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The OP seems to have received great advice here. So I'd like to ask a related question: has anyone here been laid off and received unemployment benefits?

I was laid off pretty early in my career due to "restructuring." I was unable to receive any UE benefits because the state unemployment office forced me to apply to jobs that were paying substantially less than the one I lost (hourly, minimum wage +20% or so), and since I was a qualified candidate, I'd get offers that I'd turn down. The unemployment office never actually gave me anything because I kept turning down offers. After like two weeks, I found another job, so the situation became moot.

This experience has colored my opinion of unemployment for tech workers such that I think it doesn't really exist for us. So I'm curious if my experience was normal or not. It seems better to leave on one's own terms rather than trying to collect a meager severance and non-existent unemployment.
I also thought writing my own format would be a bad idea

So I choose a standardized configuration format: JSON

Now I store my config in JSON, and wrote a JSON parser

Unfortunately my JSON parser threw an exception when parsing floating point numbers, and my app did not start anymore.

I also wrote an XML parser. In hindsight, it would have been much better to store my config as XML, since there are no floating point numbers. Parsing floats is incredible complicated.
I've heard one even worse.

I know people who were told by their PI to tell other researchers at conferences that they were working on the stuff that they already tried that didn't work. This would encourage competing labs to try out these techniques and waste their time.

Being scooped is a huge blow to a career, for faculty but more intensely for graduate students. With arXiv, you can be scooped at literally any moment rather than just on the known conference schedule. Being scooped was personally traumatic for me and I still have nightmares about the experience.

This leads to a massively toxic ecosystem of over-competition where individual labs win at the detriment of scientific progress.
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Yep, at the end of the day it's just text editor. I hope UX people with coding skills would re-visiting Paredit and make it mainstream. Designing keystroke for the mass is hard, especially for text heavy (e.g. docs) content.
.ai costs $70 a year and that seems to be enough to keep most squatting from happening. Some available domains:

thirty.ai topsy.ai hierarch.ai bisect.ai branching.ai saline.ai spume.ai cadr.ai

I'm sure using the dictionary method you could find a ton more.
There are many more Whatsapp-like stories; see https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/testimonials/.
Picture tagging, Face ID are really great, but Siri is such a letdown.
Absolutely useless beside setting a timer.
Over the years it got better, but it is still dimensions behind Alexa.

Amazon and Google are since the begging “web companies”, Apple comes from the hardware side and has problems keeping up with „information services“, but the Apple owned Search Engine is probably only a few years away.
Instead of laughing, answer me this: what is your alternative? Do you just let your economy falter as supply chains unravel?
> As a publisher I don’t want to start a new project with zero followers, especially if the project does the same exact thing my previous project did, just better.

Yeah, that's a good point and a lot of API interface churn we're seeing in the ecosystem makes sense to me now. People don't want to lose their social clout.
> We could actually do a lot without gun restrictions by simply limiting supply.

Which would drive up costs, which would again just make it a thing only the wealthy effectively had access to.
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>We run Cloud or Linux systems. Platform support or it didn't happen.

This 100x

I find it very strange that the demo requires Windows
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Doesn't even have to be a metropolis, look at most red states suburbs and rural area, massive wealth inequality...
Realistically, people single out San Francisco because it's hip to do so. It's easy to point to SF and say it's failed. Because of progressive politics, because of gentrification or whatever else you want to say.

But the actual problem is endemic. It's an issue in almost every city across the US, from Seattle to New York. From red states to blue states. Even here in Austin we have a large portion of homeless people and homeless camps that shuffle around as the laws shift and change.

The problems started years ago, it's only recently that they became more visible because class stratification is getting worse. Not only that, but there's a strong tendency among cities to simply 'solve' this problem by buying homeless people bus tickets and shipping them off to cities in fairer climates. The actual solution to this problem is a federal one, understanding that our safety nets and healthcare systems are ineffectual for a large portion of our society but even then that would take decades to take effect.
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Yes, being able to fiddle with peripherals right there on the repl skipping the compile and flash step is a huge productivity gain.
It may actually be good news. Depending on how the stats are made.

That a death qualifies as a medical mistake means that proper treatment existed. For example let's say that 50% of people die from "the plague". The plague is lethal and untreatable, no medical mistakes can be made because nothing can be done. One day, a cure is found, cheap and 100% effective, unfortunately, the procedure is tricky and as a result, 1 out of 5 times, it is done improperly and the patient dies.

In the end, 4/5 cases survive, which is great news, is used to be zero, but if we look at the share of deaths because of medical mistakes, it has increased a lot.

Of course, it needs to be fixed, but usually, it is something we know is fixable, better than a disease without treatment.
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I guess I did say plugging/unplugging, but certain types of cables are very prone to kinking. I've broken a number of cables if they get a loop and then you set something heavy on them, or if you lay on them in bed, etc. In the car I go through a 3.5mm cable and a usb cable every couple years as well, for largely the same reasons - they get tugged or bumped or something set on them and they break. It's especially likely with the crappy cheap cables that most people buy - I've had a lot better luck since switching to mostly braided cables, I think the sheath gives it a bit more strength.

Failures due to "user error" are still failures that induce cable replacement, and a cable that you interact with less (because it's running to a fixed wireless charger stand/pad) is less likely to have user error failure modes like that. Wireless connection or wireless charging (built into the car, f.ex) removes these modes entirely - you can't break an aux cable that doesn't exist.

You can't just assume "nobody ever breaks a cable" as being a realistic proposition when looking at the lifecycle of these products - I'm not sure I believe you in the first place that you've never broken a cable in 12 years but that's certainly not realistic for the population as a whole.
They appear to actually consider shrinkflation:

> Tittar man på den totala kostnaden för livsmedel bidrar krympflationen som mest med en årlig prisförändring på tre tiondelars procent.

> Looking at the total cost for groceries shrinkflation adds three tenths of a percentage to the yearly cost change.

https://scb.se/hitta-statistik/redaktionellt/krympflationen-...

And:

> Det är cirka två procent av livsmedlen som ändrar förpackningsstorlek under ett år. Implicita prisförändringar, eller krympflation som vissa kallar det, förklarar cirka 10 procent av de prisuppgångar som sker för förpackade livsmedel.

> It is about two percent of groceries that change packaging size every year. Implicit price changes, or shrinkflation as some call it, explains about ten percent of the price increase which happen on packaged groceries.

https://scb.se/contentassets/419935bc1ce44b43ae97ee1d5dc6f34...
this is a pendulum-swing reversal of a previous era where you could be institutionalized without redress. Similar arguments (rightly) are going on about the seriously-mentally ill. Another part of it is that super powerful painkillers are readily available and highly addictive. Like the crack "epidemic" in the 1980s, these drugs are so strong and pervasive that it visibly changes whole cities.
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Lived in SF for ~12 years. 8 years in the Mission.

> Is my perspective skewed by the sources I'm reading or have things really deteriorated to that extent?

SF has always been a mess, for the entire decade I've been here. I used to walk to/from work along Mission. Over the last 10 years, things got a lot better - 16th/Mission was unsafe. Most of the mission used to literally smell like a toilet.

You couldn't walk between 5th and 7th along Market. I once watched a lady in a wheelchair chasing someone down the street. She was rolling as fast as she could with one hand, and holding a knife out in front of her with the other while the guy ran.

Crime was always an issue. The planters along the street with the trees used to be a prime place to drop used heroin needles. Like, you could occasionally stumble on a planter with 5-10 used hypodermic needs in it. On Market.

The mid-Mission and Capp area used to run thick with prostitutes.

I don't see nearly as much of this anymore. It got worse in the midst of COVID, but petered out. I think the quantity of all the above issues went down, but so did the population. As such, the albeit lower crime stands out more. And SF is such a transient city that the people complaining about it now (rightly, imo) didn't see how bad it was because they weren't here.

[edit] It's bad - but it's not any worse now than before. There's a lot of great reasons to live here too though! It's so pretty, great food, bars, activities, it's small, walkable, bikeable. I know a ton of folks here so it's kind of hard to leave now, heh.
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It speaks to the hierarchy of concern. It is similar to the school debate where many millions of dollars would be spent renaming schools like Lincoln and Jefferson to PC names. Meanwhile, teachers are paying out of pocket to provide student menstrual products.

You can make quick wins on small problems while working on big problems. However, if you are spending most of your time and money on small or trivial problems while your house burns down, you have a priority issue.
Or to a different time period for that matter
It's not 14 years for pirating a stream is it though. It's for pirating a stream, replicating it, selling access to it as a business for 10 years and making millions in the process.

It's the difference between someone copying some photo you took and posting it on twitter as 'theirs' vs setting up a business selling t-shirts, notebooks and iPhone cases with your picture on.

14 years might still be bananas, but let's not imply he just pirated some steam for a little illegal personal watching.
> I’ve seen Violent crime happen at a much higher rate.

That's an anecdote I guess but according to SFPD's own stats violent crime hit an all-time low in 2020 and was the same in 2021 and up only slightly in the first 5 months of 2022.
Congratulations on the work done, and what a coincidence it is.

Codemirror looks quite interesting!
Thanks for the article!

As I understood, drilling deep is quite expensive and, comparing to centralized heating stations working with gas for instance, the thermal output does not allow building heat factories. In example they state that they needed 8 500-meter holes for 4 houses and only 64 apts. So they are talking about typical Scandinavian 4-floor buildings, which are as well A-class insulated.

It stands nowhere near to typical buildings of East Berlin for instance.
It requires 200 Karma, I am a new account with only 4 :(
Honestly I think domain names should be the least of your worries when building something. You can always add a "get" prefix or "app" suffix (or a bunch of other options). If you are sold on a company name then by all means, grab the domain but don't confuse "buying a domain" with "making actual progress".

When I was younger I used to snap up domain names for every little idea I had. I executed on less than 1% of those ideas and ended up letting the domain expire 1-2 years later when I could finally admit to myself I was never going to pursue it. Literally hundreds of dollars flushed down the toilet all to get a temporary rush.

I know that I have issues with thinking "spending money" === "making progress" (be it on home improvement projects or web apps) and I know I'm not alone. If all you need is a domain to launch your product then go ahead and start looking, otherwise it's just a dopamine distraction.
SFs evictions and Rent control laws encourage landlords to keep units vacant than rent them out for a discount or to a subpar tenant.

A 1 bedroom apartment in SF has been ~3k for half a decade now. With inflation this means effective price was lowered.
I believe it's legally required here in Germany, but in most cases you'll be first on the chopping block for layoffs, and you generally need to hide that you'll ask during interviews. (It's illegal to refuse an employee asking but not illegal to not hire you.)

Really bluntly, just as value-per-hour starts falling off rapidly after some point, it also increases super-linearly up to some point before that. Most overhead is constant regardless of if you work 24 or 40, you'll miss opportunities when you're not there, and you'll need to spend more time catching up when you are. That doesn't mean you can't work effectively, but I've watched multiple junior-mid devs think they've hacked the system but instead just forgo most learning/advancement opportunities.

If you're happy with the current salary and don't need any more fulfillment from your career than turning-the-crank, I guess go for it.

(In the US they'll just fire you, maybe even just for asking.)
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Are we really taking that story at face value?
Is this just for bragging rights, or like a sharing website? The site neighborgoods used to do that, for sharing tools, kayaks, whatever.
Everyone beat me with the one liners :) surprised someone had a file.open loop while cat and awk would work. More surprised to see Ruby used.
I'm confused. Is the issue that the parts are out of spec or that the auto makers want to up the spec?
I’ll never understand this mentality. “Sure, you’ll likely be violently assaulted and your car will be broken into regularly, but there are a lot of nice restaurants!”
> Nobody is going to throw away so much working code

But, inexplicably, they're also not going to pay (much) for anybody to maintain it.
Does it shorten URLs? Yes

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In Italy the attitude is so prevalent (not entirely without reasons) that we have a pithy expression to satirize it: "Piove, governo ladro" (It’s raining, thieving government!)
CircuitPython is designed for beginner hobbyists and the lower grade education market. Basically those with none to little programming experience.
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I'm much more interested in the companies like Apple that are building products with ML as opposed to the ones that publish papers for the sake of publishing papers and getting more publicity like DeepMind. (Which is a personal preference, nothing wrong with what DeepMind is doing, I just don't really care about it that much)
Is it really hard to see why people would want to work there, morally? The goal of playing a part in sustainable/renewable energy is pretty noble.
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I hope they start to place these in downtown. There is plenty of parks and green areas where you could easily fit a few. Maybe top of buildings too.

After all we all must make small sacrifices for green energy right?
Which translates to 13 000 percent yearly, amazingly. Compound numbers often surprise me.
NixOS lets you do that kinda of stuff though. You specify that you want a kernel option enabled and it'll make sure that any kernel you install has it enabled or compiles one from the upstream source you set (or the default one).

Even upgrading your kernel will ensure the option is enabled. And it'll ensure that any downstream modifications done by wherever you pull the kernel from has them enabled too.
> You have to have the right people.

Yes, true! I presented a lightning talk to colleagues on "Ingredients for Commercial MicroPython Success". One of the key points is "People are critical". Maybe folks here might find it useful:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vR3DJk-dNTvE...
There's a couple of variations of advice to stall, which doesn't sound like bad advice either. Tesla has some goal in mind, and if enough other people quit, the pressure comes down.

I personally think gathering information without telegraphing any intent (or known issues with moving, etc) is the right move for now.
I would not use an EAP program for an employment dispute. While it is supposed to be confidential there have been cases of confidential information getting back to the employer. Considering we're talking about Tesla and Elon Musk I think the last thing in the world I would want to do would be to go up against them with a lawyer that was paid and recommended by Tesla.
> designed for people who know Python, and are hesitant to learn another language, or expand their toolbox

I've been in this position and all I'd say is a little more complicated than that. I'm happy to learn other languages (in fact I am learning Rust at the moment), however I opt for CircuitPython a lot of the time because theres a job I need doing. Expanding your toolbox is great, and often having a project to work on with whatever your learning is a great way to do that, but sometimes you just have a job that needs doing, and in that case a language thats both fast to work with and your familiar with seems like an ideal choice, as long as your aware of the drawbacks of it.
> if you have a zoophile polyamorous commune you can rely on to support you while you fiddle around.

What are you on about? Zoophile commune?? Wat?
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San Francisco is the ONLY major city I know that has their own human feces map

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...
This is a weird one.

The activist is right. The man did not have to get into the ambulance. He did have the right to refuse treatment. That is literally his right. He gets the decision on whether or not to get treatment for his injuries. The man then exercised those rights. Now, he may not have exercised them in a way you agreed with, or even in a way that was beneficial, but it was still his choice.

And there's good reason why the homeless don't trust police and other emergency services.

The fact that the man died a few months later is almost inconsequential. But it's tied into the story to make it seem like a correlation. The man refused treatment, therefore he died (a few months later a block away).
Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the use of jail time as a deterrence to criminal action. While we like to believe that is the case
"One problem with deterrence theory is that it assumes that human beings are rational actors who consider the consequences of their behavior before deciding to commit a crime; however, this is often not the case."
https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01...
There is a ton of research in this same vein.
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Where do they plan to put them...NW? They give out about Bavaria and south but most estimates I've seen only support northern sites as being actually worthwhile. The biggest wind related fallacy apart from farting in public is putting windmills where theres not enough bluster. Could be wasteful and a little late from the German greens imo given recent events.
If the format is meant to be the next defacto standard, wish they made the name more distinguishable. People without fully understanding it will abbreviate to JPEG as well and definitely cause confusion.
Russia has been a hostile actor to germany and the rest of the EU for more than a decade. Russia financially supports radical political movements with the sole intention to harm/destroy the EU.

Russia has regularly ppl killed on european soil. Sometimes using chemical weapons that cause collateral damage.

Russia has an extensive propaganda and disinformation network running in europe.

Russia massively buys political influence by shopping for ex politicians, this way corrupting the political process.

Russia has a history of military conflicts with its neighbours, see occupation of Trnsnrista in moldowa, abchasia and south ossetia in georgia, the annihilation of chechnia, all the stuff in ukraine and helping belarusian dictator Lukachenko suppressing his people.

Looking at the levels of gas storage in europe by gazprom it is very obvious that its behaviour was not driven by good faith financial interests but as a weapon of the kremlin against europe.

And lets not forget the shooting down of MH17 where, not only did the russians deny any responsibility, they even clogged the public discourse with disinformation campaigns of tons of ridiculous and contradictory theories.

So, no it is not immensely in the interest of Germany to have good relations and continued trade with Russia as long as this regime is in power. Flood ukraine with heavy weapons till the russians are driven out. Then put up a new iron curtain till something substantial changes for the better.
I feel SF is just difficult to live in for people not making ridiculous tech salaries or have enough wealth to afford it there. You can enjoy life in any city if you make 100k+, and some people that do will still complain about being poor ...
Red flag laws often have some or all of these problems.

-No Due process for the accused, so guns are simply taken from innocent people and the first they know is when a cop shows up.

-No process to return taken guns or ammo after a specified period.

-Doesn't prevent acquiring new weapons.

-Little or no credibility requirements for red flags.

-These laws often don't require any sort of conviction or charge, so it's a lot like civil asset forfeiture in that it takes things from innocent people.
Off topic, but the first ever spam I received was for 'frozen escargot' from some company in New York, which as a comparatively impoverished first-year student at university in the north of England in the 90s struck me as more than a little peculiar.

I'd always prefer to see such random spam then the nth advert for the same item I happened to google last month (* to be fair, as I use Firefox ad-blocked to the hilt, I rarely see that sort of thing any more either).
Drugs. Bad for generating ideas, but makes your ability to generate them when you're sober better.