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>No. But live in reality.

I live there, grew up with a strong dose of it, but I take your point and understand. I'm not ideological on the issue except that I think we can do better, so a viewpoint rooted in (for me, cynical) practicality is easy for me to relate to. It's different than an ideological one, which is what was the question I was trying to understand from your statement. It's harder to have productive conversation on matters of ideology.

At the end of the day your situation may have been more iffy (you don't know whether it was actually beneficial). That indicates to me you weren't going to starve to death

Eh, yes and no. Again, personal details involved. But, mostly, not about extreme food security problems. A parent worked in food service as a second job, which helped. (No theft, just generous owners)

In general I find child labor laws to be deeply ironic in a Kafka-esque way for the reasons you touch on. Out socioeconomic system produces situations that all but require such labor, but then it is outlawed. Like so many other laws, it doesn't solve the problem that leads to the bad thing in the first place.

Better to have an extremely strong safety net w/ a strong job training & job placement system. It's often a catch 22 though. In my state unemployed people can go to community college for free, and there are even 1-year full time programs for in-demand jobs that have okay pay. The problem is, how do you love during that the new period? That's one gap. Another one are people who are employed but don't make enough money-- no free college for them, so they're stuck in their economic niche. And if they lost the job they'd still face the first issue of living while they learn. Another gap is the job market: fix the above issues and the college programs I referenced would be flooded beyond their capacity and wages in the job market kept low by a higher labor supply.

I think we could chip away at some of these issues, but the most common political solution, probably because it seems quick and easy, is to raise the floor on minimum wage. There's a little elasticity there, but I don't think it can be raised enough to solve these problems. Low-margin businesses (supermarkets!) especially will have to raise prices, which will then eat into the cost of living. The idea that minimum wage can be doubled without inflation always strikes me as wishful thinking.
(ps- I have also worked to make the map when I can for the non-religious, even for purpose in life, growth in the major areas of life, etc, though it does refer to beliefs.)
This is why my wife and I had eight children.

We realized early that there is no other meaning of life, and no other more important legacy, than being surrounded by family when we die.

Thankfully, we're in good company now that Elon Musk has gone public with a similar idea in perpetuation of the species.
Did the fact they were nuclear powers have any effect on their sponsorship of foreign conflicts? I don't see how it's relevant, they'd have done it anyway. Also the nuclear powers often did intervene directly, as China and the USA did in Korea, and the USA did in Vietnam and Iraq, and Russia and later the USA did in Afghanistan.
Linux desktop might (also) be a tragedy for other reasons, but your post appears to be almost exclusively about Nvidia being a tragedy.

( in particular, gnome is an astonishing regression in usability compared to the alternatives, or even what was standard a decade ago)
I'm thinking hybrid work is the best older companies can do.

The only way to know you'll never need to come into an office is to work somewhere without an office. If they company isn't fully remote they'll eventually want you to come in.

I'd love something like working a straight week per quarter in the office.

Then if you decide to have a San Francisco office, I can endure The tenderloin for a single week every 3 months
That's funny... every team I've been on in the last 10 years has used Linux workstations almost exclusively, with a few Macs here and there.
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Exactly. Mystery is great in the same way sex is great. You enjoy the mystery and the questions because you're getting closer and closer to the answers. When the answer is "well what do you think happened?" it's the ultimate case of blue-balls. I don't need intellectual vasocongestion, thanks.
These GA statistics seem to include Aerial Work, so it includes a considerable number of turbine powered aircraft (most helicopters for instance.)

This Excel(!) document breaks GA hours down between types of aircraft: https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/g...

From that document, here are the estimated total hours flown by type of general aviation aircraft:

Fixed wing piston: 12.9 million

Fixed wing turbine (turboprop + turbojet): 5.6 million

Helicopter (turbine): 1.8 million

Helicopter (pison): 0.6 million

Aside, if you compare Chart4 and Chart5 in that document, you can see that although piston aircraft are far more numerous, on average they spend a lot more time on the ground than turbine powered aircraft.
Part one covers how this has been used since the '50s and was ramped-up over the last 20 years.
At my last role, I got all the way to the "signing your hiring paperwork" to find out that vaccines were mandatory for all new hires. Seeing as that's 30% of the workforce or so who isn't, and this being a senior level position, and a year more after they were first available (meaning, anyone who wanted to get a vaccine - probably would have already)... you'd think they'd bring that up day one.

I about flipped shit on the recruiter.
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My feeling about WSL is that if you have to install another operating system into your main operating system, clearly the main operating system has problems.
Just don't use Yarn + Lerna :) pnpm is amazing
Not only that, but you can grep IRC logs using whatever Unix tools you want, which is much more powerful than anything Slack has to offer.
Indeed, and then he finds that not only is there breach of contract but that the company is also quite vindictive and will use any kind of claim as a reason to not even consider hiring you in the future, assuming that it stays within the one company and doesn't get passed around between recruiters.
It's frightening to see how the nuclear power debate is done nowadays.

Yes, nuclear energy is generating less CO2 than some other forms of energy, but saying it's saving lives seems sketchy at best, and to be used as a "hammer argument". Because it's "saving lives", it's good.

All energy producing less CO2 than the current mix is "saving lives" in a way. So yes, we should aim for less production of CO2. There is no question here.

But I believe that in order to have a opinion on the matter we need to understand the whole picture.

- *Waste* : we don't really know what to do with them. We pile them up and try to protect humans from them, but really we don't know what to do more than that.

- *War risk* : if a plant is a military target, it might cause big trouble to the population around, and to the nature…

- *Dismantling* : we still don't know how to dismantle a nuclear power plant and we don't know the energetic cost of doing so. Still, we have many nuclear plants that are coming to their end of lives, and we still don't know how to so properly.

- *We don't have sufficient sources of uranium* : it seems that we lack some uranium in order to produce enough energy in a sustainable way.

- Also, uranium extraction is complex geo-politically and seems to creates a geographic context keen to a war on resources, especially if we don't have enough.

So, it might "save lives" wrt CO2 emissions, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a clean energy, nor that's the energy of the future, in my opinion.
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The internet once was an escape from the real world. I miss that.
You just want to merge the repositories, there are plenty of guides online. You need to realize that git has pretty simple internals, so the procedure looks like this:
1. Inside one repository you add a reference to the other repository with `git remote add`.
2. When you do a fetch, git will just download all the objects from the other repository.
3. Then you check the files out and make commit.
You can do it in a few ways, for example, you might wish to preserve tags from all the repositories, but put them in their own namespaces, so you don't get conflicts. I wrote an answer on SO explaining exactly this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1425892/how-do-you-merge...
I think this says more about how hard it is to make Python performant for this than JavaScript.

Additionally, don't discount that both of the mobile OS vendors maintain their own JS engines that are directly accessible on their platforms, which makes integration faster and easier to build bindings around.
Protip from an old guy: Always get everything in writing. No verbal promises. Make sure everything you discussed is written in the offer. If you discussed 100% remote, make sure the offer says 100% remote. If it doesn't, ask them to add it before you sign.

And then if they go back on it, keep working there, look for a new job, don't go to the office even if they tell you that you have to, and bring up that you have it in writing that it's 100% remote.

And if they fire you anyway, you've got a good basis for a wrongful termination suit, while hopefully working at a new job and/or collecting unemployment.
What about companies?
Amazon is doing this. I went through the process and the recruiter tried to manipulate me into "assigning a local office" otherwise it has to go through "an approval process". I told him put it through the approval then or I walk. He also tried car-salesman tactics of trying to get me to accept a lower total comp package. I stood firmly at the top of my range and after days of trying to convince me otherwise, they finally caved.

They're also holding back-to-the-office meetings where they want local individuals to come in a few times a week and remote individuals to come in on a somewhat regular frequency (e.g. once a month). I told them to shove it, I'm not coming in, ever. I don't need their money that badly. I'd rather slash my salary in half and work somewhere that's not trying to screw me over at every turn. I think after 3-6 months I'm quitting anyway.

EDIT: I should mention I just started at the company and it's already pissing me off. Thankfully my old cushy job will take me back any time.
> Didn't Russia jam starlink in Ukraine with 50 year old tech? or was that debunked?

Starlink hasn't been successfully jammed anywhere. They noticed some jamming attempts degrading the signal quality and put out a software update that fixed it. Ukraine is already using it to boostrap restarting the cell phone connectivity in destroyed areas near Kyiv.
How does the lack of album art prevent playback?

And local music apps already build their own library so they don't have to scan all files for metadata, I don't see how the location in the file changes anything.
> the job opening didn't say remote, the agreement they signed didn't say remote

The bright side is that's one of the least harmful ways to learn the lesson: read contracts thoroughly before signing them.

Anyways, sorry for your experience. As an alternative to what others suggest, consider career as independent contractor :) Been here around 8 years and never dealt with recruiters so far.
There’s a cookbook called the eumsik dimibang but I can’t find an English translation.

It’s noticeable for both being the first Korean cookbook and being authored by a woman in the 1600s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumsik_dimibang
I suspect the existence of nuclear weapons and e.g. France having them actually had a significant impact on them forming that realisation.
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I am blown away that online ads work at all. I just assume every ad is a scam.
Recently, I was using facebook ads for awhile. The CPC was inexpensive, I had many signups to my site.

However after 2 days, 0% of the facebook signups stayed on the site vs 50% of the Google Ads signups. Even if your metrics look good for the ad, make sure you add additional tracking.
Actually the USA use the Metric System officially, not in common life:
https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si
I've seen this around, Meta/FB for example currently are hiring people anywhere and letting them work remotely because of current circumstances but you have to declare that you're open to relocation and pick a "home office" regardless of your preference for remote work.
Tests ensure you always have two consumers for an API (the API "in-place" as used by the functional portion of your system, as well as "how the tests use it"). This ensures new uses of the API have a path/model to follow and prevents you from having to "instantiate the world" just to call your particular function.

I also think of tests as "scaffolding" when building a skyscraper. They make it easier to access certain "things" before they're fully complete and are a cost that makes building the actually building less risky and quicker. Why does no-one question the value of paying for putting up and tearing down a scaffold when building or repairing a building, but can't see the value of unit testing?
I have a lot of background in programming language theory and mathematical foundations, which is sort of one half of the topic that's explored in this post. Two thoughts:

1. Rewriting systems are very useful tools. One of the things I learned from this post was about the existence of FullEquationalProof [1], which I think is pretty darn neat and super useful.

2. This post is imbued with a latent metaphysics that is somewhat common in formal mathematics and will invariably come out at relevant meetings/conferences after a few glasses of wine. Not this instantiation in particular, but a generally similar sort of metaphysics. I've always gotten church vibes from that sort of thing. (I never "got" church.)

I never got the "emergent properties have special aesthetic and nearly spiritual significance" or "everything is just an <insert structure here>" cognitive confusion that so many mathematicians (especially formalists) seem to have.

But the way that it happens does make sense.
Intellectual curiosity is a valid work selection strategy and sometimes invention/discovery requires a leap of faith. Developing a predisposition to spiritual thought patterns while doing work that requires a leap of faith makes sense, I guess, but it's something I warn young mathematicians to guard against.

But then, I'm also not allergic to fava beans. Maybe math-as-spirituality and believing beans are evil are also just useful tools.

[1] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FindEquationalPro...
What a depression notion.

My wife and I moved to the other side of the planet with four children, travelled all over the world, and so on, because we prioritized it.
> Over 85% of our organic search traffic comes from users typing in our brand name - Total Car Check. If they see an advert at the top of the organic search results, for the user, its just a shortcut to get to the site, especially since Google started putting organic search results below the fold in many search results, except it would cost us money to buy a user who was going to find us anyway.

Sure, but you wouldn't want your competitor to effectively rank #1 for your brand. I've always viewed this like an extortion racket.
OP experience makes me think some kind of added process like Letter of Agreement or Letter of Intent from the initial outreach that says “assuming you pass all the rounds, we will hire you to a remote position at a salary to be determined but between the range of x-y, etc.” could be helpful.

It’s not a contract but a precursor and some lighter level of commitment. Common in enterprise sales scenarios but not in mid level job searches.
Which is an alternative international newspaper of record for the Arab world?
> Keeping a nuclear industry around is still a good way to keep a lid on nuclear arsenal costs.

No it isn't. We aren't really building new weapons, we're just maintaining the ones we have. There shouldn't be any unique supply chain overlap. There's also transparently budget under DOD in the US for maintaining the nuclear arsenal. The CBO publishes the numbers, $643 billion over the next 10 years [1]. As for the skills, the military just trains people. A large number of civilian operators were trained by the military, not the other way around.

Iran is building centrifuges which it claims are for medical isotopes and later some reactors or scientific purposes. They've allowed in inspectors at various points and the western press generally, but cautiously accepts this as the truth. The problem is that they have the ability to enrich further to bomb grade material. The whole original deal was about getting them to give up enrichment and accept material at enrichment level sufficient for energy and medicine from France. That fell apart and they are enriching material again themselves.

> It's just a ridiculously expensive way to generate green energy.

If coal were regulated like nuclear energy it would be far more expensive due to fuel costs. If you had to dispose of lithium such that it couldn't leak for more than 10k years batteries would be far more expensive. If we didn't changes the regulations every few years and appoint anti-nuclear activists to run the NRC, it would be much cheaper. But yes, nuclear is expensive. It's also incredibly safe, 0 carbon, and produces no air pollution. It also provides base load energy which other 0 carbon sources can't do yet.

You're just spreading FUD.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57240#:~:text=If%20carried%2....
France 24 is great, available in French, English and Arab
Why would you bundle nuclear weapons tests together with civil applications?
> expecting a reward just because you did a difficult thing is kind of childish

Playing a game is kind of childish. That’s kind of the point.

I get more praise out of my boss during my day job than I ever got out of The Witness.
First let me say that ads in general definitely work, I'm definitely not arguing against that.

What I'm talking about in specific is search ads where the ad is for a term that ranks organically high anyway.

It's not just imaginary either, I've done a lot of over-the-shoulder customer observing. Just recently I saw a friend search for "dropbox" and then click on the first result in Google, which is a paid ad by dropbox for dropbox. They rank #1 anyway!

Now in dropbox's case it might be worth it, because they have enough competitors who would like to steal that ad spot. However for most businesses that's not the case for their top terms.
What you are describing is an artifact of the old Perforce which copied everything in your client to local storage. After the conversion to srcfs and piper, which was more than a decade ago, this became unnecessary.

http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/06/build-in-cloud-a...
The Canadian economy is almost entirely dependent on real estate[0][1]. It's almost a certainty that the Liberal government would never hurt that sector in any meaningful way. I'm guessing that they're run the numbers and they know this won't have any real effect (other than political points scoring).

Most of the RE demand comes from immigration (in CA, currently more than 1%/year) - look at any country that has high immigration and you'll see huge appreciation in RE (CA, AU, NZ, etc).

You will also see a huge decline in birth rates in those same countries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada#Key_industri...
[1] https://betterdwelling.com/canadas-economy-hits-a-new-record...
You find the cost of housing in CA to be lower than in TN? If so, where in TN did you live, and where in CA did you move to?
I'm not sure how selling something "fully remote" when you're expected to be in-office 40% of the time is only half-true. That's a complete fabrication. I would even have a hard time considering something fully remote if it required annual meetings or something, unless they were optional and remote-friendly.
I'm sceptical as to whether you can actually get blackballed, unless your misdeeds achieve a Hans Reiser level of publicity.

I've had recruiters claim that if I use the offer they got me to negotiate a raise from my current employer, they'll make sure I never work in this town again - and yet recruiters keep calling.
I will never understand the recent appeal and hype for Florida, except for old expats from the northeast with plenty of cash in their pocket.

I’m from the south, born and lived all my life in various states in the Southeast, and I can say Florida is too hot for me. Hot summers are one thing, hot 75%of the year is something else.

Housing is cheaper than some states for sure, but almost any bordering states can get you a better value for your money.

Also, for the third largest economy in the US, the job market sucks. I’d say even Atlanta is probably a better option m, or even the Raleigh are if you’re looking for a proper “tech city”. I guess with remote work this is less of an issue, but even then…

There’s politics, but then again, you have the entire southeast as well if that’s what you’re after.

One thing I will say is nice is no state income tax. A handful of other states have this as well though, and TX or WA just seen a better choice depending on what you’re looking for.
(2015)-ish. Significant previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9562923

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16362345
'Brits will often call the mainland "Europe" and themselves "Great Britain"'

Let's just say that this kind of thing is a rather sore point for a lot of people in the UK.
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I'm the last person to justify what Kremlin is doing. Putin should hang. But it also shows that mechanisms that attempted to prevent it - those that you're describing - simply don't work. And they didn't work for a long time, as proven by US invasion on Middle East, which didn't result in any consequences to the guilty parties. And that - US being able to commit war crimes with impunity - convinced Putin he can do it too.
This depends a lot on their incentive structures - the other side of this coin is that many recruiters are simply full-time employees, who get measured more on their time-to-hire.

Unless we're talking about freelancer/indie recruiters, of course.
> it's nothing more than noodling cellular automata in ways that have had no effect whatsoever on chemistry, physics, or biology.

I mean, you could at least read a bit about what his Multicomputation stuff is really studying. CA are not being noodled there.
Having it written into the contract would probably make it easier to collect unemployment if you quit before they fired you for non-compliance? I think a major change like that is already a fairly easy case of constructive dismissal though.

Otherwise yeah, there's not going to be much recourse unless specific penalties were also written into the contract.