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Powershell is a shell. Shells don’t do package management. Do you mean sth like ZSH plugin installers?
You should.

Majority of government income tax revenue comes from the 1%. If you count corporate taxation, same would hold true + a lot of influence.

It's the case for US, India, and a bunch more big countries.
How do you center an image on the screen, both on desktop and mobile ?

Like every other aspect of programming, there are multiple answers to this.

So I think it's a valid concern
How so? You can retire comfortably today in SEA countries with $2 million in bank account.
The elephant in the room is that someone is doing something good on a platform you don't like, making the platform better?
I disagree with a decent number of things in this article.

>Yet for all the pontificating...today I rather see the pattern of a common deserter in Snowden, rather than the champion of free speech that some position him as

A person doesn't have to behave perfectly all the time - bravery and heroic acts remain so, despite imperfections of the person doing those acts. What Snowden did was undoubtedly brave and heroic, despite his opinion or lack thereof, of whatever issues of the day.

That's assuming I find fault with Snowden for remaining silent on the Ukraine issue - which I don't. How much does a person have to give and sacrifice, really? I don't blame Snowden for determining that he has given enough, and deciding to live a quiet life, outside the public sphere.

>During his time in Russia, we have seen the whistleblower system work effectively here at home. The details of Trump’s...

I'm not sure I agree with this statement either. While it is nice to see the whistle blown on obvious bad actions, I'm not convinced that it is an example of the system "working", but more an extension of the political division in our government, and how normal and essential government functions are weaponized for political ends. I have strong doubts that any whistleblowing would have happened under a more "establishment" president, with an equivalent level of misdeeds. Do you really think that Joe Biden's administration is that more ethical than Trump's?

>... certainly far less than the charges Snowden brought on himself or the freedoms he gave up by not using the right channels. Instead of following process, Snowden fled the country under the Obama administration, who was a teddy bear compared to Trump.

I can't tell if the author is naive or deliberately obtuse, but this is where the article lost all credibility for me. I don't see how Snowden could have faced a fair trial and while it was Donald Trump's admin that started the persecution of Julian Assange, I have no doubt that Obama's Justice Department (which was infamously and shamefully prosecutorial to whistleblowers) would have been even more severe to Edward Snowden. In hindsight, not only do Snowden's actions seem reasonable, but they also seem intelligent and resourceful and perhaps the only way to stay out of jail for decades.

>If I could reach him today, I would tell Snowden to come home and face the consequences of his actions, and set an example for his children of what patriotism and conviction really means. Ideals are meaningless without sacrifice.

This is very easy to say when you don't have to sacrifice anything. Especially when it seems to ignore any aspect of reality. At this point, I believe the article to be malicious because of how divorced from reality it appears to be.
>I faced some demons I never had the courage to confront before. The internal lessons learned, the epiphanies I had. The self-awareness gained. But it came at a heavy price.

After reading the entire post, he got the adventure he wasn't looking for. Who am I to criticise someone who takes such immense risks to get out of their comfort zone, while I enjoy a quiet Sunday in the sun, within the safety of steps from my family, kitchen and bed?
Great idea! Thanks for building and sharing it; looking fwd to looking closer at it after Mother's Day!
Only if we’re considering strictly the entity.
I tried this out using Lazarus and Free Pascal and it seems pretty trivial to do - except for the timer example which will take a little bit more time.
> That would be overreach and hopefully the Supreme Court would strike it down.

With the way that the Supreme Court not just got politicized, but effectively taken over over the last six years, it is IMO foolish to the extreme to rely on the SC defending anything in the future.
Good correction. My intended point was that the article makes claims about broader societal trends without offering sufficient context.
From the company's perspective it rarely makes sense to pay an regular employee more than the amount that the company makes per employee.

Yes, there are variations and management can go a bit on the higher side of that number - though also note that that is revenue and doesn't take into account operational costs, taxes, and the like.

In many cases, the company just can't reasonably pay what the "market" suggests the role should get. In these cases, it is a question of trying to point out that the value that the role brings is much more than what they're paying and that the company, upon recognizing that, should offer more.

The other alternative for the company is that they aren't losing money compared to the current set of accounting books. They may be leaving money on the table that they could get from expanding, but that's a risk.

Speaking of risk, there are a lot of risky candidates out there. It is far too easy to hire a person who fails to perform at the expected level or to train the person up for a few months in the tech stack and domain only for them to leave for a different company.

As it is, an unfilled role that has what is perceived as low compensation, to the company, is the less risky than a role filled with someone who is paid more but may not be performing - or even if they are performing aren't bringing the value to the organization compared to the revenue that is needed to justify that role.
So how big is the dataset of observations you drew this conclusion from?
You can renounce a citizenship if they become unreasonable. You don't have that option if you are gonna become stateless.
- How do you know it won't be made illegal?

- Why do you assert that it was never under the mandate of the federal government? Obviously it's a contended issue.

- why do you assert anyone who disagree with you is ignorant? Perhaps they listen to the very loud lobby of anti abortion goals, and view this milestone as part of a trend and extrapolate?
Great article. I use unpacking regularly for a lot of the reasons given, as it helps ensure data is in its expected shape. However, I never knew of "star assignment" eg

first, second, *others = some_tuple

I've opted for less-readable positional indexing several times for not realizing this. Looks like I have some updates to do.
Eh, the strangers in the library aren't my lifelong friends, but I'm glad they are either.
This is not true everywhere.
Not really no.
Some people and businesses having legitimate need doesn't mean pickups aren't over produced/sold. It's approaching 3 million sold per year in the US. Does the country really need nearly one new pickup per 10 people every year?! How often are people hauling things? Is it really so bad to rent or borrow as needed?
lol please no

If you are using C++, and want to parallelize something, just add "std::execution::par" to your algorithms.

Instead of writing "std::for_each(...)" just write "std::for_each(std::execution::par, ...)".

That's it. It really is that simple. And with the right compilers you can just compile the code to run on FPGAS, GPUs, or whatever.

For someone that knows C++, doing that is the lowest barrier of entry, and gets you most of the way there without having to learn "some other programming language" like OpenMP (or anything else).
XAP is the old system, but I don’t think it’s in use anymore (back then it was just “CCCApply”).

The current system, now called “OpenCCCApply”, was mostly developed by a team from Unicon (https://www.unicon.net/), along with folks within the CCCTechCenter team of my memory /understanding is correct (I’m not sure if it’s managed jointly though, or if only a CCCTechCenter team mostly manages it now though since I never heard those types of details).

A redesign/modernization effort however sounds…expensive.
If one wishes to teach web development, one teaches JavaScript. That's the end of the story.
Edward Snowden is the last person we should ask to speak out against Russia. Almost every other Russia-resident who might speak out against the invasion could, the next day, show up in Madrid, Berlin, Mexico City—wherever in The West—and expect to receive political asylum.

But if Snowden steps foot into Western-aligned soil then he’s just kicked off a slow, inexorable ride via extradition to American prison. As such, Snowden is more incentivized to stay silent than anyone else I can think of.

An unfortunate and extremely ironic side effect of standing up for freedom against a mostly-free state is that he is forever trapped in a very-not-free despotic state. This is his punishment. Why this blogger feels he has the right to demand Snowden sacrifice himself again with likely worse consequences is inexplicable to me.
https://every-layout.dev is amazing, and teaches foundations and builds up from first principles.
None of what you said supports the thesis that there shouldn't be an option to have multiple passports.

Why?
In a recent Darknet Diaries episode, the guest describes how the world's most valuable data breach dump (the one from the hardware wallet company Ledger) is used to steal crypto.

The perpetrators were cross checking data from the dump with an exposed Coinbase API that would return the user's balance without prompting for 2FA and then they targeted the high balance individuals with spearfishing attacks and SIM swaps.
It is a better place than a bridge. A person about to kill themselves is a person in a medical crisis. When in a crisis an ER is a reasonable choice. So too might be a police station, but an ER is better than many alternatives.
The last time I gave it a serious try, back in 2019, I gave it ~120000 non-spam samples (several years of real emails) and ~25000 spam samples (1 month of spam).

After that it was getting about 5% false-positive (so 1 in 20 real emails went to spam) and about 3% false-negative. For me, 3% false negative means 25 spams to inbox a day.

Gmail gives me about 0.5% false positive (1 in 200) and 0.01% false negatives.
Building a Shrimp Tank (2018)
this has to be made illegal, as i said on submission it has been in india.
> Wonder why our minds go to MS Office...

We should look into this. Want me to add a Jira Epic?
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There are many countries with investment visas with much lower requirements, it may be worth broadening the search a little.
The reasons laid out in the article have nothing to do with vanity, so which is it?
I live in a pretty safe country, but these days in the smartphone era I feel more vulnerable when alone at night in the city, not because I have crypto or anything but just because I have a smartphone, an expensive device and a PITA to lose in general.

In the pre-smartphone era, I'd have a maximum of 50 euros in cash in my pocket, not worth it for most muggers. I'd hand that over gladly.
If you are pointing it out in a context that it does not need to be pointed out you have a clear agenda. There are a lot of situations where you could construct a math problem that would be problematic. For example we could calculate costs of abortion or apperication of firearm costs. We could calculate the costs of killing Russian tanks all those would be highly political math problems.
Well, if you want to allow users to resume sessions from desktop on laptop/phone/tablet - you need to store state somewhere else.

But there are different levels of state: completed transactions (application finished and submitted), partial business logic transactions (three out of five steps completed) and "app state" (field 6 of form 4 partially filled in etc).

They can all be kept diffently in sync (in sync, because the browser will keep partial state via native widgets if nothing else). Even w3m keeps track of inputs in forms before submission.
The US offers passports to some non-citizens.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Samoa_US_...
Github copilot everywhwre. I love the way how it completes the code and even helps write documentation.

But I think it could do equally well for say when you're at the bash terminal, or even writing this comment, the app should just get the context and start auto-completing everywhere I can type, intelligently like copilot. That would be amazing!
Exactly. Was about to say the same exact thing.
> Unfortunately the breakdown of the political discourse and the 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.

Thank God that kind of thing is currently limited to English-speaking countries.
The instructions are also terrible. The text is quite small, and is in a grubby box which is hard to read, especially for those with poor sight. The signposting of the distinction between the three sets of instructions (coins vs credit/debit vs contactless) is very unclear. There are T&Cs right at the top of the machine in tiny letters that are downright impossible for people with poor sight - for those with good sight, that’s not a problem, we ignore them anyway, but how does someone with poor sight know they don’t need to read them? What are “controlled hours”?

It’s a total shitshow without even starting on the tech. Why is there an on-off button? Why is there a double flag button? Why is there a rotating button? Why is the wheelchair button not mentioned anywhere in the instructions?
>Let's push back against this, please.

I would love this, but the only reason the bullshit is allowed to happen is because people are ready and willing to put up with it. There are simply too many desperate people, many of them third-worlders [1], who will do anything for a meal ticket.

The world would be better if people developed a "fuck you, pay me" attitude, but so many people are inured to their caste.

[1] "Then, don't. I want to move from my 2000 USD a month (this is a good salary alre... | Hacker News." 8 May. 2022, news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24446562.
Snow cover in the European Alps (2021)
? I found the label to be highly useful as an adjective descriptor. At the highest level it is a way to distinguish between Intelligence and Wisdom. Wisdom requires experience, but experience doesn't indicate Wisdom. A senior role has to be someone who can mentor junior roles and has fairly well developed soft skills. I can put a senior in front of a customer.

When choosing between two candidates for a senior role:

Candidate A has: Int 16 Wis 10
Candidate B has: Int 14 Wis 12

I would almost always choose Candidate B.
It's an 8 hour day but 1 hour lunch, so technically 35 hours of work. Where are such things outlawed?
This article is mixing multiple frauds.

Mostly it's people getting free .edu email address which allows discounts on software and other things. This is most of the 65K fake students.

Then there's the fraud, where students are paying people $ to take their classes to get the government $$$$ -

"However, Rich soon realized that all of the work being submitted by four students was clearly being completed by an individual who wasn’t a student in the class." https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/california-co...

This might be why middle names are missing. That data is unknown but the other data real.

I suspect they are wrong about the third type of external fraud, but not sure.

Then there's the fraud where the College gets benefits from student numbers so allows the spam.
Capital flight makes no difference. Argentina's government has defaulted 9 times, capital has always come back and always will.

The reason why people invest in the US is: legal system, the educated workforce, etc. I think people get it completely twisted about why investors invest (ironically, this notion of a "capitalist's strike" is just pure bait from right-wing people who don't understand how investing works). There is always an excess of capital because economic advantage is not evenly distributed, you are always chasing the limited number of good opportunities. And there is no competitive advantage in money (in theory, not totally true in practice): $100 from X is as good as $100 from Y.

If you believe capital flight exists, you believe that humans don't like money.

The advantage the US has is strengthening and compounding. There is nowhere like it in the world, I don't think anyone is even close.
> Unfortunately the breakdown of the political discourse and the stupidity that causes it appears to be spreading to other English-speaking countries too

This is a good point. I hold passports to the USA and Canada. I have considered moving to Canada over the last five-seven years and I don’t feel like it would be much of an improvement. Taxes, housing and COL are significantly higher and the political climate seems to similarly polarized. And these people seeking greener political pastures are probably taking some political dysfunction with them.
Opening a bank account as a fresh immigrant before the age of neobanks was a nightmare. In my desperation I even called a private bank in Jersey only to be told a need a whopping 5M pounds deposit to open an account.
After visiting 20+ branches in person in London, one manager took pity on me and opened a business account.
I had all paperwork fully ready, they just weren't interested, or at least I wasn't aware of the 'dance' required to open an account. You couldn't just walk in an open one. You needed an appointment for another day.
there is a pattern matching in Python 3.10 (match/case) which can match dictionaries.
https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/#going-to-the-cloud-mapping...
Would a Danish person say he was vomitting under a bridge as if was it the most normal thing to be doing though?
We are only lonely when we aren't social. Joining a stream is the opposite of loneliness.
This is social media induced attachment.

Would you say people at bars and cafes and libraries and churches are lonely? Only as much as people at a restaurant are hungry.
I'm not suggesting that untrained people provide therapy, but simply engage with and help those in need in some way -- whether that be by volunteering in soup kitchens, schools, hospitals, shelters, senior centers, big brother / big sister programs, summer camps, scouts, tutoring, Kiwanis/Rotary clubs, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, etc.

There are so many ways to help and become more engaged with one's community and people in need. If everyone did more social service of this kind instead of focusing just on themselves and their friends and family, while (at best) paying others to care for people in their community, we'd be so much better off.

Kids and adults see a broken society where they and the people around them are just not cared about, ignored, left to rot, or are even actively attacked/harmed. That alone is traumatizing and disheartening. There's so much pain in the world and it's tempting to disengage and withdraw. A more caring world would be a psychological boon to everyone.
Ukrainian-Russian War Equipment Index
Exactly. People often think European countries are old. The nationalities sure, the political systems such as they are now were born after ww2.
After a brief search, I checked statistics from Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service. https://www.sef.pt/en/pages/conteudo-detalhe.aspx?nID=51

Residence permit for investment activity. USA. 2019: 65. 2020: 75. 2021 numbers don't seem up yet.
I'm doing nothing because I have no confidence in the system.
See https://remix.run for a clear demonstration of "best of both worlds".
Pension and healthcare system is still unsustainable though. Even if population is growing, it doesn't always mean you can repay the debt back and keep promises. Someone will get taxed unreasonably in future to fund it.
> Kids today live in fear of being singled out in an negative manner.

This is not a new phenomenon in the slightest. Bullying and teasing have been around forever. The only thing that changes are what people will be bullied and teased about, but ultimately it doesn’t impact whether the bullying happens.

Kids will always find a way to identify themselves by what they are not, or single out someone for not conforming, even if it’s completely innocuous or out of their control. Hell adults do it too. Kids just don’t have the ability to couch it in dog whistles or cover it with some window dressing. They will pick on a kid for being different until an adult teaches them to respect differences. That has always been the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_da...

Highly debatable. However, I think most citizens would consider their nations age date of acquisition of sovereignty, not from the date of the current form of government or any other standard.

Anyway, calling United States one of the oldest countries in the world is about as defensible as calling it one of the newest countries in the world. I just don't see the data for it.
The first line of that literally says it's a diplomatic travel document. It's valid for official diplomatic travel on UN business only, so hardly relevant here.
A senior dev role is an income stream of USD n 000 000 dollars a year, that has certain guarantees about payments. In this context it makes sense to dedicate a considerable amount of personal time and effort to capture one.

> … yet somehow you feel you yourself are the arrogant one for not doing more. That's not even highlighting all the other emotional effects the process had on the author, and the author is by no means "average"

Learning techniques for managing one’s emotions and stress levels can pay huge dividends here.

Part of that is stepping back and realizing that the “rules of the game” of resume/interviews/offer were written by employers, for their benefit first. (One technique for addressing this is to beak out of this process, and reach out to hiring managers directly. Professional sales people do this all the time; I’m not sure why selling labor is somehow magically different.)
> I got pretty darn good at sniffing failure. In 2018, I started getting those smells from the US itself. My family packed up and moved to the EU in 2018. I don’t regret it, not for a second.

Was Russia fighting a land war in Europe just a little blip on the radar that has not yet caused you to question your "sniffing" ability?
And the same question should be asked of classroom teachers and employers and governments.
There is nothing inherently blind about following because there is normally multiple examples to chose from. Picking a stream of someone studying among all the other possible streams is very much a choice even if that choice provides some validation.

In aggregate culture is a back and forth of people pushing in new directions or independently discovering existing ones and others following their lead, but it’s the followers who determine what’s normal more than the pioneers.
He is selling subscriptions $8.99 a month, to a one trick pony that tips you off half hour before opening.

It seems to be an abstracted form of pump and dump, that may look better than it is/would have, due to herd mentality creating a self fulfilling prophecy.

Bet you he is buying pick of the day, the day before...
The law is ultimately defined by the country; there is no fundamental law which could answer the question posed in your first sentence.