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> My general feeling is if Windows 7 still receive free secure updates, I'd be using it.

For security, you can Micropatch it.

I tried W7 recently and it was even better, more polished than I remembered. USB3 drivers could be an issue though. Depends on the motherboard.
would you say so called "influencer" / "creator" marketing is more valuable nowadays as a result? Getting people behind you who have a trusted audience seems like the only way to combat this problem, I just don't know that its a serviceable business per se?
"hiring committee" = Google.
This is QALYS. It's how the UK allocates health care spending.

The UK allocates healthcare in a pretty humane, efficient and, ultimately, (whisper it!) communist manner.
Colorado isn't a small state, but is that "raw" square miles, or square miles accounting for reserved land and natural features that make it uninhabitable?
The fad of being afraid of nuclear was not real issue as it was already pointed here - electricity generation is not only issue.
But even if we are talking about electricity generation - there are countries that had loads of coal so they stayed with coal-fired power stations. Why there is no nuclear power plant in Poland? Because of people being afraid of nuclear? That seems bit naive.
I'd guess Microsoft.
Monorepos are also great for small monorepos with just a few projects. The darklang monorepo [1] has a devcontainer that installs all the build tools for 4 projects which create 21 different services, using 6 languages, and building everything is one step.

In fact, it makes it so easy to add new stuff that I didn't even realize we had 21 services til I counted. My first guess was 12.

[1] https://github.com/darklang/dark
Floating–point numbers happened. Excel uses IEEE–754 floating–point arithmetic because it is fast and ubiquitous. One of the disadvantages of doing math this way is that as you get farther away from zero, the precision of the numbers goes down. It’s generally fine because most people don’t do arithmetic on 6 quadrillion and change, they do arithmetic on smaller, more approachable numbers.

Look for a way to solve your problem using software that uses unlimited–precision arithmetic instead.
Except they don’t spread exponentially like some startup hockey stick growth chart. They might start exponentially but eventually it gets harder and harder to find the next host to the spread peaks and eventually declines. The chart of a virus spread is not really exponential at all.

Way too many people took “exponential growth” way to literally, causing panic and mayhem.
This has happened to a number of folks that I have known over the years, and long predates remote work.

I have known many people that have picked up and moved across the country for "the dream job," only to return, a couple of months later, tail between their legs, because the job turned out to be unsuitable in any of a dozen different ways (usually, it was because the duties did not match what they were told, but I know of at least one case, where the pay was drastically reduced, or they were hired as a contractor, even though they were told it was a salaried employee of the corporation).
Companies that sell ads will do everything they can to convince you there is a measurable difference, but often while the metrics presented to the client are real, they do not always translate to real world impact.

There is no easy way to determine whether this is the case without just comparing when the ads are on and off and somehow dealing with the confounding variables, which isn't easy.
I don't think it is accurate to use problems in the field of psychology to indict peer review in math or physics.
If your entire C app is in one file you must be really into pasta cause that's spaghetti
One thing I find with the Economist is I can generally read an article on a current event and come away with a factual account of the event and separate their view from it. From their own account I can argue and question their interpretations and extrapolations.
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you're not wrong, but if the last 5 years were any indication that is a naïve fallacy.
The app ecosystem on the iPhone (and then Android) certainly became much more significant over time. But the 2007 iPhone announcement didn't upend things over night. I had a Treo at the time and didn't get around to switching over to an iPhone until the 3GS in 2010 or thereabouts--which was probably the model when the iPhone really started taking off.

(The iPod was similar. A lot of people viewed the initial models as just another and not very compelling MP3 player.)

And you're right that the iPhone also hit the market at a time when data plans were becoming more affordable for people not expensing them. My Treo's plan was fairly reasonable as a recall but then you couldn't really use a huge amount of data anyway.
> When they pointed out they had been hired as remotes they were met with a collective shrug - the job opening didn't say remote, the agreement they signed didn't say remote.

While I wish we could live in a world where people would uphold their word, alas. If it’s not written down on paper it might as well not be real.
Lets not customize it then.

What OS vendors should do is give as bare bone version of SO - kernel + package manager. We can take it from there with scripts. With simple strategy to keep those scripts online like vscode keeps your settings would be definite solution but even without it you are one git clone away from your repo that contains all customizations. We could have option in Windows to export system settings as PowerShell script.

Its really not that hard, its just that nobody relevant wants to do it.

Microsoft, if you are listening, I would even do it for free (because ultimately it would save me time). Just gimme jurisdiction/authority and we can have that.
Well, after much searching I didn't find the parts of the Atomic Energy Act that required certification for any and all materials processing.

By default things are legal.

I've also spoken with scientists who do research that, at times, abuts nuclear science, and have heard stories of them just... not doing paperwork because it's annoying.
Amazon trains its employees to be back stabbers. I'm at the point where if I see a long stint Amazon on your resume, I count that as a point against you, because if we work together, you're probably gonna try to give me the runaround and/or fuck me over.
> "Ask HN: Do you believe in GNU's Free Software?"

It's about a day after this was originally posted and there are less comments and upvotes than there are for a post about Twitter adding an edit button. I believe that constitutes its own answer to the question.
The point being the medication has no effect on ones ability to safely operate an aircraft.

The issue is, yes, there are ADHD cases that are debilitating but they typically don't even make it out of training. If you're managing the condition through therapy and potentially medication there isn't an issue but the FAA fails to recognize that neurodivergence isn't binary.

A significant chunk of the pilot population has ADHD, it's common enough to basically be a meme in the community because the career/hobby is especially appealing to those that have it.
>We're at an impasse.

No we're not, you're ignoring what I'm saying. Nothing was obfuscated and developers and users didn't lose any flexibility. Take a look at those screenshots. Developers actually have more flexibility here because now they have recoloring in addition to the traditional stylesheets. I don't understand what this has to do with flatpak either, that's not really any different from the other package managers as far as themes go.

>GTK4 and Libadwaita are direct regressions from the functionality we had with GTK3 and libhandy.

No, this is absurdly and egregiously wrong and the book is not closed. The only thing that's really happened here is added functionality. Right now nothing has actually been removed. I'm completely 100% serious about this. You're wrong here. This is a big non-issue that you've blown out of proportion. The recoloring isn't even an upcoming feature. It's already usable in a limited form, you can see it in action in the text editor I posted. What is upcoming is having a nicer API around it. And this also isn't "purported" either, you can see the very real work happening on it right now: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/merge_requests/3...
If you get to the point you get an offer, always make sure to get that in the contract. I was working remotely for a company that went through some re-org and ended up with a different manager who wasn't very excited about having remote team members. Unfortunately for him it was part of my contract so he couldn't force me to relocate.
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to...

I don't think most of us want to go for the lottery.

Also:

Majority of amazon alumni I've had experience with (to be fair it's not a lot) has been extremely toxic and a they've been a jerk. I don't blame the individuals. They are probably required to be a jerk to survive at Amazon and unlearning that is hard as fuck.
I couldn’t find anything my opponent disagreed with me on. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Came here to say about mondediplo, delighted to find another esperantist who reads it. Thanks.
Same thing happened with me @ Apple last year. Went through 4 or so interviews with the expectation that it was a remote role. Then the day before the big remote "onsite" I was told they actually wanted someone in-person. So I removed myself from the process. I'll chalk it up to 2021 being a confusing time for everyone - but I felt pretty burned by it.
OP dodged a bullet frankly, but it really sucks when most big companies all shoot at you.

We don't even need to promote much discussion on it TBH. If OP is to be believed, the company blatantly lied to OP and wasted a large chunk of his time.

Just like in anything else in life, if someone is not held to the consequences of their actions, they'll keep doing it.

It's frankly pathetic if this remains the norm for our profession.

It's not like most of us applicants go in, blatantly lie, and waste the companies time. We, and every other worked applying to any job, should at least be treated the same as a bare minimum.
> How do you know your ads aren’t just taking credit for customers who were going to buy anyway?

The word for this in the business is "incrementality", and there are several ways of measuring it. The simplest conceptually, is that you run two ads to two random groups of users: one for the product and one for something irrelevant like a charity. Then you compare conversions between the two groups.

(There are fancier ways to do it that don't require you to spend half your budget on an irrelevant ad, but that's the basic idea.)
Remember how civil things were when every news outlet decided we needed to go to war with Iraq?
> It's pretty easy to tell if an ad is working when you turn it on, and your email list growth rate instantly doubles -- and all the traffic is coming from a new traffic source.

Maybe for a real tight definition of instantly, but generally this is not true. Imagine the following scenario:

1. You run an ad for ComapnyName.

2. An enthusiastic customer promotes your business in a local bar.

3. The bar attendees search for CompanyName and click on the first result.

Because you ran an ad for CompanyName, the first result is going to be your ad. You will see very nice ROI on that ad. What you won't see in any stats, is that these people would have probably found the organic link anyway, because they were already motivated and searching for CompanyName in particular.

> Obviously, if we were to run Google ads on search traffic, we would check whether our organic search traffic dropped when we turned the ads on, but that's a different point

That wouldn't help either in this imaginary scenario, because these bar attendees are a spike in traffic. Plus if the ad has been running for a longer period, then you won't have accurate organic search traffic stats anymore either, because it's already cannibalized.
> You still don’t know whether the customer would have ultimately found you without the ad.

Sure, maybe 100 customers would eventually find you. But if you buy the traffic, you can make them all find you on the same day.

> But other than gross spend changes there’s no way of telling for sure that the ads do anything.

I'll use the most fundamental example:

If someone clicks your ad and buys the product during that session, you know the ad worked. If you keep increasing your ad budget every day, and you are consistently returning $2 for every $1 you spend, you know it's working. Turn off the ads, and the revenue goes away. You'd be surprised how many people make their living doing this.
I'll bet I know which company (I won't name them, but I get regular automated contacts for them. They used to be onsite-only, but the contacts recently, have been stressing "remote-only." I don't believe them, at all).
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Having entered the software engineering world in the “age of GitHub,” I really appreciate learning more about the practical ways in which the advent and growth of GitHub have made community and discovery more difficult.

I often read about nostalgia for the days of mailing lists and IRC but have struggled to understand the appeal since I never experienced those forms communication myself. This analysis really opened a window into that world for me, and I now find myself in agreement with Michael that GitHub has not made discoverability and community engagement a priority.

GitHub has the ability to restore the soul of open source and make things much more exciting for 100,000 projects out there without an audience. It should do everything in it’s power to cultivate that excitement for everyone, not just a few lucky people.

I agree wholeheartedly and would love to see GitHub take steps in this direction.
Excel only stores 15 significant digits. Once you get to the 16th digit you'll just get a zero.

Example:
6,190,283,353,629,370 + 1 will still be 6,190,283,353,629,370.
6,190,283,353,629,370 + 10 will be 6,190,283,353,629,380
As others have pointed out, what does this even mean? What kind of metric is this? What was it compared against? Where is the data? It doesn't exactly instill confidence that the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency makes claims like these, this is marketing fluff.
In my experience, the developer experience for juniors is too much. Yarn + Lerna is just too much of a learning curve. However, having one repo and on CICD pipeline is convenient. But we've decided to divest from them. Your situation may not match mine, and that's okay.
> One FAANG I wouldn't work at under any circumstances.

Amazon

> One FAANG has been very clear that they want employees on site.

Apple

> One FAANG has a recruiting proc where you are hired once you pass the interviews, you can figure out your team later.

Meta/FB

> One FAANG doesn't really fit in the FAANG acronym.

Netflix

QED
Cortex M0+ is ARMv6-M. ARMv8 has also an M variant, Cortex M33 is ARMv8-M mainline. ARMv6-M and ARMv8-M have quite a lot of things in common, as v8 is a superset of v6. Or did you mean ARMv8-A? Well, ARMv8-A and ARMv8-M are not compatible intentionally, as the the A variant is strictly 64-bit (some implementations support AArch32 though) and the support for thumb instruction set has been dropped.
Apparently Walmart and Target stay away from AWS but most of it seems to be FUD regarding, I guess, Amazon potentially targeting their competitors and their suppliers to steal data stored in AWS/use it for strategic business moves. It would be a swift death for AWS if they were found to be doing this, though, so imo the fear is unfounded.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andriacheng/2019/07/14/amazon-a...
I don't disagree, there is a level of difficulty that comes from Linux being so configurable.

I would say though that it doesn't discount sensible defaults that work for the majority of people. I only briefly used it but it seemed like elementary was on its way to towards that goal (before what seems like an implosion on the side of the company).

That's never going to eliminate the problem, the user can always screw something up or bugs rear their ugly head.
The one thing is though there has to be a reason to most non-tech people outside of conceptual ideas like Freedom. Like if my dad doesn't want to spend the money for a new rig but not have the OS slow to a crawl, then I might suggest Linux. If everything is working fine, then I probably wouldn't bother.
I tried to look for this research, and am referring to what I found. If there's more, I'll be wrong below.

Why do so many commenters here throw away the many many Dunbar's number studies in favor of what appears to be one clump of new research? What do Graber and Wengrow have that convinces you everyone except for them is making some error?
So the participant was in fact allowed to change the compiler command so `gcc` isn't even used...? I had wondered how gcc would compile an empty file.
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It's very simple: with a monorepo you always have access to everything you need, together with a ton of stuff you don't. Whether or not this is advantageous boils down to whether the cost of not having access to something you need is greater than the cost of having access to a bunch of stuff you don't. As long as your system is reasonably efficient at letting you select small subsets of everything you could potentially have access to, the cost of having access to a bunch of stuff you don't need is essentially zero. Perforce is good at that. Git isn't. So people who use Perforce tend to think that monorepos are good and people who use git don't. And they're both right.
> 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.

From experience dealing with recruiters for the last 25 years they universally lie to both sides to pocket the commission at all costs.

I drove 400 miles once to do an interview for a solution architect position. Got there and the company were recruiting an Oracle DBA. The recruiter had plain up lied because I had some Oracle experience on my CV. They assured me they would ream the recruiter and bought me lunch and gave me an Amazon voucher to cover the fuel and time though which was nice.
That’s actually one of the highlighted feature of these - they allow selective harvest and prevent a lot of harm.
I think that ship has sailed. Even the word "therapy" has lost all meaning, just like "mental health" and we are all just conditioned to believe that the only way to achieve anything is through group think and therapy.

If you're fucked up, try drugs, (preferably the _legal_ kind, but certain herbs work really well) before you try therapy. Therapy is expensive for a reason; it's 50% a scam.
Am spending more time in N. VA area and the growth is shear insanity. National Landing is attractive for a good reason: ultra fast internet.

"Southern Living" I believe comes down to land, and building your dream house. And that's what people do, they build their own mini fiefdoms. Every neighbor alienated from each other in their private mini country club. With the desolation of cities, it seems inevitable here: the home becomes the sphere of convergence: school, work, church, theatre.
Kinda unsettling that we even required masks on the public with no evidence they worked going in, eh?

If they truly worked to a level that justified their use, I’d expect it to have made a massive impact on important metrics. Thus far, I see no evidence of that. You can compare the trajectory of various geographic regions and they all follow the same basic shape in the same ball park regardless of policies in place.
> As GP states, they engaged in "noble lies" in order to drive vaccine adoption.

Can you point out what was in your opinion the best example of what you described as "noble lie"?

I've seen people throwing baseless accusations by misrepresenting basic guidances, such as how avoiding scarcity of personal safety equipment like latex gloves and surgical masks in hospitals was distorted into "first they state masks don't work but now they flipflop into arguing they do".

Thus, to avoid personal subjective takes and keep this discussion on the facts, what exactly do you see as the best example of this "noble lie"?
> The hack in December

What are you referring to?
We make fun of the Romans for eating out of lead plates and slowly going crazy, and yet here we are surrounded by a substance that might cause cognitive impairment as well https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068600/
Do prioritise it and make sure to go in completely blind!
This is a strange shift in responsibility. Wouldn’t it be better to say: “Coal shortened the life of so and so many people”? After all If there were neither coal power (or other air polluting power) nor nuclear those lives wouldn’t have been shortened either.
Any suggestions for how to go from multiple Git repos to a monorepo? Preserving history would be really nice. I've looked at submodules and subtrees and both seem to have huge downsides and don't deliver the same benefits of a true monorepo.
Hum... The article is a quick back of the envelope summary of the problems the industry hires people to solve.

Where it points a problem, read it as "you could be hired to work on X", and not as "companies are unable to do X".

Of course, it is also a submarine marketing piece from Cerebras. So it has an incentive to imply that the problem with large chips are solved and the ones with small ones are unsolvable. Just notice that it doesn't actually say this, you just get the impression from no specific place.
Hacker News didn't exist back then. If it had, I hope we'd have managed it.