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> The easiest way would be usermode package managers like Nix, Guix, or Homebrew.

The insanity of the usermode packagers is that they're not popular enough to be easy to hire for (probably excepting Homebrew, though I've never seen it on Linux). I can grab a random resume from a stack and be almost positive that they know how to install and upgrade software with apt/yum.

I would bet the percentage of candidates who can compile Postgres and use outweigh the number that can install and use Postgres from Nix.

> I'm not sure what you mean, but you don't need root to use user namespaces (sandboxing) on any remotely recent Linux kernel.

Nah, it's not user namespaces, it's some kind of Electron sandboxing that it wants setuid root for (I have no idea why). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66816019/how-to-run-star... has the error in question.

> The same product my employer just rolled out for managing this on Windows has a native Linux version. I assume it must have competitors.

I'd be curious how that works. I've seen things in the space that have tried via intercepting kernel syscalls (SELinux, AppArmor), but those seem like failed projects to me. I've never worked anywhere that has them turned on, though maybe that's sampling bias.

> No it does not. It lets the Windows people use Windows and the Linux people still have to use Windows, and a fucked up Linux VM that can't access their hardware, has to contend with Windows broken-ass networking stack, operates extemely slowly on files that are stored where the corporation wants people to store source code (i.e., on the Windows side), etc.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but I'll take it over being forced to use Windows or Mac natively. At least it's familiar, even if it is slow.

> Why? Don't all of the material issues w/r/t endpoint management (data exfiltration, update management, anti-virus, idk) recur inside the VM anyway?

Some do, some don't. You can prevent people from plugging in a 4G dongle to exfil data. You can force VM traffic to go through the host networking stack so it gets scanned by endpoint protection. For a lot of compliance stuff, it's enough that the software works on the physical host even if it can't do anything with the VM. E.g. compliance might say that all hosts have to run anti-virus, but the physical machine is the "host" so it's okay if the guest VM doesn't run anti-virus. Same with software auditing; it's enough for the procurement people that it runs on the Windows host.

Most of the pragmatic issues recur inside the VM, but a lot of organizationally imposed ones go away. I'm not saying it's logical, but I've yet to win an argument with compliance.
Yeah, I think for your audience, pandas makes total sense! When I first started using it, it was through an ambitiously large project with tons of gaps in data, untype-able text for 1% of rows, didn't fit in memory.. etc. So my personal experience is a bit tainted by putting myself through a hell that could have solved sooner by spending more time learning instead of bashing my keyboard with a hammer.
Couldn't that be taught on mats in a gym instead of mistakes that could lead to injury?
It'd be great if google offered an option for a video call with a reviewer for $500/hr as an escalation option for businesses who are getting nowhere with the regular process. Ideally you'd get a refund if you turned out to be correct, but I'd be happy even without that.
Says he screwed up, wants to make people whole again...

When my old boss blew up it was "hmm they knew what they invested in".
Is it fair to think that "burned out" isn't always coming from an employer-employee power imbalance? Startup types or small business owners burn out. Benign employers can have employees who burn themselves out. As a freelancer, I'm quite responsible for my work habits and workload; I sometimes burn out, but I'd never think of it as having been exploited.
What's hard for me to get over is they cost as much as a used Honda Civic.
We are well past the point that any respectable developer should simply drop the Play Store and tell users to buy a better phone.

As long as you're willing to give them business, this system is working as intended. It's not going to change.
What are the order of magnitude of price launch for a cubesat nowadays?Are there already commercial prices for moon cubesats?

What's the minimal equipment required (assuming just a simple communication sat)? Does it require attitude and vector control?
Family aside how can anyone expected to be in any way productive in such mode? Mr. Musk sure does confuse people with machines, I don't see any other explanation.
Maybe capital expansion and supply growth takes longer than a few months?

I know recession definitely do, and they’re a heck of a lot easier to stop than periods of growth.

I think frenetically switching monetary policy based on a relatively short trend is probably bad no matter what.
There's only one conclusion: stay far away from google.

Don't use their products, as the possibility of having gmail cut off from you is a serious threat. Same for google voice and google cloud.

Don't publish apps for android - not at all if possible, or at least don't use the google store if you must deal with android, as the possibility of having your app that was A-OK for 5 years suddenly targeted like that is a serious threat too.

I'd add, don't ever work for google. There're not many jobs I would refuse to do, but having google as an employer is where I'd draw the line. It might be a lesser hell and easier for my conscience to work for a weapon manufacturer.
Beauty doesn't put food on the table, is my point, and I'm beyond sick of working with people who put "code beauty" before "code usefulness".

Ugly code that works pays bills. Beautiful code that doesn't work is, in a very literal sense, worthless.

I'm not against writing clean code (there's utility in that), but I feel like some folks lose the plot and quit their jobs when they can't make "beautiful" things anymore, and I think that's more often a sign of burnout than it is a desire to "return" to creating art.
To be fair, Marvel movies are handled like their comics, where you had to buy X-Men, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Hulk, Spiderman etc. to have the whole story of a saga. It was a pretty blatant attempt at selling comics.
At this point, why not just add the link to report your non-UGC. If this is what they want, give it to them. You can just ignore the reports on the backend. You can probably remove it next update when you don't get Anthony since it's pretty clear it's just one stubborn, lazy reviewer.

All that said - the Play Store and App Store review hell is one dystopia I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I'm so happy to work on the web now.
Maybe so, but don't you think I talk to new employees? It's half of my job to support my whole team and deliver through others.

I battled those tools when I started. I watched them get better.

I've seen what new hires struggled with 5 years ago and what they struggle with 1 year ago.

Night and day.

The tools have gotten a lot better.

Here's the other ugly truth: That "40% of struggling with internal tools" may be saving the engineer 300% of time of having to implement the same from scratch themselves. Software engineering isn't all algorithms and data structures. A lot of it is just boilerplate code hooking up A to B. And better leave that boilerplate code to the internal tool that you have to figure out how to configure than implement it yourself.
Me three, oops, meant two (extra parentheses to type). Not /s, but ;)
Is there any large group representing App developers that could manage the large-scale negotiation and legal wrangling required to force Apple and Google to be more helpful when rejecting legitimate applications?

When I worked in Google (Ads, then later in Recommendations for Play and youtube) people often said this was intention to avoid teaching spammers how to get around the rules. But it's clear there are enough legitimate developers acting in good faith who are trying to change their applications without significant guidance that it seems entirely reasonable for a large-scale group negotiation.
Title should be "Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals". That additional word gives a lot more context.
The statement wasn't that people using cryptocurrencies can't break the law. It's that blockchains solve this trust problem that exists in traditional finance. Very obviously the regulation we have does not work, you don't have to look at exchanges to understand that. The very same problems exist in banking but most poor folks in developed countries don't notice since even if the funds are lost there is some insurance. You could have such insurance for crypto exchange funds as well, but ultimately the people are always paying the bill when their money gets "lost", whether they understand this or not. Insurance costs money. A better system would be a more transparent one where the money can not simply disappear in the first place.
Would be better if Notion did it, but if you're on Android using Firefox, then install uBlockOrigin and add the following filters:

www.notion.so##.checkboxSquare:upward(2):style(width:30px !important; height:30px !important;)
www.notion.so##.check:upward(2):style(width:30px !important; height:30px !important;)
It's not trash, it's functional, look:

x <- 3
Automated rules and policies are saving Google hundreds of millions of dollars an hour; they don't want to open the floodgates of spammers reverse-engineering ways to socially engineer the hapless app review humans.
They are effectively the same reading to me. He's the CEO. It's his job to understand the whole system. Whether he looked at things in isolation, or thought he could get away with each one he was still reckless.

From a quick reading of what happened with Zenefits (Was not keeping track of tech back then), it seems bad but not as bad as FTX.

I'm also not saying that everyone would not want to work with someone like that again. I'm sure some (Most?) people would, but for me it would take lot to convince me they're not going to repeat that behaviour.
Yes but it doesn't matter, it's a skill you gain and lose with repetition. I have seen many people without formal compsci training pick it up quickly
> There's a limited number of solutions to a programming task

But this is literally and technically not true.
i love charts like these
I don’t think it’s nice or not thing but more a management strategy thing. Hard-driving can be great at extracting value from an organization but it isn’t as effective at exploring potential as other management styles.
> The transition out wasn't that bad. I did 5th grade again (June baby) at a standard private school. The biggest things: - I had never written a formal essay, or an essay outline. - I had never taken nor prepared for a real test

I went to public school. Im pretty sure grade 4/5 is around where tests and formal essay writing started anyways, so that doesn't sound that terrible.
>SBF was treated as the king of crypto by the mainstream for whatever reason.

I think the reason is getting more and more obvious with every passing day.

His father and mother are professors of Law (and Business) at Stanford. (The mother is also one of two founders of Mind The Gap.) His aunt is a dean of Columbia University's School of Public Health.

https://showbizcorner.com/sam-bankman-fried-parents

His brother was running a lobby group called Guarding Against Pandemics. FTX's head of policy and regulatory strategy was a Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner under Obama.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/14/former-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-f...

And that's not the end of it all, there are many more interesting connections.
Just to make sure we're on the same page: the answer to my question is "nothing", right?
I'm not complaining about the interview technique- which clearly worked great here!- just the framing. I guess it's a nitpick really considering the rest of the content of the piece.
If the future of customer-service is full of AI like “Anthony”, I’m moving to the woods.
This - the product has horrible human factors engineering in the low power scenario:

The rider will always be ahead of his/her center gravity when the board starts decelerating unexpectedly, and it's irrelevant whether it's the front digging in, or the thing just decelerating when approaching low battery.
I'm not Korean, but I can confirm that every cab driver in Seoul searches GPS this way.
If you receive a fine from your municipality for not clearing the snow off the sidewalk that you dumped off your tarp you get even more grief from the back spasms! The ''snow police'' (zealous bylaw enforcers) are a real thing in some places.
I did not feel super sympathetic when reading the breakdown of percentages (with only 10% "actually writing code"). Yeah, those specific percentages were a bit egregious, but working on a big project it's not uncommon at all to spend more time thinking and talking things through than to actually write code. There's a lot of complexity to be tamed, and in my experience that can be a very enjoyable part of actually engineering.

This however:

> And the worst part is, I feel like the product we were shipping was really bad. It was slow and kludgy. It was the opposite of the qualities I value in software products. I didn’t feel like I was adding any value, and I was miserable.

Yeah, there is absolutely no excuse for that. And if that is the case about the product you're working on, what I said just before about "enjoyable engineering" will never apply. Good for getting out of there.
Too bad he fires them
What exactly did Penrose say. Seems to me the New Ageists over at New Scientist are about promoting quantum wooism in the vein of Deepak Chopra.
Note, on government interference it’s hard to not point out the fed is a quasi governmental institution acting to contract the economy and induce a recession to deal with COVID and gas prices and wars and stuff. Doesn’t that play into your argument that these things are all made worse by governmental intervention?
December 31st, 2022 is the last day for the Verizon 3G network.
Yes, I'm sure that's a factor too. Also, one of my first reactions was, unless you have an explicitly comedy kind of channel, maybe somehow audiences don't seem to reward British-style quirky humor that Map Men is full of. I love it, but maybe it causes people to feel it's not "professional" or professor-ly enough? Tom Scott definitely doesn't do humor, at most only wry ironic suggestions. The Map Men sponsorship endings themselves have been hilarious (Surfshark, NordVPN, Audible, etc).
> Or OS authors are going to have to rethink how they handle illegal instruction exceptions, by patching the calling program to call into an emulated version when running on hardware that lacks support; […]

It can be done at the OS kernel level, but it does not have to. The usual place to do it in is libc – by virtue of weak symbols in dynamic libraries.

At the linking time, the ld links the executable against a generic function, e.g. __mul512_xyz, and __mul512_xyz is a weak symbol that points to a generic fallback implementation of the 512-bit wide operation in libc.so. Now, at the process startup time, the libc initialisation code looks up the CPU revision, attempts to locate a CPU revision specific, optimised version of, e.g. __cpu_family_abc_123_mul512_xyz, and links the optimised version of the function in. I have made names up but, fundamentally, the idea is that.

> […] this would allow program authors to choose whether to favor the least common denominator

… and this is where I perceive a problem with RISC-V – based on my current knowledge of the ISA in question. Being an open source and a free ISA, RISC-V places no obligation on two (or three, or more) distinct CPU vendors to implement the same set of ISA extensions (other than the foundational one). Therefore, effectively we are talking about every possible permutation of all current and future, extra, ISA extensions that would have to be supported in libc, and it will make it the dynamic re-linking at the runtime either difficult or not possible (not easily, anyway), and the RISC-V specific optimisation effort(s) will go out of the window.
> SBF is not a crypto guy despite being presented as such in the mainstream. He's a trader

I'd say to run a successful trading shop you need to be a good trader. Doesn't matter whether you trade potatoes, pork belly futures, or crypto. Do you think Jump Trading cares (or even necessarily knows) anything about the tokens they successfully trade?
FTT had a real yield that was backed by Ftx trading fees and measured in dollars. (Weekly back backs and burns)

Many analysts did DCF modeling and $22 per FTT looked reasonable.
Check out the LEO from 1951, the first business computer line, built not just for but by a chain of tea shops (cafés)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
A union for customers of monolithic tech companies who provide negligent support could be cool.
Nice approach. It looks like social facilitation is becoming a widespread solution now that remote working is widespread.

I started using Focusmate[0] last week and found it incredibly useful. You can schedule a 25/50 minutes session, and you can find a partner to work with every 15 minutes. Maybe not for some people who don't like being watched through their webcams, but I don't have a problem with that.

[0]https://www.focusmate.com
That’s a really cool and innovative way to fix the world without using pesticides, use lil robots.
Overcoming the latent heat of fusion (melting frozen water) takes a LOT of energy.

Melting 11kg of ice to 11kg of water at 0°C takes about 1 kWh of energy. That’s 3 or 4 good shovel-fulls of heavy snow. That’s only to get it to 0°C water. Getting it to 10°C to keep it from insta-freezing right next to the snowmelt takes another 1/8 kWh.

Before the melting starts, you’re going to heat an entire sidewalk from negative a few degrees to 10-15°C and all that energy will go un-recovered after the storm.
The problem is that Apple does the same kind of thing (arbitrary app store review by bots), so you're saying not to do any mobile apps.
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma could get first delegate to Congress in 200 years
Why is the dichotomy "ugly code that works" and "beautiful code that doesn't work"

Surely there's also "ugly code that doesn't work" and "beautiful code that does work." And I'd argue there's a lot of in between as well. Unless the software literally does exactly what it needs to do, no more, no less then there's also the variants of "works well, somewhat well, etc."
Trademark search - https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/results?page=1&pageSize...

The main one survived an attempt to revoke it https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsession...
Don’t tell the Italians.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-italian...
Even on my longboard I really brace myself when letting off the throttle at speed. The regenerative brakes provide a jolt. Also it’s possible to accidentally hit the brake which would likely be a wipe out. It could be because I’m heavier now than my younger days. Forward momentum is a bitch on these speeds.
Legislation is clearly the only answer, assuming it is impractical for developers to band together in a union or other collective that would be large enough to harm Google's business or at least catch their eye. Contact your state and Federal representatives. Provide them with a copy of this transcript, and maybe attach a copy of your financial statement showing what's at stake.

Eiter way, whatever happens, these companies have brought it on themselves.
I think the idea is that everyone has to learn to be a good person. Most kids haven't yet but will eventually. some never will.
It's more like if you could only drive approved cars on the regular roads.. which is already the case but regulated by the government instead.
Not outsourcing, its incompetent engineers. Do you know how many american companies got hacked because of 200k enginners istakes?

Still some american banks store user passwords in plain text, Allow sim awapping without a proper check and so
Welcome to psychiatry, these people are master manipulators and scumbags.
Evernote has been in business (albiet, not growing) for 22 years!

I think we need to fast forward 10 more years to see how Notion is doing to make the comparison.
I've never contracted, but I'm in the exact same boat with regards to being someone else's full-time employee. Lately I've been struggling to stay even one year—I've been with 4 companies over the past 4 years! I'm a "flight risk". :)

And it's not that I don't want to work. I put 3-4 hours per weeknight into side projects, and another 8-12 hours on weekends. I have yet to make money on the side, but I keep hoping that something will succeed and I can run my own ship.
macOS Terminal actually supports middle-click insert. It's quite nice, but it only works inside Terminal. It's useful as a second clipboard.
Yeah seriously. It’s not their decision to decide “what’s fair”. Every foundation he has given to needs to immediately stop using the funds he gave them as they are possibly (very likely) in possession of stolen money.
> if you could only drive approved cars on convenient roads.. which is already the case

huh?
Same for the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Saturn V is truly jaw-dropping to see in person, especially as you round the corner and see the gargantuan engines fill your view. The rocket is hung from the ceiling horizontally, allowing you to walk underneath its entire length. An unforgettable experience.
Everyone but the Ukrainian president who earlier said that the missile was an attack on 'collective security' and demanded from NATO that it swiftly punishes the perpetrator))
I really, really want to know what kind of person sees a pair of socks with a productivity app logo on them and thinks "I need these in my life."
> Why does CPS need to restrict parental rights while investigating a report which even if confirmed as true (as it was in this case) does not violate family law and warrant further action.

So, the police arrested the mom, which means you've got a case where the mom has at least been accused of violating the law. Even if mom has not done a single thing wrong, given that she's been arrested & taken from the home, CPS has to get involved just to make sure the kids are okay. It follows that some degree of investigation is done.

I guess you can characterize it as "restrict parental rights", but really all they were doing was insisting that there be someone else in the home with the kids at all times. That does still seem like a bit much, I agree, but I don't see that as a restriction on parental rights. Let's say that it is then, I don't think it's unreasonable that someone who has been arrested specifically on charges of child abuse/endangerment might have their rights curtailed at least until such time as someone can feel like the kids are okay.

> This would be like saying that, had the law which addressed the family law aspects also (as it should have) made the same changes to criminal law, the police should still have arrested her, even when their information was only of an act that would be a non-crime if true.

It's very clear that they interpreted her own statement as meaning she did not perceive how she was endangering her children. I think that's a terrible assessment of the situation, as by their own admission, the kid was NOT in serious danger, but given that assessment, yeah, they should arrest her.

In the end, you do end up empowering people to exercise good judgement, and when they get it wrong, there will be terrible consequences.