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> I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is, but it seems to encourage bringing in as many candidates as possible over treating them with honesty and respect.

Recruiter here. You nailed it!

Recruiters are influencers: nothing more, nothing less. I'm writing a video essay to help me grieve the human-centric inane events you are describing that I lived daily for years.

Compensation model differs but if people are interested I can let you know.

Sometimes it’s the recruiter that originates the lie, sometimes it’s the company/process that dictates the lie. Regardless, your interview process is a datapoint that I have collected to influence hiring managers to allow more remote roles if they really liked you. Sometimes that data has been used to boot other agencies from working for them so I can have more control and make myself and my team look better. Who tf knows really? There is but only asymmetric information in this deal.

It's disingenuous from the start sometimes. I've hired loads of devs that weren't looking for a job (passive candidates) even pre 2020. A lot of those wanted remote or even partial WFH and I still got them to commute from West Seattle to Redmond. Sometimes it works out where the recruiter can establish rapport with a candidate enough to coax them into a hybrid situation (i've done it dozens of times) for $5-15k more a year (puke emojis). For me, that eventually turns into self loathing, disdain.

How do you make it to hiring committee, when you wanted remote as that was established from the start (on your side)? The recruiter (mistake by moving too fast, lies, who tf knows why) may or may not have known you wanted remote and at the worst expected you to be a fence sitter and pushed you through as 'it all comes out in the wash' (on their side). Maybe they take candidates through the process to stack rank them and see who they can make exceptions for and yeet the rest. Who knows: everyone is different as much as the company they are interviewing for.

Like, I have read the posts about tech hiring being broken, and let me tell you what. It's more than just a mental athletic gauntlet of tree traversal and finding big O. Together - candidates and recruiters alike - we are helplessly nibbling at yet just a mouthful of the present soul crushing sausage-like shitberg.
There is no production-ready Linux distro for recent Macs.
> English has been adopted as the international language (largely thanks to American TV, Movie and Music exports)

The British Empire might have had something to do with it too...
I disagree. It's easier to do none of something addictive than it is to do a little. Your advice goes against what most addiction specialists purport. Obviously this person couldn't manage the vice in the past, so he should avoid it.
I've always imagined a solar-powered scientific calculator.
I suspect several were.
Yowch. I didn't realize the price difference was so substantial. I have GDrive and OneDrive accounts too. OneDrive's Windows integration works great. I'm just trying to get away from Google and Microsoft tie-downs because I don't trust their ability to give me support if I got locked out of my account for some reason.
I think the root cause is supply, demand, the salaries of buyers, interest rates and multiple of salary for mortgages permitted by law.
Let me explain how politics works in Ohio - one of the most famous of purple states or "battleground" states. It's a population of 12 million that's nearly evenly split between high-density urban areas and rural sprawl (that explains why Ohio is the 10th most densely-populated state in the U.S.). The folks in the urban areas tend to be extremely liberal and diverse (where I live has been a popular spot for homosexuals for decades and women can walk around topless and have been able to for decades and most are onboard with a progressive agenda). In the rural sprawl areas? Nope. Polar opposite. Ultra-conservative who've taken well to Trump. They call us purple, but we're not: we're red and blue.

Move to an Ohio city and you'll do better if you're an "archetypal" Californian but if you move to the rural areas you'll do better if you're an archetypal Trumper. The biggest thing that unites us all is football, and no, I'm not even joking. Football is the biggest reason we can coexist peacefully and Trump tried to screw that up!
The cynic/conspiracy theorist in me says "Imagine blaming kids for acting weird when they're literally infested with plastic."
I would be interested to know why you quit.

I took some classes, but never got the license - it seems very high risk to fly once every few months in terms of skill degradation from disuse, and I never got any real excitement out of just going up to fly a rented Cessna when it's $150+ an hour, so I don't see myself just doing for that. Actually "flying cross-country" also seems impractical without skill upkeep.

Seems like the stereotype "it's for rich bored people" is mainly true unless it's a primary hobby or people are going for airline pilot in the long run.

P.S. Another random thought, but I feel like I would need to just spend 2 days straight landing and taking off to get comfortable with it. Like take-off, get some altitude, transition to slow flight, practice approach pattern, fully land, turn around, take off again. Seems like the classes spend a lot of time on stuff that doesn't really happen that much (stalls), stuff that isn't critical (ideal 180 turns within x time), etc.
> unimproved land to zero

Yep!

> dynamic supply and demand effects

Yep!

> ...then not if housing units aren't the most profitable use of land in the local area it won't.

Agree. But they almost always are.

> Confiscatory

Housing can either be an investment or it can be affordable long-term, it can not be both. Therefore the Land Value Tax is the only correct rate. And a UBI for at least a decent portion of it nullifies any potential regressive nature of it.

> don't reduce tax rates for the average person

It does, over time, as housing supply improves and the entire economy gets out of the mud. The wealthy own the most expensive land.

> catastrophically drive down land value

The tax is based on the rental value of the land, that is, the flow. You could see it as the neutralization of the capture of the positive externalities of your neighbors.

As in your first example where an empty lot will settle at $0 market price, that would not mean it has a $0 tax. It would still have whatever tax it would have. You determine that tax based on market rates, and it is a set cost based on that particular property - it's not some percentage of the market rates as we do today.

I agree that in the short-term, with most people having most of their networth in their home, this would be a bad thing. We can transition to this process slowly, and only increase as the incentives improve the economy and allow us to improve. The best way to start is to have a net zero change where we remove taxes on improvements and instead to tax the land.

Making better use of the city land would in fact drive the overall land flow value up hugely in value. SF has much more room to improve than NYC, NYC makes pretty good use of it's land. But so can CT and NJ, and the rise in supply of non-NYC land outside of NYC will drive more value into NYC.
The SGI monitors were 4:3 but I don't recall the resolution. I do recall that they were beasts, weight of a small elephant and a not dissimilar size - you needed to pull your desk away from the wall to get any kind of distance to the screen.

Over time their timings would drift and you could never get the entire screen completely sharp.
Also another interesting dynamic is that bids can’t simply be compared by headline price. There’s so many other factors to consider in a bid: contingencies, time to close, reliance on a lender, likelihood of close, etc.

I don’t see how a blind system can take those factors into account to algorithmically select a single winning bid.
Thank you, at a glance it seems very interesting.
Oh, mine was sarcasm. Your thing looks cool, but I'm in the other camp on this one.
I don't think version control system is the major differentiator for whether people like monorepos or not, tbh. Having a good incremental build/test system is far more important to developer experience, IMHO.

The biggest dissonance when it comes to the purported benefits of monorepos is that a "good" monorepo generally assumes very good interface design skills across all teams, but in reality, the path of least resistance is tacking on more and more unique codepaths (e.g. forking/"rewriting" existing things), so in effect, likability often comes down to how well a team is able to isolate itself from global changes (by choosing stable/boring APIs, inventing their own abstractions in their own little corner, or what have you).
There are other formalisms, which better fit Wolfram’s claims — eg, lambda calculus or automata.

A model of state transfers on encoded operators actually isn’t very far from “physics just happens to particles”.
It is about time. With today's the majority can not hope to ever own their place.
Not really. France got its first nukes in 1960 and what had happened in both world wars was enough to change everyone's perception nukes or no nukes: The same would had happened if nukes had not even existed.

Nukes are a guarantee against invasion and in the context for France and the Cold War especially aimed against the USSR. But they don't mean you need to be friendly and cooperate. France and Germany (and others in Europe) really made a decision quite irrespective of the existence of nukes to stop European self-destruction and to work peacefully together from then on.
I read that CRTs are still better in some respects
Have a look at this book https://cc-webshop.com/collections/books-electronics/product...

He designs a Z-80 from scratch, giving Verilog hints / good practice along the way. The design isn't 'complete' -- you have to learn what he's saying and add in the other parts.

It's not a 'trivial' book but if you want to Get Good -- recommended.
Much more elegant solution than the mess I hacked together.
String theory has been around since the late 1960s. To date, has it made a single prediction which was later experimentally found to true? (i.e. aside from "predicting" the existence of particles which were already known to physics)
It's certainly possible to have a healthy relationship with video (or other) games. But a lot of online games do a lot of unhealthy hooks.

Daily bonuses, Skinner box positive feedback, inflexible scheduled events that are 'important', etc.

There can be a lot of socialization and community which can be a positive (although if many people in the group are making poor life choices, I dunno).

All that said, I prefer offline games where there's still a motivation to improve skills to do better, and sometimes a grind to get better equipment/more levels, but if it gets too grindy, it feels like work and I stop. Sometimes, I stay up too late and have a disagreeable day the next day, and that inspires me to be stronger about stopping at a reasonable time for the next session. And there's no penalty for waiting until I catch up on sleep before I play again.
> I feel like it’s almost an attempt to appease citizens by blaming the issue on “foreigners”

There is truth, however. The Wenzhou house wife property speculator trope has some basis in reality, and Chinese markets are already rife with massive speculation that has seeped into foreign markets popular for Chinese emigration (Toronto, Vancouver, and to a much lesser extent NYC and west cost American cities). You don't have to look hard to see the effects in Vancouver, where condo buildings and housing remain empty due to being seen as speculative assets.

American and some western European housing markets (e.g. UK) are a bit unique in that they haven't limited foreigners from buying and speculating on real estate. Whereas in China, many tier 1 and 2 cities have strict residency requirements before you can buy an apartment (but these also apply to Chinese via their hukou residency system).
I've not used it extensively, but Josh can probably help here.

https://github.com/josh-project/josh

It's designed for making multiple Git repos from a monorepo, but I think you should be able to make a skeleton repo that represents your desired final monorepo layout and push your individual repos to the Josh subviews of that repo to combine them all.

(A big advantage of this approach over the multiple unrelated histories is that you don't have the mass move commits since Josh will rewrite all history as if the files were always in that folder, so you don't have to worry about history of individual files getting broken.)
You can certainly inspect the synthesized primitives, either graphically post-place&route, or in a netlist which is usually a tangled mess.

Typically you're doing so either because you're curious, you're debugging a timing problem, or you're trying to make sure the toolchains inferred a particular primitive you are trying to use on purpose. It's not terrifically informative otherwise.
That's a technicality. People vote for Presidents by including the combo of them and their VP pick. The VP pick is known, even on the ballot, and understood to assume the President's role in case of emergency. So it's quite realistic to say we know full well we're voting for the package.

I wouldn't extend this to the President's cabinet, as these people aren't known to us when voting.
And despite all that, by the time it was released, it was really not very impressive graphically, which was all it had going for it since it was a terrible film.
As far as I know, that oft-cited 5% number does not include "students" whose parents abroad suddenly gift them > $1 million in cash to buy one, two, or more properties.

Does the 5% stat include those kinds of situations, in which on paper it's not a "foreign investor" buying the property, but in reality it's just that?
>I mean't you as a user using xrdb, not what xrdb does. Also applications are supposed to use Xrm functions, not messing with properties directly.

As a user you have to be aware of this or you could mess up your settings. Applications that use Xrm functions make it even more complicated because those could merge the resource in strange ways or just write anything into the root property and clobber your whole setup. So now you have to be aware of each client's specific behavior in regards to this. If two clients try to merge the resources at once then there will inevitably be race conditions and lost data. It's just not realistic to ask users to know this much about what is being abused as a database. It should just work, and that's why nobody uses Xresources anymore.

>But that IS social issue - people agreeing that doing that is a good (or not) thing is a social issue, not a technical issue. There is nothing that technically prevents this,

No you're wrong. I'm sorry but I really can't stand when people say this. It is absolutely a technical issue because no two toolkits will support the exact same set of options. If they didn't want to do a different design with a different set of options then they wouldn't have made another toolkit. Once they do, then you're faced with the very real technical problem of how to reconcile two diverging designs. You're saying it's a social issue because people can't be bothered to do this work for free, and I'm sorry but that's not how anything works. If it were that easy then you would have done it by now.

Maybe you're trying to say that it would be better if we all used one toolkit, but the ship has long sailed on that, on every single operating system that exists. It also isn't possible to make the one toolkit that does everything everyone wants and works with every possible standard that somebody has ever published.

>Well, it is also that because -in practice- it is the only one that is available in any Unix where there is Xorg (or a fork of it) running :-P.

I don't think so, both GTK and Qt are pretty portable and have been available on other Unixes. Also it's not like Xaw has any HPUX or Solaris specific features to warrant using it.
Same here.
I imagine someone at the company in some meeting: "We've even got a couple users who are in their 90s!"
He obviously cannot agree with everyone. He has his point of view, sold that to a majority of voters, who elected him.

I'd rather hear that my representative disagrees with me than receive some BS noncommital answer that dodges the issue or tries to straddle both sides of an issue.
Just sell your PC and buy a Mac.
It sounds they're not forcing the "Mom and pop landlords" to sell though their hoard though, so they're just making it easier for them to continue their leeching. They're just as big, if not bigger, of a problem.
so much hate for le monde in these comments! While I'm probably too familiar with US politics, I'm not familiar enough with French politics to know what it means when a french person says "globalist propaganda".

In US terminology, whoever says "globalist propaganda" also says "I don't believe Trump lost the election in 2020".

The comments who say this make me think that, probably, le monde is an excellent publication.

There are other comments that say le monde is 'oligarchy-owned' and then suggest publications that take a more left-leaning stance.

This makes me think le Monde is kind of like the New York Times. In general, they know who buys their papers, but the journalism (journalism! - the opinion pages are not journalism by definition) that the NYT does is largely good. It gets the facts and it prints them, holds their own to a high standard, and does a thorough job.

Politically, the NYT pisses off the left and the right on the regular. Does le Monde do that too? Are the vocal advocates against le Monde trying to say 'go further into an echo chamber', or are there legitimate criticisms about the process of reporting that le Monde engages in? Do they get the facts wrong often or go to press too early with a story regularly?

Apparently the 90's-early 00's was a good time for le Monde -- that happens to be when I knew about it. What has happened since?
I think you missed the forest for the trees. It may help to familiarize yourself with turing completeness and what wolfram calls computational equivalence.
Well, I don't know about you specifically, but I think the average person is more affected by advertising than they realize.
A lot of comments, probably from marketers with a vested interest in the status quo, seem to make the argument "better marketers would achieve better results." But I haven't seen a single citation arguing that 1) advertising works at all or 2) differential impacts from different marketers.
I disagree. I think it will be a lot like how technology has effected music production.

40+ years ago, it was hard to access the equipment necessary to learn music production, so only a small slice of the population was able to learn these skills. And availability made the process take years.

Today, you can download free software that enables music production, and if you have a good ear, can create something "good" in weeks. This has led to an explosion of musical experimentation by the youth: a teenager can now create a great electronic dance song with devices they already own if they have the right creativity, taste and dedication.

Similarly, everyone has an imagination - many people have visual imaginations. The gating factor of art production is largely the mechanical memory of how to transform mental concepts into the right shapes and hues to express that visual concept to others.

With these sorts of tools we are going to have an explosion of art hobbyists. I've played with some similar, more primitive AI art generation tools and it is a lot of fun. People will be creating works of art from their couch while watching TV that rival the quality of what professionals are producing today.
one problem with multiple repos: you may end up with multiple binary components, like shared libraries, static libraries, etc, where each binary is produced from the sources of a separate repository. Now it may turn out to be a bit tricky to track a given binary found in a deployment to its sources. (on the JVM you could partially get by without the sources, as you have good decompilers)

I have never worked with mono repos, but I guess that this task would be somewhat easier, given that all sources are under a single repository.
Not possible because it could not be a single computer node. Electrical signals simply are too slow.
I'm very curious if you work in advertising/adtech, otherwise your "take" is no different than the ones you're criticizing.

I have worked on the data side of a pretty wide range of roles across the marketing/adtech spectrum for over a decade and think their is a lot of good reason to be skeptical of the claims of the advertising world.

Tim Hwang is also an insider in this industry and wrote an entire book (The Subprime Attention Crisis) on the issues with the current state of advertising. I work in a very different area from Tim (he's legal) but I can tell you that book almost bored me with how obvious all of his complaints where.

> It's not that these companies love throwing their money away. Maybe there's just something they know that you don't?

I've seen the data that many of these companies don't. As many others have said, simply dismissing advertising as a "scam" is too extreme, however there are a lot of really big issues in the industry and extreme skepticism of the advertising industry is well warranted.

The reasoning of "if the system is fundamentally broken, then why are so many people participating in it?" is easily dismissed with any of the major financial crises we've seen. This same logic could be falsely applied to the pre-2008 financial crisis "if these ratings are so wrong then why are so many experts putting so much money in them?"

Personally I don't know anyone who works on the "how the sausage is made" side of advertising that isn't at least somewhat skeptical of the whole system.
>"The prices need to go up. I don't understand why no one is willing to admit this."

No, rather somebody at the top needs to go down.
I just use a custom regex with the Redirector extension for searching in any subreddit.

https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
>branded a charlatan your entire professional career by the academic establishment despite running a profitable company for over three decades

Those two features are not mutually exclusive.
There's a universe of difference between avoiding blind faith and distrusting "academia", which is a very broad category. We all only have the information that is available to us.