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> IMO driving speeds, and how a community feels about it, are huge indicators on how hostile and how selfish a community can be.

My gosh, you must think horribly about us Germans.

All your points make sense on the surface, but empirically in Germany our high speed roads cause a lot less deaths than regular roads [1]. So while you might think your argument makes a lot of sense other factors are a lot more important. To name one counter argument: I'm much more focused when driving faster and regularly adjusting my speed and hawkishly watching out for slower vehicles that I am passing than when I'm cruising straight at the same low speed for hours. Other than that a lot of terrible accident situations (turns or getting into opposing traffic) don't occur on separated highways.

To be clear, I'm never speeding and I do go slower at all the limited parts of the Autobahn, which are usually limited due to some kind of danger at higher speeds.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkeh...
Interesting, I wouldn't expect it to be reasonably possible to avoid that rule. More difficult than driving without a license anyway.

I believe over here the traffic inspectorate would want the plates back if you stop paying the insurance and then if you drive without the plates that's an instant hefty fee from the first cop that sees you. (The insurance is tied to the car, not to the driver.)
It's not facetious. I used to ride a motorcycle and oblivious or sometimes malicious drivers were a constant hazard; I'd say I got out of trouble by speeding up as often as slowing down, and I am not into speed for its own sake. Acceleration and maneuverability are as important as braking and (for larger vehicles) structural integrity.
All the examples you're giving existed before school-provided email accounts.
https://xkcd.com/1494/
Polio detected in US–in same NY county with explosive measles outbreak in 2019
University has gotten too expensive, and you don't really need it to get past these interviews (especially since you have a Master's degree already), you just need a data structures and algorithms book / lecture /class.

I'm someone who graduated with a CS degree over a decade ago and I still have to brush up on data structures and algorithms before I do interviews or else I'll struggle with them also. So don't beat yourself up too much about it.

I know another guy struggling with these things lately, and there's a book that seemed pretty promising, although I haven't read it myself yet to verify. It's called "A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Second Edition" by Jay Wengrow.

MIT OpenCourseWare also has a lecture series for 'Introduction to Algorithms' that I play in the background while doing dishes sometimes to brush up on. They've recorded it a few separate years, so just search data structures and algorithms mit in Youtube and try the different years/teachers until you find one you like. Here's what looks like the most recent one, though, from Spring 2020: https://youtu.be/ZA-tUyM_y7s

You can also sign up for a free self-guided course online, which is what my friend ended up doing.

Also if you're wanting to get a handle on time complexity specifically, you'll want to watch some videos on something called 'Big O Notation'. Like they were probably wanting you to say something like "Well I can solve it in this way, and it's O(n), but I can make it faster by doing this and it'll be much faster at O(n log n)". Here's a video that demonstrates the idea behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itn09C2ZB9Y
A lot of military funding goes to hard-science funding
At my current job (gov. agency) we use this internal tool - think marine traffic combined with flightradar24 - and it is great. Truly awesome.

It's been developed for almost 10 years now, by a relatively large consulting firm.

But I believe a large part of the success comes down to the following:

- The core dev. team is still mostly the same. When you think about it, 8-10 years is pretty much an eternity in the world of software development, so it's pretty incredible that they've managed to retain so many members.

- Development cycles are very fast, and communication between end-user (us) and the product manager is very good. There's very little red-tape or committees between us.

With that said - even though the product is quite extensive, the number of users is quite small, only around 500 active. And they are all gov. workers, though in different departments.

On the other hand, I've also seen some dogshit products in the wild. Usually in the scale has been much, much larger - and the budgets, too.

Observations from those have been pretty much the inverse of the one I mentioned above. Huge, huge teams - always new people. Insane turnover. Getting new features takes years, and everything goes through multiple levels of bureaucracy. By the time something has been implemented, interest has changed.
No-code is overrated. I took way too long to start coding, don’t make the same
Maybe Microsoft is trying to get more serious into advertising(i.e compete with youtube, youtube tv).
That advice only works if employees get to pick and choose. If for whatever reason you can't do that, focusing on particular companies besides the basics is pointless.
As someone who have been on both sides of the table I can completely resonate with your statements. But I think that there is an expectation by small business owners that every expert will completely understand their business and will deliver exceptional results from day 1. So I think there should be some learning curve with very clear results expected on each and every step.
Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism
Literally your post, the top comment on the thread, leads with an unabashed claim that humans have already discovered all of the “major advances” in the sciences. It’s flabbergasting.
Great post Michael!
We talked about this on our last call and I shared similar sentiments at the time.

We made a similar mistake on Server.pro a few years ago. Our first hire was a designer that had no coding experience. Costed us 130k, 2 years and terrible CSS that is finally getting replaced 5 years later.
And our users did not like the design as much as our last one, which also uses bootstrap.

No problem, keep at it!
Michael is extremely industrious in his blogging. Several front page posts the last months.
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So give away the strength of the dollar and the ease of international trade?
Ah gotcha, so the use case is when the frontend wants to send JSON and there is no backend dev around to munge things into a standard postgres schema in order to save it?

Honestly, it seems like a middleware layer would suffice in order to stick with more "standard" postgres features. (not to indict this feature, but simply because its more likely a maintainer would understand and have experience)
You know what code you're running until you're hit by some browser 0-day drive-by that could steal your key
IDK if you'd call it a strategy, but I'm starting to chain some code together so I can apply technical indicators to various climate indices. It's a fun science project if nothing else. But pragmatically speaking it helps me to apply the technical indicators I'm familiar with to the data that's making the news, and form some of my own perceptions of what's going on.

The most extreme direct risks to me from climate affecting weather seem to be related to wildfires, but the local response (fire, police, mental illness-related efforts, various non-profits) has really raised its game after recent fires, and now with PG&E making some changes things don't seem as bad.
You've accidentally hit it on the head. MS is the only major cloud provider without a video platform. Amazon has Prime and Google has YouTube.

Since they own Azure, MS can stream from it without paying anyone else a profit. This could allow them to be more competitive than Netflix can be on its own.
Yeah, that's exactly how Melbourne, London, and Paris did it.
I agree that scientists are discovering less, but I don't think it's mostly about their incentives. Instead, I think it's that there is much less low-hanging fruit than there used to be, and a lot more people trying to pick what fruit there is. You can see the difference by looking at new fields that have recently stumbled upon something very different, like all the progress recently in deep learning. More in this general direction: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-low-hanging-fruit-...
|> For those not familiar with UK media, The Guardian (better known as The Grauniad due to the frequency of spelling mistakes in its pages) is a very left-leaning paper.

It’s left of centre, but not ‘very left’.

And ‘The Grauniad’ is a very niche term - I’ve never heard it used in conversation, and have only ever seen it used in Private Eye.
> Everyone does not agree on that. The period leading to Obama's second term coincides with a period during which white Democrats got significantly more liberal, to the point where they had moved to the left of Black Democrats on race issues:

This is based on a single question, and shows that most of the shift happened post 2012. Which would make this a perfect example of Simpson's paradox: the right-most democrats left the party, making the average (white) democrat move left.

> Your theory is that folks in Iowa soured on Obama because Republicans pointed out that he was Black, and not because he appointed a former Goldman Sachs executive to Treasury and doubled down on globalization after having run as a populist.

Yes, because it makes sense that less educated white voters who in many cases supported the ACA but didn't support Obamacare, and who support abortion pre-viability but not in the second trimester, have well defined, cogent opinons about a member of the cabinet who I, someone who cares enough to argue about this stuff, can't even name.

> That's an interesting social science fact, but you can't build a politics for a working class party around that.

This begs the question.
There continues to be indie stores, but I find one has to hunt online as well as offline for them. Importantly, to spread good word of them via word of mouth and also to purchase from them when one is looking for specific titles on top of usual browsing. A useful thing is to also follow authors you love; they frequent their own local bookstores and actively sign books that you can pick up! I know this is the case for Jeff Vandermeer and Martha Wells.
Sorry, read about it 30 years ago.
Name two countries/areas that you want to use as an example in this argument.

Otherwise if anyone else gives a counterexample you can easily move goalposts on them.
do you mean invest when things are bad so when it goes back up you are in a strong position to 'ride the wave'?
The entire US civilian small arms industry is tiny. The largest publicly traded gun company has a stock market capitalization of about 0.05% of Apple. The entire gun industry has an annual revenue of only $70 billion, which doesn't even register as a significant line item in our $20 trillion GDP. Any political influence the industry has is more to do with cultural factors than with size.
Do you need schema to be enforced? I guess my question was: "why use a JSON column with an enforced schema to save data, when perfectly good normal pg schema are available?"

Totally get why you would want to just save data in whatever format you send it in, that's how I prototype as well. But a regular column has the advantage of familiarity with other devs, not to mention better syntax for querying.
I’m from East Cobb and live here currently. There’s been a big change from 2000, starting in 2016. 2020 highlighted the shift.[1] I don’t think it’s race related if I look at the demographic changes in the past few censuses.

East Cobb has always been more conservative and they have a senior population who’s not changing views.

[1] https://www.11alive.com/amp/article/news/politics/elections/...
I've never heard this before. The people I have lost to Alzheimer's were very healthy up to the point where the disease started manifesting.
One of the oft overlooked, yet critically important aspects of the scientific method is the hypothesis. You don’t design an experiment having absolutely no idea what to expect. You have an educated guess in mind (the hypothesis), and you design the experiment in such a way that says “this result will rule out my hypothesis, while this other result might confirm it.”

Just trying two things at random and picking the one that makes some arbitrary metric go up, is not the scientific method. It’s gradient descent.
Expanding NATO isn't a progressive stance. It's pro-imperialism.

And those "arrests" weren't even real. They faked being in handcuffs. A publicist even announced on Twitter the "arrests" were going to happen beforehand.

> Didn't you learn anything after 2016?

I learned that the Democrats rig primaries. What did you learn?

Both parties are the same. Their donors are the same people. They just target their theater to different groups. These politicians are all phonies and until everyone sees that we're going to get the same crappy results.
That just sounds like mafia. No disrespect to the Japanese corporate culture, but I would never truly feel safe in this kind of employment.
What an incredible story. I'm amazed that modern businesses stay alive.
I think you're underestimating the effect of racism in the US. The economic and social chances you're using as a remedy for poverty are absent for many minorities, and the CRT discourse is all about why. There's a huge contingent in the US that believes that any attempt to address "the problems originated by poverty in those communities by law and by "social" investments" is socialism, or reverse racism or giving preferential treatment to minorities.
The breathalyser is a lovely idea but couldn't it be defeated with a pair of bellows?
> but presumably it'd have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon.

Technology doesn't invent itself, there needs to be a problem you're actively trying to solve. There's no guarantee these things would have been discovered if money had just been spent on research for the sake of research.
I'm not disputing how things are, I'm giving my opinion on how things ought to be :)
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FIXED.

That's a new file to help with the auto generated API documentation and it's possible one was missed at checkin.

Vindarel has correctly identified the main problem though, Quicklisp hasn't yet picked up the new files.
I think that misses the point. It's quite possible that if you have high salary ranges, you'll get high quality candidates through both versions of the job listing who will be happy with the offered salary.

The issue is the companies out there with low salary ranges. And while it's absolutely true that a high salary isn't going to make an otherwise bad job great, too low a salary will make an otherwise great job terrible.

So I'm not really surprised that your company wouldn't see much value from publishing salary ranges, but I don't think that means they have no value.

Also on a side note:

> Of the top reasons people are happy at work, salary is way down on the list.

That's a weird link to give as evidence of that, since it immediately covers two different surveys that found compensation was the number 1 factor, before going on to discuss a third survey that found it was important, just not #1...
As a Brit, I’d agree that classicism is bad here, and it feels worse than the US. However, much of Europe is the same. E.g. France.
From San Francisco to Los Angeles, sure. From San Francisco to any one of the many small towns within 300 miles, well, that's a lot of track to lay.
Museum of Failure Highlights
Sometimes a big budget is detrimental to project success.

With a small budget you are forced to find or assemble a small skilled team. With a big budget you end up funding a bureaucracy of middle managers and a big unskilled team.
> Now every city has an arrangement of public outhouses, with maintenance staff that cycles between the locations cleaning things?

Yes, because this makes perfect sense and is not that unusual in other countries.
Your comment shocked me. I checked and it looks like the Books & Books on Lincoln Road is gone but the web holds out hope that the main store in Coral Gables is still there. I hope that's true.
I'm from the UK and I think that the majority of people think you can't change class. You're born into a class, you can have the lifestyle of a different class if you make or lose a lot of money, if you then have children, they inherit your lifestyle class. This is not a formal rule in the slightest, but it's how most people here think/operate. I'm working class, enjoying a middle class lifestyle now, if I decide to have kids and my situation remains the same, they're middle class; I'm still working class.
I love how the researchers are shorting the stock - they're not insiders because the data is public available for anyone (with the requisite very domain specific knowledge) to see.

There a whole lot of the sorts of investor who are normally shorting stuff who must feel that this is somehow insider information
Did Hertz not buy the "Quality Insurance" when they hired Accenture?
And you can control it from your phone, or with your voice by talking to Google assistant.
Thank.

However, you need to understand that polio vaccines come in two cohorts:

1) The "modern" vaccines

These vaccines require refrigeration and infrastructure to support. These are the type of vaccine we use in first-world countries. They immunize without the ability to mutate into a real polio virus.

2) The attenuated live virus vaccines

These vaccines don't require refrigeration and consequently are the ones used in third-world areas with poor infrastructure. The problem is that occasionally it mutates into a fully functional polio virus. We don't use it in the first world, and we only use these in the third world when there is an active outbreak.

The problem is that polio is now sufficiently suppressed that giving the attenuated virus vaccines cause more problems than they solve. Consequently, getting the last few pockets of polio stamped out is becoming really hard. You can't do a general immunization with attenuated virus as it will cause more cases than it prevents, and you can't get your refrigerated vaccines into the really backwards areas.

I suspect this case in New York is fallout from the fact that England seems to currently have circulating polio that they haven't yet pinned down, though. We need the CDC to go make a trip to England and get that stomped out post haste.
It is not hoarding - it's aspirational collecting :)

Most people who love books have entire stacks that they haven't read yet. Because your love means there are just so many of them you'd like to have in your life. And the fact that even on a low income, the cost of reading often vastly outstrips the cost of buying (in terms of time) means that sometimes, you'll choose to collect more instead of finish what you have.

Is it smart? I don't know. I like to think that the unread books are like way posts showing me the direction into unknown terrain I'd like to explore but can't just yet. I have not seen the dragons, but the book reminds me "there be dragons". The joy is in knowing that the world is so much bigger than anything you deeply know.

Maybe that's hoarding. Maybe it's defining your place in the world. Maybe it's the comfort that you could know in a moment, if you but chose to.

If it gives you joy, who cares :)
I worked at a computer store in my local town for a while. I got paid $9.00/hr repairing Macs and PCs. Often having 7-8 on my bench at a time. All were being billed at $59/hr. I didn't stick around long!
Mysterious bundle of string on Mars’ surface found by Perseverance rover
I used Arch on XPS 15" 4k a while ago. At that time I had to disable something in the BIOS so that the hard disk could be recognized.
You could easily fix the delay so it's always X even if you take less than X to find the right signature and bail if you can't do it in time.
>"until the media decides either alcohol or cars are villains that need to be eradicated from society. "

I feel like this is in the process of happening right now. The number of car-critical and car-hostile posts has been increasing and the sentiment is gaining traction on "the left" lately. What is strongtowns if not one such publication?
I think OP intentionally offloads some work to others, to focus on his managerial role of his company. Not like he can't do it himself (after some learning processes) to certain degree, but it takes time and his time is more precious than potential financial cost.
>> moving into the Microsoft family would give Netflix a rapid entryway into the metaverse.

They've lost me on that. Metaverse is not even "something" and Netflix needs Microsoft to get into "metaverse".
But water freezes and gets bigger. It's inflationary!

So in real terms they're paying people less AND company exec bonuses are well beyond reasonable. Yet any argument towards a pay rise on that minimum wage is seen as inflationary.

Interesting world.
The problem comes with the two days I need to go to the office. I've anxiety the night before, and I feel depressed the day after.

From my experience you are way past the need to take actions as those are strong signals from your body you gota get the hell out. You did well to wait. It didnt work: your body is still sounding alarms like firemen rushing downtown.

Dont forget that someone may be responsible for your state and playing with you very subtlely to dig you a grave here. Listen to you, do you feel this is the sound of a person "who doesnt go along well with some group"? We all dont go along well with some group everyday and still sleep at night. You included. No, something's off. Listen to your body, it will save your life, thats what those signals are for.
DV statistics say otherwise (for alcohol), second hand smoking is a real problem, and obesity is typically generational.
The ability to write a bad review that's upvoted and read on HN.
I’m also more inclined to believe that the ad networks simply don’t have a way of knowing a sale was made.
Thx. Happy to - generally for senior engineers and above our market rates tend to be $120 - 160+/hr. For mid-levels, I would say about $100 - 130/hr. Our rates are market driven in that Facet members can set their salary and contract rates where ever they would like. We do an 80/20 rev share on the hourly billable to the client (the rates above would be general market averages for North American based engineers - this is the average hourly take home). People in other geographies tend to set their rates at a lower limit/range. We are growing internationally both in that we have clients looking for non-USA engineers and working with non-USA based companies. Most of our client side demand is for US-based engineers, but more roles and companies are coming onto the platform all the time. Hope that helps!
A faster fan makes more noise. A 1400 rpm fan is a quiet fan. A 13k rpm fan would scream.
Yes, she doesn't really answer the question about why the multiple protests of the civil rights era or the environmental movement resulted in successes. I agree that they are places to start conversation, though, and have argued that many times with a friend who sees no point in them.
That requirement has been relaxed. I use Firefox. I'll update the docs.
Grabbing extra ice for my cooler and spending a bit more time at the river / lake / beach.
The tokens being traded on DEXes can be stablecoins. In a world where most usage of fiat is in the form of using stablecoins, or one where most financial institutions provide conversion of off-chain fiat to/from stablecoin fiat, most trading can happen on DEXes.
For what its worth, this seems to be a global occurrence -- there's been quite a lot of talk about Air Canada & Toronto's Pearson airport. Presumptively, people will continue to blame the federal government like they do for gasoline while failing to see it as part of a global trend.