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> TBH, reading this as a manager, I have to admit I feel like asking my engineers to take on SOME of these beyond-just-the-code duties... is a good thing? Obviously there are a bunch of caveats, and nuances to whether you want an IC engineer to be 100% coding and 0% talking to customers or doing admin (this seems bad), or is it 90% vs 10% (maybe okay), or 80/20 (sweet spot?), 50/50 (concerning), 20/80 (bad again), etc.

1. Agree 100% coding and nothing else is bad most of the time. You can leave out admin tasks but engineering is more than just coding, it's problem solving. Understanding requirements (e.g. by talking to customers) is crucial and also the best code is the code that had to be never written.

2. Think that is also in large part an individual thing, some people like to wear multiple hats to some individually varying degree while others don't.

3. It must work out in practice and you have to make sure the sum of both does not result in a value above 100%

4. I agree if the technical stuff is as low as 20% it may be better to just transfer in another role completely as it is hard to contribute meaningfully there then.
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Do we have any evidence that religion reduces bad behavior? We know some of the most religious countries (Mexico, Syria) are relatively more dangerous than more secular countries like France or China. Is there a better data source to look at here?
1. It hasn’t been a problem for me. My skills are still current and I have a fairly deep knowledge of how things work. If you can say both of those things, getting a job isn’t hard.

2. Love that username.
I stopped grazing when WFH started, since I don't care to replicate the office's snack stash.

I signed up for a premade meal service, so I throw a box in the microwave and eat whatever's inside (e.g. salmon/rice/veggies). I end up eating like 3 lunches a day this way, but I'm trying to gain weight so it works out.
Jailed 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli ordered to repay $64m
Most of the times I used mmap I wasn't happy in the end.

I went through a phase when I thought it was fun to do extreme random access on image files, archives and things like that. At some point I think "I want to do this for a file I fetch over the network" and that needs a rewrite.
I would be hesitant to generalize from existing coronaviruses to SARS-2. As the sibling comment points out, SARS-2 has been shown to persist in every organ of the body well after initial infection.
I can tell you know this but just to clarify, sodium and lead don't moderate the neutrons like water does (i.e. slow them down), so you can have a fast reactor, which means you can fission your U238 and transuranics instead of throwing them away as nuclear waste.
There are two different features interfering, which were added at the same time.

The {42,1} is an "initializer list", which was a way of passing a list of things to a constructor.

However, at the same time, something called "uniformed initalization" was added, which used {}, to "clean up" how constructors work.

However, from looking at a piece of code it's impossible to know if it is trying to call "initializer list" or "uniformed inialization". The "initalizer list" wins in this case, when the items are all things you can put in the vector.
Google Engineers Fired for Union Organizing Reveal the Dark Side of Tech Giant
Yes. Fannie and Freddie sell those loans to investors, they don't hold them. They just insure them against defaults. But prepayments are still investors' problems as far as I'm aware.
In 2003 or 2004 I had a job doing video installations with Linux systems in a variety of museums. That was the first time I learned about FFMpeg. Used it for everything, still one of the first things I install on any system, and whenever I need to do anything with video conversion or resizing or taking a slice out, I use FFMpeg. It is awesome.

Although, after all these years I still have to look up every single incantation except for the most basic things.
"The spice must flow" has this historic antecedent. At times pepper's taste, preservative, alleged health value and price was off the scale, not unlike Dune spice.
This makes a lot of sense. Lots of advice in the early days of PayPal to have a separate account for them and keep nothing in it.
> Part of what's strange is how often age of consent comes up in these circles.

Age of consent comes up a lot in libertarian (including both right-libertarian and anarchist/libert5-socialist) circles because it's an easy emotional “think of the children” gotcha that the groups are, because of their opposition to status quo government authority subjected to continuously.

It also comes up a lot because libertarian groups (on both left and right) are about fundamentally reorganizing the structure of authority in society, and it's an obvious and (for most) important
issue addressed by the status quo system.

People reimplementing (or designing a reimplementation of) a system should spend a lot more time thinking about things the current system treats as a solved problem than end users of the existing system do.

> All followed up with a vague caveat that age of consent laws might not be inherently bad, but usually with no attempt whatsoever at suggesting what they should be.

I've rarely found anyone in either community that wouldn't state their preference on age of consent laws when asked, what they tend not to do is express what they should be for all communities, because they tend to oppose the idea of centralized legal standards for all communities (both left and right libertarians have frequently spoken up to support intervention if the practice in another community is seen as widespread violation of moral consent, but not reducing that to some legalism. I think people have trouble understanding that libertarians have a different view on the relation between morality and law than people who are less libertarian, and therefore mistake libertarian reluctance to demand universal legislation on certain issues with libertine moral neutrality on them.

> Then you have people like Vaush

Vaush is a rather controversial figure among anarchists.
So... what is so much different about it from 4.x?
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And many have indeed adapted, by becoming rent-seekers or engaging in hustles to try to optimize over the rat race- hence the types of behaviors you denounce.

The market is far too irrational and complex to assign essentiality based on salaries or valuations.

You seem to be bringing up the hoary "learn to code" lesson, but plenty of people trying to make money in crypto or achieve FIRE are former coders themselves. In their view, they upgraded their skills.
You are misunderstanding me. There is theory about how atoms etc. interact. We cannot use that to predict shape (at present) but at the same time there is no force etc. missing as far as our current understanding is concerned (at most basic level no physics seem to missing). So predictions seem at least possible or rather are not blocked.

On the other hand, trying to use an AI to make predictions which atom of a radioactive element was to decay next would run afoul of current theories.
This is a good reminder to only buy hardware retail, let someone else take the gamble of the product never coming out.

You seem to have some expertise in this space, is an e-ink laptop even possible? Possible?

My assumption is someone like Amazon would have done this already.
Honestly, I don’t get the messaging. What is Deta Space from your pov?
So what does this mean?

That covid was made in a lab? Or did covid and moderna independently reach the same "conclusion" through parallel evolutionary pressures (in nature and in research)?
Research is not a zero-sum game, it’s about bringing useful knowledge to everyone. If releasing your code aids in understanding what you’re contributing, then by all means please contribute!
You don’t even need to spend a ton of time cleaning it up. Releasing it “as is” is fine.
Hoarding your code as a defense against criticism goes against the entire purpose of open academic work.
When I was programming C++ regularly, which was C++03, I wrote a robust format string system which could catch all mismatches against the format string at run-time. Which is good enough in practice if you actually test the code paths.

What's valuable is being able to compile format strings into faster code, like the formatter macro in Common Lisp.
Current residential home prices in the US are far above their 100 year inflation adjusted trend. A few standard deviations above IIRC, and far above where they were in real terms at peak of the 2000s housing bubble. That's not adjusted for interest rates though, which explains some of the deviation.

So homes have appreciated strongly in real terms in the last decade, but it's likely they will revert to the mean from here (whether it be quick or more drawn out).

However you're correct that historically homes mostly follow inflation, and aren't appreciating in real terms. It's only in the modern era where that trend has changed, probably due to more investor involvement and Fed trying to stimulate growth aggressively.

But it's important to note, even if a home appreciates only at the rate of inflation, usually the buyer only puts 20% down, so from their perspective they are earning 5x the rate of inflation in equity.

Pretty lucky to those that lived in 10% interest rate times that were able to buy all sorts of property cheap and refinance at low rates later.
Do you think they are going to limit their api like Twitter?
This has a lot more to do with zoning and urban planning that it does with the mortgage as a financial product.

On the majority of lots in most cities it's very difficult (or illegal) to build new housing. That's a regulatory constraint that has nothing to do with how the house is financed.
Seriously, who say Latinx? We talk now about Withex, Axians or Blacus?
During prior to the 2008 crisis, one of the shady practices was that all mortgage brokers, realtors and banks were pushing adjustable rates on everyone which was a huge reason so many people lost their homes.
There are essentially 3 ways proxy tunneling like this is done:

1. The Tor method mentioned in this article - Will probably be the worst performance but it's free and offers some privacy features.

2. VPN - WireGuard (Tailscale is popular), OpenVPN, IPsec etc. Best performance, but requires some low-level configuration on both the client and server. You'll probably need admin privileges on the client to configure network interfaces. This is usually automated in practice. If you're on network that blocks UDP, that can also be an issue. You also need a server with a public IP, which generally you'll have to pay for.

3. User-space tunnels - Solutions like SSH remote port forwarding, ngrok, etc. Convenient because on the client you don't need elevated privileges. Performance will likely be somewhere between Tor and VPN. Although note that unless you have very fast internet upload speeds, tunnel performance isn't likely to be your bottleneck. Many solutions multiplex over a single TCP connection, which can cause issues in lossy network conditions due to head-of-line blocking. You need a server with a public IP just like with a VPN.

I maintain a list of proxy tunneling solutions here:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
In Fusion reactors the neutrons are used to breed Tritium from the Lithium so they're not hitting the structure and degrading it.
don't know Trac, but can you import your history from it into Gitlab?
As a self-employed painter (and a good list of other trades prior to), I'd say that references work both ways -- You, as the client, want the tradesman to have good references, but in my little neck of the woods, everyone knows everyone -- And we also use references to 'feel out' if we even want to work for someone.

Who do I want to work for? Someone who appreciates the end result, but is reasonable about timelines and a 'structured but not fully firm' timetable.

In the trades, we are usually doing a fine dance between other tradesmen doing their thing, then it is our turn to do our thing. So many phases in the process of a new build or remodel effort requiring all these different trades to line up correctly, usually between at least a few projects going on at the same time. When the plumber is 3 weeks behind, it bumps the insulators, which bumps the drywallers, which bump the painters, which (can) bump some finishing details, etc.

So, I'd say honestly, the understanding of things being delayed (within reason) is my primary "will work for them again" metric. Obviously we all work to get paid, but being paid isn't the reason I do what I do. Taking pride in work done is how I'm able to 'stare at walls' all day, and be fine with it.

That being said, throughout the thread I see people stating that no one wants to deal with the residential work. I primarily focus on residential work. It's probably easier to bill to the moon and skip some corners in the commercial world (ie. 'make more money') but as mentioned above, I've zero interest in that - It's a combination of being compensating fairly and pride in the work.

Find someone that does good work, for a fair price, and be civil -- It will be remembered. I'd dare say that most trades people that I know/knew have no problems with the 'stress of work', but the interactions with over-demanding clients are what cause them never to be willing to take a call again.

OR bill out the nose, hoping they don't even get the job, as it's just not worth it. (irony is, most of these stories end up with them getting the job, anyway).
That's a good one to play with in-laws who don't speak your language as well.

But as much as I enjoy it, I'm not entirely convinced there's any more to it than straight up luck.
Have an upvote, was going to post the exact same reply. The tech interview process is so irritating, so friction-filled, and ultimately so random in outcome that it doesn't seem worth it for maybe a ~1% bump. Grind leetcode. Apply at 100 companies. Get 10 call backs. Go through the whiteboard hazing rituals and ghosting. Maybe get 1 offer. Back when I was 25-30, maybe I'd expect a double-digit percent bump for all that work, but now, I'm pretty much at the ceiling, and the great pain of interviewing just doesn't seem worth it.
Wouldn’t be able to go with pretty much any one then. Probably wouldn’t be able to wear much of your clothing either if labor abuse is an issue.
I've been using RAII in C++ since 2002 or so -- so it's not a new thing to do.

Personally, I maintain quite a lot of open source C++ code -- I'm not rewriting that in Rust, but I'm writing new projects in Rust.
Because I promised I would and I want to see it through to the end. I had an offer on the table. Same work, same level, little better pay. Current job convinced me to stay. They made a huge effort in giving me what I asked for, some up front, some goal based. They WANTED me to stay, which was a first in my career. It's a shit show for sure, but we're working on fixing it. I want to see that through. They committed to me; I'll commit to them.
Three wrongs don't make it right either...
But why would they need to live nearby? Or have a similar house? Maybe as an empty nesters they can move to a smaller house and use spare change for other nice things?
It is the safe option. At the least you should be up there validating that it works and as long as you are up there...
Interestingly, I never saw a fixed rate mortgage for 30 years in my country. The top fixation period is usually 10 years, anything higher than that is unusual.

A typical value is 5 years.
Make Simple Python Mocks with SimpleNamespace
From Batch to Real-Time
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You would have to adjust for all external influences. Mexico and Syria are mostly dangerous because of failed USA policies (drug war, war on terror) than their internal cultures
She was "called on" to Wuhan WIV where virus first emerged and where she has been working for at least 7 years and where all of her research was funded by EcoHealth Alliance grants? same EcoHealth Alliance which submitted this gain of function grand proposal in 2018 https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra... ?
using FF, can access just fine here.
Treehouse: A Case for Carbon-Aware Datacenter Software
Haven't looked into it, but in the worst case making some custom tool would do it.
peanut gallery are likely to give stupid feedback. Academics are likely to ask for help using my code -- which is nice but doesn't (usually) contribute anything useful to me, and takes up time I could be spending on other things.
Most open source projects stick with the same system they started with. Don't fix what ain't broke.
I retired at the end of 2020. I had a good long run in the tech industry and was really feeling a bit burnt out.
If I walk into a room with 2 people and I offer one of them a million dollars to move to Cleveland, then one of them has something tangible and valuable that the other one doesn't. Older homeowners in markets that have seen a lot of appreciation are presented with this offer every morning when they wake up. Whether they take it or not is immaterial. It's a real offer that really exists.
> why did you start looking for another job?

I can think of the following, and there are probably others:

1. To know your market value so that you know what to ask for during your compensation review at your current company.

2. To practice interviewing skills when you don't need them, so that it's easier when you do

3. To network and learn about companies that might be relevant for you in the future (as in, you wouldn't accept an offer now, but if it looks nice you might apply again later, and if it doesn't you might consider it only as a last resort).

2. especially makes sense for coding interviews, and I've been advising the following to a few friends: ideally, one year before you actually want to apply, apply everywhere you can with such interviews. Your results won't matter anyway, you'll be able to apply again one year after, but you'll get a lot of real-world practice and an idea of what you might want to work on.
except after obama terms democrats didn't go on a insurrectionist rampage through the capitol with ARs and zipties while obama/biden were simultaneously cheering on. neither did dems have the audacity to send out fake election certifications just because. 'Both Sides' are not the same!
Every time I leave a job, there's suddenly the money I was asking for available. If someone was asking for a raise and you couldn't give it to them, and then they turn in their notice, and then there's onus to retain them at their original ask, the only thing to say is "congrats, we definitely regret not making things work for you here".
I guess home values would go down, but investment (improvements, remodeling etc.) would go down as well, so the old houses would be pretty shabby when sold. Newly built homes would be either substandard (what the Chinese derogatorily call "tofu quality", where walls aren't really that solid), or available to the wealthy only.

It is surprisingly expensive to build a (brick and mortar) house to 2021 security, energy-saving and quality standards, at least in Central Europe. We have a lot of cheaper housing from the 1960s-1980s, both block of flats and detached houses, but no way would such buildings in their original form be approved today.
I wish so badly for there to be a Django/Rails/etc for NIM.

(Yes, I'm aware of Jester/Karax be development has slowed down on those)
Except it is broke. I'm not motivated to deal with Trac even if I want to submit a bug report.

So the above argument is not addressing the situation. Making bug reporting a better experience is in the interest of the project.

I find Debian bug reports a similarly annoying experience becasue it's so archaic. I.e. I deal with it, but I can totally understand if someone is turned off by the experience and simply avoids reporting bugs because of it.
You literally asked "Is omnicron worse than a common cold?" That is the question I responded to.

Now you're shifting to a different point, which is that you think that restrictions are too severe. That a perfectly valid argument to make, but I'm not going to engage with it here.

I take issue with people deliberately peddling misinformation about COVID severity, because they think it helps their argument around the response. It is intellectually dishonest, and has caused actual harm.
Slow down the approval of the second mover to match the pace of the first approval.
just opened a file and...ugh

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/refs/heads/m...

like, just this, basically C:

if (strncmp(argv[arg_idx], "-XXlib:", strlen("-XXlib:")) == 0) {
...

is just so complicated and error-prone over

if(std::string_view{argv[arg_idx]}.starts_with("-XXlib:"))
...

(which I guess is the intent)
There has been a desire to go back to older days where text was more prevalent, and so Gemini has begin and is gaining popularity - though I'm sure very slowly. See: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Also, separately (though i wouild not be surprised if frequented by same/similar folks who have interets in Gemini), there is also the tildeverse...again, more text-heavy environments. See: https://tildeverse.org/

And, as i have stated in another comment there is the fediverse (e.g. Mastodon, pleroma, etc.), so the ability to leverage APIs to interact with other folks and their content without explicitly needing a typical web browser exists, and flourishes.

I'll end by stating that there are a few exciting things - like the above items i mention as well as this neat Woob platform - which to me seem very fun, a little new, and yet at the same time in some ways nostalgic...maybe they won't make the morning news, and likely only attract geeks, but it is all still exciting - at least for me!
The author of this post laments how deep learning works, but the suggestion is to solve the problem somehow by only reasoning about how other neurons are firing locally. Isn’t that exactly what deep neural networks already do? A basic feedforward layer has individual neurons that fire if their inputs exceed a threshold, which is based on the timing of the firing of the other neurons.
The article presents a vague non-solution.
Of course, deep learning has not (yet) cracked full self-driving or general cognition, but without providing more examples or differentiators, this post is somewhat lacking.
The one piece that had the most impact on me on the topic of control societies is Nick Land's Meltdown, and a lot of his CCRU stuff from his academic days explicitly deals with Deleuze after all.

http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm

It's incredible to me that this was published in 1995 rereading it today.
More about her.

"Also, Dr. Shi was trained by Ralph S. Baric of the University of North Carolina in building “chimera” viruses — taking, for example, the spike protein from a new virus and splicing it to the backbone of a known one like SARS. He invented “no-see-um” techniques that left no trace of the splice."

source https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8119695_Development...
> first churn propensity score

Could you expand on what this means?
Netflix increasing prices, standard plan to top $15 a month; stock jumps
Their point is they could store the files in the NoSQL solution if they so please.