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>If they are not underperforming and still doing two jobs, then I have failed my task because I have not effectively exploited their abilities for profit.

It's not like that. Since work is a market, you exchange a previously agreed amount of money for a previously agreed amount of work and knowledge.

Otherwise, the employees can also say they failed at their task if they wouldn't determine you to part with a large sum while putting in the minimum possible amount of work and working two jobs minimum.

That coin has two sides.
Indeed I felt that way too when reading passages such as:

"As I was looking around, I was struck for an instant by the eeriness of the scene: here I was, attached, like an unwanted child, by an umbilicus to a gargantuan mother who was fleeing across the sky at 200 knots as though from some unnamed danger. Far below us was a broken layer of clouds that filtered the sun glare over the Pacific."

Wonderfully poetic and I enjoyed it, but yes, wordy.
I had a Blackberry Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Curve) back in the day and it was a pleasure to type on.

I am not sure if it is the size of my fingers or the lack of physical feedback, but I cannot type as quickly on smartphone screen keyboards as I could on the Blackberry physical keyboard.

There have been a few Android phones with physical keyboard released in the past few years, but most of them are running older versions of the Android OS and are not / were not supported for very long in terms of operating system updates:

https://www.androidauthority.com/keyboard-phones-845839/

If there was a well-known brand that would get several years of OS updates, I would buy it.
Are people in the US buying houses using fixed rates mortgage or variable ones ?
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Reportedly they didn't earn anything from test suite, so it is surprising they keep it proprietary.

>The 100% MCD tests, that’s called TH3. That’s proprietary. I had the idea that we would sell those tests to avionics manufacturers and make money that way. We’ve sold exactly zero copies of that so that didn’t really work out.

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/#billio...
It's not always about being monetized. Politicians command attention in order to win votes, and as most people running for office were already rich and are doing it more for ego than to get even richer, I don't believe money is often the motivation. Sports teams seem like another possible counterexample, where being in a larger market with a more prestigious history and larger fanbase can attract better players in free agency, which may lead to more money, but may not, and I again don't believe many of the owners, who were already rich well before they ever bought a team, are necessarily in it to get even richer. They just really like winning and also have enormous egos. Some celebrities will command attention even to the point of losing money. Witness what Kanye is doing right now, though you can argue in his case and probably others what we're seeing is mental illness, but pathological motivations still count as motivations.

You might say these are a minority of cases compared to businesses trying to command eyeballs so they can sell you stuff, but I'm really not sure that proportionality stays the same when you take the entire human experience into account. My keenest memories of people trying to command lots of attention are from primary school, and kids weren't interested in being class clown or the most popular because they expected to be able to sell you anything. Popularity was its own reward. Commanding attention is plenty intoxicating all on its own.
Another example is reading and language in general. You're parsing this statement dramatically faster than you would if you tried to actually consciously think about each word in this statement. And the really cool thing is that your subconscious pattern recognition is dynamic and robust. You can even fluently comprehend rndm abrvs adn tpyos wthot any efrt.

Speech is similar. By far one of the coolest little experiences you get when learning a foreign language (that's outside your language family) is when speech that is completely incomprehensible, as in you can't even make out words or separations, somehow one day just 'clicks' and becomes a series of mostly unknown but distinct and recognizable phonemes.
> Swatting doesn't work in any other country than America because in any other country than America

A Twitch streamer was swatted in the UK [1].

[1] https://www.shacknews.com/article/131816/twitch-streamer-kef...
People don't elect politicians based on trust, that's crazy. They choose the lesser of two evils (in the US generally).
The cost of repiping every house and having a separate sewer system makes that highly impractical and why basically nowhere has done grey water usage on a large scale. It's mostly relegated to single home or personal use because of that, you need a system designed from the ground up to handle grey black separation.
YouTube is an acquisition and they killed Google videos.
Just to ask. Do you think the housing of the turbine would somehow "channel" the wind it collects into the blades? And therefore increase the performance or yield against the size of the blades? Maybe in this way, the comparison is legitimate, that a smaller turbine blade (as in this case) can collect more wind?

I'm honestly not sure if that holds up properly, like from a true physics point of view. But it kind of makes sense from intuition. It would seem you'd get quite a fast moving turbine blade with this configuration.
I wouldn't think of it as trying to sell yourself as a "principal software engineer" on an open market.

I'd make a list of the companies where hiring/scaling the ops team will make or break the business's value delivery, and filter by companies aware of this.

You can knock this out at the recruiting step, just by asking about open developer headcount vs. open SRE ops headcount. Ask which direction that ratio seems to be going, and if there's anyone you can talk to whose job it is to change that ratio (director or VP mandate).

The referral network from working at a hyperscaler co in ops is a great way to break into the space.
"Before I tell you about my work experience, let me relate a wonderful story about what work means to different people around the world. My great-grandmother was born in ..."
I've used TeaVM in a past project, to compile some Java to JS. It's very cool tech. Unfortunately I heard that the team ripped out the TeaVM after I left. That's understandable - I had to fix some bugs and missing pieces in TeaVM as part of that project, and I think a lot of codebases would face the same issue, but compiler hacking isn't everyone's, um, cup of tea. It was a great way to get a lot done in the two weeks I had available though.

I should have clarified. Yes, you can probably do a native-image style "compile an app+embedded JVM to wasm" by pretending V8 is a CPU. There are programs that do that sort of thing, I think Leaning Technologies makes one. That wouldn't be of use in any existing Java project though. The only reason you'd ever want to do that is because browsers offer nothing else, even though they could and at that point why not compile to JS, at least that way your GC isn't being interpreted too. If you're not constrained by the WHATWG's decisions though it doesn't offer anything.
The most challenging part about any startup is NOT the technology it's building but finding product market fit.

The company did all the work to discover that, and what's stopping them from finding someone else to build it? Why does it have to be you?
Strong smells also can be associated to pleasant things. If your grampa smelled weird, but you loved him, you'll love the weird smell too after a while.
They way I first learned was on an Atari 8-bit. I had friends that also had the same computer. We wrote programs and showed each other what we made or learned.

I would hope that something similar is still possible. The most obvious is learning javascript and making browser plugins with the ubiquitous "View source" as inspiration (though much less so with React etc, but you can still mess with the properties/css).

Ideally it would be good to get set up to auto-deploy a website (e.g. Netlify) based on code pushes, even if the setup is done for them. This way they can have a hobby website that they can keep changing and the results are immediately show-n-tellable to anyone on the internet. For backend, maybe something like Firebase or equivalent.
PureScript and Halogen is better at almost everything
>If you're not relying on disputed material facts for your argument

Vis a vi the original question,

"I never said that. Do you have a recording?"
You got me. That was more of a rhetorical flourish than something I've actually done, or would do. "I haven't done this recently. Or in the past."

Sam Zeloof is doing great things: http://sam.zeloof.xyz/

> Making even the simplest 6502 equivalent by yourself is impossible, forget more complex projects. I feel like this should be urgently addressed, given how important computing is.

I've thought about this, more in the context of post-apocalyptic computing rather than trust, FWIW.

If I were really going to make my own computers from scratch I think clockwork (Clock of the Long Now) or fluidics would probably be the way to go. Maybe electro-mechanical (relays, etc.) or vacuum tubes? We did pretty well with the abacus and the slide rule, eh?
Yes, exactly.

In the US the financial institutions and the credit reporting and collection agencies have used rather insidious language like "stolen identity" to describe the situation where fraud was perpetrated on one of those agencies by an unknown 3rd party who presumably bore the ID credentials of the person in question thereby passing through the institution's identity checks.

The fraud in these cases is not the problem of the institution, it's the problem of the individual. They use that specific language to train everyone into thinking and accepting that it's their individual problem...you know, since someone "stole their identity".

Then, when the giant companies that collect and "securely store and process" the information that is typically used to perform ID verifications get hacked and this data leaks out for 300M+ people... oh well, tiny fine and a bit of bad press for a week. Then it's swept under the rug and the individuals in the society have to live with those consequences.

It's super fucked...and super stupid.

'Merica.
Thank you so much for this quote! The paper it's from is exactly what I needed right now.

link: https://veryinteractive.net/pdfs/simon_designing-organizatio...
But not in a more meaningful way than TypeScript which has the advantage of being a superset of JavaScript.
I'm with you on the general idea that we shouldn't blindly believe everything a for-profit corporation says but at the same time we shouldn't allow fact-free speculation, rumor, or just plain cynicism to masquerade as facts either.
you didn't read my comment in full, note the use of the word "personal" financial penalties.
> Gambling app ads have even started showing up beneath apps meant to help users recover from a gambling addiction

I don't need Christianity to know that this shouldn't be happening
It will be. My ultimate goal is to share everything on: https://discovision.info
Or please do. I personally like puns. :)
wouldn't you expect numpy to mostly mitigate the differences?
The full social security number for a person is not easily obtained and not published by the free websites.
You can't blame Steve Jobs for that. Perhaps you can blame the absence of Steve for the proliferation of capacitive touch screens where they are not suited. I believe Steve would've known better, at least in the automotive world.

More on-topic, I'm also terrible at typing on my phone. I find my self leaving messages unattended to until I can find a physical keyboard from which to reply from.
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"Fortunately, I landed in a giant nest of fire ants" says literally one person, ever.
At this point virtually everyone agrees that dynamic type is only good for scripting and cross-domain code, not for being robust software applications. Considerable effort has been spent over the years adding typing back to dynamically typed languages (Typescript, python has several).

If you want to build real software, you should be looking at Go or Rust, not Python. They are already fast, they already have concurrency, and now with Go's generics it's safe to say that their type systems are exactly what are needed to build real software in 2022.
Didn’t Twitter just get hit with fines for this?
> Why is that?

Because there is little to no reciprocity.
Personally, very excited to see this happening. Huge congrats!

Some constructive criticism around naming... You don't have to have Flux in every single damn thing you create!

InfluxDB IOx is not replacing InfluxDB v2 because... It's just a new storage engine.

For querying we have Flux or InfluxQL...
I see your point on the GPA/test correlation and that is good in that it reflects that grade inflation wasn’t a major problem while you worked there.

But my question about final admit/deny stands. If you look at the racial distribution of the upper performers of any standardized exam (your “heatmap tracing”), it is unlikely to me that a college would be fine with that class composition. Either there must be a secondary layer where your admit/deny’s are adjusted or your acceptance rate must be very high.
If their recruiter is "super impressed with my resume" and thinks I'd make great things happen at ${COMPANY}, then why can't they enter my experience into their proprietary system?

I mean, they were so confident in their initial email to me. Were they not actually as amazed as they stated?
Member of the engineering team here - I would break the history into 3 phases:

1) Alpha / Beta phase where we experimented with several off-the-shelf key-value stores (RocksDB, LevelDB, & BoltDB). During this early phase, we learned from observing a wide variety of workloads / use-cases that we needed a custom built engine to achieve our early performance goals. But, using these off-the-shelf key-value stores allowed our (at the time) very small team to focus on developing a useful beta product and gathering user feedback.

2) TSM storage engine for 1.0 - Developed from scratch based on our learnings from phase 1, this was the first production storage engine that shipped with 1.0 in 2016 and carried us through 2.0. It served as the workhorse for 3 - 4 years as both the number of users and size of their workloads skyrocketed, eventually bumping into architectural limits of TSM.

3) IOx - equipped with a larger engineering team and years of experience with a wide variety of workloads and use-cases, IOx was developed to handle rapidly growing time series workloads that users need to handle.
Clearly the solution is to add a jitter to Python that identifies code that looks like an matrix multiplication, and calls numpy instead.
Isn't that the job of the cover letter to connect the dots and show how previous experiences & skills could meet the demands of the role being applied to?
In short IME is a hardware spyware ? That's it ?
In college I remember hearing from one of my animation professors that DreamWorks switched between NURBS and polygons for How To Train Your Dragon, I'm unsure which direction it was but I don't envy the artists tasked with that if true.
This seems like the hardware owners are demanding the opposite of what Intel is delivering.
Their year over year revenue fell in June. They are reporting revenue today after the close of trading, and the stock is currently down 5%: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/?

So it may well be that they have bad news and are under pressure to say that they are trying to improve revenue.
Ultimately, it is more about influence than attention itself.

You can see how some thoughts and new expressions spread like viruses nowadays. The term "Quiet quitting" being one recent example as it seems like every LinkedIn influencer and OpEd are talking about this thing as it's widespread and the "new reality".
I mean, we have batteries. Having enough storage to get through the night is basically solved.

The bigger issue is a several day stretch of no solar where your batteries can't support. This would basically solve that allowing homes to effectively built to be off grid to begin with.
Thanks for that. Was seriously considering R2. Not anymore.
Putin has been watching and waiting for this moment in Washington
I have a warm water boiler / water heater where I live now. Running fully on electricity, which I have 'made smart' with Home Assistant. First of all I replaced the analog temperature sensor with a digital DS18B20 connected to a Raspberry Pi. I 'calibrated' this sensor with another sensor at our main faucet in the kitchen, so I can set the tap water temperature. Secondly I've added a power monitoring smart socket to the water heater, so I can switch it remotely. Finally I've added both to Home Assistant as a climate device, so I can easily control it.

Simply put I've set it up that during electricity peak times the boiler doesn't try to heat water to save on electricity costs. Heating water is all done in the off peak hours with some easy calculations. Also I tend to set my boiler to a lower temperature (ie. 58 degrees) during weekdays and higher (60+) during weekends or holidays. That way I always have hot water and get rid of legionella growth.

What I can see I'm using about 1.5 - 2kWh a day for keep 100 liters of water at at least 55 degrees. While the manufacturer of the water heater says the device should use between 7 and 9kWh a day. I really would like to optimize it any further, but it seems that I've hit a wall.
>Boomers got their college education paid by the GI bill

Anyone know how to look up what percentage of college attendees used the GI bill over the years? It seems like in our age of big data, this presumably public information wouldn't be so hard to get an answer for. Since the overwhelming majority of baby boomers never attended college, I could see the fraction using the GI bill going either way.
>bladeless
>motionless
I always love it when articles are obvious shill pieces for a company.
It is a turbine system with a different mechanism of getting air to a turbine. The first thing you see in the video of the article are spinning blades.

The real question which the article should be asking is how they compare to traditional large turbines. (Which can stand unobstructed at great heights). How well this works in urban environments, where Wind is blocked/funneled by other buildings. Or if the claims over solar are actually justified.

Far too often there are articles about blatant vaporware (often fusion) where people just report sone companies claims as if it were self evidently true.
If you want to convince me:
- Show actual data. What did one such unit generate over a few month in electricity? Surely you have to know.
- Do not lie. The thing obviously is neither motionless nor bladeless.
I get the feeling that there's a lot of pent up releases waiting for this to kick them off.
Good luck! Sounds like fun!
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Looks like Tor Browser 11.0.4-11.0.6 phoning home bug still hasn't been fully fixed - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-...

When I start Tor Browser 11.5.5, it tries to connect to

- content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net or

- content-signature-chains.prod.autograph.services.mozaws.net

and, when allowed, also results in a connection to 140.187.102.34.bc.googleusercontent.com (a Google site?).

(I figured it has something to do with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2kPo8YdLTw but it's still very irritating that there is no option to control and disable this).

...

Also, why is app.normandy.enabled not set to false by default? (Why the hell would one want to allow Mozilla to run experiments on their browser or allow them to change your preferences silently, without your knowledge, when they have now started bundling adware inside their browser!?)
Depending on the motherboard it can be very hard, pretty easy, or very easy. For my one motherboard that isn't covered by me-cleaner due to the newness, I verifiably turned off ME the "pretty easy" way: By downloading the latest bios from gigabyte, opening it in Intel's CSME tools (there are download links on some forums geared towards bios modding), flipping the unlabeled "reserved bit" which turns on "high assurance platform mode", and then flashing that bios .bin, also with Intel's tools.

I believe some motherboards won't let you flash the modded bios if it's cryptographically unsigned or something like that, which is good for other reasons... but I haven't run into it myself.

I've disabled ME on a couple of supermicro boards too, using me-cleaner, since they were supported. (What I consider the "very easy" method.)

edit: Sibling poster is right that it can't be fully disabled. I do assume it's effectively disabled when it no longer appears in device manager and Intel's ME inspection tools show it as disabled.
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Yep.

FORTRAN codes persist today because (1) the old school memory model of FORTRAN is fast, and (2) it is so easy to write numeric codes that do the wrong thing with rounding and numerical instability. There's a reason why Foreman Acton wrote a book titled Numerical methods that (usually) work.

https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Methods-that-Work-Spectrum/...

Code something up in C, Haskell, oCAML or CUDA and you miss out on the 40+ years of experience people have had with a FORTRAN code from the 1970s.
Your downpayment goes a lot further though.
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Oh that reminds me, I loved the original Stripe CTF, it's been 10 years already! https://twitter.com/fduran/status/240321390698442753
Submarines under the surface can receive VLF signals. The signals are broadcast from either land stations[0], or aircraft[1] trailing a 5-mile-long wire antenna (the aircraft fly in a circle so the antenna is mostly vertical). Subs can extend a long antenna below the surface in order to receive the signals[2].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lualualei_VLF_transmitter
1. https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1312134472280633345
2. https://twitter.com/thenewarea51/status/1347668162406477824
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Its complicated. Overall, I think it is safe to say that rates were too low.

Look at this graph[0] of rates over time. When the 2008 recession happened, rates dropped to stimulate the economy. While you can find dissent on this point, overall, this is generally considered a prudent move and the conventional responce to a recession.

What happened next was that interest rates stayed near 0 until 2015, which was far too long. In 2015 the Fed started raising rates, but did so slowly.

The problem came in 2020, when the Covid recession hit. Following conventional wisdom, the Fed responded by dropping rates. However, rates were not yet high enough for this to be fully effective, and you can't go (much) below 0%. As a result, the Fed resorted to more creative measures of stimulating the economy; and economists will likely be arguing about the effect of that for years.

Having said that. This isn't particularly relevent to what is going on today. To fight inflation, the important factor is the increase of interest rates. Even if we started with high rates, they would still need to increase them to get the desired deflationary effect.

Simmilarly, the stimulating effect is more about dropping rates then having low rates.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS