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> As a reminder, if people were paid by their measure of actual productivity, minimum wage would be $24/hr

Huh? What does one have to do with the other? Minimum wage just means that jobs that pay less than a certain amount are forbidden. It has nothing to do with productivity per se.

In Singapore our minimum wage is 0. Yet people are still paid. And paid rather well actually. When productivity changes over time, we don't adjust that figure. But wages do adjust, thanks to market forces.

The only relationship minimum wage laws have with productivity is that if you raise minimum wage much faster than productivity, your economy is gonna have a really bad time. The reverse is not a problem.
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Obviously the meaning of "Julia is performant" is that Julia CAN be performant in a way that Python can't. Of course it doesn't mean Julia will write fast code for you, how could it possibly mean that?

Edit: This is like saying people has to stop saying Ferraris are fast, because you can still drive slow in them
>(e.g., they presumably would not sign a CSP developed outside the US that implements strong cryptography);

They sign the VeraCrypt drivers though. Does that mean this statement is false or does that mean VeraCrypt is sufficently compromised?

We may never know.
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Sounds almost like you’re saying that it’s more meritocratic to hire for potential rather than actual/current skill.

As I said, meritocracy is an ideal to strive towards.
There is a tension between the utility of categories, which is very much real; and their limitations, which are also real and inevitable.

We absolutely need to categorize the world to make sense of it, even if the categories themselves are never going to be 100% complete or accurate. I think the takeaway should be awareness of the inherent limitations of categorization, not its attempted abolition.

There may be a point in revisiting categories though, as they tend to ossify and become less useful with time; you can't step in the same river twice, and that map your grandfather drew may not quite be accurate anymore.
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm.
For those who are skeptical of no-code/low-code, I am too, but here's perhaps a useful intuition pump / prompt for thought.

Excel is a low-code tool backed by a scripting language for customization (VBA). There's no argument that this tool has enormous business value and is basically never, ever going away. So, what can't Excel do, and does it make sense for there to be another low-code tool that fills those niches? What's in the space between "can be done in Excel" and "must be done by professional software engineers"?

Here are some tools I think fit the bill: Airtable, Alteryx, Looker...

(I kind of hate Alteryx at my company but it's not the software's fault, it's the company being stingy with licenses which makes people's workflows harder to learn about)
I don't have data but I guess ls, cp, mv, ln, chown, chmod, sort and cut are the most popular.
Overall, I don't think it is a key part of the OS regular work. Most of the servers and system are busy with services, db, browsers, etc...
I think it is wrong to generalize from Peleton to Tesla to Apple. These are not at all driven by the same thing. Plus the latest Apple earnings have already proven the author wrong.
CUDA does not inherently offer "more value" than Vulkan Compute, though. It was simply developed earlier.
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How much of that is worn tyres? I know that's a very common thing cars fail on, and a sports sedan like the Model S will be particularly susceptible.

I suppose EVs, not going in for maintenance as frequently as ICE cars, won't get the same frequency of professionals looking at things like tyres.
From memory, it's not just about sunlight, but rather specific band of uv-light; and the atmosphere filters it when the sun is at specific angles. It's not as simple as "just sunlight".
Article fails to mention how many of these defects are due to low beam alignment issues, which is normally a quick adjustment done by dealers before the inspection. Article writer likely knows what they are doing and disguises the numbers.
See why having tests is great to define how a system is supposed to work? Much better than memory.
I've had the exact same experience. These sorts of environments seem to unintentionally reward assholes and bullies because they're the ones with the immediate means to get what they need in order to move their agenda forward. Chaotic environments are a breeding ground for strongmen.
You can easily reverse monetary stimulus: just sell those assets that the central bank bought.

You can't really reverse fiscal stimulus. Once you paid people to dig holes and cover them again, you can't really get that money back.

Yes, public solvency is not an issue for governments that borrow in their own currency. But that's a separate concern.
I have trouble seeing your argument. People are stupid?

You may be surprised to see how good people are in their respective domains.
I think that the distinction is much more "what is fun or immediately rewarding" then "what rationally will be useful". Kids know they need to learn foreign languages, but until they are at high enough level adults gotta put a lot of effort into kids actually being willing to learn. It is just boring grind and most kids have hard time to entirely overcome that. But when it is fun for them, they will learn the hell of it regardless of how useless it is. Also, Netflix and Youtube are motivating factors only once the kid understands at least little bit. They are rarely eager to watch and listen videos they dont understand.

I also think that most kids do actually learn a lot math in schools. Some don't and are totally clueless, but most of them are acceptably good and most of them don't make all that much fuzz about having to learn it.
I would argue that people are primarily reacting to the reasoning given by the parents; they're not upset that the book will not be used, but that the people making the decision feel that the inclusion of (censored) profanity and nudity are objectionable enough to call for a change in curriculum. Certainly this is perhaps somewhat overblown, but I don't think it's fair to say that people are "angry that the legitimacy of their outrage is threatened" - I think your downvoters feel that you're missing the point. (I did not flag your comment, to be clear.)

There's also the matter of disagreement about the word "banned"; personally I think it's not the right word to use here, but there is an argument to be made that the object of the verb is not students - that is, not making the book totally unavailable - but teachers. They have "banned" teachers from using it in the curriculum. Again, I don't agree with this use of the term, but I don't think it's as clear-cut as "the media is lying about what happened to support their narrative."
> You should read The Phoenix Project, that will help you understand the rationale.

What makes you think I haven't read it? When my company went through its so called "devops transformation", first thing our devops advocate did was giving away a dozen or so copies.

I understand the rationale. I just happen to not agree with it.

In my mind, it's naive to believe that a team would have more than two or three competent coders, with a thorough knowledge of the code base, the high level vision of where that code fits and interacts with the rest of the infrastructure, the skills to quickly fix things, and, on top of that, the willing to be on-call several days a month.

And then there is the fact that nobody looks for solutions at 2am, just workarounds.
Ah yes, good memories of Schulausflug from Stuttgart to Tübingen, the whole class went and once a pretty big group tipped into the water. Probably not following orders of the captain
I had the misfortune of interacting with what OP is calling "strong woman template" and they were as pleasant as any men with "tough guy" attitude. Rude, obnoxious, entitled, unkind, and always on edge. At least these are the common attributes I found common in people I thought of when seeing "strong woman template"
> Do you live here?

Would rather not share my address. But, yes, I am familiar with the area.

> Or are you just accepting your own bias

Not sure how to parse that exactly. Mind rephrasing a bit. In general, to be a better person, should one reject their biases or accept them?
It's good to wonder publicly and have a discussion!

I set up IPv6 on all my servers in 2001 and thought we'd all be on IPv6 in just a couple of years :P

What's interesting is how much resistance there is to adding IPv6 which comes from entrenched IT. People who never learned (much) about IPv6 seem to be afraid of it and often respond with some variant or another of "don't fix it if it ain't broke", or "it's extra work for no return", or "we'll have to pay licensing to add IPv6 because we bought crap routers, so let's not", et cetera.

My favorite is, "we have no record of people trying to use IPv6" - yes, that's real :D

It just shows their ignorance. Adding IPv6 has myriad advantages - no need for NAT, proxies or port forwards to share addresses, no need to renumber networks if allocations or upstream change, redundancy, valid security-through-obscurity (imagine port scanning a /64 looking for open ssh ports)...

What's really interesting is how many of these "we fear change" IT people don't realize they're already using IPv6 on their phones every day, with a majority of the sites they visit.
Because lots of companies move there and the ones that are already here generaly do well.

And of course there is a general trend of (younger) people moving to the cities (ofc less now because of covid).
Wrench monkeys in the intro are working with face gags (non N95 masks), but the Munro himself can do it without one. Tells a lot about this old geezer.
Thanks, but why does the post show two screenshots juxtaposed:

- one labeled as "2FA Authenticator permissions disclosed on Google Play"

- and the other as "2FA Authenticator permissions requested"

They even made "disclosed" and "requested" bold to stress that there'd be a difference, and in fact the former list of permissions is shorter than the latter?

You said that some permissions are "ignored". Is that the explanation?

Where is a list of all Android permissions which are "ignored", i.e. not told to the user when installing apps?

From the screenshots it looks like the permission to install software is part of whats lacking to be disclosed.

That has a rather big security impact, why does Google ignore it?

I can't believe Android is that insecure :(
Tesla is a luxury brand, yet one out of ten Teslas manages to show up with suspension problems at the 3-year roadworthiness inspection. That's quite something - one would think that the suspension is a solved problem, cars have has suspensions for over 100 years, coaches before that. That's just another symptom of appalling quality control.
It's older than me. Thinking things through from the start is harder than it may seem for some classes of problems. Frequently the 'right' solution is several levels of insight removed from the ones that you will be able to achieve if you just sit down and 'think things through'. Only after you build it, benchmark your code against a large body of input and verify correctness will you have the appropriate insight required to really solve the problem.

God level programmers (of which I've met exactly one and know about one other over my whole career) can do this the first time around.
> Japanese is hard to learn for a native English speaker but easy to learn for a Chinese

This isn't to detract from your overall point but I study Japanese and many of my fellow students are Chinese, they certainly don't find it easy, even with the advantage of being able to infer most kanji. Korean to Japanese might fit the example better.
Per the article, it had a much higher defect rate than other electric cars (where you’d expect tire problems due to weight).
Maybe Teslas aren’t as reliable - I don’t have any evidence to say they are. I do know that unlike most other cars Tesla don’t have a mandatory service schedule to maintain warranty which might be one explanation for higher-than-average statutory failure rates.
> we're missing out on the most efficient and powerful source of knowledge, the internet.

The premise if your question was that "we had no more access to the internet", so of course we're missing out on the internet as a simple matter of definition.
I've been a hands on contributor and manager for long time. I do three things that seem to make this a lot more functional:

1) I pick what I'm going to work on after the rest of the team picks their tickets.

2) I fix one bug per day, not matter what.

3) HIPPO (HIghest Paid Person's Opinion) is not an acceptable reason to make a decision.

It's worked well for me, your milage may vary.
Do you trust every single dev to push the right workaround?
Seems the opposite to me, especially when if you add post-2010 to the data set:

There was hardy any useful stimulus in the US post-2008 because Obama (D) was in the Whitehouse and the GOP-controlled Congress didn't want to help him out. So it was mostly just monetary policy (Fed) that did things, and it was a long slog of pain to get unemployment down and get the economy going.

With COVID we had monetary policy (as before) but also fiscal policy (Treasury), and I think that fewer people suffered economically. Especially since the Fed can only work 'internal' to the financial system, but it takes the Treasury to get cheques-in-hands.

(Certainly the two scenarios are not directly compatible, but it seems obvious to me that fiscal can have more direct impact on regular people's lives, e.g., average savings rate increased.)
I have so many questions,

Do the drugs/needles/etc. get provided by the government that are known to be safe or is it bring your own drugs and anything goes?

What are the legal liabilities the government could face if there is an overdose/fatality as a result of this, or if someone gets injured or attacks someone else?
This was a fascinating article. I recommend reading it all the way to the end. One of my favorite sections:

> Though many people clearly believe that racial and ethnic classifications are somehow linked to science, I observe that their relationship to genetics is a lot like astrology's link to astronomy. The analogy is imperfect, however; very few government officials are willing to publicly admit that they plan their lives around astrology (though some apparently do), but nearly all of them publicly plan their programs around ethnic classifications. Indeed, the government pours millions of dollars each year into reaffirmation of this belief and requires that private industry join in the massive delusion.

> The widespread delusion about racial and ethnic classification has not been confined to the nonscientific world, unfortunately. As Lancelot Hogben remarked 56 years ago [2]: “Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved to be correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.”

> While there often are visible differences between people from areas that are widely separated, these differences are very small compared with the physical similarities of all humans
I'm not saying that Google was right to do this, but this has to be taken with a grain of salt because we don't really know what the circumstances were.
Can the user prove his claims that he wasn't notified about violations in the past?
No he can't (more info here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)#P...). In this case, Google would have to prove that they actually emailed the person, but I doubt they will reply as they might not even be watching this space.
Should we just assume that this person is telling the truth?
Are there reasons why someone would lie about this?
That doesn't make 10% not bad. But lets exclude expensive cars. How come Tesla is worse than cheap cars then?

> The worst by far, however, was the Tesla Model S. 10.7 percent of the model showed up for testing with a defect of some sort. Not only was this the worst EV in the study, the Model S placed third-to-last out of all cars, including ICE vehicles, only besting the Dacia Logan and Dacia Duster.

But even so, another huge factor is how expensive it is to fix the typical errors. Is it $5 in parts and 2 minutes you can do yourself or $1000 and two days at a shop?
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Even if that is the case, I don't understand why you think getting onboarded to the next big thing is a hurdle.

Do you have to learn Vscode? no.

Do you have to learn vim? immensely so.

Moving onto the next big thing (although i'm betting on vscode for at least the next decade), is not going to be hard.
> Tesla has made no indication that they'd ever license their self-driving or sensor tech to others.

Do you mean self-driving or "self-driving"?
> I suspect this would be considered a valid thesis by future historians if the United States had existed in relatively stable prosperity for hundreds of years beforehand and the result of such changes was that the US reduced in power and wealth to the extent that it sat on the verge of succumbing to foreign invasion by the mid twenty-first century.

But this isn't at all what happened with regards to the late Roman Empire. The Western Empire recovered substantially from the crisis of the second century. The administrative changes that were made weren't the root causes of what happened in the late 4th and 5th centuries; they were actually what allowed (most of) the 4th century to be such a success. It's also emphatically not true that the Roman Empire of, say, the 370s, "sat on the verge of succumbing to foreign invasion" (even if you accept the notion of "foreign," which doesn't really apply to Rome's military relationship with many of its "barbarian" neighbors).
I like languages with a small instruction set, which is what JavaScript definitely was some years ago, I would say not so much any more.

Even worse it has bits of functionality that are now layered on top of each other - so hoisting still happens unless you use const and let, there is strict mode which exists if you put the use strict declaration or have things in a module, but otherwise you might make a mistake somewhere and have things polluting the global scope that either you thought was impossible or even worse you were not aware that was even a possibility with the language because you were raised in a garden where it was not allowed, only now a bug brought a bit of the wilderness in to you and you don't understand what the heck is going on.

So to escape these problems with the language use linters, but some times people turn off linters etc. etc.

The suggestion to deal with problems of the language seem always to be:

1. Add more syntax, meaning more special cases to remember how things behave with that syntax!

2. Be disciplined and good and you will never experience these problems that the language has. Also all of your team needs to be disciplined and good, and the people who used to be on the team before you joined should be disciplined and good, and thus there should not be any code that is old enough to be written in a way that does not fit our modern definitions of disciplined and good.
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Out of these you mentioned, what is the biggest problem you have and why?
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Speaking as a manager, I’d flag this dev as a concern. Very few people can work at this rate without one (or more) of three scenarios playing out:

1. They burn out and clock out mentally or leave altogether

2. They develop psychological issues and destroy their personal life, leading to an unbalanced and unsustainable situation

3. They expect something from the org in return, which normally the org can’t/won’t match (either in the way of product ownership or compensation or role).

Someone like that needs to be constrained. Keep them on the edge and eager to contribute but don’t let them free reign. If the situation and culture allow, try help out to fill the void in their personal life (I ordered one of our guys to leave early twice a week to spend time with his girlfriend because I knew his dedication to work is destroying his relationship. I sent couple of others to weekends in hotels with their SO after long sprints).
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I expect that this is largely down to a fundamental UX mismatch of what's easy and what's not. You could probably "force" (encourage) some good practices rather easily by just making it easier to use them than to not use them. Backups would be a good example. This doesn't necessarily work for more complex things, but it seems to me (I am not very experienced with them) that a large part of these low code tools is exactly about making easy solutions like a hacked-up Excel sheet production-grade by doing the complex plumbing (like backups) for you.
How do I justify my career advancement as a non-privileged (according to woke standards) person w/o luck and the effort I put it to capitalize on that luck?
I was very surprised to receive a few emails late on a Friday that a new feature was auto-enabled on AWS accounts that have never run Kubernetes, and informing me that I'll start paying for a service in 30 days unless I disable it.
Computers can deal with fuzzy concepts just fine, the problem is that we don't want fuzzy answers.

Any reasonable way to get a computer to determine race will yield a fuzzy answer: based on your family tree you are 36% European, based on facial recognition the algorithm is 60% certain you are white, based on genetic sequencing you are 4% of African descent. All those are perfectly valid fuzzy answers.

If you then try to match those to ridiculous categories like "Black, not of Hispanic origin" it obviously goes wrong quickly. What exactly is "Black"? Does one Spanish great-grandfather disqualify you from that category? Or only if that great-grandfather was from Brazil instead of Spain?
Certainly true, but when German brands have similar issues, it will never show in the statistics. A 10% fail-rate would bother me if I bought a Tesla, but I know that there were German cars with extreme reliability issues that never showed up in statistics. Like VWs and Audis with early DSG transmissions. Car forums were full with people who experienced it, and I personally know people whose cars had these issues.
Nine teenage boys in the Nigerian city of Kaduna started experimenting with making sci-fi films in 2016.

They borrowed smartphones from family members, and made tripods out of wood.

Three years later, their first short film became a sensation, drawing the attention of millions of people, including Hollywood Stars.

The BBC’s Damilola Oduolowu met the young film-makers in Nigeria to hear their story.
How many of these sites serve more than 1000 queries per day to human users?

Most people find the benefits of small websites to be all that compelling. And most businesses seem to be responding to the incentives imposed by this state of affairs. I would love to see a listing of popular websites that are very compact.