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> just testing memory

IIUC, testing memory is half of pedagogy. Memory (or the student growing the necessary techniques and discipline to supplement an internal lack of it) is pretty key to (at least US) pedagogy in the primary / intermediate levels.
For software engineering 2001 especially post 9/11 was brutal. Much more so than 2008 unless you worked for a financial company.

2008/2009 was lean times but good people were able to find work. After the dotcom bust however, things were so bad I had a friend who is a very good developer who spent a couple of years gluing shoes for a living. In Canada.
Here's the conventional wisdom:

Normally, at this point in the economic cycle, the big companies cut headcount to appease the stock market. Startups tend to have a few years of runway. All of a sudden, that runway buys much better talent than normal.

Fast forward three years: The incumbent players have been dithering around for a few years, while the startups were built assuming the incumbents were executing better than average. As products go to general availability, they end up knocking out a bunch of giants that seemed unassailable at the beginning of the downturn.

Data to back this up: https://web.archive.org/web/20190907043749/https://mattermar...

(Note there is no dip corresponding to the 2008 downturn.)

tl;dr: Look for a financially stable startup that's still paying for top talent, and try to get a job (perhaps as a junior dev, assuming that's where you are in your career).
The exploding Ford Pinto of 1973 (2021)
Half the fun of having a bartender is to influence the alcohol content of your drinks. If the bartender has no influence on the drink the bartender/customer relationship is weak.
Why? Because they're "too big"?

Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen will tell you a similar story.
Looks like he deactivated his account. I would guess the response to these tweets might have something to do with it.
Pretty much. Late '90s / early 2000s rock is now thee Dad Rock and its demo, presumably has more disposable income, than they did 20 years ago.
> The article mentions that Garth brooks solved this by doing more concerts (e.g. 9 in a row in the same city!), but that's obviously not viable for everyone.

I don't understand why it wouldn't be. If a city has sufficient demand to sell out two or more concerts, aren't the later concerts still profitable? And it's less travel expense per concert. If there isn't enough demand to sell tickets for at least two concerts, then doesn't that mean most of the fans in that city have been satisfied by a single concert?

It makes sense to me that you'd schedule as many consecutive concerts in one city as you can as long as demand is high enough to make each additional concert profitable. That might be 9 concerts, or 2, or even a thousand concerts if you're talking about a city like Los Vegas.
You should read up on family trees. This is an extremely well known thing and you can find a lot of articles that answer this question.
How is the performance with larger deploy scripts? Ansible really struggles with hundreds of hosts and for simple things like uploading a dozen files to each host. The benchmarks are promising but the test really only does four things. https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/2.x/performance.html
Hilarious. So a VC darling $100mil investment company is just a server farm dishing free compute donations around to get some good PR and doesnt own anything.
Not only does it miss the point, I suspect it's why there's so many blog posts nowadays that end with a paragraph titled "Conclusion" that just repeats what was previously said, without actually tying those thoughts together.
Then the question is, who should get to decide when to replace a judge? Obviously not the executive branch, especially in the context of this particular discussion.

For example, some judges are elected (probably varies by state, but there are some places where that's true), so in those cases a perfectly viable remedy already exists (in theory, at least). Of course, in practice there's nothing to prevent voters from being very pro-prosecutor. Usually the judicial system is the best option for a remedy to that sort of problem, but of course then we're back where we started..
Not even the majority want same-sex marriage to be illegal, but only 55% of Republicans support same-sex marriage. That's a low number. 60% of republicans want abortion to be illegal.
Maybe fintech is out, but manufacturing is in?

Fintech is sensitive to interest rates.

Manufacturing and anyone with fixed capacity get fatter profit margins from inflation (energy, etc).
> Check out "superdeterminism," first proposed by Bell (of Bell's inequality fame) himself

“Proposed” - but as something that avoids the issue but it’s not worthy of much consideration.

- I was going to ask whether it is still possible to maintain, in the light of experimental experience, the idea of a deterministic universe?

You know, one of the ways of understanding this business is to say that the world is super-deterministic. That not only is inanimate nature deterministic, but we, the experimenters who imagine we can choose to do one experiment rather than another, are also determined. If so, the difficulty which this experimental result creates disappears.

- Free will is an illusion - that gets us out of the crisis, does it?

That's correct. In the analysis it is assumed that free will is genuine, and as a result of that one finds that the intervention of the experimenter at one point has to have consequences at a remote point, in a way that influences restricted by the finite velocity of light would not permit. If the experimenter is not free to make this intervention, if that also is determined in advance, the difficulty disappears.
I'll give you the static analyzer is much less important with rist, but that is the easy part anyway. I stand firm that tests are always important, and you don't know how well you tested without coverage. I'm not even sure I'd say you need less coverage with rust, not all errors are resource safety related.
>Whereever people sense they can make a buck or save a buck, laws amd regulations be damned.

When has this not been the case at any point in human history under any government? There is nothing new here. Greed is a component of human nature, and capitalism (and other systems) can certainly bring it out.
> Google Play apps with 20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth

I thought all apps on Google play do this. Or am i missing something ?
It'll be harder, not going to bullshit you. It might take longer for you to find something, you may have to interview at more places to get an offer (especially one that's appealing), and when you do get an offer it won't be at a 2021 price. But there definitely are open roles to be had, the industry isn't broadly in a hiring freeze, and it's possible to get a job. You will just need to put more effort into it than you would have in previous years.
> If this were a year ago, I'd feel good; grind some leetcode, get hired at a big tech company for a good salary.

This dynamic is one of the reasons we're seeing such large layoffs right now. Even many of the companies that are rolling in cash simply got too aggressive with hiring in recent years. Anyone who knew the drill could grind leetcode, study interview guides, apply to enough FAANG companies and get a job eventually.

I've heard more stories about in-progress FAANG interviews being cancelled than I could possibly count. Most FAANG companies are still hiring, albeit very selectively. They're also trimming staff through large layoffs and also smaller, less publicized team cuts.

I suspect many of these are soft landing cuts, as I've seen a sudden increase in the number of ex-FAANG resumes landing in my inbox. A lot of stories about how people are just "looking for a change of pace", but I suspect they see the writing on the wall.

> I used to be a software engineer. Then I went to law school, and now work in biglaw. I am a year out of law school, and have been working on a legal tech startup with a friend. If we cannot raise in the next couple months, I wish (almost need, really) to bail on the biglaw job and go back to being a dev.

In your case, "used to be a software engineer" is already going to put you at a massive disadvantage relative to all of the experienced engineers who were recently forced into the job market by layoffs. You could try to lean on the startup experience, but keep in mind that hiring managers won't be eager to hire someone who admits to working on an entire side startup while having a dayjob. That could mean the employee wants to continue working on their startup while collecting paychecks, which is a lot of risk to take in a job market that is crowded with applicants.
Yeah, that matches the Pareto principle and lines up with anecdotes collected by Graeber in his essay and his book "Bullshit Jobs" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Several of those are still currently science fiction and the rest are the same cop shit google wants to do to all of us, except you're the cop and you're only doing it to your family and employees. It's not better.

It doesn't matter whether it's a paternalistic police state or literally you, dad, sitting in the seat of the panopticon. It's bad for the psyche of everyone surveilled in this way and it shouldn't be done. The fantasy that you'll use this in an emergency is the same one gun owners use to justify their decisions, and just as likely to come true.
In which way should things be approached differently? A country it not one person, but it's still many persons. How do you remain the best in all areas if you don't have the manpower to keep up with the development of knowledge in all areas?
Synopsis: "Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) aggregates software security metadata into a high fidelity graph database—normalizing entity identities and mapping standard relationships between them. Querying this graph can drive higher-level organizational outcomes such as audit, policy, risk management, and even developer assistance."
I love omnifocus, but It was going to be around $300 for me to use it on my iphone/ mac/ ipad.. I transitioned to things and never looked back. I'm pretty sure they're at parity with features. (at least for my usecase)
What kind of racist spiel is this?

The US is below replacement rate on 3rd generation+ families, and would experience an aging crisis like Japan if it were not for immigration. You're 'wide open borders' statement is just a dog whistle.
I think you're in the U.S.A.? Can't speak for there, but here in Europe, nothing has changed, and we're still being headhunted.
> Is it really "needlessly" complex if this is enabling styling that wasn't possible before?

Many newer features that have been added over the years don't actually enable anything new. Not that I'm arguing in favour of table-based layouts either.

> have you never heard of Sass, Less, Tailwind, or any of a million UI frameworks that provide alternative ways to write CSS, or even avoid writing it directly altogether? This isn't exactly new.

I have written CSS in a serious capacity for several years. I am more than familiar with Sass, Less, etc., which is exactly why I wrote "languages that aren't just supersets of the status quo".
Yeah, TFA talks about TM having a monopoly and their dynamic pricing, but it never really explains why those two things are related or why either leads to higher ticket prices.

In an ideal world, TM wouldn't have a monopoly on ticketing for large venues, and artists wouldn't be forced to work with them. Artists and venues could still charge whatever "dynamic" price the market will bear, but competition in the ticket space would hopefully push down the cut that the ticket distributor takes. I'd imagine this is why artists are generally unhappy with TM's monopoly, since they don't have much leverage here once they're booking venues of a certain size.

But TM's monopoly is here regardless of how they price their tickets. And in a world with that monopoly, TM's dynamic pricing model benefits artists more than the previous model, even if it isn't the best possible arrangement for them.

I guess the main argument is that anything a monopoly does to increase its profits is bad. That's fair -- TM makes more money from this, and they'll probably turn around and use that money to strengthen their position (e.g. sign contracts with more venues), making it harder for any competition to challenge their monopoly. But that's a really broad issue. Dynamic pricing itself seems...fine
I'm very glad to hear that your son had a skilled positive story. Premature babies are so tiny and it's amazing that they can be born so early and then grow up absolutely healthy if they get the right care.

The use and training of specialists is only one part of the puzzle that needs to be optimised in so many different ways. And I will point out that one of the key results of this puzzle is infant mortality statistics and the US does not score very well on that metric. I don't understand 1% of the details of why but it's quite a problem. And this is in spite of the money spent on healthcare

I don't really want to be a cheerleader for the NHS or the US system in this comment because both have so many problems involving bureaucracy, money, politics, etc. And it's a pity because ultimately it's the most vulnerable in society who are affected the most.
>Ask how much input engineers have on what they are working on.

This is the way. Ask this question of people working at a legacy company and they won't be able to meet your eyes.
Rest assured that Ticketmaster is doing all this pricing, fees, and ticket availability at the discretion of the artists and artist's management. Ticketmaster is happy to play the bad guy. Many tickets are never sold at the original face price but go directly to the 'verified resale' market with TM sharing the profits with the teams\artists.

Example, The Black Keys were scalping their own tickets for 20x and ordered Ticketmaster to revoke tickets resold on the secondary market.

https://www.ticketnews.com/2019/09/black-keys-wiltern-premiu...
I came on board with the NeXT acquisition (or rather reverse acquisition as ex-NeXT often refer to)…

So I do recall seeing a few times after we relocated to Infinite Loop, that Steve at first was just working as a consultant, and not as an employee. Thus at the time he didn’t have a badge to enter in IL1 (Infinite Loop 1: hold Apple HQ); many times when he was coming in the morning, he had to wait at the glass door to enter the campus, until some kind soul was letting him in (despite the policy only badged employees could enter or visitors with a printed tag). I saw it happening more than once while grabbing a coffee at the coffee booth in the IL1 building.

Later on, after he came back officially as CEO (or iCEO), I remember clearly during a lunch with co-workers (at Café Mac, seating outside) watching at a distance Steve & Jony walking inside the campus, then seating at a bench and Jony opening some carrying case/luggage, and let Steve pull the content out of it, so he could look at it in the sun: it looked like a piece of plastic… at the time, we had no clue what it was, except the color was orange.
Many months later, Steve introduced the first iBook (which was the first Mac with Wifi): when I saw the orange color of the iBook I made the connection with what we saw back that day; Jony was most likely showing to Steve the first shell of the future iBook.

Steve otherwise at work was truly laser focus at a time on different projects: I was working on backend web services development with public facing web site, so usually every 2 weeks our boss was presenting to Steve our progress (every week or even more while closer to ship): our boss usually was always coming back with clear feedback on what was good or terrible, which we obviously had to improve for the next presentation… stressful yes, but truly enjoyable.
More than once, Steve did cut some projects that were close to finish and you just had to go along since no one had a say in it, except Steve.

Obviously I have a few more stories of that sort, since I spent close to 20 years at Apple (/NeXT).

It was quite something to get the hard work you did for months presented on stage by Steve… I still miss the excitement from it even if it is more than 15 years ago.

Edit: fixing a few typos
In US ? Child labour ?
> they have a warrant or because I willingly handed the footage over to them

Yes, that was the assumption I had in mind while writing that.
It doesn’t mandate only local networking. It does mandate at least local networking. You shouldn’t assume there is no cloud abilities for matter devices.

Eg a lightbulb will have to talk over lan to a hub/controller for on/off/etc, but for non-matter features (eg sync to music) it can still talk to the cloud. Yes you should be able to ignore these features, but in many cases you’re still putting it on your network so it’s free to talk to whoever (by default).

In fact, several companies (Philips hue, SmartThings) have already stated that their matter devices will still have non-matter features that are tied to proprietary cloud APIs.
First, I don't believe you're correct about social cleverness not helping drivers, line workers, or office drones. If anything, the more basic the work, the bigger the rewards for social cleverness are, as you use your relationship with your superiors, peers, and inferiors to influence the work day. (This could be becoming less true with fully metrics-driven establishments like Amazon warehouses.)

Second, is that society (where a huge number of people are consigned to that type of labor) a society that you're interested in continuing to build? If so, continue to support the methods used in modern school.
I got a negative review on a property that charged a $250 cleaning fee for washing the dishes but not putting them away
This, I think, is the critical difference. If I get a hotel room, enter it, and discover anything is out of joint, I can walk downstairs and ask the manager for a refund, or at least a different room. If the same thing happens with an Airbnb, and the host has no interest in helping, you are basically out of luck.
Next thing you know, Uber Eats will be delivering weed.

Oh wait.. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/uber-eats-cannabis-de...
If you believe there’s a viable market, why not make it yourself and sell it instead of asking someone else to do it?

Your on Hacker News after all.
One example where I personally ran into trouble with ansible was in dealing with SSL certificates. In production we use letsencrypt to generate SSL certificates as you'd expect, but for testing we were using self-signed certificates. This was surprisingly complicated under the ansible model, basically I ended up writing a reusable playbook that worked more or less as a function, and running a hook at the end to actually create the keys. Due to the specifics of our app depending on what kind you needed the actual certificate paths got the certificates were different.

So I ended up doing some crazy hacks passing around state instead of just writing a function.
> design the computer to fit the human's needs

The problem: different humans need different things. But Apple nowadays operates as if everyone needs the same things, at least in terms of UI/UX. If your actual needs (or desires) differ from Apple's preconceived notions, you are simply out of luck.
Interesting to see a lot of negative responses here. I'm quite excited for a large amount of these items.

@container queries are going to help a ton in making components more reusable - components that react to their own size rather than the browser size have been needed for a long time, and currently the only way to really do it is with the javascript observer api, which comes with huge performance tradeoffs.

Color-mix() is another item I've been wanting for some time, not because I need to mix things like red + blue, but because we've needed a native way to add opacity to css variables for a long time now. Having opacity be independent means we can have a robust design system that doesn't expand exponentially, while still providing opacity levels when needed.

Masonry layouts will greatly simplify a very common use case, color level 4 and 5 will make the web more dynamic and beautiful, and loosely typed properties will help add fallbacks. Definitely excited for these changes.
> Kuwait - America picked a fight and had to get Britain and then pretty much the whole rest of NATO in to save them, yet again.

Those British Abrams tanks, French paveway laser guided bombs, German Apache attack helicopters, and NATO ground troops. Without them, Desert Storm would have been more of a mild Desert Breeze.
> Postman environment variables are covered in this classification and we strongly encourage you to use them to store your authentication keys and passwords.

It reads to me that they encrypt Postman environment variables and encourage you to use those.

Not sure what else is "Customer data" in that regard but it seems they consider at least that bit worthy of encryption.
Thank you. These are valuable pointers.
The mayor bragged about that, but did not ever actually do it.
Yes, every single person alive that has any ancestry from Western Europe is a direct descendant of William the conqueror and Charlemagne and others. But they are also all direct descendants of the servant who cleaned out their potty every morning (presuming that servant had descendants). Claiming royal descent is not a big deal since we are all descended from everyone that lived back then and has descendants to this day.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-...

https://nautil.us/youre-descended-from-royalty-and-so-is-eve...
So you have a poor grasp of history and ethics, and, if you’re referencing the song I think you are, justify it with poorly understood song lyrics. I’m sure you are far from anything like a government official so I won’t lose sleep over it.
Is the battery life when running Asahi Linux close to what it is with macOS?
Learning how to assemble lego takes minutes.

Designing and building a 500 piece Lego set would take you years. You could create one quickly, but then refine it over the years - or it could be beyond you and you need to build up to it.
Yeah, they're set phrases that go on letters. I have a book of them, you have to look up the right one for the situation / time of year and add it to your letter. It would be a faux pas not to.

As an American, yeah, just charge my credit card for the fee. Thanks.
Writing essays is not the problem, grading the essays and grades in general are the problem.

Feedback is obviously invaluable, but the point of grades, as used today, is solely to gatekeep who are allowed access to the next level of education. So instead of constructive feedback, it has become a set of filters entirely divorced from actual learning.

(And yes, I got good grades, I just hate that so many people I know were denied opportunities based on a shitty system, wildly not fit for purpose)
I recall people of that era wondering why the guy who created NeXT, a cool idea with zero commercial success, was so arrogant as to think he knew how to make a winning product.

What I don't think a lot of people knew at the time was the hand Jobs played in the birth of Pixar, which is definitely something to be cocky about.

One of my coworkers decided he was going to specialize in ObjectiveC, because yes the jobs were rare but they paid a premium. This was before Apple started talking to BeOS and NeXT about an acquisition, so I thought he was crazy.

When the iPhone came out and mobile apps became a gold rush, I spent a lot of time wondering where he was now and whether he had a Scrooge McDuck room to swim in his money.
I knew I'd see Gatto come up eventually. I owe my life to that man. Before and after reading his work is like before and after the Wizard of Oz switches to color.
I've used DICE in NYC and Berlin. I like the app.