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Since you were intending to reply to me, I'll try to answer you here.

I'm really not sure I actually understood what you meant, though. In my opinion, the US war in Iraq was unjustified and the Russian war in Ukraine is unjustified as well, and indeed between the US narrative back then and the Russian one today, there is no big difference.

But the main take I get from our conversation is that you were the one that was initially misinformed (thinking French mustard mainly comes from China), didn't read or believe the linked article by a "respectable" established news outlet (that clearly says the mustard in question comes from Canada), then spread your wrong information (in your comment) and now you're trying to say that I'm as misinformed as anyone when you are factually, indisputably, the one person who is misinformed in this particular discussion.

I do believe I am more effective at checking the accuracy of the the information I read or hear about than other people. I do not think that everyone is equally as misinformed, far from it.
Home sales do not universally count as income. Also, it is important to realize that 1099-S reporting applies to individuals like a licensed realtor. Which I am not.
What if instead of throwing them away I give all my clothes to oxfam is fast fashion still a problem?

Im much more worried about e-waste. If it costs more to run than modern hardware thats an issue for those in the used market / developing nations. E-waste becomes useless but when fashion is out of date it doesn't affect its use-fullness.
Wow, being from the US, I assumed that is how all fantasy sports work… TIL
I am using C++ for processing and currently Qt for GUI (only the CEF component of it, thinking about changing it to native WebView2). CMake for building, nlohmann for json. Still need a connection with server APIs (auth, data sync).

Not sure yet what to use for local data storage, sqlite seems like a pretty rigid solution.
I was optimistic 20 years ago. Pessimistic now.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/World_fo...
I remember back in 2016 when I traveled to the US to get my master's (proud latino over here).

It was cold af, but the college experience was awesome: met a lot of different cultures, made some great friendships, and learned a lot... But...

As every new person to a new country (in a foreign language), there are many hurdles, and it's impossible to forget how painful it was to open a bank account.

It took me a painful 3 hours and several voodoo tactics with a relative to finally open a checking bank account within Bank of America.

No SSN, no credit score, no records; it was as if I didn't exist. I needed the bank account because it was how I was supposed to receive my funds and live!

Finally... just finally after that awful experience was over, it went buttery smooth. Love the technology that US banks provide

Nonetheless, after 2 years, my study period was over and I left the US (I do visit it yearly for tourism), and left my BofA account opened with some $.

As it was normal, my debit card expired, and I had to issue a new one to access my account! BoFa requires you to use your debit card PIN as a 2FA step.

The problem is that the only address I have is a courier. And while I can receive almost anything, I don't know why, even after verifying my address, it never seem to reach it.

Therefore there's no way to get back to your account, unless you spend 1 hour of your day dealing with customer support.

In addition, BoFA has geoblocking outside the US. I have to connect through a VPN and use Google Hangouts (to prevent expensive international calls) to reach them.

Just plain awful.

If you asked me I do miss having a US card because there are sites that only allow you to use US issued cards. For one, I couldn't buy AppleCare for my father's MacBook because Apple wouldn't allow me to use foreign cards.

I have no idea whether this service (Pana) would do any justice, but if it works as well as the founders are envisioning to, then have my blessings.

We all need to be represented when we travel abroad, especially the marginalized Latino community.
> Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.

> Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.

> His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.
Yep. I obsessively pick up trash in my neighborhood, replaced my lawn with local flora, advocate for better cycling infrastructure, compost, sort my recycling (don't throw away batteries), donate monthly to a tree-planting charity, keep the thermostat low, don't eat meat...

...and many people I know think I'm ridiculous. Honestly I feel like I'm doing the minimum. All these things do is inconvenience me. I'm not expecting an award (outside of my kids not experiencing global famine) but no one gives a shit.

I fully expect not enough to be done until people are starving to death. And at that point I still don't expect anything to happen... the wealthy will live with some minor inconviniences and the poor will die.
And it's already locked
Clothing is called out because it’s environmental footprint is often estimated as being surprisingly high, and there is a certain pattern of consumption that encourages buying tons of extremely cheap clothes and wearing them only once.

For the first point, well, it might be an over estimate, or focused on environmental harms that are imo less important (landfill waste vs carbon footprint). But I’m not sure, I’ve read and forgotten a few of the articles, they were popular a year or two back. For the second point, everyone loves beating up on the imaginary 18 year old girl who buys on shein every day, but I don’t really know how many of those people exist. Some? Probably not that many?
Overcoming a sense of unworthiness to become an entrepreneur
What keeps so many entrepreneur-curious developers from launching a product? Often it's a combination of feeling unworthy and fearing failure.
I don’t think that’s right. Assets aren’t the only aspect of a program which can be protected under IP law. (Not that I take the law to be the paragon of ethical guidelines)
Didn't they remove the option to use a local account? https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-requiire-microsoft...
A browser application cons (most of them is also about Electron):

not full speed of your PC,

not enough hotkeys,

no giant lists without pagination,

no confidence that new/old version of browser will not break something,

obstructions of using 100% of display without pressing F11

and, of course, no ability to work without Internets with no afraid to wipe off "offline first" part of application if pressing something like F5 or Ctrl-W.

A web application pros: no troubles with exotic architectures, no piracy (if we are talking about proprietary things), easy networking.
>Rule of law is restored

I bet Indian Railways mischarged someone in the time it took for you to make this comment.
> Also if that's all someone of his caliber needed to determine applicant quality, I don't see why everyone else feels the need to go through all this other bullshit.

Flipping it around, it takes someone of that caliber to be able to determine applicant quality with just that. Can we replicate it without having to spend some of your most valuable employee-hours, let alone in a way that doesn't leave you open to accusations of all sorts of bias?
Generally only for new grads.
.sexy is not an appropriate domain name for these things imho
I play a lot of online poker. Sometimes I'll start betting increased amounts (3 to 5x big blind) on the initial deal regardless of the quality of my hand to force more money to get into play. I just want to increase the stakes a bit because it makes the game more enjoyable than everyone always betting the optimal and predictable amount.

It's amazing how often this significantly upsets other players. It's not real money (or even significant if they went bankrupt and couldn't wait 24 hours to get the next handout) at the tables I plan (small amounts). I've seen serious meltdowns over pennies.
I had to take a deep breath when I read this comment. As others have mentioned this is a huge strawman.

My post was not meant to imply that home assignments are a wrong tool to filter out candidates.

It's how it is conducted that makes it a toxic practice. Not providing any meaningful feedback or not paying for a work that takes too much time is what makes it not acceptable.
No other job requires performing free labor to get the job. Within tech, no other position requires it. Outside tech, no technical role I know of requires it.

Take-homes exist because companies suck at interviewing tech workers. It should be enough to simply review some code while on a call.

Companies should hire senior engineer consultants to do technical interviews. A staff engineer with 15+ years experience can suss out how good another engineer is in 1.5 hrs.
Today I learned:

> iRobot Corporation is an American technology company that designs and builds consumer robots. It was founded in 1990 by three members of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, who designed robots for space exploration and military defense.

> The company's products include a range of autonomous home vacuum cleaners (Roomba), floor moppers (Braava), and other autonomous cleaning devices.

The founding members are: Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle, and Helen Greiner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Angle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Greiner
I see where you’re coming from, and I guess I’m still undecided on the issue. I’d have to re-examine in a specific case if such a rip-off were to be more popular.
Cool, thanks. Looks good
Thanks, most informative.
How many pieces of fast fashion is equal to one of those 10-minute private jet flights? How about when 400-ft yachts get “repositioned” across thousands of miles. Why should millionaires and billionaires be the only ones with wasteful lifestyles? Because there aren’t that many of them, relatively speaking?If the earth is doomed anyway, then maybe everyone should get to enjoy the last hurrah, instead of billions of people scrimping so that a handful of oligarchs can fuck the planet over to their heart’s content for a few more years. Sorry, not feeling too optimistic about the future of humanity this morning.
So.. newspeak?
I dunno. Even if you're the only one doing it, and winning a lot because of the edge, it still feels like that much work would still make it "not fun".

Or, it's possible that a lot of current poker players are the kind of nerds for whom figuring out GTO strategies and memorising probability tables for games is intrinsically fun, and they'd do it even if they had no intention of ever actually playing the game. In the same way that some people memorise everything about different types of train, even if they never intend on working in the railway industry, but because it tickles the right part of their brain. But I doubt it.
I had one that was actually simple, took me a trivial amount of time.

Then I got grilled in the interview for not pulling in all sorts of bloat and other bullshit for a single endpoint CRUD app.
That's the kind of thing I'd be fairly happy with as an applicant.

One swift interview process I did included a single short page of code and the invitation to (with pen and paper) review it; I was given some time to think about it on my own and then to talk it over with the technical interviewer.

I liked that one and they had what I thought was an above average quality of developer when I joined. Anecdotal but interesting.
I work on a few projects with C++. mostly C++ backend, python3 frontend with pybind11

can be quite flexible once you tackle C++ intricacies.

If I were to do something that needed speed I might consider this
We folk in EI aim to avoid attention
Obvious question: So what is a tasting line-up called in the UK ?
There are legitimate criticism to blockchain technologies and arguments that could be made against its usefulness in the future.

However, one of the things that fuel my believe on blockchain is how many the arguments against it are falacies and/or full of ignorance like this one.

"Someone made the wrong assertion that git is blockchain IMPLIES THAT blockchain is going down and their adepts are desperate" a very simple fallacy to realize to be honest, not worthy of hacker news.

Also ignorant things like: "stumping up in a complicated, exclusionary, and non-existent proof-of-stake system its advocates claim is just around the corner every six months"

1. It is not complicated, I understand it
2. It is less exclusionary than proof of work
3. It exists
4. It launches next month (aprox 15th September) on Ethereum
why even bother trying to solve this through individual consumer purchasing habits, all it accomplishes is turning powerless common folk against each other
Fine so one of the biggest financial crime leaks in history implicating the wealthy and powerful all over the world resulted in one unknown old man and his accountant getting a couple years. Cool.
What part does Apple play in the web? Yes, they are a Fortune company shaping the consumer electronic world, but I wouldn’t go as far as including them in your list of golden-age-web curators.
Blood Type Matters More Than We Give It Credit For
Apps for selling clothes second hand often have for the “condition” field a variant of: new with tag; new without tag; worn once; used.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a large percentage of clothes bought in rich countries are worn once or never.
Depends on if they factor in kids clothing.
It jiggles in a most unpleasant manner for me as well.

I love these types of bugs. If these guys are going for a "Goat Simulator" vibe (notoriously buggy, part of the charm), they've nailed it.
Dad spoke Irish at home (Galway) and uses Hibernian E English.

“Are you posting on Hacker News?”

“I am.”

Easy.
I’ve only really experienced Dependabot for libraries, rather than applications, and in that context I don’t really understand why it exists or why people use it.

If you’re making a library and it bumps the lower version bounds of your dependencies, it’s doing something that’s actively slightly harmful. It’d be fine to notify you about major/incompatible version bumps, maybe even try them to see if they work (though certainly don’t apply the change automatically—a major version bump on a dependency is regularly a breaking change even if your tests still pass). But minor/patch/compatible releases that are already accepted by the version specifier? You shouldn’t be bumping those. Test against them if you like, maybe update your testing lockfile, but generally speaking the versions of libraries are an application concern, and your library should not be trying to dictate it.

(I must admit that the whole concept of compatible ranges is in practice slightly broken through and through, though it seldom causes trouble. I would love to have tooling that actively minimised dependency versions: “1.2.3? Turns out the newest functionality you’re depending on is from 1.1.0, so I’ll reduce the spec to ‘1.1’.” This would, of course, need to be paired with checking that you don’t accidentally use newer functionality—at the least, running your tests on minimum versions, preferably stronger API checks. Overall it’s the sort of thing that is difficult to make robust by any means in the likes of JavaScript and Python, but which could sanely be done in Rust, and there’s enough interest that I think something will probably happen within the next decade.)

But applications? Sure, this is where Dependabot has an actual sane purpose. But presuming people tend to have it configured in similar ways to how they configure it in libraries… ugh. I’d still rather just do roughly what it does manually from time to time.
I agree in regards to Magic. Arena especially is hyper optimized. I decided to just netdeck a mono red aggro that did well in ranked, and have been racking up Ws. Sooner or later that strategy will fall apart and I'll probably just give up on Arena, I don't personally enjoy the idea of the MTG hivemind making a deck for me if I want to win.

That said, I have a weekly group that plays pretty low level paper commander, and it's a blast. We live in different states now but play on Spelltable and get together every few months to do a draft. It's the only way to play, IMO. Plenty of room for creativity within the confines of our personal meta.
But you can ignore anyone that says "this food is not ok to eat because I once tried it at a bad restaurant and I didn't like it".
I think the point is that they can't simply say "no". Also, perhaps "I haven't it" is syntactically more similar than "I don't have it" to what they actually say.
Yeah, what's really strange is realizing that others buy into the instagram resume hype. I'll keep things anonymous to protect the guilty, but one example I know about personally is a somewhat famous Googler in a specific domain, who actually gets cited here once in awhile for his work in said domain. He used to work at a much more backwater company with a friend of mine. He was working on a project for 12 months before leaving the company. My friend was tasked with completing the project, and came in and saw that basically no code was written in those 12 months. I run into these "emperor has no clothes" moments from time to time, but that was an especially momentous one for me.
The map got all jittery on me and would not stop. All I did is scroll down the page. Running some version of Edge on Windows 10.
Joke's on you. I don't have an iPhone or any Apple device.

Your cheap shot joke is bad and you should feel bad.
Why not just interview the developer? You can ask them technical questions that very clearly demonstrate if they understand how to code. You can also ask for code samples of past projects, or just pay them to code something small for 1 hour at home.

I don’t understand how this is hard. I’ve hired dozens of engineers in the last 10 years. I’ve never needed to resort to any google level leetcode tactics. It’s never made sense to me if the goal is to hire a quality software engineer that can get the job done. Maybe that’s not the goal for companies that make interviewees do this performative bullshit.
Trying to get an objective information to work with is fine. Expecting someone to work for free without any committment / investment from the company is TOXIC.

I have a friend who set the expectations upfront (working from home) and was told it might not be a problem, finished the whole ordeal of take home assignments and technical rounds. The company liked him but he was told WFH is not acceptable (hello Tencent).
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The Sensible Shoes class.

Possibly a FIRE bastard.
I’m not familiar with the money laundering laws. But do they state that you can’t buy something anonymously and without an audit trail? Because spending legally obtained cash seems anonymous to me. Is anonymizing your digital spend with legally obtained capital that different?
And to advertise NFTs on December 24, 2021.

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...
I partly disagree with the author, but glancing at other articles of the same blog, it seems that nuance is often left out.

On technical merits, the first point is kind of invalid. You can't rewrite history in git without changing commit IDs. And the two others are the same point: git doesn't have a distributed consesus mechanism.

It would be very easy to build one, though, which gets git close enough for comparison purposes. And the "blockchain" term only hints at the merkle tree aspect.

Now, on rebranding: while I feel the comparison apt, it shouldn't be used as a successfull example of blockchain technology. It can to an extent, but blockchain means something different in people's mind. I'd still do the comparison while pointing out the difference.

And that's something I often do, when explaining how either works.

And to me, blockchain (including consensus) is still a mathematical curiosity that hasn't proven useful yet. I've seen some interesting PoW proposals, like mail anti-spam, or rate limiting/captcha.
> The best platform examples for me are GoodNotes and Procreate.

These are great examples.

> What's an example of a desktop Linux application that is so good that somebody will setup or buy a Linux machine to run?

This is a tough question as most of the software I use on Linux can be used on MacOS with its ancient FreeBSD userland or Windows with WSL or natively. I feel that often developers who don't treat Linux as an afterthought also make things available for other platforms.

I know for me, I use a Linux machine for the software ecosystem I use to keep things keyboard driven. skhd[1] on MacOS and Autohotkey[2] on Windows can help but when I have tried both it is not quite as flushed out in my opinion. I also use Linux for increased privacy and a more minimal environment compared to MacOS or Windows. I would say those are compelling reasons to use Linux and are directly impacted by software available for Linux. One could also argue the lack of undesirable software (bloatware, adware, etc.) is also a compelling reason to use Linux.

This all being said, I am not one to argue this is the year of the Linux Desktop. I'm a security engineer and the lack of standardization on the desktop side of Linux is a HUGE weakness and until that is addressed I don't think it will ever be the year of the Linux Desktop.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

[2] https://www.autohotkey.com/
He represented himself
The point was that the BBC writer of this article should already be aware of Gaelic languages.
They were waiting for the reactions from the community. There's a low chance there could have been extreme and unified non-compliance, e.g. everyone depositing funds to Tornado Cash (which is still up and operating at https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipns/tornadocash.eth/ )
Looks like it handles a lot of items 'Shut Up 10' and 'Windows 10 cleaner' does. Great to have everything rolled into one spot, customizable, and easy to understand. Great work.
It's interesting, that recent use of Marxist rhetoric in favor of mass market consumerism and ultra-capitalism. Advocates of all sort, big corporation PR, and the charity or "influencers" they finance, all are using these cheap 'inclusive' PR tricks in order to put poor people against one another and appear to be moral while making record private profits.

They all "care" about classism while ignoring the human, social or ecological cost of their business model. But you can't question the latter, just call people who question all that "haters" in insidious ways.
And others use it because it's the best choice.

The Annual Pwn2Own contest seems to easily crack Mac and Linux, for example

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-ubuntu-macos-virtualbo...
Nope.

Simply unplug the internet cable, works in the latest windows 11.
Compared to odd requirements like paying to go to universities for 4+ years, take home assignments are nothing; both are insane waste of time, unless you’re learning something of value that will be of use regardless of the outcome.
There's so much strawmanning and sarcasm in this response.

I love it.
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