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> Unix time should be a steady heartbeat counting up the number of seconds since ...

This is nice and clean, so long as you have exactly one computer. The second there are more than one, and they are talking to each other, their clocks can go out of sync with each other. And they will, because they are physical systems that are imperfect and in general much less precise than you'd expect them to be.

This means that there has to be a way to correct for errors. The best method, that almost everyone who manages a lot of computers converges onto, is to "smear out" any errors, by never discretely changing the time on any machine, but just shortening or lengthening seconds slightly to bring any outliers back to the correct values. And once you have this system, dealing with a leap second using it is the easiest, simplest and least errorprone method.

I do think that there are purposes where local "machine time", which is just a monotonic clock counting upwards from bootup, would make sense. Especially when subsecond accuracy is important. But it should always be clear that there is no way to reliably convert between that and wallclock or calendar time. There are *no* intervals of calendar/wallclock time that reliably convert to any interval of machine time. It is not guaranteed that any wallclock minute contains exactly 60 machine seconds.
> It feels like every time someone gets into a new field now, there's always the expectation they'll 'go pro' or turn it into a day job.

Where are you seeing this?

> So is there a reason for that?

Selection bias? People who aren't doing that won't be visible to you, so...

I have several hobbies that no one will ever see, because I'm not interested in sharing them. By your "analysis", that means I have no hobbies.
Do you mean t section? That to me means a junction with one side going off at 90, like a T. I don't get why you'd do that in this situation though.
This seems like an availability bias - you’ll tend to see the content from people publicly posting about their hobbies whereas the random amateur photographer who doesn’t post their photos anywhere will be invisible to you. The latter category is probably 97% of human endeavor at the personal level.
It's the "king is naked" effect. Everyone can see it's bullshit but most people refuse to believe it. It's been decades since this crap started and people are still religious about it.
I’m clearly saying, like others are in this thread, that just because you associate calling someone a “farmer” with an anachronistic gaming term doesn’t mean that almost everyone will read it in a different way, nor does it mean that your interpretation is correct.

‘What do you do for a job?’

‘I’m a farmer’

‘Oh right what’s the best quest to farm on in WOW?’

Said nobody ever.

It reads very poorly, in short.
Zuckerverse vs Appleverse
I got a 1200€ XPS 13 Developer Edition (with Linux) a few years ago. Sleep did not work well from the start and it would randomly drain battery while sleeping. About 9 months in, the battery swelled up and outright died, and was replaced under warranty with a week+ wait. 9 months after that, so just after the 1.5yrs warranty expired, the motherboard died. 500€ to replace. Got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon for about the same price instead and never looked back - will not buy Dell again.
Not sure what kind of crime they are referring to, but they'd be correct if they merely talk about the trafficking and monetization of personal data.

This is an industry that only really became possible (and socially acceptable) in the last couple decades. Before that, the data may have been public, and isolated criminals would've no doubt used it, but in general there wasn't an entire industry dedicated to exploiting this data at large scale.
Official government databases. Most official data in Sweden is default open.
Around $4k to $10k depending on the number of beneficiaries. Each beneficiary enters into their own agreement with your company and NCC group, and then there is an overarching agreement between your company and NCC. There is a cost associated with initial setup between you and NCC, and then each beneficiary pays a bit too (you can pass on this cost to them if you like).

Source: just worked with them
I'm not OP. But asking the government to give you back privacy seems the worst of all possible worlds. The people who need it the most are usually the people the Swedish government wants dead, e.g. Assange.
One, nobody thinks that, and two, a rather glib response to a rather complex satistical issue.
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I bought a XPS 13 dev edition with Ubuntu 12.04 in 2014 and it still works like a charm. Instead of Ubuntu it is running Fedora 37 nowadays with a decent performance. All hardware is still original.
It certainly helps to have some familiarity with standardized tests, particularly to take the PSAT and then take the SAT multiple times. Some people "freeze up" in that environment or they don't understand the strategy of "I've eliminated 3 out of 5 options, I should guess one of the other two".

Test prep helps the average person test at their level, but there are some people who can at best make excuses like "I must have skipped a line when I was filling out the form" and for those people the one thing that helps is hiring a ringer to take the test for them.

School on the other hand offers vastly greater options for people to turn financial and social capital into false achievements in terms of chiseling for grades, expensive sports and other activities, etc.
I'd say financial situation is a lot of that. The idea that success == financial success is also big. Also, anything where you're building something will have more of this pressure. Not so much with traditional hobbies like gardening, bowling, etc.
You are right! I thought the game doesn't support flags. Maybe just the starting / could be part of the mask.
> " But most Java code will perform better under a JIT compiler (which can be Graal’s as well)"

This was my understanding, for any comparison of world-class JIT compilers vs AOT codegen. But, fniephaus knows his stuff and there are some compelling particular examples/benchmarks given. I haven't taken the time to do an exhaustive comparison.

It does seem sort of counterintuitive though, doesn't it? Like, what's the point of an optimizing JIT then?
Definitely.

The sports and hobby industries are huge for a reason. People do ALL KINDS of stuff all over the world for fun. Seriously, the diversity is enormous. If you feel like people aren't having hobbies then something is very very skewed in your perspective.
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This reminds me of a business coworker many years ago who couldn’t wrap his head around open source. Why would anyone write software and then give it away for free? In his opinion, if you weren’t making money off of it, it wasn’t worth doing.
Ask HN: Resource Allocation Library for Tests
Following this Robot FW post [0] I wonder if there is a resource allocation library one can use for distributing tests. I am writing tests but in reality this is a general task allocation question.

pabot (and others) allows parallel execution of tests but not allocation of resources or any intelligence.

From my experience it was always built in house with different complexities and levels of success.

What I am looking for is something that can answer the following-

1. Task/Test requests comes in asynchronously
2. Each request have a list of needed resources, for example a CPU, OS, Platform, Version of something or data availability
3. A manager has a list of agents (an agent can be physical, virtual or local) with their available resources and status
4. The manager allocate an agent and mark it as in-use
5. The manager waits for completion, collects the execution results (probably asynchronously) and marks the agent as not in use

It's not overly complicated to build one yourself but as always it's best to use something generic and tested. CI systems can be used to solve the problem but it's over engineering and complicates execution from a single point.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33343420
[1] https://pabot.org/
Frankly, if they're cutting corners on one product to the point it affects their brand image, they're probably cutting corners on all of them. This is one thing Apple gets right, their products are solid all the way down to the low end (iPhone SE et al).

(After reading further I see others have made the same point. Oops.)
I like this option a lot, although, Most companies would unlikely be able to implement something like this, solely on account of third-party dependencies.
Why do you think he put it in quotes?

Did you read the full context, or just rage at the cut out sentence that someone else here provided to you?

It's very clear in long form what he was talking about.

He has no control of people taking one sentence out of a long opinion that he has written.

It's up to you to inform yourself before joining the mob and sharpening your pitchfork.
That's pretty slipshod then. The study could pretty much amount to saying that people who prefer artificially sweetened soda are the ones who already developed diabetes.
It's the B to B+ and B+ to A chiselers that bug me the most.
In the U.S., almost all registrars offices now just use the National Clearinghouse service. Many schools will simply refer you or your browser to their site. They also track student enrollment, so if you are a company paying for somebody to go to school and want to verify it, you can, or if somebody claims they are close to finishing you can verify enrollment through the Clearinghouse.
> being asked to enter data that is already contained in the resume that is also being uploaded

I've seen forms where they want you to enter your work history including descriptions of all your roles... And then they also ask you to upload your resume.
Only if you compare wildly different statistics without context.

During the years 2013-2017, Sweden averaged 64 reported rapes per 100,000 inhabitants—a rate that tied for the highest in Europe. However, when the data was examined, it became clear that Sweden's high numbers were fueled in large part by Sweden's broader definition of rape and more inclusive reporting rules compared to other European countries. When the data was recalculated using Germany's narrower guidelines, for example, Sweden's average reported rapes per 100,000 people fell from 64 to 15, a decrease of 326.7%.
That wasn't my understanding of the past. I had the perspective that early programmers were basically cowboys in the wild west, people from a variety of backgrounds that were just in the right place and took on the projects.
Recently, it's at least 2014.

And they are about 15 countries in ongoing war now (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...).
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Putin's a high tech terrorist with lots of technical expertise, who regularly destroys so much infrastructure and shopping malls and murders a hell of a lot more people every day than you can by driving a car into a crowd.
> The described process is not only already implemented by everybody, there is simply no other way to do it even if you tried.

Disagree with all of this.
not even sure if you're joking or not.. apple already makes tremendous profit on the hardware.
It seems like it is just PKI but streamlined enough for consumers to use, and you can put your keys wherever you want. The big guys are using this as an opportunity to push their own password managing solution but dashlane has it in beta and I'm hopeful that it will come to bitwarden too.
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Only speaking about recent graduates (0-2 years) and making what are obviously pretty broad generalizations...

Anecdotally, there is slight correlation between university prestige and interview performance. But not enough to toss lower tier university graduates - if their resume is otherwise strong, they're worth interviewing regardless of school.

The strongest signal I have as a hiring manager is a successful internship/co-op. If the candidate worked on interesting projects and can discuss the tech stack and business problem being solved, they're likely to be a good hire.

The few collegiate athletes I've hired have also been top-notch. But not enough of them to claim correlation. Would be interesting to see if there's a real correlation there.
No, what you will have is a proof that ZFC is sound but that proof will not be within ZFC. That proof will rely on additional axioms that are extensions to ZFC.
IANAL but in EU the EU laws override member laws.
So, since GDPR if you want your info to be removed you' ll be able to do it.
Of course maybe you' ll need to go to EUCJ to acheive it
When I was in undergrad, a Cog Psych professor told me a story about an undergrad who made a poster for a regional research conference of no real consequence about the correlation between diet soda drinking and some recall task. The study and the conference were more about teaching students about research more than actually finding anything. When he and his student showed up to the conference, a representative from a low-cal sweetener producer was there, and proceeded to spend the entire conference standing next to the poster refuting the obviously amateurish research. He said for years afterwards, he'd still get mail and faxes about new research that disproved any link between fake sugar and memory problems.

All of that being said, I don't know if there is a substance that we consume that has had more research done on it than artificial sweeteners. For every study like this, there are other studies disproving them, etc. If there is an effect, the effect size is small, and I'm not convinced there is anything there. Also, I'm drinking a Diet Coke right now and in another life I was an Alz researcher so maybe I really want it to not be there.
There are plenty of people just "doing hobbies" on the internet too, but those people tend not to broadcast their activities as much as the ones who so the activities to earn their living. If you (say) play the violin and make videos of it for your friends, those won't be as slick as those of a violin-playing youtuber who needs the videos to get a million views each or they can't pay their mortgage.
It’s a simple enough calculation.

Yes, you're right --- that is relatively simple. Nothing there that can't be easily reduced to simple 4 function *integer* arithmetic. The only complication is using appropriate range and scale to meet real world requirements.

By why should I bother? I've already demonstrated how to achieve the impossible.
> Some of you need to learn how to read, or learn how to not get so emotional.

How is anyone supposed to infer that from the quotes? I am not a gamer so I would never know this. Its domain specific jargon that overlaps with long standing definitions.
Other people have mentioned various other games, musical instruments, typing, etc.

Anything you've practiced sufficiently becomes like breathing or walking. You don't consciously think about these things, you've done them for so long they just happen. The memory of them is so embedded in you that you don't really have to actively work to recall it.

What we call "muscle memory". You've done some actions so often that the action stops being "Put a finger on this fret, pick this string, wait this long, now lift the fretting finger, ..." and becomes "play this song/scale/technique". The whole performance becomes a single action in your mind. It stops being "hit the keys W O R D" and becomes "type 'word'".

And then when you focus on it again, you start noticing the individual actions and you again have to think about every piece of the activity.

I think with you, it sounds like you needed something to lower your inhibitions a bit. Just enough to trust that you're going to do the thing. And normally, you don't trust yourself, so you focus on the steps of the action. It's why people say they perform better after getting slightly inebriated. They're no longer hindered by their inhibitions.
This is a good point. It does seem logical that people with offline hobbies might be less likely to treat them as a job, perhaps because there's less of an 'obvious' road to doing so. The folks I knew who went climbing definitely seemed like they were doing it for fun.
having capable teammates decreases a lot how much effort you need, it's something that I highly recommend
Not in my experience. I've worked one salaried job for over a decade alongside other salaried jobs. I let my employers know (and ensure them my long-standing job won't affect my other one), and also checked the contracts to be sure I'm all good.
None of this is unique to people with multiple jobs.

1. The employee's insurance pays; in the US, they pay at least part of their insurance costs so it is unlikely for them to be covered by two services. If so, they can choose. If they were injured on the job, or in some capacity based on your work, then how is it different? Actually, how is this situation different from them purchasing outside insurance or being covered by their spouse? It's unlikely to be a problem and if it is it's not unique.

2. Sure, why not?

3. What does this have to do with them having multiple jobs? If they steal your intellectual property, that's a problem whether or not they are employed elsewhere. How does double employment compound this? If you hired someone from another job and they brought stolen property with them, is that different?

4. They are responsible for letting you know how much to deduct. You can do standard mandatory deductions based on expected salary and as long as you pay the required employment taxes based on the salary you pay them there isn't a difference in withholding on your end, only on theirs. If they owe more in tax, what do you care?
"We don't need smart ones. We need loyal." -- from a classic Soviet sci-fi book [0] which wasn't really about a different planet.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God
This is just deceptive as you're saying it's optional but rejecting people behind the scenes. Stop wasting peoples' time and just mark it as required.
> you can buy your way into tutoring

You still have to listen to and understand what the tutor says, though. And it's not as if the tutor is saying anything that's not published in books or on YouTube videos - the only real benefit a private tutor could even theoretically have is that he could potentially find a few different ways to explain a concept until the student understood it.
It'd be nice, sure. But regular deep cycles is precisely what lead-acid is not good at. Having said that, LiIon isn't that good at surviving deep discharge either, although it is better than lead-acid. A battery management system can be used on both, which will turn off the power when there's still some juice left, to protect the battery, but people only ever seem to attach these to LiIon batteries.
So that means that John Carmack couldn't continue working at id because of the soda and pizza?! What does that leave for the rest of us!
My GPA was bottom 10ish at my high school. I graduated high school essentially because I already had most of the credits I needed to graduate from middle school. I got into college based on test scores alone (and I was surprised that this was possible). My GPA improved a bit early on in college and then improved much more around junior year once I started getting into harder classes. I ended up graduating with a math + CS double major in 4.5 years.

So, sometimes people are just bored. And there are a bunch of other factors here too - perhaps the biggest one being that "graduated within six years" is not a great indicator of success. Linus Torvalds did not graduate within six years but did build the first version of Linux at university.

GPA is a good indicator of how much work you're willing to put into what you're learning _now_, so it tracks well as a predictor of how much you care about GPA which is a pretty good predictor of whether you'll graduate in X years and probably not much else.
Unfortunately, de-industrialisation will pick up pace in Europe - the input costs from high and volatile energy prices will make it untenable to maintain much of the manufacturing base there. This war is a disaster for Ukraine, disaster for Russia, disaster for Europe
Talk to your banker and accountant too.

Your banker because it might not be any faster to send the money elsewhere.

Your accountant because there might be tax implications or regulatory hurdles.

And the investors of course. Because this might not have been what they were thinking you were going to do.

Or maybe it is just worth waiting.

Waiting is the simplest thing that might work.
I kind of think it depends what stage of life you're in and what your friends and colleagues are talking about. At least that's what it has felt like for me. When I lived in San Francisco, all anyone talked about was their side project and how rich they were going to get in the next 6 months. Now I live in Monterey. I play with the dog everyday, she has a whole group of friends, when they get together their humans don't talk about their side software projects. On the weekends we go hiking. I've also picked up long distance precision shooting as a hobby, lots of arithmetic and geometry to keep my mind interested. It is not very likely that either of my hobbies will ever be a gig, and I really like it this way.

Make your hobbies what you want them to be.
There are multiple HHGTTG references in it, as is the author's Twitter bio:

> Vell, I'm just zis guy, you know?

(A quotation from Gag Halfrunt, Zaphod Beeblebrox's "personal brain care specialist".)
When I worked with loans for a middleman type of digital service, it was impossible to provide help to people with protected data. Nothing is visible when you take a credit report, so we couldn't do more after that. The consumers in question that I talked to said they were denied by every bank they talked to, they only came halfway through the process and I discovered the same thing when I tried once when knowing beforehand and a few times figuring it out on that step of the process.
The way my house is set up, I doubt it would be dramatic for me. My hot water is already turned down. It seems like a big project to install a heat exchanger given the space it would need to be in.
That's because the place you are looking for these people with hobbies is the place where people who want to "go pro" are going to start that journey.

At least in my case, if I'm talking to friends that have a hobby they don't think about that at all. It's selection bias.
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A lack of safety net and hustle culture means people are busy leetcoding than tinkering or pursuing hobbies. Its hard to pursue hobbies when one can barely afford to buy a house while my buddy leetcoded to a 300k job and bought a house next to my favorite brewery. Also I am spending more time watching youtube and tiktok videos of my hobbies than actively pursuing them.
Not really in light of multiple other new studies indicating that they wreck insulin regulation and your microbiome.
I consume them but have come to the conclusion that they are probably pretty bad in light of this new science.
How long until they're forced by investors to drop the act and just be an ad company?

Seriously, has a single Google project outside the Gsuite had any success ever?
Not gonna get into the details, as it's company proprietary code, but we aren't talking about a weekend project. This is a large, complex product that has a significant user-base, and it also has to handle a bunch of legacy stuff.
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