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I can very much relate to your experience of theaters becoming corrupted by crummy programming and non-film advertisements as well as the audience being poorly "moderated" by the ushers. I have a very strong aversion to all of these things.

If the option is available to you, I'd like to recommend a medium-sized chain of theaters in the US called The Alamo Drafthouse. They're slowly expanding across the US and I find their approach refreshing:

Firstly, their business and programming exudes a real love for film and cinema that you only see in a superficial way at Regal Theaters or an equivalent. It's a good mix of big-studio releases, indie films (which they often make efforts to highlight and platform) and old films that are beloved or noteworthy. It's a very well-mixed bag. Quite often they host specially-themed showings or events that expand the traditional experience.

I'd say their big blind-spot is in not programming what I'd call "film school" films: Films that are extremely niche or academically interesting or avant-garde. I imagine it's hard to consistently pack a theater for a Pasolini retrospective or something from the Lumiére Brothers. That said my local branch (Los Angeles) features a replica video rental shop in the lobby that is EXTREMELY well-curated with DVDs that you can rent for free.

A quality that I find endearing from this franchise is that they play unique pre-roll footage while you wait for the lights to go down that is specifically curated for the movie that you're there to view. For thirty minutes prior to showtime they play everything and anything that is thematically related to the movie you're about to watch: Does the movie star Bryan Cranston? They'll play an old aspirin commercial that he acted in in the 90s. Are you seeing a Spiderman Movie? They'll play footage from the 1980s Turkish Spiderman movie where Spiderman wields a pistol and stabs people. It's all very good-natured and fun and infinitely more enjoyable than watching trashy word-scramble puzzles, or advertisements for a local dealership.

Finally, their biggest innovation is that the theaters have integrated the serving of food and drink (entire meals and alcohol) into the experience. Every audience member's reclining seat has a desk in front of it and a staff-member will quietly come in and take orders that you can write on a card. Now this may be a good thing or a bad thing to you, but what it also means is that each theater is moderated by a crew of 2-3 servers who regulate any disturbances or unwanted behavior. I've definitely pulled out my phone to text at one point and been told I need to do so out in the hall.

Anywho, whether you're able to attend The Drafthouse or not I hope you find a way to reconnect with the experience of seeing movies. It's something I greatly value and love to share with everyone.
Thank you. Very valid points and feedback.

We would not position our product to very large enterprises with thousands of users. Indeed, they will deploy best of breed products - separate SSO, separate password manager, separate VPN etc. The key is that companies like that have the resources to manage all these products separately - sync users back and forth, onboard users into each of those products separately, manage SSH keys, answer call center calls resetting passwords, and more.

We position our product for organizations with 1000 employees and below. We want an employee to install a mobile app, access company portal and have access to ALL she needs in one place. Simplicity of integrated solution paired with passwordless is what we focus on currently. Why use 5 different tools and login 5 times?

Okta is a great product with deep enterprise roots and a lot of integrations with legacy systems. We focus on simplicity and provide major Single Sign-On capabilities today that an organization of 1000 employees would need - catalog of SAML pre-integrated applications https://integrations.idemeum.com, SCIM provisioning, integration with HR system for user management, native passwordless, RBAC, auditing, password vault.

Regarding the secrets we believe that going passwordless and applying strong decentralized authentication will significantly reduce attack vector and compromise probability. If I recall correctly, Okta breach was due to a stolen password.
I don't know when and I don't know how, but at some point we're going to have to start attaching provenance to data instead of building stringly typed systems where we copy data around as snippets of text orphaned from all possible context.

I suspect the biggest problem with that is not languages and frameworks, which are definitely going to be a problem, but databases. There is no way to map any of this into columns in any database I know about, and I don't know whether databases or operating systems evolve more slowly but they're both bottom quartile for sure. If you build provenance into or onto a prominent databases, we could have multiple frameworks and toolchains within a couple of years.

If you squint a little, Rails has a 1-bit provenance facility, in the form of "have I escaped this string for display in HTML yet?" That is one of a number of aspects that make up "where did you get this?". Rails also has a bespoke system that won't log anything stored in a field called 'password', but it would be better if we could tag tokens, passwords, and private communications as privileged information, and carry that around even if someone does something questionably like interpolates a password into an error message, and then someone else prints that error where it can be seen.

Things get a little tricky with interpolation, because now I need some sort of cardinality to say that the union of data of Type X and Type Y results in data of Type Y, or better Type X,Y which we treat more conservatively because of strict rules on Type Y data.

When I was in college I was briefly recruited by a company that made a Unix Window Manager for the Defense and Intelligence communities. The elevator pitch had a sort of simpler version of this idea. You had a different desktop for each security level, and the clipboard only worked from low security to high security windows. You could paste information from a window showing generally available information into a classified document, but you could not paste from a classified window back into an unclassified document. Yes that meant you couldn't paste a quote from a Presidential Speech out of a classified document, but you also couldn't accidentally select the next three lines of text and past those someplace bad.
Aesthetics of public installations has sharply declined since its heyday in the 19th century, so he was probably right.
I just bought my first smartphone motorola stylus and I find the on-screen keyboard to be too small for my fingers so I use the stylus to poke my way around. I am also not finding the assorted swipe shortcuts to be natural for me. I really wanted a CAT phone as they are rugged and no frills but they are vendor locked. I had to find something to replace my throw-away flip-phone as VRZN is shutting off its network. If I can find an unlocked CAT I will just root the Motorola, nuke the Google cruft and use it strictly as an MP3 player. The Fairphones also look nice and easy to fix but not sold in the US.

So no, I do not believe you are an imbecile. There are probably large screen keyboard apps but then giving a keyboard apps to interact with everything sounds like a sub-optimal route.
Just VPN to a country with a cheaper monthly. Use the Privacy app to get a new CC#. Get your Premium that way.
Yes, and its a movement into the wrong direction. I do not trust the vendors to run code on co-processors that i have no control over. I somewhat expect it to be spyware and ads/data collection soon.
A lot of comments focused on their software engineering applications, but this article is about Home Depot online applications which are likely not for technical or computing positions. Many of their applicants might be great at handiwork but rarely use a computer (and may not need to use one regularly on the job).

I was recently helping my father in law apply for entry level jobs. He isn't that old but is not a very computer literate person, and he was getting extremely frustrated when he would walk into a grocery store / thrift shop / hotel with a printed resume but they wouldn't accept it and were always telling him he needed to go through their online application portals... which he struggled to fill out on his own.

I helped him fill out a few and honestly I can't even blame him for struggling on some of the application portals; one in particular for a Hilton hotel was absolutely awful online applications that constantly hit errors or timed out for no good reason. Some were hard to find online, and of course the classic re-entering all the same info in different ways for online forms quickly gets annoying.
Just to be clear...

You're absolutely sure, 100%, this is Meta employees themselves calling you? And Meta sending you e-mails?

Not spammers, of which there are many, and they get your contact info from all sorts of places? And which often lead you to believe they're Meta when they're really just scamming you or trying to sell ad placement consulting/optimization services?

Because with "multiple" calls and emails... this sounds like 3rd-party spammers, not something Meta does. And while Meta has been loose in the past with walling off information internally (to put it mildly...), it's not like they sell your contact info to spammers or anything (simply because it's not worth the effort, the money's way too small for a company of their size). Third-party spammers, on the other hand, will get your personal info from anywhere and everywhere.

For you to make a credible claim that Meta is using your 2FA contact info for marketing, you've really got to be sure that it's 1) actually Meta contacting you and 2) that they got your phone number specifically from 2FA and not just from looking it up publicly the way salespeople do.
Credit Union?
Profits are hugely volatile due to weird accounting rules (e.g. if a company holds a publicly traded subsidiary, and that sub's price drops in the quarter, all the capital loss is counted immediately as negative for "net profit" now, IIRC due to recent accounting changes).

Better proxy to look at top line if you want a really rough picture of overall health.

Otherwise, you need to make meticulous adjustments to bottom line, justify those adjustments, and only then do you do a bit better than top line.
Nice of you to prioritize wealthy company owners over your own income.
When I'm actually interested in a company/position, and cold-calling, I'll actually go though the Apply button forms (even though the forms almost always seem poorly implemented).

Where I next cut off things is if I invest in their forms, but then they don't seem serious or savvy on their end.

The most common problem here is that they say they want a Staff, Principal, or technical cofounder person-- but the interview process hoops seem to be for zero-experience new college grad filtering, or for hazing.

IMHO, the biggest thing many tech companies -- from startups to FAANGs -- need to hear about hiring top talent is that they aren't Google, and they can't just copy Google's rituals, without having Google's reputation and value proposition.
There's a difference between thermodynamic efficiency and cost efficiency. Extracting 40% of the energy in the wind for $500 is very often going to be better than extracting 70% for $5000.
We're solving exactly this problem with Hathora. Checkout a blog post that we recently wrote: https://blog.hathora.dev/scalable-websocket-architecture/

You're welcome to checkout the docs and get started: https://docs.hathora.dev/#/buildkit/README

If you'd like to get in touch, feel free to shoot me a message: sid [at] hathora.dev
With Nim `nimble build -d:danger -d:lto --passC:-march=native` I just got 1920 frames/s while with your rust build only 1237 fps on the same machine (EDIT: and 1307 frames/s with C++.)
Moving parts, noise. These are the reasons PV is likely to continue to dominate most deployments.
A couple times ago when I poked my head back in on my old pal, the Linux Desktop, to see how it was doing, I picked Ubuntu, and, because I'd gotten used to it on Mac, selected disk encryption at install.

This worked fine.

Months later (in this case I just left it connected to a TV and occasionally used it for gaming or whatever) I let it do an OS upgrade and it forgot how to read its disk when it rebooted. I spent maybe 30 minutes trying to fix it (former heavy Gentoo user, so I'm comfortable troubleshooting boot—among other—issues) without making any progress at all, then decided that was the end of that particular check-in with desktop linux. Maybe next time (spoiler: nope, though for different reasons. But maybe the next next time...)

I haven't tried encrypting a Linux root disk since.
Wait until you look up Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Thank you for reading through the security paper. Please find relevant points that explains the product security.

1. We have been very diligent and do not expose any sensitive user related metadata in any public api that is unauthenticated. The API's are protected using authenticated session that are established with unphishable passwordless MFA.

2. There are multiple things to highlight here. First of all, the user credentials use client-side cryptography and there are no keys in the cloud infrastructure to decrypt for attacker or even idemeum team. Second, the credentials are protected with AEAD that adds an additional integrity and authenticity check on the encrypted data. Third, we have diligently provisioned the cloud infrastructure using private vpc, subnets, security groups and role-based access that makes it harder for attacker.

3. idemeum password vault does not persist the user key in the extensions local storage. The key is broken into shares using cryptographic algorithm and distributed using multiple parties. the key is reassembled when a sufficient number of shares are combined and is used on-demand when required and discarded.

4. saving the recovery in the third-party cloud is optional. users can choose to save the recovery key in their personal backup if needed.
How huge, do you think? I imagine that in actuality 10% would be enough to move the market, especially if other players do the same.
I believe there is a lot of ignorance about NDAs, in particular by people who just default to NDA'ing all external parties. Doing a lot of NDAs can be helpful in creating a legal record that you communicated with another party.

Enforcing an NDA is more difficult then a lot of people think. If you have a legal department you can threaten to sue an individual for anything including breach of an NDA and in that sense it can be effective. But the only times an NDA has been enforced in my working experience is when there is real theft of intellectual property and you don't need an NDA to prevail in that situation.

https://www.acc.com/resource-library/issues-enforcing-nondis...
Welp, it was fun while it lasted.
Correct. The companies exist for the shareholders not the customers.
Maybe it's just an error due to a false friend? I didn't know "smelten" in Dutch meant "melting". Etymonline says English actually got the word from Dutch:

> smelt (v.) mid-15c. (implied in smelter), from Dutch or Low German smelten, from Proto-Germanic *smelt- (source also of Old High German smelzan, German schmelzen "to melt"), from PIE *smeld-, variant of PIE root *mel- (1) "soft." Thus the word is related to melt (v.). Related: Smelted; smelting.

As usual, once the word was adopted into English, it started rapidly changing in meaning.
Or WhatsApp for that matter, which has access to a lot more people's contacts, even those who might otherwise deny contacts permission to Facebook Messenger.
Is there such a thing for go?
A generative, predictive model for menstrual cycle lengths
> Surely nobody thinks Skinner explains anything on a deeper level anymore?

I know an academic animal behaviorist who swears that his is the only predictive model of any use, and that includes human behavior.
I work in aviation, and every one of these stories grips me. The complexity of the systems the military uses is enormous, but I especially liked the tremendous effort the Navy put into getting him to a hospital on land within hours.
HOAs are much better, not worse replacement. If I don’t like HOA rules, I have more ability to affect these than to affect county, state or federal level rules. I can also vote with my feet by moving out of HOA, to a different HOA or even to a place with no HOA. Moving out of county, state or country has significant higher cost, which is higher the bigger the administrative unit is. In short, for any given problem with HOA, municipal/state/federal government has the same problem, and in fact it’s worse there.
Yes ! I have found a couple of constant ~100W loads (faulty fridge, broken hot water sensor causing constant pumping) that were costing hundreds of pounds a year.
Windows and AMD/Intel doe remote attestation already. This is not a theoretical development, Windows does this. Practically nobody uses Linux as their daily driver and even then the government wouldn't care. DRM and "trust" solutions are already a problem on free operating systems (like the 720p cap on Netflix content).

This isn't a slippery slope, this is a vertical surface that was erected over seven years ago when SGX hit the market, just standing there.

Luckily the content I watch on Netflix is also freely available through torrents so I don't usually notice the difference, but the DRM fight was lost long ago. Whatever evil things the government is planning on enacting won't be beaten by someone telling the police officers that they use Arch btw.
I didn’t even blink when I saw the cost of a family plan for YouTube+YouTube Music increase. My wife and I prefer YouTube Music to Apple Music (which we get from an Apple+ family plan) and we watch a lot on YouTube. I know that there are tools to block YouTube ads, but it seems more ethical to me to pay for something we use hours a day.

Pardon some humor: I laugh when non-tech friends don’t want to pay for ad-free YouTube but they will spend a ton of money every month at Starbucks.

Between lots of quality material on philosophy, beautiful background nature videos, Lex Firdman interviews, online class materials, Dust sci-fi short films, etc., etc. YouTube is probably the best value of anything I spend money for.
Right.

There have always been novel concept planes but they usually fall apart for practical reasons

* SSTs like Concorde use a lot more fuel and have to be narrow, to the point of sacrificing comfort

* blended wings are not desirable for passenger comfort; people like windows and hate middle seats

* airplanes have to fit within the constraints at operating at airports that currently exist. Cities are not going to build new airfields or modify existing ones for billions of dollars for what might be a technological fad instead of a long term improvement, so you pretty much need to fit existing gates, existing runway widths and weight limits, etc. The A380 needed such modifications and therefore could not be flown everywhere.
Also C# is quite reasonable.
> All the accessible coal and oil have already be exhausted

The Powder River Basin would like a word...
I guess this sounds better in many ways than "the funding model of the Web will be advertising".
SiriSpy – iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
Well those sort of time differences would make a difference.

But usually 90% of the response time for the api request is the time it took the SQL server to execute the relevant queries.
> It hasn't been so far, not even close.

Yes, it will take a little time for the supply and demand curves to adjust. And, of course, popular/richer areas may not adjust down as much as less popular/poorer areas.

> Even if not, there's risk that you won't gain off whichever investment is chosen.

This is political, but if the US government lets its stock market indices fall/stagnate over the long term (5 to 10 years), we probably have bigger problems to worry about.

> Even if not, there's risk that you won't gain off whichever investment is chosen. While paying off a home early (no matter the interest rate) is guaranteed to pay off financially.

FDIC guaranteed savings accounts are offering 2.5% to 3% these days. I presume a higher mortgage rate means higher guaranteed savings account rates.
I agree the others are even worse than this, but all of them really are terrible, did 5th graders make these?
People aren't just "trying to discuss it". Plenty of outright racism in Sweden.
Numpy would probably be even slower here. Numpy is good when you have large arrays, but it adds roughly .1 to 1 us per call in overhead.
Yeah, we definitely keep the work minimal up front. My process is to filter applications down to anyone who's completed the little 5-minute problem. Then I'll send each of them a quick note thanking them for their application, and asking a question about the answer they submitted. (Generally I can just pick from a small set of questions, since there are a very limited number of ways to solve it given the simplicity.) That starts a dialogue where I can learn a bit more about how they think, and they can see that I'm actually interested/invested.

From there we make a shortlist based on those discussions and résumés (and cover letters if present), and move on to a few more involved programming tests, which try to replicate the actual kind of work that would be done here. (Each was taken from actual development or bug fixes we did in the past, then simplified and encapsulated to make a reasonable assignment.) We start with one of these and ask that the applicant pull the assignment repository, create a branch, make some commits as appropriate to solve the problem, and then start a pull request, which we review much like we would an internal code review. We also encourage them to ask questions and share thoughts throughout the process, as they would as a member of the team.

Through all of this the goal is to show both sides what it would be like to actually work together. (As well as to demonstrate to the applicant that we are as invested in this process as they are.)

I'm sure we do lose some good applicants with the initial quick question on the application, but it does serve to filter out essentially all of the really bad applicants, which gives me the freedom to give real attention to those who remain.
It was Wired magazine in 1997. I think it's safe to assume that most or all of them had a Buddhist bent, or at least affected one.
> Only through a bizarre redefinition of peoples' rights

What is bizarre about them, and how does it "redefined" rights?
Watching advertisements is completely optional.
This is actually a really nice write up for people deciding which language to learn/use if they aren't constrained.
you could also just have find run the grep for you as well

`find . -type f -name \*.py -exec grep homestring {} \;`

It's not exactly equivalent, however, I often will just use find directly for simple actions.
There is one kind of time that is real and important. That is naptime.