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> Now it’s all SaaS where you have to pay monthly and choose from different pricing tiers or ala carte feature options to ‘win’ in a business sense.

While some businesses abuse SaaS pricing (e.g., MS office for very basic uses, acrobat pro for basic uses, etc.), I think the SaaS pricing model has aligned the interests of developers and consumers (esp. smaller devs and smaller consumers) in a way that has allowed a wider market to have access to a wider range of affordable software and ongoing support/updates than would be possible under the previous system.

There are definitely folks, often a small niche, who really just need an old version of a piece of software for one or two small functions, and maybe those folks should be built in to the SaaS pricing model somehow, but overall I think that the merits of SaaS pricing almost always outweigh the demerits by quite a bit.
I feel like you can be reasonably confident about whether someone with an established history of legitimate reviews and purchases over many years is likely to be crafting a review to discredit their competitor or leaving a legitimate review.
This is probably considered more “science writing” than technical writing but I’m a fan of Ed Yong’s work, he’s a columnist for The Atlantic I believe
Here's a few I like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X-8J485XEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_WiBGYi-rU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-c1QNq-D7E
I've been pretty interested in the nootropics community, and I've learned that it seems like the vast majority of effects people experience with nootropics are placebo. It doesn't surprise me that microdosing might be the same.
> With women entering the work force

What year is it again?

> That's a pretty hefty price to pay for everyone, to save those women who were unlucky to have a cruel or unfair husband.

Uh, I don't think that's the trade off here.

> I don't know if it's possible to say if it's "worth it" or not, but this independence sure does not come for free.

When one option is to go full Taliban, it's actually pretty easy to say if it's "worth it".
FWIW, greed is what drives ARM right now anyways. People seem to forget that ARM is not a community-owned endeavor.
Oh ok. Sounds like a good play mode. Maybe they themself realized how silly it was.
As for Upwork, this is optimized for people in low cost-of-living countries. I wouldn't take rejection there to be anything.

Here's what you do: you lie by omission. By this I mean you imply you went to college during or after any experience you have. Do not specify when you graduated. Don't specify what years you went to college. They can't really ask because that risks age discrimination.

Put work experience first then college afterwards. This gives the impression of chronological order without saying that's the case.

You can even leave off work experience you don't think is relevant or will help you, particularly for entry-level positions. If you're concerned you're competing with new grads then come across as a new grad with some experience.

> However, being a stay-at-home mum came at the cost of my career.

To generalize, doing anything for 5-6 years will come at the cost of your career. This isn't specific to raising children.
>I really wish companies let us turn this kind of thing off

Well, if you are not paying for the service with your money, you are paying with your attention. And this is the mechanism to extract additional attention from you, and it works very well.
It's similar to TAM of a customer's wallet within a game - how much max value a user is to the company. Like LTV, "max customer value".
> Based on the description of the article, the wife and the husband deliberately chose extreme positions - the wife as fully involved stay at home mother, and the father as all-time worker:

Maybe you didn't mean it like this... but I find the use of the word "extreme" here in this context somewhat discomforting. Perhaps I'm an old-fashioned 35-year old, but her reasons for wanting to stay home don't come off as extreme to me.
"save the children, just give up your rights to the government" oldest trick in the book
Apple’s Newton
I'll go one step farther and uninstall it if I haven't used it recently or often.
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Since the actual state of objects automatic recognition the drone might autonomously fly to a location, perhaps following shooting noise, but once arrived can't easy decide who to hit and can't hit anyone. At the same location drone itself is an easy target to shot down.
> my doc was able to diagnose me with narcolepsy. That diagnosis allowed me to have Xyrem covered by my insurance.

That’s a very effective but highly controlled substance.

My introduction to Xyrem was via a simple statement: “Sometimes people sleep but don’t get rested. Those people can take gamma hydroxybutyrate, which is found in passionfruit.” I haven’t found any confirmation of passionfruit having this substance. I got a friend some passionflower tea, and she found it remarkably effective for helping her drift off to sleep.

It’s a safe simple compound, easy to synthesize with lab chemicals. But it also has nefarious uses, so it got scheduled.

“Sodium oxybate is the sodium salt of γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB).”
> I specifically said “where did we go wrong,” isn’t that taking responsibility?

That would be taking responsibility as a generation if the generation as a whole was asking that and taking steps to fix it. That doesn't seem to be the case, even if you as an individual are doing it. Just like me trying to not be self righteous won't change the fact that my generation is like this. At least all the generations seems to have people that have a sense of personal responsbility, that's good news.
Most of my behavioral issues were outside of class and focused on the administrators and cops. I wasn't really a class disruptor. The kids that were, though, shouldn't have been tased for it. There are better approaches, obviously.
Not saying you're wrong, but its very defeating to participate in online conversations and hope somebody sees the URL on your profile.
BBQ grills are done outdoors though. They’re not particularly relevant
One of the downsides of living in a world where we don't pay for services but are instead ourselves the payment.
Does Advent of Code count?
Well, you tickled my curiosity. Electric eels can produce up to 1 kilovolt at up to 1 amp as low frequency AC. That's about a kilowatt of instantaneous power. The problem is they can only do it for a few milliseconds. While electric eels can shock continuously every few seconds for multiple-hour periods, that seems to be very much on the "low setting". When dealing with e.g. alligators they'll give maybe a dozen full power blasts over a minute and then they need a nap.

That works out to about 200 joules of energy released over the period. Enough to run a small LED lightbulb for about 15 minutes. But you've burned a whole day's worth of eel-calories. May be more feasible as a weight-loss technique than a way to recharge your laptop.
I like that the MT3's "scoopy" shape helps me keep a good sense of where my fingertips are on the key surface. It feels like it helps reduce typos.
> all about practice

and communication, and writing simple readable code

for a lot of programmers solving "tricky" algorithmic questions are more the exception then the norm

In turn while it's a must have skill for senior programmers for mid level programmers improving skills around communication, writing simple easy to read and understand code often is much more useful.

Edit: and being able to abstract properly/see beyond the marketing (especially for web).
Have you checked out Alba [0]? I think it’s one of the better options right now.

[0]: https://github.com/okuramasafumi/alba
>Not here, either: Folks are still getting it and folks are still dying from it.

If that's how you measure it, then covid will NEVER be over (People are still dying from flu every year)

Pandemic is over. COVID19 is never leaving us.
The trick with covert ops is you dont tell anybody it was you.
Where I am, it's called non-conforming and, unless there's a complaint, it doesn't become a problem until you pull a building permit AND a Building Official notices.
Don't let climate change stop you from having children
Surely, but I doubt a shooter count on being not found... He/she just need to power on the device at a certain moment in time...
"I am a starving wannabe journalist writing a linkspam article per week until I die. (If you’re in the mood for Mexican, try these 15 easy Mexican appetizers at home.)"

(The second half of that is an actual quote from the article, which is absolutely littered with linkspam.)
> Your company likely has full access

No, they don't. At my company we buy our own laptops, and we expense them. There is no VPN and no company owned software installed. And most of what we do is Open Source anyway.

> specifically allow you to in some sort of legal contract that says something along the lines of them not owning everything you do on that account

Not a problem, my side projects are just for learning purposes. They're open source, and most of them end up abandoned. I'm not running a side business on a company laptop, so they can own everything if they want, I'm fine with that.
Having queried an US accountant, you should be able to create a US company without being there, you mostly require an ITIN and fill paperwork, you can hire an accountant to do that.

On the other hand, you won't be able to get a bank account unless you travel to the US, I'm not sure if alternatives like Mercury could get you a bank account without being at the US.

At last, you can't be employed by your company unless you have a work permit.

I have even saw companies that promise to open you a US company + bank account + handle taxes for a monthly fee.
Animating with Code – Motion Canvas
I would appreciate it if the industry would stop trying to shove everything into user space. Imagine it's 40 years in the future, and we still have to kludge new protocols over an 80 year old TCP/IP stack because nobody wants to add a new protocol to the standard. Every application ships with its own unique protocol stack implementation. Duplicate code abounds. Bugs are fixed haphazardly. Quality and stability varies by application. RCEs are more common because an increase in implementations increases the probability of security bugs.

Compare that to finalizing a new protocol, putting it in the kernel, and letting all applications just connect() and send() and recv(). We lose the ability to constantly mutate the protocol whenever FAANG feels like it, but we also gain the ability for every application to use the new protocol just by changing a flag passed to a syscall.
DI is high profile release, which is why the uproar is large enough to reach the mainstream. But its nothing new and happens in every fandom when favorite brand enters the mobile gaming.

It’s rumored that EA lost exclusivity on Star Wars games because of their mishandling of license and time-gating legendary Star Wars characters behind hours of gameplay (it took 42h of grind to unlock Darth Vader, but you could just pay extra on in-game roulette to unlock him sooner). This also caused uproar that reached mainstream media and commentary from members of state governments.
I suspect some apps go too far in the other direction on purpose, having a large list of promotional notification types amidst useful ones so that people miss opting out of some or are too overwhelmed by the list that they decide not to bother, and whenever they add a "new" type of promotional notification, it's on by default until the user goes and disables it too.
All W. Richard Stevens books.
> we don't live in a meritocracy

Nothing is perfect, but we do live in an approximation of a meritocracy, especially in tech. I had no special connections anywhere going into or coming out of college and ended up at my first company "the hard way". Any good references I made were only made through delivering results, I didn't know any interview questions in advance, and my college had no "prestige", certainly no Microsoft interviewers flying out to it - closest would be some waste of time joke of an "opportunity" I showed up to where IBM showed up to talk about their mainframes and AI stuff but offering absolutely no internship or job positions for software engineers. Coming from the tech desert of upstate New York, I actually had a lot of disadvantages working against me, working up from some low end job I only got half a year after graduating at a consultancy company to where I am now years later at a good remote programming position.
Thought the url read “connect do me” at first
Is it possible to not use the Discord things?
Fulltext: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychedelic/2022-dewit.pdf
Makes sense given how much attention the industry is getting in politics right now. Just look recent/upcoming briefings, not to mention Senator Lummis' planned crypto bill--of course the crypto industry is going full offense now while the regulatory landscape is still being shaped.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/149186/heres-a-full-draf...
https://homeland.house.gov/activities/hearings/terrorism-and...
https://www.agriculture.senate.gov/hearings/examining-digita...
As the adage goes, success is all about luck. Oh, and hard work. And the harder you work, the luckier you get.
On a related note, Diana Reep's "Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings" is outstanding.

https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Writing-Principles-Strategi...
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Then the cabinets above the microwave get coated with a sticky layer of polymerized(?) oil - even quicker than they normally would. It's gross.
How do you stack up this opinion (ban 'immoral' video games) with the idea that drug prohibition is widely considered a spectacular failure?

Banning games like this will only drive the whales into black markets, which are more expensive, more dangerous, and benefit criminal enterprises by definition.

Many of the deaths from heroin, for example, are due to contamination with fentanyl (which boosts the potency). A company who was liable to their customers (ie: not a criminal enterprise) would be much less incentivized to lace their product, and if they did, there would be someone to prosecute instead of an entire black market to wag a finger at.

Anyways, I agree, this is an extremely exploitative design. What I don't agree on is using legal regulation to shape society into something moral. Historically, that's only made things worse.
They have shut down third party clients, and reserve the right to continue that. Both use f the name signal, and connecting to their backend without it being their official client are the reasons given, and those seem to apply to signald just as much.

https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
CMU’s ‘Penrose’ Turns Complex Math Notations into Illustrative Diagrams (2020)
They claim all sorts of wondrous benefits, and have a free trial.

Figured I'd try it and see, but not if it is going to be an abusive relationship.
> I don't think it's a good long term monetization strategy

You can look at plenty of games that have lived for a long time on this:

- Supercell games (Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, Hay Day, etc.)

- Genshin Impact

- Heartstone and Magic Arena

- Rainbow 6 The Division (most profitable Ubisoft game)
> So far, I got rejected from over twenty job opportunities.

That's all? I am in the middle of a job search, I am gainfully employed, I just got a raise and a new bonus structure, and yes I have been "rejected" by well over 100 positions, I have been a finalist in at least 3 or 4 (maybe 5) and 1 offer was rescinded at the last moment for reason unrelated to me/my qualifications.

There was a time in my life when I was in a similar situation returning to my professional career after a 5-year sabbatical in a different field and as an entrepreneur, so I know the pain of convincing prospective employers to hire me.

We don't like it, but it's a numbers game. Period. 20 is not a meaningful number. 4,000 is.
There were a bunch of feature phones around 2014 that had an unauthorized (and poorly working) WhatsApp client. Signal of today is a bit trickier to run than WhatsApp of 2014, but it could be done. WhatsApp also ran officially on Nokia Series 40, which was a feature phone platform with apps.

There's also KaiOS which is running on phones marketted as feature phones, although it's a fork of FirefoxOS which is Android base plus an HTML+js app model (or something).
> You have to add a pain threshold that people will only cross if they think it's worth it for the reward. If the terms included "the PR must be in good faith or constructive to the project and not merely fixing typos or other immaterial changes", people would assume they need to put in real changes, which would be more than it's worth to them for a t-shirt.

You'd think, but never underestimate the pain that people will go through to get some minor profit for free. It becomes a numbers game. If you think your "immaterial" PR has a 1/10,000 chance of slipping by, you just make 10,000 immaterial PRs. There are a nontrivial number of people who will absolutely sit there and manually copy/paste 10K pull requests if they think it will get them $1-$2 worth of stuff. The smarter ones would find a way to automate it.
I use a similar system for Slack notifications. Got an unwanted @here call? Mute channel entirely.
I solved a very similar problem (in the context of a pathfinding and obstacle avoidance sim) 25 years ago, and I can probably describe the thought process and geometry in very digestible terms, but if I had to code it in a whiteboard I'd likely fail.
Where is RISC-V being used? Do they have some notable recent design wins?
It might be hilarious to you, but Im old enough to have been forced to learn Russian in primary school.
How many kids? She has twins.

A long time ago, when I had only one child I made a joke to one of my coworkers that had twins. It was something like that child care was O(N), so she had the double of problems.

Now I have two small children (and a big one), and now I'm convinced that it's at least O(N^2). [In my case O(5) not O(9), because the old one is old enough.]
Yes, just like forest fires and guns, only individuals, particularly heads-of-households, can do things. It's not up to wealthy corporations to change behaviors, they're either beyond reproach or market forces drive them to do very bad things, and market forces are like the weather.
> It can be very isolating when your childless friends can drop whatever they are doing to go have a good time

Yeah parents can't have as much spontaneous fun, but they don't have to deal with unhealthy loneliness of being alone on thanksgiving, christmas, vacations etc. Society is organised for the family unit, and there are no options for single people.
I put this game in the same category as Anthem, Fallout 76, and unfortunately many others. No fans wanted it, no developers wanted to make it, nobody cares about it. The only people excited about this are the executives who saw how much money other Mobile / Co-op Multiplayer / Arena shooter / Battle Royale / etc games were making, and are hopeful they can get a piece of the pie. This sort of thing never seems to end well for the game companies that push it.

Sometimes though, companies seem to learn from their mistakes on these. EA went from a straight awful company to producing one of my favorite games, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, with no forced multiplayer, no microtransactions, no DLC, just a great game out of the box. So although Blizzard franchises are certainly hurting right now, sometimes the night is darkest just before the dawn, so to speak.
Some mention of his works here, but not his name

Michael Kerrisk

Author of the Linux Programming Interface, innumerable man pages, and many other projects.

Absolutely, without question, the best longform technical writer. Reading his books, where he gets to exercise all of the skills in terms of sequencing, layering, explanation, repetition, etc is like receiving an architectural download from the universe.

Will also like others cite Knuth, whom I used to read just for relaxation that his orderly brain would induce in mine, and Stallman- the technical writings- who for all his flaws was and is an exceptionally gifted explainer.
They certainly attacked Kyiv, particularly a lot of the infrastructure that could be used to counter Russian efforts in the Eastern part of Ukraine. Attacking and wanting to annex are two different things though, and there is nothing outside of our untrustworthy mainstream news media to suggest they ever planned to occupy the entire country.
> Concrete adversarial scenarios are in fact helpful from a policy and planning perspective.

Right, and I'm saying that an agency which is tasked with gathering all this private data about innocent citizens, without a warrant, is going to attract people who will want to abuse it, just as other mass surveillance agencies have abused their powers in the past.

How much more concrete do I need to be? Do I need to give the names of actual Norwegian threat actors who I think might want to infiltrate this agency, and specify who they would sell the data to, or which of their ex-partners they would spy on, or which opposition politician's spending habits they would leak to which paper?
>Because they say they have 68 billion observations, certainly combining each to each 4 times is not possible. There must be some heuristic and/or trick to it.

Maybe define heuristics for what ISN'T useful first to pare down the data set (looking for negatives), then focus on the sort where you're actually looking for positives?

When I'm sorting photos for art purposes, I shoot a lot, years at a time, then spend a month or two sorting into albums, I actualy lost hours of work because I had to restore my phone from a backup recently.

But the general idea, when doing a completely manual process, is you grab say, 1kish of 20k images, then from there further split them into 3-4 albums.

Now if they were astronomy photos then you could go into that set of about 500 and manually look, think what's a heuristic to get me from where I started to here more quickly.

(Sorry if articulating myself poorly, this site spikes my anxiety -- if I give useful information people just siphon it up, but if you give an opinion they don't like, folks get real ornery.)
There is no such thing as an acceptable ad. All ads are an attempt to hack our primate brains, and, as such, must be prevented at all cost from doing so. Block all ads. It's the only sane thing to do.
This is the kind of assertion people love to make but hate to back up, or think deeply about. It makes more sense to address core issues like poverty and abuse than it does to drone strike these kids'
At least for awhile, it was Stratus VOS. This was true for its ancestors QuantumLink and PlayNET as well.
Expedia is really bad about calling all their promotions "transactional emails". You see, once upon a time in the distant past, I used Expedia, so based on that transaction surely I care deeply about how "A more rewarding travel experience is coming in February": http://jfloren.net/content/expedia.png
WTF? Doesn't anyone just reverse bias a transistor anymore? Who needs memory?
Cancer cells express proteins that communicate with lymphocytes (white blood cells) to block apoptosis (cell death).

We can't target the cancer cells, so we tweak the lymphocytes to block PD-1 receptors, thus ignoring ALL cells that express a lot of PD-L! protein.

This unfortunately includes healthy cells.
Why is this top 10? It's just a rant.
You need more karma points to see the 'flag' button, even more to see the downvote button. 1000 of users can flag and downvote on Hackernews.
This started happening enough on the Twitter app for me that I just ended up uninstalling the app. My account still exists, and maybe there are some real notifications there, but it's probably been close to a year since I actually checked.