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> Another is that a surprisingly (to me) amount of people who do these talks do it just for content creation purposes.

Well, creating even a mediocre talk takes a LOT of effort. As a speaker, what do I get out of it? Presenting at anything "open source" almost certainly means I'm not getting paid for it. And, unless I can give a talk at least twice, I can't amortize the cost of it.

My two biggest problems in giving a tech talk are:

1) The audience is all over the map

If you give a talk about doing something in USB on Linux, some of the audience won't know what USB stands for. Some of the audience probably write driver code. This is a VERY difficult audience to communicate to.

2) Covering something meaty but not taking 3 hours.

Choosing USB on Linux again. To not take 3 hours, I have to dispense with the USB basics and launch directly into the specifics on Linux. Even that probably means that I'm talking about character devices on /dev that a lot of people have never dealt with. And after that, I can get down to talking about the cool thing that I actually wanted to talk about.
Anyone else ever wanted multiple cursors and multiple mice on one computer? Sometimes I'd rather move my hand to a different mouse than drag the cursor across all that screen real estate. Also the different pointers would stay put when not in use.
There is an addon available for Firefox on Android that stops the video from stopping, too, which makes this even easier.
Thanks for posting this

I was strongly considering Seattle, but it looks like LA 2.0

Out of control homelessness, lax criminal enforcement, sky rocking rents.

Everyone is liberal until you step in human waste. It appears in Red States they don’t play these games.

Even in California, Orange County won’t just let you put up a tent
Everyone should call for peace, but the critical question remains of under what terms.
I wouldn't consider myself a "senior" engineer (what are the criteria?), but I'm going back to school after working for a few years. I am interested in finding a part-time job during my studies, but for the moment companies don't seem quite interested. I understand people in my situation are not a majority, but it would be great if more companies offered part-time work for already experienced programmers.
Only the XPS 13 from te XPS range is "Linux compatible". The rest are a crapshoot.

I had a little look at the Precision 7760. With Ubuntu there's only 1 version available in the UK and it's a beast with 64GB RAM and 4TB SSD. It cost £6,091.39[1].

Looking at Apple for a rough equivalent[2] I spec'd a 16" up with 64GB and 4TB and it's £4,599.00

I'm an XPS 13 Dev Ed owner myself. It's OK for the most part, I don't have many problems with it.

I'm not in the market for a 16"/17" laptop right now but when it's time to replace this it's going to be hard to look past what Apple are offering.

1. https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptop-computers-2-in-1...

2. https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-sp...
I think Ivermectin was part of the CDC’s COVID prevention or when you have light levels of Covid lists back in 2020 and early 2021. I remember seeing it from progressive people sharing stuff before it became the term and meme it became today. That makes it a really interesting point too, but it makes all sides look bad.

OTOH, you’re right Steve Jobs and what he did...yikes. That sort of thinking is harmful for society.

Yes GOOP is disgusting. So disgusting.

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> interest from senior engineers who want to work part time

This is definitely of interest. In my experience, companies generally derive significant "senior engineer" value for a handful of things but then their time winds up being consumed by a lot of other "this could have been an email/automation tool/non-senior" tasks. If you are in a position to allow a senior engineer to focus on their significant value adds to the company and the work benefits more from parallelism than what could be had from a single senior engineer (i.e. different lines of work with major context overhead) then you could probably derive more value per senior engineer via part-time work.

A side-benefit that is often not considered is that senior engineers in such a situation may choose to work multiple jobs. Assuming there are no conflicts of interest, chances are this is a net benefit for all. The engineer gets to diversity their start-up equity exposure. Their learnings from any one company can cross-pollinate to others. They can enjoy working on a wide range of problems rather than burning out against one. In this case you may get the value of far more experience than you'd get if they were siloed in one company, not dissimilar from the value that derives from other silo breaking endeavors elsewhere in the field.

> join a team and essentially be a guru or advisor to the team

Honestly, it sounds like you already know what you need: an engineer whose value is technical experience. You may already have enough junior engineers that can get "work" done but what you need is someone who understands the domain, the problem, the desired solution, and can efficiently direct that "work" towards a product while upleveling juniors along the way. Chances are you can hire explicitly for that in part-time and you'd get non-trivial interest.
+1

Change their flag to the Ukrainian one (or the UN or whatever else) if they want to show they're on the side of humanity.
It doesn't work. That's the point.
Stats widget hacked in attempt to breach Russian government agency websites
That’s what I do with everything possible. Tech becomes quite cheap, and if something breaks (which it does less often than with new stuff), there is no getting upset when the company refuses to honor the warranty, because there is no warranty. Just buy another one.
The article reminds me a bit of Jerry Pournelle's _Chaos Manor_ columns. The author writes glowing reviews of the free hardware thrown at them, while the actual experience they describe seems somewhat dubious for users who can't expect free hardware and personal phone support.

If I understand the article correctly, their recommended "Linux Developer Laptop" is permanently stuck on a fairly old version of Linux, and you better not compile much if you want to get decent battery life. Neither of this strikes me as ideal for Linux developers, but what do I know…
I see nothing wrong with restricting the rights of Russian citizens in foreign countries.

Their government is invading a neighbor and causing the death of thousands of people. Due to the presence of nuclear weapons, NATO forces can not directly engage with Russia militarily so the only solution is for Russians to deal with the problem themselves
Yep. It was completely clear. I just wasn't thinking clearly.
If you're willing to accept lower pay, then come to The Netherlands. IMO it's quite normal over there.
I do the much cheaper version of this and collect high quality 4k rips of movies and amass private tracker accounts.

A normal length movie is about 80-100GB.

I like the process of making groups in Plex too!
I like me some bash scripting. And I do a lot of it. And I write a good amount of Go.

I read the intent of the original package as a bit different than how it’s presented here; a pain point in using go for systems programming on Posix systems with GNU tooling is interacting with all the other really excellent tools there. There’s an awful lot of cruft to go spawn a shell script in Go without this lib.

So, I cannot imagine using this to replace a short-ish bash script, it’s just too heavyweight to add go development into the workflow. But, I can easily imagine using this when I want to do some simple-to-medium-scale pipelined text processing from the middle of a go program.
Hydrogen has some serious disadvantages for vehicles: it's very difficult to store and it is much more flammable, meaning refueling is much more hazardous. The only potential advantage to it would be if we could mine it, but since we don't live on Jupiter, we can't; we have to make it, and it costs more energy to make it than you get back out of it when you burn it.
A $4B Hedge Fund Is Shorting Tether's Stablecoin
Funny you mention the delivery thing. When I was in the store, I checked the website for a couple of tables. According to the site neither were deliverable to me (in a major city, FWIW).

So I went up to a couple salespeople and asked why. They couldn't say why, just that they did have it in stock at this warehouse and they themselves could ship it for X fee.

I don't really get it. They said maybe they were out of stock at the factory or online order fulfillment center. But the pages said they were available.
And yet there's an ongoing effort to optimize the kernel compile time by rearranging all of the headers. On a modern machine with plenty of cores a kernel build is pretty quick, but they're talking about slicing 20% or more off the top.

It's always slower than we'd like.
I don't think it's silly. I looked into this kind of thing once, and as I recall, it's super illegal.
The more northern dialects are infected with certain negation-related illogicalities too. Consider this New York Times headline:

“All Options Are Not on the Table as Biden Moves Troops Closer to Ukraine”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/us/politics/biden-ukraine...

which should have been “Not All Options Are on the Table”, since the intended interpretation is

¬∀ option, on(option, table)

rather than the very different

∀ option, ¬on(option, table).
We must not use the same internet. Agree is always one click for me, and there is generally no disagree button, but a "manage your privacy settings" button, that opens the biggest popups ever, slow as hell, when then even work,with thousand of button to click.
I like to agree because it's a simple razor that I can live my life by. I like simple. But the minute I endorse it all the shit countries I had lived in pop into my mind. People that have had no say in the horrors their leaders inflicted on the world. Countries rarely make decisions that are great for people living outside them, hell even at best of times they don't make great decisions for people who hold a passport.

I think that the anger that we all feel is incredibly valuable but only if we aim it at the right direction. Russia is a Kleptocracy governed by oligarchs who we in the West are happy to accommodate. How come Abramovich had a week to get his affairs in order and now sails in his yacht "Eclipse" around Gibraltar[1] when he should be sitting in a cell next to Assange. The real criminals are our dear leaders who prop up dark money and their oligarchs. I don't buy for a minute that any of my hate should be spent on civilians who are just like our racist uncle cheering for Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, or any of the other chuckle-ducks that have been hijacking our attention. This is their playbook, don't play their game, play yours.

[1] https://twitter.com/alexzfinley/status/1502304897139716102
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I think Ivermectin was part of the CDC’s COVID prevention or when you have light levels of Covid lists back in 2020 and early 2021. I remember seeing it from progressive people sharing stuff before it became the term and meme it became today. That makes it a really interesting point too, but it makes all sides look bad.

OTOH, you’re right Steve Jobs and what he did...yikes. That sort of thinking is harmful for society.

Yes GOOP is disgusting. So disgusting.

None of this is close to laws being passed for serious misinformation sort of stuff like your original post said. GOOP is bullshit and like so much others. It just happens to be peddled by some famous people. Since the ivermectin thing is more complicated, it doesn’t work.

America having its massive problem with opoids and how much it got prescribed shows how difficult the situation is. Or how anti steroids America and the world is. It seems too nuanced and difficult to decipher. Or to say one way is correct.

Overall in spirit and likely general vibes. I believe we are overall closer to the same thinking than not.
There is a very very very very dumb heuristic that people rely upon for political reasoning. I use 4 verys becaues I don't think 3 is sufficient. There is no such thing as the baddies. Yes, if two people disagree, at least one of them is wrong, but that is a lower bound, one which is rarely met in practice.
+1 Thanks for the additional context.
YouTube blocks global access to Russian state-funded media channels
It appears Dev and other such productivity users are a byproduct sales category for most display manufacturers. Gamers don't want 4K+ because their GPUs can only handle 1440 at ultra pro max quality, and TV customers are not interested in smaller displays because, you know, what she said.

Looks like we'll have to wait till GPUs can do 4K@120 to enjoy good monitors :)
My point was that there have been noticeable improvements in computing power. I wouldn't recommend this particular model, but it's likely that an equivalent ThinkPad would be an all round much better experience and have the same performance, or maybe even better.

This particular new laptop is a "business" series, so it tries to look fancy, but it's just cheap crap sold at a high markup. I have older models at work, and they have all failed in various ways. They're barely moved outside the office, too, so it's not like I beat on them all day every day. It's a line I would never recommend to anyone under any circumstance, be it new or old. But it is fast.

My general opinion, though, is that instead of buying cheap models often, it's usually much better to buy nicer, "higher-end" models less often, at least as far as perception is concerned, especially if you don't have anything (new) to compare it to. This can afford better "peripherals", such as a screen, keyboard, silence, etc., which cheaper models tend to never have.
Not to remain silent, interfering, etc, does not equate taking one of the two sides.

Those are not staying silent who do what little they can to prevent orchestrated escalation of this conflict.
This what I'm talking about. You assume this is binary situation you're either with "us" (=US and the western bloc) or them (=Russia and it's allies). But for me and many people who developed immunity to the propaganda from most sources it's not. Simple!
Anyway I will understand if an ukrainian diagreed with me or even hated me and will respect their position, but I won't if it was from another person who used to not care for their (democratically elected!) goverment wars in the "middle east" or South America or Africa unless it affected their life style.
Perhaps become a freelancer? Getting clients in the beginning might be tough but other than that, it's easier to get a 3x8 gig.
> From an engineering perspective, it is very convenient (and reliable) to have everything in the car just sit on a communication bus and write software to do the logic, rather than have dedicated wires or mechanical connections.

I would say that some repairs are _easier_ now. The computer can tell you about many issues it knows about. You can see if a cylinder is misfiring. Or if the O2 sensor is bad. Etc. Just have to plug in a reader. It would be great to have some standardization and open documentation on this. But it beats dismantling stuff and trying to figure out by trial or error (or by listening to sounds)
I misplaced the key/fob to 2018 Toyota Rav4 hybrid and it can only be replaced at the dealership .. for $850 CAD.

It's an especially cruel form of vendor lock-in and has caused me to reevaluate the selection criteria for the next vehicle I purchase.

I want the simplest EV possible.
And Tolstoy inspired Gandhi - shall we posthumously cancel him too?
Back then when Soviet Union troops were in Afghanistan, I believe, that western propaganda used the same words: independent spirit, culture, freedom, civilian casualties.

However, when USA troops came to Afghanistan... Of course american troops were fighting terrorists. They did no harm to civilians, they came to spread freedom, boost independent spirit, and significantly contributed to Afghan culture.
Yep - LBMP for NYISO is the local based marginal price in $/MWh;

https://www.nyiso.com/documents/20142/3625950/mpug.pdf/
>I find, only pointfree notation has some beauty to it that makes reading code sweet again.

I haven't written FORTH code in ages, but I still enjoy reading well written FORTH code for its pure literary pleasure!

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware/blob/master/for...
I wouldn't be surprised if Lukaschenko would instead attack Russia in exchange for a complete lift of western sanctions. He simply is that kind of a guy who stabs you into the back at the first possible occasion. There is a reason that he managed to stay in power for even longer than Putin.
You may consider that a feature, but most people don't. As someone who has had to issue a chargeback in the past, I'm not about to give it up in exchange for solving a hypothetical problem that does not affect me. Chargebacks are not "censorship".
That's an absolutely absurd conclusion to reach here. Yes a university banning Dostoyevsky is stupid, but Russia has attacked a free independent country and is bombing hospitals and maternity wards. Everything and anything to do with Russia should be currently banned if you have even a sliver of a moral compass. That's not cancel culture, that's having two eyes and a few braincells to go with them.
Wow, thanks for posting this - a System76 is on my shortlist, but it's coming straight off now; I had no idea I'd have to ship it across the Atlantic if there was a problem!!!
I must be using the tool wrong because literally everywhere in the US is my Goldilocks zone which I'm certain is not the case. I set it to give me places where the minimum winter temperature is -5°C (23F) and max summer temperature is 35°C (95F) and every part of the map is coloured purple.
U.S. clears way for driverless vehicles without steering wheels
I've found programming language differences less and less interesting the longer I do this. They all do the same thing. Everything's pointers and stacks, usually not that far beneath the surface. Some are more or less ergonomic, but nothing (that sees any widespread use, anyway) is really very different. Just another set of quirks and (probably bad) tools to learn. Library availability & quality matters more to me than what the language looks like.
I have a Precision 3561 running Ubuntu and it's pretty great if you ask me.
Nazism: Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed.

—-
Where is the antisemitism, anti-communism, or eugenics - i don't see any of that which are CORE to nazism?

Im sorry this situation is terrible in Ukraine but it is not genocide or nazism.
And this my friends is why I live in San Diego! I really do think tech will take off in this area soon. Its (relatively for CA) on the cheaper side for housing and great for remote work.
It’s LA, without the sunshine, and the sprawl is confined by geography: Seattle is smack dab between two big bodies of water.
It has nothing to do with where in the sentence the deletion is. It has to do with what is deleted.

“I like spicy food but my girlfriend doesn’t [like spicy food].”

This is correct deletion, at the end.

“I like spicy food but my girlfriend isn’t.”

This is what the illiterates who made the website are doing. It’s not conversational deletion, it’s just wrong.

EDIT: Also, and more to the point, “conversational deletion”, as defined in the link you provided, is the deletion of the subject of the sentence. This is not what is happening here, as I pointed out. Again, nothing to do with whether the deletion is at the beginning or the end.
> I'm sorry you feel that way. He is certainly as relevant as Camus, Proust, Kafka, Hemingway, Beckett, Sartre, Solzhenitsyn, and many others.

I think the point is that the author has nothing to do with the re-emergence of the Soviet regime, and banning him because "Russia" ignores two centuries of history.
I agree with your sentiment here that gambling on stocks is bad.

Our goal is to provide education and analysis tools, since we believe investing is not gambling. Even though, many people today treat it like it is. We don't make money/aren't incentivized on our users making/executing trades (unlike a lot of other services today).

I understand that our product isn't going to interest everyone, there's nothing wrong with only investing in index funds. That being said, a lot of people take 5-15% of their money and put it into riskier investments. Also, a lot of newer investors are investing in causes/things they believe in as a social/environmental cause. By being supplied with investing education and tooling that most people are deprived of/never shown, we hope that we can remove the word "gamble" from long term investing
What does unfair even mean here? You can tell where the motorcyclist's helmet is facing, and the wearer of it can still look at the eyes of a driver.

Are sunglasses on a car driver unfair too?
Luckily not all crusts are as dangerous but I would be lying if I said I was never hurt by a Baguette.
is there enough difference in price to actually turn a profit doing that?
Yes, we should hold American citizens responsible for invading Iraq.
It's a sad state of affairs when India/Pakistan conflicts are considered relatively less likely to cause a nuclear war
> With carbon-neutral the amount of biosphere C stays constant, with carbon zero is may potentially go back down as natural or artificial carbon capture processes happen

The net effect is the same. A country running on biofuels and a country running on solar will have the same net production irrespective of carbon capture. One emits and absorbs while the other never emits.
Apologies if this is an incredibly naive question: How aware are people in China of what has been censored from them? I've heard of 'tank man' as a common example of this. Students studying/traveling abroad from China encounter the imagery and western take on events and have just never heard of it before.
The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016)
I've been using a Lenovo Carbon X1 4th Gen with Ubuntu installed for the last 5+ years and love it. My next laptop will almost certainly be another X1 Carbon.
I filtered business laptops by using Linux checkbox and got only 3 results.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebo...
There are a good few pumped storage sites in the world, here's the one most convenient for me to visit (now that COVID-19 precautions have eased) in Scotland:

https://www.visitcruachan.co.uk/

It isn't practical to build mountains, so you need to find some natural mountains you don't mind cutting a big hole into, with a pre-existing lake at the top, at the bottom, or ideally both, and then spend a lot of money building the storage system, plus hook it up to the grid.

The US does have lots of spare mountains, but they aren't exactly in the middle of cities where it would be convenient, so the infrastructure cost is very large.

In the UK one rationale for these sites is that they have Black Start capability. In the event of a complete network failure, there is no grid power, most power stations can't be started from this situation, they need the grid first. At suitably equipped pumped storage sites a relatively modest amount of local electrical power (e.g. from a portable diesel generator) is enough to get the site running with no outside help, whereupon it can produce, for a few hours, a great deal of electrical power for the grid, and other generators on the grid can use that power to start themselves up safely. By the time the reservoir is empty, lots of other generators are back online. Black Start justified paying them money to exist even back when they weren't regularly used. Today cheap wind power means pumped storage is economic anyway, fill it up at night with cheap power (sometimes at negative cost) and then generate electricity in the early evening peak with all that water.