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It’s unclear what you mean here. You are a large system engineering lead with a lot of pressure, and would like to go back to making sketchy internal tools for HR to relief the load for a while? That kind of thing?

I’ve not been in that position, but if I was, I think I’d rather take a 6-month break and do nothing than spending 2 years at a desk doing meaningless work.
Not a fan, I have tried say formatting a large JSON API results (with no formatting) and it just runs out of memory because:
1) the string is huge like 64mb+
2) it tries to do syntax highlighting and blows up big time on the resulting formatted value.

For a utility tool it's awful finnicky on real world data and I think tries to be pretty at times rather than useful, or perhaps a case where a browser makes a poor Editor.
Wow, you usually don't start a headline with "do svidaniya", unless it's for an obituary.

Glad to see everything's fine.
There are still corners of the world where docx is the One True Format, and PDFs make you seem like the weirdo. I can easily imagine it being too different/difficult and a candidate being rejected from the enormous pile for that. The Internet has made it far more common to get outsized responses; eg 800 applicants for 3 positions, with no easy way to sort through them all.
I think this is purely a resource issue, e.g. if Google Brain decided to make an MtG bot I would be fairly confident it would be superhuman. Even real time strategy games like Starcraft are looking like they're on the cusp of superhuman bots (Alphastar was competitive as Protoss against elite players, but did not consistently beat them).
I thought maybe it was somebody's name and just a really horribly formed sentence. Because, ya know...
<<Not because I'm worried that my job will be taken by software, but because said software will barely work. For factory jobs, the risks are obvious; that's why we put these robots in cages[0]. However, these office jobs are still making critical decisions that will increasingly be handled by automation.

Just to build on this a little. Even if they do work, general population will have little to no understanding on how they work. They will be little black boxes that govern our daily lives with little to no way to correct it if things go awry. As much as I am amazed by what ML can do already, we need some basic customer facing documentation on how it is supposed to work.
I think modern VR sucks. Beat Saber is cool but frankly beat saber would be just as cool on the wii or the kinect or on a normal screen with vr wands. It doesn’t actually utilize VR when you think about it.

Half Life Alyx was impressive but it also kind of sucked. Teleport movement breaks immersion hard. And the enemy design was clearly incredibly gentle to accommodate the fact that people are not in fact very competent in VR.
Again, that's not necessarily how that's intended. The observation on its own is just an observation, it doesn't indicate anything about how interview performance was evaluated.

For example when I interview, I have a question related to chess, which requires a basic understanding of how the pieces move. I was amazed that even engineers don't understand the basic movement rules of chess.

However as far as the interview went, it was a non-issue. It took about 30 seconds to explain, not a single candidate had a problem with it, and it never came up when I was giving my verdict.
Insane that this discussion is happening like this. Depending on the state for property protection is a basic facet of a functioning government. Literal organized stage coach robbery is not an issue anywhere else in the US, and it is not UPs responsibility to deal with it, unless we want to return to a period of private armies.
> You haven't caused any copyright infringement because you're not redistributing your book that has the white-out on it.

Even if you did… since when has distributing a used book with extra notes, highlighting, or even white-out in place been considered copyright infringement? You're selling an existing, authorized copy—even if it was later modified—not making a new one.
I agree with you as long as we apply the same standard to "white collar crime". Embezzle money from your company? Off to death row for you. Defraud investors? Death row. Run a Ponzi scheme? Death row.

Alternately, give defrauded investors the same rights you suggest for property owners so they can hunt the guilty party themselves.
Taxes are rising around the globe in developed countries. Also red tape and regulations which are a different type of "tax" with the same result: demotivating value creators.

You can't maximise happiness by definition. Happiness is fleeting, a peak, it exists only through comparison to our regular state. Evolution made sure of that, or we'd've stopped evolving. The only way to cheat it is with drugs.

I want to maximise humankind's potential instead. Gain infinite knowledge, spread through the stars. I think that is a much more worthwhile goal than happily dying out on a small planet at the edge of the galaxy.
Ah, but imho it's completely unrealistic to expect full blown Linux DE on a phone, in touch mode. This should not be forced on anyone

I actually think Canonical was on the right track to deliver something great. Maybe too great. Without getting into conspiracy mode, I'd say it was very unfortunate that it ended up nowhere which exactly where Mozilla did with their efforts.

I've long ago abandoned the hope of having one device do it all. It makes no sense, really. But Linux phone is possible. Having a nice UI with it is far from the main issue I think.
> On average, over 90 containers compromised per day.

> 160% increase in criminal rail theft

Combining these statistics indicates that UP was experiencing over 56 containers compromised per day before the policy change.

Compare that with the almost 50,000 containers daily that flow through the Ports of LA and Long Beach. I don't know what percentage of that UP handles, but I think it's safe to say that even 90 containers is a small fraction. UP has insurance, and, I'm sure treats a small percentage of thefts as the cost of doing business.

UP can increase their investment in securing their trains and property. The alternative is the taxpayer spending a lot of money on police and incarceration. The US's incarceration rate is ridiculously higher that all other advanced economies. We can probably find better things to spend all that money on.
Camera's not going to do anything by itself if you can't actually stop the person who is on the camera, and it's a lot harder to stop that person if they're never going to jail even when they're caught red-handed and arrested at the scene.

I mean, heck, if it comes down to it, Private Security can also mean that UP just gives up on Los Angeles and its eponymous port entirely.
Well, it's not exactly a great idea but you can replace init with Emacs and it will boot [1]. You have basic utilities like a shell, file manager and with plugins you can run a music player...

[1] http://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux....
>>This is grossly out of touch with how most of these features end up existing ... this isn't bottom-up market-driven demand, it's top-down requirements specified by the local government for that area.

Wrong. Of course it is always implemented by a local govt, but it is very much a result of demand.

I very well understand how such regs end up existing, and changing. It is very much related to demand. People are generally against zoning until they realize what it is like to live without zoning, and then it is DEMANDED by the people, and of course implemented by the govt. I've lived in a locale where zoning was first brought in, then developers managed to build a coalition against it and it was abolished, then people realized that that was shi*y, and now it is zoned again.

I've also seen and helped organize opposition to new development that would trash both neighborhoods and wetlands and endangered species habitat - when 100 neighbors come out to oppose the proposed variance, that is not some govt imposing it, it is the residents supporting their own zoning.

It may be different in larger cities with heavier corporate development influence, but I doubt it, since e.g., I'm sure there are plenty of developers who'd love to develop in San Francisco, but all I hear about is NIMBY opposition to changing neighborhood zoning holding it back. Guess what? That's not some top-down govt, it's locals supporting their own zoning.

What is out of touch is your comment inaccurately characterizing it as some faceless govt imposition.
My 3 year old has ASD. I'm interested the finding about disproportionate megalencephaly, as his head is pretty big (but he's also rather tall). Suppose I wanted to see if he falls into the >1.5 SD cerebral volume/height bucket. Is there a way to meaningfully approximate it with his head circumference and height?
There's a very long interview with Kahan on ACM's YouTube channel. Here's a link to the part where he talks about the "Solve" button: https://youtu.be/smrs6FfnCzs?t=8670
They can’t be everywhere at once but they should be apprehending repeat offenders it sounds like they are arresting plenty of criminals they just aren’t being prosecuted so they continue to rob and pillage.
I can enjoy playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux thanks to Wine, vkd3d-proton and Mesa projects. Kudos to all involved developers!

As for PE updates, looking forward to these to be rebased: https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/tree/master/pat...

Switch to PE broke that.
It was also widely believed that America's "volunteer force" was a disadvantage.

The USA did many firsts. It was the first deployment of M1 Abrams, no one knew if it'd be good (and IIRC, it was considered a waste of money back then, since it wasn't battle proven yet). It was the first time the US used GPS on the battlefield. It was the first time precision weapons were used. Etc. etc.

A lot of people at the time thought the USA could lose Desert Storm. It turns out that war happened completely differently than armchair generals / pundits believed.

I don't know if we'll necessarily win or lose our next war. But I think I can rather confidently say that none of us will be able to predict it.
How to Resurrect Blackberry Devices?
Has anyone experimented with reactivating their Blackberries after the official end-of-life earlier this month e.g. by replacing the OS with a Linux version?
White House warns Russian invasion of Ukraine may be imminent
you could totally automate a real estate broker... a drone or android could easily show you a place, and maybe there's another person at a call-center who's showing 15 homes/hour, but that displaces 20 brokers/agents....

Or you could just realize that real estate is a broken industry and why does there even need to be a broker at all... List your home yourself, have software that does the rest...

I mean, lawyers, doctors, software programming, can easily be placed in the next 20 years. All fast-food, grocery, freight(depending on self-driving cars, or perhaps better train systems that have direct to store delivery)..

I look forward to the day when only 5% of the population is employable, because we'll have to figure out someway to live post-scarcity or just let people starve, but if 5% work, 5% then are consumers too...and that leaves out a lot of power, control, and economic potentiality.
I am using git as a version control system via Tortoise GIT which does a great job of exposing the minimum required functionality of git (maybe a bit more than minimum) and it is only when something goes wrong or I need advanced features that I have to fall back on git command line.
So 99.99% of the time I use 10% of git functionality. Even if I did learn all of git (and I doubt there are many people that can make that claim), I would probably forget most of it by the next time I needed to use a particular feature.
The main thing that should be explained at the start of any git related tutorial is how git handles the full workflow (from remote to local to work copy and back) because that is one thing that is missing but once you know it the rest becomes easy to understand.
I thought best practice was some form of key based pagination. If you must keep things in numbered pages and want to allow skipping to page x of y, then you are backed into a realized view that includes the page numbers in the data, at some level. You either build that on the fly every time you do a query, or you prebuild it.

(Note, I'm not positive my thought here is accurate.)
The benefits pile up quickly when you want to do something even slightly more complicated. Hit w a bunch of times until the selection looks right, rather than count words. Tweak either end of the selection to catch spaces or punctuation.

You can do all this in Vim, I'm sure, but it's less mental effort in kak, because to a much greater extent you can see the results of your actions before they happen. And it's no slower if you do happen to know exactly what you're doing, because it's almost the same keystrokes in different order.
So is that basically the economics of modern washer/dryer purchasing then - spend just enough to get 10 years out of it? I feel like modern "smart" stoves are similar - once the logic board goes that it. Seems like also a 10 year lifespan.
i wonder if the cheapest option is better locks on the containers
It was a reference to this: https://imgur.com/KGzbkBn
If I was only doing my own laundry, I would only have to wash a load once a week, and I would never use the dryer since I'm content to air-dry all of my clothes.

However, a family of four tilts the balance in favor of the time-saving machines.

(That said, we /do/ make our own laundry detergent for pennies a gallon and it has saved us a ton of money over the years.)
And in two or three years, when that cloud service inevitably shuts down, you'll be stuck with a pot that doesn't heat water.
I'm starting to doubt my doubt I have for the Church of Emacs. It seems anything really is possible for those who repent, memorise the collected essays of Richard Stallman and pray in Lisp.
A mixed economy still has private property and the capitalist-worker class dynamic, still experiences the crisis cycle - so it's still capitalist, it's just a better form of it. If your qualifying rules for "capitalism" require no welfare system whatsoever, then capitalism hasn't existed in the West for at least 100 years.

Bearing in mind that I'm using "capitalism" as a descriptor, not a snarl word. The snarl one is "neoliberalism" ;)
Microsoft will buy Activision Blizzard for nearly $70B
The web changed. We moved away from static HTML pages and CGI scripts to monolithic application servers in java, ruby, python, etc. Apache excelled with these static content sites and simple auth scenarios (remember .htaccess files?) but became painfully complex proxying application servers. Nginx was doing exactly what was needed at exactly the time it was needed.
My IT department still uses a home-grown work ticketing system built in Access 97. The leadership in the department built it custom to their wants in the 90s and, just like you, it's feature-complete-ish. Pain in the butt for newer employees like me.

Please don't tell them that it works in Wine. It needs to die.
Government should mandate the ability to downgrade the software to versions that were previously available on said hardware.

I’ve had so many issues with Apple devices losing compatibility with obscure features on apps after updating iOS, I wish I could go back occasionally to accomplish some task, and then upgrade again when finished.

The flexibility is valuable.

For example, on the newest iPad Pro, iMovie is unusable after iOS 15, completely jittery and unable to handle smooth user experiences for some reason.
My heart also skips a beat if I see a news article starting with "<First> <Last>, <occupation>".
In talking with appliance repairmen (who are, unfortunately, frequent visitors to our home), your statement is spot on. Some brands are better than others (when it comes to dishwashers, they universally praise Bosch), but none of them are built to last. I’m replacing a Samsung dishwasher tomorrow that is not even 4 years old. The main board has failed, and the part isn’t even available any more.

It’s a shame to see so much waste.
(Former pro and high stakes player, occasional solver developer)

This is actually one of the best poker articles I've ever seen in generalist media. Not too clickbaity, reasonable high level overview of game theory, a (very accurate IMO) quote from old pro Erik Seidel about the state of the game just 15 years ago, a discussion on variance vs. EV and results, and most importantly, an emphasis on math, randomization techniques and emotional control rather than the TV image of staring in someone's eyes and reading their soul. Probably the one biggest misconception people have is that pros have sick reading abilities since TV likes to emphasize staredowns, when the actual single biggest skill long term pros have is the ability to lose hand after hand for hours and still play their best game.

Incidentally, the anecdote at the top of the article is pretty intuitive game theoretically. Basically on the river you need to bluff with some portion of your hands, or else nobody will ever call when you have a good hand. The natural portion of your hands to bluff with is the absolute worst ones - you don't want to bluff with your middling hands because you have some small chance of just winning a showdown when it checks around. On a board of Kc4c5c2d2c, 7d6d is quite likely the absolute worst hand you can hold given the action that's taken place, therefore it's the one you bluff with. (For some pot/stack sizes it's possible that you bluff so rarely that you have to choose between 7d6d/7h6h/7s6s, but that's getting into details.)
Writing a simple Filesystem using Fuse and Java 17 (2021)
That's not the same as what the parent said at all. When has the government ever forced one company to offer data to another one?
Per the letter, the question is NOT, "where even is the LAPD." It is, "where are the Los Angeles County prosecutors?" And the answer Union Pacific provides is, "letting these people who are arrested go free with a plea deal for simple trespassing."
Have you ever watched Clarkson's farm? It's a comedy show about Jeremy Clarkson from top gear trying to actually farm his land himself instead of paying someone to do it. Everything is fiendishly complex. Nothing looks simple at all. His tractor (granted it's a top end Lambo) has more controls than the Enterprise in JJ Abram's Star Trek. I don't think a small startup is taking that on anytime soon.

He has to call out someone to show him how to drive it and has no idea how to get it hitched. All coming from a man who has driven more cars of different types than probably anyone on the planet. Granted, it is a comedy, buy I think if you watch the first episode, you'll get the idea as I did.
You may end up working more. Companies that pay less do so because they are inefficient. This means people work a lot more but in very inefficient ways. I’ve found that companies that pay more usually have figured out how to use the workers to produce real value instead of having them use 3 different tools to ask for a device f.e.
The number of special cases.

For example: consider how you'd write some generic code to forward all ioctls transparently across the network. Keep in mind that the data attached to the ioctls is machine dependent, driver dependent, and has no information about how it's formatted. Every ioctl for every driver is its own special case.

Meanwhile, faithfully forwarding all devices in a plan 9 system is trivial. Control messages aren't strictly formatted -- but they're done via reads and writes on file descriptors, so sending them to the devices that understand them, and relaying back the result, is trivial. It's just 9p: https://man.9front.org/5/0intro

Doing this fully, for all devices (except /srv, which is a bit magical) is implemented here, in a short shell script. This is the remote login program used by 9front, which gives you something resembling ssh or vnc, but with full access to the data and devices on your local machine, graphics, audio, mouse, keyboard, USB, network, and anything else, even if it hasn't been implemented yet. It does both client and server side:

https://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/HEAD/rc/bin/rcp...

The client side sets itself as a file server, using exportfs. It exports everything in its namespace, including /dev, over to the server.

The server takes the client's namespace, and mounts it over /mnt/term. Then, it takes /mnt/term/dev/cons and binds that over /dev/cons and starts a shell. That means that every time a program is run, it opens /dev/cons to interact with the user, using the client's mouse, keyboard, and so on, forwarding all the operations transparently over the network.

The idea can go further; Instead of using network translation layers, for example, a plan 9 machine would import a different machine's network stack and mount it over itself:

# whats my ip?
% cat /net/ipselftab
192.168.1.11 01 4u
% hget https://api.ipify.org
74.{home.address}

# ok, let's import another machine's network stack and use it.
% rimport orib.dev /net/ /net

# what's my ip now? look ma, I'm proxying!
% cat /net/ipselftab
144.202.1.203 01 4u
% hget https://api.ipify.org
144.202.1.203

There are no special hooks in the network stack for this. It doesn't know. This happens for free because the network stack being accessible through the filesystem API.

This kind of thing happens everywhere, because everything goes through 9p, and everything can be namespaced. There isn't any other special case to consider: If you forward 9p, you forward all operations you can do with a device. Or any other file server.

If everything is in a namespace, you don't pull the devices other programs are using out from under them, so you can put one login in one sandbox with a remote mouse and keyboard, and a different one in a different sandbox with a different network stack.

This falls apart when you have the 53,719 special cases bundled with posix. If you need a special case for each operation you through the network, or interpose in userspace, you're in for a rough time.

Plan 9 works because it's relatively simple and uniform.
> So, maybe the security is an investment in new cameras. Maybe it's a better lock that can't be bypassed. Maybe it's an investment in network security personnel or systems. Maybe it's a doorman at the apartment building, or a security guard serving as "eyes and ears" for the police.

All of the things listed are simply deterrents, that would not stop a criminal knowing that he would not get prosecuted from taking the extra time to bypass them. Cameras can be evaded with masks, locks can be grinded down (see lockpickinglawyer), security is pointless if they know they cannot be detained.
This blames Israel for 9/11, what a joke.
How to sponsor an Afghan refugee family
I think in general, it's probably best to avoid this kind of etymological explanation of the 'actual meaning' of some word or expression because they tend to obscure the usage and, well, actual actual meaning. Saying 'goodbye' in English doesn't really mean saying 'God be with you' to someone, even though that's what it's originally a contraction of. They're fine as etymology, of course!
I'm not a DB expert, but aren't most queries bottlenecked by disk bandwidth? If so, addtl queries might hurt more than help.
We probably have the same Maytag dishwasher. It's also only 5 or 6 years old and I'm about ready to replace it - in addition to not being good at cleaning dishes it also has areas inside of it that are just completely gross with old food, etc. We had a dishwasher in our previous house that was installed when the house was built in 1974 and we had that dishwasher until 2011, a Whirlpool. Yeah, it probably used a lot more water than current models, but it got the dishes clean and lasted 37 years while managing to keep itself clean inside.
Why the rich like high taxes [video]