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> Each category requires a different part of my attention/focus which I'm not always readily able to shift to, or more importantly, would rather not shift to as I'm more preoccupied with a different category.

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> but if it's not reciprocal and especially if it's not something I'm obligated to do, I absolutely tend to be pretty defensive of my time.

You have every right to protect your time - I did not state otherwise. For abrupt interruptions on the phone, the simplest way that has worked for me is to not answer the call.

All I stated was that phone calls have their value, and the reason for using them is NOT exclusively to avoid leaving a paper trail. If one of the people on the call wants to leave a paper trail, it is easy to email "Hey, thanks for the call. Just so I totally understand, we agreed XYZ on the phone. Please confirm if that is your understanding too."

Also, if I understood correctly, the person I was replying to was not exclusively talking about phone calls for the first outreach. But your response suggests you are talking about interruptions on the phone.
As an undergrad, I was a bit of a Salinger obsessive. I tracked down all the published and uncollected short stories from “The Young Folks” to “Hapworth 16.” I've read them all except, oddly enough, for “This Sandwich Has No Mayonaise” which is the only one that I have not in a photocopy, but rather in a collection entitled The Armchair Esquire. Perhaps when I get back into my re-reading Salinger project I'll finally get to that book and story.

There's been talk since Salinger's death of the post-Hapworth stuff being published at some point, but it's been more than a decade and still nothing so maybe it will never happen.
Notorious PLG: Skiff
Bad symptoms and hospitalizations typically happen 4 weeks after symptoms. If you are at higher risk, i.e. older or some comorbidities, do not delay seeking treatment like monoclonal antibodies. There is a short window early in the infection where they can work. And even now the only monoclonals that work against omicron are in very, very short supply. The sooner you at least seek out or find available treatment options and discuss them with healthcare professionals the better. Good luck.
Thank you very much, that's exactly the answer I was waiting for. You really made my so thanks again
What is revolutionary about Bitcoin? It is just the digital equivalent of the gold standard and the gold standard (within a country) ended many times because of a lack of gold. The "Bitcoin standard" will end because of a lack of Bitcoin.

It's exactly the same system with the same flaws. Some parameters are different which means it will just progress through the problematic stages faster than the good old dollar.

>According to Bukele, the residents of Bitcoin city won’t have to pay any income, property, capital gains or even payroll taxes. The city would be built with attracting foreign investment in mind.

Well, it would have been a good idea if this plan wasn't inherently based on speculation or resource exports (e.g. Bitcoin mining). It could still be a good one if he kept property taxes and only taxed land value.
Then why not tunneling the sensor output through the lowest available network layer using the NIC, then reassembling it on a faster machine connected point to point (no IP stack involved) to the RPi?
When it comes to programming puzzle interviews I went through a similar sort of realization, there is a baseline level of knowledge about algos/design/experience, but beyond some point it seemed to be about how well I could explain my way through a problem. For a problem which I didn’t know off the bat I had to talk with the interviewer to eventually get to a working solution. A *huge* part of that is about not losing my cool, about not getting into a mental headspace of being stuck.

Interestingly, the less I need a particular job opportunity the more comfortable I have been with these probing conversations.
Tranco Rank, Replacement for Alexa Rankings
Codecs are normally defined/specified in terms of the decoding process, not of the encoding one. So if the encoding is one million times slower, it has very little to do with the codec itself and only to do with the encoder and the way it's configured. Even the most recent codecs have encoders that (in some configuration) can operate faster than real time (thereby achieving great energy efficiency) on virtually any application processor.

Furthermore, if energy efficiency is really what you care about, there are hardware encoders and decoders that are extremely energy efficient.

All in all, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't understand what is the point the article is trying to make.
> "Natural immunity" gave them absolutely no protection at all.

Would you please give me a source for this claim? I doubt that natural immunity is completely useless.
>"It's time to call out the minimizers and downplayers on their horseshit. "

Maybe it's time to do that on Reddit or Facebook, but this isn't the point of HackerNews. From the guidelines:

>" Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. "
The atheists are downvoting you but I find it pretty interesting. Can you link to more info / verses about getting asked about blessings? I assume this is after dying and being asked by God. Sounds like a form of gratitude.
They're a little bit pretentious, I'd agree - but handy to see how somebody thinks.
(I'd never heard of "2 generals" before - so had a fun "Oh that", "Noo, then that doesn't", "Maybe if I ask on reply?".. nope..)

My guess is that 'impossible problems' either pick up on people who know "Oh that's the 2 generals problem" (gold star) or can quickly cycle through ideas and then pick up on the shortcomings as they mentally explore.
Maybe A+ if they can explain why it's impossible, A if they say it is, D- if come up with something that doesn't work.
The networks and growth processes can be wonderfully complex and even social among the root systems of neighboring trees — often mediated by extensive second-order fungal networks.

The trees support the fungi (sugars) and the fungi enable exchange of nutrients and tree-to-tree hormonal signaling of environmental health state. This is useful in enabling speedier responses to pathogens and insects infestation and sharing nutrients across trees (“altruism”). Usually this sharing and communication network is among members of the same species and often the same kinship. I do not know the primary literature on this area, but this is a good introduction:

The Hidden Life of Trees
by Wohlleben, Peter
Jupyter Games: Ipycanvas and Box2D
Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (2016)
Finish your medical degree and residency. Absolutely.

The rationale is that there are several positive outcomes

a) you might actually like being a doc

b) there are more high-end openings for doctors who understand software than software beginners. Those are essentially the two software options you have.
Bio-informatics and bio-engineering are growth areas. You only need to see the many simulations and visualizations on TV & internet news to perceive the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the breadth of applications if IT to all areas of biology, medicine and pharmaceuticals.

Having knowledge, qualifications and experience in both fields would put you ahead of the majority of job seekers in those areas.
If somewhat recently, which model, because MediaMarkt is also my main local option (RIP, Conrad)
+1 for sourcehut. The people there have been making great, lightweight software for a lot of stuff. Despite looking simple they are often really powerful.
8 years ago you had to pay $1k for a 1440p 27" sRGB IPS panel. 2 years ago I spent $800 on a 4k 27" 144 Hz monitor with >95% P3 coverage.

Or another example: 8 years ago I spent $320 on a 1080p 27" (massive pixels) monitor with horrible color reproduction and contrast. 4 years ago I upgraded to a new monitor and for $300 I was able to get 4k 27" with >100% sRGB.

And when you consider inflation, progress is even greater.

It's the same with GPUs, and to a lesser extent CPUs and memory and storage. Moores law is great in many ways, but as a buyer of high end technology it always stings to see the same thing be 30-50% cheaper a few years later.

Progress does seem to have slowed down within the past few years for monitors. I expect the pandemic is relevant there.
> actually showed a fair bit of modern C++ (University of Warsaw here)

You mean like C++11? So C++ standard from 11 years ago ? or C++14? C++17? Last time I checked UW was like 17 years ago so maybe things changed but back then they were like 10+ years behind industry in practical terms.
Yes, a clean compile can kick loose bugs that might've been hiding; cure bitrot, and workout parts of the build system that you might not otherwise notice have broken.

Watching all your error messages scroll by is a useful prod for discipline and code cleanliness. (No error messages? what kind of whips and chains hacker are you?)

"Irrational" is the third (and subsequent) times you do `make clean && make all` in vain hope that the bug will just go away, without making other changes.
More seriously, why the high heat requirement during tangling? Does that make the cables get more supple or so? Can't even imagine that 3 minutes gets it up to temperature though, kinda seems like a waste. I wonder if it's a joke in the article that I'm just taking seriously.
oh that sounds horrible !! i would be terrified to mess that up
Oh sure, I don’t think complete herd immunity is a reasonable goal for this virus. The immunity isn’t persistent enough to achieve that. The GP’s description of it as an endemic we live with like the flu seems more plausible.
But that would affect equally both covid cases and covid deaths. But if you focus on the elderly, for say >70yo, vaxed are 87% of covid cases, and 84% of covid deaths. If the vaccine was 90% efficient, you would expect the vaxed death to be 40%, not 84% (84% implies a 15% vaccine efficiency).
I got offered an internship recently. 12 years experience. Why?!?
that's basically what I do in bigquery sometimes just with a time or timestamp column 'last_updated' and a uuid
Yeah, if you want to get notifications when people interact with your site.
And what would you do if you then received the following message?

"Let's send each other 'purple' or 'green' at random. The first time we send the same color, our next move is to end the game and announce that color. Send 'yes' as your next message if you agree to this strategy."
You're right -- which is why I think curation/review should be light and based on simple/visible heuristics (experience + prior companies and roles) and then use client reviews as a way to curate further. This would naturally mean the platform probably lets in fewer people, but on the balance, quality goes up.

As a consultant/freelancer, you are being hired for specific expertise and experience. You need to demonstrate value relatively quickly. So if you can't do well what you claim, you'll get caught and the platform can take that into account.

The commitment expectations are different for freelancers vs full-time hires. It's ok to fire a freelancer when you want, as soon as you want. So if you're going to game it, you won't last long.
> There are a lot of “Experts” out there, who know node.js, Java, or just Spring Boot, Numpy, and so on. But this is not development. This is playing Bricks with predefined methods and classes. I work in the finance sector and a lot of these things I create could perform better on less big hardware.

I agree, with this, and the general sentiments in this blog post.

Yet I am one of those "Experts" out there who knows nodejs et al, and builds things with it. I recognise it's deep flaws, evade them as much as I am able and am always trying to find better ways of doing things - but this is the domain I work in, and using these tools and building blocks to some degree is quite difficult to completely avoid (and I say this as someone who has gone to quite some extremes in my attempts to do so).

My point is, even though the issue is a cultural one, not everyone caught up in a particular manifestation of these issues is blind to them - Please remember this the next time you judge a web dev, or foo dev, or someone from whatever area you perceive to be hopelessly flawed.
In the opinion of "two prominent physicians affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem", yes, you're wrong.

Only time will tell, but it does seem that Omicron may be a blessing in disguise, optimistically, after this Omicron wave, there will be a lot more immunity with a lot less deaths than previous waves.
I'm hoping for an email bug / false positive too.

Also, incorrect login attempts (i.e. using the wrong password) does not send out an email.

If you do attempt to login with the correct master password from a different/new IP, then you'll get the "Someone just used your master password to try to log in to your account from a device or location we didn't recognize" email.
The way I'd put it is that they have great execution but not as much of a focus on designing for designing for use and longevity. Add an unwillingness to admit mistakes out loud and you get design flaws that persist over multiple refreshes of the same product.
I received 4 salary raises in 2 years as a Software Engineer
It runs server-side, on the delivery server. And the scripts are stored on the delivery server too.

This means that you don't have to synchronize your filters between mobile client A, laptop client B, webmail client C. Thy're all on the delivery server (which is usually the same as your IMAP server). The filtering happens before you log in to email, and before your client knows there is an email.

Sieve is a specification, not a product (and not some specific PHP script). It's part of the Dovecot package in the Debian distro. It's client-server, only because there is a protocol for a client to upload/update scripts. So there's a wire protocol for management. But it has nothing to do with retrieving mail. Sieve on the server only affects what happens on delivery.

I think Sieve is totally the sanest way to do per-user mail fitering.
I mean, some hospitals in my area are reportedly at 140% stated capacity or something.

We're well above "20%". This is crisis / emergency time. The emergency declaration will reduce surgeries by 20% (going from 140% capacity to 112% capacity).

Like, its obviously not enough, but... its something.
Especially so in a pressured time-limited scenario. Its almost like asking them to play chess. If you play chess and studied then opening moves you are at a massive advantage.

So it becomes a test of preparedness and ruthlessness. The winner is the one who finds out what the questions
are and studies them. Or studies enough IQ stuff to get through.

Its leetcode basically.

Not sure what the solution is. I think additional on topic exams you study for and have past papers would be better.

I didnt apply for oxbridge because of this extra pressure. My worry was id screw up the bread and butter of the a levels with the extra study needed for this kind of test.

Being an interview scenario too means you need to act. I was shy but very passionate about maths. A London college gave me feedback I wasn’t passionate about maths and should consider another course. Based in half an hour with me.
I'm right handed but I use my left hand to mouse for RSI reasons.
Having an open window near your desk it’s pretty easy to want a brighter display depending on the time of day. If you don’t have natural light it is a much smaller concern.
It's cheap enough that I've been tempted to pick up one of these to try, but I think going back to 24" would be a little frustrating for side-by-side editing in an IDE.

I think it could make a great secondary though.
Very cool! This lead me to another project as well for Windows: https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
This is a fun problem. There’s a squirrel catcher to get over in recognizing the symmetry problem and then there’s all kinds of ideas to explore.
disable logins froms countries other than your own for increased security
As I recall, with the Hubble, and presumably the JWST, there were scientific "precedence" rules which limited access to the observational data to the scientist requesting the observation for some period of time.

This was to prevent others from also getting the data and publishing before the requesting scientist.

Assuming this continues to be true, they probably wouldn't want to handle the data by publishing it to a FTP server immediately on receipt.
How is it strange? EIC was very very bad for India, and very food for Hong Kong and the British Elite.
I tried this on my Intel Mac, using the JBR 17 (JCEF) download from Jetbrains. IDEA did start up, but the menus didn't work at all. The top-level menus were there, but they did not open any submenus. Other than that, things seemed to work. I wonder if there is a workaround.
Reminds me of modern C++, where the language and standard library features all work together to increase safety. And then it backfires because you feel like it's safe, but in reality it's not, and bugs still happen, they just catch you off-guard.
Japan produced a lot of comic books and films, and nerds like comic books and films?

Interest ebbs and flows. Korea is perhaps eclipsing Japan in general interest these days. But their cultural export is pop music and boy bands, and their main Western demographic seems to be teenage girls.
At a basic level, you can copy and paste it out. CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+V. Done.

You can also use Poppler's PDFtoText https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext

Calibre struggles with some PDFs, especially those that don't contain metadata about chapter headings etc. That's a failing on the PDF, not Calibre.
> its important to remember why and how they happen.

It would be important to be factual about it, too, but some Governments are not; if it turns out (premortem or postmortem) that you are positive for COVID-19, your cause of death will be COVID-19, and you go into the statistics of COVID-19 deaths.

> "long-COVID"

I have a comment under a different submission. What is the mechanism behind it? What do we know? Self-reports of "fatigue", "headache", and "muscle pain" is just not good enough, which is the reason for why we think it is actually a thing: those self-reports[1].

> I won't let you minimize the pain that has occurred.

I think no one is trying to minimize the pain that has occurred. He is just saying anecdotes are anecdotes. He is right, but this is not an attempt to minimize the pain that has occurred to you, or personally I would not think of it as such. I cannot imagine how heartbreaking it must be, and I am sorry for your loss.

[1] According to many websites, but perhaps you can give me a study or studies.
Oh cool sounds like great evidence for pressing stalking charges. Whether the police do anything or even give a shit is another question entirely
Different people want different things. I hate when people feel that harsh criticism isn't nice. It starts to make everything feel like fluffy bullshit.

I wish HN was way, way harsher with its commentary. I understand your perspective and realize I'm outnumbered here, but basically we fundamentally disagree (and that's okay!).

I'd rather see more arguments about controversial topics from people with differing perspectives who bring data and logic to make their points. I hate that many things feel heavily censored on this site.
Another possibility is that one of their (many) previous security incidents led to the leaking / exposure of master password hashes, and maybe LastPass don't treat the password hashes as they should (as a password!) and didn't take steps to ensure that any compromise hashes couldn't be re-used. So, potentially, your master password is safe, but there's a hash of it floating around.

Personally, I've long recommended people stay well clear of LastPass for their bad record of security, so shipping a bug in password-hash verification, or treating password hashes haphazardly would not surprise me in the slightest.
I think that MikroTik does everything to make managing their devices unclear as it's possible. WinBox for example, in some places looks okay (e.g. presenting data in tables or drawing charts) but filling forms or editing settings is terrible. It's not about Ubiquiti, but even pfSense does great job when it comes to presenting data and help to understand presented data (e.g. hide/show advanced options, providing comments and documentation to each option in forms, using padding and margins even help to understand visually your options).

But in the same hand I need to say I am impressed with MikroTik CLI. It colorize each typed word! Even enterprise class Cisco devices don't do it. It's super useful for me and help me with understanding what's going on. Do you even imagine programming in notepad with note type of font and color today, like it was in the past with Windows Notepad? I don't think so. UX/UI is not only about pretty buttons. It's about usability, repeatability, predictability, stability, confidence and ease of access. A software with best features is useless when it doesn't provide any convenient and trusted way to reach this features.
> According to Bukele, the residents of Bitcoin city won’t have to pay any income, property, capital gains or even payroll taxes. The city would be built with attracting foreign investment in mind.

More importantly, this has nothing to do with Bitcoin. You could just as easily make a city that is paid in normal currency, but has none of those taxes. It's literally why Dubai is how Dubai is (virtually no income tax)
I generally do not like independent headhunters. My experience with most of them has been mixed.

However a few have been outstanding. The common denominator I've seen with the best third party recruiters is that they tend to work for smaller boutique shops (or even completely on their own) and cultivate good relationships with hiring managers.
It's a thought experiment, sure, but I do think that your point should be weighted in actual analyses. Plus, historically bandwidth grows slower than storage grows slower than processor speed, which should be noted (although like in finance, past performance may not reflect future performance).
He’s almost certainly referring to honing the blades. Actual sharpening would require equipment that would be just ridiculous to have around a hair salon.
Yes just checked earlier when I saw activity here. Ive actually been getting reports for a few days about accounts being in a breach from iOS and Google and I have diligently changed my passwords. Then looked at the old Evernote account and saw logins from Brazil and India. I use 2FA everywhere important but if this master is compromised then it’s all over. I cant delete my Lastpass account it is controlled by the organisation I work for. I can delete the entries there though. It is the old Evernote account that I’ve asked for deletion, and I’ve deleted all the notes. It it’s already too late there they has obviously downloaded everything already. Sorry for garbled text I’m on mobile and headed back to home to assess on my laptop there.