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> > such measurements are often misused by laymen, such as with personality tests used in employment procedures.

> I think that quote says the opposite of what you seem to imply it does.

It says that the use of personality tests in employment procedures is a misuse.
Oh geez. What does that mean in practice? If we see no flaking paint anywhere, are we safe? I am not sure about the basement. Is pulverized lead paint in the air a concern?
IBM says they're managing around 100K Mac devices with Jamf, and it's even saving them money:

https://www.techradar.com/news/ibm-exec-says-macs-are-way-mo...
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IMHO, you want to do it from scratch if you want it to really work with Erlang, but that means a ton of work. ex11 exists, but I don't know that it was ever very complete, and it was built in the old era of X11 where clients didn't render fonts, etc, so there'd be a lot of work to complete it. The most active fork has moved towards using it for embedded systems.

Personally, I used ex11 because the wxWidgets interfaces are hard for me to grasp and then accept; it was easier for me to understand X11 as a distributed communication protocol that has a side effect of occasionally outputting graphics; but my application only outputs a bitmap once in a while, so really I could have made anything work. ex11 doesn't help you with mobile though, because Android and iOS don't run X11.

There's also gtkNode, but I don't know how well that works, because it didn't seem any less confusing than wxWidgets. gtk has some ability to run on mobile, I think.
Most landfills contain icky things like heavy metals or arsenic. Having that leak into an aquifer Would Be Bad.
Would you expect the lead to be completely undetectable if that was the case? We did wait for more than 8 hours without using the lines, as instructed, before taking the sample.
I don't honestly think the economic differences have much to do with differences in COVID policy.

The US has "the" Tech sector, which at first did great, but which now is getting walloped by the rate hikes.

Australia, by contrast, has a resource economy. And what with the Russian war in Ukraine (plus the earlier money printing), commodity prices are way up.

So Australia's strong economy is not due to good public health policy, really, but rather to the fact that it gets its wealth by digging giant gouges in the earth.
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NFC = Non-fungible cheese
Part of it may be the high degree of leverage. A compiler potentially reduces the effort required to get a computer to complete a desired task by several orders of magnitude.

It's also kind of exciting to bootstrap a machine as well. For example going from bare metal to a C compiler to a Linux kernel to being able to browse the web.
>The small cheesemakers have trouble selling their current stock, so I doubt that they are putting tracking chips in their wheels.

That gives me trucking e-log vibes. The few big players who are already doing "the thing" use their control of the industry to force it on everyone else because it handicaps everyone who is at a scale that's too small for "the thing" to be cost effective.
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I worked with Northern Trust tangentially for a few years (I left my role in early 2010s) in a quasi consulting role (it was actually a joint venture where we did the software, they ran it sort of thing). NT was hands down the most painfully bureaucratic company I've had the displeasure of working with. Something simple like a DNS change for a server was a 6-8 week turnaround. On top of that, they weren't exactly the best at following instructions, either, so it was often multiples of these multi month cycles to get even the smallest thing done.

Very frustrating. You likely dodged a huge bullet by declining the offer.
That's good to know. My impression was based on other comments I had read (in particular about the Unihertz Jelly) and it seeming to make sense intuitively.
Note that it looks like Amazon pulled KindleGen off the web awhile back.
It could be but I’m not sure. Your CV displays your pedigree much like the name of your university. You’ll also be very unhappy just jumping into a bad situation you are not enthusiastic about.

I’d rather have a 4-6 month gap than taking on a bad job right away.

But you do have a valid point that it’s easier to find a job when you have one.
Ignoring for the moment that the Democrats are obviously not the party of division and hate, the Republicans certainly have very little interest in electrification, and are still pro-coal, oil, and other fossil fuels.

If I was a Tesla board member or shareholder I’d be pretty angry right now.

I wonder if he’s suffering from some kind of mental or emotional problems.
Shameless self promotion: I have a search engine for svg logos that includes Github, Wikipedia & a few others: https://logosear.ch/

I avoid legal conundrums by not hosting any of the images and just linking to the upstream host.

I'd love to add vectorwiki to the sources if you'd let me index it!
Generally the throughput for a single mode fibre in the C + L Bands (the wavelength regions used for telecom applications), is about 100 Tbit/s for a one span link (50-100km) for a submarine cable across transatlantic distances IIRC the record is around 50-70 Tbit/s. This is research demonstrations, so the 340 Tbit/s would be for a cable with plenty redundancy. Also note that fibres are used in one direction only (one of the main reasons is that one would otherwise create a very long laser), so for duplex operation you need to double the amount of fibres.
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I wrote a screenplay using a Markdown-based language called "Fountain" designed and implemented by the guy who wrote Tim Burton's screenplays, who I guess is apparently also a programmer. It's a great language and makes the barrier to getting started extremely low.
> That's surprising/depressing

Why? TypeScript type-checking is slow. Furthermore it's common when refactoring code that you break code in many places, but that you want to run the code you are actively working on and iterate on it (perhaps further changing the shared types in the process) before going through and fixing uses of that code everywhere.

As long as you have CI process enforcing the type checking, there's no real disadvantage to this approach.
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My key takeaways:

* This extraordinary book will win devotees among that minority who don’t see “stories” everywhere, who resent the hegemony of narrative, and who perhaps experience time more like a spiral or, as Roberto Bolaño puts it in the epigraph, “not a river but an earthquake happening nearby”

* The book is an invented composite itself – part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part psychogeography

* Raffles travelled to Theresienstadt and immersed himself there but eventually felt he’d “lost his appetite to add to the literature of terror”, as it re-awakens all around us

* In Hugh Raffles' profound, genre-straddling new book, stones and minerals reveal the pain of loss and the secrets of time

* When it eventually ends, it leaves you not breathless but wonderstruck

* The author travels from New York to Scotland, Svalbard to Greenland, but the first person features rarely; it glints, like the mica he considers in the epilogue

* Like Trinitite, formed at the New Mexico atomic test site in 1945, and plastiglomerates, first recorded in Hawaii in 2013, blubberstone is “a geological artifact of world history”

* Lifeways that have developed over millennia for peoples or animals can be snapped

The book is called "The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time" and you can find it on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48986277-the-book-of-unc...
You can do great work at big tech companies. Sometimes startups and big tech are like two tribes and each group likes to pretend they are better than the other, but in reality everybody poops.

There may be a time you want to go back to startups but don’t do so in the interest of not being “boring”.
It really depends on what you plan on doing with excel. One alternative may be mysql with a solid gui tool to design your database the way you want. https://retool.com/blog/top-5-mysql-gui-tools/

There are SAAS solutions like airtable. https://www.airtable.com/

Hosted and managed databases in AWS, Oracle, and Azure.

As I mentioned it's best to get a good idea on what you're trying to do with excel, there may be a purpose driven web app designed to do exactly what you're looking to accomplish.
Personally I find it kind of exciting to be able to design and build a microprocessor and a compiler for it, magically turning logic gates and silicon (or your preferred implementation tech) into a usable system.

It's also nice to be able to understand a system from the device physics level up to the user interface (and maybe beyond into networked/distributed as well as sociotechnical systems.)
It doesn't matter. Deep learning have been mainstream for only 10 years. MNIST is a dataset from 1998 and it is still being used in research papers.
The most important thing is to have a constant baseline, and ResNets are a baseline.

Think about changing the model every other year:
- 2015: ResNet trained in Nvidia k80
- 2017: Inception trained in Nvidia 1080 ti
- 2019: Transformer trained in Nvidia V100
- 2021: GTP-3 trained in a cluster

Now you have your new fancy algorithm X and an Nvidia 4090. How much better is your algorithm compared to the state of the art, and how much have you improved compared to the algorithms 5 years ago? Now you are in a nightmare and you have to run all the past algorithms in order to compare it. Or how fast is the new Nvidia card? which noone still have and nvidia has decided to give numbers based on a their own model?
The hard part is the editor.

You can make a nice 3D renderer, learn shaders, bring in a physics library, make a bunch of models and textures, write a lighting system, add a system of animation, make an actor/AI system, create 2D UI helpers for menus/HUDs, work out a file format for storing and loading state...

...And then realize that it's very difficult to create a detailed world when you can't see it and manipulate it in realtime. D'oh.
I think companies should not try to reinvent the wheel with building billing systems. It is better to implement an ERP to take care of billing rather than building out your own. If you ever grow large enough, this homegrown system will never be SOX compliant and will not stand up to audits.
When an almost identical interview questionnaire was posted a few months ago, I was hoping it was some sort of anomaly, or that Canonical would learn from the feedback and alter it. To see something so similar (for a different role) two months later makes it seem far more likely that they have one of the worst hiring pipeline processes I have ever seen.

I’m good at these sorts of written/verbal assessments, and even my eyes start to glaze over just reading the list of questions, let alone thinking about how to answer them. A quality response to this sort of questionnaire would take at least an hour and that’s before you even get into the actual interview process or hear a salary range.

And as dumb as questions about high school and college are for professional job interviews (unless you are hiring straight from undergrad, I just don’t see how this is relevant. And even for college recruits, I have a lot of problems with this approach.), it would be one thing if I thought the recruiter or hiring manager was actually going to read each response from each candidate. But I cannot imagine they will.

For a company that has openly expressed its struggle to hire, it’s stunning to see them double-down on such a terrible recruitment process.

The people who you want for this job probably have better things to do than waste an hour or more answering an overly-long questionnaire before they even find out the salary range.
Good on him for being prepared to be this overt about his underlying political philosophy. Now, let's make sure the contradictory outcomes of his politics and his financial acumen come to the fore.

Republican federal politics won't ultimately help him, in terms of his bottom line.
With a little bit of care, your physical and mental health can be excellent well past 60, believe it or not. Not every day is a misery for many 70-year-olds.

But, on the other hand, if you think your life sucks before you're 60, you'll probably think it sucks after you're 60. It's probably more about personality than physical health.
Given that there's nothing forcing the Fed to unload these mortgages, the option of putting them on the market (thus driving commercial mortgage rates higher) seems like a policy lever that will be good to have, cooling real estate inflation selectively separate from the federal funds rate.
Does anyone else have regrets about being in the tech industry when things like this, privacy issues, leaks, etc seem to be a big thing on a nearly daily or at least weekly basis now?

Just an hour ago I was thinking to myself, "I wish I was good with my hands. I wish I could do anything but this."

Computers are the only talent I have, and changing careers would mean going back to entry-level pay, which I can't do at this point in my life.

It used to be that when you got fed up with your profession, you could go teach. But that doesn't pay jack squat anymore.
> every day I feel more and more trapped by the insanity of the country I live in, and the western world overall.

Move to Russia.
Pumped hydro is gravity storage. It works. Running train cars loaded with rock aggregate up and down disused mountain rail tracks could be a good idea, depending on how you get the power out (third rail?), but seems like it would be expensive to keep working. Running a multi-thousand-ton weight up and down a disused mineshaft seems a certain winner, anywhere you happen to have such a shaft at hand. Pumping air into a bag anchored to the ocean floor. Winching an air tank down to a pulley anchored to the ocean floor.

Winners in energy storage will be distinguished from the field of failures along axes of cost, secondary usefulness, compatibility with existing infrastructure, service lifetime, energy capacity, power capacity, environmental impact, simplicity, and efficiency. For example, synthetic chemical and liquified air media excel at secondary usefulness, compatibility with existing gas turbines, and cheap tankage (unlimited capacity), at the expense of cost and efficiency. Their main cost is for synthesis capacity, measured in watts. Low efficiency is tolerable in exchange for other merits.

Energy Vault is a certain failure on the basis of cost alone, even without considering its other low scores. Constructing condominiums for concrete blocks is just extremely expensive, even before counting predictably very high maintenance cost, for minuscule storage capacity.

Simplicity is the most frequently neglected, but often most valuable quality. The best storage systems will have just one moving part used for both storing and extracting energy. Next best, two.
Russia Expels Diplomats, Including the French
How could such a linter rule be enforced with python? does such a linter rule exist here, too?
This might work inside the exchange, but doesn't work if you do a loan outside of the exchange.

In DeFi apps you need an actual token to use. If you don't have a the token you can't do a transaction, and apps choose which tokens they support.

So an exchange can create its own token, say it is backed 1:1 by BTC and lend that. But it isn't BTC so apps have to specifically opt into it.

If they loan out the actual BTC they have in the exchange they can only loan out 100% of what they have (not more) because control and use of each BTC token is dictated by the public ledger which is out of their control.

You can do other things (eg use the BTC as collateral for a dollar loan), but again you aren't lending BTC.
That's the point: if file systems that basic would NOT lose data, then it is unacceptable if another file system does.

Maybe to put it differently: new file systems should offer improvements wrt reliability for stable features of the file systems of the previous generation; regressions are unacceptable.
The target market is software dev-related people, all of whom are probably (too) familiar with Systems Development Life Cycle.

It was fun in the 90s when everyone was creating their own.
I read the article twice an I don't understand the challenge posed by leaving the mortgages on the balance sheet.

I don't think that the fed has wo worry about freeing up the capital to relocate because they printed it into existence in the first place. They also don't want to do more QE because the market is already overheated.
Or a search engine with zetabytes of data and the world's largest collection of AI PhDs. It could be possible that they have the advantage over some scam artist smoking cigs in front of a screen at 3am, considering it's their system.
For those more interested in this topic TE Subcom (now just Subcom) has some cool videos about the process of deploying and repairing these submarine cables. Just search for te subcom on YouTube.
Problem? No, it's working as designed: as a plausibly deniable mechanism to print trillions for rich people. Meanwhile, inflation will be blamed on the billions printed for poor people.

"Balance sheet that never rolls off" is very much in the same genre as "loan that is actually a grant" and "financing tax cuts with debt."
To avoid the innovator's dilemma?
> a more optimized enzyme might be able to do it at ambient temperatures

Releasing this into the ocean, in any appreciable amount, seems like a very bad idea. I think collection from plastic "hot spots", and then separate processing, would make more sense. I think it's best to reduce the number of foreign chemicals in the environment.
Because health statements should be both accurate, and actionable. And the statements shouldn't try to take limited facts and extrapolate them to general truths. It's very easy to fool naive people into not eating things that way, and make them scared of eating things, which are not actually harmful. If vegetable oil caused inflammation to the point where you shouldn't eat, you'd also have to stop eating vegetables.
> My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test

Most people didn't notice that some of my vacation photos were fake, therefore it passed the Turing Test... why is this clickbait nonsense getting so much attention?

Can someone who upvoted this article explain why you upvoted it? Did the fact that the title is flatly false not bother you? If someone wrote an article about cracking some encryption algorithm and titled it "I proved P=NP" would you upvote it?
When reinventing the wheel makes sense
Have you looked at Outseta? https://www.outseta.com/billing and https://www.outseta.com/demo . I haven't used it but it looks great. I'd love to hear what you think.
"Fulfilling" work is a huge privilege.

As a high school dropout who eventually did community college to a degree in computer science at a UC, I've worked all kinds of minimum wage, soul-sucking jobs in between. Just having enough money and free time now to do anything else besides my job has been such an amazing gift, and I could give two shits at this point if I sometimes have to deal with a GWT codebase regularly.
refreshing layout! Those apps are time saver as I don't have to search across different sources by opening up multiple tabs for every query.
> If 80% are good submissions it’s a useless filter and should be dropped.

How did you arrive at this conclusion? I can easily imagine that this process is so laborious that plenty of people don't even submit anything. Like the person who wrote about this on reddit. -- Now what reason would we have to think that the people who don't want to go through the process would also be 80% good? This may be a very valuable filter for Canonical!
I thought ID.me was a government program.
I can't speak to how rigorous they are but searching Amazon for "water test kit" shows a lot of results. I used some to test my own water for lead, pesticides, etc.

Though I'd want a lab test to be sure.
The American government has little interest in protecting the word 'Parmesan' itself; firstly because doing so would be inconvenient to American cheesemakers^, and secondly, because Americans don't speak Italian anyway and don't perceive an implication of "From Parma" from the word "Parmesan", even if such an implication is obvious to those who do know Italian.

^ Just as European cheese regulations protect European cheese interests, so do American cheese regulations protect American cheese interests.
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/
The recession in 2008 was never really fixed, we just kicked the can down the road.
> Python has existed since 1994, yet in 2011, the Python Software Fundation budget was less than $40K
Exact, as usual it is mainly a question of human resources. Hence why I advocate for Python switching to GraalPython as the default runtime, it would enable much better performance in the next few years.

Also, I'm pretty sure cpython devs should ask Google/OpenAI/MicrosoftAI funding, how many millions can they waste on useless projects while not improving the core bottleneck..
Networking falls outside the typical game engine. A game engine is largely rendering, physics, controls. The questions you are asking is largely design related and solved by existing networking state tools. Most of which is proprietary or require expertise in networking domain. Seems like your question is more of "How do I build an MMO" which is almost certainly a solution looking for a problem.
It's still a bunch of work but I think i like that one a lot more. It's more open ended and less 'worship us, btw what is your favourite distro?'.
Would not recommend working at Canonical. The CTO is incompetent, and bullies people out of the company if they disagree with him. Suggesting that the hiring process might be discriminatory may get you told that you "must live on fairy island" from where you should "send a postcard" on a company-wide email chain.
Pnas.org though? Really?
Driving rates higher won't cool inflation except by raising prices - which is inflation.

They want to stifle the demand so as to match supply better, but when it's a supply shock and the United States is short something like 3 million houses, it seems a fairly punitive and misguided way to approach solving the problem.
Oh my god. Tell me what problems you're experiencing and how you've tried to solve them. Talk to me about goals and knowledge gaps. What's your approach to "I don't know how to do this" and what do you think of mine? Why is the internet apparently disabled at your business? Talk to me about holes in your onboarding process and ask me how I'd fix them. Use me as a sanity check for your data structures vs business intent.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/13/professor-layt...

Why are you always asking me to rediscover and reimplement the Fibonacci sequence when none of us give a fuck about it? This whole thing's insane, what have I become.
Might be happening with Fuschia?
Try 150k?

Anyway, I read it as saying "we want to hire more, but we need to increase revenue in order to be able to do so" and not "we will take that money and increase hiring"