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> I think high-level language skills includes deep cultural competency

Somewhat, but not in the sense needed for improv performance. Somebody can be very strong in a language without, say, having watched all of the junk TV from the audience's childhood.

> I was going to suggest doing a stint at stand-up

Have you ever tried this? It's an absolutely brutal experience even for people with the necessary skills.

Studying stand-up comedy? Great. Trying it? I think it's a terrible idea for somebody working on learning the language. And I think you're conflating "foreign accent" with "verbal communication lags far behind", which is super weird to me in this context.
This is where I have trouble. It obviously feels wrong to do at scale in an automated way but the only difference is that it got easier.
Hardly 99%. With a 260 mile-range car I only need to plug in about once a week. People who drive more obviously need to plug in more often, but it's a pretty rare person who would absolutely need to charge every single day. EVs are not for every single use case yet (like long distance towing) and that's okay. They will handle more use cases with each passing year. We certainly don't have nearly enough slow charging points yet, but it doesn't need to be anywhere near 100% coverage before many people who don't have dedicated parking can use an EV with minimal to no disruption.

Battery swapping isn't more efficient or cheaper. You still have to build out massive charging infrastructure all over the place to charge all the swapped batteries, plus you need staff, locations, and equipment to do the swapping, and storage space for the batteries while they wait to be placed back in a car. Plus every manufacturer has to use the exact same battery physical and electrical specs, eliminating all possible innovation in packaging. No one is saying it isn't possible, it just doesn't actually make sense at scale.

I recognize having a private driveway and garage is a luxury, which is why I'm highly supportive of laws requiring multi-unit dwellings to add charging and offering tax breaks for both landlords and tenants to get them installed. Also highly in favour of tax breaks for employers to offer charging in their lots. I also think municipalities should be upgrading the existing streetlight wiring to offer charging alongside street parking.
YES! Someone finally used the audio-in pins!

The SID has audio-in that can be summed with internally-synthesized sounds and routed through the on-chip filters before going back out.

I found this pinout in the programmer's reference guide and tinkered with it a bit as a kid, but I didn't really know what I was doing, so it never went beyond a novelty. Who knew, forty years later, that it'd get proper treatment as an effects generator!
Object Calisthenics [pdf]
From author: Following these rules with discipline will force you to come up with the harder answers that lead
to a much richer understanding of object oriented programming. If you write a thousand lines
that follow all these rules you will find that you have created something completely different
than you expected. Follow the rules, and see where you end up. If it isn’t comfortable, back off
and see what you can leverage that is comfortable. You might find that if you keep working at it,
you see code you are writing conform to these rules without any conscious effort on your part.
Current example would be the filters that modify appearance that's used a ton on influencer platforms. We've been photo shopping for years but now anyone can create a false identity online. The bad side of this is like catphishing and unrealistic body standards causing non obvious mental health issues across generations.

Future would be continuing to push the boundaries of auto formatting filtering styles based on your preference or the populations preference. Scamming, impersonation, money to be made from gullible people.

This is just the surface. I'm sure there are tons of fictional books exploring this or people with more destructive ideas.

Just because I'm terrified and am listing the bad, that doesn't mean I don't recognize the good that can come from it. I'm not sure if that out weighs the bad yet.
Replace

at = root

with

at = next[root]

and you're done. Once you understand the forward transform, you understand that root is the LAST byte and next[root] is the FIRST byte.

All the fixes in BUGFIX-66 are trivial if you understand what the code is doing, that's part of the game concept. Also, if you submit broken code, it gives you a useful hint to direct your attention to the bug.

Similarly, the fix for the forward transform is to add

i1, i2 = x[i1], x[i2]

at the top of the less() function.
They definitely are not. A government owned enterprise is many steps removed from voters, and will be run by bureaucrats. This creates an internal constituency and an opportunity for several kinds of graft. A co-op involves your direct participation in operations, and probably an opportunity to be directly involved in decision making depending on the size of the co-op.
Some do wall heating or ceiling heating instead of floor heating. Wall heating/cooling would probably not require two systems.
> In a well made vegan meal, there is often no specific center piece. Instead, you get a multitude of flavors that all work together in complex ways

Yep. That's what I have been finding out recently as well. The vegan 'meat alternatives' should be considered full-fledged dishes with their own excellent flavor themselves. Since its much easier to balance different flavors because the overriding flavor of the meat/protein is less in plant based protein.
> Do you have any kind of plan or thoughts about the future?

With regards to phones? I probably will remain without a telephone as it hasn't become a barrier to things that are must-haves, mostly nice-to-haves.
This comment is exactly what I mean.
It is the undisclosed consolidation of information sources that Google holds that scares me. I think most considered Fitbit account a small privacy issue. The Google ecosystem on the other hand is enormous, highly entwined in our lives, extremely intrusive, and information collection & sale is done surreptitiously.

I think most, even non technologist feel the negative in this, even if they cannot articulate it.
So the question becomes “why would a 50 year old be an average programmer?”

I am very much the “average programmer”, but I learned a long time ago how to focus on “adding business value”, talking to customers (internal and external), writing, presenting, explaining concepts to non-technical people and even once a decade ago talking to investors and potential acquirers when a startup I was working for when they wanted to talk to the “technical folks”
That sounds like what I'd expect with Framework. Modern hardware is complex enough that you have to specifically target and support an OS, and afaict, framework just kind of doesn't. It's sold either with windows or as-is, then then it's up to you to be the systems integration team.
The article talks about how the plant is extremely difficult to cultivate; I wonder if the reason it could be eaten into extinction is because it only grew in the wild, and couldn't be properly farmed in proportion to its popularity.
> Does anyone here run their own whois for their own domains using srv records?

I don't think that's possible. WHOIS, by design, is controlled by the domain registry, which may delegate it to registrars -- the owner of the domain may have some limited control over the contents (like the registrant information), but they don't get to control it fully, and I've certainly never seen a registrar delegate WHOIS to the domain owner.
If you want more confidence, try electronic engineering. It will make you question the value of your time.
You do still legally have an expectation of privacy if you’re having a conversation and at least trying to ensure it’s somewhat confidential.
Restaurants almost all use inferior fats, such as seed oils. It's rare to find one using real butter, decent olive oil, etc. They also generally buy their sauces and dressing from large industrial processors. If you are trying to avoid PUFAs, you need to cook your own meals.
I've been reading hypotheses as to why these vaccines could exaggerate cancer. Seems like this needs to be researched.
> Often it's more expensive, but usually roughly the same price. I'm not sure why this is

Because the scale of meat alternatives did not reach the scale of being cheaper yet...
PSA it's not actually cool to seek out safety in numbers. If all of your opinions heavily factor in "what is it safe to think in public," then you are an NPC. You are less cool than people who aren't born to follow.
Such an important point. At so many places, effectively producing good software is low down on the priority list. In which case, a lot of the "rational actor" analysis around hiring totally misses the point.
> thats the way we liked it

Absolutely not, nothing in my post suggested anything remotely close to “and it was better then”.
I tend to find that top-down designs usually end up clunky. In my experience, bottom up designs (starting with specific things and creating new abstractions as they're needed) tends to create simpler and more obvious designs. You also don't waste time on hypotheticals, since every line you write has a purpose. This blog post really nails it: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

In that context, I don't think this is superficial at all. If your code is hard to read, I suspect your design is hard to read too.

Sure, for super important architecture decisions you have to make a few top-down (spatial partitioning structures, database decisions, network architecture, etc.), but I think it's generally better to late-bind on those decisions if you can.
After seeing examples in the article I think you (or likely the author) are confused. The examples they showed are people acting like jackasses in public trying to elicit and reaction (one example was someone screaming at an art museum then reciting some weird monologue in a posh accent).

I don’t know what npc has to do with this. I guess I’m getting old.
Fair would be a fine such that Google/Alphabet would be better off had they not participated in the antitrust behavior. Anything below that is just subtle encouragement.
From everything I've read, ThinkPads (IBM/Red Hat devs seem to use them), Acers (have pretty standard parts, nothing funky), Dells and HPs (both have Linux dev laptops) all seem to run pretty well.

The worst seem to be gaming laptops, non-Lenovo Chinese brands, Asus, etc...
Privacy concerns. Consolidation of Fitbit data into the already vast Goggle ecosystem.
I think ancient electronics will be just emulated if needed.
Get a new xps, and let's talk about compiling 5 different things to make webcam work
World’s Best Airlines Were Just Announced and Not One US Carrier Made the List
A bubble as in we are not cognizant enough to recognize the benefits of investing in our skills and education so that we aren't bagging groceries at 63, or a bubble as in we should not expect our current ratio of compensation vs skill to hold out forever?
Well that is literally the story of this plant. It was valued by the emperor of Rome so much that it was worth its weight in gold. It only grew in one spot and was stripped bare for profit. It never grew back.

I couldn’t get the article to load on mobile, so I’m not sure if it talks about this, but there was some theory that it was a natural hybrid and therefore the one instance of the plant was the only one ever grown. It’s known that the seeds never took root and it was never found outside of this one hillside on the eastern Mediterranean.
The trend she's complaining about (rightly, in my opinion) is people filming themselves trying to make other people uncomfortable, with the justification that other members of the public are only NPCs, not real people, and so there's no moral problem. She gives several examples (although she does also give one example of what you're talking about, which is someone acting like an NPC, which is fine, if unoriginal).

I've accidentally come across many examples of people harassing other people as a "prank", and my impression is that the harassers have been late or deficient in developing empathy.
The comparison is that they're all fire breathing populists that stoked resentment, dabbled in conspiracy theories, and encouraged violence. My point is that these figures have always existed and aren't confined to the contemporary left/right binary. There's just something about people that makes these figures inevitable.
I kind of expected the A485 to have similar issues to the T480, since it's the same laptop except for the cpu and graphics. I did some preliminary searching and the listing of the laptop as "ubuntu certified" gave me too much confidence, I guess.

I forgot to mention in the parent post that the SD card reader can't detect insertion/removal at times, yeah, so I have a script to reload the rtsx_pci_sdmmc kernel module to force it to recheck.
I don’t like the color scheme and general rendering of websites on Linux (all browsers). By contrast, the MacOS renders websites really well. I played with the color settings on my video card and I can see that I could make it better, but I just couldn’t get it right all the way. Does anybody knows how to make Linux website rendering more pleasing to the eye and closer to MacOS? This is the only reason I still stick with MacOS on the front end. I would love to drop MacOS altogether.
yeah, thats true. the 9000 was a really lovely workhorse though.
I believe it’s to sell ads and show the advertisers that ads were sold. Not to sell user data to advertisers. That sounds wrong.
For new laptops, if you have the option, go for something that has some official support out of the door. Something like System76 or your local equivalent. Otherwise yes, it can still be a bit of a lottery. Everything could be smooth, or you might become your own Linux support guy. Some people enjoy that.
Is there an non-cloud ( Desktop based) alternative to Fitbit Premium ? I hate the idea of having such personal and intimate data being accessible to third parties ?
Just for comparison: how many press interviews/Q&As has Biden had as president, and how many had Trump done at the the same point in his term?
I believe that's a wrong way to look at it, even if we take OP's (in my view, hyperbolic) rhetoric.

15'000 vaccines administered = ~7500 people, taking avg. 2 shots per person.

Per OP, we should see heart-related issues for 1 out of 15'000 vaccines administered and hence to 7500 people, which is already 100x more than what it should be.

Comes out to be +0.013% increase.

However, [1] says 30M adults in the US were diagnosed with heart-related issues in 2018: these could be mild to severe issues. This is out of ~200M adult population of the US [2], so a rate of 15%. Note that these are the number of patients diagnosed - many more could potentially be undiagnosed, more so in developing and under-developed countries.

225M people have been administed Covid vaccines in the US. Per above statistic, at least 33.75M should've heart-related issues at some point in their lives under normal circumstances.

So, now, as per OP's claim and from what I understand, we should see +0.013% people being affected by heart-related issues at some point in their lives that can be attributed to vaccines, which comes out to be ~30'000 more people.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease/statistics#W...?

[2] https://www.infoplease.com/us/census/demographic-statistics
Windows has pretty terrible hardware support IMO. Comparing the state of Linux Vs Windows on ARM/PowerPC/RISC-V, it's not even a contest.

I think there's a case to be made for the stability of Windows drivers (I should hope vendors don't half-ass support), but modern networking and storage drivers on Linux blow Microsoft's analogs out of the water.
No, it was rhetorical, because it's obviously (to an APL-family programmer), not bad!

Your cultural prejudice is showing. There are good reasons APL is written the way it is, and this example is simply bringing those benefits to C by writing it in the dense APL style. There are other APL derivatives, like J[1] that are written in C the same way. These projects are well-maintained. They aren't collapsing under a load of technical debt. The style works. To them, it's clean code.

[1]: https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource
I see two paths:

An engine maker waits for Boom to go into liquidation and buys their airframe innovation to sell engines they have control over the design costs and process. Think how Honda is an engine maker that happens to sell cars to sell their engines. Existing engine makers don’t want to be left holding the bag for Boom’s dev costs if they don’t succeed, something engine makers have little control over. Boom is a startup, and most startups fail.

Some nation state sponsors this as a vanity project. Think Emirates. Not as likely as the first option imho considering geopolitics and macro economics, but there are folks with exceptionally deep pockets who prefer a return of something other than monetary (status, etc).

Boom can’t go the SpaceX route and vertically integrate (airframe, engines, etc), including selling directly to customers, because of the capital costs necessary to get there and the passenger air market volatility.
Ask HN: Books on designing disk-optimized data structures?
Are there canonical books, resources, or readings for how to design data structures that will be primarily read and written to a disk rather than memory? Most of what I learned in school about big-O assumes that, for example, random access is O(1). However, random disk reads are really slow due to spacial locality.

People who write databases obviously have solutions to this problem - for example, DuckDB is based on a number of papers that have come out over the years on this topic.

If I wanted to design, ie, a tree structure which was intended to be read/written from a disk, are there general principles or patterns the have been developed to take advantage of locality of reference, minimize random reads, or decrease the overhead of writes, that I could familiarize myself with?

What is the CLRS for disk?
It's even worse than that. The standards they run on have contradicting errors in the dozens or hundreds. See this talk https://youtu.be/hXnS_Xjwk2Y?t=899 starting at 15 minutes in (that includes testing for Volvo).

Relevant (for those who don't want to watch video):

- 3000 pages of specs

- 1 million LoC from suppliers (because you use different systems from different suppliers)

- 200 problems

- of which more than 100 problems were in the standard itself (standard being AUTOSAR that described how different parts from different suppliers communicate with each other)
I did some development on uVAX in 1989. Wrote a DECWindows app that did monitor & control of a distributed realtime system. DECWindows was slow, so it would get updated every 250ms, while the realtime stuff communicated to a proxy (via 10Mbps DECNet with a custom driver) every 20ms. All of the code was in 'C', but everything aside from the DECWindows stuff was running from ROM on embedded VAXELN.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXELN
We burned an evening just last week tracing an Intel wifi driver issue to missing kernel headers that required upgrading the kernel to a new, non-LTS version. And only then did we move on to Nvidia drivers.

So no, still not the year of Linux on the desktop. Our entire dev team does it, but largely because Nvidia and Apple stopped working together.

The bigger surprise is Windows WSL2 is just about there for Ubuntu support. We are just blocked on opencl side of Nvidia support (but no ETA.)
> Unless you have a thinkpad or some other popular hardware, you'll find Linux barely works at all out of the box

Well, I can share that it works out of the box with Panasonic toughbooks, at least.
i think it should be like this: can code / do whatever is being hired for + understads what we're building? hire. doesn't do a good job? fire.

its actually based on personality + a convoluted code challenge that has no bearing on the actual job.
Then don't use it. Most distributors don't enable it by default for a reason.
I moved from Versa to Fenix, and haven't noticed much difference.
I highly doubt that Microsoft did that and more likely her little brother or somebody else who used the laptop and didn't told her did it.
The built-in Readability fork in Safari is impressive - even the embedded videos survived.
Another option - if you can manage arranging it - is working part-time (whether half-time or four-days-a-week rather than five), and spending the rest of the time working on the software which you think _really_ needs to get written. With some luck and effort, these two branches of your work can even relate (but then you need to be careful about the IP clauses in your contract).
Maybe this is a bit different, but there is a trend of being a douchebag to others only to record reaction, because "hey I'm just making a tiktok video man".

It caught me by surprise when a 20 year old struck a conversation with me at a self check out at a store.

"Would you buy this for my girlfriend" and he showed me some flowers he had picked up.

"Sure, they're nice flowers".

Then he started scanning them into my cart. Then scanning all the other stuff he had in his basket. I tried to be nice and told him to go to the next checkout stand with his stuff.

"But you said you would buy it"

He kept making noise and being extra dramatic. I got really pissed and pushed him away. He came back telling the clerks that I was to pay for it. I was boiling red until i saw another kid capturing the whole thing and laughing...

Something similar happened a month ago. This time I was taking the elevator with my son and we saw tree kids in torn clothes.

The elevator was packed. They kept pressing the top floor, forcing everyone to go back up before they get a chance to exit. one was begging for money, while the other was yelling and making it very uncomfortable.

My 3 year old son, a big fan of paw patrol, decided to join in the fun. He pressed the alarm, press the emergency button and started yelling "help! Rescue team, fire fighter, help!" The operator answered immediately, that he is sending help.

The kids freaked out. One of them climbed the elevator to remove a hidden GoPro that was recording the whole thing. They apologized and said it was just for tiktok, before they ran out.

The rest of the riders cheered for my son.
IME It's often harder to do it the unsafe way rather than to just do it the safe way
If you're adamant on doing this, make sure your team is on the east coast. With a 9h difference to San Fransisco it is hard to keep your hours within 9-5. Unless you're a night owl, in which case this advice is moot.
UNetbootin[1] still works fine last I tried it.

[1] https://unetbootin.github.io/
Aww, this is great! I'm all for career-switchers joining in. As this describes, software is a very human pursuit. Outside experiences help bring different skills and perspectives to the work. And as he describes, that goes the other way too.
Is it surprising to find publicly accessible video of yourself on the Internet after you walked through (or spent 30 minutes photoshooting in) one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world? That's all this "controversy" or "criticism" in the article sounds like to me, is people becoming aware of the existence of earthcam.com.
I really don't understand why Acorn wasn't purchased outright as soon as the samples were back from the fab.

I think DEC was the first third-party implementation with StrongARM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StrongARM
Crippling Garmin app on ios, subsidizing Apple watch Ultra to start a price war etc.
I had no idea he was a coder at all. What kind of code did he release? Is it all music related?

Also how are you so sure he’s reading this?