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> on bad days (distraction wise), I never start writing

Some days that’s how it be. A day of fighting fires is just differently productive. Can’t focus on long-term impact if your house is burning down.
When I first started in tech it was always money money money, didn't care who I worked for or the work environment was like, all I saw was dollar signs. I did this from the time I started my career about 5 years ago until I joined my current job.

With my current job I know I could go elsewhere and make $50k more, but at what cost? It really started to make me consider, how much is remote work worth to me, how much is a laid back environment worth to me. For now even though I could be making more, the value in having the control over my time like I do not is worth more than what companies have been offering.
The company might not be in major trouble, just using recent low share prices, tech industry layoffs and freezes to make some cuts on underperformers.
If they use the german system as an base then i think its okay.
Not mandatory by law perhaps, but how much power did e.g. a single teacher that wanted to teach Blender have to go around this policy? If almost every school uses the same firewall, and only software with lobbyists behind it gets whitelisted, that can be just as effective at suppressing free software as banning the teaching of Blender by law.

Even more effective, actually. A law is out in the open, plainly stating its function, easy to point to and vote to change it. But this kind of amorphous, corrupt, entrenched bureaucracy is much harder to uproot, or even identify.
Walmart purchases electric vehicles to compete with Amazon
Probably.

I was told by a manager that HR has a difficult time figuring out salary levels for tech skills. And that an in-hand offer is very effective at convincing them, and upper management to approve a larger than normal pay increase. Worst case, they might just tell me to take it.
"The solution here is to never use a hidden or “privacy” card number with Google"

Okay. I get the why, but not put that in your TOS or just block it by default then? Should save a huge amount of time/trouble on both sides.
I did not know this option exists. Thanks. Maybe.
GameStop NFT did $2M the first day.

Maybe everyone just doesn't know where the volume is?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32238127
That's my inference, yeah.
Even cynical me would think this isn't true, but willing to be shown differently.

However, I would be willing to believe that it's just laziness in how they are trying to protect themselves from something that has a similar look to known existing behaviors to malicious users. If an account shows any behavior that matches the same activity patterns that has been used by malicious users in the past, just shut down that account. The laziness comes from how they handle those accounts once flagged in that they just shut them down. The non-lazy method would probably not scale well, so they again chose the lazy way to not do anything else.
Very true, and it does. But there are fortunately still plenty to enjoy (as well as plenty of pleasures outside of games!). I mean, just chess and Geometry Wars are enough for a lifetime.

Also, it's easier for me to stomach/look past the ideological biases in stuff like FPS and action adventure games, because they tend to largely be right out in the open on the surface narrative / world-building layers. For example, if you don't like the Guardian feminism of Horizon Zero Dawn or the jingoism of CoD, you can just kinda ignore those aspects and enjoy the mechanics, art, exploration, etc - or at least I can. Vs. the bias black box of simulation games
Thank you for that insightful find which deserves more discussion comments.
Why Big Tech Is Making a Big Play for Live Sports
I didn't gather that from your first comment, only that you didn't believe the distribution could increase by 620%. Which, when you start in the top ~7% of individual income in the US, is probably true for income (wealth as a whole is another matter).[0]

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...
I agree. It's basically appointing a dictator and hope that they'll stay benevolent.

With my reasoning I wanted to capture what people might think, while accepting something that they have no control of. I have a hard time with this, because I got a PC in my formative years and I loved to tinker with it, and hated, and still do, everything that stood in the way of that. But the general population doesn't share this experience. And if I look at my own life, I only have this experience with computers (and smartphones), all the other things are, even if not centrally managed, out of my control. At the first wrong noise I have to call an expert who hopefully fixes it and is hopefully benevolent to me, because I have no clue what happens to the device I own. Or even my own body, now that I think about it. And so, the PC and the phone is just in a long list of things that people depend on, but not control.

The addendum being here, and what most people miss who feel the way I described above, is that our ever-connected devices make a "paper trail" unprecendented in history. And it can be centrally managed, activated, replayed, assembled, or even more tracking could be remotely controlled to an extent[0] - and to an even larger extent with a specialized application[1]. This is where the otherwise similar level of "not being controlled" can lead to a much worse situation than ever before. And I wish I could point this out empathetically to people without sounding like a lunatic.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2014/06/06/technology/security/nsa-tur...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
My parents grew up in a non English speaking developing country, and they cannot be reasonably expected to learn the nuances of malware laden links to figure out which English text link is good or bad.

Do they deserve to not be able to shop online without fear of having their payment information stolen? Or mistyping a URL in their non native language and ending up at a scam website that installs malware? Or simply having a device that comes to a crawl such that they cannot reliably video call their grandkids?
Examples: buying a much larger house than you need, taking out mortgages on several homes, debt arbitrage (taking out loans and then investing the money in vehicles with higher returns than your interest on the loan). Examples where taking on debt results in rewards. Have you not been paying attention to the economy for the last decade? Zero or low interest loans have created a perverse incentive to accumulate debt and burn cash.
SecondLife, Fortnite, Roblox, etc (even VRC on PC) are what Matthew Ball refers to as "proto-Metaverses" as in 3D experiences locked inside 2D screens. But you can't compare those experiences to what is possible when you can see 3D in 3D either overlayed on top of reality or in a totally animated world space. It's Apples and Oranges -- yes they are both fruit; but you'd be very wrong indeed to think because one is good in a pie the other must be.
Yes, absolutely.

Tether is a stablecoin that was supposed to be 100% backed by USD, but there were a lot of doubts about this, lack of transparency on the backing and they did break the peg briefly. Now since tether can be used to buy Bitcoin, this indirectly inflated the price of Bitcoin as well. All of this and more already has happened in DeFi.

The problem is as long as you can use any currency X to buy Bitcoin, simply printing X and using it to buy Bitcoin will inflate the price of Bitcoin as well.

Even in a world of only cryptocurrency, lending money indiscriminately can inflate the amount of Bitcoin that is available to spend. Even if there are only 21M bitcoins but people collectively believe they have access to say 25M due to lending or investing, the same thing happens. What if the bitcoins are invested in a company whose market value crashes because of changing expectations? Just like today, people's net worth craters.

After a lot of reading and thinking I reached the same conclusion. Inflation, bad lending, leverage, bank runs, crashes etc. are all inherent risks of any financial system whatsoever because they reflect deeper truths about human nature. No currency can fix that.
Yeah that is a plus the global history search/knowledge pool.
At least for the time being the law does not prohibit Bitcoin transactions above NIS 6k, does it? So it's more like "getting the benefits of breaking the law, without breaking the law".
A truck used as a truck once per year and for commuting the rest of the year is cheaper than a truck and a small car. some of them could rent, but the restrictions on what you can do with a rental truck combined with the convince of a truck when you want it (rentals are sometimes sold out, and even if not you need to go get it while the truck is right there) mean a truck looks very compelling.
There's no good test. Otherwise, that would be the interview process.

Usually, it is just others' opinions of you. You might try a bunch of different jobs, be bad at them, but eventually find a great fit where everyone respects your work. Those prior opinions don't really matter now, do they?

One of the other key problems why it's difficult to answer is that the standards of development change very rapidly. You'd likely find the same questions in the spirit of "what makes a good punch card developer?" when those systems were around. There were probably a lot of interviewers with a lot of heuristics to hire the best, but those specifics don't matter any more either.

And sometimes, it comes down to simply marketing yourself well or having good salesmanship or playing office politics.
Hobbled by Chip, Other Shortages, GM Profit Slides 40% in Q2
The Burrows-Wheeler transform. Especially the bijective variant. I feel like there's some profound magical thing hidden inside it that I sadly don't have nearly enough algebraic chops to find.
Lots of teams - working on lots of different products that all connect together.
No, but Netflix has billions of dollars burning a hole in their pocket, and they need the content to keep subscribers—so they'll keep trying.
I would take this for my current job with which i'm moderately okay with currently holding. Stunningly generous benefits.
I think the fear mongering is spot-on and there's no way back. The only positive way forward would be a non-profit org taking over the role of key manager. No for-profit org and no government should be in the position to control computing. So instead of blocking the technology that inevitably will come (or is already there), let's focus on legislation that prevents corporate entities from controlling computation.
imagine a market for 3D animation software - Maya, 4D studio, etc. like 4 companies.

If 100% of a country's schools start teaching software from company A, thats a massive subsidy - basically 100% of the population will know how to use their software and prefer it to their competitors. Businesses will buy that software because everyone already knows it. You are massively distorting free market.

With a conoany thats already a monopoly, thats doubly unfair.
Consumers do have a choice from a wide range of financial intermediaries. Visa and Mastercard just won, and cryptocurrency doesn't put up a good fight against them.
This isn't the case...

If you make a new account just make sure the recovery phone number and email address aren't ones which have a bad history.

If you want to make a new ads account make sure in addition the postal address doesn't match a bad one.

If you want to make a new payments account, make sure none of the credit card numbers in the account match a bad one.

Note that because different teams within Google don't talk to one another, you don't for example need a new postal address if the issue is on the payments side.
Nope, it doesn't.
It’s also underselling “very good sunny location”: in a really sunny state like AZ you can expect ~2.7kWh/day, which assuming 300Wh/mi is 9 miles per panel per day (or better for a more efficient EV e.g. the model 3 is around 240Wh/mi, Lightyear 0 claims an incredible 175Wh/mi).
C++ has decent industry acceptance in embedded nowadays, or at least that has been my impression.

After C++, rust is likely the most popular, quite a lot of effort has been put into running rust on embedded, see eg https://github.com/rust-embedded. However, once again to my understanding, industry acceptance is still highly marginal.

After that, there's a bunch of toy-ish efforts to run other languages. Zig, nim, python and javascript variants, etc. Usually anything that has C ABI compatibility should be possible to get up and running (without writing a compiler backend from scratch). I've had fun with some toy projects using nim for ARM cortex-M targets (https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/svd2nim, https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21, https://github.com/EmbeddedNim/picostdlib).

Using Nim (and eg svd2nim to generate the equivalent of CMSIS headers for register access in pure nim), it would be entirely possible to write even the low level stuff (SPI drivers and whatnot) in 100% nim, with the same performance as C and better safety (better static type system and compile-time checks, etc). Runtime (eg overflow) checks and garbage collection are available (at the cost of some performance) but optional. See eg. a pretty basic higher-level API for GPIO access, that provides native performance, since the abstraction is implemented as macros (compile-time abstraction): https://github.com/auxym/nim-on-samd21/blob/master/src/port....
i can support that. also journaling for the same reason. when i miss a day sometimes i can reconstruct it by examining the messages i sent for that day, but if it is more than a few days past, unless it was some special day, the memory is gone.
A good illustration of how devastating epidemics in North America among the natives were is that when the first European explorers reached the coast on the west side of what is now the United States they found that part of the continent to be highly populated.

That was in the early 1500s. It was another couple hundred years before Europeans started colonizing and conquering those areas. By the time that started those populations were already reduced by around 90% from diseases that has spread across the continent from the Europeans on the east side.

Before those diseases wiped out so many natives no European colonists were able to survive in what is now the US and Canada without the approval and help of the natives. If the local natives didn't want a colony there, they removed it.

Yes, the colonists had guns and the natives then did not but the guns in those times weren't actually superior to bows and arrows. The guns might have better range, but their accuracy was much worse and they took longer to reload.

Before diseases that the colonists (unintentionally) brought greatly weakened the native tribes pretty much the only colonists that did OK were those that allied with a native tribe.

There were a bazillion tribes, and there was a lot of conflict between them including warfare. Some smaller tribes that were losing their wars with bigger tribes allied with some of the colonies to try to get help against the bigger tribes. Those were the colonies that were allowed the stay and thrive.

For a great look at what life was like in the New World before Europe became widely aware of it, and what happened afterwards the book "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C Mann is quite good.
Reason #786 for not doing business with Google.
This is your best bet, because you used a some kind of burner/debit card.

Google does indeed discriminate on your payment method.

Most likely due to them having too much data to process they analyze the data from abusers and these kind of cards seem to stick out like a sore thumb.
How did you raise your first funding round?
Hi there, I’m a founder, with revenue, product, a strong team and 6 months of runway. I’m out now to fund-raise, and I’m interested in understanding the behind the scene process of fund-raising, in as much detail as possible, I never met an investor, and I don’t have the network for intros, and I’m not sure where to start.

Please share as many details as you can, how you get your meetings, intros, and how did you prepare, How important is the location (I’m based in Canada), how long did it take, what’s really important, what did you learn, if you can share screenshots, timelines, tools used, anything is much appreciated.
> Have you never used a thesaurus?

I'm not sure exactly what you're implying with this rhetorical question but, for the record, I wouldn't expect a well-educated native speaker to use a thesaurus.
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I wouldn’t consider being able to take out a big mortgage a reward, it’s just a thing that is possible to do.
No, I wrote "binary". Also, Featherwiki is not an app.

Most apps I download from f-droid are quite small and the bigger ones contain images, sounds and even animations.

2 MB are a lot for just CPU instructions assuming we are talking about compiled languages.

Of course some languages can create very large binaries anyways - but that's due to their inefficiency.

In fact, ls -Ssrh /usr/bin shows that the vast majority of binaries are small than 200KB, ignoring symlinks, and the outliers are databases, compiler and few other very large applications.
I thought based on the title it would a be a simple GC that worked similarly to a real treadmill.

The GC would move used objects to the front (as if they were running forward).
The unused objects would either be moved (or left in place) to the back (as if they stopped running).
All memory in the back would be considered free space when alloc-ing.

But the article quickly says thats not going to happen since its "in-place" and I have no idea what my idea would be already called.
But that's why modding and breaking them is so fun.
Avoidable mistakes are still mistakes, and mistakes happen, even when they shouldn't.

There is no one thing you could do to avoid catastrophic failure. The best thing you can do is break your system up entirely and simply never do any change which can affect the entire system. Which is still very hard to do.

Imagine you have a route that crosses all of Canada. For each end of Canada you want at least 3 separate networks that can each carry 1/2 of the traffic. On failure of one network, somebody has to take that failed network's traffic and send half to each of the two remaining networks. But if somebody fucks up and sends that traffic to one of the networks, that network will be flooded and inoperable, and the first network also will be inoperable, leaving only one network with 1/3 the country's traffic online. Whatever customers designed their own stuff to depend on the first or second network is also screwed. This is just one of a million different scenarios that needs complex controls to prevent a (mostly) catastrophic failure.

There is nobody using formal proofs to show the design makes sense, so it's just humans winging it and hoping their contingencies work out.
The cost for cooking for one becomes evident when buying meat and produce (things that aren't shelf stable) in units small enough to do meal planing without significant waste.

There are things like the difference in the cost of a single, reasonable, serving of chicken. Buying a chicken breast is more expensive in price per pound than the family pack of chicken breasts or an entire chicken. Similar things with carrots (I only need 2 or 3 carrots for the meals I have in mind for the week) but instead have to buy the bag for $1 or $2 and rather than one of them for $0.10.

Next there's the issue with single meal variety. Back when I was living with my family, a meal would consist of several different items - some beans, a meat dish, something else. Cooking alone I can't prepare a wide enough variety for a single meal and hope to eat it all (and have the portions be something that is healthy to eat). If I want mashed potatoes to add some variety, I can't make it in the quantity that brings down the price to that of a potato... and so I'm getting single serving cups of instant mashed potatoes. The five pound bag of potatoes is difficult to eat before things start getting funky and buying potatoes in in the "select and bag" tends to be the organic variety which is much more expensive than that 5 lb bag per unit weight.

When buying meat and produce in units that a single person is going to cook before food waste occurs (and causes the effective price to go up) gets to the point where prepackaged frozen (and even weekly delivery!) meals become competitive on price and start having more of an advantage on individual serving variety.
Are raised prices the very definition of inflation?
A lot of tractors are mostly $20,000 wheelbarrows.
It is a publicly known example of a blanket keyword search warrant. How is this not relevant? This sort of order could apply to any Google service.
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This would be a weird gift to give.
Have you ever been to a WaWas? It's like 711 in China. Gas station food is awesome in the U.S. As much as I love old country, for their wonderful culture, manners, and accent, but the worst food I ever ate in my life was in England. It's no wonder they chose an Indian dish as their national meal.
If you're doing something genuinely innovative and disruptive, investor money is flowing and it's easier than any time in the last decade.
That rapidly converges on "you can't buy a computer and use it", because economic interests favor trusted computing devices.
Ethereum is a casino, DeFi provides financing for players, and all other crypto tokens are games in the casino. It's all dependant on degenerate players gambling on these ponzi tokens. There's no other purpose for Ethereum or DeFi.
Something of a nit, but wouldn't it be both more accurate and "precise" to say:

I write what I mean to say

Rather than:

I mean to write what I say

The former implies that one is expressing themselves as they wish, while the latter implies that one wishes to do so but may or may not be doing that.

As I said, it's something of a nit I'm picking, but the meanings are pretty different IMHO, even if most folks would assume that both mean the same thing.
It was surprisingly simple, even though they were non tech (utility company) they still needed data processing, scripting, and some basic ML work, especially in their marketing team. Same kind of work, however to a more credulous senior management team. Their main problem was they didn't know what could be done, let alone how to do it.
Saudi Arabia has a looooong way to go before they can imitate Dubai's (or even the whole of UAE's success). One of the key to Dubai's success is that it's cultural climate is not restrictive and not as repressive as other countries of the middle-east (even the other emirates in UAE are way more open then Saudi Arabia). Compare that with the outlook of Saudi Arabia who think that women need to be segregated into their own city to be allowed to work ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/12/saudi-arabia-c... )! Even muslims from many asian countries that make up the majority of expats working in the middle-east find Saudi Arabia's version of "Islamic Society" repressive (why wouldn't they - imagine not allowing muslim women to work because of their warped understanding of Islam, when the Islamic Prophet's first wife was an international business women who was once also his boss - https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/not-just-a-footnote-prop... !). Speaking anecdotally, I know many who work in the middle-east, who have declined to work in Saudi Arabia despite better pay, simply because they are concerned about the cultural environment of Saudi.