blog is the cleaned-up version, they removed the most interesting articles when they sold out to match.com

Famously, the article "Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating" got deleted during the acquisition.

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Ask HN: Advice for Applying as Back End Dev
I'm going to apply as a Backend Developer in a tech company around next month. I majored in health, did not finish. I'm not gonna tell anything about my education either because they don't require any bachelor certificate. They have system design interview, some coding interview and some behavioral interview. Now I'm learning system design, CP, and also building a project with golang. What should I do to increase my chance of being accepted? Thank you
There will _always_ be good old days.
It's an interesting point.
Also, if you're time poor, you may not have time to actually cook or meal prep. Working multiple low income jobs is not uncommon, and those jobs often tend to have very erratic schedules that you can't plan around. (Usually around limiting your hours below 30, so that the health insurance requirement does not kick in.)
Many of these nebulae that people see a lot on the internet are actually HUGE in the night sky, contrary to popular misconception that you need a Hubble telescope to capture many of them. A lot are much larger than a full moon, but just too dim for the naked eye to see. I've been doing a project to capture them in context with landscapes around California.

You can get quite a lot of detail with standard camera lenses; you just need a dark sky and a star tracker that lets you expose for long enough, and a different IR filter that cuts off at ~700nm instead of 640nm, so you can get the Hydrogen alpha line to pass through (which is actually within the visible band, but consumer cameras attenuate it to almost zero).

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Weather is one thing, but I never lived in a city that had weather. These days my daughter’s classes and activities get canceled ad hoc on zero notice. Like they will just dismiss school at lunch without announcing it in advance.
Everyone makes up their own. I can't for the life of me fathom how this doesn't subject them to all sorts of discrimination etc. claims (one of the reasons lots of companies favour standardised questions).

Obviously the drawback for FAANG is that standardised questions would rather rapidly leak. Very quickly you'll just end up with candidates that know how to answer your questions.

Where I work now, it's a mix of pool questions ("soft" skills) and interviewer-made questions (technical skills), but it's not a hard and fast rule to use the pool questions. I rarely use the precise wording for the pool questions, and instead adapt them to match the conversation with the candidate.
Something being very common and a very common source of portability issues isn't exactly contradictory. Its a bad idea, and it is outright being taught in modern game programming courses that its a bad idea, but common in older guides, specifically because it caused so many problems. Im pissed at this specific construct because I got it handed to me in a huge game library and had to spent a long time figuring out why it wasn't working in rare, but important cases.
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Score of 90. I doubt this really invokes creativity (in my case). I just start making a vowel sound in my head and then finish it with a word, so its more sound oriented than based on association.
Most have been mainly me. I normally was hired and get stuck doing this kind of stuff until the other team was supporting the old project. Along the way was the one that push source control, tickets system, crude CI to the larger team...

Maybe being solo or being part of a small team is good after all. A rewrite is normally called because of a BIG mess, and most of that is simplify stuff.

My niche is "enterprise" software, where is HIGHLY dependent in niche details from non-developers, so having not clarity of what the software actually do, why or how, and neither the people that use it understand it. Zero or useless documentation, and all the bad red flags you think off.

2 have been large-ish (I think from the POV of most people in my country are large but not from the POV of people that work in companies like google).

One was in a startup (at the time one of the largest paying customers of Google cloud). The other was in succession of failed attempts between maybe 2 or 3 groups of developers (the one before me was a big consultant company with a large team that left me with a BIIIIG mess!).

The longest rewrite was 2 years (from FoxPro to .NET, an ERP, 1-5 devs, only me all the time p.d: just the core, the rest was later). This was a near failure that was turned around.

The one were we failed was by lack of properly understand the severity of downtime for the customers and not provide a transparent migration, in real time, of the data. The cost in days - for the testing, upgrade and all that) cost them more money than they pay for the new software.

The company I work back them get broke working for the government in another contract and the customer was not willing to recover from it. Is certainly the most sad history of my career because it was not that impossible to turn the ship around - the software was ready, only need to retrofit how move the data without downtime-, but everything go under in no time...
> I can't think of a way to intrude that isn't intrusive or patronizing. :/

Because it is, people can spend their money however they like and they can value convenience or have any other reason to shop there. Also being old doesn't make them incapable of deciding where to shop.
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> Why do smart phone manufacturers get to decide what version of andriod I can run?

Because they (and the chip vendors) are the ones writing drivers and never upstreaming them or porting them to new enough kernels to support newer Android versions.
Internal mobility is strongly encouraged. People typically move after promotion, which is expected after 2 years. Some people don't like to move, bringing it down to about 2/year. All working as intended. Then, people moving out tend to want to join new teams, for the career growth opportunity, while you want new hires in established teams.

Note: that's anecdotal from a couple years of observation. I haven't looked into any Google-wide statistics (and if I did I would not blabber about them). But I'd be surprised if this was way off.