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> almost no one wants to take a chance trying to develop a new way to interview.

I'm guessing your in the under 40 camp, but interviews did used to be better.

In the early days of the startup explosion interviews where much better. The biggest signal at the time was having an active github profile or otherwise existing portfolio of code. The strongest signal back then was serious contribution to any open source projects (strangely today that almost seems to count against you). It also wasn't required that you had these, but they were a very strong signal.

Interviews were largely technical conversations, to see if you understood the concepts, and even more importantly, it was okay if you didn't know. I remember being asked a question about TCP vs UDP. I didn't know much networking at the time, and explained what I knew about TCP but admitted my understanding of UDP was basically non-existent (admitting ignorance used to be a huge plus back then). The interviewers then explained how it worked and asked if I could explain when and why this would make for a better solution than TCP. I answered about the obvious application to media streaming and passed. Interviewers didn't care that you knew everything, they wanted to see how you think.

Even the original predecessor to our current leetcode nightmare, fizzbuzz, was never supposed to hard it was meant as a basic sanity check. There were some devs who had just followed the flow at some big bank and literally couldn't code on their own. Fizzbuzz was just to make sure that given a blank page you could implement basic code.

Of course as tech started to boom, so did the bootcamp/interview industry. People were trained to do fizzbuzz, instructed how to create a github repo filled with meaningless, half started project (or forks of other projects), and people where told how to flood OSS projects with minor pull requests so they could claim to be contributors. Then companies wanted to be like Google and have hard white board challenges.

Then you had a generation of engineers that never knew any different and largely had forgotten (or never known) how to assess technical competency anyway than through a series of hazing rituals.
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What is “Windows hardware”?
It looks like AIX CDE ...
Big fan of Air New Zealand ever since the Spaceseats, which I loved and the flight staff hated. But the service is good and the food is decent, and even with the AKL stopover I'll always pick them over Qantas flying to SYD. Pity it's Star Alliance, so when I'm flying domestic I have to deal with United if I want the points.
Not surprising. US airlines are pretty terrible. The aircraft are underwhelming and the staff are often rude. It’s like their attitude is you should feel happy they’ve let you fly on their plane today… barking orders at people and treating you like cattle. Transcontinental flights in wide body aircraft and you get a pack of crackers and a soda served with an attitude.

Delta is probably the best in the US. But those at the top of that list are in a whole different league of air travel, even in economy.
Hard disagree, eating veggie is perfectly fine and does not require meat substitutes.

However, the solution to mass meat production is regulation imo. But it is politically untenable because it amounts to pricing people out of their lives
Pretty low might be an overstatement, but €60.000 it is in the lower end for an experienced SRE, DevOps engineer or developer in Denmark. I'd say it's a reasonable salary for someone with a few years of experience. Personally I'd expect something like €80.500 per year as a devops or SRE, and I'm not that good.

€35.000 per year... You could make that as a cleaner or by working the cash register at a supermarket (you might need to take a few extra shifts, but it's certainly possible).

The good news is that the Danish IT industry is short on qualified people and can deal with you not speaking Danish.
Qantas is a national embarrassment right now, and Alan Joyce is in serious denial about that.
You know how a train has angled wheels on each side so any perturbation will naturally cause the wheels to turn back towards the center? It's kind of like that. A perturbation away from the center causes a force to return towards the center but it's not damped all the way so there's a persistent wave motion back and forth at a characteristic frequency.

A bullet is like that but has more degrees of freedom so there are a few of these kinematic modes happening at the same time.
Not always. Take care with these regressive states as Qatar forced females to undergo gynaecological exams a few years back.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/woman-s...
Eh I don’t buy it. We always had scare articles. Not to defend the deplorable behavior, but it’s just another complaint about the newest young people.

Remember YouTube? Kids did stupid shit and harassed people for views. They still do.

New medium, new names, same kids doing anything for a few internet points.
Wifi and suspend stopped working on an LTS release on a Thinkpad X220 for me in 2018, the same generation as the laptop in the article. Moved to macOS shortly after.

They are great $300 computers for when you're between jobs and moving to a place where you can use the work laptop for personal things. Or a pentesting machine. Don't see too much use for them otherwise.
Seems like a pretty strong headline for saying "USA still has 400 million barrels in its strategic oil supply".

We had 600-million before the Russia-Ukrainian war, and we have 400-million now. That's a big drop, but this isn't "lost" by any stretch of the imagination.
Fun dirty secret of most current "self driving" implementations - they don't even recognize other cars turn signals, lol.

Let alone read subtle cues from the surrounding cars "body language" where you can take a pretty good educated guess they are going to change lanes or make a turn even though they haven't signaled, and therefore give them space. Generally they are pretty bad at anticipating things based on various indirect signals that are instinctual to a human.

There's a long way to go in the space, and the software hasn't even begun to play the "meta game" of driving required to be a halfway decent driver.
Every person differs in many ways from every other person. Newborns don’t share “standardized” facial features, fingerprints, circulatory systems, etc. Brains certainly differ greatly across individuals.

Babies respond to “inputs” in the womb. The environmental factors that affect brain development (not “evolution”) include maternal hormones, nutrition, drugs and alcohol, even sounds.
Wonder if you could drill centralised borehole and then use retrofit old gas lines to move compressed refrigerant…
> At the end of 2021 I got an EliteBook 845 g8 (Zen 3) that worked completely fine out of the box on Linux (Arch with up-to-date kernel). Every last bit of kit worked perfectly. Bluetooth, IR webcam, fingerprint sensor, light sensor, mute LEDs, etc. On Windows, to this day, the webcam isn't recognized because of some USB chip along the line. There's also a lot of lag when adjusting the display backlight, for some reason.

Had an experience like this several years ago, but with hackintoshing.

On a Dell workstation laptop with a Quadro FX770M GPU (basically a relabeled Geforce 8800M GT), the Nvidia drivers had an issue under XP, Vista, and 7 where if the card downclocked when idle it'd cause Windows to bluescreen. The only fix for this for many years was to disable power saving features on the card, turning the laptop into a furnace even when it was doing nothing.

The proprietary Linux drivers for the card worked better (at least it could idle properly) but occasionally they'd cause your WM to lock up for no apparent reason.

The only thing that ran the card for extended periods without issues, of all things, was hackintoshed OS X. The built-in Nvidia drivers recognized it as an 8800M GT (which had been used in real Macs at some point) and it ran beautifully with power saving and everything. I even used that setup to play WoW on for several years.

The bug in the Windows driver was finally fixed at some point during the Windows 8/10 era, and so now I can run Windows on that laptop without problems, but holy cow it shouldn't have taken a decade (it was manufactured in 2008) for that to happen.
Yes! IME (24y and counting in the profession) devs reach too quickly for DRY while neglecting its counterbalancing principle: AHA (Avoid Hasty Abstractions).
Managing python environments makes me want to cry. I totally understand how that happens, I wish there was an easy way to manage it
YouTube automatically demonetizes videos with certain phrases, TikTok probably does something similar. So continuously shouting “COVID vaccines don’t work” to the camera until they stop recording could be an option. If they get pissed, tell them that you are just doing a TikTok.
IIRC, StrongARM was the basis for XScale, which Intel foolishly spun off. They could have had a good chunk of the smartphone market, or at least a viable path into it.
I do agree that it makes sense to make the cage look beautiful. It will convey to future generations this is something we valued based on its intricate design. Much like we find find and recover intricate artworks from our past.

> Few if any of today’s tech companies will still recognizably exist a century or two from now.

Same with todays computers, the code they run and the repos on GitHub.

The Wikipedia dump is far more valuable than the code.

I would also think it’s better to archive books about software engineering with some sample code instead. Perhaps the entire collection from O’Reilly/Apress/Pragmatic Programmer.
Virgin Atlantic has among the best service in the world and is unionized. The problem is more management that doesn’t give a shit provided they can squeeze you for another ancillary fee.
Unfortunately have to disagree, connecting to my wireless scanner/printer is way too complicated, no driver frontends for my mouse/keyboard, when multiple sound devices are connected, it's so bad to swap between them. When I connect to my home projector, it didn't allow to change audio output for some reason all in all, linux maybe works on popular laptops with predefined hardware, but it is still bad for desktops.
Maybe? Standard of living is pretty high in Singapore, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of whom have vastly better air travel experiences than the US.

My inclination is that it's just linked to an overall decline in service across the board in the US. Even something as pedestrian as Starbucks or Tullys in Japan and Korea is a different class of customer experience than here.

(The US isn't alone in this, of course -- the worst flight I've ever had was on a Spanish airline, and most European discount airlines are miserable. But you sort of expect that when "discount" is in the name of the service...)
One of the reasons I loved programming at first is the non-judgemental, objective, feedback from my interpreter or compiler. Also, that I could try to fix a coding issue and if I did not, nothing physical broke. I am so clumsy physically that I truly appreciated that the software profession existed in time for my professional growth.
thanks a lot for elaborating it :)

how it works with the domain tho? i need to buy a short domain that will concatenate with my database strings, is that correct?
> COVID killed more than 6 million people.

COVID trimmed weeks or months off the lives of people who were already on their way to the end of their lives in a matter of 12/48 months.
This is an incorrect interpretation of the law.

The IRS will look at this situation and determine either the owner of the LLC is a de facto employee or not.

Whether they are billing though an LLC or not is not one of the factors.

Here’s a quick read about the topic: https://www.trimprulaw.com/an-individual-who-has-an-llc-is-a...

“Just because an individual which is engaged by a business has an LLC, does not mean that the DoL will classify that person as an independent contractor.”
Let’s see a list of the best air passengers as well. I guarantee Americans aren’t at the top. The US carriers cater to their customers. We get treated like cattle for good reason.
i'm using linux for the first time after years on an old laptop from 2011; it's such a pleasure! everything is so smooth and functional

Try MX Linux on old hardware, it's awesome.
I think what they mean by UV unwrapping is generating a UV map from. Textured model (here the texture is generated by a triplanes network).

It’s interesting for compression purpose, but kinda orthogonal to this method (a good UV unwrapping can be used once the model generated)
> Maybe with old laptops, but newer laptops still have their fair share of issues.

Even "Linux works damn well on your ancient laptop" is a great selling point. Want to run Windows or macOS on an ancient machine? You can run an insecure ancient version, or, if the up-to-date version can even be installed, it'll run at a crawl. Linux makes those machines still usable.
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Um, what? I honestly appreciated the insight that the article offers, but this was unnecessary.
Meh. I just don't like the idea of eating something that comes with an NDA. I'm not a vegan, but until a recent move grew a lot of my own food. Raising cattle, goats and chickens is more annoying than plants and fish (at least in my opinion) and therefore ate a macrobiotic-ish diet. Not completely meat free, but lower in meat than the typical American.

Also, it always seemed to me there were annoying vegans trying to force their ideology on you. I get it that you don't want to eat honey. That's fine. Please don't tell me I'm destroying the world by eating honey. Maybe that Cadillac Escalade is more harmful to the environment than the honey I eat. Very clearly there are decent folk eating a Vegan diet who aren't dicks. I'm not talking about you.

Wow. I got off topic here. Guess there was some pent up rage there. To reiterate my original point, I appreciate what Impossible and Beyond are trying to do, but I think open source food is probably more important than something that looks like a beef product I'm not a complete fan of. Ymmv.
Warning to the curious: it is very easy to fry your SID connecting directly to the audio in (don't ask how I know this). Make sure of your levels before you connect, and don't plug this in with the power on in case there's a short.
Yeah. I feel the same way. And I realize I facilitate it with my phone and other devices. But still, feels creepy at best and dangerous at worst.
They are the safest car manufacturer.
It absolutely was deregulation, combined with a pressure to compete, which got American airlines to their current state.

Every single airline on this list, except for ANA, is a flag carrier or directly state-owned. America has no flag carrier and all of our airlines are in a knife fight with each other that just leaves them all barely functional.
This style is increasingly common in Swift, especially for Combine pipelines and SwiftUI modifiers.
I have pretty mixed feelings about this. Personally I find it much easier to debug code that:

1) fits entirely on my screen and

2) doesn't involve much state modification

Every intermediate variable is a chance for me to miss some modification (e.g. it was passed to a func that modifies its arguments) and consequently misunderstand what is happening.

I've been experimenting in Python with the function chaining style of coding enabled by the toolz library. So while not at all idiomatic, the example in the original article would come out as something like this:

https://gist.github.com/ZeroBomb/8ac470b1d4b02c11f2873c5d4e0...

I would say that function-chaining this example would constitute over-engineering, but I have found that writing in this style has really helped me express pretty complex function composition in a way that is still concise without using a bunch of intermediate variables.
How do we fix this? It seems like most people in the community have the mentality that these issues work themselves out eventually, so it's no problem. And there's nothing wrong with that. But a lot of people really really want better hardware support for new hardware, and fewer regressions in drivers for older hardware. Perhaps we need a special-interest group that keeps track of ongoing hardware issues, and generates kernel patches.
It is superficial. No amount of trying to pretty up the code can fix underlying design deficiencies. That's what I said, so we're not even disagreeing here :)

I know the semantic compression post, and I don't think it makes a point for bottom-up design. I find top-down and bottom-up to be quite misleading anyway. Someone told me, they don't like to think of things at the "top" and the "bottom". It's data transformations, maybe more like "left to right".

If you design bottom-up, you end up with lots of artifacts you never needed (and likely still missing the ones you can make use of). If you design top-down, you end up with lots of code you don't need. (this is where semantic compression comes in, in my understanding).

I suspect that if you like to think bottom-up, maybe that's because you like it more at the bottom (you are a low-level type of guy, or like to make libraries). If you like to think top-down, maybe you like it more at the top.

I like the semantic compression term because it reduces the act of design to the essentials, without introducing fluff terms or opinions. I find myself doing this compression no matter what kind of code I'm writing.
My favorite bluetooth issue is with MacOS. On my M1 Mac Mini, my Logitech MX keys and MX Master 3 mouse are not recognized after a reboot. So I have to attach a corded keyboard to my Mini to log in. Because when it goes to sleep after a reboot, it does not wake up for the logitech kit. Which is explicitly supporting MacOS.

Its not just linux where bluetooth sucks.

I opened a ticket with Apple on this, gave them my notes, and they still haven't done anything about this.

Bluetooth on linux sucks. As it does on MacOS. And windows.
As a user of the E485 (basically a budget version of the A485) I can confirm, and agree with, everything but one thing here.
Regarding your Bluetooth issue, what chipset do you have?
I picked a Qualcomm one on mine because I had bad experiences with Realtek before. Never had an issue like yours with it.

For me its quite a usable machine now. But I'm currently giving a M1 Macbook a shot and it certainly is convenient not to have hiccups like this (yet).
Hard to believe that Qatar airlines could be the world's best airline. Despite having emerald status with one world we don't use Qatar airlines after the 2020 strip searches of all the women on a flight[0] to Australia.

I don't fly an enormous amount (6-10 long haul flights a year) but it's always interesting the things these lists go for. American and BA might not be the most comfortable experience, they might lose your baggage from time-to-time and their lounges can be a bit dated but when the chips are down boy do they have the best captains and crew.

Obviously when flying one hopes that things won't go wrong but if they do I'd rather be flying BA or American over Qatar thank you very much.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-australi...
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> LXD containers are system containers which are like VMs except for the lack of guest kernel.

How is this different than a Docker/OCI container/cgroup thingie?
That seemed like the inevitable outcome. The whole press conference they had before that was weird with this one NASA guy being super dismissive of the forecasts. Are Technica had a good post about it [0]

It does seem like they’re getting a lot of top-down pressure to just launch the thing. What’s even crazier to me is that this is supposed to be the only full test before people ride the actual thing.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/nasa-seems-to-be-in-...
Easyjet I can get behind, but Ryanair is very much in my “would rather not go than get in their plane” category - much like Spirit.
Still a great history though.
> I got Beyond burgers for the veg option.

As someone who doesn't eat meat, I prefer not to have fake meat. I'll often just pass on eating anything if fake meat is the only non-meat option.

A stir fry with rice or veggie fajitas (could be just peppers and onions) with Mexican tortillas possibly with a side of beans would be much preferable, and cost nearly nothing. Adjust for regional tastes.

Easy to justify when it is something that can be a main dish for the non-meat eaters and a side dish for the meat eaters. But, if people are serving themselves, the non-meat item should be earlier on the table / separated from the meat, so meat eaters do not contaminate it with meat (common).

Fake meat is a nice option for meat eaters who are trying to reduce their consumption of meat for $reason(s), but still crave meat. But, for folks like me who do not eat meat nor have any inclination to do so, it is kinda weird.
Internet is partially to blame. Most flight searches are ranked by price and if an airline is $5 more expensive, they likely won't even show up on the first page. They're rewarded for lower price, not for better service. Wrong incentives. Better metrics like "value for money" etc could fix that problem and incentivize US airlines to provide better service.
As an AIX admin since 3.2.5 and someone who personally owns AIX hardware, when it comes to device support in AIX it either works perfectly or not at all.
They spent trillions of dollars in the project including millions of dollars of rework.

I would rather feed students in school quality food, give them school supplies, and take care of their needs, rather than wasting valuable resources fixing avoidable defects.
What the f* is wrong with you?
I'm really happy to see this and that this field has a positive effect on people's life. That's really the top line takeaway for me: But as someone who's been through more than one of these "market cycles" in tech, I have a fear (based in reality/experience) that when people start viewing Software Engineering as a gateway to a "good life" it usually means we're at an inflection point where things (at least in the U.S.) are about to get a lot worse.

We're already seeing this with FAANG layoffs. I'd like to believe "it's different this time" but I don't have anything I can point to as a logical basis for that belief. And it really scares me.
Nature vs nurture, an age old topic of conjecture.

The obvious (and prevailing) perspective is both.

Intellectual and psychological traits have some genetic predisposition, yet we should never discount the general adaptability of all minds.

Want science proofs? Consider how twins who grow up apart are strikingly similar, and consider how these examples might diverge from your own (random) characteristics.
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Oops, left off the asterisk from the end of the URL. The snapshots of individual versions are under the 'url prefix' listing.

So, the reply period is per-item! Enabling advanced necromancy...
This reminds me of https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/your-own-private-unive....
Works on the 4.75 year old machine (Sagar/Clevo) I'm typing this on right now. Worked on my 14 year old machine (Sagar/Clevo) that just died last month. Works on HP Omen 2020 unit.

I've not had hibernate/suspend problems in 7-ish years?

I had them for my windows laptop from work. Close the lid with no power connected, put in my laptop bag, walk back to hotel from office, and the unit was very hot. Profile was set to hibernate/sleep on battery with lid closed. Never got that to work. Replaced that monstrosity with a M1 Macbook Pro (work machine).