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So instead of prototype often, go production early and iterate frequently is now spelled: Write shitty code?

Oh boy...

If masters and geniuses of the past would read the "common-sensical" advice we hear today and how it is being expressed, they would not be surprised by the general shitty state of the world (all civilisations around the world) but to find it plain miraculous that we're still in a semi-funcional way or alive at all.

If you know how to write good code, write good code for the state of the world right now then. Care about the future in the future. Kent Beck taught us this already in a very detailed way two decades ago. Invented Unit Tests in Smalltalk to have fast feedback on regressions frequently and granularly. All languages have that today. Then why in the world do, instead, these software engineer self-serving rationalizations that will accumulate tech debt you're carefully not talking about?

How in the world an unexperienced developer would receive this advice as a propaganda in any way other than a push of self-indulgence for incompetence? How this advice makes you an A player?
essentially made it a losing proposition for them compared to just hopping jobs.

I've done this as well, but I actually liked my current job and wanted to stay. I had a potentially new job lined up which would have paid much better, but it also had many downsides. Primarily a much long commute and a pretty boring industry that didn't interest me. So I was happy to split the difference between my current salary and the new offer and keep doing the job that I liked.
That also explains how the telemetry stuff could have been returned to default even though it was disabled, this mechanism has a lot of bad use cases that you'd have to trust Mozilla to never abuse.
Aren't doctors mandatory reporters in the United States?
> In fact, modifying gravity to fit the set of observations here is so hard that most scientists have just given up on it by now.

Wait what? I was under the impression that more scientists are turning to MOND than ever. I have a hot take prediction that in 5-10 years MOND will be the preferred explanation over LCDM.

Sterile neutrinos were ruled out late last year. Axions were ruled out a decade? ago... Though I guess "revised" axions are still on the table; IIRC last year another huge swath of axion masses were ruled out.
I think "misery loves company" is distinct. One of the many harms of sexual abuse is shame. Not coincidentally, shame is a tool of abusers and authoritarian power structures that protect abusers. For victims of abuse, knowing that they're not alone is a path out of shame and self-blame. It can help them put blame in the correct spot: not on what they wore or how they acted, but on the abusers and the abusers' support systems.
>It's fascinating to me that Donald Trump's message was horrifying, but when biden's message is just the same, we're totally ready to ignore this because it's just the flu and the economy is more important than our lives.

Covid response has been entirely 100% political. Medicine/Science was never involved.

The division of lockdown or not to lockdown, wearing masks, etc. These have all came down nearly perfectly along political lines in many countries. It shouldn't be like that at all. There should be lots of right-wingers who gladly wear a mask and get locked down. There should be lots of left-wingers who would not.

It was also not risk assessment. If you are under 50, the risk of covid was always known to be far less than the flu. Meanwhile people who were scared shitless of covid are also the cigar smoking, drunk driving, 100km/h in a 30km/h school zone type people.

I'm pretty sure it has everything to do with yellow journalism. The yellow journalists have convinced their filter bubble group that covid is far worse than it ever was considered to be.

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

For unvaccinated hospitalization risk, 2% of Democrats responded correctly, compared with 16% of Republicans. In fact, 41% of Democrats replied that at least 50% of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19.

Let's put it more accurately. 98% of democrats answered wrong with higher risk than is in reality. There is a <1% chance of hospitalization with covid if you're unvaccinated.

It's all political and the political divide in the USA has never been wider.
Big-data, AI, HFT ... Basically anything that has been and is a hot topic and which generates a lot of revenue. But I am clearly not thinking of an average Joe level of expertise. It requires to have all around the stack skills including the ability to grasp the big picture of the product and drive it forward.

Technical skills wise, for areas from above, you'd usually be looking at the strong background in algorithms, math & statistics, internals of operating systems, underlying hardware but mostly about the CPU at the microarchitectural level and strong expertise in at least one programming language.
yes, they are incredibly useful for development and finding bottlenecks
I used https://youtube.videodeck.net/ for a long time to have Youtube "TV channels" but it got unreliable due to youtube api shenanigans.

Now I use a script that makes direct youtube playlists I keep in a bookmark folder. Bonus you can set playlists to public and use 3rd party youtube apps with sponsor block on mobile.

https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist...
I think a better way to think of this may be in terms of canonicalization. Inside your application, you should decide on a single canonical way to represent data, one which fits the type of processing and expected use of the application. For example, you might decide that all strings should be UTF8, and should be interpreted (and stored) as whatever the user initially wrote. You might decide that any structured data should be parsed and then stored as protobufs in a BigTable. Or you might decide that an RDBMS is your native datastore and use whatever the native string encoding is for it, as well as parse & normalize data into tables upon input.

Then, whenever you take input, your job is to validate and encode it. If you get a Windows-1252 string, you should re-encode it to utf8 for further storage. If it has data that are invalid UTF-8 codepoints, you should either strip, replace with a replacement character, or notify the user with a validation failure. Same with structured data that fails your normalization rules - you should usually notify the user.

And when you send output, you should escape based on the intended output device. If you're putting it in an HTML page, HTML-escape it. If it's a URL, url-encode it. If it's a database query, SQL escape it. If it's a CSV, quote it.

Thinking in these terms keeps the internal logic of your application simple (there are no format conversions except at system boundaries), and it also gives you a lot of flexibility to preserve the user's intent and add new output formats later.
> I've worked with enough of these devs by now to tell you there's next to no difference in quality.

Sure. But if your company is not a Tier-1 or Tier-2 company. You will not have access to those quality developers... at least in India.
They reduce chances of hospitalization by at least an order of magnitude, and the chances of death by even more.

COVID is almost certainly never going away. It will become endemic, joining the other endemic viruses such as the couple hundred cold viruses (including 4 other coronavirus that were once deadly pandemics) and the various flu viruses we reluctantly live with. Something we all get several times over our lifetime, that most of the time just make most of us pretty miserable for up to a week or so.

How many people die during the transition from pandemic to endemic depends greatly on how risky it is to acquire your first immunity, and how strong that first immunity is when it comes to preventing hospitalization and death. The lowest risk way to acquire that first immunity is by vaccination. It's also the way that provides the highest chances of strong immunity--when you acquire it by an actual infection it depends on how severe the first infection was.

So yes, mass vaccination gives us the best chances of returning to normal sooner with less death along the way.
> Who decides what is "large enough"?

Maybe the market can decide. We could be levying higher prices in taxes on the cars that occupy more space, damage roads more and are more dangerous to pedestrians.
>> Don't you re-watch your favourite movies and TV shows? Why would YouTube be any different?

I honestly don't very often, and when I do it tends to be over a span of time long enough to forget many of the details. I do have some music videos on youtube that I have watched several times, and some instructional videos I have returned to occasionally.

So yeah probably its the weakest of my three whines.
Ok, you don’t need to name single-vendor SAAS serverside vulnerabilities.
same. My abuse was very early, which it tends to be for men. My abusers weren't removed from my life until I was six, and even then were brought back over and over again. I am 40. I became a successful software developer. Then I finally couldn't ignore what happened to me. It was a brutal 3 years of therapy and trying to find my way out of the emotional pain I felt.

I am just now getting my career on track, but I am essentially starting from square one again. As a programmer your primary tool is your brain, and when it simply isn't working...

What, to me, is positive, is that we are talking about it. Just being aware of this pain and not replicating it is what is needed to shift the world.
Part of the problem is the social stigma of not having a college degree. Not sure how to fix that
Many other people have pointed this out as well.

Generally the article follows the "summary - supporting details" format, which is pretty standard in papers like this. You are being extraordinarily generous to just let them slide on this one
TFA confuses the senior George Leonard Staunton [0], the lieutenant of George Macartney, with his son, George Thomas Staunton [1], the 12-year-old interpreter who is apparently one of two primary subjects of the book under review.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Staunton,_1st_Baron...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_George_Staunton,_2nd_Baron...
It’s obvious to most programmers - this was common practice in the previous century - but there’s been a spike of data scientist/analyst jobs where that might not be as common, and there used to be more of a subset of DBAs who self-identified as not being programmers and avoided “hard” things like this. I’ve definitely had people in roles like marketing have to deal with confusion or bugs caused by reports changing in undocumented ways.
Is that what you are specifically doing and describing above, or are you just choosing one implication of my general pondering?

If this is actually what you're doing, let's discuss the specific details of the information flow you're using to make these decisions, rather than talking in terms of strong sweeping generalizations. If you're just picking out a worst case implication of my general statement, that doesn't seem very productive. An example of what I was specifically thinking:

Customer buys something from Vendor. Customer never receives package. Vendor refuses to issue refund because tracking marks delivered. Customer files CC chargeback (I know this is less common in the EU but work with me here).

From the perspective of the Vendor this Customer has defrauded them, or at the very least is an increased risk. From the perspective of the Customer, they've been unjustly judged for circumstances beyond their control.

Can the Vendor retain that judgement on the Customer forever? Can they share it with other Vendors to create an industry blacklist of "problematic" customers? These questions seem squarely within the aim of the GDPR.
Government data show gasoline vehicles are up to 100x more fire-prone than EVs
And all this time we've had star wipe. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, why are we eating hamburger when we can have steak?
Missed opportunity: Not leveraging the work into repeatable, predictable revenue.

The Challenge finding ‘Good Clients’, the ones who respect and appreciate what you do. The ones who pay well and on-time.

Which is to say, learn how to qualify a good potential client upfront. Don’t be afraid to turn down opportunities that don’t match-up.
The differentiating factor in your case is startup vs mid-size company. Not contracting vs FTE.
Other than tutorials and music, there's music's cousin: "for noise in the background".

I'll put documentaries or other informational content on as "noise in the background". If I'm trying to sleep or whatever, then each re-watch can start a few minutes later depending on how much I could recall/recognise.
The tax code already makes plenty of allowances for number of children and/ro dependents so I'm not sure why you think it'd be some herculean effort for a car size regulation to allow people with kids to have more cars. There's no reason for a childless couple to be driving a 7-seater SUV around everywhere. If they need a separate trailer for that one trip a year where they need to haul a kayak or something, that's fine, that still means they aren't burning all that extra energy the other 364 days a year.
This is just a really clearly written introduction of a lot of rocket engine concepts.

It was a super good read.
I agree, but (at least circa late '00's when I was in high school) career prep consisted of taking a few career aptitude tests. Oh, and the military's ASVAB.

Those of us that scored in the 95th percentile and above were singled out by the recruiters and all 40 of us got a 15 minute sales pitch to join the military.

They never got any engineers, programmers, doctors, construction managers, tile setters, welders, insurance adjusters, lawyers, police officers, nurses, radiologists, tugboat captains, pipefitters, machinists, draftsmen, etc...
> you have a lot of kids who don't think that taking on tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars in debt is worth it for some Zoom classes.

> Yeah, but you are assuming people only go to college for its educational value , ...

But that's exactly the point, a huge expectation of going to college is the whole college experience: building independence, lifelong friendships, extracurriculars, etc. 50k for Zoom? Fuck that.
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Oh yeah? Why are there any infections at all in British Columbia?
A link to this discord server from an official handshake resource would be really appreciated. Website, github repo, etc.
FWIW: I trust Colm McCarthaigh probably more than anybody else working in this field.
If the user says his name is "Bob'; drop tables students --", that is what you should store on your database. Unless, of course it's not a valid name for the rest of the system.

That's so old and obvious advice that I'm surprised people keep posting here and upvoting. And even more surprised when people keep disagreeing here.
>> Humans have the advantage of being trained for years on a far larger and more generalized dataset before they're asked to draw anything.

That's a big assumption wrapped up in an over-wrought analogy. Humans don't
"train" in the sene that statistical models, or neural nets, are trained. We
don't have any clear supervision for example, no ground truth. And we don't need
examples of exactly the things we learn, to learn them. For instance, nobody
ever saw an example of a manga character before the first manga character was
drawn. And yet, someone drew it.

>> These AI models are generating images which never existed before, and which were not in their datasets. How is that not novelty?

How I like to think of it, which is a bit of a fudge, is that neural nets learn
to convert each of their input images into a connect-the-dot puzzle (the "dots"
are the data points in a very high-dimensional space that encompasses the pixels
of all their training images; like I say, it's a bit of a fudge). Every new
training image gets its own connect-the-dot puzzle superimposed on those of all
previous images. Once training is done, you can ask the trained model to
generate new images and it basically puts its pen down on a dot, and starts
drawing a line. What dot comes next depends on timey-wimey model-probabilities.
Obviously, in that way, it can't draw a line to a dot outside the big network of
superimposed connect-and-dot puzzles it has put together. Such outside-context
dots don't exist for the model, in any real sense. So it can only create images
that exist within that puzzle.

In truth, the puzzle, i.e. the trained model, is a dense region of cartesian
space (a manifold). What comes out of the model must already exist in that
manifold, so it must be a variation, or combination, of the training images used
to construct the manifold.

Which means, it can't innovate. So for instance, you can't expect to train it on
images of manga characters and find that it now draws you in the style of
Michelangelo. That's what I mean. Of course you'll see images that are not
exactly the images you put in, but you won't see images that are very different
from the ones you put in. It is, in a very concrete sense, a very limited
ability to generate new images.
You wouldn't have as much supply problem without the NIMBY's -AND- it is capitalism. Capitalism is the market reacting to limited supply and high demand. Limited supply is caused by NIMBY, and high demand is caused by tech company hiring & growth. Both are true.
One essential ingredient I think - "skin". The agent got to have skin in the game, to have something to win or lose, something that matters. For humans it is life, survival, reproduction. The necessities of life made us what we are now.
Undefeated for 5 years.

That sounds like amazing code, shitty code breaks prod.
it remind me of Super Hexagon :D

You could change the dot rotation direction on each success ...
1k-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars
Murders we tracked, or murders committed? Without the rule of law, perhaps scores were settled in ad hoc village or clan courts without reporting to the outside world.
Another swing and miss.

I don't think this is so hard. The pandemic is waking people to the reality of their own mortality.

Suppose you're working a job in a big, highly dysfunctional organization. Most of us who have been there know that these jobs often pay well -- but in trade, you're selling your precious hours to execute a random series of essentially meaningless events (and under pressure to get it done).

Now add a pandemic. You were probably already having a quiet existential crisis, feeling that the insanity of your work environment is no way to let your life pass by. You want your life to mean something, but it isn't fulfilling. Now, people you know are passing away much sooner than expected. Thoughts about the eventuality of your own death are really tipping the scales.

Do you just bury your nose and keep going on? Or find out what else is out there?
In none of these job changes have I seen any serious plans by the companies to address salaries with a broad brush.

Because it's cheaper to do nothing and grit your teeth and hope that the employees don't revolt.

What's really awful are the companies that proceed to do nothing while bragging that they had an excellent year revenue-wise. It's like they think employees don't actually pay attention to the company press releases and marketing drivel.

If they brag about +20% revenue and your paycheck goes up +1.5%, expect a revolt.
>They reduce chances of hospitalization by at least an order of magnitude, and the chances of death by even more

Want to point out this was your response to the question, "Since the vaccinations are stopping the spread?" in case you wanted to re-read your answer.
No reason to downvote you.

However, if someone has generally changed jobs every year or two and I wouldn't hire someone who I knew with certainty would only stay that long, I might think I'm special enough that I can keep them around. But I'd probably be wrong.
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That depends on the situation. Yes, if it was something like "Hey, I know you have this huge project deadline that I am a critical part of, and if you don't pay me a grossly large amount more, I am out" That is hostage taking, and they would not look fondly on you.

But the request of asking for a rate that you are being offered on the open market is not. They have 2 choices there: They can pay you more because you are worth it, or they can wish you the best. If this company had a bunch of employees come in and get take 30% comp less than you and did the same quality of work, do you think they would be "loyal" to you and grossly overpay you? Absolutely not, and they shouldn't. Of course, the company would love to just pay you less, but they realize that your value proposition still exceeds that.
In other words, you might be able to take a couple weeks in the spring - with some companies - and maybe a week during the autumn. Yet stories of folks getting vacation and not being able to actually use the vacation time abound.

It shouldn't be an issue to take all of your vacation time all at once if you should so choose.
Played twice. Immediately knew that I should stop.

Great game!
Huh, interesting. Thanks for the info. Do you have any links to this?
> after all we want humanity to be advancing, right?

Hell no! Life is a zero-sum game, so if I'm hurting other people, that must mean I'm winning! Besides, if we all collectively come together to make the world better, those people might have nice things too! That would make me so angry! I'd rather live in poverty than see those people do well in life!

Sarcasm, obviously, but at least 100 million Americans believe all of the above. They are single-issue voters, and their single issue is hurting other people.
All institutions protect themselves first. Jehovah's witnesses have strict rules that forbid warning a new congregation if an abuser gets thrown out and moves onto another. They will not contact authorities nor will they warn anyone else as they ship them off to another region for a fresh start.

It was/is an abusers' paradise. All numbers of criminals mask themselves in piety because it is easy to gain acceptance because the existing adherents are literally mandated to accept/forgive all new people who are "seeking the truth."

I have seen the same thing happen in numerous organizations. The Catholic church is the tip of the ice berg.
Do you mean the need to configure your CPE to allow incoming traffic to specific devices? Not really, with v6 you have to put in allow-rules too if you have the normal default-deny firewall rules in the CPE. It could be automatic with UPnP, but it could be automatic with v4 + NAT too. The article doesn't say if the Switch supports that.
The reason for this is if your videos stop having a very high click-through rate, or impression-to-watch ratio, youtube stops recommending it as much, meaning your videos likely won't get as many views as they would have had youtube not interfered at all!
there's been a proliferation of administrators in colleges. the ratio of administrators to professors/instructors has been steadily climbing since the 70s. I see this as a form of corruption.