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> If the tides shift and big tech starts tightening their belt, leetcode practitioners will start competing 100 engineers for 10 positions at big tech, and that's when salaries get pushed down.

it's already like this just for positions at random software companies paying $80-120k. the percentage of applicants to google that end up getting offers is estimated to be in the low single digits (if not below 1%). and frankly, I suspect big tech companies already hire more engineers than they "need", just to deny them to rising competition.

I don't think you're wrong about the moment that the tides shift, but it seems we are still quite far from that.
Why should we keep being controlled by the regressive moral taboos of puritan America?
Is it a law of physics? What is the problem with bodies? Are smart people superior to beautiful people?
It's all about minimizing the risk of data loss. The risk is always there, but some DB are much safer than other.

For example, Server crash is a much rarer issue than process restart. In Redis, if the process supervisors (systemd, docker, k8s, etc..) decide to restart your Redis process for whatever reasons, you risk losing ACKed data, because Redis ACKed before the data is written to disk.

In a safer database system, the data is not ACKed until it can safely survive a process restart. Furthermore, many database systems can be configured so that the data is safely persisted in multiple servers before ACKing, and therefore survive even a server lost incident.
Of course they are. Does anyone think otherwise?
> Really? What are those rules?

This is too fun so I can't help myself. A stark example here is of haikus, which generally have few requirements by way of grammar, and only require syllabic rules.

To parallel propositional logic, we can define an English haiku as a logic through the following:

The set of symbols are the words of the English language, with punctuation marks and newline symbols.

The language is defined as the free language generated by the symbols.

Transformation (inference) rules consist of the following:

If we have no sentences we may add (infer) an axiom.

If the first sentence consists of five syllables, we may infer a new sentence of free words consisting of seven syllables.

If the second sentence consists of seven syllables, we may infer a new sentence of free words consisting of five syllables.

If the third sentence consists of five syllables, we may infer top.

Otherwise if none of these rules are productive, we may infer bottom (we never infer bottom).

Our axiom set consists of all five syllable sets of English words.

That is the formal system of haikus.

Now you can argue that this system doesn't have interesting or useful results, but it's a bit difficult to argue that purely syntactically. You probably need some notion of semantics, and it becomes quite difficult to explain semantics purely using symbols and rules. In particular it can get a bit thorny to describe what a "result" is purely syntactically, i.e. only as the consequence of symbols and manipulation rules.
Would it be possible to circumvent this problem with something like squeezed light? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezed_states_of_light)
I mean, it works, and the end result is a fractional scale. But, yeah, it has some overhead.

When I tried here some months ago, KDE with fractional scaling wasn't as sharp as Gnome's upscale-then-downscale (I'm not really sure why. Downscaling should involve some blurring). I really wanted to use KDE, but text rendering on KDE's fractional scaling appears to be blurry.
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You can take the fintech route. Wall St for example, is basically tech firms that do finance. There is no other way for them to compete. Target a fintech hub. The larger the hub - new york, london etc, the more opportunities, the more open they will be. Dont sit around a small town. You have to get as close to where the action is to increase the odds. Put in a year or two and then shifting to pure tech will be straightforward. Your finance background will be an asset to get your foot in the door. Every bank, insurance, accounting firm have huge tech operations these days.
There are many reasons I’m in Apple’s walled garden but a sane phone size is simply the biggest.

I sometimes think about what I’m going to get after 12 mini that I’m using is done for :) Because there are reports that Apple is done with this screen size segment.
I think I actually prefer CLAs most of the time. If I’m submitting a patch to some piece of source available code it’s usually because I encountered a bug or missing behavior that is getting in the way of my work and I want it to be fixed. I just want to give away my code; the last thing I really care about is getting an email from some lawyer years down the line.

Now if I’m signing up to be a core contributor/maintainer of a project and you ask me for a CLA then I take issue.
But the ruling states when:
"discussing controversial historical, social or political issues"
How is the Holocaust, a controversial issue?
It's history. It's fact. Therefore, they (the teachers) don't need to teach an opposing view, because there isn't one.
(1) A "Random Variable" is a term of art in probability theory and has an entropy.

(2) Your distinction between "capacity" and "potential" is pointless: you have to budget for the expected information you have to transmit.

(3) Your silly games with words would apply to any technical discussion as they all use metaphors. You sound like someone who has never done any technical work at all.
I want to like Samsung, and I used to have an S III and it was great in it's day but they need to step up with their security updates. They provide 3-years of updates now I think which is better than they used to be, but for a lot of security-minded people I think a portable computer with a lot of sensitive personal data is pretty much obsolete the moment the critical security updates stop coming. For me that means I could only have a Samsung phone for 3 years before it would need to be replaced.
If you're talking about Akka Cluster sharding, basically any situation where you have distributed objects that have their own state and behavior. I've had two projects where objects needed to stay in memory so they could receive messages, update their state, and then behave by sending messages to other objects. And it was too many objects to live in one server. The naive solution of data repositories and caching isn't really sufficient for this, and a horizontally scaled Akka Cluster Sharding setup with Persistence was the right solution given the requirements.
> translating ipv4 addresses into a reserved range of ipv6 addresses

That's already a part of IPv6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Transition_from_I...

(In fact, when I store IPv4 addresses in memory/files, I just use the IPv6 encoding, which saves having a separate IP version field.)
> how does one prosecute something that happens in a private setting, behind closed doors?

We prosecute tons of things that happen between closed doors, already... Including sexual assault.
Evaluating causes of algorithmic bias in juvenile criminal recidivism
Demographics are changing.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
All the time. Michael Kratsios, former Federal CTO, and prior close associate of Peter Thiel gives a contract to a Thiel portfolio company (Scale) for $92M while he's Federal CTO and also undersecretary of the DoD with a fairly opaque budget and procurement (something called a "broad agency announcement"). He retires as Federal CTO and surprise, he's now an executive at Scale. This is all in the open not even subject to innuendo or implication.
patching hosts would be easy, but the routers in between would probably not need any changes and that's big since it was one of the holdups of v6 deployment.
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Ever since iOS 15 came out I’ve been getting small stutters in CarPlay. I’m on an iPhone 12 Pro so it’s not a hardware speed issue.

You know what? You’re right. It sticks out like a sore thumb because it’s so different from my normal experience. I’m used to some 3rd party apps being terrible but not the OS itself.

(Never used Android for more than 5 minutes, can’t comment there)
And given how hard it has been to find the "Dark Matter", theories that reduce the amount of it seem like valuable contributions to the overall understanding. Dark matter has so many "if its like ... then ..." scenarios that theories like this are effectively "working backwards" on the problem by giving us better constraints on the "then ... " part.
> "I have two candidates who are equal in every way except candidate A never finished college. Candidate B gets hired!"

In hundreds of interviews, I've never done this. It might happen. However, ironically, it's probably far less common at both the best/highest-paying places and also the places outside of high COL... IMO it's the mediocre places in high COL areas and the body shops in low COL areas that develop degree pathologist. :)

> Not skill-wise; I know people are all over the board with their skill level.

Yup. That said, there are certain skill-sets that most degreed folks don't have and functionally zero undegreed folks have. And those tend to overlap heavily with the "non-commodity" SWE/SDE positions.

Interestingly, I'm both self-educated in CS (first five figure programming gig was pre-degree) and also attended university at the typical age. I think I see with a bit more clarity than most way in which college degrees can and cannot contribute value in the software industry.

> EDIT: It's also affected my willingness to change jobs, confidence in myself, and as a result my salary. I make $120K/yr in a high COLA

Sorry about that :( Chin up, mate. You deserve more (or at least the same in a place where it buys a nice house with a yard).

> If you're reading this as a youngster: GO TO COLLEGE AND FINISH IT!

AND EXPLOIT THE EVER LIVING SHIT OUT OF ALL THAT TIME TO DEVELOP UNIQUE SKILLS AND EXPERTISE... YOUR TIME BETWEEN AND AFTER CLASS IS NOT "FREE TIME"; YOU'RE PAYING A LOT IN TUITION AND OPPORTUNITY COST! COURSEWORK IS WHAT PREPARES YOU FOR THE VALUABLE STUFF YOU DO WITH YOUR UNIVERSITY TIME; ON IT'S OWN IT IS NOT WORTH THE INVESTMENT. USE YOUR "FREE" TIME WELL! :)
This article is a bit old (back in May), I'm curious what the latest is.

One thing I find extremely strange is that, I looked this guy up online, and his Twitter feed is just so, well, "tech mundane". He seems to tweet nearly daily, e.g. yesterday he tweeted "Love the new Macbook Pro features/options, but to armchair #cloud, I'd limit the local storage option and improve the performance/availablity/resiliency of #iCloud" (which to be honest seems like a rather dumb tweet to me but that's besides the point).

I mean, I don't expect the dude to go into hiding or anything, and to each their own, but if I were facing significant prison time, and I knew I was a pretty big story in the tech world because I was guilty of serious corruption, the last thing I would be doing is making random tech tweets.
Yes, at least the companies that run clinical trials are not the same companies making the drugs. They won’t get paid more if a drug is successful. Random influencers on the internet have a direct financial interest in getting people to do what they say.
At least Linux don't wipes out your data when you do an update.
Yes, and that was not my argument.

The argument was "only communists try to solve OTHER people's problems for them and end up creating more problems for OTHER people than they started with"
I think the idea with that is not that it's hard, but that you know it. You won't get a product person telling you to implement a DB in 3NF - so it doesn't matter how quickly you'd learn via Google, as you wouldn't Google it.

Same goes for Leetcode. Anyone can Google how to implement some algorithm, but you won't be told what algorithm to use in your project requirements.

Of course, an interview could just involve getting you to give general descriptions of things instead of implementing them, which would satisfy this to some degree. But then everyone with a bachelors would pass the interviews, so they had to make them more intensive in order to limit the pool further.
There's a good video he's featured in discussing this issue

https://youtu.be/9V0lXIK9DZQ
s/ already exists: Mighty [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26957215] which is $30-50 a month for remote session to Chrome running on a very powerful Ubuntu system.

Looks like RemoteHQ launched something called Remote Browser as well, which is a SaaS browser, but more for collaborative purposes with more than one person using the same browser at the same time.
You can actually see how MS is ignoring this screw-up. The update problem was posted directly to the devteam's blog in 2019:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/tar-and-curl-come...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/containers/tar-and-cu...
I had a 2015 XPS 13 and it’s mobo died. It was disappointing but lead to one of the best support experiences of my life with a technician coming to my apartment to fix it for me.

Then the mobo died again 2 years later now out of warranty :(

My 2015 MacBook Pro is still going strong though :)
Taxes aren’t going down in New York, and more is being spent on education than ever, even adjusting for inflation. The money just isn’t well spent, and doesn’t make it to the classroom.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-administrati...
I think this is a good summary of why pipeline operators are long sought, more so than the proposal. If you are not fundamentally against chaining calls, there is no fundamental reason to be against pipeline operators because it can be thought as a generalization of chaining with similar pros and cons.
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And... Ubuntu is not linux. Ubuntu is one flavor and, being open source, when canonical made a mistake we could all drop their software and use something else. When Microsoft makes mistakes we don't have much choice but to wait/pray they address the situation before it bites us.
it's def not for the iphone crowd though. also the crappiest lineageOS support ever - but lots of other roms.

I got the panda version. after 2 months in my side pocket, the white paint that for some reason the google geniuses decided should cover the also white plastic, started peeling off. From rubbing with my leather wallet. completely irrelevant to the functionality, which is the good part about it. searched it and everyone w/o a case is having the paint peeling issue. but... it's a much better issue than the entire phone, front and back being made of glass that breaks and costs $100+ to replace, and falls frequently because it's too slippery to hold in one hand.
The success of Android and Chrome OS shows that it is possible to fix these issues if you completely disregard the existing community. I would expect a Microsoft Linux to be as solid as Windows with several custom components. The existing Linux desktop is a fun toy, but as you noted its quality is still exactly where it was 20 years ago - up shit creek.
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Chevy Bolt: 1,625 kg

BMW i4: 2,290 kg
To clarify on Edit #2, are you saying that you're selling to the customer through a reseller, and you suspect that the reseller is actually an executive at the company who is skimming margin by purchasing from you at a list price and marking it up to the end customer?

The levels of deceit and lying are so thick.
What you seem to envision is Microsoft strictly becoming a Linux distro and throwing away all their external display management code, for example. I don't think that's ever going to happen. I don't think Microsoft will ever join an existing user interface; they'll bring over their own.

What seems to be happening is that Microsoft is laying the groundwork, ever so slowly, to sit their user interface on top of Linux, without sacrificing any backward compatibility or loss of functionality.
Physically possible? Yes.

Financially feasible? Not yet, and maybe not ever. We’ll see.
The hard part is getting that entry level job. My route was by way of tech support first. It gets easier from there. I’ve never had any difficulty finding a good job. I get promoted at a normal rate. After 7 years, I was getting frequent, high quality recruiter contacts for jobs that were interesting to me. After 15 years I was able to basically choose the exact job I wanted in my chosen specialty and go get it. I’m now 25 years in and so far I detect no ageism (and I have never detected credentialism), knock on wood.

I cannot specifically recall the subject of my no-college status ever coming up in an interview, or in a negative way at work.
In the other words, if some feature can be recursively composable and a weakness of the feature appears only when highly composed, it's generally not a fault of the feature itself. Of course it can still be argued that an empty destructuring (itself non-composable) should be made invalid.
Rereading, I misunderstood you, sorry. I thought you were saying the OP interpreted the old characters by their newer meanings, but now I see you're saying that the OP's claim that everyone else has done it seems implausible (and I agree).
how about for an optical switch? for switching network packets over fibre?
While the situation is sad, it makes me incredibly happy there are people who worry this much about another living being.

Whenever I hear about tech helping save lives it always fills me with joy to think about all the effort that went in to building this tech, to all the people who involuntarily helped make that tech become a reality.
WebAssembly isn't a Lisp, it just happens to have an s-expr representation
That first track, Welcome to My Mind, sounds eerily similar to Move any Mountain by the Shamen (1991).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iir1MBjkk48
Does Feliz work with Fable?
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It appears that you're saying the Analogue is piggybacking on piracy, but from what I can tell they don't want you pirating games on their consoles.
No - that's just a neat trick to enhance the precision in the measurement of non-commuting observable quantities of interest.
I've been wearing hearing aids for almost 8 years. The brain training process is real and I'm glad the audiologist explained it.
>> companies are going to continue to try to hold on to as much of that increase as possible for themselves

Shareholders are going to continue to try to hold on to as much of that increase as possible for themselves. It is too easy to place blame on heartless corporations. Place the blame squarely on the flesh-and-blood people running and benefiting from corporations. Those profits aren't sitting in a big vault at Amazon. They are sitting in the bank accounts of every Amazon shareholder.
In Japan, consumers are responsible for disassembling their waste when recycling. Something like that could work for the USA, though I'm not sure if Japan's more involved system actually gets better results than other countries. For example, https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry.... indicates that much of the recycling is oriented around energy production than actual material reuse.

Obviously we should expect energy/material loss when recycling (meaning, each time something is recycled it should require inputs), but perhaps we can get those numbers down more and more as time goes on.
They mention a “very conservative false positive rate” - doesn’t 1/trillion imply that they used 1 / (1e12 ^ (1/30)) = ~40% as the false positive rate? If so, that does seem extremely conservative to me!
Interesting questions. I'm not going to get into fine points of definition (I posted to GP to avoid misunderstanding), which I don't think is important here. I think the significance is whether there are multiple entities who compete for power, or one that dominates everything. Of course, there are grey areas in everything.
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> She says teenagers don't write. They text sentence fragments back and forth with each other.

Ah yes, the old days before the mobile phone was invented, when teenagers everywhere were writing novels in their spare time.

Teenagers who didn't want to be writers weren't writing back then. Same as now. Although the average teen is almost certainly "writing" more than ever because the primary mode of communication now is typing, not talking.
I have a Synology NAS running a TFTP server with the netboot.xyz payload, and I configured the DHCP server on my UDM Pro (https://store.ui.com/products/udm-pro) to announce the NAS's IP address as the netboot server.
*nominative determinism
Also studies of universal pre K suggests it more than pays for itself.

https://nieer.org/2019/01/31/research-shows-high-quality-pre...
So as a user, I have to recompile in deference to making things easier for the developer. Definitely not like Windows...for all their sins, they don't pull entitled BS like that on users.
In Australia you need to go to an Optometrist who is not a doctor, they can't prescribe medicines. There are few independent Optoms most are employed by spectacles chains nowadays. They also do retinal scan, check for glaucoma etc. No one pays for Optoms. The government pays for one free eye checkup every 2 years (used to be 1 year). The glasses and frames you have to pay. Ophthalmologists are specialists for eye diseases and needs to be referred by either GP or Optom and costs an arm and a leg. My last visit was $400+
You shouldn't care about cranking out 100 wpm. You just want the text to flow without expending much mental and physical effort.

I am typing this final paragraph using hunt-peck style, while looking at the keyboard. It is horrible, feels like going back to the stone age with no electricity or plumbing. Can confirm 1000% touch typing is far superior.
> Ubuntu made this mistake what once? Microsoft is continuing to do and doubling down.

Well, my point was not that they were the same, but that Canonical has engaged in behavior I find unsavory in the past (indeed in my opinion far more unsavory than what Microsoft has done with Windows 11, but that's just my opinion), so I can no longer trust them to engage in this behavior in the future.

> Pretending that major progress hasn't been made (especially wireless) is simply ignoring reality.

The reality I live with is that I still can't connect to my University's wireless network using my Ubuntu machine, but it works fine on Windows and MacOS and has for decades.

> Also, I would point out that you're somewhat drawing a false equivalence since Windows makes both the hardware and software in your Surface.

I've owned machines from all manufacturers you could care to list and even when a HW vendor is trying really really hard to offer the fully integrated, seamless experience that Windows and MacOS offer, they still can't get it right. For instance, the Dell machine I have right now is one of them. Dell has been selling Ubuntu computers for 14 years and they can't get their power setting right.

I love Linux. I use it every day. My job wouldn't be possible without it. My passions wouldn't be possible without it. But we need Windows to not be Linux because honestly Windows is still setting the bar in many regards.
with a lot of woodworking tools the AirPods pros definitely offer more protection than nothing. Not sure what attenuation they offer, but for the truly damaging higher frequency noise they seem to do a pretty decent job.

I still wear real ear protection, but for the odd cut, or for any other day to day situation with loud noises the AirPods do a good job.
I mostly develop for Android devices and use iOS.

I have literally never missed not having a "always-back" button. Where would I want it that a way to go back isn't baked into the flow?

I mean half the Android apps out there have broken backstack implementations anyways so pressing back on Android will do anything from send you back one screen to set your hair on fire and everything in between so...