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SimplePay | Kotlin / Java Developers | UTC+0 to UTC+8 | REMOTE

SimplePay is a profitable, developer-owned online payroll software company, with solid growth. Our software lets 28,000 (and counting!) small business owners (and their accountants) run their South African, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong payrolls without headaches, so they can focus on the challenge of building their businesses. We're also developing new product lines - for example, we're doing a new time tracking and staff scheduling system.

We've decided to add Kotlin to our stack for server-side development. Experienced Java developers who want to get into Kotlin are also welcome to apply. As much as I enjoy Ruby on Rails (and it's definitely helped us succeed), refactoring is becoming more painful the larger our code base becomes (using Sorbet helps, but can only take us so far). We intend to use Kotlin for the new products we're launching as well as to rewrite selected components of our existing system where it makes sense. I haven't coded in a statically typed language in years, but I've been writing Kotlin lately, and it feels surprisingly productive.

We haven't decided on a web framework yet. I don't mind Spring Boot, but investigating lighter weight alternatives would be great too (you can tell I have many battle scars from dealing with framework upgrades). We use PostgreSQL as our DB server. On the front-end, we mainly render plain HTML, but use Vue.js on the pages that need more interactivity - this role is more focused on the back-end, but front-end skills are welcome too. As you can see from our no-nonsense stack, we prefer to keep things simple with robust, proven technologies, so we can focus on solving client issues.

Our development team was already mostly remote pre-pandemic. We have a very supportive culture, and are continuously putting a lot of thought into ensuring remote work is happy work.

To find out more about us, check out our developer blog (https://tech.simplepay.cloud) or about page (https://www.simplepay.co.za/about).

Location: UTC+0 to UTC+8

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I'm guessing from the rivers thing you probably didn't live anywhere near a major city. Kids getting shot isn't even remotely a new thing. In fact, it's quite a bit less common now than in the 80s and early 90s. I wasn't exactly inner city, just LA suburbs, but my middle school still experienced three drive-bys while I was there. I knew four kids who were murdered before we graduated and another who shot himself when we were 12. We were banned from wearing red, blue, or Raiders jerseys because the school district was so paranoid we'd get shot. Guns being used for something other than hunting has been around a long time. The 70s were really when it first started to take off, largely because that was when street gangs started taking over domestic drug trade and they suddenly became much better funded and better armed.
I've tested USB audio adaptors, ranging from cheapies from Amazon, to a PreSonus recording interface. In fact, without resorting to really fancy measurement gear, an audio adaptor is close to the only thing good enough to test an audio adaptor. I've also tested the audio output of phones, built-in PC audio jack, etc.

I use PC audio to test analog audio circuits that I make, so I've made it my business to know the quality of my measurements.

I've also checked out the specs on the chips used in those devices. The delta sigma conversion technique is one of the wonders of the modern world.

The fact is that the audio quality coming out of those devices is stunning, and probably doesn't need to be better. I can see where a recording studio might want to spend more on "overkill" to make the artifacts of their digital interface a non-issue, but for the rest of us, we're living in a golden age of audio.
> Einstein's fame was hugely out of proportion with his actual contributions

Hugely?. I'd accept there was some variance (as you'd expect) but hugely made me stop and consider what you mean here.
And that is the flip side to Prop 13, which a bunch of people like to hate on. Absent Prop 13 (for residential properties) a lot of long-term residents would be forced out by rapidly rising property taxes. Which would-be residents may not like but is not at all clearly a bad thing.
AI won't have a meaningful impact on studio artists. The art market values artist labor and persistence over a long time more than "cool visuals". When you invest in art, you're betting that the artist will keep going, laboring in their studio and producing new hand-made material for years to come. Technology that promises to eliminate the labor out of art won't have any impact on this.

Stable Diffusion is to studio artists what motorcycles are to professional runners. It's besides the point.

That said, I think SD will impact commercial gaming, marketing, etc., where cutting out labor is part of the goal.
Am I wrong to think that there's a very strong, quiet, deliberate push against anything 'idealist' or 'utopian', more and more?

It feels like I'm seeing a lot of articles lately that get deep thinkers quite wrong, or which use their personal character flaws to invalidate their ideas.

Nuance as a concept seems to be dying more now even than under Trump, and it feels artificial. Deliberately instigated.

... Am I being overly paro here?
“George Braly, chief engineer at GAMI, said the fuel can be made with components “that are found inside the fence of any refinery.””

Now, that quote comes from the principal at GAMI and in a GAMI newsletter, but over the last decade and a half of following this, I’ve found him to be pretty damned straightforward.

https://gami.com/g100ul/AvGas0211.pdf
Have harvested data from Twitter, FB, Reddit and some other such websites for a few years, mostly for the purpose of using it for trading.
Around 18 months ago got involved into Covid data and started scraping also data related to this.
But anyhow, this is getting quite complex, and in the end is just my data, and tbh, you might just be right and I’m just looking at the wrong data. But on the other hand, such characters as the main people beyond the Great Barrington Declaration and others within their circles experience interesting phenomena (e.g. vanishing likes), that at least based on my scraping I can confirm. Consider this just some anecdotal evidence, this in itself is not what triggered my above statements.
The purpose of housing is to house people.

Historical buildings are nice, but for apartment blocks at least, yes, the priority has to be actually housing people. You can always require historical-looking facades if looks are a concern.
>"And if you want to use a visa to live and work here, you will pay an incredible tax rate that's even higher than Netherlands (which is already 20-50% higher than the US)."

Is this the catch then with those "golden visas"? Could you or someone else say what those rates are? Is Spain which also offers "golden visas" the same then in terms of a separate tax?
Keep an eye on municipal/state/fed politics and volunteer to help support a good candidate when there's elections. You will meet a lot of people.
"My takeaway is, to put it very bluntly, that the average Portuguese person is quite ignorant. They either don't know a lot of important things, or they know a bit but don't care (because they don't know why it's important). It feels like time stopped here in the mid 1900s."

This is quite true, we are ranked very low on things like financial literacy, and most people here don't care why things are the way they are.
Back in the day (1960s?) two relatives of mine had a prank battle going on. One of them posted an add in the local newspaper offering to buy old Christmas trees, at the address of their adversary. Half the city showed up, were told trees were not in fact being bought, and everybody dumped the trees at their door.
From the vehicle owner or dealership? I had the worst experience with Toyota. I don't think I'd ever buy a Toyota again. The manufacturer was like... We only make the cars and don't care what happens at the dealership.

Also what is up with dealerships and mandatory arbitration agreements? So you can't buy a car now without signing an arbitration agreement?
Framework is now available in Australia
I don't see why people even bother--take over a group and post garbage events and people are just going to leave.
TempleOS has a number of interesting Oracular things. The F7 button gives you a random Bible word, and Shift+F7 gives you a random Bible passage. The author claimed that God provided guidance through this functionality.

Lower down, TempleOS's "god" library was a 'random' number generator that was seeded/pre-populated with the entirety of the KJV. The "GodBits" function would get you "random" numbers from it.
I should've said Earth instead of ground.

I love seafood.
If there was a trustworthy service I could pay to buy me a car that, with their fee, would cost around the same as CarMax (or maybe even a bit more) I'd 100% try it. I love the concierge type services and take advantage of them whenever possible. There just aren't many of them to use.
Titles, inherently by their nature, are supposed to grab your attention and entice you to read. They're not there to have an answer or tell you what you need to know - their only job is to go, "Look!". I think we should all be less reactionary towards a headline and more insistent upon discussing the actual body of content.
Alright, alright, alright.
thank you, i forgot to mention that.
It looks like a loose translation of chapter 67 in the Wang Bi version that you linked. The character interpreted as love is 慈, with the quote mentioned in the article corresponding to 慈故能勇 in the original passage.
"The Sunshine Makers" (2015) is good. It's the story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, who trained under Owsley Stanley and made a lot of "Orange Sunshine" in the Bay Area. They were funded by the same wealthy man who sponsored Timothy Leary at Millbrook.

Tim Scully first met William "Billy" Mellon Hitchcock, grandson of William Larimer Mellon and great-great-grandson of Thomas Mellon, through Owsley in April 1967. They became friends and Billy loaned Scully $12,000 for the second Denver lab in 1968. The product from the lab was distributed by The Brotherhood of Eternal Love; Scully was connected with the Brotherhood via Billy Hitchcock.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunshine_Makers_(2015_film...

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love story was interesting, a violent motorcycle gang who dropped acid and decided to become gangsters of love and LSD distributers.
The piston engines still use "low lead" fuel. The turboprops run on jet fuel.
lol Lisbon is crowded.

Lisbon: 6,452/km2

Barcelona: 16,000/km2

NYC: 25,000+/km2 (depends on the source)

Lower East Side NYC: 33,600/km2 - due to zoning regs, there are very few buildings over 9 stories... but every building is 9 stories!

Lower East Side NYC 1910: 144,000+/km2 - visit https://www.tenement.org/ to learn more.

Kowloon Walled City, 1970s: ~2M/km2 !!! - inspiring 1000s of dystopian Sci Fi stories from Akira to Blade Runner. https://www.google.com/search?q=Kowloon+Walled+City

http://demographia.com/db-nyc-sector1800.htm
A good example is the password rotation policy. It is still enforced by some of the standards (PCI DSS comes to mind), despite existing research that shows it worsens your security.
The Veldt a.k.a. The World that the Children Made (1950) [pdf]
Good old fashioned pseudoscience. In 2003 James Randi would have given Masaru Emoto $1,000,000 for proving his theory, but he was not up to it. He was also hardly a researcher, he got a diploma in India from a diploma mill targeting quacks.
Arg.

As many issues as the Linux version had, using the web version was worse.

I guess I shouldn't have expected from to actually follow throughon Teams for Linux.
Are perpetual swaps inherently impossible outside the cryptocurrency space, or is this just a "… on the blockchain!" invention?

I'm unconvinced that AMM is an actual good. It's like HFT, where you're counting centimeters of fiber to the exchange, to win algorithmically. The solution there isn't to democratize HFT by (in the analogy) allowing the little guy to also colocate with the exchange. The solution is to remove the penny tray theft that is HFT altogether, as it can't be justified as paying for value added. These last nanoseconds don't actually add any liquidity.
> forget about it a few months later and then fail to keep it up to date and suddenly it exposes your device to vulnerabilities.

Or you do keep it up to date and suddenly it exposes your device to new vulnerabilities.
But he said he want to do it to help a family, not his pockets. /s
Mountain Thrust. Just say that like a normal Texan.
Have you seen https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/ ? It's Midjourney's internal magic combined with Stable Diffusion.
My wife has mobility issues, so she usually requests a wheelchair. At TSA she's usually asked if she can stand and walk a short distance. She can, so she walks through the metal detector (not the backscatter x-ray), the airport personnel pushing her is let through with the wheelchair, and it's done. No extra steps or extra screening. Her bags are subject to the usually screening, but nothing extra. We usually get to go through the metal detector too.

I 100% assume this is because she's using an airport-provided wheelchair which is designed to be easy to visually scan, with airport-provided personnel pushing it, and her under their direct supervision at all times. If she had her own wheelchair I assume it would be a much harder ordeal.
lol, OP completely missed out on the biggest IG ratelimit bypass. You could just use IPv6 and make literally millions of requests per second from a single server with a /48. (Oh! And before that you could just spoof X-Forwarded-For)

I printed money using this to automatically take good usernames as they became available.
Awesome, that works

For reference the full command:

`python scripts/txt2img.py \
--prompt "a red juicy apple floating in outer space, like a planet" \
--n_samples 1 --n_iter 1 --plms --precision full`
Added bonus being that Grainger doesn't track you all around the internet.
Because type 1 diabetics don't exist?
Then are you saying that if Israel displaces all of the currently present Palestinians and then holds on to the land for 1400-2000 years, they become the rightful owners of that land?
Sorry, but I'm not following. How do you make the connection from going out in public to you have to accept what others do? It feels like you're bringing in NAP or something without actually saying it.
That might have to do with your Mac OS version. Pre-12.4 Mac OS does not allow the Torch backend to use the M1 GPU, and so the script attempts to use the cpu, but then the cpu does not support half-precision numbers.
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Dupe.

Discussed 2 days ago, 38 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652216>
It's been nonfunctional for at least over a year. Changes to Instagram made impossible to bypass the wall protecting the garden (or landfill).
While the author very clearly is at least a bit out of touch (no one's living off chips and soda), the fact is that cheap calories do tend to come from unhealthy sources, particularly if they make up the bulk of your diet. For example peanut butter on white bread - super cheap and quick to make, but living off of it is going to ruin your body.

The biggest issues are the hidden costs of healthy foods. When people complain about processed foods, they often forget what the point of processing the food is: making it last longer. You can buy lots of it and store it for long periods of time without much difficulty. For fresh produce you're buying smaller amounts (less discounted) and you need to buy it more frequently (more time wasted shopping, higher commuting costs). Then of course there is cooking - when you've been slaving away at a low paying job all day, the prospect of spending an hour and a half preparing something nice is extremely unappealing compared to something you can just stick in the microwave for 2 minutes. The mass produced and highly processed foods are optimized for convenience - they cook quickly and consistently with minimal effort. Honestly this more than price alone is likely the reason the nominally wealthiest nation in the world has such poor nutrition. Even at minimum wage, a half hour difference in cooking time probably dwarfs the price of the actual difference in price between two food brands for all but the most expensive options.

The claim people just need to make better choices is a non-starter. Essentially no one wants to be fat and unhealthy, and all else being equal would not choose to be. But all else is not equal. Other factors are influencing the decision making process such that eating unhealthily is the lesser of two evils. If you want people to make different choices, you need to address why they are making their current choices, regardless of what those factors may be.
A little over three minutes on a first-gen M1 iMac with 16GB.

It looks like memory is super-important for this (which isn't all that surprising, really...).
What's missing in this utilitarian perspective is the idea that a safe workplace isn't an economic good but a right within the US codified by law.

We can go through the list of the Bill of Rights and probably point out how they don't make economic sense. But they make an abundance of moral sense.
How much did you make total?
> one hour public transport commute of the downtown.

Who doesn't want to spend 15% of his woke day commuting.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnnayb/the-wall-of-sound
I believe op was using "dating" as an euphemism for "having sex with".

That means dinner isn't required. Plus if the average unlucky guy has 1 date per 2 weeks, it would be entirely possible for a lucky guy to have 14x more dates. A 14:1 starting ratio leading to a 10:1 success ratio seems plausible to me.
there are far, far more sqlite instances than Windows Registry instances in the world.

"SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. [...] Since SQLite is used extensively in every smartphone, and there are more than 4.0 billion (4.0e9) smartphones in active use, each holding hundreds of SQLite database files, it is seems likely that there are over one trillion (1e12) SQLite databases in active use."

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
>learning a brand new language to them will still take a year or two until they approach the productivity and quality of decision-making

I don't agree unless we're talking about something like Rust or C++. Python, Java, and JavaScript are all very easy to pick up once you understand the concepts they share. I would expect any developer to at least know the basic syntax of Python for instance even if they don't write it daily.

To me, if somebody only knows one language but they're an expert in it, it indicates a lack of ambition, curiosity, and willingness to face new challenges which are desirable traits to look for when hiring. And unfortunately for such people there's polyglot experts out there that can be hired for the same price.
I found a really awesome "public instance" vps node that had a bunch of utils & anonymous public interfaces webapps (nitter,...) running on it for all.

They also had a list of things they dont support, with reasons why. Meta interfacing were listed (including to bibliogram), and typically with links to fire-bot takedown requests to kingdom come. No one else has anything like this. Very very unique company.
Git kraken is pretty good. https://www.gitkraken.com/

They also make git lens for vs code which is an amazing tool.
I avoid registering for any accounts to the greatest extent possible. But when I have to, each account gets its own distinct email address, not used for any other purpose.

I do this by running my own mailserver, but it's also pretty easy to do with most email hosts that I've seen.
Thanks for adding that context.
haha yeah. Volunteer at a cat sanctuary and you're likely to make friends with a whole bunch of nice grannies.

Volunteering with a political campaign where the candidate's promises are strongly appealing to young people is probably the sweet spot in terms of meeting young people.
That's where job opportunities are, and that's why more housing will increase the opportunities, and then the price of housing...
That's got nothing to do with what we're talking about.

The first comment didn't say they should have spent more time on security, it said they should have spent time creating a system to detect if too many taxis were in one spot.

I think we can all agree that security is valuable and should be prioritized, but spending time worrying about how to stop who is already in your system from sending all the cabs to the wrong place seems like a waste of time.

Hell, IF (big if) the worst thing a hacker could do once they had access YandexTaxi's servers is send a bunch of cabs to the wrong place, you could almost spin that in a positive light. "We spent so much time protecting customer data that all they could do is send our divers to the wrong place".