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> From what I've seen 80% of local workers end up being somewhere between marginal and abysmal,

Yep.

> The difference I see in results is that a remote worker might trigger regrets for not really giving them a winable situation but a local internal worker triggers empathy even if they became your new lower bound on lazy. This leads some people to fix some local workers and almost all people to give them 3-5 years to improve while hiring additional people that shouldn't be needed.

I again think it's a super complex problem. I think local workers have the luxury of tight feedback loops. When working with offshore labor, you have to basically build in several extra days to get what you want. For an in-office (or even in-timezone) worker, you can get regular updates in real time, so you have more opportunities to jump in if something isn't going correctly. For offshore, you give them a task and then check back in tomorrow. Usually, what they delivered wasn't close to what you asked for, but since they're offline when you're reviewing, you just have to again write what you want and send it back over the wall (where they will update what they did, but again not deliver what you wanted). It takes so much longer.

The contrast between that and non-offshore-remote is still night and day. You don't have to plan so many extra cycles for converting whatever they gave you to whatever you wanted. And the timezones again are just so much easier to work with.
There has never been a vaccine with a side effect found after more than 2-3 months. Long term side-effects are not a thing for vaccines.

Source: Interview with head of German vaccination recommendation commission.
My experience with this is that you have to take a n=1 approach to nutrition. You need to figure out what works for you by experimenting.
Great example. Leetcode absolutely does not test for this. Frankly, no FANG interview question I have ever personally seen tests for this. This sort of deep experience comes out when you actually talk to a candidate about their technical work, what was a really subtle bug you tracked down, etc.
Whatever the numbers are, you are balancing a minuscule risk against another minuscule risk. That's not going to be a convincing argument.
Your excellent reply makes an outstanding argument for not legislating vaccination: The science is far from settled.

Until we have answers that are absolutely certain and the long-term risks are known, we are merely experimenting on the whole of the populace, which could lead to disastrous long-term outcomes.

Policy should be based on facts, not guesses.
Off topic but, there is nobody that is unable to get an ID in the US if they want one.
I remember him initially being sort of balanced and reasonable then he started pushing supplements etc. Then a few years later, he started showing up in infomercials pushing all sorts of crap.

I liked his cookbook, I presume it was ghost written.
>a great job of passing legislation

This is what I mean by "grievance politics". This is not true, but "feels" like it it is. If Congress has done "a great job of passing legislation", what were the legislative achievements of the Trump administration? How did that government reduce its role in our lives? How did the government "shrink" in any way, which is supposed to be the Republican promise?

Republicans/Conservatives don't think the government should provide for society in the same way that Democrats/Liberals do. It's why Republicans politicized wearing a mask and now vaccination, because it's the government doing things. More importantly, telling them to do things. It's why Republicans universally obstruct the progress of the Democrats (see Mitch McConnell not filling a Supreme Court seat) but the reverse isn't generally true. Republicans don't want to pass much of anything, and many Democrats vote for the things they do.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter who is blamed for corruption and incompetence, it still serves to further the idea that government shouldn't do anything. That's not an option when there's a disease ripping though society, which is why the reaction against vaccination and masking is so strong. It's directly challenging the idea that government and society can be effective at solving a problem if we work together. The Jeffersonian ideal of a weak government presiding over a agrarian society is outdated and not a meaningful model for modern society.
I had the opposite reaction, I used amazon MORE because I didn't want to wear masks everywhere.
Shoes don't have systemic side effects.
Most SSDs have a lot of redundancy in the form of multiple flash chips, it's just not exposed to you, the user, by the controller chipset.

There are also PCI-E x16 with multiple NVMe slots. There's nothing stopping some company from making something similar for Thunderbolt.

And I guess the cost is too high and the connectors would be too bulky, but it would be nice to have something like a SODIMM for flash that separates the memory from the controller.
What health metrics do you like for usage-based pricing?
I've launched a new company that is doing pretty well with usage-based pricing, but we don't really have many contracts.

Does anyone have recommendations for how to track typical SaaS metrics like Gross Churn? Not sure how to wrap my head around some good churn metrics. Most of my background is in classic SaaS.

Also, any other metrics people like or articles on good ones to have in usage-based pricing models?
If it wasn't tested to accepted standards, it wouldn't have been delivered into my arm months ago.
> Not at all. Things like CFEengine (1993) and even Puppet predates a spread of "devops" term. Not mentioning tools for automated system installations, embedded in distributions like RedHat or Debian.

Yep.

> Creating a tools, that allows us doing a simple, repeatable and - usually - automated tasks, always was an important part of sysadm role. Of course, there were ones that did everything manually and wasn't able to write own code: we called them "operators".

Yep.

> From my point of view: "devop is that hasty one, that doesn't care about long-term support of underlying infrastructure".

Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
The government does not have a shoe mandate. As far as I know, individual businesses are free to have whatever policies they wish regarding shoes.
"The paper cups Starbucks currently uses contain a plastic lining"

When someone says "Paper" cup, I assume paper and some kind of wax as a sealant, not plastic. I wonder if this violates any kind of FDA or FTC rules?
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> None of the currently available vaccines in the US are FDA approved.

On one hand, I can't wait for the Pfizer vaccine to be fully FDA approved in September. On the other, everybody who uses that argument today will simply forget about it and move goalposts.
You should adjust the "mid-game start year" and "late-game start year" sliders at game setup. Note that those are just the earliest possible start times, and the chance starts rolling yearly.

Definitely frustrating that you have to try to predict the game trajectory in advance. A game going well is almost a bad thing - you end up ahead of the curve and sit around doing nothing.
There's a variant of the US layout called altgr-intl where instead of making ' a dead key you can do RightAlt-e for é.
You can find locally raised free range eggs in almost any city/town in the Americas... Egg alternatives are nutritionally inferior to real eggs.
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> In a couple of cases, I have been able to get people on the horn (PROTIP: Don't be calling them "smug," and be polite, even though you want to throttle them), where they have explained the issue.

> That "smugness" is actually a deliberate part of their brand.

I wasn't calling Apple smug, though?

I was calling your comment smug, because of 1. implying it's unreasonable to say "kafkaesque" despite Apple setting up a system where you need to "read tea leaves" instead of believing what they tell you, and 2. phrasing it as that they "couldn't understand" the problem.

Your advice, as far as saying they use canned messages that merely resemble the actual problem, is very useful. But don't be mean to someone that doesn't know that. It's a major failing on Apple's part.
Thanks for the response. I'm more troubled by sport now because I understand it better.

I totally agree with you on the inability to comprehend something, it also means you can shout at the TV because of the commentator rather than the referee.

It applies in all fields of expertise. There are/were perhaps only a few people who can perceive the nuance between a gold plated flute note and a silver plated one.

On the flip side even though there may be somewhat contrived bits, the "Faking It" TV series was also interesting coming from the 'opposite' approach.

It comes down to what you want out of sport/football - some opt for the technicalities and prowess of the game and its players, some opt for the associated drama and emotion.

One of the things that troubles me the most is - why did I entangle my emotional wellbeing with the outcome of a result enabled by a whole bunch of people I have never and am never likely to meet? We outsource our emotional state and join in a group experience of exhileration and despair often based on non-local events.

As someone not entirely suceeding in ignoring football until 2023, I am glad I came across this:

https://twitter.com/footballlforall/status/14218662284869181...
Hundreds of million of people is pretty good testing by now. Consider that they caught the blood clots with AstraZeneka which is less than 1 in 100,000. The vigilance systems works very well.
How do you have "divorces" without marriage?

And why this strange obsession with arranged relationships?
I'm sorry but the whole "let people make their own decisions" is BS.

Making epidemiological decisions isn't something that most people are qualified to do. I have seen the takes from random people and 99% of them are abject garbage.
> The risks of complications from the virus are many orders of magnitude higher than risks of complications from the vaccine, even for people in their 20s.

For those who already had the virus and developed an immune response the risks are different.
Pretty cool service. If in an existing account, at say github,I was using my personal email, would I have to update my primary email to the one from paced?
The comparisons to Cambridge Analytica that I see here aren't correct. They got fined for being wilful about granting developers a lot of access to data, and I understand they're scared but this isn't being done in good faith, there is a difference in approach in how this should be done correctly vs incorrectly

Thanks for the downvotes appreciate it
I got sick like a dog for a day after my first dose, and had a pain in the arm for a week after my second dose. You can't compare injecting a pathogen in someone's body to wearing clothes.
> There are 16 versions on PyPI which end in a newline character. Of these 16, 12 have registered the stripped equivalent too ... Visually, on PyPI, these look identical

I often navigate through package versions in the PyPI website, and seeing something like this would have driven me nuts!
The hustlers are winning against those that are loyal. It's sad, but that's how it is.
Congress supposedly, however it strikes me as if congress is blind on the matter, metaphorically speaking.
whiteboard interviews might not be the best way to conduct interviews.

Certainly agree with you there, but...

But the hypervigilance against student cheating only exists because of the outsized focus on exams.

Agree with you about the outsized focus on exams, but deemphasizing exams (a good thing) is quite a different thing than allowing phones (and therefore net access) during an exam. We want our students to be proficient at searching for information online, but a maths exam shouldn't be the place to test that skill.

With net access, students for example could be fed the literal answers to a standardized test that was already taken by people in a different time zone. And what if there's a net outage during the exam?

Also, while the TI calculators are obviously underpowered and their stranglehold on the educational market borders on corruption, there is value in a standardized tool. What about students without phones and cellular data plans? What about students who can't afford apps, etc?

Last but not least, while the compute power of a TI calculator pales in comparison to, say, a phone or RaspberryPi at half the cost -- is the lack of compute power on tap really a problem? I got through calc I-III just fine with a TI back in the day. I would not say the TI was my limiting factor in any way.
I don't think we should expect Facebook to go digging into every scraping extension to see if the scraping is done to obtain user data vs. advertiser data (stuff Facebook is also trying to protect, mind you). Especially with the amount of obfuscation and extensions they likely need to deal with.
So if the FDA approved it you’d be ok with it?
> The vulnerable populations aren't vaccinated. The vaccination rate in Brooklyn for people 65+ is just a bit over 50% (51% white/54% African American).

Yes, they are. In NYC, 73% of adults over 65 are fully vaccinated, and 77% have had at least one dose:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-vaccines.p...

You're cherry-picking regions of low vaccination, but ignoring the overall metrics.
He's talking about public stock which is liquid (hence the reference to FAANG). Obviously private equity is very hard to sell and not comparable.
The economics still don't work out. Buying a more powerful computer is still probably cheaper after just a year or two.
Ask HN: Why do you use paid domains for personal blogs?
With myriad of free-domain hosting providers, why pay for your own? Is there anything to it other than proficiency signaling and the feeling of control/independance?
Would appreciate your feedback.
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Working for the mob is a tenuous deal. Because you probably don't know unless you are involved in illegal things. BUT like many business owners they are kind of desperate because they can't hire good talent easily.

So it could be an option (for some people, and maybe not even good), but really unless you can deal with stress and people well it won't go well. I was able to learn to deal with both pretty quickly. And I credit some of that early experience to being able to just dive into projects I know nothing about.

But it can all go sideways pretty quick. I have a feeling that is more common. Plus you don't want to be involved in an investigation.
> it is said to increase the risks of cardiovascular diseases

How? Salt is a convenient bogeyman, but nobody can demonstrate what it role it plays as an agent of disease. Every cell in your body regulates isotonic balance and excess sodium is rapidly excreted. Complex lifeforms wouldn't exist without this fundamental ability.
> To be clear, as a parent, it's not because I'm fearful, it's because a positive COVID test from any child in my kid's school means that it shuts down for two weeks, completely messing up our lives, jobs etc.

Completely agreed. This is a stupid, hysterical policy, and we should all be against it. I include it with my previous comment that children should face no restrictions from SARS-CoV2. What we've done to kids in the last year is so unethical that it makes me furious.

I don't mean to imply that you specifically, are hysterical, but this stuff is coming from a group of people who are operating based on fear and lack knowledge. And unfortunately, a great many of them are in positions of power.
It is true that the Star (and the Mac) was entering a very small market, by comparison to now. Now it's billions of users, whereas back in the day, it was maybe a few million, and that's being extra generous.
> For decades before DevOps was coined, Sysadmins were automating infrastructures with tools like Kickstart, Jumpstart, CFEngine, ISconf, Rancid, netboot/pxeboot/dhcp, etc. I first provisioned infrastructure with CFEngine in 1996 or 1997.

So, you did DevOps work in 1996, long before the DevOps term was coined.
> How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, militarists or fascists?

Fascists are totalitarians, fascism is a totalitarian ideology - no need to include them separately.
what do you mean? it's a lisp interpreter, not a transpiler.
mRNA vaccines are new, so there's no appropriate historical comparison, it's apples and oranges. There's more uncertainty.

Also long term side effects have been documented in other mammals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-associated_sarcoma#:~:....
That would be the point if it weren't for the fact that the "debate", from the point of view of those who have actually kept up with the medical, epidemiomological, and ethical literature has been settled.

Yeah, I'm all for pushing willfully ignorant discussion out of the public eye.
That’s funny. Because one of the more legitimate uses for a Pi in a data center is as a remote management KVM.

https://pikvm.org/
Just under 50% of the country has no vaccine despite it being free and widely available for months.

Only 57% have up to one dose.

If it was a vote the vaccine would have lost.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
> if you want to live in a place that respects your right to choose what you do with your body and your life, come on down south

Unless you are a pregnant woman you mean!
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> Once the law showed up and made them play by the rules, they closed.

I happen to know for a fact that’s not true in either case of the two studios I worked for.

I also don’t particularly appreciate your presumptuous and uninformed conclusion about them being bad studios. Both I worked for were quite good studios, one of them being PDI which made the Shrek & Madagascar movies. No idea to what degree the studios were involved at all, only the parent companies were named. (Edit: actually I’m certain the other studio was not participating in any way, but was still part of the class, being Disney owned. I’ve edited my upper comment to clarify.)

The truth of the CG & VFX industry is that it was always bad margins in the US. Pretty much the whole industry imploded in the US some time after this lawsuit. Not in response to the lawsuit, just because the business is hard to sustain, and subsidies in Canada, Europe, India, and China, has made outsourcing a much bigger part of the picture. The CG film industry hasn’t died exactly, but in the US it’s definitely still on life support.

And I’m not entirely sure, but I don’t feel like the lawsuit really changed salaries either. It was then and is now still true that working in digital entertainment doesn’t pay on average and for entry level employees as well as working in other areas of tech.
> Give the public open data about the effectiveness of the vaccine and then let people make their own decisions about what to do.

Exactly. Governments need to figure out why people aren't getting vaccinated and fix those issues.
Perhaps .dateAfter(1 month) would be more appropriate? I sympathise with the author in finding the violation of associativity of “plus” a bit jarring.
I was going to say something defensive about the science, like it’s really difficult to do a double-blind large randomised diet study over decades, but then I read this bit. It is beyond bad science. If someone makes an error in statistics, well, happens, we can’t all be experts. But this is almost taking the mick.
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Would that emit large quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere?
> (with lots of warnings around it so that it sticks out and is addressed hopefully in some next convenient cycle)

How do you expect to address it when there isn't a single obvious "right" that everyone will have the same intuition on?
There's a story told by (if memory serves) Lasseter that when they showed Luxo Jr. in 1986 at SIGGRAPH, someone came up to him afterwards with a question. He was dreading the conversation, because he thought they were going to ask some terribly technical question and he'd have to flag down one of the studio members for help, but the questioner just asked "So is the big lamp the mom or the dad?"

... and that's when he knew they'd succeeded.
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Neat. Let's make it hard AF for them and see what happens.
Can you give few examples?
Wondered what "the whiteboard incident" was....

“One day at a board meeting, Jobs started berating Smith and other top Pixar executives for the delay in getting the circuit boards completed for the new version of the Pixar Image Computer. At the time, NeXT was also very late in completing its own computer boards, and Smith pointed that out: “Hey, you’re even later with your NeXT boards, so quit jumping on us.” Jobs went ballistic, or in Smith’s phrase, “totally nonlinear.” When Smith was feeling attacked or confrontational, he tended to lapse into his southwestern accent. Jobs started parodying it in his sarcastic style. “It was a bully tactic, and I exploded with everything I had,” Smith recalled. ”

“Before I knew it, we were in each other’s faces—about three inches apart—screaming at each other.”

Jobs was very possessive about control of the whiteboard during a meeting, so the burly Smith pushed past him and started writing on it. “You can’t do that!” Jobs shouted.
“What?” responded Smith, “I can’t write on your whiteboard? Bullshit.” At that point Jobs stormed out.”

Excerpt From: Walter Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.”
"A lot of hospital visits could be prevented if we took the obesity epidemic seriously:"

That's a lovely multi-generational idea and we should work towards it in the coming decades. Meanwhile, as 400 Americans die of a preventable illness every single day, we should prioritize reducing the hospitalization rate. Florida became the most recent state to halt surgeries at some hospitals... again.
Thanks for the answer. No thanks to the >= 3 people who decided to downvote my question.
Yeah, I don't want to be overly negative, but Not Invented Here syndrome is a recurring theme with his work. Unfortunately that's quite prevalent among software developers as a whole. It's somewhat understandable: it's easier to just run with your imagination and start hacking something together than dig through research papers, textbooks, and blog posts.
I've rarely seen alert() used in the past few years outside of as a means of harassing users on malware sites (have you ever accidentally clicked on a malicious ad on a mobile phone and struggled to escape the site due to alert() spam blocking interaction? It's terrifying as an end-user). This seems like a more than reasonable decision given an adequate phase-out period.