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The first time I dabbled in programming was making modifications to QBASIC files in DOS. I wanted multiple lives in Nibbles, and I wanted to make nuclear bananas in Gorilla.

I continued programming as a hobby, usually as part of some other project: making video games, websites, tools, or visualizations for school. Sometimes for pranks.

I ended up working as a developer for about 12 years, mostly in Javascript and Python, but also Ruby, Lua, and Java for a couple years.

During that time, I was also learning design, and I've since switched to doing that.

I take the weird position that design is not all that different from engineering, it's just working on another part of the process. What I like about programming and design is that they're about problem solving, and you are given a set of requirements and goals, and your job is to find a best-fit solution.

What I don't like about programming (the kind of programming I was doing) is negotiating a rat's nest of dependencies: these 15 poorly documented libraries, this hip new framework, and this methodology we're using now because someone wrote a persuasive Medium article. The constant churn of fashion-based engineering got to be a drag. I still like programming, I just don't do it for money these days!

I've never taken a CS or SE class: my degrees are in English and Library Science! My knowledge has been cobbled together on an as-needed basis. So, there are major holes in what I know, and I sometimes feel like a guy who knows a few tricks and uses them for everything. If I'd known what my career would be, I probably would have studied those subjects instead.

On the other hand, the best programmers I've ever met did not even go to college, they were self-taught. So, it's clear that you don't need a degree if you are motivated to learn.
It depends on the encoding. If it's sufficiently low frequency and includes error correction, then your data could survive. You won't get very good efficiency though!
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C. S. Lewis
Telling people their concerns are not valid also does not help
They changed that a few years ago. It used to be the price would spike when they needed the capacity, oftentimes going higher than On Demand pricing. Now the price adjusts gradually, if at all, and they'll terminate instances regardless of bid price.
Very good point. I remember being so excited when I got my first job at 16 and opened a bank account because I could finally purchase things online without having to do something like buy a prepaid debit card, which always had an overhead fee.

Even after that, I was always frugal and never wanted to spend something like $15 a month for a server for my friends. Now, as an adult software developer, I wouldn't think twice about the fun to dollar ratio of paying for a Minecraft server to connect with some old friends.
Do these people have criteria for what evidence it would take for them to consider mRNA vaccines to be safe? I see a lot of FUD but nothing that seems to define what would invalidate or confirm these concerns.
Wait, did you just argue that there is zero room for dissent?
Some people just trust their natural immune system. It's the best thing humans have had for dealing with any sort of sickness since the beginning of time. They've seen the risk and they are willing bet on a natural immune response. Its that simple. It's the pro vaccine people that push the issue and have an agenda.
Mostly yes but a few were made for the game [0].

[0] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond... (Search for "2015" to find them)
I looked and I can't actually find a good answer to that.

I do know that the job requirements are basically:

1. US citizen

2. High school diploma

3. 18+ years old

4. Pass drug/background screening

For the pay, the job requirements are very low. They also follow the "Veterans preference" practice during hiring. This is actually pretty typical across many government jobs (See https://www.usajobs.gov/).

My experience with trying to apply to these jobs (admittedly second hand, watching my wife apply to meet grant-related conditions) is that if you're an honorably discharged veteran, your resume goes into bucket #1, and if they can fill the position from that bucket, they won't even look at bucket #2, which is public applications.
I wonder if it’s a matter of background. I never really had tutorials when starting out. I never had good documentation, even.

(Sorry in advance for the rant)

I also remember piercing together my first programs from other people’s code. Whenever I needed an internet forum I’d build one. Actually, all my internet friends, even the ones who didn’t go into programming, were doing web forums and blogs from scratch!

Today people consider that a heresy. “How dare you not use Wordpress”.

My generation just didn’t care, we built everything from scratch because it was a badge of honor to have something made by us. We didn’t care about money, but we ended up with abilities that pay a lot of cash. People who started programming post the 2000s just didn’t do it...

I think it is visible that I sorta resent the folks (both the younger, and the older who arrived late at the scene) constantly telling me I shouldn’t bother “re-inventing the wheel”. Well, guess what: programming is my passion, fuck the people telling me to use Unity to make my game, or Wordpress to do my blog.
But purely from performance point of view, as in throughput, and also quality of service, the case is clear for the mainframe.

No, it isn't clear. Show the benchmarks.
That's not really a problem for college football, or really any sport in the US. For whatever reason the hooligan thing isn't a system in the US.
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I wouldn't know why those who already have immunity would get the vaccine. There are studies showing that a shot post Covid-19 greatly increases the immune response agains variants, so there could be reasons.

In Europe getting the decease and beating it is considered good enough for immunity. Talk to your local authorities if you are not happy with your local practices.
I think it's poorly named. It's not a new major version of the web. Forget the fact that the vast majority of the web's users don't care about decentralization vs. centralization even a single bit. People will continue to mindlessly use WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Coinbase because decentralization is not a concern for _most_ users. Most users of these apps just want to socialize with friends and family, show off / humble brag / argue, and gamble.
Influenza virus has a structure that makes mutations easy with mixing and matching common in hosts. Coronavirus has built in error checking and functions by generating a large protein that is split up to assemble new virus. This means that the rate and scale of mutation will always be less than influenza, though the assertion that it will stay and be endemic is almost certainly true.
Most airline passengers can already trade $85 every five years for pre-9/11 security screenings. They simply choose not to.
Then use a viral vector COVID-19 vaccine instead?
Why should we coddle these peoples delusions?
The price of a NYC taxi medallion fell from $1 million in 2014 to under $50,000. How else do you explain that besides the disruption caused by Uber. You might point and stammer "but, but, the rules written in the book still say the same thing!" But that's not how legal realism works.

Law is not some magical words in a special book. Law is the way that the legal system shapes human society. Would any neutral third party anywhere claim with a straight face that the New York City ride share system is not a fundamentally different regime than what it was 10 years ago?

> Internet pornography ending obscenity laws? What in the hell are you on about? Those laws changed before the Internet and not because of technology

As an aside, this is straight up factually wrong. The Ashcroft DOJ tried to actively bring obscenity charges against Internet pornographers:

https://www.wired.com/2001/06/ashcrofts-hard-line-on-hardcor...
isn't this just a zero-sum game? The time you save by unloading is spent while loading it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5pg843QhHc
Not as much and not as rabid. Combination of the Gringrich bullshit "culture issues" of the 90s and the initially patriotic and then nationalistic response to 9/11.
well sure, once you have a xenomorph running loose, tidyness goes right out the window, or airlock as it were.
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This is the coddling of the American mind, unfortunately.
The police literally said as much, in the Wikipedia article for a similar device, the Quadro Tracker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker), which hilariously "could detect hidden drugs, explosives, weapons and lost golf balls":

> The Jefferson County, Texas narcotics task force spent $3,250 on a Quadro Tracker. The task force's commander later said: "We played with it in the office and got mixed results. Sometimes we'd find something, sometimes not. Our rate of success was about half. I think it was either blind luck or a ouija board effect. It's not near as consistent as (drug-sniffing) dogs, but there are no vet bills."[13]
How much scientific evidence for mRNA vaccines being safe and effective would need to be gathered for continued concern and hesitancy to count as "anti-vaxxer" thinking?
>but should misinformation like this be protected by free speech laws as well?

Ask Copernicus or Galileo?
Don't think the users of this device are dumb or unintelligent people. Devices like this are successful for two reasons:

1 - corruption and
2 - blind faith.

Although education may reduce the second, it does nothing to minimize the first.
Absolutely. A lot of my friends who were hesitant about Pfizer and Moderna did just that.
Marist College does that for free. You can get a Linux VM from the LinuxONE Community Cloud that runs on a z15. You can have it for 6 months.
It was mandatory when I studied at Wageningen University (an agricultural university in the Netherlands) in the 90's, the subject was called 'wetenschapsfilosofie' (philosophy of science). It was not taken seriously by most students since the way the subject was taught and tested was not very inspiring, to pass the test it seemed to be enough to intersperse dense prose with the names of some well-known philosophers - Popper being the king here.
I guess you can move the goal posts now, but it should have been exceedingly clear that I was commenting on the workload in the link, because I'm replying to the link. My outline of hardware is the hardware in the link, I didn't just make up an imaginary scenario. Literally everyone else in the thread is commenting on the link, you appear to be the only one confused about what we're talking about.

>All of these VMs running production Ora/OAM/OEM/Websphere workloads? No, don't oversubscribe. Some of them running similar workloads? More oversubscribe is ok. Few of them? Lots of oversubscribe.

All of the VMs are running Oracle/Websphere/Apache, per the link. That is what the article is recommending, which is where my skepticism came and is coming from.

>I am having a generalized discussion about virtualization oversubscribe. You are having a specific discussion about CPU-heavy DB workloads. Apples cannot be compared to oranges.

Everyone in this thread is talking about the article, I guess everyone but you.
Individual freedom vs. community safety.

Where to draw the line?

Who should draw it and by what mechanism?
It's my opinion.
It lets them "research" it, see that the kernel is true, and then extrapolate from there.
This an extremely alarming comparison, because western nationstates basically observed people dying in Asia in spite of massive (chinese) mitigation efforts and did not do SHIT (for months!) before the pandemic arrived at their homes.

With climate change, once we really start to feel the symptoms it might well be too late to change the trajectory and we might suffer the effects for millenia...
I believe this is pretty common in Japan. I did something like this with my luggage when using the trains from city to city.
Simulation of a Bustling City with Pedestrians / Vehicles AI
Donation of SmartyKit STEM Workshop boards to schools
Not sure about that, but the idea I was proposing was use the technical capabilities that allow them to build the mainframe. I am aware of the usual challenges of distributed computing, eventual consistency, etc...

But they could have created a computing offer, using the pure core performance of the Z processors and the technologies that enable things like z/OS Sysplex and do it at cloud scale. They could then maybe be competitive on a price scale:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=sysplex-z...

This would be similar to AWS telling you could have your CPU core stretched across two availability zones.
> dogs are hypoallergenic due to fur/hair (dander is in the saliva)

I’ve read the same explanation for cats. But, I find it hard to believe. Pets are constantly licking their fur, and shedding said fur all over the place. It’s very clear to me that more fur = higher chances of allergic reactions.

What am I missing?
> When I think of getting a vaccine... I just do it as a part of normal life

That's exactly my point. You aren't thinking, you're just following.

> What happened to thinking of other people?

My point as well. It's the same "think of the children" argument that was being discussed above.

That itself is not a reason. People have immunity. The curve is flattened, the goal posts have been moved out of the stadium.
I think the issue with being hesitant about mRNA vaccines is that they're probably not as bad for you as an mRNA virus. The mRNA virus will definitely inject mRNA into you to make your cells do its evil bidding, and it is fairly unlikely that the vaccine, which only injects one part of the virus' mRNA into some cells, could somehow be worse than the virus, which injects everything in the vaccine plus mRNA encoding several other proteins, and replicates boundlessly to boot.

The mRNA that Pfizer puts in to the lipid nanoparticles isn't even as dangerous as the virus's equivalent - the version of the spike protein it encodes is mutated at a point to prevent it from making the conformal change that wrenches membranes open.
I’m not familiar with Erlang, but unless it has some really funky syntactic sugar, the Erlang examples aren’t tail-recursive. In all three, the continuation of the recursive call is the multiplication operation and not the conditional.
What a ridiculously biased Fox News level link. Clearly no room for a fruitful discussion here.
> It's insane to me to see so many other countries have ways to verify you're a citizen of the country when going to vote, but in America it's such a controversial issue that anybody mentioning it is immediately bombarded with heinous accusations and name-calling.

Yeah. It's so stupid that the Democrats don't knock the wind out of the Republicans' sails by embracing voter ID requirements coupled with an intense, funded push to provide an ID to everyone who lacks one (e.g. have government employees who go around to places like homeless shelters and jump through all the bureaucratic hoops and pay all the fees to get someone an ID).

Lacking official ID is a serious hindrance to modern life (and fixing that can have a lot of Catch 22s), so getting people ID is a great way to help the disadvantaged.
Definitely not true that most sinks have two compartments. Those are super rare.
Absolutely I would because infertility is completely unrelated to the operational mechanism of the vaccine
I've seen more coherent rebuttals from schizophrenic bus stop vagrants. Jesus, how is anybody even supposed to read that? I have never once claimed that this product is exempt from regulation, merely that the SEC is not the one to regulate it. And I have been pretty damn consistent in saying that this clearly belongs with FINRA and/or FDIC. No amount of rambling about HL Menken and imagined interpretations of words will change that.
In my experience it’s much better than 50%. The trick is to not just bug them for a job, but to ask questions about the work as well.
> If a future government sold all their land to private interests who have opinions about what can and cannot be said, then undesirable people have nowhere to stand while doing the speaking, and those private entities can punish those they don’t like thanks to trespass laws.

The flipside would be people having the right to protest on your private property whenever they felt like it.

Or, back in techland, the right to say whatever they wanted on your blog's comment section.

I hear ya, but it's going to be a massive challenge to come up with a cure that's A) Constitutional and B) not worse than the disease.
This article seems to play into a trend I think I'm seeing more and more: caring more about the court of public opinion than the court of law.

At least that's the impression I got from phrases such as "engage productively", "proactively engaging", "eager to hear", and others that seem to say that Coinbase has good intentions and is trying their best, while at the same time seeming to portray the SEC as uncooperative and antagonistic, through phrases such as "SEC still won’t explain", "wouldn’t say why or how they’d reached that conclusion", and others.

The one that hits me the most and makes me think this is more about trying to align with the public will and not the current law is the following: "They have only told us that they are assessing our Lend product through the prism of decades-old Supreme Court cases called Howey and Reves."

AFAIK, a decades-old Supreme Court case is still considered valid law, and such an appeal I would imagine would fall pretty flat in a court of law, but seems to work well in a public sphere.

I'm open to being off on this, I guess I just feel a bit unsure how to proceed in this internet age, when I get the impression that people are skirting the courts of law more and more.
> It's a really outdated book about a "perfect" anarchist sociaty.

I do find a lot of it holds up pretty well as long as you sub-out some of the more specific examples with modern equivalents.
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What about the 100+ million in the US with natural immunity to the mRNA virus?

Edit: 40+ million

Edit 2: perhaps it is 100+ million when counting estimated unreported cases- I do recall getting this 100+ number from the CDC itself
Seems they have reversed course on that, to be fair.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1773
Coinbase asks: why is lending a security?
This looks nice for distribution, thanks!
I'm not surprised. When your unvaccinated loved ones die or get sick because large portions of the population are choosing to not get vaccinated, it becomes a visceral response.

Vax hesitancy has a social cost. This is part of the price to pay. That it's not "totally efficient" is debatable.
For me? A couple of years. There have been plenty of “safe” new medicines that revealed horrific side effects a long way down the line.

I was vaccinated with Sinopharm 6 months ago, preferring the older vaccine technology; now I’m being vaccinated with Pfizer, because I need to travel to countries which don’t accept Sinopharm. I’m still uncomfortable with MRNA vaccines, and feel a bit like a beta tester.
In theory I could deep dive into my Debian machine, but there are just so many things. Just think of the USB protocol compared to eg. a wanna-be implementation of RS232. There is no way I could get deep understanding of the whole system.

That said, I think you are correct in that there are less magic than you think when looking at the surface.
Ask HN: How can I get a job in Silicon Valley as a software engineer?
Hello everyone, I am Costa and I am based in a small country in Europe. I was wondering how can someone get a job in Silicon Valley as a software engineer especially if you need a visa to work in the US.

Thanks
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Whatever that goalpost is, it will be moved once it's met.
Okay, so there's 249 pages of policy to read and then correlate, which is a bit beyond me.

> ... universal health care, how strongly they are in favor of nuclear disarmament, gun control, etc

As I understand it, US Democrats are keen on those three, and in Australia, we've already embraced all of those.

Are you suggesting there's a policy mis-match, or that one of the two groups leans even more strongly towards these principles than the other group?

Either way, I'm not sure how this strongly differentiates them.

> ... the US itself has been pushed further to the right by a conservative dominated supreme court.

The USA's supreme court arrangement is indeed a curious artefact, for those of us outside its domain.

AFAICT it's been 'pushed' in one direction by political appointees in the previous presidents' term.
That doesn't change his main point. Saudi Arabia was one of the primary financiers of the taliban and Al Qaida, but instead of going after the Saudis some of the only non military flights to be allowed to fly just after 9/11 were private jets that flew Saudi Royal family members out of the country.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/221/

And also Dilbert: https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Random+Number+Gener...
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Thank you, this is great! I missed this announcement because I've been on vacation. I agree, it isn't documents (nor should it be) but it's certainly better than plain text.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...

https://www.tsa.gov/precheck

https://www.clearme.com/
It goes further, the media labels those opposed to vaccine passports as anit-vaxxers, many of which have had these shots.
There is an interesting conundrum here, when we post to the internet do we also consent to having that information saved for all eternity?

Archiving everything is still a novel and not fully understood concept it is not that clear that it is useful or beneficial over long term.

Forgetting can be a bliss.
The vaccine generalizes better without the annoyance to deathly consequences of actually contracting the virus.
I have not worked there for several years, and ownership is now Brazilian, no idea what they are doing now.
Yes we have considered it. Do you know of any such large (over 12 inches) panels with decent resolution and pretty fast updates that are available? Such a thing would probably help with power consumption. (e-inks consume a lot of power during screen updates).

Looking at all of the options a simple full RLCD would probably be best for us--not eink--but we can't find appropriate parts for the size and resolution.
HTTP 1 will outlive the death of HTTP 3, QUIC, and Google. New standards come and go, old standards exist forever. RSS will probably make a comeback eventually: The ability to automatically process information is a common wheel we reinvent.
I've had good experience with jlbpcb in the past, they usually have some deals going around on youtube electronics channels too.
Next-gen 3D printed catalysts to propel hypersonic flight
Wow, I think I found the most disingenuous person on hacker news.
I was a law student who got sick of legal practice, and found my passion for programming through luck. I actually wrote a reflective blog piece on my journey recently if anyone is interested - https://medium.com/@fabianterh/celebrating-1-year-as-a-softw...

(It's not paywalled and I don't earn a single cent, so I hope this isn't against the rules)