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I've experienced this too; sure, work is getting done, but it's so difficult to be creative in a way that gets people excited and thinking about problems and their solutions to make our (and our user's) lives better.

Coming up with projects that are impactful and novel is a large part of our jobs, and creative velocity has nose-dived since everyone went remote. There's just (to me) no substitute for hallway chat, overhearing people arguing and getting involved, or coming across an interesting white boarding conversation. One person at a time talking on a scheduled webex is just not at all the same.
Well, it could be that there is an army of paid trolls targeting this relatively small and specialized forum, but it strikes me as much more likely that this is a contentious issue and not everyone feels the same way about it.
I buy books by the bushel from thrift stores. Can't beat those prices!
Ah.. they’re stubborn dev that don’t care about anything but themselves…
These problems have been solved many times before.
Not invented here
I'm with the bet-the-house guy. I've worked for huge organizations since 1990 and I really think that even a mid-grade student project could make decisions as well as the management I've known, which includes multiple Fortune 50 CEOs. When I say "known" I mean "known" and not "been ten layers under."

What I think will happen is CEOs will be glorified actors that are tasked with delivering the decisions some ML system has made. It'll be like the "white guy in a suit" role that some Chinese companies have.
If you're growing that fast, then a system or two is a rounding error. You won't have plenty no matter what you do, so how about not wiping out other species for that extra smidge?
It wasn't out of the blue. This complaint has been ongoing for a long time. Regulators have been vocal about these concerns for a while. Discussion of these issues,such as how the ad industry is at odds with privacy activists and increasingly regulators too, are common across various academic and industry forums. Amazon will have taken expert legal advice and likely have been involved in lobbying at all levels. Regulators typically have carefully constructed action policies which cover a range of measures, including warnings, which may well be delivered privately. Not everything that happens in the world makes the front page of Hacker News :)
> believing that he should not have been told to shut-up in the first place

The rape and sexual assault complainers had their anonymity protected by court order. That's completely normal (in the UK anyway).

Craig Murray's not a martyr. He's an eejit.
> Sure you could always use hard drives and SSDs with SATA to USB adapters, but you [...] can't RAID them together, at least not without some hacks.

Why can't you RAID them together? The kernel doesn't care; all it wants to see are block devices. I recently recovered the files off a dead NAS by plugging the drives into USB adapters, and plugging those into a Raspberry Pi. RAID array assembled just fine.
If PRC was the same mess it was in the 50’s they could have ignored them without issue. The problem for the UK was they had something to lose from offending China and it was a politically tricky situation domestically. They needed to hand HK to someone and doing what was best for HK was never a serious consideration.
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Power scales to the square of exhaust velocity while thrust linearly, so if you have a very good power to weight power source like a black hole, you can use a very high exhaust velocity and thus can get by with very little reaction mass. Which is good.

Also, you can make a spaceship out of an asteroid (or from asteroid materials) so multi WTC mass is not a problem.
[2018]

I think the author was also a guest on the Embedded.fm pod cast where she or someone from PatentPandas explains the story more. [0]

Patent law on all topics can be summed up with one simple phrase. Doesn't matter if you're applying, fighting, buying, all your prior art, the number of sealed envelopes you mailed yourself, testimony, claims, or anything else on the topic.... When it comes to anything patent:

"You're going to need a lawyer"

EDIT: Found it, https://embedded.fm/episodes/277
housing would follow the work places, and as they go, housing demand is not a given.
They don't give a shit about your data though. There are lots of horror stories of people losing all of their photo's of the past decade(s) because Google decided to block their account with place to get in touch with them and now way to restore anything.

Tech companies aren't your friend, they are faceless corporations with nice services. When they fail you though, they fail you big time, unless you have solid back-ups.
on second thought, i'm not totally sure you can use the index without a steam account.
When I got my first job as a Junior Malware Researcher, I was earning $422 per month. That times 7 is exactly the cost of the MacBook Pro I got (1TB SSD, 16GB RAM)

Yes, I live in Romania, and salaries have been increasing a bit but they're still a joke for junior devs.
There’s no privacy online
"come back to support commercial real estate"
It might be too late to try sewing together a parachute though.

This is the problem with putting deadlines on climate change: if the deadline is too close to the present day, people will say "We're too late to do anything about it", and if it's too far away people will say "Ah, we'll fix that later".
I've successfully used DDCControl: http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net in the past.
I think that it is actually quite expensive and time consuming to convert office space to residential. The main issue being plumbing. Most offices are setup to have a few restrooms and maybe a sink in each space for the break room.

It's a rather difficult problem when you go from 5 rarely used sinks on each floor to needing to supply water and waste drainage for maybe 50 sinks, 50 showers, 50 bathtubs, 50-100 toilets, 50 washing machines, etc, all on that same floor. Not to mention that you now have to figure out waste disposal because you will be creating way more garbage that is much smellier.
No not at all. Keep reading.
is this true? How is one elected with 14% of the vote?
The Paddle mention is very interesting, I'd never heard of it before. I really hope they make the Sketch-like model an integrated part of the platform, I wish more apps used that revenue model, and I'd like to use it myself for some productivity utilities in the future.
I'm willing to bet that the majority of people with one hour each-way commutes don't earn $75K total.
The sophons themselves were a piece of magic science fiction. Which I think is fine because the author really doesn’t ask you to suspend your disbelief all that much throughout the books. The star plucking is another example, as far as we know you can’t use a star to do that.

But accelerating them towards earth “at the speed of light” isn’t exactly a problem. The LHC accelerates protons to about 3 m/s less than the speed of light, and as far as the plot is concerned the sophons travelling here at the speed of light, or some tiny fraction of a percent less than the speed of light doesn’t make any difference.
It's just (d)ifferent.
Love the idea and mission! Best of luck Ishita!
Yeah, I've gone through phases of almost loving RimWorld, but it really lacks the depth and cohesion of Dwarf Fortress' simulation.

There's a sense of something missing, and RimWorld tries to fill that void with its random event generator, the "storyteller system". A better game would at least give you ways to interact with them - to predict solar flares or prevent electrical shorts - and indeed there are mods which help with this. But it just underlines the shallowness of the simulation, how these events are truly random and not connected to the game world in any meaningful way.
People are quitting where I work over this. (Not at Apple)

Lots of people have a commute of 1+ hour, then time to walk to the office get settled etc. Same on the way home.

For the last ~16 months people everywhere have clawed back 5 or 10 or 15 hours a week. That's a huge increase in leisure time: Enough for a another hobby, additional professional development, time with family, or just relax & help avoid burn out. A huge increase in quality of life.

Where I work the message is now "Everyone is back, in the office, full-time, every day, no exceptions, full stop." No WFH was allowed pre-pandemic.

So, people quitting. Most places are at least offering some form of hybrid. But then our President/CEO just retired, and a new one starts next week. I suspect that faced with an IT department gutting itself day by day, there may be a reconsideration. I hope there is.
> can cause you to take those decisions/behave like so

That denies that people have agency. Nobody makes anyone make those choices.
It is a plausible that a larger, richer society can:

* more rapidly improve its technology, both to reduce energy use and to reduce emissions
* afford to pay for mitigations of the problems that do occur
* can consider larger projects like geoengineering
* afford to slow its growth, it is easier to avoid the need for future growth when you are already wealthy
* better make us of economies of scale to improve per-person efficiencies
* specialize in the tasks required to managed a higher climate variance, energy production diverse and more rapidly changing world
Walmart is known as a town killer, Amazon is an industry killer.
such as take the next overcrowded raft to Lampadusa, Italy, because he's more likely to be able to swim to shore when it capsizes?
Thanks! Your idea sounds awesome!

I had a great experience using SimplyCoreAudio for that task, I assume you probably already know about it: https://github.com/rnine/SimplyCoreAudio
I agree with your main point that prehistoric warfare and violence was not rare.

I'm not sure I'd frame it as most scholarly works getting this wrong. Almost all scholarship I've encountered in the last 25 years agrees with the position that both prehistoric warfare was common and that relationships between hunter gather societies often included violence. There is an open question of exactly how violent (extremely violent, frequently violent), but one would be hard pressed to find credible scholars arguing that mass violence was almost unheard of in pre-history.

Going all the way back to John Locke in the 18th Century and before that to Biblical understandings of pre-history there was a notion that past human arrangements were extremely violent. There was some trendy early and mid 20th Century scholarship that attempted to argue that mass violence was a disease of the civilized societies, but such arguments were, as far as I can tell, only fashionable because they rejected the assumed status-quo.
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Your first paragraph: Sure. There's debate to be had. My point is that the "it's my body" argument seems deliberately designed to hide the fact that the fetus isn't just a part of the woman's body. It's not like her tonsils or her appendix or her toenails. [Edit: That is, it's designed to hide the need for the debate.]

As to your second paragraph, it looks about even to me. If I walk around unvaccinated, I might infect someone. I might infect several people. Somewhere between zero and several people could die because of that. Whereas with abortion, the fetus is going to die with 100% probability.

But yes, people can be vocal about not wanting to be around unvaccinated people. The fetus? It never got a chance to voice an opinion.
I'd recommend looking at a cheap TI-36X Pro. It's solar powered and responsive. It's not a graphing calculator, but it has the nice graphing-calculator features most people really need (movable cursor and multi-line display with scrollable history).
There is a transfer strategy designed to look like typical Internet/WWW activity, but I don’t know how true that is.
As another commentator said, the commercial real estate industry is a huge force in NYC and NYS politics. However, it's also a huge revenue generator for both city and state. Putting aside political influence, they're staring down the double barrels of covid money running out, and then greatly reduced revenue from rents. NYS is also weighed down by pension costs, so I can see why Cuomo wants people back ASAP.
Do you have more info on why it was gridlocked? I thought many of these initiatives passed by wide margins, like 2:1 for weed.
I mean, sure, they probably could push around a weak state in violation of international law more easily; that's how they ended up administering the territory in the first place. I can't see what that implies though; the situation would have been just as sticky for cross-Strait relations if not more so.
Have a friend in HR at a fortune 500 company. He said that early on, they were not sure on what the work from home rules would be and they found that applicants were simply ghosting them when they found that it wasn't a set in stone policy yet. They are trying to hire a lot of tech talent and so they had to officially declare that people would have extensive work from home privileges if they were going to get anywhere close to their hiring goals.
I think it has to be pointed out that the other side of this is that there have been very few serious illnesses and deaths due to Covid. I'll take that over better post-infection societal immunity due to so many having had the disease.
Unfortunately, the vaccination rollout has been an absolute shambles and the NSW government reacted late IMO to the Delta outbreak.
> The enlightenment was a European ideology. China is influenced still by Taoism

That doesn't mean one isn't morally right and one isn't morally wrong.

If you want a hint for which one is which: one asserts that every living person has basic human rights. The other has frequent videos of people ignoring people who are dying, are currently destroying an indigenous population in concentration camps, and when a novel virus broke out, first shut up scientists trying to get the news out, then underplayed it, and then as it started spreading saw citizens weld shut doors of people suspected of having that virus.
Or just accept that the numbers don’t work out. The numbers cannot possibly have worked out for the past year, but it hasn’t hurt them any.
I could see him winning another term. If the only candidate to run against him in the primary is someone with little to no prior political experience, endorsed by AOC—-I can definitely see him being renominated by default.
Snow Crash. It's equal parts great and wacky
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Those things were deadlocked by his office. The legislature had tried legalizing weird years ago, for example. His office is notoriously dysfunctional and only gets around to doing anything when he needs a political win.
Badness is indeed a property of the output of this algorithm. A good image crop frames the subject of the photo being cropped to fit nicely in the provided space. A bad image crop zooms in on boobs for no obvious reason, or always prefers showing white faces to Black faces.

You're attempting to suggest that the quality of an image crop cannot be objectively measured. If the cropping algorithm changes the focus or purpose of a photo entirely, it has objectively failed to do its job. It's as simple as that: the algorithm needs to fit a photo in a rectangle, and in doing so its work cannot be perceived as changing the purpose of the photo. Changing a photo from "picture of woman on sports field" to "boobs" is an obvious failure. Changing a photo from "two politicians" to "one white politician" is an obvious failure. The existence of gray area doesn't mean there is not a "correct" or "incorrect".

> Even the value of “no one should get offended” is subjective, and in my opinion makes a dull, stupid world.

You'd agree with the statement "I don't care if my code does something that is by definition racist"?
They did also send weapons towards earth ahead of their fleet. They arrived much faster than their fleet, but much slower than the sophons.
walmart.com is rebadged jet.com. It isn't a clusterfuck with a tech debt extending back to the 00's like the old walmart site.
Sometimes, like with rabies, once you start to get visible symptoms it is already to late to do something.

With coronavirus we saw what it means to not take action in something that is exponential, just because your reaction time and how broad it should be doesn't follow the progress of the disease, that it is already more severe than what your charts show.

What is left to know is if we are already falling downhill or this was just a bad dice roll in the extreme weather lottery. But it seems to be the former with the changes in the polar vortex.
Hold stablecoins if you don't want the volatility, but when you want to sell some, turn them to BTC and to sell on localbitcoins.
The exact same business logic (helper functions), yes of course. My point is the high level algorithm is going to be fundmanetally different. Just like the high level algorithm on the browser (render and handle UI interaction) is different than the fundamental server-side algorithm (render html from database requests), and yet there might be shared helper functions. Does this make sense?
They didn't take it over "forcibly", they took it over with popular support from the Chinese people. If that doesn't grant you legitimacy I honestly don't know what would.
Apple seems to be making a lot of display related things difficult lately. This, and Display Stream Compression are two.

Just as high refresh and HDR were becoming really mainstream, Big Sur completely broke what was working flawlessly in Catalina (and it has not been fixed as of either 11.5, or the Monterey betas so far - and by completely broke, I mean does not work, at all, for anybody, not just 'some edge case').

With Catalina, my Mac Pro happily drove 2 27" 4K monitors in 10 bit color at 144Hz.

With Big Sur? I can run those same screens at 60Hz 10 bit, or 95Hz 8 bit.

I guess I just need to get a Pro Display XDR...
I don’t see how it would possibly be worse than it happening in use V’s. Testing. This is part of why there is testing. Any system a small percentage of components will be out of spec or defective. Or damaged in transit. There are on the order of 1+ million or more individual battery cells in this installation, which means also multiple times that in electrical connections, plus BMS electronics. Assuming it stays isolated to a single unit, and no other fires occur, I would say their system design is excellent.
> As I recall, the C standard makes no assumption of whether strings are null-terminated or not.

I'm not sure what you mean by assumptions made by the C standard, but it definitely says strings are null-terminated:

> A byte with all bits set to 0, called the null character, shall exist in the basic execution character set; it is used to terminate a character string.

and

> A string literal need not be a string [...], because a null character may be embedded in it by a \0 escape sequence.

(the second one is noting that if a string literal contains "\0", then it's not a string but contains a string with more stuff after it).
I don’t think it’s ever this black and white. If enough employees feel strongly enough about this to quit it’s essentially not the companies decision any more (unless they want to sink their own ship).
There where some good ideas in it but it never really worked for me, I have often wondered if it was translation issues.
Really minor nitpick - high speed rail is faster than airplanes for short to medium distances if you include ( as you should) getting to an airport ( usually farther away from where people live), the security theatre there, and the same at arrival.

( Not to mention much more comfortable, eco-friendly, etc.)
https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 allows you to store the UEFI firmware on the sd card. This enables you to not only boot from USB, but also PXE and even ISCSI
True, but of no relevance to what I said. He won a massive majority (in parliament).
If you really want to know look know further than Cuomo's mismanagement of the governor's office (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-cuomo-miscond...)
Because if they don't, it's the end? You can't seriously expect corporations to welcome unions?
Formosa wasn't a part of China in the 1930s it was a part of Japan.
Pool the money with friends, family, neighbors that also want access? There also used to be dial-up available like from XS4ALL (you'd dial a Dutch number with your modem), but very practical I can't imagine it is.

No real solutions, just thoughts. Hope it helps a little anyhow.
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You suffer under the illusion that recycling means no toxic waste and no energy cost. Every few thousand cycles, they must be broken down and remade at the cost of thousands more tons of toxins. Those toxins and precursors must also be mined by melting down mountains.

That sludge must be locked away in vaults waiting for containment to fail. It just continues to build with each battery cycle.

Nuclear energy storage is much better.

Nuclear waste is tiny by comparison. All the long term nuclear waste ever produced would fit in the footprint of the toxic waste of any one of those battery factories in a single year. But they even bigger difference is that we will reuse that waste when new nuclear deposits become scarce.

Likewise, if done correctly, gravity and hydro offer much higher output per unit of energy stored while having minimal waste.

Even in the absolute best case, batteries slow the destruction of the planet rather than solve the problem.
> Democrats were calling for Desantis' head because he was thought to be cooking the numbers. Republicans are calling for Coumo's head because he was cooking the numbers.

Except, rational people can see that someone being 'thought to cook the numbers' and someone 'cooking the numbers' are wholly different things and only one 'side' worthy of condemnation in this instance.
Um the pentagon didn't have the world's largest supercomputer, and neither did walmart. walmart wouldn't buy a supercomputer to do logistics, as supercomputers are super expensive for modest speed improvements and you didn't need them to do supply chain optimization, and anyway, product tracking is a DB problem, not a supercomputer problem.

What's sad is that there probably is some interesting IT story behind Walmart scaling, but not using supercomputers and using PCs or somethign instead.
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Don Jr.'s quip is only funny if you are laughing -at- him.

There was a pretty good reason not to encourage employees to come in to the office in NYC months ago.
This is awesome. Looking forward to seeing how you get on.
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