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> You don't need eUICC or anything of the sort to do roaming, which is just what he's describing. Even the behavior with the international prefix on numbers.

I don’t think the author made this claim at all. He just mentioned that he thinks that Google are using eUICC to make roaming on Google Fi cheaper than traditional roaming agreements. And he’s basing this on the fact that the dat connection can drop out for a little while as the phone roams internationally, presumably because it’s reprogramming the eUICC.

I would assume that if you’re running a service like GoogleFi, where the phone number isn’t associated with an actual phone network, then you can do international roaming cheaper because you just setup direct agreements with local telecoms to provide local data access, and then route the “shadow number” assigned to the SIM to a local Google endpoint. Thus you can create a setup where international roam is achieved by having local only carrier agreements, and doing clever call routing to local Google forwarding numbers, which Google then routes over its own network to the destination country, where a local Google endpoint then pushes the call back into the local telco network.

Doing this completely removes the need to have a traditional roaming agreement where carrier backhaul alien subscribes back to their home carrier, charging a hefty fee for the privilege. And instead replaces it all with local only call and data routing, with Google infrastructure providing international transit, and Google software masquerading the local subscriber identities, so GoogleFi customers don’t see the messy details underneath.
Accepting some advice or input on an individual item vs having someone 'manage' you are different beasts. As I come up to 50, and work with a group of folks ranging from 28-32... the age and experience gaps are highlighted often. I'm happy to contribute, and I do occasionally learn something from someone (often some specific tool I'd not seen before). But there's a resistance to 'learn' from me. We're 'equalized' on a 'team', and "we should all learn from each other!" is a common mantra.

I've done many of these projects before, and will raise issues. "Let's just see how it goes!" and "well... we might make some mistakes, but that's how we learn!" And I'll say "but I thought we were supposed to be learning from each other?" "yes!". "Why does no one ever want to learn from me?" I've done XYZ longer than these colleagues have been adults, but I'm never asked for stuff, people avoid my input, etc.

What's more interesting is that a couple of folks on the client side of the equation (contracting house) have been added who are older, and ... they're quite open to picking my brain. We mesh quite well, and have pairing sessions and learn from each other (but I'm giving more than taking in those cases). With the younger crew... there's just a real standoffishness, and focus on 'team' and 'learning from each other and our mistakes' but... they're willing to make mistakes (repeatedly) vs taking my input to avoid those mistakes in the first place. The client's new person seems to have picked up on this and is raising some issues.

For a while, I really thought it was something wrong with me, but as I jump around between clients/contracts/etc, it seems to be more age related. The larger the age gap, the less impetus there is to work 'together'. And... I'm trying to think back to when I was 25... how open would I have been to 50 year old colleague's input? If they were 'management', I'd have to. Otherwise... possibly not? Hard to remember that far back, other than that I thought I was invincible :)
Building one of these is probably easier than wrangling the GitHub notifications settings into having a meaningful signal:noise
>The mere fact that the results of these types of tests on large population groups tend to follow a normal distribution.

The results do not follow a normal distribution though. IQ is forced into a normal distribution with a standard deviation of 15 by definition, it is constructed in such a way that it's forced into that distribution. The actual measurements, ie. raw test scores, are not normally distributed.
This is a really funny read for a Friday morning.

It should play an MP3 of a line cook in a busy diner shouting, "Order up!", and then he can stick it on a rotating order wheel hanging above his desk.

EDIT: One of these things: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-stainless-steel-orde...
Nah. Most people on the fringe edge of the right can't spell any more. They can sure as hell shout though. Say you will about the far left but they're generally still literate. I'm happy here near the middle. You're all nuts and you spend too much time yelling at clouds. I will say that the human rights violations on the right far exceed those on the left. They're both guilty of trying to erase some people but the right seems to do it for sport and out of of hate, the left does it out of hyper sensitive and misguided notions of equality because they don't understand what fair means. I'll take naivety over malice though.
That sounds weird to me. Our current office can sit 5, with conference room, kitchen, ... It costs about 20% of an engineer's salary. And we're in one of the most expensive place in the world for rent.
Devs can add automation tests to a suite just fine. What you lose when you lose dedicated QA is: who improves the automation suite? Who checks out new testing tools and POCs them? Who reads QA blogs and goes to QA conferences and generally considers it their profession to find ways to test more effectively?
It is like many of the pages on sites like Reddit and danbooru where the ranking function is like

votes / f(time since submission)

where f increases monotonically. A submission that was made ten minutes ago needs fewer votes to be at the #1 slot than one that was made ten hours ago.
I get really anxious taking photos. I take tons of them but only ever see a few of them again, so what they actually do is prevent me from living in the moment. I find myself looking at all those beautiful places through the phone's screen instead of with my own eyes, and for what? Plus, like TFA mentions, it's rude to your companions.

Now I really strive to take essential photos instead of snapping them all the time.
Interesting how many of these large articles seem to be related to events that took place within recent years. I wonder if it indicates a shift of some kind in how information on Wikipedia is recorded compared to a decade ago, and if the trend will continue upward in the coming years.
Or, "Prep time: 10 minutes", "Ingredients: 6 onions, finely diced; ..." where all the actual prep time is hidden in the ingredients list.
In many situations, that is unrealistic. Somebody has to pay for me (or some other engineer) to set up and maintain said open source. It is often cheaper to just pay for the offering.

There is business risk in being trapped in non-free, but sometimes that is still the prudent option.

I like open source -- mostly because it can be debugged! -- but it's not the solution to every problem.
From a moral standpoint I think we have to accept how other societies are run and act accordingly, and our laws should end at our borders.
I had my own office at Microsoft as late as 2013.

It was by far the least favorite work environment I've ever had. It was lonely and unproductive for me, with a 15 minute - 2 hour commute depending on traffic. I came home from work angry every day. I have no idea how I lasted almost two years in that environment.

I really enjoy open offices. My next job was all pair programming all the time. No assigned desks. You just showed up and sat down with a different person every day. For me that's the most productive way to get work done.

For the last 3 years I've been working from home and don't see myself going back to an office ever again. I enjoy my time at home too much.

Everyone is different and not every company has to work the same way.
I absolutely would, but Youtube Premium isn't nearly on the level Vanced is. Its just better in anything and makes the whole experience much better. I used it once and could never go back to the normal youtube app honestly.
There are a lot of recent changes that are really stupid.

To have an opened bussiness in Spain now, you need to provide the government an email. The excuse is that they want to save paper and stop using the standard post. So you need to pay for internet access. There are still 5 millions of people in Spain that live in rural areas where they don't have a good access to internet or don't have access at all. Though luck if you are one of they. They will put all important legal messages related with your activity in that mail.

So if you lose the access to that email (or is hacked for a month and some mails are removed silently) now you have a problem. Missing the latest legal change or government requirement means that now you are doing things illegally or that you are refusing to provide them data about your company that they asked for. There is a liability and legal consequences attached.

But the mail just will tell you (genius move) that the government wants to tell you "something", but not what. To retrieve this message you need to provide a phone number so they will send you a code by watsup necessary to access the info. So now you need to use a Facebook app, want it or not, because the government "cares for your privacy".

The government will not receive you now without a cite, arranged by phone or web, so you can't just walk into the building and show your ID card to ask what they want. If you think that you can just visit the gov web page, good luck with that. Your important messages are somewhere in that black hole, as unreachable as in the bottom of the ocean.

So you need a phone, but neither a normal desktop phone nor an old reliable Nokia will be accepted. You need to provide a mobile of the spy-phone type.

Because for example, to receive your covid passport you need to scan a barcode now. So you must have a camera in your phone and an OS able to install an run an external app to scan 3d barcodes. Do you want to know why asking for covid passport in bars was a failure? This.

And if you have an crash car and the police emits a traffic report, they will give you a ticket full of 3D Codes linking to the report, the extra info, the laws that apply, and your rights. No spy-phone?, you can't access to your info.

They could just provide a link, a short chain of characters that is the universal way to navigate internet, but not. That would be too easy.

I had been contacted by phone by somebody in the government encouraging me to use their services more. I agreed to provide a mail to receive more info and some weeks later received a mail, asking me to provide a phone in order to access the info (so they can call me asking for a mail maybe?).

So either you agree to have a phone that tracks all your life now, or you are treated as a sub-citizen with less rights.
These printers are fun. I got one from a hardware swap meet a few years back and used the same software to work it into a public art project I did a bit later. You could listen to or record your own “dream” story to a kiosk, and upon leaving one, you’d get a paper receipt. It was a fun, tangible interaction that gave a bit of permanence to something purely audio.

https://justinmiller.io/services/dreamdial1.jpg
Let's see how The Verge falls out of Microsoft's grace moving forward. The Verge had (what feels like) direct access to top MS execs for all product launches. I guess those days are over.

Don't get me wrong, if this was picked up by the SEC or DOJ - I'd take it more seriously, but it sounds like accusations with no real proof.
>As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work

Are you sure that is the right causal relationship here? My gut feeling would be that it has at least in part to do with the C* level roles. McD cashier jobs are a dime a dozen and rapidly hire and fire. C* level tends to be slower and more scarce just by nature.

> I think he feels inspired by seeing me thrive as a contractor,

If he is somewhat stable financially he might do better as a finance/PM/operational consultant. That lets him leverage years of experience as credibility. That will play much better than a 61 y/o with a coding bootcamp or similar.

>He learned to program when he was a student,

My dad was in a similar position - except he was a professional programmer for years. After a long stint in management layer he found he couldn't get back into the tech market. Instead project management type roles went better
Turn Down the Heat on SSDs
No, one on one tutoring is only marginally more effective than standard education system. As I said, the education establishment has expended enormous amount of effort on figuring out how to teach better, and collected mountain of evidence. You won’t find a lot of d > 1 outcomes in literature, and not many more of d > 0.5. Many of those you find did not replicate, and you should expect at least some bogus outcomes because of how p-values work. Look at federal Head Start assessment, for example: gains are minimal, and they dissipate over time. This is the pattern that repeats over and over in educational studies: either gains are minimal and dissipate, or the study fails to replicate.

> You should watch some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_sport competitions, would blow your mind what people are capable of training themselves to do.

What some people are capable of, yes. Does it translate to those people being better at other mental tasks of mental ability? No.
I meet people outside of work “regularly” - more weekends than not - but a coffee or a hike or a live performance here and there is very different from casually sharing a building on a random Tuesday.

The comparison isn’t a social life, it’s a family or roommates.
looks like the task runner part [1] has unfortunate name overlap with the family of programs that include z.lua[2] or zoxide [3] or z.sh [4].

Not really that big of a deal, I just like tracking command line apps naming because it is an interesting exercise of being short, intuitive, and unique. When you decide a single letter is your name, surely you are going to run into this.

1. https://github.com/zakuro9715/z
2. https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua
3. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
4. https://github.com/rupa/z
Biden is not trying to pack the Supreme Court.

Cancel culture is less of an issue than a Supreme Court justice voting to block evidence that his wife was involved in overthrowing American democracy[1][2].

> "Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone vote to block the House Select Committee from getting January 6th documents from Donald Trump," [Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington] wrote. "We know now that his wife participated in the Jan. 6 rally. That creates a clear appearance of bias and a possible major conflict of interest."

Perhaps Thomas worries that in today's climate he would be rightfully prevented from working in a management role after sexually harassing an employee?[3][4]

1. https://www.newsweek.com/clarence-thomas-under-pressure-afte...

2. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60871794

3. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/anita-hill-reflects-clarence...

4. https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/27/13439992/clarence-...
That sounds like a problem for the company to figure out, not the commuter.
Western countries look the other way when their companies exploit poor countries. Then let the same corrupt money to be be taken out from those poor countries and hidden in their banks and property markets. Microsoft is not alone in this many other companies do the same. I personally feel the biggest hate from the west for the chinese so called road and belt initiative is not that China is exploiting these countries rather China has pushed them out and taken over their scam.
Yes, the one thing you can count on the Real World is for it to be simple and measurable... But let's keep the soccer metaphor.

Player A's game is long ended. They won't even play again. But it's a long championship and they are winning. Now your team is on the last round and will tie with them on points if you win, but will lose on the goal-count tie-breaker. Should the referee grant you 30 goals on your game with an entirely different adversary?

And your adversary is on the same situation, they will also tie with A's points if they win. Now what should the referee do?
Yes, a bribe in one country is often seen as just the cost of doing business in another.

In the US should tips be considered bribes? What if you tip at the beginning rather than the end in order to get better service?
> the extent someone has well calibrated Bayesian reasoning that exploits information to its maximum to do accurate predictions.

The concept of g actually completely rules this interpretation out based on nothing. If g was a matter of learning reasoning skills and applying them, you'd be able to teach it. It wouldn't be some magical race/sex/class number.
I was just thinking about how windows xp and old linux DEs (Gnome 2, KDE3) somehow felt snappier and now I'm wondering if the rise of multicore/multiprocessing is to blame. When the windowing stack is running in the same physical core as the kernel maybe it's harder for these things to become disconnected.
> Suppose you’re hiring someone for a job that requires a few different mental tasks. (Arithmetic, sequential memory, whatever.) If you knew someone’s g, you could guess how well they’d do at each task. But it would only be a guess! To really know, you still need to test the skills individually.

I think this part in the conclusion somewhat contradicts a lot of the analysis. In fact, the results have shown that if you knew someone's g, your guess at their performance on each task would be a good guess.
[Meta] I'd love the read the book with all the stories mentioned in the comments.
I wonder if this could explain some system instability I've seen.

The long and short of it is that my desktop is unstable if CPU power management features (sleep states) are enabled. In particular, I would experience seemingly random (Windows) kernel panics, generally non-reproducible but associated with either audio or graphics card use. I suspect some sort of memory corruption because of a handful of non-crashing errors that led to obviously corrupt data inside a running game.

However, memtest86 always gave the memory a clean bill of health, and indeed the system is quite stable after disabling the CPU sleep stages in BIOS.

DMA-driven corruption might explain both the problem and its isolation to audio/graphics I/O.
> It's not controversial to acknowledge that lots of historical attempts to measure intelligence have been pretty biased in favor of English speaking white men.

Do you have some specific examples of this purported bias?

> Unfortunately some were also very deliberate spins (one notable example being the book The Bell Curve).

Specifically what spin are you referring to?

> I think it's reasonable to conclude that measuring intelligence isn't valuable enough for all of the negative externalities attached to it given how the world currently is.

Insufficiently valuable to whom?
But in practice it's way more difficult. Adding a physical impediment helps you develop better habits. At least for me and my weak willpower.
Miming mobile OS lock screens is one of the weirdest damn things about modern desktop trends. It's so obviously a bad idea. I can't even figure out what useful functionality anyone thought that would provide. It's a fucking desktop, there's plenty of room to stick notifications or the weather or whatever on the same screen as the login prompt, if that's what you want.
I prefer the router+server approach as well but Helm takes a different approach of VPNing all traffic through AWS so it can have a public static IP; unfortunately this introduces a bunch of cost and overhead.

For hardware there's some interesting stuff like https://www.servethehome.com/inexpensive-4x-2-5gbe-fanless-r...
> Still, 8 MiB/s is a shit ton of data,

it is minuscule, and it is the peak I managed to get when moving as fast as possible. At the same refresh rate, blitting, say, 1024x1024 pixmaps would yield 576MiB/s so here we are talking about 72 times less. And it's while running a moderately image-heavy app with most likely room for optimization. One I often use is pavucontrol-qt: this one gives me less than 1MiB/s of network traffic when resizing it madly.

> It doesn’t change anything about DPI independence, because neither XRender nor the basic X drawing functions provide you with scalability built-in.

when I set Xft.dpi to 144 on my machine and run the same thing over ssh I see this: https://i.imgur.com/JQhEcvG.png

icons are scaled, images are scaled, text is scaled... what is missing ?

Also, regarding zlib: I took a screenshot of this window and compressed it as png (which uses zlib if I'm not mistaken ?) which gives me 137KiB, or 19MiB at 144fps. So more than twice as much as what X11 manages (and that is raw X11, IIRC there are X11 protocol extensions which also pass the X11 messages through gz, but I've never felt the need for that as things are already perfectly fast).

If you can show me any video-compression-based implementation that allows me to get this close to zero latency with zero image degradation (especially for text, you really don't want subpixel font AA to be video-compressed) and as little network overhead as what Qt gives over X11 I'll be super happy, but I really think it is unrealistic.
you could bypass all the bull and get a far better outcome by simply tying the salary of every member of Congress to the median income. One day people will realize how important it is to hold their representatives accountable and hopefully make it happen.
This doesn't sound quite right. I think it's ignoring randomness and not accounting for the thresholds correctly.
so, all the software companies need to do is implement also SMS feature in their messengers like Signal does for instance and they will be immediately interoperable, while keeping their own messaging service separated
>I'm only 59, but without my paper bills, I've missed a few deadlines for credit card.

The article was talking about a 78 year old, and you're 59, but this is a problem that will not go away if it isn't addressed.

One day even Zoomers will be confused by needing to pay their bills using their wet-wired neurolink to an orbiting drone, and they'll be unable to because their tiny house doesn't have a v9000 laser alignment defragmenter. And then the bank will send a Terminator to their doorstep to deactivate their iLegs for non-payment.

Dealing with real people, that you have a prior relationship with, in paper (or parchment, or papyrus, or clay) has a robust tradition that everybody can understand or at the very least deal with. I don't mind technological solutions, but they had better be as robust as being able to call up Dave and having him work out the problem.
I think you're conflating IQ and all the other things parent talks about. Almost by definition with these sorts of processes we'll see Gaussian curves.
I'm in the middle and I wonder how I would react if working with a 60yo buddy. I'm not biased much (I'm cool with people of all background and age when I service computers around my area) and I like esoteric/vintage. Which is funny because I'd probably run to spend time near your desk doing some APL pair programming than hearing the 25yo boast about the latest python release at the coffee machine :)