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We already do:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Sorry, the Toptal mention in my original post was not necessary. My experience with both companies was a waste of time and a disappointment, with similar characteristics along the way.

I group them in the category of companies that has an attractive proposition but turns out to be much less lovely once known better.
> it's not out there competing in the free market...

Tell that to Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance. They’d love to know. . .
I remember the time when our security team discovered massive amounts of internal documents as images on the net.

A lot of people had used a screen shot browser extension and as we were working in Google Docs a lot of people included document screenshots in presentations.

The extension on the other hand uploaded all screenshots to the web and made them publicly available.

I was glad I didn't use it. It was a nightmare. Since then I use only the built-in tools of the OS or of the Browser (like FF or Chrome has).
Haha. The internet has really failed us, hasn't it.

Direct image links: https://i.imgur.com/1UwHC59.png and https://i.imgur.com/mIRmN7Q.png
The London Bridge Station (UK) rebuild addressed two main reasons for unreliability - the signalling as you said (some of it was almost a century old, and that's not an exaggeration), and the other things was removing points. Points are tracks crossing tracks and the rails mechanically switching/

Arguably fixing that by building a fly-under (a tunnel under the existing tracks) fixed a huge source of problems for that part of the UK rail network, probably more so than the signalling.
You can use `pass` with Yubikeys, I had this set up for many years
Who came up with the 40 hour work week? It always seemed to be excess.

I don’t foresee WFH to be the standard. There will be a cascading effect on many other sectors including commercial real estate, restaurant industries, public transport and eventually mental health because housing isn’t going to get cheaper when population expands exponentially. Not everyone has extra office space at home.

The solution lies in the middle. It would make more sense to at least halve work hours and have the option for hybrid work culture.

It’s not like we are hand writing ledgers at work. The nature of work has changed with computers and internet.

We can also expect work to be outsourced to cheaper locations as WFH becomes the norm. Why pay American salaries when it may as well be done at a fraction of the cost overseas. Perhaps this would
mean that there will be more emigration of English speaking American workforce to countries with lower cost of living.

Altho’ most of those are already over populated and have severe energy crunches/constraints. Not to mention the existence of local educated population that needs to be employed. Most countries aren’t privileged economically like the USA and rely on taxes from work force to keep the country running. Eventually, the cost of doing business overseas will become equal to doing it in America.

I do not see 100% WFH as a viable solution for majority of the population. I have only seen effective employees work longer hours. Can’t imagine how this will be beneficial for work/home balance or mental health.

If the case for WFH is made by beckoning high gas prices and long painful commute, then it is a failure on the part of govt for not supporting its working tax paying population with what is necessary to support commerce and the economy.

The Achilles heel of America is the lack of public transport network. If that one weakness in the system is remedied, so many issues from housing to cost of living to work/life balance to quality of life would be improved. The country would be overall more vibrant and happier. I can’t understand why this gaping hole of public transport has never been remedied.

From a macro economic pov, WFH will be an unmitigated disaster to the economy and GDP.
Did you try linking Nitter instead? Might make a difference.

Either way I'm not a big Twitter fan myself, the text limitation is just pointless and annoying. And the UI doesn't make it any better.
> Activist employees

This is a broad term that different people might understand differently. Please define it first, then use it.

> politics and religion

This is off-topic. The mentioned discussions and disagreements at SpaceX were unrelated to these matters.

In general, it is in my opinion dangerous to say that an opinion different than the one of the boss is unwelcome at a company. This is how cults and autocracies operate. It amplifies the opinion of the leader and unjustly silences everything else.

Respectful discussions about the topics of disagreement are in my opinion essential for a company to preserve its defined ethical standards and not deteriorate into a community ruled by herd mentality and groupthink influenced predominantly by a single person.
This article has a great point, though it definitely also depends on the field in question. The best web developers/software engineers may or may not be visible online, since they could be working on internal stuff at companies with NDAs, or dislike marketing, or whateber else.

But the top experts for a lot of 'internet first' fields will likely overlap heavily with those who are loudest about them online. The world's foremost experts in say, blogging, SEO or content marketing will probably be extremely active online, since their expertise is in large part about marketing themselves and their work. The best speedrunners, game modders and others in such communities will probably have a visible online presence, since the community only exists on the internet and someone who does well at one of these things has a decent chance of getting a YouTube/Twitch career out of it.

And on the contrary, I suspect a lot of fields with an older demographic will probably be more representative of the situation in this article, where many of the people who are best at them aren't used to the internet or social media, and stick to doing their work/hobby offline instead.

So it's very much based on the field. The world's best carpenter or sprinter might not be on Reddit or Twitter that much if at all, whereas the world's best Super Mario 64 player is probably going to have quite the internet presence.
The internet started as a state-owned project.
I have found that Python with `mypy --strict` for type-checking is actually quite nicely typed.
So a good language, should not abstract that memory pyramid away, but instead make you painfully aware of it, while developing. Rewarding DOD, punishing OO, but that results in more education time for programers, which no company is willing to pay for.

What instead is needed is a intermediate language, that takes the constructs of object orientation and the instruction flow and allows to rearrange them for maximum memory efficieny. Like, strip those OO-bjects into arrays, or directly pack them into hot-loop structs that have little regard for the Objects they started out with.

Can someone from the old guard tell me, how often we have been here in the language design cycles through the desert?
Having spent a bit of time doing projects in F# I had to repeatedly go to C# language docs to understand what was going on when interacting with existing libraries.

So in my experience I'd say it makes no sense to start with F# if you're new to the .NET ecosystem.
...Assuming that TSMC is still around, independent, and manufacturing in 2025.
AICOA 2(a)(9):

ONLINE PLATFORM.—The term “online platform” means a website, online or mobile application, operating system, digital assistant, or online service that—

(A) enables a user to generate content that can be viewed by other users on the platform or to interact with other content on the platform;

(B) facilitates the offering, advertising, sale, purchase, payment, or shipping of products or services, including software applications, between and among consumers or businesses not controlled by the platform operator; or

(C) enables user searches or queries that access or display a large volume of information.

It's an "operating system" that certainly meets (C) and arguably meets (A) and (B) as well.
Does he have a similar write up for Acesulfame potassium (also known as acesulfame K or Ace K).

I noticed this weird aversion to sugar alternatives and assumed big sugar had a hand in it.
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In Scotland the electrification of part of the (200 year old) network involved rebuilding every car and foot bridge and tunnel along the route to add enough spare height for the overhead wires. It's one downside to being "first" to build widespread railways - with the initial huge investment made in Victorian era when trains were single decked and run on coal, the room for expansion was limited. The good fortune Britain has had in avoiding real destruction of infrastructure in war has also meant there hasn't been much opportunity to rebuild having learned lessons since the Victorian era (separate cycle lanes? Hah). Meanwhile, in Hannover for instance, U-Bahn stations were built in the bomb craters in the city center - making use of the "free" excavation.

Obviously not saying war or coming later to the party are good things, but it's one of those ironies of humanity.
The dude claiming to be a "free speech absolutist" fires people who said something about him he doesn't like... yikes. Musk is slowly turning into a Mad King
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I would say to the local farm, then you have to wait for the cow to be milked (like an external api call...). At the end you just reduced you journey time by 0.1%, and incread you code complexity by 100%.
> Government funding built it would be more appropriate

It's essentially the same thing - when tax money fund R&D with the explicit requirement that all results become publicly available.
That title is slightly misleading.

From Reuters (Philip Pullella) the 14th of June due to the publication by the Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica that day of a transcript of an interview with pope Francis.

"In the conversation with the Jesuit editors, Francis said that several months before President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the pontiff had met with a head of state who expressed concern that NATO was "barking at the gates of Russia" in a way that could lead to war.

Francis then said in his own words: "We do not see the whole drama unfolding behind this war, which was perhaps somehow either provoked or not prevented".

Asking himself rhetorically if that made him "pro-Putin", he said: "No, I am not. It would be simplistic and wrong to say such a thing"."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-criticises-russia-...

So this raises the questions:
a) who was this 'head of state'
b) could this costly war somehow have been prevented in a way that still maintained the security of Ukraine or Europe or was it inevitable?

The 19th of may transcript:

https://www.laciviltacattolica.com/pope-francis-in-conversat...
Actually it's not, Chandler Carruth notwithstanding.

If your C++ program exhibit undefined behaviour, the compiler is allowed to format your entire hard drive. Or encrypt it and display a "plz pay BTC" message. That's called a vulnerability. Real and meaningful security checks have been removed as "dead code" because of signed integer overflow (which is undefined behaviour by default).

If anything, I would guess the gross misunderstanding sprouted somewhere between the specs and the compiler writers. Originally, UB was mostly about bailing out when the underlying platform couldn't handle this particular case, or explicitly ignoring edge cases to simplify implementations. Now however it's also a performance thing, and if anything is marked as UB then it's fair game for the optimiser — even if it could easily be well defined, like signed integer overflow on 2's complement platforms.
Microsoft for startups offers $5,000 initially followed by $25,000 credit including a one year of free technical support.

I've been using my azure credits for few months now.

https://startups.microsoft.com/
A company of size of one or two, is not an enterprise (in any meaningful sense related to EA), so that would be logically flawed.
Looks like an improved and more independent (post Evernote acquisition) alternative to Skitch: https://evernote.com/products/skitch
Also Doggerland in Europe, the land which connected Northern Europe with the British Isle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

Seems to me this could be the root of the Viking legends of Valhalla, the eternal hunting grounds, because at the time it existed it had to be one fucking fertile marshland.
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I mean, somehow toxoplasma seems to not be caught by the immune system, so presumably they can evolve this way. If you don't directly harm the host, and maybe even benefit it, its immune system would have bigger fish to fry than going after you, no?

As to corpses, fair enough. Ah, if only these infections caught up that humans don't often just leave bodies around...
Bright red banner?
Those are the things that really make me appreciate the pipette(?) tool in ublock. My joy of the internet somewhat improved with that, especially on return/ repeat visits to various sites.
Can you provide links to websites that engineers get paid 100k in Germany?

My impression is that it’s around 50k. That’s what, for example, car companies or top R & D places pay the best graduates from TUM (I am talking about PhDs with years of experience in advanced engineering).

But OP should also consider health care costs. You still pay 800-900 Euro in Germany (450 paid out of salary and an equivalent amount by the employer, which is essentially taken from salary), and with that you get excellent health care for a single person in US, but things change if you are unemployed. Overall, German health care system is better.
Thanks, I missed that. Yet, I would prefer to know who is behind it to decide if you should trust it.

The app is so good that I would probably pay for it. It's the dream screenshot app, just I would like to know who i'm trusting my private data with.
And ones with a choice.

Given the choice between program X and program X plus higher speed at higher cost, some will choose the latter.

But that's never the choice. All else is not equal.
Really good clear explanation of the issues.

The group I work in (Amey Consulting) have built a couple of systems for Network Rail here in the UK, called Quartz and Cosmo. These are analytic systems examine rail delays and delay propagation, especially sub-threshold delays (in the UK delays over a threshold - 2 mins IIRC) have to be reported, but those under 2 mins don't. We started looking at sub-threshold delays a few years ago, and have understood how these small delays build and propagate through the network, affecting multiple services.

We are always recruiting (UK - main sites London and Manchester, some folk in Birmingham too) - so if you have an interest in applying data science to infrastructure have a look here: https://www.amey.co.uk/what-we-do/amey-consulting/careers-wi..., or DM me
And yet the majority of research around modern technology was tax funded: semiconductors, optical networks, early computers, GSM, GPS, spread spectrum, satellites, aeronautics, weather research, CDs, LCDs, touch screens...

EDIT: I forgot a certain thing called Arpanet...
> The quickest it will ever slow down is with its emergency brakes.

What about derailments? Can a derailment lead to a higher deceleration than the emergency brakes are able to produce? (I don’t know the answer, genuinely curious.)

> So the minimum headway is the reaction time (milliseconds if automatic)

How do the following train detects that the leader train is emergency breaking? Is it based on trackside sensors, or some train-to-train communication?
Nobody is saying these former employees should not be allowed to work any job ever again, just that SpaceX is not the right workplace for them.
This comparison reminds me of Grace Hopper explaining how long nanosecond is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
Maybe people who are privacy and security focused shouldn't use operating systems that track you. This is like trying to save a sinking ship by keeping your shoes dry.
Wrong. The article very clearly provided alternatives.
Just hours ago complained to a friend about how arcane some things in macOS are. Short of just pressing random key combinations, there is no way to discover that it's possible to paste/type a path into the standard file selection dialog.

(It's cmd-shift-g to get the text entry to appear, or simply forward slash to get it to appear with the slash already entered. Also, it says "Go to Folder", but if you direct it to a file, it will navigate to the folder the file is in and also select the file)
Your two statements are practically in contradiction with each other. It reminds me of the right-wing that wants to cancel programs for the lowest income, yet votes for bills to bail out and provide welfare for the largest scum corporations all while getting kickbacks and taking bribes. I agree having government manage projects is not ideal, but there are certainly times and teams that have been a lot more efficient and better than others.
Fully agree about the neo bank stuff. When I picked a bank for my current company people were recommending me Tinkoff (local neo-bank that's entirely online, but has fancy apps etc.). It was tempting due to how shiny all their stuff is, but I ended up going with Alfabank (traditional "brick&mortar" bank).

A couple months down the line I had a bureaucratic hiccup with some tax office documents and it was SO MUCH nicer to be able to walk into a bank office and speak to a person and get it all sorted out on the spot, instead of arguing with some online live chat agent to be escalated to the right place.

When I lived in the UK I used Monzo there (another online-only, app-only (!) neo bank). This seemed like a good idea at the time - until I started needing to do things that traditional banks are much better at (such as international transfers). What really hit me here is that I at some point considered doing a smartphone detox, and realised that my smartphone was the only way to fully access my personal account there. Bad idea, never again ...

(There's some symmetry between this and ordering products online for me, btw. If I can go to a physical store and look at a thing before buying I will prefer this over ordering online and potentially dealing with returns, delivery issues etc. almost 100% of the time)
Funny you should mention cycle lanes - in the 1930's Britain had a fantastic network of cycle highways, which they let fall in to disrepair
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/britain-forgotten-1930...
> Just this week I wanted to do a screenshot of an entire website

https://derailer.org/paparazzi/ does that, unfortunately, macOS only.

Firefox also has a built-in mechanism to take scrolling-screenshots.

https://cleanshot.com/ is also very good, IMO, much better than Shottr.
That was a Phoenician expedition recorded by the Egyptians.
It seems like you'd have to know who is going to be rendering your pre-rendered source in order to encrypt it to them.

Also, the render nodes would have to be trusted (to not redistribute the content); I doubt this is what render token is doing.
It was never aliens before, so the prior is very strong
Is there evidence that this actually matters? Do untrained people choose the Knuth result as more visually pleasing or read faster/better with it?

If not then maybe we can just use the quick and dirty methods.
There is an interesting development going on to electrify some of the UK rail lines - an OverHead Line (OHL) - battery hybrid system.

The idea is that you have a standard electrified OHL system where it is easy and cheap (!!!) to install. Places whee you can't put it easily, such as under bridges, through tunnels etc, you don't. You have some (small-ish) battery capability in the train which recharges from the OHL system, and use that in the areas where the OHL hasn't been installed.
You should read about Minitel, the French state-owned internet precursor that was flourishing before floundering due to a few reasons ( competition from the internet, delays in new features, tech choices that were coming to bite back, etc.)
It happens in other busy stations around the world as well. Check the train number.
The idea is incredible ! But it doesn't seem to work on my ubuntu:

wget https://redbean.dev/redbean-2.0.1.com -O redbean.com
2022-06-17 10:35:12 (1,95 MB/s) - ‘redbean.com’ saved [1999386/1999386]
chmod +x redbean.com
./redbean.com
./redbean.com: line 16: /tmp/ape: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
./redbean.com: line 16: /tmp/ape: Success
Why does offering an insecure authentication method stop being a problem when there are alternatives? It should not be offered.
Yeah, the upcoming trains are usually shown on these. There is a difference though: In Germany the train will usually be 10++ minutes late or straight up never show up (at least for long distance travel).
The second train in this example could be heavier, requiring more distance to stop, but that can probably accounted for by adjusting minimum following distance based total mass of the train.

But when if the first train is experiencing something it shouldn't, like a big accident/derailment, the landscape could be a way better brake than the train's own brakes. When does the second train start its emergency braking?
As a front-end developer, I can't help but notice how much useless computation is going on in a fairly popular library - Redux. It's a store of items, if just one tiny items change in the whole store, every subscriber of every item gets notified and a compare function is ran to check if it changes. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something and not to bash on Redux - I'm sure there are well-deserved reasons it got popular, but to me that just sounds insane and the fact that it got so much widespread adoption perfectly reflects how little care about performance is given nowadays.

I don't use a high-end laptop and I'm not eager to upgrade is because I can relate to the average user of the software I develop. I saw plenty of popular web apps feeling really sluggish.
Another option is when you press Command+Shift+5 select Options. From there select to Open in Preview. From then on any screenshot will open in preview automatically.
Dating apps is still much more convenient.
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In the beginning (read: 2005) there was only one system, Kred. It was written in Erlang and did everything, so became a huge monolith over time.

About 10 years later Klarna started to change its system architecture (which makes total sense, since by that time it grew to a successful unicorn, with a way more complex business than what it had at launch time).

First, instead of shovelling every new feature into the monolith, it introduced new (mostly micro-)services around it. This model is successful, and most of these new services are written in Java, but there are also Erlang ones and other, even some "exotic" ones, like Haskell. (Also, through a series of acquisitions, Klarna got a bunch of tech from other companies, which, you can imagine, were written in whatever language those other companies used.)

There was also an attempt to replace Kred, the old Erlang system, with a new one (happened to be written in Java), and this project indeed was a failure in the sense that Kred is still around and nobody wants to decommission it nowadays. But the intended replacement system still proved useful, so it's not really a failure from that system's developers point of view.
The best part about outlets like this is that you don't need to open any articles to know what they're criticising and what they're advocating.