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We're very comfortable with non-traditional employment configurations. Are you an entrepreneur who wants to allocate 50% of your time to your own startup; a tinkerer who spends 1-2 days/week on side projects; or a traveler who seeks to work full-time for 6 months, travel the world for 3, then return and repeat? We explicitly support and approve of all those things, no awkward explanations or uncomfortable compromises required. If you're good enough to context switch like that successfully, then HFC is the place for you.

We do web and app (and occasionally blockchain) development for clients ranging from Fortune 500 to startups. We've shipped hundreds of projects, have won various awards including App of the Year from Apple, are currently probably best-known for having built Bookshop.org ... and we pay well.
What's the alternative?

Hosting it yourself means you now have a second full time job, which you will most likely do poorly, creating a lot of risk for yourself. It will also break at the most inopportune time, forcing you to spend time on it right then (within a window of a few days) or lose mail.

You will also most likely host it on a rented server, which means you'll have just as much, if not more, attack surface than with email-as-a-service.

As a package maintainer of anything reasonably important, you at least have access to "twitter support".
Can't be bothered to look up what they say about vaccination , but Scientology for example has obviously other priorities anyway.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_status_of_Scientology_in...
No suggestions for Google Voice replacement :/
They're also (intentionally?) misrepresenting the memo.

> MFA should be integrated at the application layer, such as through an enterprise identity service as described above, rather than through network authentication (e.g., a virtual private network).

They comment with:

> While it’s no surprise seeing multi-factor authentication being a requirement, what stands out is that doing so at the network level is explicitly disallowed. Meaning all VPNs and tunnels – nextGen or not – do not meet the standard.

Which of course is completely untrue. You still want VPNs to connect sites or even client/network and any security expert worth their salt will surely recommend you to have layered security. Opening up your internal network to the internet and rely on every app to do security correctly is a ridiculously bad strategy.

I don't know or care who pomerium is or what they sell, but this sort of anti-advice severely diminishes their trustworthiness.
Amazon closing 68 stores, ending Amazon Books, 4-star, Pop Up shops
Twitter Wants to Reinvent Itself, by Merging the Old with the New
I worked for McDonald's in my teenaged years and saw the inspection report on one of the old-style machines. It was pretty horrible. The self-cleaning machine was created for a reason.

Unlike the fryers and grills the soft-serve machine is filled with dairy product, loaded by hand via human interaction, and just hovering underneath the safe zone temperature-wise.
yes, shopping for confirmation from non-western media.

thanks for the links.
RQBG is not changing a lot any more because for me it works fine and some people are using it. There's currently one patch in the works, but other than that it's stable. Initially, I blogged quite a bit and put effort into good demo applications. But no feature requests or patches were forthcoming. Which is fine by me. The project was meant to be simple and stay simple.

This project takes the same approach. It is aimed to put Rust at the core (business logic) of the application and code the UI in C++ or QML. This way you sidestep the enormous work of writing bindings for the Qt libraries.

Here's a talk on the idea.
<https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/rust_qt_bindi...>

KDAB hires some of the best Qt coders, so this effort by them might get more traction. Using macros and annotations like Oliviers project is nice. When RQBG started procedural macros were not attractive yet.

This new project is on Microsoft GitHub which means I won't be contributing. I prefer to work on projects that are self-hosted by communities like KDE, GNOME, Debian instead of being locked on a closed platform of a competitor.
These truckers just illegally parked for several weeks, made a bit of noise, and some of them accosted passers-by.

I watched some aftermath footage of the vacated streets of Ottawa, the day after they were cleared out. There was no sign of any damage. Not a broken window or anything. I didn't see garbage on the ground. The commentators of the news clips I watched, though decidedly biased against the protesters, didn't remark upon anything like that.
"Creamy layer" only applies to OBCs and not SCs.

SCs have no ceiling of income to qualify for benefits.

I know about casteism in other religions. But the scale is nowhere near to that of Hinduism.

And yes, even for the OBCs, it is very badly implemented.

Only people on salary (government or private) face restriction since they can't fake income. I know plenty business owners and farmer who are well above the ceiling but continue to take benefits.

OBC benefits are not much anyway. Because there are too many people in that class.
absolutely nothing. nada. zero. it's full blown 1984. everybody who says word war instead of "special military operation" is taken off air (they shut down two major radio stations). they are going to make televised school lesson explaining to kids purpose of operation is to keep republics safe (they also sent upfront documents showing how things must be explained to children) duma supposed to make law tomorrow that spreading misinformation about "operation" is an offence.

use google translate to browse those ru domains : ria lenta gazeta
Before realizing that there is natural Gas west of Crimea I thought:

Why is a Ukrain NATO membership a risk for Russia, there is no change
that in Europe NATO would attack Russia, as European NATO members would
not allow it.

That is except if Russia expects to be in a war against NATO in the not to long future.
(Not necessary start the war though).

This behaviour could also fit into this argument, i.e. losing a lot by being trying not to lose the important parts to much.

Through it could also be:

- Political games including high Generals of the Russian Air Force rejecting getting fully involved in the war.

- Putin being paranoid and believing that if they send major Air Force troops to Ukrain then some 3rd party will use this to invade Russia/destroy major parts of Russians Air Force.

- Putin hoping to get an excuse to wage war against NATO and therefore is holding back the Air Force to launch a attack against other forces.

- Russia being in a much worse economical state then believed, not affording to fly the full Air Force.

- Something having subtle damaged huge parts of their Air Force (and is kept secret). Like e.g. there being a problem with some of the materials used to build them, or with their guidance system, or similar.

- Russia is falling apart (on a high command level) Putin has lost most power, including command over the Air Force, this is a last desperate attempt to regain power.

EDIT: Maybe this post is a bit too much taping into conspiracy theory territory.
That's what "net" means, yes.
Why beat on Rudy for karma? I think your beef here is with every religion of the East.
Related from recently: Backstory of Bluesky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521401
Swedish Armed Forces says Russian fighter jets violated Swedish airspace
He bought it in 2003 for 140 million pounds. The team is valued between 3 and 4 billion now.
Startups are valued for their exponential growth.

Is FC going to double next year? And the year after?
The argument appears to be that browsers give you a lot of things for free that SPAs need to recreate.

But that's not true in practice. In practice most SPAs are created on top of a handful of extremely well tested libraries/frameworks that do all the work for you that the browser would do in an MPA.

That's not really a good reason that SPAs are a mistake.
Americans’ Satisfaction with Their Personal Lives and the Direction of the U.S.
I agree, that's the only thing they know how to do efficiently:

> If Russia doesn't go for the full brutal police state approach

Ukrainians are used to living in a democracy though, so it may not be easy/possible.

> bring in a lot Russian citizens to live in those cities and begin a full, forced transformation, while you violently try to strip away Ukrainian culture

That's what they did back in the 1930s in East Ukraine. They had to starve out/relocate the locals to make room for the "colonists". But doing this in the 21st century? I shudder to think how this would go down. And if they don't do this, anyone who comes over to settle will be met with extreme hostility.

I believe Putin lives in the past when it comes to understanding Ukraine and Ukrainians. It looks like he might actually believe (have believed?) his own propaganda.
I can see an argument that we don't want to become a nation of hermits. Plus wfh has an outsized impact on those that have kids, don't have a lot of space, etc etc, ie the poor. There is very little national interest I think in encouraging wfh (a counterargument would be the environmental impact of commuting). Plus as you say, the economic arguments.
Ahh, I love this article. I'm among those that dislike all my photos with small objects that don't look as I see them. I guess building photo optics that do not use linear perspective is out of the question. I haven't got time to read all the papers they are referencing (currently searching for a new computer vision job, and there is so much in that area that I can't really read everything), but I wonder how many techniques to computationally change the perspective of the image depend on LIDAR depth information, how many on guessing depth via some other means (e.g. neural networks), and how many on neither?
On average it's not that much different, but the distributions (in both cases) are not normal.
Are Blockchains Databases?
> ... Grozny...

The Russian Army didn't initially flatten Grozny with artillery either. It was only after a failed assault that they switched to methodical urban destruction.

Which is why racheting up sanctions and worse ASAP is important...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994%E2%80...
I do not know whether the Java GUIs that I encounter from time to time are made with Swing or with other frameworks.

What I know is that since the beginning of Java and until now, on every occasion when I use for the first time some program and I am surprised that its GUI is ugly, slow and impossible to customize, then, without exception, I always discover that the GUI is written in Java.

Since around 8 years I use only 4k monitors. While on Windows I have encountered some programs which had problems on high-resolution screens, on Linux I never had any problems, except with all professional programs written in Java, which, unlike the native GUI applications, do not honor any system configurations and they do not seem aware of which is the monitor dpi, to adjust their GUI. Moreover, for some reason the programmers who write such Java programs are almost always morons who do not provide any means for changing the fonts which are used by the GUI.

Just a few months ago, I have still encountered some expensive professional programs, which used a Java GUI installer. The Java GUI installer crashed on any computer which used monitors with 10-bit color components. When investigating the problem the conclusion was that it is a well-known Java bug that had not been solved for some years and which causes such Java GUI installers to work only on low-quality monitors with 8-bit color components.

So much for the supposed benefit of Java being able to run anywhere.
I'm going to guess that working from home has some economic impact over certain industries and services.
> The Russian Buks also seem to be having a bad time against the Bayraktars.

Why? Small radar signature?
> That said, we’re roughly circling around the year 2005, which, arguably was a turning point for Java on the desktop. Before 2005, there are lots of questions and answers in online forums about Java desktop technologies like Swing, Cocoa bridge, etc…. After 2005, there really isn’t much. What happened in the years leading up to 2005, or perhaps in 2005 specifically that caused this blackout? Where did all of the Java desktop developers go? Likely many of them moved to the server-side, and the ones who stayed on the client likely shifted their attention to the web, or to native development.

Could it be the release of Gmail (2004) and Google Maps (2005) showing that you could actually make really great apps written in HTML and JavaScript? For me, these two webapps were turning points in how the web was looked at. As I remember it, things didn't really take off until frameworks like AngularJS were released around 2010.
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-state-news-published...

> A Russian state-run news agency prematurely published an article that said Russia has taken back Ukraine.

> "Ukraine has returned to Russia," said the article, which ran on RIA Novosti and has since been taken down. "The West sees the return of Russia to its historical borders in Europe."
It is no more illegal than waging an unprovoked war on a smaller neighboring country. So, fair play.
It's okay because despite JSX being a DSL you don't have to use it even though everyone does?

Your line of thought is a large part of why I prefer ClojureScript to Javascript for SPAs. With reagent your components just work like the language, with nothing particularly special to remember.
You only need to read/listen to German news, to know that there can't have been a "grand conspiracy" of Europeans to not show enough resolve. It is very clear that many (on both sides of the political spectrum, but particularly on the left) did not believe Putin would attack, they considered this the usual sabre-rattling and were completely shocked when he attacked.

Also, the risk of deploying secret weapons into a state with significant corruption would have been much too high.
Did Bandcamp offer employee equity?
I think you are making a mistake trying to assess what "country X 'wants'".

It only takes one person to decide to launch a missile. And very few to execute on that decision.

And what an individual, or a country, wants can change.

Just because nobody had any desire to attack Ukraine with nuclear weapons at the outset, it does not mean that they will not decide to later.

Consider the fact that Putin likely thought he could get away with annexing Ukraine with little international backlash, just like the last half-dozen times he's invaded and annexed parts of other countries.

Now he is the sole leader of a country that is being completely cut off from the global economy, and made a pariah in the entire western world. The national currency, and nearly all international relations are nearly shattered.

The situation is very different than it was, and things are likely starting to look desperate.

I don't expect a large-scale use of nuclear weapons, but I would absolutely not write off the possibility of their use altogether.
ngl I am also curious about meta-dynamic information and I do not think this response helped me understand the definition much.

Do you mean the rules for Collatz are the meta-dynamic information? because from the rules we can generate additional information dynamically?

Are you able to describe it a different, less mathematical, way maybe?

for example, can meta-dynamic information be observed by seeing the way someone jumps up and down?
I think you might be onto something. MS' C#, which is a near 1:1 copy of Java and what it aims to accomplish, has never suffered the same issues as Java's JRE. You have to wonder if that's because MS gets away with baking CLR updates quietly into Windows whereas JRE updates are more difficult to deploy.
"The foundational tenet of the Zero Trust Model is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted"

It's about time. That's how airliners are designed. The guiding principle is "no single failure will bring the airplane down."

What it is not is "guarantee critical components will not fail".

The airline design principle is applicable to all kinds of things, like electrical grid design, security design, nuclear plant design, oil drilling platform design, ship design, and on and on. But I see it rarely applied, which is frustrating.
Ok, you make a good point.
Well, the browser has certainly evolved past the point of SPAs being nothing but a hack. The browser has evolved into a heavily generalized application environment, as much as we may want to bemoan that. A good web client can surely demonstrate this.

It's certainly true that you don't get to lean on built-in features like history support, but that's why you can now drive history with Javascript. And all sorts of other things. And if you're smart, you're using a solution that handles these things for you.

Rich client development is always hard—on any platform—, and you always make concessions for the platform you're on. I certainly have to when I'm building iOS apps. But I see no reason for this to dissuade you if you can push a better UX to the user.

As tried-and-true as server-rendered architecture might be, there are all sorts of things it will never be able to do no matter how much of a hack you think web client development might be. Software is a hack. And at the end of the day, your users may remain unconvinced when you preach about what the browser was "meant to do" when they begin coveting a richer experience.

That's something that's often left by the wayside when we discuss these things. We talk about technical superiority and become prescriptive about what we think technology is for. While fun thought exercises as craftspeople, we too seldom talk about delivering value. If leaning into the historical nature of the browser supporting HTML pages over the wire helps you build a better experience, that's great. But that's not the only option you have today.
I nearly agree, but have to give top honors to OC & Stiggs, also from the Nat'l Lampoon.
This part is evocative of AI for me:

> will imitate in their movements all that which humanity has thought of with their shadowlike intellect that was not inspired by a new imagination
If he's lucky.

If he's unlucky, it's nerve poison.
It would be nice as an all in one installer, if you have an app you need to run on windows mac and linux in your enterprise, you could have one task in your ansible playbook, or whatever you use. without having to make sure you copy the correct one.

Unfortunately it would also would be really good for viruses.
Here's my fear, which I really really hope someone can allay.

I just don't see an "off ramp" for Putin right now. The cost he's incurred is HUGE and there's really no way out of this for him.

He's already threatened a nuclear response to any country that opposes his attempt, in so many words. I'm afraid he will take advantage of one of his new hyper-glide entry nukes. My fear is not that he will launch ALL nukes, just one, to make a point, and to avoid the consequences of MAD (since target of this attack, also fearing MAD, would not want to respond in kind. They would prefer to keep the losses at one city and avoid MAD).

So that's my fear. One strike, to a major city, with a first-of-its kind hyper glide entry vehicle to which no country has a deterrent.

The rationale (if you can call it that) is that no country would want to continue with sanctions against Russia after that point, for fear of the same happening to them.

Disclaimer, I live in the heart of Seattle, so I must admit this has been keeping me up at night.
Because keeping city delis running > climate change wins due to reduced commuting. Clouds don’t vote.
The World Economic Forum removed their page for Vladimir Putin on Feb 28
Given almost literally all of recorded corporate history in the United States, the onus is very much on the other side to continually demonstrate a lack of influence/bias.

Edited to add: I find the blind faith people place in billionaire CEOs insane. Maybe save the empathy for people who need it and treat the obscenely wealthy with healthy skepticism?
This is still important, e.g. the Navy teaches celestial navigation in case GPS is disrupted.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3865/this-is-likely-wh...
The two man rule just protects against a single member of the launch crew launching a nuke. At least in the US, the commander in chief can choose to launch a nuke unilaterally

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/heres-goes-presidents-deci...
"Liberation mission" is Vladimir's preferred newspeak.
True. The Navy has spent more resources on perfecting SAMs than the Army or Air Force have. Standard Missile and Aegis are a very potent combination. So much so that they adapted it to ground based setups with "Aegis Ashore" which is literally the system taken straight off an Arleigh Burke class destroyer and installed as a ground based missile defense system.
Maybe, and I'm guessing, he is like many Russians and hoping for an overhaul of their Putin-and-cronies government.
Thanks Ivan I've thoroughly enjoyed the previous version.
You might not be using it "as a generic slur for billionaire" but lots of other people are.

Further, according to many people, every rich person is a "beneficiary in a kleptocratic system".
>Did they really launch this invasion on the assumption that the people of Ukraine would just roll over and accept foreign rule?

Iirc Ukraine had a government that was subordinate to Russia as recently as 2014. Belarus is still a Russian puppet. The Transnistria region of Moldova to Ukraine's south is largely welcoming of Russian military control.

Doesn't seem too outlandish for them to assume that to me.
I hope they keep Bandcamp Fridays!
I think the area they lack experience is closed air support. Ground troops can't direct air support on enemy targets consistently and accurately. Not that many countries can do that effectively.
It could, but probably not now. Inflation around the world has just started, and all currencies hyperi flate at some point. I expect relations between US and China/Russia to just get worse 5 years from now :(
Nothing good can come of this. :(
Yes, this is the attitude I'm criticizing.
I agree, but does that describe the a/c units that folks are equipped with today? There's a big difference between "this problem can be solved" and "this problem has been solved."

Side note, I would love it if more a/c merely dried the air. I hate going into office buildings that are set 20C below the outdoor temperature.
A Russian "oligach" who like all Putin oligachs, is a way for Putin to launder money, is in reality also a way for Putin to corrupt and influence via soft power. This Putin money launderer, purchased a London Football Club as a way to project soft russian power to corrupt London's political and business elite.

He's now being effectively forced to sell it.
Thank you for your comment :)
FWIW; I use the Jetbrains suite every day and I don't have a problem with it at all. Compared to, say, VS Code, I think it is pretty snappy stuff.
Does anyone else get two security warnings whenever you try to save an MHTML page using a Chrome extension? I have to click on one warning's button to confirm that I indeed want to save the "dangerous" file and another to confirm I'm really sure. It's gotten very annoying. I've looked all over for an option to disable this behavior but haven't been able to.
This art style screams Paper by FiftyThree
Stuff like this always makes me think of the Mr. Show sketch "Coupon, The Movie". "The FBI calls it warm... and mandatory!"