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It suffers from the same misfortune as the LOTR novels, Aliens, Friday the 13th, Godzilla, or countless other works that were among the first major works in their genres.

They were groundbreaking, foundational works that influenced everything came after them. The later works were often amplified takes on what came before; explicit attempts to out-do their ancestors.

(Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't. You don't always improve things just by adding more...)

So, folks go back to the originals and wonder: "what's the fuss about? what was so groundbreaking about the hard-sci-fi-ish space marines and H.R. Giger visuals in Aliens? or the boring, soulless, pondrous killer in Friday the 13th? " The originals seem tame or quaint by comparison to what came after.

Know this: there is a whole world of enjoyment out there waiting for you should you ever decide to appreciate works of art in their appropriate historical contexts. Blade Runner has its faults and its charms and is by no means a perfect movie, but it is arguably the most visually influential movie in history or damn close to it.

Things are never entirely born from nowhere, but Blade Runner's now-cliched "neon cyberpunk dystopian future" look had never been really done before, certainly not on the big screen, and I'm honestly not sure if it's been done better since.

As far as discussing Blade Runner on its own merits, outside of any context... I understand why some think it's boring. It's slow and meditative. Deckard is a cipher. But this is by design. It works for me, mostly.

Of course, if you just want to skip all of that context business and focus on the latest/flashiest works in a particular genre... that's cool too. Literally nothing wrong with that. It's art. You can interact with it however you want. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
There do seem to be systems like this which basically hold the blade at a fixed angle as you drag it over a diamond surface.
Yeah but in Middle Earth you have all of those problems plus giant spiders, balrogs, wizards, orcs etc
Very light article, focused too much on relatively "modern" uses of paper ("references as early as the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt", not so old).

Pre-paper/papyrus solutions, such as the bulla ([1]) are entirely omitted. tl;dr? Shipping goods down the Nile, want to ensure that the recipient knows what you shipped, and that the crew didn't help themselves? Place tokens representing the goods in a clay ball, impress your seal upon it and fire it, and include it with the shipment. Imperfect, but clever nevertheless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)
There's always a bigger boat to buy
> . I haven't seen how any of these EU laws get around the reality of Apple's ownership of its own intellectual property. I can't imagine how the EU could force Apple to supply its intellectual property to app developers under different terms

It is pretty simple. Companies that want to operate in the EU have to follow certain laws, or pay a huge fine.

Technically speaking, these are requirements to operate in the market. So I guess if Apple wants to pull out of international markets, and never sell an iPhone again in the EU, that would also be an option. But, my guess is that they don't want to lose those billions of dollars.

> I'm really not sure how developers are going to legally build apps to put in those stores.

Its simple. Either Apple follows the law and gives app developers the ability to build apps, pays a huge fine, or leaves the entire EU market. Those are Apple's only 3 choices. And if they try a clever way to get around the law by using some sort of intellectual property strategy that you are hinting at, then they pay the huge fine, which is calculated based on a large percentage of global revenue.

Enjoy thoses laws that you cannot stop! They will likely come into effect in less than a year. They can't be stopped. Apple should have addressed its own anti-competitive behavior before it got to the point where this was necessary. Its way too late now though.
What if the big company decides that mass layoffs are happening, or cancels your project? What if investors lose confidence and my division is folded into another and I'm stuck competing with another person with the same qualifications as me for one role?

> you don’t push hard to achieve then when you try to look for new jobs you find you are outcompeted or your skills outdated.

Who said I don't work hard, or that my skills are outdated? I can work hard and keep up to date without chasing the next step and forgetting about what I already have. It doesn't really matter what jobs there are in the future if I get too burned out on my current job, for example.
I was quoting directly from my copy of the Silmarillion. But I don't agree that that later paragraph invalidates the premise that the lore of LoTR has its roots in an attempt to create English mythology. This letter was written after LoTR was written (but not yet published), and it was inspired and written under the very effort that he later give up. That he didn't end up publishing the entire mythos doesn't mean that it's not a valid lens under which to interpret his work. Indeed, it's a necessary lens.
How country with these values will motivate someone to work as a doctor/nurse/etc? These are extremely stressful jobs, so someone working them need to have, as well, extremely high motivation.
My understanding has been, if you're highly experienced, you can make some serious money as a consultant, without that you can also get stuck as a code-monkey at crap salaries.
And I've seen people climb it with some 2-3 decade old 26" MTB and I climbed far more difficult climbs with my 13kg (28lbs) fat bike and my 15kg (33lbs) full suspension trail bike.
The tik-tok generation
the trope is called "Seinfeld is unfunny" : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
Sorry but your parent post is right.

It's not realistic to day dream yourself to a real product.

I realised this from the waterfall model days itself, where elaborate documents used to be written before we even wrote a single line of code. And every single time the paper planning would be totally useless and nothing like what the original deliverable would turn out to be.
Fake pharmacy reveals how Facebook stored sensitive information
Interesting, My phone was purchased from Google without a carrier then brought on as a bring your own device to T-Mobile. There is no pre-installed app or os by T-Mobile. I downloaded the T-Mobile app which does not require any permissions. However, there was quite a bit of data according to magenta ad platform. I find that disturbing...
You think that those people are getting paid the big bucks because they know COBOL, but the reality is that they are getting paid the big bucks because they have decades of experience with all the legacy systems that surround that COBOL.

Learning COBOL, even in a "real" environment, isn't going to be the jumpstart that you're hoping for by itself.
Oh, great! HN as bug resolution mechanism++.
Not surprising. I would imagine that if the number of officers needed is shrinking it's a pretty bad environment for survival. There's a need for good people everywhere, and people will naturally gravitate to more gain, less pain.
Thanks! And yes, I'll have a blog post on it. It is currently scheduled to appear on Wednesday on the GitHub blog.

The new `git fsmonitor--daemon` is mostly shared code but with custom "backends" for each platform hidden a small API. Yes, the Mac backend is built using FSEvents. The Windows backend uses ReadDirectoryChangesW. In both cases, the backend has a thread dedicated to receiving these events/notifications from the kernel, normalizing them, and queuing them for future client requests.

For sanity reasons, I had to draw the line at two platforms in the initial implementation.

There have been discussions about doing a Linux version using either inotify or fanotify, but that work has not started. (And $dayjob might keep me busy for a while on other things, so I'm open to others picking up that work.) It shouldn't be too hard given the API boundary and threading that I set up.

Likewise, for BSD.
How about MUMPS (ANSI-M)? Is it still used in healthcare, or did they manage to replace all systems?
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/index.html
Yes - Sauron is one of the remarkably few people in Middle-Earth who have not lost knowledge over time - the others are majorly proscribed from such actions (Wizards, including Saruman before he turned), or crushed into depression by what they lived through - depopulated Lindon where small remnants mostly builds ships for further movement west, the small settlement of Rivendell which doesn't have enough resources to spend on industrialization, the elves of lothlorien are in similar condition to Lindon, Arnor is so ruined that AFAIK there are no more cities that aren't ruins, and Dwarves are too harassed to expand much, though they have major win at Lone Mountain (but haven't recovered Moria).

Generally in the Middle-Earth, the parts we see, are post-apocalyptic environment constantly wrecked by wars and depopulated so hard most people are too busy raising crops to survive.
> > zoning is controlled almost exclusively by local city councils

>What's wrong with it?

it excludes people who would live there but the zoning doesn't allow it.

On the scale of a single town this doesn't matter, but on the scale of an entire metro area all these little zoning groups make it impossible to anything anywhere in the entire area and so it destroys the whole. zoning is good for any one small area, but across the entire metro area the sum total is bad.
Deep down, another goal isn't just to lower rents, but actually to lower property costs, and well implemented rent control helps do that. I agree it's going to be hard to get that passed, but that's going to be true for literally any real solution to housing because they all imply hurting the mass of current real estate investors very hard.
I agree...so why spend your days trying to accumulate more?
Yeah, I didn’t mention that but I use the same grip on my a9 series cameras that I use on my a1. It really is a nice setup that I think is under-appreciated. I went to a football game pre-a1 and had a 400mm 2.8 on the a9 II without the grip and I had multiple photogs carrying similar lenses with full size DSLRs on the back ask me about mirrorless. The difference in weight alone between my kit and theirs was astounding.

It’s rare that something that game-changing appears in such an established market.
Thank you, I've been looking for something like that and it looks very cool, judging by this tutorial that shows it in action, as it creates an image and displays the results in progress:

https://youtu.be/4_LgrAL7EWg?t=163
He also didn't tweet for 5 days and counting
Human brains have high degrees of plasticity -- our brain is much more generic than its usual functional organization would suggest. I don't think we'd be able to upload brains ("state vectors" was the sci-fi buzzword) before digital supports are able to emulate that.
Honestly, C# and Java are vaguely similar (GC languages, lots of OOP, with some FP sprinkled in, like LINQ/Streams) and some of the more popular frameworks, such as ASP.NET and Spring Boot shouldn't be too hard to pick up - so personally I'd go for both.

COBOL or FORTRAN or older languages might be okay if you want to specifically take advantage of that niche, but won't make you quite as hireable everywhere else.
Yeah, this is what I learned too from working at a big government pension office
I was wondering if you could defeat the beans/lentils by injecting some water vapor in there (while maintaining the vacuum & placement of the items), and freezing the whole thing. Then cut it open under hard freeze and maybe everything sticks together.
This is very interesting, I wish they also served it in English.
In my mind, good retirement is not doing nothing, it's doing what you want to and not caring about money.
Are you looking for examples of people who have made such substantial transitions within a single span of employment, or are you skeptical that people can have such a span of experience at all?
Yeah, I think people don't appreciate the fundamental shift since Jobs; Apple is no longer an innovative company. I don't mean that as an insult, just an observation. "Taking chances" is not what they do anymore.
It definitely changed women’s agency. We are becoming more like the European Union in that sense.
Clojure (the first talk) – Rich Hickey at LispNYC (2007)
There are also lots of people who are just bad engineers but memorize Leetcode problems. Most of Leetcode is memorization, and most of the people I see get hired at Leetcode establishments aren’t good engineers.

It’s just a bad test, why are people so hung up in it? Cause Google does it?
So criminals, but everyone else….

Grasping at straws.
I carry one of these with me pretty much all of the time. I tend to use my knife as a multi-tool and having the sharpener with it is handy. Works well on the machete too, and I've occasionally used it on kitchen knives (I find it both more effective and easier to use than my chef's steel, but I've never quite figured the hang of the steel).
Does it improve either of the things I actually complained about?
Sceptics would say the DSM is excellent at doing that, so it's perhaps not a surprise when people jump to pathologies.
Unless mandated by ideology, people don't think that way about getting children. If a place gets too dangerous, people either die, take countermeasures, or flee.
I wish I could reproduce the passages from memory but as I recall, Tolkien as narrator in LOTR abhorred the cutting down of trees and the development that went on. His protagonists are all nature lovers in the original form, some very direct ones (walking trees, eagles etc) and the antagonists all want to cut down trees and build towns over them and so forth.

It is likely that the witch king and the Nazgul are trying to get an industrial revolution going and the heroes keep cutting interrupting their attempts each 11k years or so.
I believe that this would have a negative impact on my reputation, especially given my junior status.
I concur.

There are aspects of Blade Runner I certainly appreciate, and I think the world's a better place with films like it.

Yet the hype around it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It also lacks many things that typically makes a movie an enduring classic. There's not a lot of memorable dialogue or things that are meme-worthy. Not saying that those things are what make a great movie, but many great movies, even very old ones, rear their head in popular culture much more than I think Blade Runner has. I certainly hear about Blade Runner a lot, but it's rare that why people enjoy it is articulated beyond appreciation for style.

Also, I think the direction should have made it more clear that Decker is not exactly a protagonist. Because it doesn't (from what I remember), it's a bit confusing when he sexually assaults that one synth. I just wasn't a fan of how that part of the plat is handled.
I think theres a downstream dependency that requires it. I just tested locally and the build fails with

> error: getting status of '{...}/Config/nix/nixpkgs-config.nix': No such file or directory
You seem... obsessed with the word. Please tell me more.
I think this is overly getting into semantics now. But if we must, when I was a child, cleaning the floor was a pain. As an adult, not cleaning the floor creates the pain, having a clean floor is great, and the act of cleaning itself is just a natural thing to do, just as breathing and sleeping is. Natural acts aren't painful. I think a border gets crossed for those who can make something natural. For people just getting started exercising, exercise is painful. For people who exercise regularly, exercise is enjoyable. In fact, I recall one Olympian Simon Whitfield saying that his body would experience pain if he didn't exercise.

Perhaps different people also have different thresholds for pain. I'm not sure people in the 1800s would have thought, "Gee, washing these clothes is such a pain, I wish something could be invented to do it for me." I think they rather would have thought this is just a natural part of life. Perhaps the super rich who could afford servants could have the luxury to afford such thoughts. I'm betting many people in the 1800s wouldn't have even been in that headspace.

Again, you said that presorting is the proper thing to do in a reality without centralized sorting. At this moment, I can't really think of anything that I'd consider both "proper" and "painful" if I have managed to seriously make my mindset consider that thing to be "proper". Before making the switch, I would consider it "painful", yes. Looking at the before and after, I can only see maturity being the dimension that really changed. Maybe commitment is another word that could be used too. But if I really think about it, I think commitment would be so heavily moderated by maturity to the point where it might as well override commitment in terms of effect. Again, I'm open to alternative words if any can be suggested.
Would be really curious to hear your thoughts on the censorship of underground zines. :o I find that a lot of kink art creatives run into similar problems with being deplatformed on social media, but there's a growing segment that's thriving on personal sites and webrings, ditto with similar topics to the old hacker zines.
> The methods or refreshing e-ink displays are called "Wave Functions" in e-ink parlance, and they're actually implemented in software.

I've never heard of "wave functions" in the context of electrophoretic displays nor have I ever seen a widely used commercial e-ink controller implement a software update method. Do you mean waveform table? All of them that I've seen in commercial use rely on hardware updates to perform the waveform table processing. Eg: here's the software used to setup the hardware used on most ebook readers: https://github.com/UDOOboard/Kernel_Unico/blob/master/driver...

Could you share some citations or links to what specific thing you're referring to?
the best take homes i ever had were of this sort - public api, clear measurable goals, any language/framework you want

then even if you dont get the job at least you feel you've learned something or proven to yourself you can handle a challenge
Same current issue. Can't login to a Google workspace paid account with the correct username and password because the Algo determines the device can't be trusted (new m1 Macair) byebye account. Only recourse is to cancel it with cs without access.
> COBOL devs are a specialized niche these days and they get paid accordingly.

In my experience the well paid COBOL devs are those with 20+ years of experience, often in one specific system, often bumped by being re-hired a bunch of times for the same position.
I've been doing COBOL since 2018 and younger devs my age (late 20s, early 30s) with a few years of experience make decent money, but the average is bumped by the teams having a lot of devs near retirement age.

If you want to learn:

The language isn't very complicated. I'd recommend grabbing the Visual Cobol for Windows trial just to get coding (and then shunning anything MicroFocus when you are done ;) )
https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/overv...

If you want to/will end up tinkering with IBM systems, check out Jan Sądek's Mainframe Playground: https://mainframeplayground.neocities.org/

For running COBOL on VMS, comp.os.vms is a common place to hang out https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms?pli=1
A dev named Remy documented his first steps on OpenVMS and it was a great help when starting out: https://raymii.org/s/tags/vms.html

There is some actual training material from firms specializing in COBOL training floating around, but they are mostly IBM and/or MicroFocus documentation with some suggested example programs.

I hope the resources above are useful and good luck!
What I have seen is that many interviewers are actually subjective. I've had interviews which I passed and then to be told I was rejected without explanation. I knew I failed though because 1 of the interviewers didn't like me. This interview process is really a facade to not get sued. 9/10 of the team may like you, but it only takes 1. And from my experience, its usually the ones with lower EQ that make face-value assumptions about a person they are interviewing. You have no recourse to fight for your role because of the power dynamics of the interview process. They will simply say they don't want to hire false positives.
A former girlfriend of mine went to what she thought was a clinic, and was effectively scared out of having one, and had twins at 18.

These scummy tactics work, or people wouldn't do them.
You were correct to edit it out, and dang was correct to edit it back in.
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Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/2022.06.27-161855/https://www.bloomberg.c...
I understand the people at the very top have different motivations - i.e. musk, bezos, gates, zuckerberg etc - but I am more thinking about the average 'successful' person - i.e. the ones that are never going to be in that very top class, but have managed to accumulate enough to live comfortably for the rest of their lives, travel, volunteer, or do something else, and still don't.

Not criticizing them, just can't relate.

I for one have plenty of ways I would rather spend my day.
Earlier times did not have lightning fast communications and global online tracking tools. The conservative crusade against abortion is also a recent phenomenon, historically speaking. Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s [1]. And the ancient Romans used a plant called silphium for birth control, to a point where the plant went extinct. [2]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099542962/abortion-ben-frank...

[2] https://allthatsinteresting.com/silphium
The 10-Year-Old Tweet That Still Defines the Internet
You don't need the app, and this is also applicable to previous sprint users as well as metro users.

https://www.t-mobile.com/privacy-center/education-and-resour...

EDIT:
I would like to an EXTRA middle finger to T-Mobile for turning on this opt-in by default for phones which are configured for a minor child. It is one thing to do this to 18+, but seriously on android phones that are configured for a minor? Read the room.
Here’s a better one, show us your open source work. Don’t have any? No problem you can create some in the same time you would study for Leetcode but it would actually matter
here's a funny idea: no islamic golden age which meant no european enlightenment.

Yeah middle earth's history is completely different, there is no europe or arabia.

Despite this it would be funny that the easterling's lack of mathmatical progress would lead to the free men not advancing like they hypothetically could have.
okay, I expected to read another list of 7 questions to ask but this list is really excellent: each question made me think "yes, of course that should be asked and probably is not!"

And this is not just for engineers. I think anyone joining a startup, or new division of a company, would benefit from thinking through these questions.
While I mostly agree, The Lord of the Rings still stands head and shoulders above anything else in the fantasy genre. I recently reread them and I'd forgotten how much better they are than anything else in fantasy.
Which is why I vote for third parties that haven't a hope of winning. It isn't my fault, but I voted. (both major parties have something in their platform that is a major no for me)