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I think I personally know many people that will simply use the extra time to work another job, thus erasing the intended benefit to the generous company.

They work you less so that you will have better morale and energy and loyalty while you are there. But you use the time to collect a 2nd paycheck, and the gets the same tired employee they would have had if they just worked you fully the old way.

I don't know what could practically be done about that.

It also seems like a 6 month trial where the participants are still the exception not the rule, doesn't really predict what would happen if it became the rule. If most companies adopted this as a norm, surely simply the average salery would just inch down over time until it became essentially necessary and the norm to work 2 jobs, since the 4-day job won't actually be enough by itself except in theory, like how minimun wage is supposed to be enough in theory.

There will always be huslters aggressively trying to maximize every minute, and they will always set, or at least perturb, the going rates for things. I think this experiment can only really exist as a special bubble experiment where the ceos just wanted to do it, and all employees were convinced to voluntarily play along and not just fill the gap with a side job. Maybe there can always be some few companies that can do it as their particular distinctive policy just like there already are different companies with different cultures and norms. But across the board? I think the hustlers and hungry scrappers will just set the going rates.
Good read, thanks. Are there any users of Gitless among us? I'm curious to know if anyone is using it full time.
I second this comment - aerospace and adjacent industries have a ton of embedded C work for all levels of experience. As others have mentioned, I would expect the automotive industry to be very similar, but I don't have any personal experience there. Good luck!
Would've been interesting to have AI in music engraving software... but alas, this wasn't about Presonus Notion
I'm still not quite sure you're after, but I guess it would be this quote on page 3:

> 14) Compare the total liabilities from the Client Liability Report extracted from Kraken’s production database as observed within Procedure 5 to the total assets controlled by the Kraken custodied addresses (the “In-Kind Assets”) as of the specified date and time of the assessment time and
calculate the collateralization ratio based on the In-Kind Asset-to-Client Liability mapping provided by Kraken Management
I forgot to screenshot the post. But I saw a post on Blind, from a BBC user (which could or could not be a reporter) asking for people to tell stories about the layoffs. I was blown away. I always assumed reporters will try to find someone and talk to them face to face (via zoom or in person) to gather intel on news stories.
Gitless is great, and to be fair is already mentioned in the article.
Sometimes the brutal truth is the best anecdote. Does it hurt? Yes, but so do needles and countless other medical procedures. Pain != harm.
What does $3B of road maintenance look like? Is there a positive ROI on it?
Fair.

In my experience, embedded work really isn't about C programming at all, and is more about understanding the device drivers / manuals. You _happen_ to be programming in C, but the real skillset is reading CPU-manuals or device manuals.

Its not "void foobar(int blah){}" that's hard to write. Its knowing how many cycles IO-pin B needs to be held low for.

Just a hobbyist here with ATMega328pb stuff and various 8052 stuff + some college-level student training. Not really a professional at this. But I figure the pros do similar kinds of work. And its really not the CPU-manuals that are hard (CPU manuals are often written clearly and relatively concisely). Its the various I2C boards and SPI boards that don't always function correctly that's the issue... and struggling through some incomplete / poorly written docs on that matter. (But you got like 10 spare parts you can experiment / blow up with. So its just a matter of playing with the darn thing until it works...)

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Asking for a C programmer would be like asking for a journalist who has "English Writing experience". Like... yeah, that's... expected. But that's not what you ask for. The skills they need are far beyond "just" C programming.
You can use AppleScript to copy them into other apps. Though a lack of an API is annoying.
I tried it and cannot recall why that one failed. It missed one of my requirements of

* must be a native app, not a shitty web app

* must be able to run on my Mac & iThings as well as my collaborator's Windows & Android phone

* must be able to collaborate with other people

* must be able to ingest a decade of Evernote gracefully

* that includes attached images and PDFs, I make comics

* must deal with actual rich text, markdown is nice for commenting on the internet but notes need more
I have a LicheePi and a VisionFive 1. The LicheePi is really tiny and really cute, and it's no more than $30. However, it's essentially a Raspberry Pi Zero and so is super slow. The VF1 is like the LicheePi but hugely upgraded, as it's got a whopping TWO cores and a full 8GB of RAM. Both of these boards lack GPUs and so are painful to use as desktops because the CPU is doing all the rendering. Overall, they work shockingly well if you want a working RISC-V device.
This is a very good question.
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Honestly, I have loved git ever since I started using it.

- I use sourcetree for committing, it is a great UI tool for seeing your commit graph and just entering commit messages / partial commits / selecting which files to commit

- I use command line for all pulling/merging/fetching/branching etc. Git command line is just so simple IMO (once you get a short intro to it).

- Repairing issues in git is honestly not difficult.

- The hardest part of git is branching, merge conflicts, and squashing. When you combine all 3 is where it gets challenging if you don't know how to avoid any gochas. But it does make for nice revision history.

So I guess if you are doing some crazy complicated git stuff, I can't speak to that. But in 8 years I can definitively say I have only enjoyed git, and have often been the person to debug issues with people using git, and it is always a fairly simple thing to un-screw things up.

Criticism: push -f is definitely a dangerous operation. I can see why the mercurial team said no history rewriting period.
I never installed it, because there are too many other ways to make notes. They were solving a problem that was already solved, albeit imperfectly.

I can send an email to myself. If it's a person's info, I can put them in Contacts. Or I can have a Google Doc called "Notes" where I write stuff. All of those have interfaces I already know.

One can validly object that all of those methods have drawbacks. But they've worked well enough for me that I wasn't wishing for Evernote and one more thing to learn.
Perhaps a better system: US set up a website to enter your cancelled flight/missed flight because of security and the amount, airline, proof of ticket, etc...

Airline has 36 hours to process a refund or direct payment or US fines the airline $7M each DAY there is at least 1 customer that has not received a refund.
It's worse than that; wealth aside it seems like every time people come together they can't seem to reliably reform or reject the bad actors.

That said, systems for routinely rotating the top of the hierarchy (such as taxation or term limits) are helpful to be sure.
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> I rarely have seen (1) come into play. I'm sure it happens, but there is a lot of scrutiny of the stack rank, enough where I think it would be hard to pull off.

In Amazon you will be PIPed (or rather put in focus, which is a first step that may lead to PIP) if you are marked as "Least effective" which is the bottom 15%.

Your manager has to demonstrate why you are "Least Effective", and they have to demonstrate why you are "Top tier". However, they don't really have to justify themselves to put you in the middle of the pack, where you will be safe from PIP.

So, for sure, you may not be ranked in the top of the team if you're buddy with your boss, which means you won't get a salary increase for example, but at least you won't be PIPed, which in the end is what I assume most people care the most about.
Not deltasevennine, but giving the CPU fewer things to do sounds good to me (in any context), even if it is currently unpopular. Some cults are popular and some aren't.
And why are they not paying attention 99% of the other time? When people lose faith in institutions it's not because they're dumb. They understand things.

And then to be gaslit into thinking "don't trust your eyes", you can see why some people are pretty angry nowadays.
The same could be said of writing x86 machine code directly in the binary format: it's the language every other language eventually executes in, so it can demonstrably do anything they can do.

Obviously C is a much better programming language for human use than x86, but the mere fact that a high-level language can be implemented in a low-level language is not evidence that the low-level language has no limitations. The limitations live in meatspace, between keyboard and chair, but they're very real.
The firm in question only lent to institutional investors and so they [likely] never pretended they weren't securities. They lent to accredited/qualified investors, just as the regulations prescribe.

This [likely] isn't one of the firms trying to squirm around securities laws. And those securities laws don't prevent losses or anything specific from occurring.
That's the danger with putting measures like this in place as a reaction to a shocking event. Once done it's nearly impossible to undo (Patriot Act, NSA Surveillance Act, etc., are more good examples).

It reminds me of Norway's response to the Utoya massacre. IIRC in a speech at the time the gov said they weren't going to change their system because of one terrorist. (I might be remembering wrong but that's what stuck with me.) The US on the other hand took the opportunity to ram through as many "security" provisions through as possible which are with us to this day and can no longer be questioned as to whether they are indeed necessary or helpful.
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I am amazing at shell scripting, in particular bash. It has generated thousands of dollars in side quest style work at large $orporations.

Knowing a thing or two about Python and Pandas and Sqlite has also been very profitable.
Thanks! Couldn't say this better.

I'm not arguing about the approaches as such, I've stated that cargo culting around any of them is a bad thing by itself.

Blindly imitating something for which you didn't fully grasp all pros and cons will at best not help you and in most cases make things worse.
I don't really understand Elon's point of "hardcore" here. I get that for a startup like spacex, you really do need to be all-in. What's hardcore about Twitter at this point?
> Git has been trying to create less confusing commands (like splitting git checkout into git switch and git restore)

I really don't know why anyone would use these new "easy" commands. They don't feel that much better and their existence irks me because now there's even more ways to do the same thing.
I sometimes think that staging area could be represented as a special WIP commit instead. Non pushable, automatically squashing. This potentially could cut amount of commands to learn by third. But of course I'm missing something important.
They became sorta famous over here for developing the Covid19 contact tracing app "Immuni" that was then adopted by the Italian Ministry of Health.
Being a government project, they probably got a life-changing amount of money because of that. I can't comment on the quality of the app as i never used it.

https://github.com/immuni-app
Follow this to its conclusion - you "own" the coins, but they're on a hard drive hidden somewhere while you rot in jail for fraud. Do you own those coins?

Can you functionally use them in the way you intend to?

Are they fungible currency for which you have access to goods and services (hah! they're not that even now...)

You don't get to "opt out" from society with a clever technical trick and some cryptography. For better or worse, we're in this together.

Society is not a thing you can delegate to other people. It's literally the deal we're all working with as a group. If you think the group is making bad decisions... make a compelling argument and put it in front of the group. Or Leave. Or rebel.

The ledger entry doesn't do you much good when you're bound by the covenants of the society you live in, and they think the ledger is wrong.

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The only place it may help is if you plan on intentionally breaking the covenants (ex: committing crime and fraud, such as black market deals - where I do actually believe crypto has a compelling use case [and have used it for such on the og silk road]). But now it's just a twist on the "rebel" category, and governments can and will treat it as such (see: China).
Respectfully, I think you're being a little uncharitable here.

I'm on the periphery of the EA / Longtermist scene — I have friends and customers in that space and have studied and hung out some. I recently went to one of the online events — EAGx Virtual — so I got to see what people actually care about, are working on, the methodologies being used, etc.

One way that might be helpful to think about "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" is that they're rather loose labels, more similar to "Democracy" than "Member of XYZ Political Party or NGO" — while there's some loose unifying threads across people who hold those views, there are very many different nuanced views about what good implementation can look like and how individual people and groups relate being effective and benevolent.

Then, the people doing the best work in that space are doing some incredible things that have already had short-term high-impact results in the world like doing hyper-rigorous work on how to cure and treat and prevent diseases in the developing world, and then actually getting those things funded and checking the results. It's also very much _not_ uniformly "just use a spreadsheet" - a lot of people there take dialogue, conversation, and engagement qualitatively to ensure good is happening very seriously.

For instance, a talk I attended at EAGx Virtual covered this - https://whatworkswellbeing.org/about-wellbeing/how-to-measur... - I haven't been able to dive deeply into the methodology, but it looks incredibly thoughtful and with many practical applications. I'm, personally, really happy people are doing work like that.

Then, simultaneously there are people in the EA/Longtermist space that are working on more speculative potential problems — pandemic preparedness, reducing the risk of nuclear war, and yes AI Safety. To the latter point, empirically a lot of people in AI Safety seem more worried about very practical can-definitely-be-anticipated risks of things like, e.g., USA-China rivalry and what types of regulations, markets, and general consensus might prevent that from going badly. Obviously highly speculative futuristic ideas are sexier and get more attention than "boring routine stuff" but international conventions against, for instance, Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWs) seems like a really prudent thing to at least explore and see if an international consensus could be built around similar to the Geneva or Hague conventions.

As for "EA-think" I don't agree with Aaronson's assessment. I'm n=1, but there's not a single monolithic viewpoint.

Some really exceptional work is being done by some very thoughtful people there. Undoubtedly some bad or sloppy work is being done, as is true in just about any domain. But on balance I've found the people there to be quite thoughtful and doing some really valuable things for the world with a lot of sincerity and rigor.
> Do they weigh a lot more then a fully built ICE engine+transmission/clutch assembly+full gas tank?

A 2018 Fiat 500e (electric, with a tiny battery bank good for only ~90 miles) weighs almost 3000 pounds, whereas the same car with ICE is ~2400lb.

So yes, electric is a lot heavier. And that Fiat battery bank is mostly too small to be practical (had two of these on lease, gone now) so a a larger bank with usable range is even heavier.
R is a trash of a language. It doesn't have any sense of coherency to it at all.
They keep trying to fix the underlying problems by ducktaping paradigms on to it over and over (S3, S4, R6, etc). There's never a clear sense of the best way to do anything, but plenty of options to do a thing in a very hacky 'script-kiddy' way.
Looking out at the community of different projects it becomes clear that everyone is pretty lost as to what design principles should be used for certain tasks, so every repo has its own way of doing things (I know personal style occurs in other languages, but commonalities are much less recognizable in R projects).
It's tragic that such a large community uses it.
While I think you're absolutely correct in theory there are a lot of people on the risk management side using bad data to argue the opposite. Personally I know for people in my life it's not enough to discuss the fact that the COVID Vaccine may or may not be as effective as the media says, we're not talking percentages of effectiveness, but they'll send me articles with no data implying that vaccines kill kids (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170075/). Or Articles like Alex Berensons misleadingly taking half of a graph from a 40 page report out of context: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/30/alex-beren...

I think there's a pretty narrow set of people actually trying to have the debates you mention, and I agree the world would be a much better place if we did.

I suspect it's because if you want an audience, it's really hard to get people excited about a few percentage points of different risk.
I always try to just skip to the (year) identification scheme, which is potentially less confusing (unless I'm actually looking at my specific piece of hardware), unless they release multiple iterations each year, which it seems they've done a couple times.
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Similar experience, I had a Frontier plan land in a different airpot 80 miles away. They said to just take an Uber to the original destination, and submit the Uber receipt. The ride was almost $200 since the entire planeful of folks were doing the same (I imagine it went into surge pricing.)

How does one actually enforce their verbal promise of reimbursement. Is there a government agency where people file their complaints?
CDs are also at risk of disc rot, which might be a non issue for hundreds of years or fail within 20 depending on the CD and storage.

From a Library of congress study:
"The mean lifetime for the disc population as a whole was calculated to be 776 years for the discs used in this study. As demonstrated in the histograms in Figures 18 and 19, that lifetime could be less than 25 years for some discs, up to 500 years for others, and even longer."

https://cdm.link/2017/02/a-generation-of-cds-is-already-rott...
There is no bad vs good micro-service architecture. It is just that micro-service architecture imposes a different kind of penalty on co-ordination and debugging. Instead of intra-component dependency, it moves it to inter-service dependency. Each service might look simple, but the complexity is moved to service communications. It is not that obvious, imho.
> It's been more than once that we've seen hackers completely wipe people's digital lives? I mean, how problematic will logging in to many of these services be if Google decides to lock your account?

There are still much more convenient and technically superior methods than using physical paper copies if that is your concern.

> ask Trump, he really doesn't want to release that information for one reason or another.

Using "unscrupulous, if not criminal, activity" as an example in this instance doesn't seem like the best argument.
I love, love LOVE TickTick. It is a note-taking and todo list app and everything is so frictionless like I've never seen before. Also supports markdown notes. I'm only concerned that it looks like a Chinese Todoist clone. The about page doesn't is suspiciously elusive.
Teams are so small. As in commonly 1 hardware and 1 software engineer.

You at least need some common vocabulary. "Hey the gpios are floating at startup and messing with the meter. Can we pull them down? Hmm no but perhaps we can reset the meter after startup to a known state." That sort of thing.
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Half the problem, no? The other half being the police.
I haven't actually played with this, but if the same pattern of lazily (sloppily?) returning arbitrary pointers along with errors continues, the lifetime ought to be extended arbitrarily. The caller could itself return val, err, and so on up the chain.
I’m able to embed images into the Joplin app - not sure how long ago you tried?
I would agree with that figure.

Personally I assign development to more of a "creative" role than a lot of people tend to. Your productivity can often depend on your inspiration, moreso the more senior/architectural your role is.

I've certainly had moments where I accomplished more at one 3am moment of clarity than an entire week before - and I think most experienced developers can say the same.
I've sometimes heard it called the "Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners" due to this article: https://medium.com/org-hacking/pioneers-settlers-town-planne...

Basically, different people are best suited to different stages of the organizations growth. I can see how that might also apply to the CEO in crisis vs not-crisis mode.
> The frame element has been completely removed, the hgroup element is gone, and so is the dir element. acronym is deprecated in favour of abbr. isindex, plaintext, xmp, and listing are all dead.

Those are all basically cosmetic/layout related, though. The text itself is still perfectly readable.
Yep. American gave me a voucher that only I could use within 12 months.
> Bailouts of defined-benefit pension plans would probably only be necessary if the high-interest regime continues for many years.

In my perspective, the bailout has been happening for decades, every time the federal government steps in to prevent broad market prices from substantially declining.

Not only have politicians been keeping labor costs low by using high ROI assumptions, they have been underfunding DB pension plans even with those rosy assumptions providing low costs for budgeting purposes.

For this reason, I think it is safe to assume the government will backstop equity prices over the long term (5+ years). It would not be politically popular amongst the voting population to let them fall.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...
No, the CLI prevents that because the remote is unlikely to know how to interpret conflicts. In a future where the remote understands conflicts, then you'll be able to push conflicts to a remote and collaborate on the conflict resolution.
Chevy Bolt and Nissan Leaf are both cars I would consider to be Civic-class cars. Especially the Bolt. They also happen to be two of the cheapest EVs on the road, so it lines up.
Wouldnt you get banned from the airline in the future?
> Repairing issues in git is honestly not difficult.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1597/