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> I am constantly being told not to give out bank details

You shouldn't give out usernames and passwords. Your bank account number is not a secret.

> I'm going to have to give my bank account details to all the strangers who want to buy a few apples from me

I don't know what it's like in Ireland, but literally every business in Austria prints their bank account number on the invoice so you can pay it. Bank account numbers are not secret. There's not much people can do with a bank account number apart from send money to it.
There's so much great (and under-appreciated) content for PSVR, I really hope Sony has some kind of upgrade path tooling for developers to "remaster" existing titles for PSVR 2.
And in the East! In Asia I pay $4 per month for more data than I know what to do with.
Service is a bit spotty, but it's quite a lot cheaper.
I recently launched the Always an Engineer Podcast based on my many years of working as an engineer and engineering leader at companies like PayPal, eBay and numerous startups.

I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions for future episodes from the community!
Some Google people were trying another newer language and I completely forgot its name. People were joking around here that Rust was a thing of the past now.
At home I have a quality 32" 4k monitor parked just above my laptop (so one big screen and then the small laptop screen below). That works fine. Of course I would like a LOT more screen real estate, but I don't want to radically change my desk setup right now.

The big issue for me is that I (like to) travel a lot, and I like to travel light. Someday if/when there's a glasses solution to replace monitors, I'll be a super happy traveler. I'm just hoping to hear from people using the latest/greatest that we're close now...
This is a huge part of why I was really hoping the Twitter sale wouldn't go through. Elon is great at leading engineering companies building real hard tech. I hope his taking ownership over arguably the biggest cess pool in social media doesn't distract him from what he's better at.
In other words - ai doesnt work and nobody knows why
And soon after is blocked and you're asked for a phone number. Tried making an account with email few times, followed few profiles, made a reply, and always ended up in a verify with phone number wall.
It is legal in the US state of Oregon, and I think maybe one or two others I can't recall. You start by finding a doctor who specializes in the therapeutic use of psychedelics, and giving them a call! Watch How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan.

Be safe, be smart, and consult a professional. I don't recommend doing it "street-style" where you buy it off the black market and take it at a rave :)
The US is about the same size as the entirety of Continental Europe with less than half as many people and there is an expectation of good cellular service basically everywhere. It's much more expensive, but I've had very annoying service quality issues in Europe that I never encounter in the United States.

Europe and the US are just different places.
At a previous job, the project lead (mechanical) assigned the embedded team (2 people) writing the firmwares for 3 boards (multi-element heater control, motor controller and move orchestrator with custom BLDC setup, multi-sensor temperature probes) in 2 weeks over christmas, because the junior EE said “I can control a motor with arduino in 30 minutes.” My only guess as to why such a disconnect from reality was possible is that the EE had a MIT degree, while I’m self-taught, and that we had always delivered our firmwares on time and without bugs.
Corporations prefer oligopolies with clearly divided geographical/physical spheres of influence, ideally duopolies. Monopolies are possible only in dictatures, which even corporations don't want.
It's a resonant issue: if everyone is taught Python, it's the tool they will reach for.

And of course, Python is much more broadly applicable.

I don't like to develop in C++ because it's a tiresome mess of issues that don't exist in modern languages.

I don't care about the newer variations or whatever, I still can't do basic things or pull in a library to do it 20 years later so no thanks.

That said - it's not going to go away.

While Rust is nice, I just don't see it replacing C/C++ for a long time due to abi incompatibility etc..

C++ does require more experience, and it needs to pay well or companies won't get the talent.
Same except switched to Visible, which runs on Verizon (May even be partially owned by them, not sure).
Seems like this is a meaningful contribution to society. As are things like React and Pytorch.
‘Our worst nightmare’: Sydney zoo locked down after five lions escape enclosure
That is why bundling is generally considered anticompetitive (despite 40 years of slumber on the part of regulators, it's still illegal).

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
(a) We're talking about how immature environmentalists are. We're not talking about whether changes should be made or what those changes should be.

(b) We should draw attention to things that can improve the environment or things that are harming the environment, e.g. building more solar, wind and nuclear power; how much waste goes into retail packaging.
Seems like it would be difficult to accept for Japanese companies, after all most of their equipment isn't nearly as difficult to copy as ASML.

Also, Tokyo will likely push for concessions in exchange from Washington regarding military basing and other hot button issues.
An awesome framework! Does a lot of heavylifting and makes CRUD code a breeze! Loving it for my dashboard app.
I mean, T-Mobile was pretty good for a long time. You could buy a carrier unlocked phone direct from manufacturer and it was $70/month for unlimited everything with no contract.

But now that their CEO has quit, they've solidified as a leader the brilliant business geniuses are going back to business as usual which is what got them in dire straits in the first place.

The truth is, the entire "phone" system in 2022 is ridiculous. The fact that we still make normal phone calls not over the internet is absurd. When I buy a data only plan in another country, it comes with an assigned phone number. It has to, it's how the system works. It's so anachronistic.

The US always seems to suffer from this the worst, because we usually adopt new technology first.
> "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors". Anyone who says that - or anything anywhere close to it - is gatekeeping, no matter how true the statement is.

The original attribution of this line about monads comes from the (intentionally) comedic article "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages", published by James Iry in 2009: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

It is not a stance I have ever seen taken up in a serious manner by anybody in the FP community, and I work in PL academia (the region of the community from which I would expect to see the most snobbery). Please stop misrepresenting people based on a misunderstood joke.

There are people in the FP community who gatekeep and take on a snobbish tone — with that I do not disagree. However, their prevalence is generally overstated; it's a vocal minority situation. Most people I know or have talked to are very welcoming.
As a Vive VR owner going on ~6 years with that setup, yeah I don't know why anyone would spend as much as a PS5 for a VR headset. I really like some aspects of VR gaming, but overall, for me at least, it's pretty clear it's a very niche device.

There are a few genres that translate reasonable well to VR but most of the big categories do not. Things like sports game (Madden, NBA 22/23, NHL 22/23,etc), likely impossible to adapt to VR. Platformers, ditto. Strategy games, why? MMO's? Maybe, but probably not either.

The fast majority of actual, good / fun / successful games in VR are of a few very specific types. Wave shooters (Space Pirate Trainer, Blasters of the Universes — both excellent btw), and some FPS (ideal created specifically for VR - aka Half Life: Alyx is the gold standard). There are very few entirely new play experiences / game mechanics in VR to date; aka Beat Saber, Pistol Whip and... that's all I can think of. Both are great workout games btw. The only other great VR title that I play / played a ton is In Death, and that's a bit of a unique bow shooter, which I guess is another VR genre (bow games). Great game, probably the best of that type.

Speaking of which, I do like the physical nature of VR and for me, I tend to use it as a post-workout way to get in some extra cardio with a nice amount of hand-eye/tracking mixed in. Games like Beat Saber and Space Pirate Trainer, when played non-stop for let's say 30 minutes or so, yeah you actually burn significant calories.

Outside of that you have the sim category and that could be work if you are super into racing games, flight sims, and that sort of thing. I've played with a few race games in VR, mostly it works ok, but not quite as well as I'd of thought (but maybe I need to invest in a proper FF wheel, a gamepad kinda ruins it).

I enjoy VR gaming but I think it's going to remain a niche until we get to some crazy, super advanced state where we can by pass our eyes and 'beam' info right into the brain (however the hell that would work); aka achieving a sort of ST Holodeck level type thing. Or maybe Nintendo in a few generation will embrace VR and then we get some truly unique / new game mechanics. I don't know what else is going to break open this genre, but right now it doesn't feel like it's moving forward at all where it matters most - the software.
Question: If I own my own phones and simply swap the sim from phone A to phone B, they will charge $35 for this??
LISP is not purely functional
And just for clarity, it's not proper Visual Studio, but rather an updated MonoDevelop. Was missing quite a lot of functionality (for Unity/C#) compared to VS, so I used Rider instead.
I have been a big fan of C++ and have had used it for about 8-9 years professionally as well as for side projects. The baggage that comes with it is just not worth it. My recommendation for any new project is to go either with Go or Rust as a C++ replacement unless the environment or hardware or resource constraints does not allow you otherwise.

As an individual developer, learning and being an expert in C++ intricacies is not worth the time and effort. Instead learn more about data layout in memory, hardware, language tooling etc and write code accordingly in a much better language as per the _need_ and C++ would really only qualify for very niche requirements.
> If you only view the world through the snippets that are noteworthy enough to make headlines or get a lot of votes on Reddit, you end up with a very skewed view of what the world is like.

I think this very much depends on where you live. I'm not responding to reddit videos, I'm responding to events that my family and some friends who are in public education.
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> I have my phone set to silence calls unless they are in my contacts list. [...] Honestly I think this should be the norm. There's no reason for a random stranger to need to call you

I teach an after-school coding class. Some weeks ago, the parents of two children didn't arrive at pickup. After 20 minutes, I called the parents using the phone number listed in my company's system. The parents confirmed they were running late due to extenuating circumstances and were now ten minutes away.

I think this was probably better than involving the authorities?
Or Canada during the trucker protests.

More scary IMO because the US / Europe will never be China, but it's easy to see some president in the US logic their way into the same position as Canada, and use the same state apparatuses to banish dissenters.
I think the decision on JPEG XL as a whole is made; there were some statements in favor of adopting it on Chrome's and Mozilla's trackers before the decision from folks at Adobe, Facebook, Intel, and a newspaper, and some developers of it and natural advocates of it were inside Google; general-public comments seem less impactful than all that. If I had to guess, the trigger was Apple supporting AVIF and Chrome folks concluding AVIF "won." They might also have decided they think Apple is unlikely to ever do JXL, but they probably wouldn't comment publicly on what they think someone else will do.

The case for a Brunsli filter in the meantime is legacy JPEG content is never going away, and there will also be a long "meantime" where we know AVIF is the endpoint but it's still impractical for many because of SW encoding cost. Brunsli saves ~20%, so it's not nothing, and it's CPU-cheap.

A WASM polyfill would kind of be cool. Someone did it for Bellard's "BPG" (HEIC in a different container) in a ServiceWorker, and one just doing JPEG1 transcoding would be even lighter (and, unlike this PNG-making polyfill, would save reasonably small JPG files if the user right-clicks): https://sequentialread.com/better-portable-graphics-bpg-on-t...
“We won’t raise prices “ - t-mobile prior to merging with sprint
1. With bank details I mean name+act number. Of course we are also being told not to share login details etc. But here in the Netherlands tiny businesses and individuals do not hesitate giving you their account number if they expect payments from you. Giving your bank account was the defacto way to receive payments before moving to instant payment links. It still is for most businesses, even tiny ones like farmers and plumbers.

2. I still don't know why you think it's a problem for a farmer at a market to share their bank account number for people to pay them. Pretty much any business bank account number here is public information. But even if for some reason you think that it's hugely problematic, it's technically pretty simple to setup an instant payment system that don't require making any account number public.
You have to remember that you are not the only patient in the hospital. A Caesarean section requires a lot of setup including OR, anesthesiologist, ensuring adequate care for the newborn, etc. Any of these can cause a delay. Of course there is other cases triaged by urgency like crash sections. It would make no sense to show up to the OR 30 minutes before you can begin operating. An elective Caesarean section will always get bumped for emergencies.
This is a good example of how in the real world, everything is correlated with everything. Understanding this principle, I would expect uneven birth times and birth dates. I may not be able to guess what will cause it to be uneven (though in this particular case I would have gotten pretty close), or by how much it will deviate from uniformly random (I would have gotten this wrong to the low side), but it's sure to be something.

To put it another way intuitively, in a complicated world with so many things impacting so many other things, to have a totally uniformly random birth times or dates would essentially require some active force to smooth the times and dates out, because it is beyond implausible that absolutely nothing would have an impact. From diurnal hormone cycles, traffic cycles, preferences about surgery times, and probably another dozen things you could think of that could impact the times, it is implausible to expect that they would all be completely wrong or that they would all precisely cancel.

Uniform randomness is a very convenient mathematical fiction for making Statistics 101 problems easy enough for students to do. This is a necessary thing and it's hard to imagine how to avoid it. But in reality almost nothing is ever truly uniformly random. There's always something out there that's going to correlate it with something. It is a sad side effect of this need to simplify problems enough to be tractable by students that we end up teaching that uniform randomness is somehow the "default" distribution and the others are exceptions or something.
It's just a matter of time. All our tech gets smaller and lighter with each generation. One of these days the display glasses will be barely more than regular eyeglasses.

And just maybe in my lifetime we'll get a neural link so visual won't even be necessary to "see" the info from the computer.
Imagen is getting its first (limited) public outing
Jaw-Dropping Stats About the State of Debt in America - https://www.yahoo.com/video/jaw-dropping-stats-state-credit-...

> A recent GOBankingRates survey found that 30% of Americans have between $1,001 and $5,000 in credit card debt, 15% have $5,001 or more in credit card debt and about 6% have more than $10,000 in credit card debt. Although 6% may seem like a small amount, that means that based on the survey results, 14 million Americans have over $10,000 of credit card debt.

The change to the rates increases the amount of interest paid on holding credit card debt. That directly does impact spending for a significant portion of the population.

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The awkward part is that the fed's tools for managing the economy are rather blunt and take time to cause a change. Monetary policy vs Fiscal policy.

However, fiscal policy is tied to the gridlock in congress and so all the responsibility for managing the rate of inflation and jobs has been pushed onto the central bank... and this is what you get.

Dropping rates and raising rates are the tools that they have until a majority of elected politicians want to take the responsibility for making a decision that impacts people's finances.
And how do you do that with U2F?
Yeah, that isn't surprising, in that the book even mentions using LISP. However, this is a touch of a goal post shift with what folks typically mean by modern functional programming. (Which, to be fair, was always far more nebulous than folks admitted.)

Specifically, though, this is my point. The turtle geometry abstraction is very imperative, by nature. It is still declarative, at a high level. But it is not functional. Despite that, it can be implemented in one of the classic functional languages. (Though, lisp's origins are far more imperative than you would think.)
Sure, there are countless of apps that can do instant transfers. The issue here is that sepa instant rollout has been taking way too long and this would force it to actually be required. It's a breeze having able to transfer money between banks any time of day in a few seconds.
Where’s the anti-ORM crowd to defeat this idea?
Despite conflict, Russia sends France giant magnet for nuclear fusion project
I would really like to see how this would work against non trivial data (and queries)
Perhaps. I note that position is being advertised by Oxford Knight, a high-touch recruitment firm. Their main modus operandi is to make contact with someone looking for a job, find out what they are looking for, and then suggest particular openings on their books to them; they would have plenty of opportunity to explain about the compensation. I think these public job listings are a bit of a cheap additional thing, and aren't that important to them.
Legality varies. For the US, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_decriminalization...

But also, spores (which lack that chemical) are often legal, so if you want to avoid an illegal purchase, you could just get spores and grow your own.
I'm rooting for Golden C++.
Winter and Its Discontents
AT&T hasn't charged me an activation fee in years... yet I also hear people complaining about them from time to time. Maybe it's because I tend to buy direct from Apple?

Are these sorts of fees randomly applied by carriers? I'd definitely start shopping around for a new carrier if I was on T-Mobile.
I think T-Mobile is decent option, 30GB for $20 per month. Not cheapest but reliable. That is in East Europe, maybe you are in wrong country :)
Actually I've learned C++ in the past years and want to look into a working in embedded development. Now I'm reading that the industry is in need for C++ developers but paying bad at the same time? I'm confused.
I spent a good chunk of my life spending 1-2 weeks/month every month traveling internationally for work. AT&T has historically been insanely expensive for roaming data. The max is per-country I believe, and it is common for me to be in 2-3 countries in a trip, but even assuming this is truly a max, you just basically said T-Mobile saves me $100/month at minimum with their roaming policies.
Anecdotal but Lil Nas X was very well known on twitter before he got popular. I recognized his handle from screenshots and made the connection only after Old Town Road came out.
At one point I worked alongside some folks doing machine translation work and it was interesting seeing the older rules-based translation versus the new hotness neural translation. Often the neural models did better overall, but the inscrutability of those models meant sometimes people had no idea why weird output occurred and fixing such cases wasn't as simple as slapping on one more if-statement. It felt like a lower-stakes version of Tesla self-driving - they train it more and more, and some people report improvements, and other folks report regressions and it's not like you can go in and edit the if(carStoppedAhead) statement.
Honestly that wasn't so bad, I got two Google security keys sent to me at no charge and now I keep one in my pocket and one safely at home.

I get the general "You not trusting your dependencies is your problem", but at the same time it's really only a minor annoyance.
Single user? Mint comes out to 20 a month for 10gb if you pre pay for a year. Google fi starts at 20 and then 10 for an additional gig. That's actually way more 2x the price if you use more than 2gb of data.
If I have to guess, congestion can’t be just about the total bandwidth being used. It has to also do with the number of connections to a tower. So any densely populated areas will likely be perennially “congested”.
I spent quite literally half the last year outside of the US and suffered no such penalty. I have their unlimited plan and everything worked just fine. I don't make many calls, but when I do if you're outside of US/MX/CAN you can do so over wifi for free and my data worked fine.

Most of my time was in South America, I can't speak for overseas if this is the same.

I have never really had complaints about Google-Fi.
Full flow stage combustion is significantly more complex from my understanding.
If search across instances isn't available, then discoverability without 3rd party tooling is poor -- and the 3rd party tooling becomes the centralization point.
40% of households (out of 123m) don't pay federal taxes, so it's not their pockets being picked. 22m people have signed up for relief. Maybe you could say "a majority of taxpayers" but even that's not certain, since we don't know the distribution of those people. A lot of those taxpayers are parents of indebted students who may be supporting or housing them due to their children's financial struggles.

In any case, 22m people benefiting is far more people than the top 1% who benefited in March 2020. But compare the relative outrage.
the physics of LEO satellites and phased array antenna needed to get any bandwidth out of it makes that scenario very unlikely.
Payment/Debit cards, which work worldwide, and often are given out by the same European banks to use in supermarkets and at ATMs.