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The issue is the legal system has, to date, largely followed the understood intent of the GPLv2.

Consulting with the SFC does nothing to advance anything.

Harald Welte has had great success getting folks to release source code. However, he does not threaten commercial use of GPL software, no unlock keys / signing keys etc are needed.
Exactly. This is a developer culture problem as much as it is a technology problem. Developers care less about runtime performance than other development factors, so they choose technologies that sacrifice runtime performance for developer speed and comfort. Is the root cause even deeper? Why are we so focused on developer productivity? Do individual developers really not care about performance, or is it that their companies are insisting that they poop out whatever crap they can in as little time as possible?

> > Electron apps are slower today than native apps were 10 years ago, despite computers getting faster and available RAM on my machine quadrupling.

Desktop software today seems to be slower than desktop software even 20 years ago, when RAM and hard disks not only had less capacity, but were also slower just as CPUs were slower. As an industry, we have sacrificed so much at the holy altar of Developer Productivity.
Yeah, I got the AND and XOR ones. It was immediately after those, I think the first one might have been filled small circles and boxes on the left and right of a center vertical line. They were all at the bottom, making me think it might have to do with some symbolic counting, but I didn't come up with anything. the next 2-3 with the center vertical line I didn't get either, so conceptually there's maybe something about the vertical line I wasn't grasping.
That's over 3 sigma can you back up the claim to your score?
> However, it would be cool if there was a way to get paid for walking.

Dog walker
As long as spying on people is for some reason legal this will continue to happen. Phones need to ban location access for anything that doesn’t need location to function. Given we have them, App Stores need to ban apps that are spy.
I finished it and scored 138, which ostensibly is a high score assuming the bell curve at the end is correct... and I'm just left wondering what was it I was being tested on. Pattern recognition, I guess?

It's a bit interesting since all the data work I've worked with involves labelling and categorization which is the same general idea, and I wonder if that' just coincidence. I've always thought that data science has been about labeling data because that's one of the most immediate business desires, or is that what the cognitive sciences actually consider to be a good abstraction of intelligence, if such a thing even exists.
~1/7 of the book by page count (about 30 pages if you tally the chapter lengths of nearly 200 pages), three chapters of twenty-two are dedicated to that topic (so not even 1/7th of the chapters). That seems reasonable since it's meant to be a broad book regarding software design and development. At least one page on comments is actually an answer to part of Clean Code, which is also relevant as the two books are in, roughly, the same subcategory of books on programming.
I suspect part of it is a fear of the following slippery slope:

admitting of genetic differences between breads -> genetic differences between races -> providing scientific proof that some races are better than others -> therefor some races should be treated better/worse than others.

I personally find this line of argument flawed. Putting aside any discussion of the idea of race, it simply does not follow that a) one group being better at certain things means they are inherently better overall. Or that b) being better at certain things, or even overall, means that others must be treated worse.
Yes. I answered all within the time frame. I still had 14 minutes and change on the clock.
It's also easy to hit this goal with a treadmill desk ;)
The weird thing is that I'm quite good at puzzles like these, but I'm garbage at things like chess (well, I have a 1050 blitz rating on lichess, which isn't terrible, but it's not good either). You'd think it would carry over, but apparently it doesn't. Which makes me wonder what kind of smarts the test actually quantifies.
> I always wondered if Alice Cooper is doing that for multiple radio stations :) A local German radio station (Radio Bob) has a weekly show with him as well. I guess the same prerecorded stuff with a few custom "you are listening to..." mixed in!

That's super cool! It's probably all the same across the stations, yeah, although it still is quite fun to hear the songs he picks and why. One of the things he would always do was have a pair of songs that shared some theme that he would share afterwards, and it was fun to try to guess. The only two I remember offhand were some song called "Jack the Ripper" and then "Midnight Rambler" by the Rolling Stones with the theme "about serial killers", and then "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" by Argent along with "Since You Been Gone" by Rainbow, which were apparently written by the same guitarist.

> Regarding "just to pay some celebrity".. well, that is currently way out of our budget, as everything offered so far is 100% free and there are no plans to change that :)

Oh, definitely, I wasn't offering this as a completely serious suggestion so much as something that I could totally see one of the major tech companies doing to try to separate themself from the pack
The point they were making was ignoring one of the groups of people that I mentioned, because in order to make their point they _had_ to ignore that class of individual.

> > I'm naturally introverted, but when I say that to co-workers they don't believe it - because over the years I have learned to adapt.

> > There are tons of things I can do now that I couldn't do before. Many of them are unpleasant. But they are necessary and without many of them I wouldn't be anywhere near where I am today. Good luck with waiting for the world to adapt to you.

Some people _simply cannot adapt_. It is not a possibility.
This is an awesome explanation about how to port a real (and tricky) native project to WASM/Emscripten. Sadly, the game itself seems to crash in Safari after walking around for a bit.
What you describe goes against the narrative that any living thing in a species is just as X, Y, and Z as any other living thing in that species. It's part of the "equality of outcome" push because it denies the presence of innate advantages and characteristics, which is critical to enforcing the idea that everyone has precisely the same aptitudes.

The editors at Nature are brilliant in publishing a study like this, no matter how flawed it is, because it's such a sensitive topic for dog owners and people who see patterns in dogs mauling people. It's guaranteed clicks, reposts, retweets, and angry discussion along the lines of "see, science SAYS!" and "the study is flawed."
Not the OP, but maybe they meant chacos? (https://www.chacos.com/)

I have a pair and as an avid hiker and trail runner... I'm not sure I'd walk 15-20 miles in them. I have other better-suited footwear for that!
Probably this guys https://instagram.com/alexis.landot
So many online communities are collections of people of slightly above average intelligence, trying desperately to prove themselves far above other people of slightly above average intelligence.
I think "high level of performance" encompasses a wider range of performance levels than you're thinking.

Go will be more than fine for the vast majority of servers people need to build. Sure, there are some things where Go might not fit the bill, but that doesn't really matter; Go is still super relevant for writing servers, just as Java (another GC'd language that some people call "slow") is too.
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Agree, I felt like I knew what to do for some of them because of programming experience. I remember taking similar tests as a child, and always assumed that the pattern must be of the form "each object in the first square moves to some new location in the second square according to a rule, and then continues moving according to that rule to a new location in the third square". But here it seemed obvious to me that some questions were "combine the first square and the second square according to a logical operator like AND or XOR". I don't think I would have been so quick to see that sort of rule without being exposed to them frequently in programming.
> allows more employees in one space

and that's perhaps only technically true... as soon as you start adding quiet spaces, collaboration spaces, conference rooms, etc. necessary for open office layouts to actually work, the plain 3-4 person office plans (which nobody had for years, i was lucky to have them replaced with open office only during the pandemic) are just plain more efficient. open offices, to the surprise of no one actually working in them, force people to the worst of both worlds: have to commute to work to IM with colleagues anyway to not disrupt the whole office. it's madness.
Are you talking about the ones with the line and the filled / non-filled squares, or with the striped / non-striped flags? I couldn't make sense of them either.
When you set out do you have a mental agenda or do you find that your mind gravitates toward worthwhile topics once you're walking?

I'm more a mind wanderer, though for a season I tried to mentally prepare myself for the transition from being at a controlled work environment to walking into a house with two young kids at the end of the day.
for me the biggest problem is how the flow of natural conversation is broken in video calls.

1 person gets to talk as long as they dont get interrupted or leave a long enough gap for other folks to speak up.

its like talking but with a 5 second latency.

so what ends up happening is people dont like to be rude, so they dont speak up unless theres a long gap of silence.

but gaps dont happen because usually 1-2 people hoard the discussion, you know the type who never pause between sentences and drone on and on.

in real life those people would be sidelined because people look away and have side conversations. but in a virtual meeting these people hijack every conversation for the entire hour
The problem with measuring IQ is that you don’t want to measure education or culture.

Math, history even reading comprehension are all affected by that.

IQ testing has sort of settled on pattern matching as a measure of IQ that isn’t correlated with your education or culture you grew up in.

Personally I still don’t believe you can’t train for an IQ test.
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I think what you’re describing is a difference in degree not kind
Great to have you here!

Did you ever try Smalltalk? Is there any area where you would prefer Smalltalk over LISP?

If you had to start from scratch, which of the two would you learn today, and why? (Let‘s assume that getting hired is not your concern, but only the ability to build powerful systems and the ability to reason about difficult problems.)

Thanks!
I mention above, it's not the existence of the correlation that's a problem. Whether or not its "statistically significant", it's wrong to use correlations for deviation making on the individual level, because they are just stereotypes, they're not necessarily true. For population studies or something, sure, but same as you can't tell someone that just because someone with their personal attributes and history is statistically likely to be a criminal so they must be, you shouldn't be telling people they're dumb based on some abstract instrument just because its outcomes exhibit a correlation
No they're not. But that is not a reason to make everyone incapable of using body language, by removing offices.
We had something similar at Google, where you change some CREATE TABLE statements in an SQL file, then run a migration based on that changed SQL file. It was insanely nice. I think this tool can be super useful, especially with a lot more people using something like Litestream.

I'm personally (and maybe naively) of the opinion that DB migrations should be as painless/automated and without ceremony as possible. I wish there were more tools like this out in the wild.
There’s no acute symptoms from deficiency (unless you consumed zero essential fatty acids, which is almost impossible). That said, you don’t need to guess about supplementation dose. For $50-$100, anyone can test their fatty acid levels: https://omegaquant.com/ (the “Omega-3 Index” tests).
"It costs just over $160 to get a week's worth of data on where people who visited Planned Parenthood came from, and where they went afterwards."
Using Git to generate unlimited combinations of features, stacks, and platforms
Absolutely. There are plenty of naturally occurring beneficial microbes currently being applied/utilized in US Ag to accomplish this. P is different than fixed N as the P is currently in a plant unavailable form in the root zone ie soil. Microbes solubilize thru enzymatic processes this unavailable P into a plant available form. With decades of MAP/DAP application and/or manure there is an abundance of locked up P in the soil and beneficial microbes hold an immediately accessible set of keys!
From the OC:

"They said that Apple's reasons for implementing the policy don't stand up, and that the policy is wasteful, inflexible and will lead to a "younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied" workforce."

I, for one, have no idea what neuro-normative means.

Anywho, u/EricE isn't agreeing or disagreeing. They're just advising that people can just state their preference plainly, no tortured nonsensical rationalizations necessary.

"If you're explaining, you're losing." -- Lee Atwater

Labor now has greater power. Wield it. Those who would take away your power don't bother to explain themselves. Why should Labor?

Unless, of course, you'd rather be right, over actually winning.
> allows me time to process existing thoughts as opposed to consuming more inputs

This can't be stressed enough.

With phones and the Internet today, most of us consume way more information than we have time to really process, organize, and reflect on. It's like we do a shopping spree every single day and never spend any time in our house unpacking any of the grocery bags. Our minds are a chaotic mess of piled up worries, news, unmade decisions, etc.

Walking (without audiobooks or other media) is the single best solution I've found to give my brain the idle time it needs to run a defrag and work through that backlog.
if you made the decision to create a new life then you have to follow through with the consequences.

if that's not what you wanted, you should have used protection.

the problem with the abortion debate is that both sides are in extreme corners and neither side is willing to approach the other.

the problem is also, trying to find a legal definition for the consensus.

what about a woman that believes to be raped, but can't prove it? should she be allowed to abort? i believe yes.

but we can only do that if we make abortion legal and the decision an entirely moral one. you can't legislate morality. with any legislation there will be corner cases with an unjust outcome.

all we can do is create better conditions for pregnant women so that they may be more comfortable carrying a baby that they otherwise would not want.
> People who memorize digits of Pi come to mind.

Hey, I feel attacked. What's wrong with memorizing digits of Pi?
Joke’s on you, I’ve read this entire comment thread and I’ll still get those questions wrong when I try them later today.
Why "used to", though? There current open positions seem to look for classic C, C++ and Python: https://jobs.lever.co/kittyhawk.aero?department=Heaviside&te...
It's 35 questions and in the last 10 I didn't see any patterns and resorted to the highly intellectual strategy known as "guessing". As a skeptic of IQ, I'm pretty worried about the same thing, surely it couldn't just be people publishing a study about how lucky subjects are at finding round pegs and square holes>
They used to allow you to join based on SAT scores. I know someone from that era. They don't seem very intelligent. I'm guessing they just studied a lot. Maybe it's the same for those people.
I randomly guessed for the last six questions because it was getting boring and still ended up with 121. https://i.imgur.com/hgXGoXn.png Some of the pattern addition / subtraction stuff was neat though.

I also don't put a lot of faith into IQ tests. I've met some incredibly smart people, on paper, who are incredibly dumb when it comes to common sense.
It's expensive because seeing that kind of stuff as a potential newcomer to a community can have a way of psyching a person out and making them think they need to be extra careful about this decision.

Basically, that "if you choose..." advice is for the wrong context, specifically because of the "if you choose" qualifier. I'm talking about what happens during the pre-choice time period.
possibly because i've been playing with Guix lately, and also because all the smartest people I know seem to use lisp-likes, I'm on team "just use a Lisp" (possibly with some sort of API interface to Python)
My best suggestion is to find as many reasonable people as you can and discuss it with them. (With a focus on "discuss" rather than "argue".)

I don't think you can ever get completely outside your own limitations, except perhaps in trivial cases. Everything is constrained by your own subjectivity. But inter-subjectivity reduces the chance that you're objectively wrong. I believe that's the best you can hope for.
I think it's worth noting that those things are adaptations that occurred after open concept took over. It's sort of a situation where the industry went a direction and never thought to reconsider, backpedal, and take another path entirely. Instead, we kept modifying our response to our poor decision to try and improve it.

But in the era of WFH the cubicles and private offices make even less sense: if I spend most of my day isolated in a cubicle, then why can't I spend that time in my office at home?
Coalton looks interesting - hadn't heard of it before.
>I've never been part of Mensa, but it seems like good concept for when it was created

"Let's create an wannabe intellectual elite club based on a controversial and not really representative test, milking suckers with paid tests, and giving them a false sense of achievement and superiority"

(and I score in the high range, it's not about sour grapes)
I'd believe any number of things might factor into less new construction (NIMBYism, tax incentives, some kinds of building requirements) but that California is especially behind in terms of density zoning? Nah.

National rate of single family zoning is about 75%. LA county was, up until recently, around that (which doesn't tell the whole story considering how big and geographically diverse LA county is with cores of high density and more pockets of mid), and that's probably more or less true across the state.

You want to see somewhere that's outlier bad that's experiencing a housing crisis?
Pick somewhere like Utah, big growth and waaay too few units on the market, prices almost tripling in the last 5 years, you'll see 80-90% single family zoning in Salt Lake County, and that's the most urban place in the whole state.

And this is a less relevant topic in California since the state basically ended single family zoning a year ago.

You can argue it should have gotten on top of that years ago and there's probably a case for that. But AFAICT no place does. People like single family homes, places try to hold on to that vision until they encounter the problems of popularity and density as they come.
I would have run back to the office if only I was given a quiet room in there of my own, and not a public room full of distractions.
Maybe a 2600 meeting?
Do you have any recs? I currently use VTWAX, VTIAX, and VTSAX as my index funds. Even split between all three. I would appreciate any recommendations on what to change in terms of allocation.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is ethical. The CDC was acting unethically here, though I'm sure they feel everything they do is ethical because they are above question when performing their mission.
Working remotely is career limiting. Period. I’m saying that as a remote worker. I would not recommend that you get into full time remote work until you’ve decided you are OK with no significant career advancement.
Even being born a few weeks early leads to significantly worse outcomes - the birthing ward at the hospital where my daughter was born had posters up warning of it. I thought that was weird because...you know, you're already there, but apparently it used to be fairly common for doctors to schedule induced labor earlier than they should have and for people to try to deliver earlier as it'd be easier on them.

When you get down to 26 weeks things get dire:

>In one study of 241 children born before 26 weeks' gestation the following was found:

22% severe disability (eg cerebral palsy + not walking, low cognitive scores, blindness, profound deafness)
24% moderate disability (eg cerebral palsy + walking, IQ/cognitive scores in the special needs range, lesser degree of visual or hearing impairment)
34% mild disability (defined as low IQ/cognitive score, squint, requiring glasses)
20% no problems.

https://www.tommys.org/pregnancy-information/premature-birth...

We already have a solution for people that don't want to keep their babies past pregnancy. Let's not ruin the baby's lives on top of it.
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Video calls convey body language. You don't need an office for that.
PFAS are so ubiquitous here it’s hard to even get a clean background for a blank.

And I wasn’t arguing anything, other than we don’t know the level that they become dangerous at. The preferred contamination level would be no contamination, but that ship sailed long ago.

Environmental testing is something I’ve been involved in for 15+ years. Endocrine disrupting persistent organic pollutants are a way bigger threat to public health than climate change.
Read somewhere that their famous 5Bn headquarters is also fully open plan office, as opposed to their previous buildings.
and any time a language allows this "free mixing", it loses the very tangible guarantees of purely-functional languages such as immutable data, emphasis on no side effects, etc.
I think IQ in tasks like chess determine your potential or at least how fast you learn. Obviously you aren't going to figure out something like a bishop pair checkmate on the spot even with 160.
Hahaha, that is pretty cool. I don't think we'd do something like that, especially the "Power Peg" one, at my firm. Although, it'd be fun.

> I miss the 2010s

Ah, so true. I was in college and grad school during that period, would have been more fun to work in the industry back then.
> Fair point! I don't know that I have ever, anywhere, read any informal text or technical document that could communicate the nuances of body language effectively and entirely though

If you aren't neurotypical, then read ribbonfarm. Conflict, double meanings, soft and hard power, etc. will be hard to understand without it. Most body language isn't that serious, but conflict is normal and you'll have a much easier time understanding why someone else starts conflict with you. It's long; first two parts are probably enough but it is generally fairly compelling.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
For starters, they're infinite, so it's a futile endeavour...
Makes sense, applying 100 IQ for 10 minutes give a higher intelligence force than applying 150 IQ for 1 minute.

Totally scientific.