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Fun fact: Firefox was the first program I ever compiled. I’d just finished an online Python class and wanted to get involved in this open-source thing. Mozilla had some Python tasks but they still required a dev build of the browser. I was on Windows at the time.

It took me three days to figure out, and thinking about cygwin still makes me shudder.

Then I saw that the Linux instructions were just a one-line apt command for dependencies and then the build command. It looked magical.

This is what convinced me to move to Linux and exposed me to so much cool software and ideas. I never did end up contributing to Mozilla.
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His profile said he graduated in 2021. He joined Amazon in May 2021. 5 months was a teaching assistant at his university. 4 months was the right months for a summer internship.
Of course they don't, those businesses are free to develop their own phones and not pay Apple at all.

Now maybe 15 percent is a more reasonable price, but Apple developed the phone, apple developed the SDK, apple made it available to everybody, heck Apple even developed the computer language used.

This is all available for anybody for a fixed percentage, which means that it scales pretty well with how much you make and it cost you nothing more than 100 dollars a year if you don't charge people.
I think he was also behind the idea of marketing white goods not on their efficiency, but by their appeal to consumers. This is to say, he initiated the move away from quality as the sales pitch to where we are today - where white goods are flimsily made, hard to repair, break after their warranty - as this maximises profits at the expense of the customer.

On so many levels, its a shame we are so easily sold, for sure.
Have you seen the Raspberry Pi Foundation's book "Code the Classics"? It's a pretty gentle introduction to game programming using PyGame Zero, building old-style games like Frogger. It's quite colorful and meant to appeal to kids, a lot like the old Usborne books.
It looks like old guy Comic Sans, although there's something more charming about it.
I applied to AWS Lambda and two days later my manager of two months (who was formerly my skip manager. My manager(s) quit and they couldn't find a replacement for several months, so my team shifted up the report chain.) told me that I had been under performing for the last year and likely put me in Focus [0] which is the precursor to being put in Pivot aka PIP. You can't transfer teams internally when you're in Focus, so I was stuck there.

My team's senior engineer he told me that I was nowhere near under performing during the last org-wide performance review. I received great Forte feedback that year. All of the teammates that I had talked to, and my former manager who was now at another AWS org, told me the situation seemed suspicious especially due to the timing.

I got out as fast as I could after my manager said that I was under performing. I applied to a handful jobs, interviewed, received an offer, and gave my two weeks notice all within 3 weeks of the start of events. Now I'm at RStudio [1] which pays about the same as AWS but has a significantly better culture while still being able to work on interesting projects.

That experience was pretty terrible. My team and former managers had all given me consistently positive feedback. There was always something I could improve, but overall I was a good engineer. My interactions with this manager still make me question if I am competent which isn't the best feeling.

I had a fairly positive experience at AWS up until this chain of events.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22570579/amazon-performanc...

[1] https://www.rstudio.com/
It's a racist conspiracy theory and a common bad faith white nationalist talking point. It doesn't matter who says it, you should not bring it up as messageboard scorekeeping.
Also before vaccination and prior infection. Either or both of those mean that the risk involved with catching Delta or Omicron is generally far lower than it would have been had they just "appeared" in March 2020.
More like people just want to rage. Even HN loves its pitchforks.
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In my opinion one of the best, if not THE best, ways to play GameCube games on modern screens
Given that this behavior is already disallowed (and faulting) on BSD and at least some commercial Unix flavors there shouldn't be too much software out there that relies on it.

I would lean towards making it an API error BSD style and taking breakage on a case by case basis. I'm not the person who would be called up however, so it's easy for me to say.

Worst case you can create a sysctl variable to enable/disable the check for those corner cases where it can't be fixed and other precautions can be taken against the security vulnerability.
Exactly. You can even care about your product and its users, but not care that it went down for a couple hours last tuesday or launched 4 weeks later than a made-up deadline.
I guess your point is that this would change constantly, which isn't really the case.

Yarn and NPM has been around for a long time. Yarn 1 used to be the better choice since NPM stagnated, now they're a bit more equal.

Typescript has been around for a long time. So has ES6 modules. Same for Jest and Mocha.

The only thing that is changing somewhat are the bundlers and build tools (thankfully, they've been the weakest part of FE dev for a long time).

I've kept up with frontend for many years. There really isn't all that much "fatigue" if one actually understands what the tools do and the niches they fill.
Yes, they repeatedly sued their respective competitors, and disruptors out of business
Doesn't Ruby also have an HTML-over-websocket library that Basecamp built for Hey and released open source? (at least a year or two ago they said they would release it) This would be similar to Elixir's LiveView I think.
Well guess what, a tax on ghg emissions will make both those that don’t care about environment and those that pretend to care about it, suffer economic consequences.

Win-win, isn’t it?
Since your reply was cordial, I'll note that I probably would have used wording to make it more clear that I was specifically unimpressed by the use of terms like hype or what read as the implication that there's been a widespread representation that a cure is close. I've typically only seen that in the context of the various scam claims over the years, not mainstream research — the coverage I've read since at least the 90s always mentioned it as a very hard target a long time off.

Maybe I'm a bit biased from having worked at some places where researchers were working on problems like this but it felt unfair to focus on that but not mention that there are now mainstream treatments developed as part of that work which have made a huge improvement for millions of people globally.
> there could be a brain just executing logic and making decisions, or there could be that same brain but it's actually aware of that fact

But here is the thing: You are not aware of any of this! You are only aware of the world around you and yourself in the form of a high level description. You are aware of cats, dogs, your arms and legs, etc. But that's perception, not processes being magically self aware. You have no clue what your brain is actually doing, that's completely invisible to you.

And that's the illusion. The process you are trying to explain doesn't exist. Consciousness is not processes being self aware. Consciousness is a process that tries to model the world in a way your brain can use to make sense of the world. And just like it does it with cats and dogs, so does it with itself. The thing you call "yourself" is a perception generated by the brain, it's not a thing that exist and does stuff.
I think when you learn your brain creates symbols -- neural pathways corresponding to real world objects or concepts, with further pathways linking together related symbols. One of these symbols corresponds to the system itself, a self-reference. That's the "inner eye", and it wouldn't make sense for it to be in someone else's head because then it wouldn't be self-referential.
It really is. I happened to stay for a week in the house of the man who owned the company that (at that time) provided all of the cheese for McDonalds in all of Europe, except Russia. His plants were subject to lots of random inspections where they would not only taste-test the cheese, but chemically and mechanically examine it to ensure that it was the same as was being produced in the rest of the world.

I think that the confusion might be that McDonalds has a lot of "local" menu items that you can only find in those countries (e.g.: beer in Germany, wine in France). Those items are very different, but the "core" items, like the Bic Mac in question, are very much the same across the world.

I should note that there are a few cheats to this. For example what is called the Quarter Pounder in the U.S. is slightly tweaked in Europe, and I think that is usually called something like "Hamburger Royale", so there is that. But that could go either way depending on how you see it.
Price volatility is definitely a thing in Bitcoin, Ethereum and altcoins. However there are many other cryptocurrencies whose value is designed not to fluctuate - specifically stablecoins. Ignoring Tether for the moment there are many other stablecoins that can be used to generate savings at a rate of ~50x the interest paid on USD by banks. Imagine someone in Jordan, or Cypress, or Turkey who now has access to USD equivalent on a permissionless blockchain and is able to generate real inflation-adjusted returns on stablecoins.

Regarding the volatility of non-stablecoins, those who hold believe that we are still early in the price discovery of a new class of assets and while I can’t speak for others, personally, I have a longer term investment horizon on the order of 4-5 years at a minimum. Looking back on the price of Bitcoin or Ethereum over any 4 year time horizon, the valuation has grown much faster than any traditional asset class.
I left Facebook shortly after they removed the chronological feed on your wall because it made it so I kept seeing the same few posts over and over again and missed a bunch of smaller posts that weren't high interaction.

In retrospect, that was a necessary precursor to all the dark patterns they would later implement to the feed. It empowers the company to decide what users see and that's an incredibly valuable thing for a company with billions of eyeballs. The temptation to monetize that power will be irresistible. At the very least, "Sponsored Posts" incoming.
Of course, mechanical ventilation and heat recovery helps. I had it in my last place which was a new build. But now you're saying on top of the wall insulation and heat pump, I also have to spend £10k on a MVHR system? My heating bill is only around £1200/yr - I'll never see that all money back even if it reduced my costs to nothing.

The reason costs are high is partially because costs have gone up a lot lately, and I'm in London. Even a new garden fence is going to cost me around £5k. But also, my house would need to have a brick cladding put on after the insulation to get it past planning. There would also be a lot of remedial work required before installing the insulation, such as removing the existing pebbledash render. And I don't even have asbestos to worry about (as far as I know), unlike a lot of other properties of similar age.

I agree we're a long way off net zero, but don't you think spending all this money on marginal improvements to old houses would be better spent on the generation side of things? Personally I can't see a future in the UK that doesn't involve some kind of hydrogen or synthetic natgas generation. We're going to need to solve the generation side anyway.

I had district heating which I had in my last place, which was great and had the footprint and plumbing was comparable to that of a regular gas boiler.
Until they realize that in the real world their eyes lost sensibility.
0 is a nonnegative number.
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I think they have a problem with hated content that's technically allowed - "buy AnimalCoin" etc. I would hate to just be brigaded against, though, Twitter already feels like a wild west of getting unwelcome replies
Related ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30204604
Nope, but why would it? Does Signal solve this or Slack or AWS?
I never indicated that it does, its just software. It addresses a specific set of problems or use cases as does all software. Crypto just attempts to claw back a limited subset of privacy. Trying to make it seem like it does or does not do more seems very agenda driven and both sides of the debate are rife with talking heads promising doom and salvation.
Also a huge waste of time, money, and other resources.
React, Webpack, Eslint, Jest, React Testing Library

That’s the standard setup nowadays and it’s what most people should go with. If you want type checking, add TS to the mix.

But seriously, just use Next.js you can build tiny static sites with it and you can build complex SPAs. It’s very lightweight and basically just strings together all these tools while adding some convention that you can follow if you wish.
The very first NMRI images were published in the early 70s, so at least some of what is required must be public domain now. The original diffusion and perfusion patents are both from the 80s, so should also be expired I think?

That being said it's very hard to make any even slightly novel machine (MRI or otherwise) that isn't so close to an existing patent that a judge would dismiss a suit out of hand.
>Sounds like we need to focus on the much larger 80% of emissions first to me, as that's where the vast majority of the problem lies, by definition.

Alternatively... What if we do both in parallel? I'm also of the opinion that you can more likely change things in your own life than get a big corporation to change something, so you could make small gains within the next year as far as reducing personal impact, and still keep on fighting for the bigger problem to be solved at the same time.
Esp. one with $30B+ a quarter in revenue. What a wildly silly notion.
Agreed. Some UK numbers for reference:

£500/day is the absolute minimum for developer/DevOps outside London, £600/day much more common and including the cheap end for London. Senior is more often £800/day. You don't see values above that advertised, but people do obviously negotiate higher for specialist work; I have seen a mainframe developer charging £1500/day (on the low end of his range). Anything higher than that has always been a large consultancy rather than a freelancer. In my specialist niche I'd be asking for £1500/day top-end, expecting £800-1200 with negotiation depending on flexibility.
They don't have a tarp? And over the course of days, no one thought "oh wait, we should hide this with at least a tarp."?

Painfully obvious this is a purposeful leak.
Zuck has priority shares that have like 10x voting rights. Even if he only has a small percent of the shares he will be in control.
We do this in our house. We have intentionally done this based on the use of the room. Laundry room/kitchen/bathroom, light that sucker up. Living room or bedroom, not so much.
.net 5 (and former .net core) was pretty fast. The issue was in serverless there is a pretty long cold start since the interpreter is still invoked which is like a mini virtual machine. If you're sticking to azure, they have a highly customized environment for it that I'm pretty sure saves interpreted output vs source code.

I would highly recommend golang to old school C# devs who are very comfortable with threading, thread safety, and mix of high and low level code in the same codebase.

edit: Best go devs I know are seasoned C or C# backgrounds.
> 0 is a nonnegative number.

Correct. So it needs to be accounted for.
Amazon EU here. Not it's not.
I was going to say the same thing and figured someone else already had.

People would often ask how I knew so much about rails and, ya, the answer is that I read the guides. They are extremely readable and it doesn't take that long. Like a couple of days. You might be surprised how much is retained by just reading through them, even without actually trying things out as you go.

I would like to stress: read the guides, not the docs. Use the docs for reference.
Ah, very fair question then - I think even a lot of actual UK voters have the same impression too, largely down to the whims of a few billionaires who own all the newspapers in the country and essentially get to decide who wins. As long as Labour policies are a threat to their money, they'll be presented as dangerous lefties to the public hence, as @flooow pointed out above, their current strategy of just trying not to be noticed at all.
Replace the word “Consciousness” with “God” and it will equally make sense.
I guess im talking about something else. You’re talking about being shown ads that are related to your interests which is fine with me.

I’m talking about Facebook radicalizing people and manipulating their viewpoints and selling them on things they otherwise would have never wanted in a million years if they hadn’t used Facebook.

I’m not talking “Facebook showed me a cool pen and I like to collect fountain pens so I bought it”, no issues there. I’m talking “Facebook radicalized and manipulated me and now I am buying extremist books and courses that I otherwise never would have”.

The latter is why I disable targeted ads. Because it just an order of magnitude beyond “showing me relevant products”
This is an amazing blog. How did you find it, williamsmj? I am fascinated by old and upcoming (e.g. Solein) efforts to make single cell protein. I personally believe that processes converting clean electricity to protein, perhaps mediated through fish farms or other sources of edible animal protein, are going to make big contributions to keeping people fed this century. It's possible that AGW will lead to severe enough disruptions in rainfall/temperature patterns that large areas of currently productive farmland will fall out of cultivation. Bioreactors can produce protein with a much smaller water consumption and much higher productivity per hectare, along with much greater resilience to variable weather and changing climate.
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I think we need to be a lot more thoughtful about supporting university students through engineering programs. As a student I saw so many classmates crumple under the academic stress of weed out classes. Big engineering schools do a horrible job of supporting and cultivating the emotional lives of their students. 50% of students dropping out of engineering from freshman -> sophomore year is not normal.
Cool stuff as in politics/influencers/business/entertainment drama.
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but even cooking with fossil methane release a lot of fossil methane at the consumer home :

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/01/27/rethinking-cooking-gas/
It goes beyond that.

We are constantly gambling all of the time that we might have some external effect on the world, it's the human condition.

Generally we distinguish between overtly dangerous behaviours that could have easily been mitigated (e.g. drinking ten pints and going out for a drive), and behaviours that happen to be kind of a little bit dangerous but aren't explicitly malicious (e.g. just driving under normal circumstances).

The difference here with coronavirus is that for whatever reason, some people decided to apply a completely unreasonable standard of assuming that anything anyone did ever was a malicious act, which is completely incompatible with civilization. If we didn't have all of the exceptions for the proles (sorry, "essential workers"), society would have completely fallen apart.
Relevant. The Ottoman empire got its first Muslim-owned printing press in 1729; nearly 300 years after its invention and widespread adoption in Europe: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/53544/did-the-ot....

[edit] Even better: https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-did-the-o...
I got it as a kid but after diving into it I lost interest once I got everything working. I guess for me assembling things and getting them to work was always the most interesting part, after that I moved on to something else. Today I'm a DevOps Engineer :D

The parts should still be somewhere in my father's basement but getting them would take time. I found a new Mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.5 on eBay (auction number 324365658011) if that is the one you are looking for.
The comparison was to street/fast food, not home-cooked food; food with a labor cost. It's easy to make a great meal for a third of what street food costs, anywhere, if you're willing to list and shop for ingredients, keep track of what you have used and what you need to use quickly before it goes bad, spend 30-45 mins cooking it and another 15 mins washing dishes.

A lot of people make more money at jobs, or simply don't have the time left in the day to make that a good deal.
Disagree. Slow and expensive might apply to Bitcoin but there are plenty where it doesn't apply. (For example, Bitcoin Cash which solves these problems. But there are plenty of others which work quickly and cheaply.)
There wasn't enough anger and vitriol on Twitter. At least now the mobs have some recourse against individuals who express undesirable opinions. /s
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The trouble is that the sort of drug-induced insight (or pseudo-insight as some would call it) you refer to is usually accompanied by strong euphoric effects, which impairs your ability to dryly reason about those experiences even a long time after the fact. Nor can I completely shake the impression that those who believe a e.g. a DMT trip offers genuine insight into the nature of consciousness simply had an insufficient grasp of the subject beforehand.
> In particular, you need people with platform-wide scope and permissions to prevent communities from brigading and such.

Do they also have teams that identify "brigading" in order to boost a tweet? What does Twitter do about upvote bots?
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>"Use intumescent coatings."

Can you say what would be some good and/or practical choices for this?
IMO, use Twitter less and join a community that you want to participate in on a Mastodon instance: https://joinmastodon.org/
Which is really a shame considering how many informational(ish) videos are on YT. Downvoting was really helpful to tell, when you search for "How do I unblock my sink drain" who is full of crap. Downvoting on opinion, social and gaming videos serves no purpose.

Twitter as a platform which has no ability to store and reliably surface informational or factual messages is completely devoid of the types of content where peer feedback is helpful - the only thing tweet scores measure is "hotness" which could be entirely opaque to the user base (both up and down).
That isn't pragmatic, it silently breaks programs that rely on specified behavior just to fix one of many self inflicted security issues polkit had over the last decade.
I modified my comment so to not sound as critical regarding the study. I am glad to have this information. My questions would most likely require a larger sample size and more data. I'd love to know more about participant phenotypes, BMI, and medical history. I'd also like to see a comparison of other early treatment protocols and how they stack up to remdesivir(which was used in the study).
I'm not a facebook user but I did set up a google+ account while it was around and i did like that circles paradigm they had. For whatever else was wrong with that thing to make it crash and burn so hard and so quickly (other than google's corporate adhd and constantly being in 3rd or 4th place).. I did like that concept of circles as ways to target your content.
You're right but tbh some docs are kinda horrible. Tried to go through the Spring MVC docs, didn't get far. But maybe I was just being impatient idk.