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A balanced, well written article that covers all sides of the issue: the view that academia is too homogeneous, and that targeted hiring* is needed to address this issue, and the competing view that not enough is being done to recruit minorities in academia, and that universities should be more vocal and passionate in their defense of these programs.

It's truly refreshing to read an article unafraid to examine an issue from all viewpoints, even those the author disagrees with, instead of merely advancing one side of the culture war.

*The preferred term for hiring that excludes some groups.
It's dollars per foot, yes.
Honestly though, since they are all in the same relative scale, and the point is what was cheaper and by what percent, this feels like pedantry.

Put another way - outside of being technically correct, why does it matter to the point at hand?
Twitter’s use of your personal information for tailored advertising
Its mean 'crypto phones', or custom firmware mobile phones with their own voice, chat and messaging system. The most recent busted operation, Anom, was actually run by Law Enforcement who backdoored the devices and recorded all the calls and messages. A very successful operation.

I am assuming there are several actual real not-run-by-the-police systems that they are referring to, I can see the NSW government introducing some really silly legislation that turns out to accidentally criminalize ios and android. Oops.
Funny, because your first example is _exactly_ what twitter threads are! "Hook -> explanation -> sell" is a pretty developed marketing technique on twitter and it's everywhere to the point where people who don't even have anything to sell are using it.
Same. Both great publications.

I would add Nat Geo to that list, given one has an interest in our planet, peoples, culture. I had subscriptions to these given to me as a kid and enjoyed reading every one of them. It was like a part time general education course that I really did not appreciate until roughly a decade after it was all over.
“The only data that we had that wasn’t backed up was in our auditor's office, where we have our financial software,”

Seems to me that in modern times failing to back things up is incompetence and dereliction of duty. The auditor should be billed for at least part of the payment.
These are good points. I have seen this over and over again - e.g. in a SaaS which is data configured, how do you a) develop and test your work in a sandbox instance, then b) ship those changes across to a prod instance.

This is especially complex in highly data driven platforms, e.g. when you can set up custom fields, then base your custom screens on those fields. Then you want to move a screen from one instance to another and it is dependant on several custom fields which may or may not be already present, but may not be at the latest version.

Unfortunately virtually no customers nor RFPs ask about these things, so they are a low priority until late in the piece and most platforms do a shit job of it.

Your approach is interesting, though most customers in our space at least would blanch if you said words like Python or JS to them, and would not know their git from their got.
PyScript seems interesting, but must we have infomercial-level hyperbole at the adversity of the status quo to sell it?

> For example, you cannot write iOS apps with Python. You cannot create an application for Windows—the most popular corporate desktop—with a user interface

You can, in fact, do both of those things with Python. Heck, the latter you can do with the standard library alone.
Does it mean that like a corporate M&A, maybe some cities/counties could also indulge in M&A for better value to citizens? Because with bigger base you can afford more employees dedicated to specific tasks.
(2013)

Things have changed a little since then: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/src/runtime/netp...

Nothing that changes the general model, that I can find anyway.
IOW, pneumoconiosis. Miners’ Lung.

https://www.drugs.com/health-guide/pneumoconiosis.html
Some of the best advice I've ever received was in Adventure Time. "Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."
I think it's actually quite difficult to grasp. So first, most discussions on DDD are inaccurate because everyone has different understanding of it (ironically).

I do like the whole domain thing. I'm at a stage where we have a lot of discussion on architecture, because we expect architecture to solve the problem of separation of concerns. But the problem is mostly domain.
I can see and smell my half sun-faded copy of Andalite Chronicles as soon as you mentioned it. It was my first Animorph book and though I loved them only the Hork-Bajir Chronicles held up.

My next jump was to Mossflower and Redwall!
It works 24/7, I guess. Reliability is the key -- it stays running.

It's got a vast array of third-party libraries available. It performs pretty well even in a low-latency environment.

Developers can spend time solving actual business problems, rather than waiting to compile, fooling around with memory allocation, templating problems & inefficient STL data structures, or badly handrolling data structures.

There is a little extra work to stay within a latency envelope, but there are definitely productivity boosts from just forgetting all the old C legacy and being able to work at a higher level of thinking.

Even better, use the JVM but try Kotlin as a language.
>"Vape cartridges are often only worth the investment because the byproducts of plant trimming and packaging aren't sellable otherwise."

Interesting. Can you say what those byproducts are exactly? Is it stems, seeds and a bit of resin then?
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I think even those could be a problem. Wired electronics contain capacitors to handle the spikes while phones use the battery as a cap.
There’s a crucial difference though. Applets required you to download and install the JVM, and it was never part of web standards. Wasm is a w3c standard and built into browsers.

But I see the similarity in terms of compiling your software down to another (supposedly universal, we’ll see) intermediate instruction set.
It doesn't help that it feels like pythons async ecosystem doesn't really know how it works. There is all sorts of blocking code in python async libraries and no one seems bothered by it.

I guess it could be that they just don't care about this type of thing to begin with and have no idea why they are using async other than they heard "it is faster". Meanwhile I am pulling my hair out trying to squeeze a more reqs/s out of an on premise server.
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At some point DNA sequencing will be cheap and sensitive enough that consumers will be able to do it whenever they feel sick, and measure even tiny fragments. Instead of swabbing your nose for a Covid test, you could be swabbing your nose for an "everything" test. You have your DNA on file and then anything out of the ordinary is brought to your attention. Maybe some warning signs of cancer like this, maybe just identifying the precise mild cold you caught a couple days ago.
In this case it's drugs.
Maybe chromebook does it differently but on macos, google won’t show the content of “shortcut” folders in the Finder app. You have to go on drive.google.com to see the files in shortcut folders (which is how shared folders show up nowadays).
Not really. It messes with DNS big time. Try enabling the "MagicDNS" or "Exit Nodes" features, and watch as /etc/resolv.conf is edited with each change. I can easily reproduce scenarios where it's left empty and there's no working DNS resolution.

This is one of the major things I _don't_ like about Tailscale. I wish they'd just stick to enabling Wireguard and making the authentication easier (i.e., where they started). I'm not a fan of most of the features they've added since. I don't want service discovery, magic DNS, SSH key management and/or the kitchen sink bolted on.
I played an awful lot of Ultima Online in my youth, primarily on emulator servers, with which I later got pretty heavily involved on the development side.

It was a truly special game in its heyday; there have been many attempts but no successes at recreating what made UO so special. The adrenaline of PvP in that game is something I've only seen matched in a small handful of titles since.

From everything I've read and watched, Eve Online comes (came?) pretty close to the same general feeling/atmosphere of UO but to be honest I've avoided Eve because I don't want to get hooked. I don't have time for an MMO addiction these days.
To me it perfectly illustrates that the words that are said are in fact the words you hear.
Eh, you don't have to use Java for the first part. I didn't, and I've seen many other people in discussions of the book say they didn't either. It's readable enough, and the explanations are clear enough, that you can follow along in any other memory-managed language that you're comfortable with.
> under-resourced

A 16T drive costs around $400. Shouldn't be so expensive to copy the contents of the disk to it now and then. No special software is needed, either.
Gov has been paying out lots of financial aid. Loans have had much more generous terms and lower qualifications. Some of it is propping up the real estate bubble.

Usually the middle class are the only ones who don't benefit from it.
They do have different URLs for different goggles. Do a search for the word "test" with a Goggle on, then grab the URL from the address bar and paste that into your new bookmark. Replace "test" with "%s", add a keyword, and you're good to go. Repeat with other goggles.
If you look at most loved languages, most wanted languages and most popular languages among both students and professionals Python and Typescript are the best choices for new stuff. Of the newer languages it seems Rust has the most momentum behind it.
What? They are banning Signal? How reasonable. haha
Yes… That’s how all of science works (minus the cabal). Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is about this dynamic…
I'm pleasantly surprised at the effort being put into avoiding false positives.

I can easily imagine a doctor put in a tough spot whilst deciding to treat a possible early stage cancer. If he gets it wrong a malpractice lawsuit is surely to ensue.

I really hope we live to see a future where physicians have less noisy data to work with, especially regarding early detection.
Your edit is still a bit confused. Any halfway decent encryption algorithm and mode can encrypt terabytes of data and still be resistant to known plaintext attacks. You can pretty safely use a single key to encrypt an entire hard-drive after all - that's how Bitlocker and LUKS, etc work. You don't need per file keys for encryption security or defense against known plaintext - it gives more flexibility in selectively decrypting though -- ie pay me a little money and I can prove I can return some of your shit, pay more if you want the rest.
The advantage is obvious. People who know and/or enjoy Python can get into web dev without having to fuss with a new language. It’s really that simple.
Not seeds or stems, trimmings.

There are non-negligible amounts of THC is the trimmings of the flower even though they aren't comparable to the actual flower. These used to be a waste product sold/given away but now it is turned into distillates/oils.
A nuclear plant that is 100% efficient would be better than the current ~40% units but it is thermodynamically impossible. Thanks Carnot.

You are confusing operating/marginal efficiency with lifetime efficiency. Think about a power plant as a series of payments. You have one big up front payment to build the thing and a series of smaller payments to buy fuel and run it.

For solar, those smaller payments are zero. There is still the fixed upfront payment and that is why you would prefer 40% efficient panels to 20% efficient panels everything else being equal.

The marginal cost of rooftop solar is zero. Nothing is wasted. Really! No fuel is bought, the roof underneath is cooler and lasts longer, there are systemic benefits, etc. There is virtually no maintenance. No land is used (Solar land use is complicated but most places you can put solar wouldn’t support a nuclear plant). Light which would have bounced back into space or turned into infrared is instead made into usable, high grade energy. Land/build area that would otherwise do nothing is made useful. It is literally close to economic and physical magic. It is true that panels break, inverters die, upgrading is compelling, etc. However, most components are silicon, glass, copper, and aluminum. These are some of the most recyclable materials on earth. There are plenty of analyses of lifecycle energy and material costs and it is generally pretty favorable (1-2 year operating recovery time). The panels are warrantied in many cases for 25 years so idk where your 20 year then scrap lifespan comes from. Inverters tend to be the weaker link.

Finally batteries have marginal round trip efficiency because what you put in doesn’t come back out 1-1 so I am not sure I follow your point.
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I have been using Neeva for sometime, and I hardly miss Google. It allows me to add some specific webpages for my specific needs, so that I can see search results from general+specific websites. Reddit, I believe, is now indexed, and they should extend it to forums.
Yeah elixir is really nice for distributed stuff. It’s pretty easy to toss in some rust with rustler if needed, but often you won’t need it. If you’re waiting on IO at all, it will likely outweigh the benefits of jumping to rust at least in some cases I’ve seen. That said, they’re both really interesting languages.
Maybe so, but the bigger question is whether or not the financial contributions that these behemoth companies make matches the value that they receive.
At https://hal9.com, we built components for data science in native JavaScript to avoid the waiting times and download overhead if Pyodide. We found out the best tools for doing data science in the browser are a combination of Arquero and D3 and TensorFlow.js. At least for now.

We wrote our findings of this and many other libraries here: https://news.hal9.com/posts/data-science-with-javascript
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The former. Business logic changes regularly. New phases of projects frequently require changes that break the unnecessary business logic test code.

Test code should fail when an important underlying mechanism regresses. If it always fails on the next phase of the project because some hapless idiot needed to cover every line, the signal to noise ratio gets weaker and the purpose of the test code is lost.
> The lesson here is that political and cultural logic, rooted in emotion, identity and ways of life cultivated among one’s own kind, operate in an entirely different frame than the rational and universalizing ethos of economics and technology.

Variations of this talking point are often repeated, casting "reason" against "identity", with the implication that rational people are atomized individualists without a shared identity.

But in a world defined by group dynamics, there's nothing rational about individualism. A collection of individuals, competing with a cohesive group, will lose.
Responses in the comments are going to be heavily biased…
I would rather prefer Discord myself but it seems it's not that popular in corporate settings.
> May as well write Javascript directly, as NPM is not short on packages if that's what you need.

I haven't heard of an equivalent of the Python scientific stack for JS, and that seems to be one of the key selling points here.
That's why one uses rolling backups.
Interesting experience! Would love to know more, if that's okay. How many freelancers did you manage? and how big was your team?

I think that a few freelancers are manageable (not sure if that applies to you!) But we've noticed companies that are managing engineering departments with ~50 or more and growing quickly really benefit. At that point both the HR and engineering department need something like logistics partner on the ground to coordinate meaningful benefits, specialized equipment (test devices, locked down laptops), help with company events, etc.
Don't forget the 30 CPU minutes to solve the conda/mamba package requirements for the web app's dependencies.
My experience with Clojure was that it wasn’t especially beginner friendly. With elixir you can have a simple app running within a few minutes and there are a lot of up to date learning resources.
Graalpython would be fast enough especially when C extensions aren't involved in the browser. Though I'm sure that comes with it's own complexities.
I don't subscribe to metaphysical BS and I don't subscribe to quantum voodoo. The universe can exist just fine without any awareness of its existence.
Excuse me but this is laughable, the logic not the case, I am sorry for the girl who've been through this but corruption exists everywhere and you're coming for far-fetched conclusions based on hearsay.

Pro lgbtq+ laws have far worse consequences.

A trans sexually assaulted an American man's daughter in the school bath then they triggered the dad in the court and when he couldn't take it anymore they accused him of DV, it was pretty traumatizing to even watch the video of the man raging for what happened to his daughter only to be accused of DV.

another man got 16 years for merely taking down a flag and burning it, arson I know but also 16 years, I think nowadays you'd get around that for murder.

I am sure I can bring you more examples of Sweden pulling children from their families if they suspect they're teaching them anything related to Islam as in to oppose going out on school trips or as in refusing to wear half naked clothes when going to school etc, heard a lot of them and kids where crying to get back to their family, I am sure an actually oppressed kid won't look so comfy and happy with his abusers or even get red face crying just wanting to get back to their families, the difference is, the media doesn't care about these because they're not seculars, me not hearing about these from a dude on the youtube I would have had no clue.

Nothing creepy tho, as far as it's all under the umbrella of secular western standards.
This is the opposite of my experience. Docker is a headache to work with for zero tangible benefit. It slows development down by adding an unnecessary layer to the stack.
Right, but some other JavaScript on the same thread will run while a different piece of JavaScript is awaiting. That's why JavaScript can get away with not having threads. Also- any number of background threads will be running at any given time to read data off of disk, load and process network requests, load data from a DB, delegate commands to system processes, etc, in true parallel with the JS code. When one finishes, it'll put an event on the event loop and JS will pick it up when it gets the chance.
Honestly, this tends to be team dependent. In any organization, there is often some "group" who is pushing to ship. Likewise, there is often a group that feels "stuck" with any fallout from a delivery - and none of the success. This could be Product vs. Engineering, Engineering vs. Support etc.

Where this border breaks down varies from org to org. No one likes having the short end of a stick. Usually if the teams have more mixed ownership boundaries and feel "the win" of a launch, then this becomes less of an issue.
Anecdotally, a lot of devs are picking React over vue at work simply because everyone else is picking React.

I was kinda surprised Svelte didn’t even show up given that people are calling it the next in line. I guess React will be the new jquery for a while.
I just saw this notification in the Twitter iOS app several hours ago. Nice to see transparency from Twitter's end.
Thanks for the reminder :) I was just thinking of Mariel not too long ago. I should see if the library has it.
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I hear the “pay folks for their time” thing a lot, and have even done it. But for a senior engineer / architect level role, how is $100/hr meaningful in your mind? Just as a show of good faith? If you’re senior (and hence have been in this market the last 10 years) $100/hr wouldn’t seem to move the needle.
I have had good experiences with OpenBSD, but I will say that every interaction I've had with Theo has left a bad taste in my mouth, so sometimes I might seem angry...
Unrelated but I hate how news agencies will take one (1) photo and make an entire video of it. Makes no sense why they couldn't just link the image.
It is not generally possible and or ethical to apply the scientific method to these topics to arrive at greater understanding.

People who understand science also understand the method is the basis for science. It's a simple thing, and when applied yields understanding. Understanding isn't knowing in some absolute sense either. It's in the predictive sense. We do A and get B. Degrees of confidence, and scope of applicability are relevant here too.

Old understanding is as valid today as it was upon realization, for example. It's that we understand more and or the outcome of that greater understanding puts the scope necessary to get things done, or improve on our body of understanding, well outside what older understanding can do for us. General Relativity works well, until it doesn't, in which case we must use Special Relativity, for example.

The basic problems we've got with these two areas of interest is an inability to roll back the clock and repeat experiments. Secondly, people are unique entities, unlike atoms and other things we encounter and want to study, and given we are discussing people here, subjecting them to experiments has numerous ethical and legal concerns.

What we can do is work with the data we do get as an artifact of the people and their agency as well as the machinery of society and apply rational, and people who are experienced in these areas would argue inferential thinking as well as deductive type thinking, post fact and arrive at something like understanding[1], but the nature of all that means confidence is low, repeatability for all but supremely exceptional circumstances, and most definitely not on any sort of demand, is off the table.

Add all that up, and it's not really science in the basic sense applying the scientific method can add to our body of scientific understanding.[0] It can't be! We are denied the use of the method!

[0] Ideally, our body of scientific understanding is all rooted in the scientific method. What we get from our study of these two won't be rooted in the scientific method.

[1] This is not to say these areas of study have no value! They absolutely do have value. Please do not take my argument here as anything other than an attempt to clarify why they are not science.
Living in LATAM and would also like to see your research, if you'd be so kind.