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Polars could bring the best of both worlds together if it can codegen python api calls to their Rust equivalent. A user conducts ad-hoc analysis and rapid development with Python. When the work is ready to ship, the user invokes a codegen to transform into Rust-equivalent api calls, resulting in a new rust module.
Doctors prescribe drug -> pharmacy dispenses drug -> pharmacy orders from manufacturer. All I hear about is pharmacies and manufacturers getting sued, but why not doctors? Why do they seem to get off the hook when they are the main cause. Sure, Perdue marketed it to doctors (and I don't even see a way that pharmacies were responsible at all), but "I was manipulated by marketing" isn't a convincing defense from an expert.
“The Rag” has even more episodes, starting May 2000 [1]. The most recent episodes are at https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/earlier/7/
Ah Allister Brimble; another great one. SotB I is David Whittaker though or maybe you had a different point.
How does the availability of jobs/salaries map to that though? Sure you might be able to buy a 2000sqft house for $40k but what salary are you on?
I was horrified to find this [0] written in law for my country:

> Appropriate measures aimed at achieving true equality are not regarded as discriminatory.

[0] https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1996/1498_1498_1498/en#ar...
"within Reach", LOL.

(Sorry, love their furniture, not so much their prices.)
I think it would be reasonable to ask for a separate internet connection and router myself. If someone wants me to install opaque software that can do whatever it wants in terms of outbound/inbound packets, then they should be okay paying for it to be completely separate.
Oracle in Talks to Buy Cerner (EHR Vendor)
I don’t know, maybe I’m
In the minority, but I quite like the tool chain around AWS.

AWS CDK is a breakthrough in infra as code. It will be the standard in a few years to come.

AWS SDK v3 is quite ok and will get better soon.

AWS CLI is maintained and has everything well documented.

Most popular services work well together.

IAM is very powerful and a well thought out solution.
I am in fact happy they killed this before it went public. At least people did not invest in learning a new service and then have to deal with migrating it elsewhere.
Linux was built using a distributed team without the metaverse. It seems like we’re doing just fine?
> ... they found another solution for that. Because there always is one.

Thank you! That is the kind of experience I want a taste of :)
I work for an ISO certified company, our company laptops have specific things for things like firewalls, allowed software, etc. Things for actual security. But no spyware, I don't feel like you need spyware to get ISO or SOC2, just sounds like a ruse to me for a company that lacks trust. Big red flag.

If it's your own personal laptop, then it's your property, they have no right to make you install something on it. If it's their laptop they've given you, then they do. And it's up to you whether you want to work in that way. But as I said, that would sound alarm bells for me.
Watch out for what all permissions that software agent has.

Big firms when they issue their own hardware often install such agents that have ability to not just monitor activity, but also wipe out data or change user account credentials.

I personally find it weird if the ask is to install such agent on BYOD (personal device), since not just the company data, but your personal data can also be wiped out remotely, or your account credentials can be changed remotely locking you out of your own device.
> What a horrible injustice for an HR team to try and bring some diversity to a company that mostly hired white males.

White people are under represented at tech companies in USA. Only Asians are over represented. The only reason to discriminate against white people there is that you hate white people. White people are less under represented than black people, true, but white people are still under represented.
I get similar comments about intellect, potential, etc. I too am a nobody. It sucks that I'll never make any "good" money and be stuck in boring jobs. Who cares though? I'm fine being a nameless peasant - the vast majority of people live their lives that way.
>It was at this point Innes realized his $9.20 website provided a little more value than he’d initially bargained for: he had just saved the lives of three people.

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>Ultimately, he also feels he has no choice. “As long as these emails keep coming in, I will continue to act,” he says. “So far, nearly 150 lives have been saved as a direct result of the site and my actions.”

Amazing.
Thats a solution thats used to be common for well run large shops(well sometimes using things like remotely accessed hardware prior to modern virtualization) but as this creates work and expenditure for the client many smaller outfit's kind of want it both ways and expect the contractor to fund hardware/software completely identical to what their IT is deploying for employee's.
We learned the lesson that opioids are too addictive to be used to treat everyday pain back in the 1970's.

However, Purdue Pharma's claim to fame with opioids was that their time release formulation was not addictive, so unlike traditional opioids these could be safely used on a daily basis.

Obviously, this claim was fraudulent.

Opioids still have their place, for treating terminal cancer patients, for instance. Short term use after a catastrophic event is still warranted.
Yes. Often need to rule out a series of initial ideas first.
Amazon ought to spin off an "amazon3rdparty.com" where all the riff-raff can go to live, clean up their own site.
Yep. Rclone supports encryption now but I started this before that was a thing so it’s just a rclone mount with encfs
https://archive.md/8QGiu
"Zero Trust Networks" usually require an agent to be installed
I've been thinking along similar lines for a little while. For me, it's not about mutation, but unrestricted mutation.

When a unique reference (&mut T) exists then the only possible way to even look at the data is through that unique reference. In that situation, there's no reason to have any restrictions on mutation, because nothing else can observe it.

With shared references (&T), multiple parts of the program can access the data at the same time. If you mutate in that situation you can end up with memory corruption due to data races, so mutation has to be restricted to require runtime synchronization through RefCells, Mutexs, etc.
Hi, author of the article here.
Happy to have a discussion about the WebAssembly component model and current implementations.
Ask them for funds to buy a new laptop and router ; buy a laptop with removable battery and put the laptop behind the new router taking care to ensure to isolate the laptop. Remove the laptop battery when not using the laptop.
You don't have an alternative to being yourself, so there is nothing to think about.

By all means, do what you feel you would enjoy doing and balance it off with the needs of society (by making sure you earn enough currency to live).

If you feel you want to become a better researcher or a better chess player, go and do it. Keep in mind there is no reason comparing yourself to others. Everyone's life is vastly different.

Maybe that brilliant researcher has a broken family, maybe a great philosopher is broke and living in a barrel.
What's the point of comparing yourself to someone else? Compare yourself to your past self and try to improve.
And don't fret if you become worse, you'll have the rest of your life to improve.

I'd recommend reading something about stoicism: https://www.orionphilosophy.com/academy-stoicism/stoicism-fo...
The problem is the arrangement itself. They hire a contractor/consultant to get some value out of you. What they should be doing is monitoring if they are getting the value. Hours spent is not value.

If I was in your situation I would ask them if they want to discuss the arrangement, the value and the guarantees they are getting. I would suggest we can agree on zero notice period and no questions asked termination policy (of course symmetrically). I would also want to discuss how they will know the work progresses so that they are satisfied they are not being robbed. If that wouldn't work I would part our ways and find other job.

As to installing spying software that should be absolutely out of question. If you agree, you are just enabling them to do the same for other people.

Listen, there is no value in having spying software on your computer. Will you work more diligently when you know you are observed? That only works for menial jobs, but if your job is to do anything complex you are just burning time for no reason.
I have a couple of coworkers that use this term with pride, e.g. part of their nickname, email signatures, etc...
Why would they do that? To me it reads as unwelcoming or passive aggressive, doesn't it?
> Alternatively, "You really really have to give a shit about your own security". Imagine if banks had some skin in the game in terms of their security story. Why was I able to have 2 factor on my world of warcraft account many years before my bank account?

It’s telling that you don’t know how wrong this is, but feel qualified to redesign a mature industry anyway. Banks are highly regulated and spend billions on security — that’s why the major breaches which are routine in the cryptocurrency world don’t have an analog in the real financial system.

They know that there would be significant penalties if they lose customer resources or grant access to your account improperly, but they don’t spend it on the same things. For example, MFA doesn’t solve every problem — if I phish you or compromise your device, your cryptocurrency life savings are gone but trying to send a wire transfer from your bank for an amount that large will require out of band confirmation, especially if it’s to a random third party or out of the country.

That irrecoverable failure mode is one of the core design flaws of cryptocurrency which makes it unappealing to most people. Most people do not want the risk or constant maintenance work of being their own bank, and mitigating that by reinventing the banking sector except more expensive is a tough sell.
Thank god I am not the only one experiencing this.

I am generally interested in space related subjects, but my feed is constantly full of fake 'live' SpaceX and Elon Musk videos. These are just old SpaceX streams overlayed with crypto scams.

No matter how often I report these videos as misleading, the keep being recommended to me. At the beginning, reporting a video would make it disappear from my feed instantly, but now, even after reporting the video stays in my feed. My guess is that the report/view ratio of my account is probably so bad now that Youtube is no longer processing my reports as trustworthy.
> I can no longer pick up on junior team members talking themselves into trouble and nip it in the bud, I only get exposed to that trouble by the time they’ve invested enough time into it that it becomes a much harder discussion.

Perhaps the environment isn’t right for them to just ask for help?

> When I go grab a cup of coffee I no longer overhear other teams talking about their projects, and ask them if they mind me sitting in to learn more about what they’re doing.

Demo days?

> A lot of the organic social interactions that serve as a medium for knowledge diffusion are just gone.

Happy hours?
There is only action on "genocide" when it suits US geopolitical ambitions. The Russians are right to block this sort of blank-cheque instrument. Happily, Russia learned from the Libya disaster.
Speaking of quality, I bought a 4+ star review can opener from Amazon that couldn’t open a single can I used it on. Good times.
Between a) using my own machine, b) using a company machine and c) firing the client, option B is pretty sensible. Option C is for when the client won't compromise at all.

You can always make separate github accounts, SSH keys, and so on, specifically for the job.
What language are you talking about?
That's why you tape off cameras and stick a needle in condenser mics on any new laptop.
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Coming from the other side, as a professional SWE that helps my friends in academia with reviewing/debugging their code sometimes... You're absolutely right, some of the most mindfucking code I've seen was from academia. Some are pretty decent and elegant but mostly it's a janky mess of FORTRAN libraries being called in weird ways, code that isn't written at all to be read later on, etc.
Maybe you are right, but god was she annoying.

On the other hand, I really loved Saru. Getting him replaced as captain... I don't know if I want to watch season 4 :/
Faramir is not just an asshole, they show him as conflicted. They show how his father is talking down to him and you can understand his motivation. And in the end he makes the same choice. And that makes it more impactful when his father gets angry and sends him back to Osgiliath.

At also made showing the taking of Osgiliath more natural in the movie.
I've been severely depressed and borderline suicidal twice. The second time was worse than the first. Baking a single potato was the first sign I was pulling out of it. I could barely walk. It was bad. I prayed a lot, and I'm usually the pithy type with prayer.

The only reason I consider it borderline suicidal is that I had an internal rule to call 911 the first moment I started making plans and I think that kept my mind away from doing that because I didn't want to get checked into a mental hospital.

I cannot express to you just how happy I am to have held on. I am truly joyous again. It seemed impossible during the dark times.

I can't speak for everyone, I believe in free will to some extent, but I also believe that life is precious and sacred. Sometimes all someone needs to do is to just keep holding on and pushing through and that really easy to jump off of bridge that they have to walk by every day is not helping one bit.

Anyway, if anyone is reading this and is struggling like I have, please feel free to email me if you want advice or even if you just want someone to vent to.
I'm fairly convinced that having to do things as you described was better for mental health as well. The always on, always connected lifestyle has big downsides.
As I said to OP, no, it's not apples to oranges, you are absolutely wrong. It's comparisons of different points in the app architecture space, and that's normal, and not pointless as you claim.

You can't wave away the serious issues by saying "there's no point in comparing them"

Lots of things offer different functionality and tradeoffs. If you want to play in the space of "web app", you can and should be compared to things that are solutions for producing "web apps". We compare codeless web apps to code ones, etc.

The same way people compare gas and electric vehicles. Or minivans and suvs and trucks.
Or, well, everything in a solution space.

Any solution for a given use case can and should get compared with other solutions for that use case.

I'm really sorry that it doesn't seem (judging by this thread) to compare particularly well for most developers, but that doesn't invalidate the comparison.
> Blocks + Procs + Lambdas are all function-adjacent. Can't we just call them functions?

Well, Ruby has functions, they're just called Procs. Lambdas are a special, more strict breed of Procs, and blocks are just (pretty complex) syntax sugar for passing a Proc to a method. The main function-like concept is always a Proc.

> Out of bounds indexes on Arrays/Maps return nil.

Calling the #[] or #slice method on an Array with an out-of bound index returns nil, calling the #fetch method raises an IndexError or returns an arbitrary default value. You can use whichever suits the situation.
I want it to be true, but the notebooks don't really look like they've been in a shed for 50 years either...
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> Under EU law that would potentially make you an employee rather then a contractor,

That is not going to happen. I'm a freelancer, and I am going to remain a freelancer. It that becomes too hard in EU, then bye bye EU :) I'm already an expat.
A programming language is rarely only about the language.

Culture, tooling, standard library, testing practices, 3rd party libraries and other things carry significant weight.

I find it a stretch to claim that we are dealing with a monospaced text. As you mentioned, it is more than that. The text we deal with is at least: monospaced linted color-coded hypertext.

Basically in hand-wavy terms: the more self-aware the text is, the better.
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There are some laws that make it harder to sue doctors for malpractice, maybe this combined with the fact that they could get a bigger payout from the drug manufacturers.
> I'm not assuming anything, I'm concluding what I must based on the evidence.

I believe you have seen in that data a conclusion you are already predisposed to, and a more objective look will tall you that it the amount a market prices something doesn't actually tell you much about why. I am not doubting that it is evidence men are more willing to pay for sex, I am doubting your originally stated conclusion:

> The demand for having sex with women is astronomically higher than the demand for having sex with men.

Which would only follow from the data in a vacuum. Much the same way I could conclude that voters want corrupt politicians based on the fact that they vote for them.

> Men masturbate much more than women

If sex and masturbation were equivalent then we wouldn't be having this conversation.
There comes a time when we realize our parents don't have all the answers. They haven't got it all figured out, and are mostly winging it day by day.

The higher up I go in corporate life, the more that analogy holds.

The short answer, yes a mentor can be incredibly useful and if you find someone you admire by all means soak up their knowledge. But just looking for a mentor for the sake of it seems like an insecurity. I.e. There isn't someone out there with all the answers for you.
Thank you for the recommendation to go to a specialized medical center.

That's the ideal.

It's possible in some cases(if you have a big medical issue diagnosed), maybe less possible in others(unexplained symptoms for example that your GP may not consider as important).

You. yourself, when someone in your family faces a medical issue outside of your specialty , do you sometimes do research on the subject ? do you talk with the doc about that research ?
Now you'll finally put that mouth to work and actually get someone to orgasm.
There is no firing quota.
Is Haskell a good choice for software security?
Are they? A lot of image macros from SA, 4chan, b3ta etc.. were racist and hate filled...

Completely agree with Badger Badger. Weebls stuff cartoons were funny, because it was something to enjoy with people who also had access to the internet (which was quite few at the time, so the "in crowd")
Additionally to explain why Damn Daniel is funny is as difficult as explaining why anything is funny.
I always wondered why there is no software to aid diagnosing that is used by all doctors.

As an input you would provide the typical information doctors look for otr get from the user (cough, the elbow hurts, ...) and then suggest

99.0% common flu
0.5% ankle is broken
0.5% <neurological scary illness>

It would then suggest a set of tests to got to XX% where the diagnosis is "good enough".

It would help to avoid missing a broken ankle when this is flu season and the MD assumes that this is "like everyone".

(the examples are extreme for some lightness)
I think what's confusing is credits vs votes. It's more expensive in credits for Alice to cast the first N votes than to cast the next N. However, for Bob those "next N" are his first N. So 2N votes costs fewer credits if Alice and Bob each cast N than if Alice casts 2N.

Also, Bob might end up with "leftover" credits he can't allocate to issues he cares about. So those credits might go unused in some sense.
It's not entirely archaic as the title lives on in DevOps.
I think doctors were directly lied to that those drugs are non-addictive.
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I store all my keys in a yubikey (including ssh keys). The client can’t have the keys if I don’t have the keys.
Paul Graham, founder of YC would disagree. He claimed Common Lisp was the secret weapon behind Viaweb's success.
Yeah the prices are absolutely insane lmao. I've had good luck with CB2 and West Elm for more affordable but still decent furniture. But I'd get a flagship lounge chair from DWR
No, that’s not a new normal. I work with many clients and nobody has ever asked me for something like that.
COBOL was definitely designed by programmers, not non-programmers. It was sort of aimed at non-programmers, but that was mostly marketing I think.
> AWS is an API. Anybody who does not realize or can not exploit this fact this pays massive premiums for using it (probably a lot of businesses which should have no business using AWS directly).

It's a freaking huge API and all of us would suck a little bit more of it without tooling around it.
Also, the producers pay he doctors and provide different insentives to make them prescribe their drugs.
Reminds me of that time when I went into the Apple Store and came up to a Mac, opened a window (idk I think it was something harmless like Finder), took a screenshot and then set that screenshot as the wallpaper. I'm sure there were many people that day who tried to close the 'uncloseable' window that was purely part of the background...
>It seems that Amazon somehow would not even allow me to delete my old and expired credit card from my account.
If you are in the EU, in my experience with the GDPR, this is not allowed. The e-commerce merchant must allow users to have the option to remove this information.
PS: I had to file a formal complaint against a telecom company to have this resolved.
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a lot of people have moved over to dlp so yeah
Those “excess deaths” wouldn’t happen if the US hadn’t invaded Middle East. Thus, it’s US fault.

Generally speaking, calling US victims “excess deaths” tells something about American state of mind, though.
It's not uncommon for programmers - even for the great ones - to produce code that looks like it was written by non-programmers...
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Long time ago people could not use computers.

You would write down the program you want to get executed or punch it on punch cards.

The only people who could actually operate the computer were... the operators. These people (mainly women) would transfer the program to the computer, execute it and then transfer the answer back to the requestor.

This survived into later because an admin on the server is was the only person who could actually operate the server. The rest can only within whatever rights the admin gave them, but for any important operation (like adding a user) you still needed the admin (operator) to take action.
Did they solved the issue when WSL2 was terminated by Windows while installing update.
It's neither.

BOFH represents an angry, cathartic, antiheroic response to the social problems of the IT world. Anyone acting that way in the real world deserves the prison sentence that would immediately follow... just as anyone who behaved like an action movie star in the real world would go to prison for assault and murder.

The primary desired response is quiet sympathy and camaraderie, if appropriate.
I tend to get very vary/suspicious of people who tend to use term "them" without specifing who (exactly) them is :) im (so called in my country) "lefty", but i do have some collegeus that are opposite. Ive noticed that when they start to introduce term "them" into discussion the whole thing goes from standard conversion into talking with paranoics :D very nice article, thank you