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throwaway account because... reasons. I've been really struggling with my junior recently.
He joined the company during the first lockdown and so has been working fully remotely.
It's been nearly two years now and I get the feeling he hasn't progressed anywhere nearly
as much as I would of expected. He's extremely slow completing tickets and when he does,
the work seems very sloppy. The thing is he's remote so it's very hard to gauge if he's
slacking off or really struggling. By being remote he's missed out on so much of the
casual conversations about why things are the way they are or when we throw around
design ideas or problems with other devs in the room.
Day to day I swing from "This pandemic is ruining this guys career" to "has this guy
got a second full time job".
To loop back to OP. My company doesn't normally hire juniors. I pushed very hard to
hire a junior and was eager to give to someone else what the senior at my first job
did for me. Fast forward two years I feel burnt out by it and starting to regret it.
The use of "TikTok" in that phrase is just a synecdoche for "social media that allows people to easily share video they filmed on their phones". If you can't see this video on TikTok, you can still see it on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit...
Ok, then what about Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia?

Good enough to supply troops to NATO, not good enough to be defended when it matters? They should go back to 1989 as well?
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what’s going to happen when people upload videos of violent deaths and war crimes committed in real time? If not graphic stuff, videos of missiles and invading forces?

Will TikTok / Facebook / Twitter censor these videos? Probably, but will they succeed?

Will people watch the videos? Will they leak into mainstream sites?

Right now despite the internet being notorious for violent and serious content, i think most mainstream sites are good at hiding it and most people definitely aren’t looking for it. But this is the first major conflict outside of the middle east / Africa (aka the first major conflict people are really paying attention to) where we have widespread social media and 4K video. If anything, i only hope that it will make the war more real and serious to people, so it will prevent further atrocities in this war and avoid wars in the future.
Yeah. That war was essentially broadcast on cable.

And yeah, sure, access to the U.S. military came with caveats, but it was possible to be a non-affiliated reporter.

But it's also not like the stories couldn't be cross-checked with, you know, reality. You could relatively trust the information coming from U.S. sources, because they coincided with reality. Iraq was doing their best to prevent information coming in and going out.

That's why Baghdad Bob became a meme. Because his accounts were hilariously at odds with reality. He'd go on TV and claim the American forces were in full retreat while being frog marched out the studio by those forces.

And it's also not like this is going to be the first conflict in the social media age.
Yes. And the US is not obligated to do anything about that, and they indeed are not doing anything about it.

Thus such agreements have become worthless.

Had the US said five days ago, "we will use our military to ensure the Budapest Memorandum is followed", and defended Ukraine when invaded, then in the future if a similar agreement was proposed the country would trust that it would be followed. They did not, and this means that no one will again enter into a similar agreement.

I'm not claiming that a US military intervention would be the "correct" thing to do, merely that it would be necessary to preserve worldwide trust in treaties similar to the Budapest Memorandum.
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I am building it to replace Low-Orbit Ion Cannon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Orbit_Ion_Cannon

The initial primitive version just uses Selenium to load website (Russia Today hardcoded for now) into a headless Chrome instance in a loop with cache disabled (must have Chrome installed).

The idea is to make it walk the site, download (but not actually play) streaming media, try to discover requests, that server takes most time to respond to.

Seeking contributors.
You're looking at it in retrospect, but decisions to involve NATO in responding to an attack on a member aren't made with the benefit of hindsight.
This makes much more sense, thank you!
Then you get dinged by static analysis tools like SonarQube because you introduced a useless scope or increased the "cognitive complexity" to the code and have to explain it to a team leader who might not understand why you did that.
Finland built this tomb to store nuclear waste. Can it survive for 100k years
They're not alone in this approach. BigQuery and DynamoDB also meter data usage based on the amount of data processed during a query.
Or maybe we should take Putin's words more seriously? He was planning to invade Ukraine for at least a decade now, and was quite openly talking about it - all those times when he claimed that "The fall of Soviet Union was a great tragedy" it was quite obvious that he'll try to rebuild it, in its former borders. Western leaders chose to ignore all warning signs because of they greed (looking at you, Germany, with your Nord Stream 2), and that's how we end up in this mess today.
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The Syria war (and its spillover into Iraq) was incredibly well documented. Then the major platforms took a stance against "extremism" and "disinformation" and removed heaps of invaluable footage.
It's really not clear what this is.
Russian military videos on TikTok are coordinated propaganda and misinformation.

There is no way that hundreds of Russian soldiers posted TikToks on the same morning revealing their locations and movements.

The intention of this is to both misdirect from actual large-scale Russian movements and to lower Ukrainian morale: "Look how easy and fun it is for us to invade you".
I don't think I'd realized they were anywhere farther east than that.
> if the position was open today and this person was available – with full knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses – would you enthusiastically offer them the job?

> I think enthusiastically is an important word in the question because it drives clarity. You can’t say maybe to that question. If there is any doubt, you have your answer.

> I would suspect that very few people would want to be at a place where their boss would not be excited about rehiring them. I sure wouldn’t.

Huh? This excludes 100% of all jobs to several significant digits. Most jobs aren't important enough that you need someone in them whose very presence brings joy to your otherwise dreary life. And almost no one is aspiring to fill their role that way.
If Ukraine becomes a NATO member, Russia won’t be able to defend it’s border from a conventional attack.

By looking at a map, this is quite evident.
He's quite critical of the Soviet Union.

"Lenin criticised this plan and suggested making concessions to the nationalists, whom he called “independents” at that time. Lenin’s ideas of what amounted in essence to a confederative state arrangement and a slogan about the right of nations to self-determination, up to secession, were laid in the foundation of Soviet statehood. Initially they were confirmed in the Declaration on the Formation of the USSR in 1922, and later on, after Lenin’s death, were enshrined in the 1924 Soviet Constitution.

"This immediately raises many questions. The first is really the main one: why was it necessary to appease the nationalists, to satisfy the ceaselessly growing nationalist ambitions on the outskirts of the former empire? What was the point of transferring to the newly, often arbitrarily formed administrative units – the union republics – vast territories that had nothing to do with them? Let me repeat that these territories were transferred along with the population of what was historically Russia.

...

"When it comes to the historical destiny of Russia and its peoples, Lenin’s principles of state development were not just a mistake; they were worse than a mistake, as the saying goes. This became patently clear after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

...

"In fact, what Stalin fully implemented was not Lenin’s but his own principles of government. But he did not make the relevant amendments to the cornerstone documents, to the Constitution, and he did not formally revise Lenin’s principles underlying the Soviet Union. From the look of it, there seemed to be no need for that, because everything seemed to be working well in conditions of the totalitarian regime, and outwardly it looked wonderful, attractive and even super-democratic.

"And yet, it is a great pity that the fundamental and formally legal foundations of our state were not promptly cleansed of the odious and utopian fantasies inspired by the revolution, which are absolutely destructive for any normal state. As it often happened in our country before, nobody gave any thought to the future.

...

"I would like to repeat that today such a centre has already been deployed in Ochakov. In the 18th century, soldiers of Alexander Suvorov fought for this city. Owing to their courage, it became part of Russia. Also in the 18th century, the lands of the Black Sea littoral, incorporated in Russia as a result of wars with the Ottoman Empire, were given the name of Novorossiya (New Russia). Now attempts are being made to condemn these landmarks of history to oblivion, along with the names of state and military figures of the Russian Empire without whose efforts modern Ukraine would not have many big cities or even access to the Black Sea."
Russia still has social media. A catastrophic loss of Ukranian civilians in one event won't get buried easily.
This is probably the reason in this case by where was that epicenter of power when the previous large war broke out in Europe - the Yugoslav Wars? If anything it was the absence of thereof
I'm not sure that I'd call it a TikTok war, but rather the first major-power smartphone war.

The world will bear witness to the consequences of this conflict in ways it never has before. It is no longer up to the editors of major news outlets to decide what is shared [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/th...
Realistically I don't see any benefit at all. That's not to say it's a bad change, just not one that provides much of any real world benefit to a thread-based system like Sidekiq. I would love to be proven wrong though!
I happen to agree, partly. Canned food 24/7 isn't healthy when other options are available, but that's why it shouldn't be an exclusive ingredient of one's diet.
There's also [0] and [1], which are more mobile-friendly but present less information.

[0]: https://i.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/sew1rn/twitterc...
[1]: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/sew1rn/twittercom... (.compact does the exact same thing)
I think that's oversimplifying it. These national or global decisions are a chain of events.

Here's how the Iraq war could have been prevented:

* VP doesn't push for it

* President (the Commander in Chief) doesn't give the orders to attack

* Powell never gives the UN speech and resigns in protest

* Senate doesn't vote to authorize war

* Intelligence agencies push back on WMD accusations

* Military officials push back on the strategic value of occupying Iraq and push for alternative measures

* UK opposes the US war effort

* Saddam allows UN inspectors back in with unrestricted access

* If enough of the US was anti-war (it wasn't), threaten impeachment

* etc.

Sure, leader's drive initiatives, but there's still a chain of conditions and any break in the chain can cause the event to stop or change course (at least temporarily).

I think it's important to remember that with a separation of powers, we aren't powerless to stop our leaders. These things only happen because we lack the will (or the desire) to stop it.
> Three-dimensional rendering of the partial paddlefish fossil, with googly eyes added for reference.

I'm glad to see even serious scientists can have fun sometimes.
I think a real problem here is that people (especially English only) do not understand the actual complexity of most standard input controls. They really think it’s just “type letters”. The number of times I’ve seen people showing their “fully functional” editors that flat out do not work with IM[E]s, do not handle basic keyboard controls, do not handle pasting or search propErly never ceases to amaze me.

That’s before consider breaking all the password or address auto fills, screen readers, non-keyboard text entry.

Even if all you’re doing is “restyling” controls, how do you interact with people who have vision difficulties like colour blindness? You’re restyling overrides accessibility features that make controls visible.

Seriously, you don’t get to say “web apps should be just as capable as normal apps”, and also say “I should break basic app functionality”
Never believe anybody who says attacks are "surgical" or "limited to strategic objectives" - bombs and shrapnels don't look at documents. War is war, civilian casualties are always inevitable. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to keep their numbers down, of course - in fact, it means war should never be waged, because innocents will always be caught in it.
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So why isn't the west helping?

And why do you expect Ukrainians to march to their deaths if your country and NATO won't help?
They have a website to make donations here: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/

These crowd funding sites are turning out to be a disaster. Too many competing interests, values and laws.
Facebook has hinted that they employ smart C++ people because some core optimizations can save on the order of several hundred thousand dollars per year (possibly in the millions). Most of that is off because they don't have to buy as much power to cool the server rooms, some of it is buying less servers as what they have can do more. Facebook doesn't actually say what they save, but they have said they measure it, and we know how much it costs to employ an engineer full time working only on optimization, and we know who some of those engineers are.

You have to be very large to notice it, but the likes of Facebook, amazon, and Google have massive warehouses almost entirely filled with computers. It doesn't take much to see how their power bill can add up.
google docs reimplemented their whole UX in canvas, and this is a giant company that controls browser standards as much as anyone does. can't think of a louder way to admit defeat re advanced text entry on the web

I wonder about unbundling the different pieces of the browser. Sandboxing + safe-ish remotely-managed code is really cool. Zero-install apps is cool-ish, but comes with slow loading (try opening a new tab in gmail on my poor linux firefox).

But for UX things are tricky. The DOM is somehow simultaneously the best widgets library and a horrible widgets library. CSS isn't quite powerful enough, hence all the scroll jank tricks many sites are still doing, hence the difficulty of mixing classes and getting sane results.

I'd want a browser-like execution context, but with something more like JSX than the DOM, pluggable layout engines with the default one more like modern constraints languages than CSS, SPA-aware RPC primitives, and more attention paid to the customizability of text entry and scroll.

Electron IDEs are simultaneously great (so powerful and customizable) and really bad (built on the worst text entry tech you could pick).

the author is 99% right about the difficult of interacting with custom controls, possible exception of companies like shopify and stripe that have put massive investment into getting this stuff to work cross-platform.
Jesus those graphics are realistic. the long horizon, the way explosions light up scenery like it's saturating the sensor of a low-budget camera.. I really couldn't tell this is fake.
Huh, I thought this had died. Good to know it hasn’t.
I don't know anything about C++ really, but I have been interested in learning it several times. The biggest deterrent for me has been the huge number of languages that you have to know to learn c++ it seems. Every new version comes with so many different features and seemingly (by looking for example repos on git) different paradigms that it essentially feels like many different languages.

This is probably one of the biggest reasons I may turn to rust over C++ - simply less features creep due to less time being around.

Can you comment on how wrong I am about my feelings this way?
I teach linear algebra in a pure math department. We like to think that freeing people to be able to daydream about linear algebra is our goal, that there's more to it than what function calls to make in MatLab.

Still, you could throw out our course and spend a semester teaching people how to really think about singular value decomposition. It's everywhere, critical for example in machine learning, yet pure math types think it's "applied".

Riemannian geometry begins with an inner product at each point (though what's amazing about O'Neill's text is that he slips by you a categorical definition first at every step). As another route up the mountain, one could now understand parallel transport as a local version of the singular value decomposition, and work out the whole theory that way. This requires a fluid, intuitive grasp of singular values, rather than the textbook definition. We should teach that understanding.
The retaliation threat is right there in the same paragraph as mentioning their nuclear capabilities, I’m not sure how you can rationally argue otherwise.
So you're still pushing the crazy conspiracy theory that Trump was Putin's puppet?

The more likely explanation is, IMO, that Trump was just unhinged enough to actually do something, unlike the mellow Biden, who'll obviously just sit and wait (or, well, sleep).
Russia has no warm water ports currently ?
> ...while they sometimes got it wrong, they were right far more often than a layperson.

You're right about the layperson, but that's a low bar, the p50 of the population.

What measures did you take to avoid Gell-Mann Amnesia on this point? This seems to be one of those things that everyone takes to be true, but which I have frequently found to be false on manual inspection. Here are examples where I tested this by chasing to the primary source in areas not of my expertise:

- California Prop 22 reporting. Universally wrong about the significance of the 7/8ths rule. Actually, I found it very hard to find a mainstream reporter who got this correct considering the text of the bill.

- Indian Railways budget reporting. This was Bloomberg, and it was re-reported elsewhere. The numbers were wrong. This informed decisions I made in the next case.

- SuperMicro spychips. Bloomberg again, but rebroadcast by other media outlets. This was one of my directional trades. I bought SMCI calls off the fact that Bloomberg was poorly informed and that reporters were mostly low-grade GPT-3 copy-machines off each other.

In my experience, if you ask a random SF Bay startup software engineer or medical doctor to spend 30 mins on research they will outperform a professional journalist over the same period of time. This makes sense: it isn't that journalists are better at news; it's that they are the ones who aren't good at anything specific and are therefore doing news.

So, yes, better than the layperson, but not better than the average techie I know. And this yields a data pipeline problem: if you have a lossy compressor in your pipeline, the loss cost can overwhelm the compression advantage. I think for anyone reasonably intelligent, news has passed that point.
What triggers it?

If it's downvotes over a time period I don't see how that's a reliable method to determine whether someone should be on "probation".

If it's manual then I dispute the decision behind it as I'm constantly limited and I'm very cordial while albeit contrarian.

I'm not saying there should be no moderation, just that whatever is triggering the shadow muting is flawed.

If you want post limits, enable them for everyone.
Right, but this amounts to "the downside of your approach is that none of this is built-in, whereas with my approach also none of this is built-in".
Is there an actual list of affected devices anywhere? Or, because this is software, is it effectively every Samsung Galaxy phone within a date range?
Playing devil's advocate, given the choice between trusting a random developer to keep their keys private or Google to keep their keys private, I'd probably side with Google.

Yeah that doesn't help with coercion or government letters, but neither would being a solo dev, both parties will comply.
One of these days, I will get around to writing my post as to why that take on undefined behavior is completely wrong.

More to the point, though, the only changes to undefined behavior in the C specification in newer versions (compared to C89) are either clarifying things that were already undefined behavior (e.g., INT_MIN % -1) or actually making some undefined behavior well-defined (e.g., allowing type punning via unions).
> Property taxes in general are a complete sham, what other item do you continually need to pay for after you own it?

City infrastructure needs constant maintnence, city services need to be constantly funded. And local schools (where most property tax in much of the USA goes) keep going even after your house is built (suffice it to say, areas with the best schools have the highest property taxes).

> And why is the amount you need to pay pegged to what other people in the neighborhood around you are doing?

The more developed your property is, the more city services you consume. And this is ignoring the speculation deterrence that property tax enforces, which is very important also.
The US is no longer a net exporter: https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/us-energy-independence-on...
An expert's criticisms:

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/919-Cl...

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/920-An...
What would be nice is to be able to grant temporary notifications. Probably 20% of the time I'm not keen on granting permanent rights to some web page to ping me but I might be okay with doing so until I close the tab or the browser restarts.
There is a lot of contamination that was simply buried underneath the topsoil during the cleanup efforts. Bombing or artillery strikes would likely cause some of that to be kicked back up into the atmosphere.
hmm I submitted the same article 10 hours ago and not got picked up, where is the algorithm.
It was mostly because everyone thought it was hilarious
i mean if it’s for the radar altimeter you want it to be much quicker as it’s landing which is when it’s more prone to interference
> I'm on the side of Ukrainians who want to live in peace and prosperity rather than suffering violence and privation.

You mean 'under the Russian boot'. They already know what that is like, hence their resistance to a repeat performance.

The rest of the alternative reality stuff I'll not respond to, feel free to take that any way you want.