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No, I'm calling you one because you've played six degrees of vaccine misinformation on an article about the US government using herbicide. You haven't made any defensible claims, you've just injected uncertainty for uncertainty's sake.
In Google Ngram there's a distinct spike for "Snow Cruiser" right at 1939, reflecting no doubt the public interest.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Snow+Cruiser&y...
Take up shooting: rifle, pistol, archery, or slingshot. After a while, everything becomes a target: TV, computer, tablet, and cellphone.
Can you agree that your original response with half the quote might have been a bit dishonest? And if you don't think so, why not quoting the entire phrase?
In the last 10 years this is how I got my last 3 jobs: single stage 30-45 minute technical conversation with a lead engineer. I had other multi-stage interviews that went nowhere. Those were not FAANG companies obviously, but FAANG are overrated anyway. I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond.

Bottom line is - if a company actually wants to hire, they don't waste time. I've met engineers from other companies at meetups who told me they have rejected every single candidate because they didn't want to hire, management was pushing them to. Others said they have deliberately chosen "Elite Language X" to weed out "bad developers" and so on.
It's better to keep same software stack with production environment. So I think containerd/nerdctl/lima is another option.
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I had an 8256. I read some code in a magazine showing how to draw fractals recursively (they were Koch snowflakes actually) and I had a lot of fun making more complex fractals using that basic recipe. The PCWs had a monochrome screen that was quite hi-res, certainly compared to what I was used to, which worked well for turtle graphics.
Anther way to put it - F# has a .NET dependency :)
A Proton rocket launch failed in 2013, supposedly due to sensors being installed backwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-M#Notable_launch_failur...

The Genesis sample-return capsule crash-landed due to the accelerometer controlling the parachute deployment being installed upside-down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)#Mishap_In...
I didn't say, you shouldn't invest in Biontech.That is a whole different question.

There is obviously a marketing boost swapping over from their Covid-19 mRNA vaccine success.

So spreading the word is fine by me.
No I haven't, you must have misread.
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I wouldn't call instant messaging "social media". I see a fundamental differences between the 1:1 (or 1:n where n isn't that high) bidirectional communications and the 1:world fundamentally one-way principle of Twitter and the likes. Yes I know it happens you get replies but I'd say that's less expected (and less happening). So while you use the one for exchanging infos, you use the other for... advertising? And the latter is less important.
>Like all numbers from the government, politics are involved.

Not really. Details of how CPI is calculated has never been political issue.
Of course assimilating the new people would be the best outcome. Sadly I have ran into enough that go in with the intention of changing the subculture that I am now VERY skeptical of any new person.
>Next up are the "Parker Jotter Originals" for EDC (https://blog.penvibe.com/parker-ballpoint-pens-ultimate-guid...). They are very affordable and hence i keep them everywhere.

I for some reason don't like the Parker Jotters as they are too thin for my fat fingers. Also the blue color of the ballpoint is too much on the purple side and gives me a headache. I too have one but I don't use it much but I still love it ;-). I am aware of their Gel lines but not sure whether they work for the Jotter.

>Finally, always check the offerings from Japan

I love the Japanese offerings but I don't get much in India. For eg Pentel has its factory in India but manufacturers limited set of models. I love Pentel pens btw but I am not satisfied with its offerings in India.

I am currently using Uniball Signo retractable UMN 207. Although the build and the ink is very nice it skips a lot and I am not sure whether it is because the ink is not designed for Indian weather or paper quality. I do see people having complaints with skipping but not much. I have ordered some UMN 307s and have to see how it fares.

>Many of the OEMs who actually manufacture the pens but which are sold under other well-known brand names are now releasing them under their own name. Two of them are TWSBI(Taiwan) and Penac(Japan).

I am thinking of buying the TWSBI as I really love its unique see through styling. I was thinking of purchasing a Lamy though. I am afraid to use Fountain pens as I work in harsh environments and I am not sure how it will fare but then again our ancestors were using these pens with ease. :-)

>If you are a Fountain Pen connoisseur, you should know that India has a large number of Artisanal Specialist Fountain Pen makers

Yes I am aware but the problem is I think they they import their nibs and just make the body of the pens. Somehow I don't feel like buying this Frankenstein and would love to buy the complete product if they make it.
https://aws.github.io/aws-eks-best-practices/security/docs/i...
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F# has quite a bit of awkwardness related to dotnet compatibility.

In practice you have to use a lot of C# class based code, which brings an inherent mismatch to the functional model and makes code look more like a multi-paradigm language like Scala.

The tooling and ecosystem is great (though not as good as for C#, obviously...), the language has some very nice features and design decisions, but you have to live with a somewhat messy reality.

In practice sticking to C# is probably wiser.
We've had ANSI escape codes with colors since I don't know when, time for you to update your command line browser and join the rest of us with our colorful terminals :)
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, FAANG is very overrated but I am currently working at FAANG and I applied at Twitter because of their permanent working from home policy.
I think at least some of the structure is down to the update equation, roughly 'new = sign(gate * old + ...)'. Since 'gate' is always positive, this means that even when the network is randomly initialized, the state is more likely to stay the same between two time steps than to change.

I tried "deep transitions" which repeats this equation a couple of times, and the results were indeed noisier.
AWS is lagging behind on managed K8s on-prem for air-gapped environments, consider Google had GKE on-prem (now a part of Anthos) long ago, and Azure offered AKS on Azure Stack HCI. Finally AWS caught up, feature parity between the big 3.

Adoption will be interesting to see.

I've worked on gravitational (gravity / telekube) flavoured K8s distribution designed for on-prem data centre deployment models for the past few years. Those customers will eventually move to 1. managed K8s (good on them) or 2. continue to self-host K8s to satisfy their building one's own PaaS goal lol (in that case, it's better be managed K8s' on-prem variant from GKE/AKS/EKS). For the same K8s solution's other model - BYO K8s, I see rapid adoption of AKS (vs GKE, EKS is the dominate from beginning as it was the first supported).

On gravitational: Recently I heard gravitational has shifted focus (and rebranded) to teleport (secure cloud access gateway - used to be a part of gravity), around their Series B funding round, after all, investors are looking for a business model that can bring them profit (and exit). On the other hand, `gravity` - `pull the stack from cloud` - where the name came from - which addresses specify niche market does not seem to have generated much revenue over the last couple of years.
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It's amazing how much bad poetry this author waxes, all the while failing to mention the reality that all the measures had a primary, legitimate, easily verifiable purpose in common: to alleviate the over-capacity ICU beds.

Their ignorance goes so far as to say

> This in Spring 2020 it was ironically the most alarmist regions, those that had imposed the strictest lockdowns nominally for the safety of the elderly, which ended up killing more elderly than anybody else, due to over-hospitalisation, criminal mistreatment of many Sars2 patients and poor, paranoid management of elderly cases.

What? People are dying in hospitals because there are not enough beds!
XEmacs was my first Emacs. It supported Windows properly (GNU Emacs relented many years later and now treats Windows quite well) and graphical possibilities that made many users recommend it to newcomers like me.

I think it also had package management at a time when the GNU Emacs side thought that was decadent.

In the end it was a bit like the gcc/egcs situation: GNU learned something from the schism and started to take users' wishes seriously, and shortly thereafter there was no reason to continue separate lines of development.
I'd just like to point out that raising 6 kids is very much hard work, even if you're a bad parent I find it hard to describe it as no work at all.
Obviously its not enough. Right now my mind needs icecream and music for example.
Regular users are always penny-pinching, especially when it comes to software.

B2B is much more profitable and you can set much higher prices for your products.
In the case of Russian, the transliteration kh is used because it was developed for rendering Russian words in French, which has no H sound.

For sheikh, I assume, like Achmed, that having the sound in a syllable-final position didn't work for whatever the target language was. It might have been English; we can't do /x/ or syllable-final /h/.

> I've recently discovered that my entire country mispronounces "sheikh", so for now it's my pet peeve of sorts.

If you expect everyone in your country to accurately produce a sound they've never heard, you're in for some disappointment.
Yes, it was very strange when HR said that to me and she kept insisting I did great. Anyways, Thanks for feedback.
If they come in with plans to change the subculture...
There are issues that game theory can't solve. Take for example the St. Petersburg paradox. From Wikipedia:

"A casino offers a game of chance for a single player in which a fair coin is tossed at each stage. The initial stake begins at 2 dollars and is doubled every time heads appears. The first time tails appears, the game ends and the player wins whatever is in the pot. Thus the player wins 2 dollars if tails appears on the first toss, 4 dollars if heads appears on the first toss and tails on the second, 8 dollars if heads appears on the first two tosses and tails on the third, and so on. Mathematically, the player wins 2^(k+1) dollars, where k is the number of consecutive head tosses. What would be a fair price to pay the casino for entering the game?"

The expectation value for how much you'll win from this game is infinite, so a naive game theory assessment might conclude that it's worth paying up to an infinite amount of money to play this game.

Of course, the issue is that nobody has an infinite amount of dollars in their pocket. That, incidentally, is also the issue with your naive assessment of insurance policies.
You're right, not sure how I missed that.
There is a sense in which you only get a shortage as a result of something like price controls. If Saudi Arabia stops producing oil, the price goes up, but you can still get it. But if the government institutes price controls then people buy all they like at that price until the supply runs out. Then you can't buy it at all because nobody who has it wants to sell it for less than the price cap and nobody is allowed to sell it for more.

There is another definition of a shortage which basically says that supply doesn't respond to price, i.e. even if people are willing to pay more, the total amount of supply doesn't increase.

If gasoline was suddenly $50/gallon, it wouldn't stay there very long because it would immediately be profitable for new supply to come online, using production methods that aren't economical at lower prices. Supply would increase in response to higher prices.

This is also true of COBOL developers. If they were highly paid (relative to other software developers) then more people would learn COBOL and the supply of COBOL developers would increase in response to the high price.

It isn't really true of housing in SF. The price goes up and the supply remains the same because new construction is constrained by zoning. So there's a shortage.
It's not the main thrust of the article, but this snippet of code struck out at me:

> err := conn.QueryRow(ctx, `SELECT ` + scanTeamFields + ` ...)

Why are we, as an industry, still okay with constructing SQL queries with string concatenation?
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I'm sure you are wrong -- you'll not be less attractive, moreover, I think you'll be more attractive because you'll have had both working experiences: small and big companies. As for me I'm definitely not receiving fewer job offers now, after the jump.
We're talking a world where humanity has enough energy on tap that not only could it have feasibly evaporated the Pacific Ocean, but that it basically has evaporated the Pacific Ocean, as a side effect of doing something else.

We can barely speculate about such a world, but interstellar travel would not be much of a challenge with that sort of energy abundance. We'll find a way.
This article is from after the brexit vote about what might have happened in the event of a no deal brexit. We are currently in a grace period on import checks, and this week we've seen warnings from food suppliers about what will happen after the grace period [1]. This shows it wasn't "ridiculous".

Frankly I think the BBC did pretty well. Political parties didn't draw clear lines at first, and covering the full spectrum of opinions was probably impossible. Overall Farage got more airtime than his MP count would suggest was necessary, and he was sort of balanced by the Lib Dems.

Even with a deal sandwiches have been confiscated as a result of brexit, so in some way there really has been a threat to sandwiches [2].

[1] - https://news.sky.com/story/m-s-warns-of-price-pressure-and-l...

[2] - https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/brexit-...
Okay, I'll bite: why are you writing years with 5 digits? Prevention of a Y10K bug?
This. Not sure why OP think they went all in to hydrogen at all.

Just like every other car manufacture they couldn't quite put the numbers together on how Battery EV will work without a ridiculous amount of investment or bet. It is worth remembering they are primarily a car manufacture, not battery manufacture. Now things have changed not only because the path is clearer, and numbers are easier to do with less risk, ( big enterprise are risk averse ), but more importantly Investors loves EV. It doesn't matter if you have no concrete plan to make profit out of EV, your stock price will rise, and this has an effect on management, board, banks, cash flow, all sort of things.

Although I am skeptical of Solid State Battery, I would have thought a conservative company like Toyota would have went with conventional Li Battery with Silicon Anode type.
> And I always write the WHERE clause before the DELETE or UPDATE keywords.

I sometimes get nervous typing 'rm -r' commands, since it starts with a very broad path, and only narrows-down as we type more, e.g. if we hit enter prematurely when typing 'rm -r ~/Downloads/archive.zip' we might delete our entire home directory, or all of our downloads.

For this reason I often prefix dangerous steps with 'echo'; once I'm confident it's correct, I'll then run the script and double-check that variables/flags/etc. expanded as expected; and only then will I remove the echoes.
Yikes. I’m not terribly surprised by that, but I am pretty jaded about both hiring and big tech companies at this point so that’s probably why.

I recently wrapped up a job search, and it occurred to me just now that in each of my job searches since finishing undergrad I’ve ended up at the company with the least painful hiring process. That’s not something I’ve intentionally tried to optimize for, but apparently I weight it pretty heavily.

What’s really interesting is that this time around I ended up in a US federal position that I cold-applied for, over private sector positions for which I was being actively recruited. You’d think startups would be able to do better than the most bureaucratic organization in the history of our species, but no, they insisted on 5+ rounds of interviews and 8-hour “take home” exercises.

For what it’s worth, my previous employer was a startup, I applied on a Friday afternoon and had a written offer in hand on the Monday morning 6 business days later.
It is fortunate that you are not in charge of efforts to replace use of SF6 in current high-voltage electrical equipment; or to phase out HFCs, and to ensure that the HFCs replaced or in decommissioned equipment are destroyed safely. Each person working on those has more effect than any thousand working on carbon. But we also need all those thousands working on carbon.

According to EPA, just three companies release the overwhelming bulk of problem fluorine-containing gases today. It is much easier to get three companies to change what they do than to get tens of thousands in line.

In practice, carbon is such a big problem that a solution will only come very slowly. Anything that can be done more quickly has outsize impact.
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Since neuronal-signal transmission does not actually transport ions in the direction of information travel (unlike electrons in circuits), this is not too surprising ?
> We've currently got proof of concept implementations for Lisp and Python

So what would be the benefit over something like http://hypothesis.readthedocs.io ?

From the look of it (the mention of "free" on the website), you have some monetization in mind. What form would that take?
> I feel like that is the classic hubris of mankind to aspire to become gods

Gods were invented by people who refused to admit their ignorance of things they couldn't understand or explain.

Every year the list of unexplainable things gets shorter and shorter. Maybe we'll never be able to explain everything, but I do believe it's within reach to understand the aging process to the point of being able to reverse or even halt it. It may not happen in our lifetimes, and the society that figures it out may not be able to deal with the ramifications properly, but they will learn over time. Just as we've done with scientific and technological advancements in the past. Sometimes you can't figure out how to deal with something until you have to deal with it.
I was auditing a bank’s data center once and found a working VAX that some guy had managed to keep off the inventory (along with a hundred other servers - he had his own little fiefdom going). The data center techs didn’t know what it was or who was responsible for it so they had just left it alone for as long as anyone could remember.
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Fossil fuels must remain in the ground to keep warming below 1.5°C, study says
Precisely what I wanted to say. Have a child and you won't complain about not knowing what to do with your time any more.

But it's true that the rest is pretty cool too.
So they could push you to use their Apps? There are very little incentive to improve their website.
A 20 year track record that the virus doesn't eventually mutate to bypass the narrow protection offered by mRNA vaccines, and subsequent infections aren't worse compared with natural immunity gained after an initial infection. In particular when first infection occurs early in life, like is the case for other human coronaviruses that subsequently become an afterthought.
Or, Occam’s razor. A sufficiently complex engineering task can exist such that it fully taxes even international, multi-nation state-backed parallel capacity for engineering, and science.

This is already demonstrated by your own examples provided, just at a smaller scale.

If there were ever such a project to push against the capacity of our ability to do truly enormous, complex engineering, I’d say a massive, cutting-edge fusion reactor is as good a candidate as one could propose.

Moreover, the economic and educational stimulus these projects provide cannot be ignored when accounting for the indirect, long-tail returns this project, and those similar, provide.

Put another way: ostensibly, achieving net energy gain from fusion is the end of our near-term (energy) needs, conveniently breezing over the evolution and refinements of any system, as well as delivery and storage, but these are paths that are comparatively well mapped out. It then follows that, short of catastrophic losses prior to succeeding (which while not a given per se, seems more a function of time than of ability outright), any reasonable cost is worthwhile. Reasonable, in this context, meaning one that doesn’t bankrupt, or otherwise severely impact the participants in a negative fashion. Given the scale of these budgets vs. that of social welfare programs, military spending, etc. I don’t see that as an issue worth being concerned over. One can know the budget has been exceeded, without that also bringing down the house.

Ultimately, to an extent you’re asserting a false dichotomy. It can be true that there’s continued, substantial progress towards the stated goals of these projects, even if the budgets, horizons, and timelines aren’t to your taste. It can also be true that there’s waste, inefficiencies, and even (both legalised and otherwise) corruption. One does not preclude the other.
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I completely agree. The interview process at big tech is a long, emotional and mental roller coaster now. Anyways, Thanks for the feedback.
It's a random process. I think the comments here are misleading.

FAANG and peers set the bar about 1-2 std. div. above their typical hire. The cost of a bad hire is much higher than the cost of a missed good hire. People run the gauntlet. You can do the stats, but it:

- Misses a majority of good hires

- Rejects a supermajority of bad hires

Unless you are 1-2 std. div. above a typical Googler, you should expect multiple interviews before you're hired. If you're qualified, and it's 1 std div, it takes about 3-4 tries. If it's 2 std. div, it takes 20(!) tries. If you're underqualified, that goes up very rapidly, and if you're overqualified, it goes down a bit.

Few people are overqualified on all axes (soft skills, coding, system design, etc.), so virtually everyone runs into rejections like this. The sooner you learn to deal with rejection, the better off you are.
> Four years? It sounds like you’re rather unfamiliar with the UK.

I agree OP sounds like an uninformed american, but since 1979 there's been an general election every 4 years on average.
Once we build the first large, pressurised hangar in space, then we will be able to start assembling stuff up there far more easily. That's the kind of space station I'm looking forward to. I'm sure assembling a spacecraft while wearing T-shirts in 0G will be far easier than working in 1G.

If only building a large, pressurised hangar in space was easy!
The context of the discussion was about collection and monetisation of user data in the absence of strong privacy laws, with specific reference to Apple. Hence the reference to the Google - Apple deal. (And Mozilla and Apple have different business models and thus users have different perceptions about them vis privacy).
"Turning heat off at end of cooking"

What is the alternative?