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In your professional opinion:

Is there any need or demand for a decent Java language DICOM parsing library?

Mid-aughts, I wrote a DICOM image viewing applet. (Before tile-servers a la Google Maps, which would have been a better strategy.) My library could read DICOM filestores. But not do network interchange.

DICOM applet was intended to be part of our EMR web client, our frontend to showcase our portable electronic medical records backend stuff. At the time, it was an amazing demo, greatly helping our Sales team.

My code (IP) got lost, abandoned. (Acquisition, abandonment, high mgmt turnover, etc. Typical M&A story.) So sad. Anyone who'd know or remember what my code did is long gone.

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Ditto my HL7 2.x and 3.x libraries, FWIW. I wrote my stuff in response to the available tools at the time. SeeBeyond ICAN/JCAPS, Mirth, BizTalk, a bunch of others I now forget. Turrible. I'm out of the field, so I imagine the world's moved on. FHIR and whatnot.
> Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions while typing > Emoji is enabled

It actually requires enabling Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions > Emoji Stickers. I assume emoji needs to be enabled as well though.
BMW has that on many models, rear wheel steering and variable-ratio at the front. It's an option they call Integral Active Steering. The rear is steered either against or with the front, so it will make a tighter turn on a parking lot and it will "crab" on the highway for extra comfort when changing lanes.

The front ratio uses a planetary gear set to give you a higher or lower steering-ratio based on speed, and it allows the stability control to automatically counter-steer a bit when loosing traction at the rear.
The moment you decide to look for a new role that's exactly what you're doing. If things improve, you stay. If they don't, you leave.
It sounds like you're misevaluating your technical interview performance. You can feel like you're "bombing" an interview, while still performing above expectation. Some interviewers ask hard technical questions, don't expect most candidates to complete them within the allotted time, and give "hire" recommendations for some (but of course not all) that don't.
> I suspect that this made it possible to use a place that would otherwise have been occupied by roads under a real estate - as a result, the population density has increased. And precisely such a strategy is seriously considered by many cities, including Sydney. Down with cars - long live public transport. And this seems like a sound idea.

It mostly shows how much space can be freed if we were to abolish cars. The dreadfulness of this city does not come from the absence of cars, as the author acknowledges himself:

> High unemployment, horrific air pollution, almost no education, medical and fire services are absent, and residents do not live to retirement age. The police state made it possible to maximize the size of the city, while retaining full control over the citizens - but it minimized the quality of life and effectively destroyed free will.

> Born in Magnasanti, he spends his life working and living in a small but very efficient stretch of space, and dies at the age of about 50 years.

All of this has nothing to do with the absence of cars. To the contrary, combustion cars enhance air pollution and noise in a city, restricting livability.
> A recent IMF admitted that DeFi is 10x efficient than TradFi.I am sure once DeFi get a bit regulated and has better risk management principal embedded into code the system will become more efficient

Do you have the source for this?
I guess it's well that somebody has stepped up to speak for her, now that Norman Mailer's gone. But the weight of testimony seems to be on the other side.
Upgrading what might be the oldest running Linux install
And that's why you only learn to drive an excavator if you get a job that requires it.

Nothing at the level students do spreadsheets is different between spreadsheet programs
There were other reasons assemblers were expensive in those days, as you know:

① The number of customers was smaller than it is today, so to remain profitable the NRE cost had to be paid by a smaller number of sales.

② Legal proprietary PC software distribution was competing with user group meetings, Hamvention, and 1200-baud underground BBSes where people used names like "Warlord of Chaos", not pop-up PC repair shops, anonymous FTP sites, Eggdrop, Napster, BitTorrent, Debian, and GitHub. Faster and cheaper ways of sharing software both made it cheaper for enthusiasts to collaborate on writing free software and made illegal copies cheaper and more accessible. It's easier to stomach paying US$180 (say, US$500 today) for MASM when your alternative is to spend your weekend and US$60 making long-distance calls to BBSes that might or might not have a copy.
>This is basically European protectionism under the guise of privacy.

Same can be said of American protectionism. TikTok being the prime example.
Would you prefer we mandate Vim or EMacs for kids? Both are free, so it’s a deliberate choice to be made. And how do you suggest we support this decision and their potential inability to use an IDE in the real world?
> If firmware was under remote attestation ... the Diesel scandal would have never happened.

Remote attestation would prevent a firmware written by first party and passed certification processes WHAT?
The demand was always there. There was just no hope of satisfying it before.
Personally, I don't rely on it 24/7 and just use it for my personal use but some people use it for business purposes and not having access to your emails for a day or two can be expensive down time.

But you are right, no service is bulletproof
The pistol emoji originally looked like a real gun. I think only Windows had a fake looking gun (more of a ray gun than a water pistol) initially.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150625033351/https://unicode.o...

The change to a water pistol started with Apple in 2016, and then other companies followed:

https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/
My worry would be maintenance. Yeah sure, you can get it for cheap, but will it take 6 months every time you need a replacement part?
So why doesn’t SpaceX go to the Moon with the upcoming Starship launch?
>But software developers are really highly-paid

Across the globe this is starting to become false. "Highly-paid" compared to the average, yes, maybe. "Highly-paid" according to previous status quo, no, not at all. That's why I specifically mentioned software developers aren't immune, you need additional traits tacked on to make that claim (combination of e.g. working for international companies, in a well-paid tech hub, senior+, and/or others).

Many places, median income can't afford housing, sometimes not get past rent requirements, and more. Many of these places, developers start at-or-below median and need 5 years to comfortably get past it. Yes, they'll outearn teachers in an even worse spot. But if the argument then becomes "well at least they can afford the bottom of the RE ladder, whereas teachers can't afford anything", I'll retaliate and ask how much that society has failed to make almost the entire working populace go down several notches, given those teachers were able to live comfortably a few generations ago.
For people more interested in a snapshot: https://archive.ph/q04Hb
Gerry Kelly. Martina Anderson. Gerry Adams (obvs). Bobby Storey. Conor Murphy. Barry McElduff.

Michelle O'Neill had no personal involvement, but her father was in the Provisional IRA. It's not uncommon for republican families to split duties in that way.

But even if I couldn't name any, it is very clear that the two organisations are deeply and inextricably linked.

> How many Catholics were in the RUC, for instance?

I get what you're saying. We should note that some of the low numbers was down to anti-policing attitudes in their own community. Indeed there are still areas run by republican paramilitary factions today where you don't call the police, or you'll have two problems.

I would need to consider the pre-1973 history in better depth, but I would agree that I wish there was better accommodation with the nationalist community in the predominantly unionist state, if it would've helped avoid what happened. But consider that the unionist attitudes were driven by fear of the other side too, this would've affected their decisions. The Northern state was intended as a compromise for Unionists, who looked South and saw their population in the ROI drop from 15% to around 1%.

Even with that said, I can never sympathise with people who bombed, intimidated and targeted civilians in the way that the various IRAs did. There is no cause for pride or celebration here, even if one accepts it as necessary. I don't see mournful regret when I see Sinn Fein members reflect on the names of those tied to that aspect of the past.

The level of violence and its many knock on effects took a tremendous toll on the unionist population, and we cannot forget who was responsible.
This is what bag holders say.
Serialization vs. what... Throwing away data?

I mean yes, saving more to disk is slower than not saving it, computing more is slower than not computing anything... Or are you making a more subtle point?
I got an offer from a small company, more or less a startup. Used it to convince my large stable company to match and they did.

Can't underestimate job security in the evaluation of salary.
The Decline of Women in Computer Science (2005)
One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone
if Lotion is going to win appflowy it's only because of being more smooth
And 90% of people probably could continue to use these.

Schools should not use the non-free products even if Microsoft provided them for free to them (which they did or do), because it is a Trojan Horse into kid's minds in order to create soft dependencies. People who learned to use one office suite are rarely motivated to learn yet another one.
this statement is not in line with the current reality for app downloads.

Yes, it could be smaller, but that does not mean it is "not small" I'm surprised when i download an app and it's less than 100MB these days.

that's not to say that 100MB is good, or that it's reasonable that downloads are as big as they are, but the fact is that they _are_ way bigger than 2.1MB. As designating something "small" or "large" is literally a relative measurement. So, unless you're comparing it against an atypical set of apps, or apps from a prior era of development, it is definitely "small".
But there is still a difference. Metric is the standard now.
Are schools a federal responsibility in the US? I would have assumed this was a state responsibility.
The bit that is viewable in the paywalled article indicates 1000 people will be let go and their revenues are forecasted to shrink as people go back to pre-pandemic shopping habits. I believe they were on a hiring binge last year to get 2000+ engineers. Any indication if the layoffs are just engineering or across the board?
> 100 + 100 = 1000?

There’s 10 kinds of people :)
I would take a 1 day multiple round interview any day. Nowadays, it is like -

- Recruiter reaches out on LinkedIn. You reply.

- Call with recruiter, repeat every thing in resume. Recruiter says ok, sometimes they just say we were looking for X years in Python to a JS programmer.

- First call with a manager (after 1 week) to check fit.

- Take home programming assignment (spend 4-6 hours on weekend).

- If code review is ok, another call to discuss the solution or improve it (1 hr, after 2 weeks).

- Last call with senior manager (1 hr, another week wait)

- HR offer

All in all, it takes around 6 weeks and multiple calls (not to mention doing this for multiple offers). Worst case - you fail at the last round, or code is rejected due to some crazy reason and yes, even after all this you get a 10% raise :D
I got one of these as a kid and used the crap out of it!

I was that kid who wanted toys that did actual stuff. This toy was one of those. Kept it for years to fix that odd plastic problem. When I ran out of the little rods, I remember trying every polymer I could find, until I found some little sticks that worked in a similar way.
When applying the glue, fan the spine end out by bending the pages out to one side, glue, then the other side, more glue, then clamp. That gives the glue more surface area to adhere to, making for a longer lasting binding.

The technique is called the double fan method, and would work fine with the rest of the techniques here.
I know about wise but have you used the other two? How was the experience?
Slack Is Down
I think it is although the status page isn't saying. Twitter is saying it is:
Sending a request - url: https://www.slack.com/api/apps.connections.open,
error: The read operation timed out)

EDIT: Status page now showing they are having an issue
Are there proofs for the easterners? Because for the westerners they are plenty.
It's pragmatic to not continue the monopolies that cost the taxpayer money on an ongoing basis.

The point is to not pay Microsoft money to promote Microsoft's continued monopoly, which will mean you have to pay them money again next year.

Any school paying for closed source software when they could be funding a company to make open source software is doing it wrong. Same with textbooks.

100s of 1000s of schools all paying for something they won't own and will have to pay for again in the future.
I think a good interview puts you in a position where you are struggling and out of your expertise - being able to demonstrate you have a solution for a bunch of stuff is less important than being able to demonstrate how you do when you don’t know and have to figure it out.
A very insightful project! I’ve seen programming students struggle with syntax, and this could definitely be one of the solutions guiding them towards a successful transition to Python.
Better yet, get government financing back into state university systems, at least until the ratio of annual tuition to minimum hourly wage is back to what it was in 1980. Then see whether the kid who got into Cal Berkeley really needs to go to Stanford.
Tornado Octopus needs to become a movie.
Helium without cryptocurrency stuff is The Things Network, basically.
A LOT of people I know in their 60s are still paying off their mortgage because when they get enough equity they either buy a bigger house or do cash out refinancing.

Having a paid off mortgage doesn't let you live for free - taxes+ utilities+insurance+repairs exceed what I'm paying on my mortgage (I have no escrow).
Now if I can get XEDIT, 370 Assembler, and a Modula 2 compiler, I could recreate my college experience.
Oh, yeah if they invested at a $4 billion post I can see that exit being really unappealing.

I assumed they went in at an earlier round at a eight or nine figure valuation, so I was thinking it was a 10-100x on their money in a year or so.
There's the opportunity and comfort cost as well though. I can definitely see how one could see spending $5 on a box they can grab from the drive thru and immediately throw away is a better choice than going to the store, meal planning, ensuring there's proper refrigerator and freezer space, making sure the perishables are used, and then also taking the time to clean the dishes used afterwards.

$5 for a few minutes of effort vs spending slightly less for usually at least half an hour to an hour when off hours during the work week are at a premium can make that extra spend very attractive, especially if they're single
This is not correct. You're part way there. Things like "have lights, DOT windshield, DOT seat belts, doesn't go over 25 mph" etc are all in fact requirements. But those are the simple ones. The trickier ones are what keep most of these from being street legal. The noisemaker has to meet all the FMVSS requirements of noisemakers in full electric cars like Teslas, Nissan Leafs, etc. The backup cameras have to meet the full FMVSS requirements for backup cameras in all full size cars. Even the factory doing the assembling has to be registered with the NHTSA and have a WMI - it's not enough to build your own factory and self certify. If you don't have NHTSA registration, a WMI and vin numbers that match a specific decoding sequence on file with the NHTSA for your specific factory (Which is why your factory has to be registered with NHTSA), your LSVs aren't street legal at the federal level and can't be imported to the US legally for on-road use if produced abroad. This is all in the document you've linked, you just haven't followed through to the sections listed in each requirement to see what the specific requirements actually are.
Protests and societal disruptions aren't mutually exclusive. And the "foreign funded campaign" argument is such a trope to discredit any protest, and reminds me more of something the Kremlin would say to justify destroying dissent. It was really scary to see canadians suddenly pretend that donations from america are proof that the protestors were foreign agents. Canadians have had no problem sending donations south for hundreds of years, and vice versa.

But hey, that rhetoric came directly from the the only government in the western hemisphere to have suspended constitutional rights (and because of a protest) since probably World War 2... So it's not exactly surprising.

(There was also this obsession to call them terrorists, again textbook dehumanizing/discrediting tactics. And for the record, I'm not a pro truckers and voted for trudeau twice. Yet the way the government dealt with the situation was literally disgusting.)
Further down in the article it says the following

"The Ottawa-based company will cut jobs in all its divisions, though most of the layoffs will occur in recruiting, support and sales units, said Mr. Lütke. “We’re also eliminating over-specialized and duplicate roles, as well as some groups that were convenient to have but too far removed from building products,” he wrote. Staff who are being let go will be notified on Tuesday."
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Won't be able to sleep now.
Its worked flawlessly. I'd not be surprised if he ends up back in cabinet before the next GE.

And if he is eventually voted out of his fairly safe seat? He's an ex-PM, he has the speaking and consultancy circuit for life.
That is pretty much most real warehouse parties.
The article indicates that the layouts aren’t engineering.
And Chromebooks, by definition.

Will be fun if you're a school that just bought 1000 Chromebooks.
Enterprises can put whatever they like on their devices. Not mine. So this argument falls apart.
The average car goes about 40 miles per day (https://www.bts.gov/statistical-products/surveys/national-ho...), so by your numbers only 40/6=7 panels are needed per car to charge, with some extra capacity. I think every garage as enough space on the roof for that many (per car inside), and still have extra space.

Of course most cars are not at home all day, and cloudy days have to be accounted for. So we have to assume some sort of system to get around that. (the obvious ones are battery at home to charge, or sell to the grid at home and buy from the grid where you are charging) Solving these problems is not easy, but the math works out that you can do it.
Absolutely, once you find the market, but at the ideation stage it’s more about spotting it in the first place. That’s much harder than it seems.
Take this with a grain of salt: Retirement is a scam.

I, for one, plan to stay away from it as long as I possibly can. My body will retire its own self when it's done.
Those were the only people being dragged to quarantine camps?

Are you sure about that?
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That's not true. Cryptocurrencies provide value by enabling you to make transactions, and as their usage increases, so does their usability for doing transactions, and so does their value.
As the large majority (if not all) of this year layoffs in tech companies, engineering is barely affected.

> ”The Ottawa-based company will cut jobs in all its divisions, though most of the layoffs will occur in recruiting, support and sales units, said Mr. Lütke.”
Mind sharing your url? I'm interested b/c I'm in your industry: ETL/Data Transformations.

Thanks in advance.
Sure, but not thinking about it doesn't make the dynamics it enables less relevant. Don't think about it, let them pay you less, there's less incentive to raise wages.
I don't know, take what you can while you can. If not, they will, and they usually have no loyalty towards you. Even if you don't want to use it, optimize your ability to help your loved ones. Minimize risk. Give it to charity, whatever.

I'm not arguing to be a salary-maximalist, but to insinuate it's not something a worker should always have in mind to some extent feels out of line with our economic system.
Interviewing is a mutual process. The company invests time and resources into finding employees and candidates invest time and resources into finding a good place for them to work.

I see no reason to compensate the candidate for the time they spend on interviewing and when companies do this I see it as a desperate marketing gimmick.

Now, I assume all is done honestly. I put up an honest job offer, I explain the interviewing process upfront, I try not to waste candidate's time and certainly I do not ask people to do any take home exercises.

And since I started to do all interviewing remotely there is even less cost to the candidate -- basically they only need to spend couple of hours on interview alone and no travel.

I also try to put largest filters at the beginning of the process so that if you pass first interview it means you are likely on a good path to get the job. This works both ways, incidentally -- as I would prefer to spend more time with candidates that are promising.
Goldencity
I am not a native speaker, and I use Grammarly to ensure what I want to say is at least grammatically correct to the reader that I want to impress.

And I would say even for native speaker, not only a tool like this is for educational and improve one's own confident, but also demonstrated you care about your reader. I have lost counts on how many typo/grammartical mistakes I noticed when I read company internal wiki written by native speakers.
This is the OS I started out on. It's been a long time since I typed #CP IPL CMS PARM AUTOCR on a 3270.
You bring up a good point, which is other costs beyond financial. Mindshare, attention, and privacy costs also need to be considered and a case can be made that the people should not be funding these costs for corporations. Especially with very little oversight or insight into what they are paying for.
I'm not sure where you got your five year number from. I ignored it because it seemed arbitrary. This certainly didn't start 5 years ago. It amped up with one major political party going fully mask off after the 2016 election, but it's gone on for as long as the internet allowed people from vastly different lived experiences to connect and compare notes.

I am now collapsing this subthread and moving on since this doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Good luck!
Nah. With ‘real’ currencies, goods and services are available in that currency. I can happily go about my business and transaction entirely in euros if I’m in the EU.
imo, there's no possible world where not invading Afghanistan causes 2 trillion dollars of attacks. (especially because 9/11 had only very weak links to Afghanistan)
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Exactly, which is the case for Google in general. Probably one of the most "secure" places to put your data, but from a privacy point of view self-hosting would be better, but then the security will be lower.
I’m a young engineer and I’m always happy to take on the grunt work to help the team as long as I get a little time to help on big picture stuff as well. I’m worried that I might be looked down on by more senior engineers who might think I’m just trying to avoid the more brain challenging work