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It's late at night so apologies if this seems incoherent. I recently applied to college and I got into a university that is pretty good. I'm pretty happy with where I am and I consider myself fortunate in every regard to be going to college.

That being said, I have some reservations about the college admissions process and I think this Twitter thread addresses it well. In particular, I think there is an ongoing trend to eliminate standardized tests in favor of more "subjective" and "holistic" measurements like your essays and extracurriculars. While I think it's perfectly fine to have students write about themselves and their achievements, I think it's still way too integral to the admissions process and there needs to be more balance. Personally, when I wrote my essays, even though I was trying to be authentic and I did write about experiences that were meaningful to me, I always felt as if it wasn't enough. I just kept wondering, "what are they looking for?" And I couldn't really get a good grasp of whether what I was writing was "good" or not. To me, the essays completely obscure the nature of the admissions process because no college can clearly tell you what they want. Hell, even some admissions officers seem to dodge the question when you ask them what they look for in an essay (or they provide really vague answers). I think it's silly to make the essays so critical to the process when they clearly don't allow anyone to extrapolate concrete things about a person's abilities or skills. Many smart people I know were rejected from universities that I think they should have gotten into even though they easily would fit in and thrive in those places.

By the end of the college admissions process, even though I was happy with the college I got into, I honestly felt a little jaded. Sure, I'm happy that I got in, but I feel as if I couldn't properly communicate my skills to the admissions officers. It just makes me feel as if your skills matter less than your ability to impress people. Maybe it was naïve of me to think that it would be different in an academic institution compared to the corporate world, but it is a little disheartening in the end.

I know a lot of people will disagree with this, but this post resonated with me and I felt that I needed to share my thoughts.
I've been running Linux ever since Windows 11 was announced, even though I was relatively happy with W10 + WSL. I had tried it quite a few times over the years but had never stuck with it until now, because it all just works... All my games have worked mostly flawlessly. I'm a developer, so all my tools were already available. I'm in love with KDE's design and customizability and relatively happy with its performance. The AUR is a godsend.

I actually have to use office quite a bit and settled on freeoffice (which is freeware and not open source). It works perfectly for my needs. The Teams client is crap but I've always dodged it.

Evolution suits my needs (O365 connectivity + a host of other personal email accounts). We still need a better Linux email client, I'm seriously considering it making it my lifetime hobby project (I'm imagining a server + client implementation to make it easier to decouple the UI as I'd really like both a TUI and GUI).

The only thing for which I spin up a VM every now and then is for graphics editing (I use the affinity suite which is amazing for its price but just doesn't work with Wine).

Really the only people who can't use reliably use Linux are those who use proprietary apps that don't work on Wine (which there aren't that many) and designers. If you're a power user I'd definitely recommend you give a spin. You might like what you find.
I think you're viewing leftism too much through a proponent's lens. To understand this critique, zoom out a bit and place these tendencies and philosophies on a spectrum. Don't pick a side.

> A common misconception I hear about leftism is that it is against treating people as individuals; this is not true, but at the same time denying that black people are oppressed in the US because they have individual identity is a non sequitur at best

I'm not sure where you got the "denying" bit from. Again I think you're viewing this as a fight _against_ leftism when that's not what I'm going for. There are plenty of philosophies that decidedly accept the issue of historical discrimination _without_ buying into intersectionality. A good example of this is affirmative action or the Indian concept of Scheduled Classes. Both of these measures came from understanding historic discrimination without thinking about intersectionality at all. Leftism doesn't have a monopoly on the ideas of anti-discrimination.

> The leftist ideal is actually that all people are free to pursue their passions and creativity, which is not something an innately collectivist ideology (like fascism for example) would promote.

Do you have a source for this? This ideal is older than Marx, Rousseau's Social Contract first posits this idea I think.

> I do think that a classless society is extreme compared to our current system, I wasn't denying that - but that doesn't mean that leftists area engaging in "extreme overgeneralising"; I still have no idea what that was supposed to mean.

Again I think you're too wrapped up in defending leftism. If you're having a hard time seeing your views as extreme then, I like to point to a thought exercise. An extreme position is one where there's very little more ideologically extreme than it. So in your case, what's _more_ Left than the classless society you're positing? If there's nothing more extreme than your position, then you're probably at the extreme edge of it.
> "technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children anywhere near them"

Exactly. Is there any actual data showing software engineers and the like are less likely to have phones or tablets for their kids?

My guess is that it's the opposite, but that would undermine the author's point.
> Things can go wrong at [..] the memory etc

The memory isn't on die. It's just regular lpddr5 but on package. So that's not a yield concern.
The latest LTSC actually doesn't have as much stripped out anymore. Telemetry choices are the same now and also MS accounts are there. I was really disappointed when I tried it.
A update is needed as most are on 20.04
The problem with Craigslist and the like is that if you list something you can expect that the overwhelming majority of buyers are going to negotiate in bad faith. It isn't worth your time to engage and sort through all of it, so it makes more sense to just list stuff at a low but firm price and decline or ignore all the lowball offers.
That's not going to work at all. Russia would look weak asking, the West wouldn't be that stupid, and Russia has easier ways to do damage if they really want to start playing with nukes.
I guess I'm the second magical user.
> one that sounds absurd, by the way

It sounds absurd to you, but isn't that your own ignorance? You weren't there; they were. I've heard many tell similar stories. Again, look in the NY Times from a few years ago; elite colleges not only accept it, but have tried to mitigate it.

> one that actually sounds realistic

Isn't this just saying that it agrees with what you already believe?
I mean in their defense I see almost nobody doing this right... Like to do full SI you really need 7 rational numbers, maybe a sort of inline “NaN” equivalent for when you add things with incommensurate units... you might also want display hints for preferred SI prefixes (might just be a dedicated format type), and while you're at it you might as well use a Decimal type instead of doubles, oh and probably these numbers should have an uncertainty in them, so probably you want a modular system where you can mixin units or mixin uncertainty and you can start from a base of doubles or decimals or, hell, you start experimenting with continued fractions...Sigh. The real world is complicated.

Every implementation of units is secretly trying to be Moment.js, basically.
Also with package managers like Nix you can install older versions of a program along with that program's corresponding dependencies at the corresponding version and so on. It's not baked-in to unix but things like this are made easier on unix and I think that's where the sauce is.
It was per plane, like $80-$200?
It doesn’t matter if you are a startup company, large enterprise, or a malware gang - if your source code has been private from any reason and then leaked, there are businesses implications to it.
In this case, a Ukrainian hacker stole the code from a well-known Russian malware gang. It means that their “secret sauce” is exposed and can be used to prevent attacks from them. I wonder if they measure the potential impact to recurring revenue…
Yeah. 6 figures would put me back on ramen.
Holy crap! I had no idea, my eyes are open.

I've always assumed prices at retail shops are fixed, because, for the brief (and horrible) period of time _I_ worked retail, prices are set by corporate...

Any suggestions? Advice? Links? Primers?

I've negotiated my whole life for salary and consulting rate, but never negotiated anything else.

Additionally, for anyone reading this that doesn't know it, you CAN negotiate AirBNB rates, and often do it in a way where you AND the host are happier. I didn't know this until being with someone who runs several top-tier AirBNB houses.

Some AirBNB hosts would be happier letting you stay for a few days "officially" (to make sure you're not crazy or a jerk), and then extend the reservation in cash. Or book the reservation for a long duration, then shorten it once you check in.

It varies from location to location but we sometimes offered guests a 15% off discount if paid in cash, frequently it worked out that we got the same amount.
100%. This is a baseline requirement where I work. If you don't either include the units in the identifier name, or use the type system where possible, your code is not getting merged.

The only people I've ever met that think this is unnecessary are also the same people that ship a lot of bugs for other people to fix.
> isn't Charles OSX only?

Nope! Charles runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Well, I said it makes me less worried _about climate change_. It makes me significantly more worried about the political violence that historically breaks out under such circumstances and the wars that get started by nations to secure scarce and precious resources. The Guano Wars will look tame in comparison to whoever decides to go after the phosphate rock reserves in Morocco.
[1] counter-counter-example:

"which one is your favourite unix command?"
"no, yes".
> Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don’t have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway?

"When is this needed" is a great alternative to a hard "no". It opens up a conversation about priorities. And lets you transparent about what needs to get delayed so that this new priority can be worked. It's a perfectly reasonable conversation to have, and helps you keep healthy boundaries.
This is the only comment that needs to be on this post. Microsoft has been designing-by-committee Windows much to the chagrin of their users for years. I don't know the last time I was truly excited for a release.
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But you're still including the units in your identifier names (or encoded in type system), right?
To call it out specifically: this does not include `duration * duration = duration`

Go is currently allowing that, which makes `delaySecs * time.Second` a billion times larger than it appears to intend. I've personally run across code that has this kind of flaw in it... at least several dozen times. It's the kind of thing that's only noticed when it misbehaves visibly while someone is watching it.

(I read a lot of other-teams' code, which is in various states of quality and disarray)
> No, they didn't.

It seems they claimed to officially (which is what I remembered) but did not in practice. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/windows-7-to... https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/upgrade-to-windows-10-fre...

In any case, this discussion is clearly just bickering over semantics. Apple has never asked me for money for an OS. Microsoft has asked me for money for an OS many times. Apple does not make money charging for unbundled OS sales. Microsoft makes money charging for unbundled OS sales. You can pontificate all you want about what it really means for something to be free, but from a practical perspective, no one treats MacOS as an independent product that you can go to the store and buy. MacOS doesn't "cost money" any more than the infotainment OS in my car "costs money"; i.e. not in a sense that most people would identify with.
So he didn't reject you because you were a poor student, but for some other reason? Sounds like you might want to consider what you could have done differently to improve on that outcome. Regardless of whether you agree with what s/he tells you, it's a chance to gain some valuable insights into what others think about you.

Apparently, I was pretty obnoxious in high school. It took me far too long to learn this. (And to learn when not to speak my opinion.) I would have been well served if I had swallowed pride and asked teachers (and peers) for some perspective on how my attitude was, frankly, self destructive.
Though it might encourage some to consider str.len_extended_grapheme_clusters()
I stayed in software and specifically fintech software where I spent most of my career.

There are aspects of renewables that require certification or licenses depending on your country (electrical work for example). But most of the work does not.
I’m pretty sure his desire was to escape prosecution in whatever country would let him live relatively normally.
Wait, is streets ahead a real saying? I thought Pierce on Community invented it.
AFAIK, none of commercially-available hardware supports AV1 encode yet.

I guess it is quite expensive to implement AV1 encoder.

Edit: I meant no consumer hardware support it.
The problem is that it is garbage and has always been garbage. I just bought my wife a new laptop that had 11 pre-installed. It REQUIRES a MS account to use the laptop. So I returned it today and got her a Mac. Problem solved.
If you ever ask a lawyer to sue a person with not much money, you might get a proverb in response: "you can't get blood out of a stone". Literally, if someone doesn't have the money, you won't get it.

Suing people who don't pay their bills is a losing proposition. You will be paying lawyers and getting very little to nothing in return.
> that perhaps explains all the downvotes

The downvotes are the aggressive reactionary tide through HN, that rises and falls. Your personal observation suggests that some 'progressive' action might be valuable, that there's a systemic problem, and therefore it is shut down.

Don't stop telling it please. We need more voices from the real world here.
> Funniest part is that the tagline and theme of the show was “what is the cost of lies?” despite itself taking ridiculous liberties with the truth. Just off the top of my head there was:

It's worth noting that show was not a work of nonfiction. In fiction, when the needs of drama and factual accuracy collide, drama usually wins, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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There's WPS Office that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The user interface has a level of polish that rivals Microsoft Office. Sadly, I didn't have a chance to explore if it is seamless to move a file between MS Office and WPS Office.
> Major league sports should create and manage their own feeder leagues to develop players, no reason to cram that into a university.

Collegiate athletics emerged as lucrative entertainment, over decades. It's not as if they established sports teams originally in order to make money or to become training ground for pro teams. And good luck getting them to forfeit this willingly.

A minor league could show up to compete, but would it offer athletes an opportunity for a rite of passage too? And could it offer a hedge for the athletes who don't graduate to higher pro leagues? IMO baseball is probably a good place to look for answers because it has both a minor pro league and NCAA "student-athletes". Ice hockey, too, IIRC.
That doesn't really seem better, because the fact that the unit is seconds is only obvious if you happen to be looking at the function signature in the header or somesuch. This is because C typedefs are type aliases, not newtypes. If seconds were instead a struct with a single int field, or something like that, then that would help a little. To really solve this problem, you need information hiding, which C doesn't have except through questionable hacks.
That's why I was used the word consumers. Rolling your own crypto will let you work around the requirement of asking Microsoft for permission to install our own operating system. But it limits the audience for your work to the technical class.
I saw this comment and began to wonder if it was necessary to make a throwaway to make your comment. But then I clicked the name and realized this account is used more than some random throwaway.

Almost had me asking hn if we were abusing throwaway accounts.
Perhaps the function shouldn't accept the unit of sec². Not least because I have no idea what a delay in that unit could signify.
I guess another question is if great professors are only at Yale or Ivy league schools? Here's something to consider, maybe not everyone needs a great professor, or an elite education, perhaps there are a large number of people who could benefit from just a good college education without having gigantic debt after. Ivy league schools are sitting on nearly a trillion dollars in endowments half of that is enough to provide college for everyone who wants it. Maybe society would benefit more from everyone who wants college than a small number of elites getting ivy league degrees.
Thank you, this is not easy to find in its entirety.
Are you sure that you aren’t just talking about either of: BER, Stuttgart 21 or Elbphilharmonie?

I recently tried to remember more projects that were terribly late and over budget and actually had difficulties finding any.
I must clarify, that was intended rhetorically, and in the most self-serving fashion; I try never to miss a golfing prompt
Absolutely incredible how cheap the compute power is on this platform.
Vast has saved me tens of thousands of dollars running ML experiments.
Dropped out of a comp sci PhD program after a year for this exact same reason. Will go get my masters some day so I can teach in retirement, but was saddened teaching in higher
ed couldn’t be the end game.
Companies have created much better masks by now, such as https://katharoslabs.com/ (disclaimer: the founder is a friend of a friend)

At this point, I generally find it more inconvenient to remember the mask than to wear it for extended periods of time, even at the gym doing lifting.
I'm confused, because one delta degree Celsius is exactly the same as one delta degree Kelvin. And you can convert with an offset.
> Nobody, except for multi-millionaire tech-bros.

Yours is a shittier take.

I agree government should fund education. Sam agrees, but it needs to come with a long term solution.

Canceling debt now has 2 issues.

1. The current proposal is extremely unfair to poor people who decided not to take a student loan. And I never see anyone address this unfairness.

2. It will skyrocket the tuition cost even more.
Actual engineering professionals spend their time making sure systems are safe and reliable. Website "engineering" "professionals" spend their time doing anti-utilitarian make-work to fend off lawsuit trolls instead of making systems that are safe and reliable.
Imma get my cane and hit you with Perl and PHP ;)
"Make your data go 'poof!'"?
That is an interesting point. My dad entered college having grown up in some pretty fundamentalist, anti-evolution church, and became a doctor and an cosmopolitan sort of intellectual. He switched to a liberal church and learned about Darwin, and all sorts of stuff. But I took Attic Greek and Old English and weird English literary theory and Russian history and medieval history. I don’t directly use that stuff, but it does seem like it made me a better person, more aware of a bigger scene outside of my little track of software.
I wrote about this a long time ago too: https://explog.in/notes/units.html. Units are critical, particularly when crossing language/engineer boundaries.
> It isn't like you have to blow up the reactor itself to disable a foreign nuclear plant. I see no reason why anybody would ever target a reactor core. There is a HUGE amount of electrical substation infrastructure outside of these plants which would take like 1/1000 the effort to damage or blow up as the reactor core itself and would shut the whole thing down.

If you attack that infrastructure, the core will melt down without suffering a direct attack.

IIRC, that's what happened at Fukushima: a tsunami took out the backup generators, which shut down the core cooling system, which then led to the core overheating and melting down.
The exact opposite actually. It's a good for-profit enterprise that fails when it's narrative twists it into a public good.

The problem isn't that university doesn't work. The problem is that the federal government has propped it up with so much poorly underwritten debt that the prices have ballooned beyond value delivered.

That would be fine if the audience taking the debt was rational. But the discourse around university is itself irrational. And the people taking the loans have underdeveloped brains that are bad at long term thinking.
I wish someone would have told me this is completely false when I was in college, then I wouldn't have been stressed about it.

Truth is the education quality doesn't correlate that strongly with "top" University ranking; at above top X ranked university, or top university in respective country, the quality of education is mostly the same. The difference in the ranking only really reflects the research output/opportunities and networking opportunities.

This becomes so glaringly clear as soon as you start being the interviewing side of the job.

European elites seems to not go to US top universities either; top talent (in intelligence) from upper middle class and above, maybe. But there's more to gain networking in their own countries top universities than abroad. (hence the exchange year system for that)
Well, RDNA3 GPUs aren't available yet either. But at some point encoders should become viable I suppose.
You get it wrong, she consumed $2106 worth of service and has paid $200 so far, that is a fantastic deal for her. Vimeo then says that next year since she consumed so much she will have to pay $3100. Vimeo here takes the risk that she gets more popular and therefore will cost them even more, they have to take a premium cut to cover for that risk.

A regular hosting provider would just send her the $2106 bill, but she went to Vimeo to avoid surprise bills. But instead she has to deal with price hikes like this, note that it isn't a bill, she can just not pay for it and cancel the service, that is the product she paid for.
When I was buying a new computer last month, I spent a some time considering if it should be Mac or Linux. The Windows option was rejected rather quickly. And I was a Windows developer around the time .NET was starting.
From the author's own words, sounds like he should stop supporting Windows.

I only support Windows and macOS as a masochistic exercise in extreme cross-platform support, and even then it's only CLI applications and programmatic API's, never GUI bother.
I don't think there is a coherent historical or technical basis to claim that accessibility (as the term is being used in this thread) is "the foundation of the open web".
It's not ideal, but to be fair, a lot of them (not all) that don't require funky DRM APIs (a-la Grand Theft Auto IV with Games for Windows Live) do work decently. Some might need to have a right-click, run in compatibility mode check done.