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Snowden has shown that he is intelligent, very cautious and plans long in advance. I don't know his situation in Russia, but it must have been pretty precarious already. Maybe he's planning to leave Russia, but I don't know what his options are.
Big O is important. I actually have to frequently understand whether my function runs in logarithmic or linear or quadratic or exponential time relative to some value.

I can see an issue if you’re asking for
a weird big O which really isn’t useful in practice, like “oh, we were expecting this weird algorithm which is O(log log n), not something O(log n)”, or having to calculate the big O of one of those weird algorithms.
> During his time in Russia, we have seen the whistleblower system work effectively here at home. The details of Trump’s Ukraine call, and the subsequent freezing of security aid seems rather relevant today. More impressively so, this same whistleblower system Snowden criticized worked against a sitting president having no capacity for restraint.

It's just laughable to believe that "the system works" because certain leaks and whistleblowing was permitted in order to harm Donald Trump. Makes me wonder if the author even knows there is such a thing as "the intelligence community" with its own autonomy, imperatives, and loyalties which are not necessarily in lockstep with every sitting POTUS.

It's actually a bit distressing to see that after everything which has happened after the past several decades, someone could still come to the conclusion that Snowden would have been treated the same as Mr. X.
Absolutely nutty to me how many bloggers who (apparently) liked Snowden before have done a complete 180 after Russia attacked Ukraine. Look, basically nothing about Snowden's personal situation is changed, except that he probably has even less incentive to speak out.

Why now? It really comes off as an attempt to be seen as supporting $CURRENT_THING instead of a genuine ideological disagreement with Snowden.
This is fairly transparent slander, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has a “company” relative.
I have been trying to find a job for the past 2-3 months, and the psychological toll that it has taken on me is enormous.

I planned on going for a PhD, but eventually got tired of academia and of practically starving. I am finishing my master's in December. I have sent out my CV for review in r/cscareerquestionsEU, I have received good feedback, I have been told that my CV is strong and that I may be suffering from my own successes.

Most of the responses by companies are flat out rejections without any information as to how or why. I have been told that I am overqualified for positions. By others that I was underqualified. I have been given excuses of the form "we are looking for somebody who has more experience with XYZ tech" as if there is some kind of barrier that prevents somebody from learning said tech.

At this point I am practically begging for anything to not starve and pay the bills.

I am really sorry for venting here, but I am at a breaking point.
I mean if you're Edward Snowden, you get to make one enemy. Yeah he could keep on playing hero and make more and more enemies until he is in jail, but aren't there people in the FSB or something better poised to play that role? Edward Snowden would just be a martyr for its own sake in this case.
> It makes sense to add a way to recover access to your account if you fear that you may forget your password. It makes no sense to give google your phone number just in case they may out of nowhere decide that you look suspicious (for using firefox? moving to another country? something else?) and reject authenticating you despite being able to enter your password correctly.

Why should the reason you need to recover the account matter?

If the account is important to you, wouldn't losing it be equally bad regardless of whether you lost it because you forgot your password or you lost it because Google did something annoying?
I don’t want to remember names either. I type in ‘hei-‘ in the browser, it autocompletes to Heimdall, then I click the shiny button of the thing I want.
Two dozen states and territories would ban it immediately, and 13 have “trigger laws” waiting for the ruling.
The words might change. The result will not - it will be 6-3 or 5-4. Probably the latter as Roberts will vote for no change to try (and fail) to preserve his legacy.
> I’m introverted, so the forced social interaction at work was perfect for me

That's not healthy and it shouldn't be the basis for company policies in general.
That's what I see. Many employers were very cautious, often with good reason, in the early days of the pandemic. Right now the market doesn't look bad at least here in the UK and going by the level of recruiter spam I get.

Some of the more recent names I recognise on the layoffs.fyi list are Zillow, Peloton and Robinhood. These have all had unique, headline-making difficulties so perhaps they don't reflect the market as a whole.

It's hard to believe the good times will continue to roll even in the tech sector though. The boost that some parts of the industry received from profound lifestyle changes on a societal scale caused by COVID is history and the boom in tech stocks is long past with widespread and sometimes very large corrections since.

Now the entire global economy is surely going to take a big hit. Some sort of normal life returns but the costs of the economic damage from the virus itself and the huge support schemes many governments put in place come due. The actions of certain belligerent leaders aren't helping. All of this will surely dampen investment so say goodbye to the kind of crazy startup that gets way more funding than it really needs and goes on a huge hiring campaign because it doesn't know what else to do with the money.

I'm afraid some relatively young people in the software industry who think it's normal to job-hop every few months for a double-digit salary raise and to double-or-more their base through stock and bonuses may be about to learn a brutal lesson just as some of us older devs did in the GFC or dot-bomb eras before.
I think your concerns are valid, but I think we can come up with ways to avoid them without forcing people to declare and be bound to a specific location.

Just want to add that for example in France there is a "gens du voyage" status for nomadic people that allows then to access government services without a fixed address. I don't know enough about it to say if it's successful, just saying there are options.
Anyone living in Russia with the level of international profile Snowden has, isn’t speaking out, so I don’t think pragmatism makes you a coward.

Anyone who says so hasn’t been in those shoes!
Honestly what does he expect Snowden to do? He went to Russia as very few places were safe from extradition, etc. If he joined in the social media slacktivism over Ukraine he'd be booted out. It would be different if he could actually do something about it, like his previous whistleblowing.
Exactly the same incentives problem with EDD. The more fraud, the larger their budget gets and so there is only one metric they care about; increasing the total number of recipients. Similar issue with fake user counts in the tech world. User count = money.

Unfortunately the dominant party also benefits from all of this fraud, so it is ultimately a political problem. Until there is viable outside political competition, there will continue to be zero accountability and wide scale fraud and corruption. User count = money = political power/voters. Mainstream candidates are owned, and so the only solution involves draining the swamp so to speak and it’s pretty clear at this point, the swamp usually wins.
I went through a bad mental and financial episode 15 years ago and was really struggling to keep my account in good order. All the advice I heard was call your bank, explain your position and they will help you sort it out.

So I did that and the way HSBC helped me was to immediately cancel all my cards so I was left high and dry. Since my problems had only just begun I realised my credit record was still good and opened an account with Barclays the next day who were more than happy to issue me cards and a line of credit.

The moral of this story is that if you have financial problems do not tell your bank.
I mean, is there any indication to the contrary apart from various "economist opinions"? Has anyone dumped dollar reserves since the seizure? Anyone switched to alternative currencies apart from few deals with Russia?
Apollo Time, a cross-platform time implementation
Anamorphic Fun
For political reasons the U.K. (and US) are opposed to having identity cards so that isn’t really a workable solution. 8 think it’s also inaccurate to say that your address for the purposes of banking is ‘anything one can write on a letter to have the Royal Mail deliver it to you’. For example, you probably can’t give the address of a hotel where you’re staying.
Sure, granted. On that point though, it’s also well-known that he bought a vanity New Zealand passport for the very reasons laid out in the article.
I meant in terms of what google may need to prove that it is you.
Green energy itself is cheap. What makes energy expensive in Germany is that we need to fall back on natural gas energy so often.
The rules of unionization need to change with the times.

The line manager making less than a SWE 1 isn’t in the same league as senior management who own a significant portion of the company equity.

Even software engineers are subjected to the
meat grinder in Amazon.
Unfortunately the breakdown of the political discourse and the factors (including - but not limited to - stupidity) that causes it appears to be spreading to other English-speaking countries too, and I'm sure it's only a matter of time (if it hasn't happened already) that non-English-speaking countries are affected as well.
This is laughable. Confiscation of assets is not to be trusted, but invasion is?

I am sorry, but your comment is a wall of nonsense, that starts with a clearly false premise, and continues at the same level.
I think of it more as a digital version of studying in a library or coffee shop. I don’t think I’d classify the young man in the article as an influencer.
Uh, the post seems like an empty shell (or maybe start of a neat idea/project?). Most of it is an introduction to Cpt Future. The only things substantial I took away from it is how they want to put a RPi with some modules on a bike. Nothing about software/stack/status. Then two sentences about "base stations", no idea what they're used for (doesn't seem to be important), but what seems to be important is that these are RPis hosted at the micro colocation service the author happens to have cofounded. Excuse me, but if placing that link was the actual intention of the post, why not just link to the service itself?

//edit: Don't get me wrong, this could a genuine project. But it doesn't really feel like it is; seems more like astroturfing. And while the colocation service seems like a really nice offer, I have to say: Sorry, this taints it for me. But that's just my opinion... Maybe there will be an awesome follow-up with lots of details :)
Thank you sir! Somehow I didn't think it was time for his own account, but hey, why not, I will give him a proper sandbox. I won't add him to sudoers file though :)
The US is one of the oldest countries in the world. It’s older than Italy, for example.
It's still not nationally banned. You won't have to leave the country to get an abortion and if you care strongly about it you can get involved in state level politics or move. Having discussions about it at the federal level just wasted everyone's time since it's too complex to find consensus on and allowed the politicians to get away with other things because of Arrow's Theorem.

EDIT: I'm out of quota, here's my reply: I don't care if it's free'd up legislative time. Because of this precedent the federal legislatures can legislate all they want but it won't be meaningful. What I do care about is that it means people can hold federal politicians more accountable for other things since they don't have to care about their stance on abortion one way or the other since nothing can be changed from the federal level.
I would say not even, circumstantial evidence already is more. There just isn't enough for a conviction.

It's premature. There has to be a whole process.

That being said, college administrators are masters at dodging the courtroom, and keeping people out of the courtroom. I imagine they have some ideas how to do it for themselves as well.
Snowden defected to China, then Russia. He is neither a hero nor a patriot in my book. While the programs he identified may have been bad for democracy and America, it was not his place to blow the whistle, and he went about it in such a shady, criminal way that I can never forgive him.
>I'm hiring to achieve business objectives quickly, efficiently and to a high standard

Don't misunderstand, I do understand the point of view from hiring managers. But in the current job market, where people change jobs rapidly to actually obtain said knowledge while at the same time technology continues to change rapidly (often repeating the cycle rather than actually innovating), surely it should be evident this isn't going to be efficient if not sustainable in the long run.

If anything, you're giving people the exact arguments why we shouldn't trust companies to act for the good of the industry long term.
I like it :) By ‘nobody’ he must mean ‘the in-crowd’, those that ‘know’.

For sure. It’s like anything really. The smaller and more niche it is, the better. More people means more competition, more idiots. This is why I’m happy that emacs is this tiny community. The quality of the average emacs user is super high, everyone is polite, acts in good faith and can initiate newcomers to do the same and continue the spirit. A huge influx breaks this little ‘yolk’ and then it’s just a mess.
Instagram to launch a pilot for NFT integrations for Ethereum, and others
None of those are root causes of inflation in most nations. Hyperinflation perhaps (but even then a collapse in economic output with fixed money supply can mess you up), but normal inflation is put into a deliberate low-but-not-zero level to encourage spending over saving.
> Will they stop making trucks?

No. They will make electric trucks:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-ford-f-150-lightning-is-no...
I think this is a really shitty way of framing it. Snowden doesn’t owe you anything but you likely owe him something. He did a thing once that loads of others didn’t because it was the right thing to do. He paid very dearly for that and is now living under a government that is holding his life in its hands. In the US Snowden faced prison for his actions. In Russia he faces torture and death if he steps out of line. I think it’s completely out of bounds to call him a coward in this case.
> mit vs. GPL

By this measure, we shouldn't be using X or Wayland because they're MIT.

> pipe-and-filter vs loaded DLLs

At first I didn't understand what you were referring to, but I realized you were talking about cmdlets. In that regard, PowerShell is more like a scripting language than it is like a traditional Unix shell.

The more "Unix-like" approach would be to write thin command-line wrappers around the libraries you want to use. If I'm not mistaken, this is how projects like LAME and FFmpeg are implemented.
Like I said above, it's probably an idea that an alphabetical layout is somewhat familiar to everyone, but a QWERTY layout is only familiar to people who type. Not that long ago, fewer people than you might expect were familiar with QWERTY keyboards (no smartphones before about 2006). These machines are also for use by people who have never used a computer or smartphone, and, incurring the elderly people that councils have to consider, they exist.

I'm guessing at their reasoning, but "everyone knows QWERTY" is probably not as true as you think, or if it is, it hasn't been so for that long.

It could also be an international company that doesn't want to have SKUs for the keypad for every region (eg France uses AZERTY).
> “The basis of that argument works for throwing out civil rights, contraception and voting rights.”

I don’t think this is true? I’m in favor of women having the right to abortion, but my understanding of the anti-abortion steelman position is that it stems from defending individual rights of the unborn (basically fetal personhood). That doesn’t really apply to restricting any of these other rights - it’s a special case (if anything it should be an argument for increasing availability of contraception).

The real discussion should be about that bit imo, but both camps are often talking past each other without engaging on the core disagreement. For example, the bodily autonomy argument falls flat if you believe the unborn have individual rights that are being violated.
That’s a healthy perspective. It made me wonder who has the opposite take? There have to be more than a few people seeing this and wondering how it can be monetized…
Australia even prevented citizens from leaving unless they applied for an “exception”. A complete shitshow…
r/WatchPeopleCode used to be moderately popular. It's not a bad way to learn
This article has confirmation that colleges did in fact get scammed: https://edsource.org/2021/at-these-california-community-coll...

Thanks for providing the additional details.
You golf a lambda and then deride walrus in the same comment? Please explain yourself.

And if you really want to make the perfect lambda, you can do that with code generation and frame walking/patching.

http://farmdev.com/src/secrets/framehack/index.html
> To access the No Fixed Address programme, you must be experiencing housing or homelessness difficulties and receiving support from one of our partner charities.

If you aren’t receiving support from Shelter or one of our other partners, you won’t be able to access the No Fixed Address programme.
Snowden is likely facing much more scrutiny in Russia, a totalitarian regime he became stranded in.

He gave up a very comfortable life once and landed in a far much less comfortable one. Blaming him for not risking his life again, and now likely also his SO and child(ren), comes across as naive or at least reductive.
A bunch of The Bachelor contestants were also caught taking borderline fraudulent PPP loans.

https://pagesix.com/2021/06/28/tayshia-adams-and-more-bachel...

These covid programs were certainly a massive handout to the unscrupulous. I feel sorry for those who worked hard and lived frugally, just to get steamrolled by the government money printer.

And look how reluctant the Fed and Fiscal were to reign in any of the madness. 0 moves until 8% CPI. Can't have housing appreciate at 10% instead of 20%, or stocks at 10 instead of 30 now, can we?

Never seen a class of people so eager to take wealth/future prosperity from their children
That site is awesome. Unfortunately, some of the best sort links aren't working

From the photos page all of the sort links are broken:

Highest average rating first · Most viewed photos first · Newest photos first · Photos of largest girth trees first · Photos of largest girth single trunk trees first · Photos of tallest trees first (only accurate measurements) · Photos of tallest trees first (including less accurate estimates) · Photos of oldest trees first · Highest own rating first
>> obviously fake names like "Barack Obama"

That doesn't strike me as fake. I've met Osama Bin Laden, at least one of the many people in this world with that name. There are no doubt many people called Gene Simmons who might have issues setting up accounts. James Bond was named after an author of bird books. I bet his descendants still get laughs at school. I met a junior officer once, last name "Planet". Good luck keeping a straight face on parade as they get promoted to Captain.
It's interesting how often people who write from the comfort of their home in a country that has never oppressed them criticize someone for not wanting to die.
Many ATMs now have a "please wait..." screen which pauses for a few seconds... to show you a random ad.

All of these are textbook examples of how markets actually add friction.

You could have a single centralised ATM/payment network with a national or even global transaction standard for different application UIs, hardware, and software.

But instead everyone duplicates effort to build their own version, some of the versions have exploitative features, and the job is done poorly - although no doubt it's profitable for the shareholders.
Title has a typo: It's "Snover".
> insecure jerks reacting to perceived slights

Human beings in general.

> The important part is making sure they don't get power over others.

That too!
What about people who don't pay tax because they don't earn enough. Should they be allowed to vote?
Interview: Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Computer
"Our system does work for some people. But it is frustrating and fails others. If anyone wants to build a better one, please do."

I don't know how we can achieve it, but we somehow need to get to a society which each individual cares for and engages with people in need, and not just wish them away to some system which is supposed to substitute for our own caring and engagement.
This does not seem like a silver lining at all. This is a terrible outcome.
It goes even deeper than that. There’s also the question on where is the money being made.

Say a hypothetical scenario, I’m self-employed contractor working through a corporation in, say, Panama, and I spend some 120 days a year in Singapore.

Would Singapore even subject me to any taxes?

But yes, ultimately one can be a digital nomad, not be a tax resident anywhere, and not be subject to any income or corporate taxes anywhere. You just have to be very particular about the countries you pick.
"You can easily go full throttle in 1st or 2nd gear"

And doing so would not be considered driving "responsibly". Hence my use of the word.

You can also drive irresponsibly and make a ton of noise in other cars by doing things like dumping the clutch.
Why does he have to have a public position on Russia/Ukraine? We defer to him for his expertise on and experience in surveillance technology, not international politics.

What he did years ago was brave. It's not hard to understand why he just wants to live as normally as possible now.

Zdziarski does great work, but his conservatism sometimes seems to get the better of him.
Except these drones are not planting trees is my hang up on the comment.

These drones are randomly throwing out seeds. The 1% is a seed germination rate. A germinated seed does not equate to a tree being planted.
There does seem to be a political mindset attached to leaking. If it's a leak against conservatives, it's written as heroic and patriotic. If it's a leak against liberals then it's a threat to democracy and a crime. Snowden is no hero and I think defection was his intent all along.
What a crock of shit. The poster is angry that Snowden doesn't stand up and question the dictatorship he has found himself stranded in? Would he/she rather Snowden put himself in more harms way to become a political pawn? Not only does ES have to fear the western empire's wrath for outing their unconstitutional crimes, but now has to fear his stock as a pawn to be brokered between two sociopathic nation states. I presume the author believes Julian Assange is remiss & 'at home' sitting quietly in Belmarsh, too.

TLDR: Clickbait shit-poster gains clicks. News @ 11.
Ohh it has improved a lot since last time i checked, that's nice to hear
Agreed Canada has similar Covid benefits that have been thoroughly scammed.

I can’t believe it was a mistake, especially when you have government bureaucrats who are doing the scam themselves for millions…

https://globalnews.ca/news/7600626/ontario-civil-servant-bet...
In hindsight Snowden has deftly negotiated the line between bravery and stupidity. I very much hope he keeps his mouth firmly shut about Ukraine and spends the rest of his life with his family.