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Maybe if you are installing from a distro-provided central repository like debian and only using system package-managed sources, and nothing exotic.

On a cursory check, the conda environment that we build off has 250 packages in, and only 60 .pc files.

And to be fair, only 50 entries in lib/cmake, but a lot of the CMake dependency resolution is built into CMake (and does pkg-config support separated components as part of a package, like e.g. Boost which apparently has a 14-year-old unresolved ticket to add pkg-config support). All our "build from source" HDF5 installs don't have this either. Nor does debian have .pc files for their distribution of one of our key libraries (which we don't use via debian, but still....).

This seems a very, very long way from "literally every library comes with pkg-config".
Banks don't just sit on piles of cash, they lend it out. That's literally what banks do with the money people deposit in them, it's the whole point of banks!
I'm far from an economics expert, pretty novice actually. So I am probably wrong. But as a guy who came from a lower middle class household and has utilized debt & investments to change that significantly I feel like low interest rates have been a huge part of that.

a combination of cheap mortgages, surging home price, surging stock prices, and high-paying professional jobs. You see this all over Reddit on popular Fire subs of ppl in their 20s and 30s with substantial wealth thanks to those four factors.

For people with good incomes and and hence an opportunity to borrow and invest, the past decade has been amazing.
One area that was not discussed at length was the transition from a high tier to a medium tier. In that case the HR at the medium tier often put a lot of weight into the title. I have seen HR teams say thing like "That person was not a principal engineer in their previous job" so they need to come in at a lower level here. They (HR) often don't recognized tiers within the industry, and use titles as a proxy for skill. Many HR staff view a change in title as a direct indication of skill, and when they see someone go from 'Sr. Software Engineer' to 'Software Engineer' they assume a skill demotion. In one of my earlier companies we used the title 'member of technical staff' in a pretty broad context, and I later heard that it was problematic for some people in getting interviews in future jobs. It is stupid, of course, but also a reality.
> Reminds me of American Psycho, where everybody is a damn Vice President (reflective of the time)

Reflective of the industry, really. It’s still that way in banking.
Don't forget there's a trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.

The other books are just as good, if not better.

Although be prepared that if you like it too much, there's no more. Gibson typically tires of writing in one style for more than three books.

PS: There's an excellent New Rose Hotel movie that no one has ever seen. Highly recommend reading the short story and watching it. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/
Google allows one change a year. That doesn't do me any good, I switched to Mexico for said Starbucks app and instantly regretted it (for the next 12mos). I've spent 3-7 months in too many other places since
What, like a mail forwarder like MyUS?

Would that be legal in the US? It sure wouldn't be in most of Europe because you don't live there. Which for some fucking reason is a must.
It doesn't exactly 'broadcast' your ID, physical proximity to your phone is still needed. It's like adding a loyalty card, etc. to apple wallet where you can just tap your device to the reader.
Monetary and fiscal policies to force growth and high employment is wrong, and causes all sorts of problems, like inequality and climate destruction. Free markets (collective free will of people) optimize for efficiency, not growth.

That's why were still using oil instead of nuclear. That's why we're still working instead of automating the necessities. Free energy & free food would result in infinite deflation, zero GDP, and total unemployment which is opposite of what current policies are aimed at. Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome.
Are you me?

I spent the last 3 years completely redeveloping the foundation of our platform which will save the company millions of dollars a year. I didn't do it alone or anything. But I started the project, was the only one to work on it full time throughout the whole project, defined the underlying architecture, and implemented most of the lowest layers. I poured all my energy into the project.

We launched beginning of this month, I was so prod of what it represented technically. A week later I was told my performance was "acceptable", I got less than my target bonus, and got a 3% raise.

I tried to quit, but relented when I was convinced not to and am now putting my unlimited vacation to work. I'm 3 days into a month I'm taking off.
Agreed, I was trading VIX futures calls and /ES puts around that time and was equally mystified that markets were as frothy as ever. It was definitely a very wild time to be speculating.
Interesting article. The arguments re inequality seem to lead to an inevitable need for Universal Basic Income (or whatever else you want to call it) as a smaller group of people continue to generate the vast majority of income and control an even larger percentage of wealth.

Combine the impacts that increasing income and wealth inequality have with the discussions of the impact due to investment in greater automation - reduction in labor and more returns to owners of capital - and it appears inevitable that we will need to ensure a safety net covers everyone.

It seems to me that some countries will figure this out before others. There will be a global race to become the destination country for those with the income and wealth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nnw7yd/sob...

It's a little cheeky and at times a little hyperbolic, but I stand by it.
I find Gibson entertaining, but I often get the feeling, reading his novels, that I’m in a product showroom. He mentions brand names strangely often, and a commercial style of speech is constantly leaking into his prose. I remember a description (I don’t remember which novel) mentioning the “high thread count” of the sheets on someone’s bed. I never expected to see that phrase outside of a product description. I doubt that there’s actual product placement in his books, but it feels like it.

EDIT after reading replies: I agree with all the replies. I understood the brand-obsessed nature of the world he’s invoking. I may, however, have underestimated him, and not appreciated how he deliberately allows aspects of this universe to infect the authorial voice. Next time I read one of his books I’ll keep this in mind.

I also sometimes enjoy the immersion into particular products, when Gibson goes into details about something I’d never heard of, such as Maybach automobiles.
Or maybe there’s an AI that did come to awareness somewhere and decided to wipe humans out by getting us to violently fight with one another with outrageous stuff on the internet. There’s a Douglas Adams quote that goes something like “for every part of the universe there’s some other part that would look at the original part with outright disgust.”
It's at best a strong hypothesis. There can be situations where utility is constant or even increasing (not necessarily monotone). If I can only afford one shirt then actually going for a situation where I can own three shirts could make my life a lot simpler, similarly, being able to afford a car could have strong positive effects.

I think, the idea that getting rich does not create a lot of additional joy from diminishing utility is one the best fairy tales ever invented.
No, it's the same. He created $100 million for himself that might have otherwise be spread out amongst employees, suppliers, investors, etc, who would've used their "share" of the $100 million for consumption and savings, with higher marginal costs of saving. Whether it's cash or equity is irrelevant because money is fungible...he's just skipping the step of converting it to cash and saving/reinvesting it.
Mostly agree, but how about a person (lets say like me) who would like to offer skills in exchange for a great salary and thats it? No need for challenging problems, just the autonomy and time - thats what I would care about the most (and € ofc).
Personal motto: work for living, not live to work. Therefore: screw those titles.
Nice article, but I would have liked it to include a catalog of all of Gibson's prescient details in his masterpiece trilogy. Beyond Cyberspace, the one that seems to resonate the most as we look into our future with today's lens is the coming Methuselah uber-wealth elites that Yuval Noah Harari details in his books.

Although Stephenson has his moments, I don't think we have seen any writer that has come close to either Phillip K. Dick or Gibson - and that includes post-trilogy Gibson.
The safest places for nuclear reactors are those which are isolated from environmental hazards like weather, people, earthquakes, eruptions. Someplace like the moon or mars. That's why subs and boats have a relatively safe record-no casual interference and containment vessels (large navy boats) that we have a lot of experience building, maintaining and operating by skilled dedicated humans.
> the article is very low quality. Here's a link to the actual paper

I appreciate the link to the paper. But I consider the article superior in a few ways:

(1) It is brief, and targeted to an audience that is not a specialist in this field.

(2) It includes the video clips (which, to be honest, speak for themselves) and does not require any special credentials or university affiliation in order to view.

> That title is unconscionable

Yeah... the title is rather stupid. It should have gone with just "This Is How Tardigrades Walk".
Yep! I have a patch to qemu based on one that never made it to master upstream. It’s a sub module in the repo
Leave. Burnout happens when outcome != expectations.

Did you skill up? Switch jobs asap. Get yourself a 20% raise.
Unconscionable is surely a step too far? Translating "Tardigrades exhibit robust interlimb coordination across walking speeds and terrains" into the title of the article seems like a reasonable thing for a pop-sci publication to do. Appreciate the link to the actual article!
Is it? Windows has always had an extended support life cycle if ten years, and Windows 11 is heavily criticised for their new restrictions on hardware. I've seen Windows 10 run just fine on budget devices that go further back than that.

You can get the most recent Ubuntu LTS to run on a ten year old Thinkpad without issue. The performance may be limited bytthe hardware, but the software isn't the problem here.

Honestly, if I were to pay the premium prices Apple asks for their products, I'd expect them to outsupport a bunch of hackers that had nothing to do with the hardware.
I can change the focal point of my eyes on command to a far away point or a close one, and I have noticed that this reliably makes my pupil get slightly larger or smaller.
> Reminds me of American Psycho, where everybody is a damn Vice President (reflective of the time)

My understanding was that this still happens as a way to get around corporate card policies (either from the company or the credit company) that prevent anyone with a lower-than-leadership title from having signature power for purchasing. Want to give someone a corporate card so they can buy their own necessities? Give them a VP title.
I'm a shitty business person, but a pretty good developer. I'd not do well in a position that had a business emphasis, like a management position. (And, unlike other incompetents, am not narcissistic enough to groom my image at others' expense, so my optics would be terrible.) So I'm not inclined to climb the corporate ladder and my ego suffers less of a blow from taking a downlevel in title. Just pay me and pay me well.

That said, seniority has an advantage: interviewers are less likely to ask you leetcode questions as a gating function to a new job.
I have not, but I have friends who did here in Germany. If you are okay living in the middle of nowhere (that includes no, or laughable public transport), you can get one for 500k€. If you also have relevant skills (and friends/family with those as well), you can buy one that needs renovation for half of that.

My experience is in Northern Germany, I heard of even lower prices in the east.
Here if you want something bare metal style, https://www.wildernesslabs.co/
And yet, Clojure keeps growing, year after year.
When so many companies focus on hiring senior engineers, we shouldn't be surprised that junior engineers are optimizing for the title. I did the same, negotiating a senior title with like three years of experience. It's silly, thinking back, but this was before the hiring boom (closer to the dotcom crash in fact), and felt very rational at the time.

I'm 100% onboard with not worrying about titles (and posted about my experience elsewhere in this thread), but certain market realities make for a different calculus for juniors vs seniors IMO.
Two things;

Majority of comments seem to assume narcissist is also incompetent or unskilled.

If this study is accurate and you want advantage in career then you could do worse than adopting the narcissist behaviors linked to advancement by study.
Why TODO might be better than an Abstract Base Class
I'm amazed how one can see it all, yet I do not think most people would care, since they (as well as I am) are all blind to these nuances.
Why not use /getProfile?id=something in the first place?
But in general, it also seems fine to me that communities can mark out certain places as being for only a specific set of activities, and exclude others from taking place there.

It does seem fine, at first, but the end result is the housing crisis, because people, having been given this power, will work very hard to ensure that expensive single-family homes with multiple parking spots and generous setbacks are the only living arrangement that's legal. (Let's not forget that people also marked out racial boundaries, when they were allowed to do that, too. When you let homeowners set housing-use policy, you get...bad results.)
Twitter conversation-view is aweful. It's like they don't want you to be able to follow it clearly and make it extra hard on purpose. Good to see that is now (meaning last year) an officual API to make threaded views simpler. Maybe some day a saner conversation-view will approach from this.
China’s nuclear missile silo expansion: Minimum deterrence to medium deterrence
> People who stay at the same company for a long time can get left behind compared to their peers, especially if the company does not move internal compensation bands to keep up with new offers

Right now, my office is being absolutely raided by recruiters from other companies because of this. With the switch to more remote jobs, the pay differences between geographies have gotten more level. What used to be great pay for Toronto is now good, but not great.

A lot of people who wanted promotions but weren't getting them are getting them- somewhere else, for more money.
Experts Predicted All Cars Would Be Hybrid by 2020. Why Were They Wrong?
If they had the least effective spending power, they wouldn't be targeted. The number of debit card owners in the Fortnite demographic is probably quite low, but the number of effective owners, i.e. debit card owners that can be manipulated to cede control (parents), is high.
I went from Director / Principal Eng at a 100-person company to Senior SWE at Google, with a significant pay bump. Now I'm a Staff SWE. I agree this seems pretty common.
It's more complex than that, though. If you're meeting with people outside your company, your title can influence how they see you. If you're meeting with a bunch of "Director" level people and you're a "Senior", they may treat you as a lesser member of the group. This can be impactful to your ability to accomplish your goals within that group at times.
The BERT Search Experience
Ironically, this is something that I know has turned a ton of people off cyberpunk.

I suspect there's a deep bifurcation between people who are intrigued by mystery (e.g. new language) and people who are made uncomfortable by it.

When it's done right though, it strikes that good mystery novel tone for me: enough detail and context to be tantalizing and whet the intellectual appetite, but not so little or so much as to break disbelief or flow.
There is a crossover point somewhere on the income/QoL scale where children go from utility to liability.

It's incredible recently, and still only in some countries, where children are in the liability area. By and large for all human history, children where a utility. More or less free labor to help support the family.
I think in Germany this is really crying out of boredom. If you want to, you don't have to come in contact with any of it. It was still relevant 30-40 years ago, but not today. Not in any relevant capacity.

Other european countries are more laical or secular, but that is pretty much just flavor today.

Some eastern countries are more involved, but if you propose the church having relevant influence in central or western Europe, you really slept the last two decades.
I’ve always wondered - would the effort to develop such software be lower, because the hardware is more forgiving.

In which case you are trading human (software development) time for hardware resources.

If that were the case, it seems like an okay-ish trade off to me tbh.
Seems like a strange way to implement a wealth tax since it only applies to a single type of wealth (cash) and not equity, real estate, commodities, etc.
I'm a dedicated carnivore. I used to work in a lab that did experimental brain surgery on cats. I trap and kill the rodents in my basement with something like glee. But I'm watching a tardigrave having trouble walking across glass and thinking "animal abuse! Someone give that poor little water bear a little traction!"

Emotionally, I am not consistent.
I think a central part of the socially anxious student's trouble is a need for clarity and certainty, and in some social situations uncertainty is the entire point, and an enjoyable part of it. With time and experience you can get comfortable not knowing exactly where people stand, or what they think about you.

As a person who once could have been that anxious student, I think the secret is that trying to ask someone for a date while in that state would be a bad idea. Other stuff needs to get resolved first.
This has been the opposite for me. Yes I wore a ton of hats at the startups I worked at but working at big tech I’ve been exposed to scale and quality standards beyond what I was used to before. Plus my coworkers are all higher quality so it’s like being in college again and hanging out with all these smart people I’m learning from just by interacting with them.

And this is coming from someone very cynical of big tech otherwise
True, however with the enterprise hat I see epochs as LTS versions worthy to be the ones on CI/CD pipeline.
Don't know where it all went wrong but I deleted my 10+ year badge accounts close to 2 years ago now.

I do not miss it.
I'm not sure what you mean, but that is pretty much what generative neural systems do. If by information you mean data that correspond to reality? Than sure.
I guess you can say that the data is a correlated to reality by a certain probability, and the better the model the higher the probability?
My new favourite is a vacuum bag thing that you out around a limb (or baby) and then suck the air out, leaving a vacuum packed person.

Comfort (pillows and blanket), sandbags, sponges, straps, tape, coaxing, as-short-as-reasonable imaging protocols and a good explanation are all standard.

It usually isn’t direct movement of the part we are scanning that’s an issue. But things like shuffling hips, stretching arms and wriggling shoulders are a problem when resolution is something like 0.25mm in plane for your foot or knee.

We can tie you down but prefer not to.
https://github.com/Janspiry/Image-Super-Resolution-via-Itera... is an open-source implementation
In dk they haven't bought and own the land. They are part of an association that is renting the land.
A "garage". One that often you hope the authorities ignore :)

Fortunately, people aren't snitching like in some other countries.

Unless you piss off someone in the police or government or someone needs that land for something and official inquiries are made, you're unlikely to get in trouble.
>I just feel this is a bit dramatic for one annoying rent a bike station.

I think that's because you took the example off my head and failed to extrapolate that every where I go there are some roadblocks with what have now becoming (every day to a greater degree) basic services?

Access to food delivery & local Uber equivalents can be a problem, how exactly is not being able to get food or transport a "bit dramatic" as opposed to a 100% legit complaint (in fact I got caught in multiple countries' lockdowns, and I think goodness I didn't need to self-isolate to protect people and get caught with no food delivery options etc.)

Basically - if there is no awareness - they won't be addressed. This is not about a "trade off" with the great things Google or whoever "adds" to my life, there is no tradeoff, there is simply no attempt to address this stuff AFAIK first and foremost due to 0 awareness.
How do you collect/manage AWS resource inventory?
>I would love to see a GOOD Neuromancer movie.

I've lusted after this for over 30 years now. At this point, I am kinda glad that Hollywood never got it off the ground.

What I wanted was a good graphic novel version. They came out with a first edition, but no more. I sold it this year on an ebay spree...
Anti-trust lawsuits against Facebook are stupid and political. I think most people tech savvy get this.

There currently is one real problem monopoly and it is Google.
Again, this whole 'tax the rich' bent you are on is off-topic. In fact, it seems you are not understanding utility in this context of marginal utility.

"It could be subject to the same utility if we taxed it, that's what I was getting at."

"Wealthy people aren't using money that society could put to great use."

Then you could say that the average person's 401k isn't being used either. But investments are a use of money that do contribute to society in providing capital to businesses and individuals. Gains on those investments are also taxable.

There are plenty of things we could do, but that's not really what we are discussing here.
One of the things I have noticed in both my full time jobs at this point is that my direct managers have had no idea what I do day to day.

There are entire weeks where I could have achieved absolutely nothing and I am not sure if it would have been noticed.

And that is probably not conducive to promotion as nobody who has power has any idea what I do.