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I know this isn't the most constructive comment, but as a South Park fan, I will never not call this font NAMBLA[0]. I know what the nabla symbol is, I know it's completely unrelated. But it's just too damn close.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_As...
I work on AAA video games, so unfortunately yes.

It's ok to have build-engineer doing release engineering if it's simple enough, but doing build engineering properly (Source control, artifact control, shared caches, dependency management of the compiler outside of the standard toolchain) is quite a large job.

Release engineering itself gets complicated when you take into consideration the different target platforms, most games get published on Playstation, Xbox and one of a handful of PC platforms (notably steam), plus the online systems and of course the development environments and internal release systems which are ubiquitous.

Build Engineering usually is the step between developers and QA, and release engineering is the bit after QA.

Both interact a lot with QA so could be rolled into the same role.
I never knew there was an animal called Kudu. I just knew it from Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/resource...
Then we just need term limits and to kill civil asset forfeiture
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That only works for bad actors in an otherwise good system.

Systemic incentives tend to make idealists into insiders. You can blame people for being human if you want, but you will keep getting the same results.
Thanks for posting mirrord! One of the creators here, feel free to ask anything.
Fire pattern analysis often falsely claimed, from visual analysis alone, that fires were started with an accelerant.
I wasn't sure what this was at first, but it's actually a really cool project.

It uses AI to generate images of what cities could look like if they were more pedestrian-friendly. The idea is to show people these images and get them to sign petitions or take other action to get local governments to make these changes.
Just because you've paid a lump sum doesn't mean that terrible servers aren't involved every time you start your car -- they could just be checking the perma-status of your purchase every time ("for security purposes").
Should be a multiple of profit, not a flat amount. Or else, it just means the richest representative can still exploit it profitably.
Interesting! It'd be nice to benchmark to see if there are any practical difference in terms of speed.
But if you had yet to learn to program… would you know that?
Why would they pull out of Ireland? They could have one store in Dublin, that sells the last model iPhone which was grandfathered in, while supplies last, for a couple grand, or whatever the price ends up being once Europe is done objecting.
An internet search shows there is research done, particularly the 'hard physics' behind it..
This path was paved when NPM and Node.js decided that lots of small dependencies are a good thing. All of this damage and JavaScript's reputation as a maintenance nightmare is a result of that terrible, terrible decision.
Pete Warden’s Startup Puts AI in the Sensor
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I still see a lot of Rails contract work out there, roughly as many roles as ever before.

I've thought about switching to Elixir work but I just don't see the demand there yet. There's 2 orders of magnitude more Rails roles than there are Elixir jobs. That might change with time hopefully.

I can only speak for myself but I think Rails 7 is the most exciting release for years.

Hotwire, Stimulus, et al are finally a compelling reason to do frontend work in Rails again vs the last few years of using it mainly as an API for JavaScript SPA frameworks.

Ruby 3 finally provides a decent solution for async IO (with fully parallel ractors a work in progress).

Tooling is also much improved over a few years ago with Sorbet and Treesitter AST based stuff.

Rails might be boring but boring gets the job done.
There's something I find literally evil about describing firing people as reducing the workforce, or rendering a position redundant, but I can't quite put why to words. It downplays human suffering to a degree that's almost unbelievable.
(2016) was year of publication.

Press coverage:

- https://phys.org/news/2016-01-evidence-bad.amp

Presentation by authors:

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz6xUjJHTII
If you know about an imminent bill that, say, is going to inject fiscal stimulus to the tune of 10 percent of GDP and will reverse those stock market declines and then some, that's a pretty big reason to trade.
Stripe operates a single office in Toronto, Canada. No one would be qualified for severance since severance is only eligible after 5 years of employment and Stripe's office has only been open for 2 years.
It reads funny, but fewer people drive at night and still make up about half of accidents.
Too bad you can't get a W for less than $50 right now.
> There should be an option to have strict tables, foreign key checks and other modern features to be automatically enforced.

I know to enable foreign key checking, and I learned strict tables from this thread. What are the "other modern features" you were referring to?

EDIT: In TFA, section 8 is relevant here I guess: SQLite accepts double-quoted strings as a historical misfeature, which can be disabled with the appropriate C API functions. This is one of the "other modern features" I guess; TIL.
Important if you have to deliver pizza, on the other hand who cares...if there are no swimming-pools.
Proves the main thesis of his excellent book

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

https://www.amazon.com/Cadaver-King-Country-Dentist-Injustic...
We’ve built our own in house ledger and also use double entry accounting. When one transaction affects multiple accounts, you need to ensure the books balance, which the premise of double entry accounting.

It’s the standard for a reason. Even when using a software like Quickbooks, errors can come up.
The problem is the word "probably". There's no smoking gun, just an increased likelihood. Yet a very definitive conclusion is made prematurely.

Even if you find such entity "spamming" links, it still doesn't meet the more traditional definition of spam. Said account does not notify anybody, does not comment, direct message, it's just self-spamming.
This is an absolutely ridiculous line of whataboutism that is historically ignorant and doesn’t deserve any serious response.
Target, for one, which has a similar selection of products.

Walmart is far bigger than the grocery stores you have listed. In fact, the grocery store part of it is relatively new. Can you buy tires or tents or bikes at a Lidl?

There are tons of regional grocery stores in the US. Each region has more different regional brands than national brands.
Nope, didn't miss that, but "where you live" doesn't capture my point. It's not just about where you live, but how you value your time. You'll note that I didn't mention location as a consideration, as that was already covered in the parenthetical.
Double blind? Consider e.g. knowledge the Fed is planning on raising interest rates before the public has it. That affects the market as a whole, so they could short sp500 and have a leg up on us regular folks.

The solution is simple. Being in office (or working for the federal government, or any level government for that matter) is a privilege, not a right. If you want to exercise that privilege, then you should have to give up the right to directly trade any stock/fund. Your broker whom you can't divulge any info to then has the same footing as the rest of us.
> Have a generation of engineers who weren't held back by white haired out of touch fossils.

What a bizarre defense of the purges and show trials...

And well anyway, that's not what they did. They placed party officials and "friendly" workers in charge of scientists and engineers and shipped them off to camps if they expressed ideas unfriendly to the party. For a good decade everyone researching plant genetics stopped doing science or ended up in prison[1]. For years they didn't innovate really at all. In the early days they leaned on foreign specialists[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialization_in_the_Sovie...
> Maybe the Indian government needs to push separate bills prohibiting manufactures from packaging crapware

One person's crapware is another person's batteries-included-ware.

We wouldn't want to ban Sony MP3 players from including an app that plays music, right?

Similar to how we wouldn't want iPods to be banned from coming with an in-built Apple Music.app client[1]

Google's bundled-in variant of an internet browser _may_ be as harmful as Safari on iOS or, quite formidably[2], Internet Explorer on Windows. But unless governments can unambiguously discern whether Chrome is adware/crapware or batteries-included-software we'd not get much use out of regulation.

[1] Please don't flame on me with "iPods don't have Apple Music". What I meant to say is that the on-device application software that ran on iPods is _identical_ to that running on macOS, iPhone etc. It's pretty much the exact same music player code.

[2] IE bundling into Windows is literally what got Microsoft branded as anti-competitive by the Justice Dept. in the late 90s / early 2000s
Body language experts... Thankfully I don't think it is used as evidence, but still...
Headline kinda makes it sound like he was working for free, I wonder if they would still have arrested if it was volunteer work.
Kind of creepy, but you just described, step for step, how I ended up running Fedora's KDE Spin on all my boxes over the past year. I really wanted to like Manjaro, I mean the AUR is incredible and their visual design even uses all my favorite colors, but despite my best efforts it felt alien to me in a way I can't well articulate.

Now enter Fedora for the past 4-5 months and I have to say I'm rather impressed. In particular, their package archives seem to keep current with a lot of the software I rely on far better than Debian/Ubuntu. Using dnf feels much more familiar than pacman ever did, and as of now I feel like my search for a daily driver has ended. I would recommend anyone else that's not happy with the experience of Ubuntu anymore to do likewise and see how Fedora feels in its place.
Argentines use cryptocurrency to avoid high taxes on US dollars from abroad
Ask HN: What market should finder.cool serve?
https://finder.cool What should I turn it into? You can see the pattern with the current "Sell Homemade" theme and a few placeholder items. I made and own all the code which is mean and lean BTW (what you see runs on a 1 (one) virtual CPU machine!) Can scale to any demand of course, but none of that matters without the right focus. Once defined, there can be additional execution on the software side (me) and possible help from one single talented marketing and sales person. Efficiency = $$$. Comment here for public domain or email me at info@finder.cool
Got it, it's data exploration not a formal ETL pipeline code.
There’s also cases of people who received a transplant who then supposedly have two (or more) different DNAs in their blood.
Want to fix it?

You have to set the expectation and vote for the people who want to make government work.

You can’t expect to somehow curtail corruption by voting a bunch of people who want to dismantle the government into the government.
A litany of gripes about your current employer is generally not a good look in an interview. Positivity is better than negativity. Why do you want to work for the company you're interviewing with? It can be inferred that you likely have some complaints about your current role but you probably don't want to give the impression that you'll take whatever you can get because any port in a storm.
I have one of these on my bicycle helmet.

Works great for getting a driver’s attention at a 4-way stop (the North American approach to right-of-way is deficient when everyone stops at the same time and is going straight).

But a problematic tell when I see a head-turner walking on the sidewalk.
Fire investigation was historically plagued by myths like "concrete spalling means the floor was soaked in gasoline before being set on fire". Turns out, concrete just does that whenever it gets very hot, with or without an accelerant.
I'm being trolled by someone who finds a DNS lookup and an encrypted TCP connection to send a textual command to another machine is somehow impressive, rather than entirely basic and, again, unimpressive.

It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.

That does sound better than returns one octet with two well-defined values, sure.

And already the expert. Impressive.

I know UNIX is shit with a legion of cultists.

Hey, if we live in the best of all possible worlds, explain the market dominance of Windows. Did MicroSoft give Windows away for nothing, to poor unsuspecting university students who decided to hack on it instead of learn what a real computer is, until none remained?
Principal Software Engineer here, 25+ years, been a team lead, and architect.

Frankly: You are "on tilt." Every interview you take right now, you are throwing out an opportunity.

"It looks like I will be unemployed until the next year and I have no idea how to get a job." - This is a self fulfilling prophecy.

If you believe that... stop interviewing and rest, let yourself recover from the burnout and grind of interviewing. Let yourself feel like actually wanting to interview and work again.

After that:

Go back to the leetcode grind, make sure you are RAZOR sharp. Make sure you learn from the stuff people post to brag. Start writing stuff you'd brag about.

How do I know all the above: I've tried not doing it, and doing it... I can tell you resting is MUCH better, and the market reacted MUCH more positively to me. I'm talking in terms of offers etc, not just the feedback.
True - that's my guess anyway
I've had a System 76 laptop for a few months now and I'm pretty happy with it. They've done a good job with Pop!Os, it's the only distro I've found that has made Gnome usable for me out of the box.

The only downside over my previous laptop (Dell XPS) is that I can no longer run 2 external monitors, the System 76 hardware just doesn't seem to be able to handle it.
So if your individual sovereignity is violated, who takes action? A band of hired mercenaries? Bear traps?
Yeah, this isn't the dotcom era when internet ads was mainly startups buying ads on Yahoo thereby inflating their own value and Yahoo's value. The standard online advertisers are the standard advertisers these days (apart from a few smaller islands like podcasts or integrated sponsors on youtube), so it'd be a bigger recession to impact adtech, and the impact there is more likely to be in line with the impact to the rest of the economy than disproportionate popping.
> Before iOS, to be fair.

iOS didn't move the needle on open source, open bootloaders or anything gp mentioned. All iOS did was shift the balance of power from telecom companies to Apple.

Android was far more open than all that came before it: the source code was available,it used open source & contributed back, and brought a very "PC" mindset[1] to an industry that had always considered handsets to be appliances (save a few Nokia models in the Communicator line).

1. "Intents" that could be handled by any app of the users choosing was very much like "Open with..." on PCs. Even disregarding the open source stuff, Android was very much an open system just for that reason.
The concept of "public service" is being slowly erased. The United States is becoming just like any other country, where people will do anything to get to power to get to the trough - it's the fastest way to get rich.

Obviously has been happening for a long time. but there was some discretion to it. Now it's blatant and shameless.
> other than Java

I never understood what that triangular clown was meant to be. Can't deny it's recognizable.
It's not strictly about actual unethical behavior. It's also about not ever creating the appearance of unethical behavior which erodes trust in government institutions. It's half of any ethics course on the job.

My friend who is a lowly public servant is not allowed to hold anything besides index/mutual funds already and has to report any trades of those before they happen.

This is for an individual with no tangible insider info.

Elected officials with significant insider info need to be held to a much higher standard.
And if their office building evicted them, they still wouldn't have been deplatformed because they could still buy some land and build their own office; it was their own fault for leasing office space as a service and getting burned. And if their ISP cut their access, they still wouldn't have been deplatformed because they could still start their own ISP; had they truly built their own platform, no ISP could have taken that from them. And if the power plant wouldn't give them electricity- okay I'll stop.
I found that the sweet spot is somewhere in between these two extremes.

After a week of working from home, sometimes I found that I hadn’t left the house for anything other than groceries.

In the mornings, I get up and get the kids ready. Then work. Then the kids come home. Family time, dinner and so on. Time to sleep. Rinse, repeat.

So yeah, I find going to the office from time to time refreshing. It helps that my team agreed that office days are for socializing and focused work is not expected.
I'd be curious to see how one measures peak energy density in a modern CPU.

As far as power density goes, the i9-13900K seems to be 335W / (257 mm^2 die area * ~1mm water thickness) ≈ 1.3e9 W/m^3. The power density of the sun in comparison is around 2.8e2 W/m^3, roughly what you'd find at the center of a large pile of compost (although the temperature at the sun's core may be just a wee bit higher).
I'm not sure you are appreciating the sheer scale of the monster that is being fought, its capabilities, or the lengths that it goes to in order to keep its dominant position.
This report is relevant. If I recall correctly it pointed that some of these analyses are not really reproducible.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf
American Airlines: Our customers aren’t buying international first class tickets
The choice of the small top light seems odd. If the lower view of the bike is obstructed, like in a review/side mirror, you'll see a single small light, and think it's a far away something.

I think adding some unique color(s) or flashing patterns would be much more identifiable. We're in the future now. We can craft lights that have colors outside of efficient slices of the blackbody spectrum, and make them do fancy things like "blink".
And that is why they should only be for suspicion and any real evidence should be from blood test administered in suitable location verified in lab.
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Your president has been in federal positions of power for 50 years. Same for the speaker of Congress and many others. Why is anybody surprised that this is the outcome?

That’s what the “swamp” was all about.
The worst part about this is the orders of magnitude negative effects on the Country as a result. Politicians are cheap and they are not paid for no reason.
Tangential to this is that there has been some discussion that the recent Tesla/motorcycle fatalities are related to the fact the the struck motorcycles happened to be cruiser style with twin rear lights.

The Tesla system, which is optical only, saw the two lights as a far away car rather than a close up motorcycle.
(Sorry for the double "for the sake of" mistake in that last sentence. Too late to correct it now.)
Virtually all vulnerable open source downloads are avoidable
We don't need to assume. We have decades of experience and data showing that mobile operators will jam phones full of as much spyware, adware, and experience-ruining garbage as they are legally and technically able.
Thats user hostile behavior- VARCHAR is a critical optimization for large databases.
That's probably more of a result of education polarization really taking off during his time. Who is the bureaucracy? White collar workers.
> What we really need is all assets of elected officials held in blind trust, bar none, no exceptions.

Yes absolutely. I would also add:

- Mandatory retirement from public office at age 65. We have minimum ages for elected office, nothing wrong with a maximum age.

- Ban on lobbying for 10 years after leaving office.
Online dating apps do selfie verifications or identity proofing. LinkedIn could do the same as well. To verify someone's identity with a gov ID is about $1-$2 per proofing request.

https://stripe.com/identity (only as an example, many vendors offering this service)
Seriously! As a motorcyclist (and cyclist) with a keen interest in not dying, I'm always looking for additional ways to be seen and predictable. This image should have been in the blog article, full stop. How is it _so_ buried?
Austin-Based Jasper Raises $125M, Becomes Tech Unicorn
Yeah, I've often seen "DevOps" described as "System Administration, but automating everything you can with scripting or whatever", to which my first thought was "WTF do you think Sysadmins do, if not exactly that?!?"

It's like they'd never heard a BOFH tell someone, "Go away now, or I will replace you with a small and uncomplicated shell script."
Totally off topic, but scrolling through the front page I first read the title as “Terraform your city” and for a second my mind was blown thinking about what that could possibly mean…
I think this is because Democratic voters are more in tune to these issues than Republican voters. Not because Democratic politicians are intrinsically more honest, they're just responding to voter pressure. Get more Republican voters to recognize these issues and you may see more Republican politicians responding in kind.

My reason to believe this is Democratic politicians weren't addressing these problems until after Democratic voters started to perceive the problem and apply pressure. The point being, politicians won't regulate themselves spontaneously; their feet need to be held to the fire by voters.
Congratulations on understanding what an abstraction is. Do I need to worry about the transistors or individual atoms in a computer? Why should UNIX be the right level of abstraction forever?
I've always thought cloud costs have been excessive profit centers, and this goes back to before it was called cloud with "ASPs" in regulated industries product offerings.

Early days I remember looking at Cloud vendors that were offering FISMA virtualization capabilities and I did an analysis of alternatives around running a set amount of CPUs, RAM, i/o and disk to support VMs. Terremark was the first offering that could meet our reqs, at around 10k a month per for a server's equivalent capability.

This put in my mind from day one that I was trading off High Capex with low Opex, for No Capex and High Opex. Given our trades, it was clear that high Capex was preferable to high Opex, as our high capex would have been equal to one month's opex.

When we later on saw more mainstream vendors like Amazon move into the space, their offerings were also coming with insane overhead, $2000 a month automatic surcharges for a FISMA regulated environment.
> They're not saying that's the "definition of work"; they're merely -- correctly -- acknowledging that's the definition of work that nearly every employer imposes on employees.

No, I get it. If you accept a definition of "work" that has you eating hours of overhead per day, you'll never negotiate a better deal. Don't accept it, at least not without a fight. I don't accept it.
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