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We had the misfortune of having a large number of tp-link devices being installed in our network (a large residential building) and those devices have been nothing but a source of trouble ever since they were installed. They seem to be talking with each other and overriding their configuration to the point where I had to segregate them in their own little NATs (with the complete blessings of the building manager). Only then did the shenanigans stop.

That, in addition to their ever-dwindling configuration options, is why I refuse to buy from them anymore. There (much) older devices were fantastic though.
Agree and to elaborate : the companies will have radically different speeds goals processes priorities methods and cultures. Bluntly, you can be shocked and incredulous, or you can attempt to understand empathize learn and adapt.

Approaching the engineer and being surprised they shunt you to the manager for example - I sense that you are genuinely surprised. Fair enough. But from their perspective - it's a big company, lots of requests, lots of priorities, and they likely feel (rightly) it is their managers jobs to shield them from every enthusiastic energetic requestor in a large company. They are required but also judged based on completing assigned priorities. It is a survival skill to focus on those and ignore distractions and random requests from random people.

Similarly, you seem surprised you can't touch their code. You think about speed of development. They likely think about development standards, quality, supportability, maintenanability - and ultimately liability. If a random person from random team implements a random thing in their code... And if they let everybody do it (fight personal exceptionalism; if you want to do it everybody wants to do it), what state will their code be in?

Q1 2022 could mean anything. Large companies have freeze periods particularly holiday season. And they can have deep pipeline - your thing may or may not be a few days (pardon me but we as developers are notorious for being optimistic :), but may take a while to get to front of queue and then may need to go through formal stages.

There are reasons startups have high velocities. But there are also reasons why large companies have high conservatism - ultimately like any other Conservativism it's because they don't want to muck the status quo - they have more to lose.
It depends a lot on where you land in tech (both department and company). That's definitely true for SWEs at FAANG companies.

I wonder what it would take to update these laws to require total comp disclosure instead of simply salary disclosure.
Beacons also have to broadcast the DTIM which allows stations to come out of standby if there is data waiting for them. This can be up to 128 bytes. But I agree, beacons are stupidly fat. The basic beacon is quite small except for the additional tags. If you fire up wireshark you'll see the bulk of the bytes in broadcasting all kinds of feature nonsense that IMHO should only be broadcast during a request to join.

e.g the beacon frame is 24B on my Netgear, but the tagged paramters are 300 bytes. Sure, the SSID and DTIM are in there, but then there's a bunch of extended support rates, RSN info, HT info, and vendor specific stuff (Microsoft WMM/WME parameters, 3Com stuff... huh??)
Pretty much. Your idea of getting coverage could probably work well to make sure IA doesn't "turn into a bot" (though it's practically the same, just without the permanent downloading).
As with most gifts, the giving of presents is often more meaningful for the person giving.
The save with kids toys. The parents are really buying it for themselves, perhaps to express their feelings.
As an aside, the parents are also learning. No one is born with experience, so experimenting witj things until you get it right, happens with kids stuff too.
You mentioned 4 yoe before this. What were those years like? Asking because the current situation you describe doesn't sound super atypical to me.
Weird; that console he's sitting at is not the type that is used for radio broadcasting- that console is for music production & mixdown. (Radio consoles don't have all those adjustments on each channel)

Ironic that a prison radio station would have such a hugely overspecced piece of equipment!
Also the eponymous Brazil nut tree [0], which can be 60% taller than a coconut tree at 160 feet and has fruit about the same size. I heard that they are sometimes referred to as "the widowmaker". They cannot be cut down by law, so areas that have been cleared for farming often have lone Brazil nut trees still standing [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/rRW7vnW92hsQZFoV9
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That's unconvincing. You could say the same thing about matrix multiplication with huge elements.
Your body will hold off sickness when you have high levels of stress. If you're getting sick on vacation, it likely means your stress levels are unhealthily high normally.
Very true. I have a 2 month old and I’m tall enough that the bassinet we bought was uncomfortably low. I ended up building a platform to raise it.
It genuinely feels like it could fit into a couple of MB of RAM back in those days

You may enjoy this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21831951
There are conifers which produce heavy cones. You can find some in Fort Mason. Some guy was bonked on the head and sued the gov't when one fell on his head and cracked his skull[1]. There have been cases elsewhere of people getting hurt by them.

[1]https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Man-hit-by-16-pound-p...
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I live in an Asian country extremely high numbers of coconut trees.

I thought this was obvious. Surprised to see people talking about it here, although in retrospect it makes sense that people here find it curious. (When I saw snow for the first time at the age of 20 when I travelled to America, I was mesmerized and stared at it like an idiot).

Coconuts are heavy, and if it falls on your head you'll probably die, or atleast have heavy injuries. As kids it was drilled down to us never to stand underneath coconut trees.

Also sometimes they fall in clusters, like 3 or 4 coconuts would fall down simultaneously.

Don't park your car under coconut or jackfruit trees. I personally know plenty of cases where windshields have been smashed by falling coconuts or jackfruits.
Massive exodus going on at AWS right now. VP Raju Gulabani leaving AWS, basically the godfather of databases at AWS.
This sounds like when

Hillary supporters would say "How does trump supporters believe everything he says?"
Trump supporters would say "How does Hillary supporters believe she isn't a liar?"

Turns out --- both Hillary and Trump supporters didn't believe everything they said.
> My god the performance was out of this world. Everything was instant!

That's not too far from the performance you can get from a plain Linux install and a lightweight DE (Xfce/LXDE). Though I'll grant you that Office 2003 is going to be a lot lighter than its modern free equivalent.
This is so true. Non-military friends talk about going to the gun ranges in Vegas where they can shoot M249s for absurd prices. All I can think about when I hear these stories is being on a broiling hot range in Oklahoma in the middle of July and having to go through cases of 5.56 because we sure as heck aren't going to go through the hassle of trying to turn unused ammo back in.
> Few outside of finance seem to recognize summary P/E growth as inflation.

Because it's not “inflation” as that term is used without modifiers, which is increase in the nominal price of final consumer goods and services.

Asset inflation is a different thing than general inflation and it makes no sense to conflate them.
Reddit is 90% LARPing when it comes to situations like this - it's obvious once you see it, and once you see it you can't unsee it ever again. It's like getting vaccinated against a sickness.
Are you free to leave or is there some hold on you like options, stock, or earn out? Then leave, flee, run away as fast as you can. Your startup was bought, and if your old leadership is no longer in a position to handle the transition, then you are a man without a country. You have no advocate, no support, no network.

This is not about culture or change or Big Corp vs startup. You are on your own working for a company where no one has a vested interest in your career or happiness.

Leave. Leave now. Start interviews on company time and get out. Leave and do not look back.
Yes, it refers to well-recognizable imagery from outside the computer world.
I miss dockable floating palettes.
I think you are misusing the word "doublespeak", I would suggest against using that word. There are some technical reasons why tweak tool will not work anymore but you can still use gtk.css and GTK_THEME, see here: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a...

Worst case it is the same as KDE, you have to set some environment variables and it still may not work correctly with some apps because third-party theming is inherently unreliable. The tweak tool method was also an unsupported third-party thing with most of the same limitations. It has been in a broken state for a while but you probably just didn't notice it because you weren't unlucky enough to end up in a situation where it affected you.

I'd still like to emphasize my other comments though, third-party theming is quite broken on every single platform I've ever used and I suggest against using it if you want to avoid apps randomly breaking. If you plan to continue that route then you may have to get more involved in development to the point where you can fix theme bugs and patch the apps without asking other people for help. That's been my experience with third-party themes anyway, they are essentially hacking the apps and so are not really for average users to mess with.
The narrow locality is intentional. Remember, this is "feudalism in space", with many things - like shields - deliberately contrived to make it somewhat plausible. A very important part of the resulting arrangement of society is how static it is, not just in abstract matters like social structure, but also very literally in movement of people. The vast majority in this universe never leave their own planets, simply because they don't have access to space travel at all.

Regarding the Emperor not controlling the spice production directly - that's because it's part of their customary power balancing arrangement. If the Emperor controlled the spice directly, it would give him the ability to control space travel for all the Landsraad Great Houses, upsetting the balance of power between the two. The Houses can overpower the Emperor with military force, but only if they all join forces - and this is exactly the action that would trigger such an alliance. The other aspect is access to profits: the whole point of CHOAM is to distribute wealth from interplanetary trade to the Emperor and the Houses, which is why it has a monopoly on trade. Again, the Houses simply cannot afford to lose that much profit while having the Emperor gain it (and use it to increase his military strength).

I agree that it's very strange how origin of spice is such a mystery, given that every Fremen knows about it.
I suspect they might take it as endangering the baby’s wellbeing to save a few bucks. The baby industry has got quite the stranglehold on some people.
Absolutely, but the bitcoin maximalists (including Jack Dorsey) should stop evangelizing it as the solution to so many societal problems when it's indistinguishable from any other asset at this point.
The timestamp is meaningless. For example, the timestamp for these Olive Garden NFTs will be dated before anything that might be minted by Olive Garden's corporate owners.
If we consider per capita drug related-offense, most East Asian countries are doing way better than USA. If you match it against Holland then it will appear Holland's policy is great. If you match it against ALL crime rates, then EU countries are very dangerous. East Asian countries typically set their policies wholistically (SG isn't part of East Asia, but demographically majority do traced back there). So a death sentence on drug-offense will only get captured in Western drug-related statistics. Things like a less broken home due to no drug trafficking parents which kids grow up to be a law abiding citizen will never appear in Western analytics. OP should do a comparison between Philipines and Singapore. They have different drug policies in the same region. Harsh policy do work. It is harsh and it is not 100% effective. Lax and humane policy do work too and it is also not 100%. Nothing works 100%. Even my Tesla can break down despite the marvel of engineering with absolute determinism of physic laws in action. So the issue really boils down to how effective IN COMPARISONS and how acceptable to local communities enforcing those policies.
Yeah, that just seems crazy. The OP said he wanted to feel like he had the option to escalate, but as far as I’ve seen, it’s typically the act of escalating a situation that harms a self-defense argument.

I mean, maybe you could block a thief’s exit while producing a handgun, and create a standoff until the cops arrived. That still sounds pretty reckless for something like shoplifting; getting into an altercation that results in firing a gun in a store is a risk to everyone in the vicinity. I remember when some woman shot out the tires of somebody trying to steal a ton of stuff from Home Depot—she was arrested. Both the cops and other gun owners thought that was incredibly irresponsible.
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> You still have the freedom to change your mind and start using OSS or grow your own food tomorrow.

Might be too late. We've long lost the freedom to simply plant the seed of an apple bought from a supermarket. Thanks to genetically modified, engineered fruits. What I mean is if we keep supporting heteronomy, the balance with autonomy will become so skewed that this option of switching to autonomy might not exist.

Today there aren't as many hardware options as they used to be, to run your own BIOS replacement like CoreBoot, or even Linux for that matter. One has to buy a Windows laptop and install Linux on it. I have to constantly turn off Secure Boot off for it to work. Windows 11 made UEFI (as opposed to BIOS) mandatory, so the laptops on market don't have BIOS anymore. This means that I don't have the option to buy a BIOS based laptop.
> Could Aftertext be made inline with a small number of symbols and result in a net reduction of symbols and greater explicitness and intuitiveness? For example, could an unusual pairing of characters like (! or (: begin an inline Aftertext instruction? Example: (!link to ...).

I think at that point, you start moving a bit toward Pollen, a Lisp-like fully programmable markup system that's sort of a spiritual relative of troff or TeX aimed specifically at generating HTML. You could absolutely recreate an inline version of aftertext with it.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

The aftertext example of

aftertext
You write some text. After your text, you add your markup instructions with selectors to select the text to markup, one command per line.
italics After your text
italics selectors

Would, in an "aftertext-like Pollen", look like

You write some text. ◊italics{After your text}, you add your markup instructions with ◊italics{selectors} to select the text to markup, one command per line.

While I find Pollen rather fiddly in practice, it's very powerful.
I liked 'Dune' and read it as a teen. Haven't managed to read all the rest. The last book still missing. Also 'Dune' but much more so the others are choke full of religious stuff. A difficult read and the reason I shy away from the last book. But I liked 'Dune' a lot.
The article doesn't mention the performance overhead or the fact using cgo is generally discouraged. [1]

[1] https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
People won't be asking for games to work that already work. The posting will inherently be biased towards games people are hoping to play that don't work.
Worse still almost all new routers and mesh systems, don't have the admin interface on the device, you have to sign up and manage it through a cloud account controlled by the manufacture.

If anyone can recommend a good wifi mesh system that supports wifi 6 and doesn't require signing up for a manufacture cloud account, please let me know.
This reminds me of an observation I once had at a time when I was doing contract work at an hourly rate. During a trip to Vegas, I found myself at a blackjack table making bets that happened to match my hourly rate. It occurred to me then that I was essentially gambling hours of my life, each turn in a sense increasing or decreasing my effective lifespan.

Of course "time == money" is a well known axiom, but it was still odd to consider in that context.
> "Flat design" is a disaster

The original flat designs, Zune HD and the Zune software, Windows Phone 7, Windows Media Center, was incredibly usable.

All those were produced by small design teams at Microsoft, and for, relative to an entire OS, small projects. (Settings aside Windows Phone 7 for a bit, which IMHO actually had very few distinct UI elements.)

Heck Windows Phone 7, to this day, is unlike anything else on the market, It is still going to be more responsive, and look cleaner, than almost anything else out there.

I am not sure why someone decided "flat" means "no button border", that is where I think it all went wrong.

Oh and also people who think flat means getting rid of text! Windows Phone 7 loved text, text was everywhere!
They do at my company. Everyone is just "Software Developer". I don't see anything wrong with it, I find that titles are largely meaningless anyways. At some companies "principal engineer" is handed out after 3-4 years of experience, and at others principal engineer is the highest title with only 1-2% of devs holding it.
I definitely can’t help but wish a version of Slack that actually gave a passing concern for integration into a system UI exists. The “look we can do custom CSS everywhere and not look like ANY of our target platforms” garbage has the bane of my work day since it became popular.
The bells-and-whistles version was called 'My Briefcase'.
I see it's time to bring out this old chestnut again. Here's the slight of hand:

> known natural gas reserves, we have about 52.8 years worth of natural gas reserves left.

The key is "known ... reserves". The article blithely assumes we won't ever find any more fossil fuels and then gloomily concludes that we have 52 years of gas left - totally absurd and obviously wrong. The fact that this comes out of Stanford is pathetic. I've been listening to this exact line of garbage for over 30 years. Starting in the 90's we were going to run out of fossil fuels in a matter of decades based off known reserves and current consumption.
I just checked my copy of the Criterion Collection version of Repo Man and the credits do go in reverse, moving downward. (I also saw it not too long ago in a theater and remembered it going in reverse, for what that's worth.)
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot is available if you would like to help save things that are still up.
Well you can’t create a whole universe in a book, only the faintest facsimile. And you have to understand Dune in the contest of history, the only comprable world in modern history at the time was LOTR, which was far less alien than Dune.

That being said, I agree with everything you say. Dune is so frustrating because the prose and perspectives jump from being incredibly wise to totally inane.
Offit's not the FDA, he's on the advisory committee that was ignored (the same one as in the article). The mRNA vaccines cause heart inflammation in some cases that is probably more risk than COVID-19 in a young healthy person already fully vaccinated with two doses. The FDA and CDC might disagree about that, but not calling VRBPAC and the ACIP back to look at data you might have to back that up looks quite suspicious. He goes on a bit of a rant about being ignored (twice apparently? Not sure the exact details.) at 25:20.
Agree with both of you, and for the OP: Q1 2022 sounds pretty good in my experience!

A team you don't know much about, that has an unknown set of priorities and an unknown backlog of work from your perspective, and which has its own standards to uphold, and which probably interacts with a bunch of teams just like yours and thus has to consider the long-term implications of any feature creep -- that team is promising to get your change made in (allowing for holidays) less than one quarter?

At a Fortune 500 company that's a sign that you are being given a lot of respect, now try to make sure your team doesn't mess it up and make that deadline slip.
Same with bearshare and limewire
But kids pick it up fine without these clues.
Well again that's great for you that all the apps you use worked, but a lot of the KDE apps I use are broken with some themes :) I'm sure they would work fine in i3wm if you used Breeze but I have had very mixed results on any window manager with qt5ct, some apps play nice with it and some don't. It's not just the system settings that are broken for me, I just picked that as an example. Sometimes it's useful outside of KDE because it's the best way to configure global settings for some KDE apps, not just the shell and window manager. I've looked into it and it has nothing to do with optional dependencies, there are actually just issues with some themes and some apps.

But generally I think it's a bad idea to try to run any KDE apps outside KDE, or any GNOME apps outside GNOME, etc, those apps work much better when used with their respective desktops.
“ This doesn't explain the extermination of beaver and other wildlife populations, however.”

At least for beaver, free and ecological illiteracy does paint most of the picture (though, in fairness, ‘extermination’ may be too strong)
Scientists find preserved dinosaur embryo preparing to hatch like a bird
Basically, they created anti-aging vac for mice. Human-wise remain to be seen. We are creating a super mice species. Better pray they don't screw up and release this to the wild. I already have hard time containing cockroaches and ants in my home. I don't want to add mice (or woest rats) to that list.
> Swede

Made me pronounce it Trücklå.

Sadly, I failed to find a good El Camino pun name.
> what can they possibly* be doing to need that many lines of code? it really does boggle my mind.*

Unless you've spent lots of time (half a decade or more) at each layer of "full stack", it is really hard to comprehend just how mind-bogglingly fractal systems requirements get the more users you expose them to. Anytime you go b2c, or even b2b with a large enough user base, be prepared to say, "huh, I didn't see that coming" once a week or more frequently.

There are entire problem domains that lay submerged until you reach certain scales. Some code bases reflect the encapsulation of those submarine domains; some don't, most assuredly, but until the software becomes unused, at my clients I never ask the question the way you ask. Instead, I ask them to walk me through the code at successively finer-grained conceptual blocks until I reach the level where I can start attacking the problem I've been brought in to help address.
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