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Being the sole developer on projects as a junior engineer means any of the following:

* the company has less need for those projects

* the company has less importance for those projects

* the company is likely to forget those projects

* a junior developer is not a heavy cost to the company so he is more likely to be kept

* any developer can be replace a junior developer

* the company head is erratic and unreliable for anyone to be secure

All in all, don't rely on your projects as job security
Actually no. If you are uninsured there are programs to provide it to you free or discounted.
Not true. Sometimes it's in a bottle with a screw cap.
Thanks for the detailed feedback.
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Did you bother to read the article that you posted?

"Foreigners over the age of 18 (or age 20 prior to April 1, 2022) may become Japanese citizens by naturalization after residing in the country for at least five years, renouncing any previous nationalities, and proving self-sufficiency through their occupation or existing financial assets."

You have to renounce previous nationalities, whereas the reverse the United States is much more generous towards the possibility of dual citizenship.
The article seems to be confusing relative share of the physical media market with absolute sales. Its claim that "DVD sales skyrocket in the last year" is simply not true. Both DVD and Blu-ray sales have been declining every year - but Blu-ray sales declined more rapidly in 2020 than DVD.
It's the Wall Street Journal - the kind of people that read that throw a fit when the barista spells their name wrong on the cup and then write pages long thinkpieces about it that other dorks in their circle read.
I have no data to back this up, but gut feeling is people who watch physical media on a computer are a tiny minority.

For a start barely any of them come with optical drives anymore.
Quinta dos Guimarães, from Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde. It's super hard to find and they might be defunct, it's been quite a few years.
To be clear, this is not the same level as the green card PERM process (which requires jobs be advertised in physical newspapers, etc).

This simply says equally or higher qualified US workers who apply to the same job should be offered the job, but there is no need to seek out US workers.
I don't disagree but I do have a question about the blind tasting: Is it possible that knowing about a wine's age or provenance allows our brain to focus on and look for specific details? For example, you can feed me meat and I might think it is delicious but soon after if you tell me it is snake or dog meat I will vomit all over the place and find that particular taste offending.

Isn't taste just a signal interpreted by the brain?

I am sure you all have seen those experiments with a fake hand next to the person's but they are blocked from seeing their real hand, they start feeling touch and pain on the fake hand! Can taste also be visually and mentally affected by sight or some other knowledge?
The real question is if/how marketing budget will shift for these major brands and advertisers. Even Twitter shutdown tomorrow, Mastodon ecosystems has no tech or interest to take in any ads. Some may consider this a good thing, but I'm a bit skeptical as this society has been addictive to ads based biz models for so long.
Sure, “if”, but no one said anything about breaking laws of physics.

There’s no claim of perfectly efficient energy transfer. It’s just regular inefficient energy transfer, like US dollars or an electrical power grid, but available to more people and places (specifically excluding the rich, and enabling more options for those who need it most, in economically disadvantaged and emerging countries).
Europe is seeing the "benefits" of this policy, Canada will soon be next. The "geniuses" supporting all this do not realize is that this is how you destroy the culture that your ancestors built, screw up social harmony among different groups, and how your fuel the rise of people joining alt-right movements.
This discussion site has moderators actively patrolling for throwaway accounts, and uses shadow-banning to discourage them from messing up our discussions.

We need those kinds of assurances to have decent discussions on any site today. I'm not 100% sure if Tumblr has it or how Twitter worked either. But identity is important.

Maybe not the _SPECIFIC_ identity of who you or I am. But enough of an identity to say that you (or I) am not double-making accounts, astroturfing opinions or the like.
My neighbor loves to organize wine tasting session with friends, one day, he opened some bottle, and when I poured it, I added some apple juice (about 50%) and nobody in the group noticed anything. I know that a few expert can actually tell wine apart and categorize them, but I now know that most of the time people have no idea :)
In my local supermarket in Spain, they sell wine in a carton (like milk) for around 80 cents of an euro per litre. It is perfectly nice if you want to drink a glass with lunch, mix it with gaseosa in summer (like Sprite) or cook with it.

They also sell cava for less than 5 euros a bottle. It makes a roast chicken on Sunday appear somewhat more festive. The first time a colleague in the UK told me about fruity or orange taste in wine I was completely perplexed as to what he meant.
Yes! I feel like we used to be the good guys, but we've become the bad guys. I used to be proud of all the change we were providing for society. I used to preach to family/friends all the time:

- Find and purchase products on the web that you never had access to in your small town. Easy as clicking a mouse.

- Find directions to your destination, and even be guided how to get there in real-time. No more fumbling with the Thomas Guide.

- Connect with old family/friends easily. Or, easily make new connections with people in your home town or across the globe.

- Access new music, or old favorites, with the click of a mouse. No need to buy a CD just to listen to one song.

- Online banking! You no longer need to go stand in line at the ATM just to transfer money from your savings account to your checking account. And no more need to write a check each month to pay your bills, it can be automated now!

...and so on over the last 25 years. I used to love evangelizing the stuff we were creating, because I believed in it. But now I feel myself warning family/friends to avoid us:

- Don't use Evil Corp's social media service because they're gonna bombard you with misinformation and negative/combative content, just to drive engagement. You'll end up hating your family/friends.

- Don't get an Alexa or a Ring because they're basically spying on you. If you wanna be creeped out, read this: https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/whoops-amazon-alexa-user-a...

- Your smart phone knows where you are at all times, where you're going, and who you're with.

- All your financial data is being sold to marketers who wanna sell you more credit (credit cards to mortgages).

...and so on. Maybe it's me, like I'm just paranoid because I'm older now. But yeah, I feel similar about what we do these days.
You have a theory that says "black sheep don't exist". I show you 2 black sheep. Your counter is that "There are anomalies that we don't know how to fully explain yet" and that you'll keep holding onto your belief that black sheep don't exist. Because it's "more consistent with what we observe", despite the fact that you just observed 2 black sheep, you know, existing.
The most interesting part of the article to me was this:

> Based on the theory of predictive coding, our brains first figure out what sensory stimuli should be, then see if there’s any way they can shoehorn actual stimuli to the the expected pattern. If they can’t, then the brain will just register the the real sensation, but as long as it’s pretty close they’ll just return the the prediction. For example, did you notice that the word “the” was duplicated three times in this paragraph? Your brain was expecting to read a single word “the,” just as it always has before, and when you’re reading quickly, the mild deviation from expected stimuli wasn’t enough to raise any alarms.

I believe Vsauce had a video on this topic one. I’ll edit the content if I find it.
But grapes are not all the same: besides the taste of grapes varying depending on the soil, climate, orientation to the sun etc., there is also the judgement of when to harvest. Once in harvest season grapes can approach and then pass the desirable sugar level in a matter of days.

During the winemaking process there are many variables that cannot be codified from season to season because of variation in the grapes, such as increasing or decreasing acidity (and how), fermentation temperature, adjusting tannins, and probably more.
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You'll probably hate to hear this, but your lifestyle is most likely not sustainable, both environmentally and economically.

If you live in the average suburb/town.

It's ok, it's nice for you, but you're just passing the buck to future generations.

And look at the discussions surrounding Boomers, who are blamed precisely for this.
I think all of that is basically out of scope. I don't think they are claiming it is a good design. The impressive point is their software can make a design at all. It seems like they want to sell it to people that will use it to try to make designs that are good
Bret and the weird hay / mousey flavour from natural wines are different things.

I too am not a fan of natural wines largely because of the additional flavours, but normal sulphite-laden wine can come with a dose of bret and it's different - I particularly enjoy it in some Cote Rotie producers, where it comes out as a hint of smokey bacon.
There is nothing fake about that either. You don't have to pass a blind test, you usually see the wine. It's the same with food - the presentation counts, too. Or with almost any kind of luxury good. Almost any brand is more expensive than "no name" products even though the production costs are the same.

Of course, people can be against luxury goods but the point is they're not getting it. People pay for brand and prestige, including some wine affiocionados (though not me). That's perfectly normal for luxury markets.

By the way, beer is way less complex than wine. It's not even remotely comparable, primarily because beers are "designed" by professional brewers for specific target markets. You can't do that as easily with wine, it depends more on the grapes, weather, and location.
what a classic
Our ancestors did. Humans cultivated sheep from wild ancestors for easier harvesting of their wool, milk, and meat.

The domesticated sheep that we know today are completely co-dependent on humans for survival. If we disappeared, they would all die. Maybe some would manage evolve back into some wild version.
I use Proxmox at my work for our various web and windows servers. Works pretty good, now If I could get something newer than sandy bridge Xeons it will perform just as well too.

Mind you the storage was a pain to work with and the cluster had a lot of issues, but they iron a lot of it out in recent releases.
Get Mel Brooks on the phone and make it a musical, "The Founders".
I'm guessing it's an uninitialized buffer in a shared encoder instance, where independent storage wouldn't have helped much.
added it in after reading my comment but not re-reading the parent
Damn, why was this downvoted???

I punched in a very hard to find search word and viola!

Upvoted!
The compiler could do those things too (-Wsign-compare is a thing; nothing for signed index though), but that won't change the existing code that uses "for (int ..." (incl. 637K C source files on github), and those warnings could be false positives too (e.g. signed indexes into lookup tables, or keeping using an int32_t after having asserted somewhere before (possibly out of the compiler's vision) that it's non-negative).
It's interesting that Meta is doing such serious low level R&D like this, but it's funny because they can't even keep their notifications in sync with their web site. I get a notification (from the mobile app, I think) that Joe has a birthday today, I go to the web page to wish them a happy birthday, and despite reloading, the web site still shows the birthdays from the previous day. Then I have to dig around more to find Joe's page to post a HBD.

So as user, this level of time synchronization seems to be many orders of magnitude of over kill. I'm sure at some level it is actually important, but it seems like the database sync or whatever is going on with notifications is woefully lagging.
They might have the same expectations, but their manager certainly knows that they are visa dependent and can assign a higher workload to them than they would to their peers who have green cards or US citizenship.

(Some of these peers might be their classmates from a US university, who got their green cards near-instantly by virtue of being born in a smaller country).
> Now try doing that job for 20 to 30 years, your entire body will be totally broken and riddled with arthritis.

I see this a lot on HN, but never forget that sitting for eight hours a day has long term negative health consequences too, some that are very very serious.
I appears so that they talk about the sell price and not about how well it is made.
Are you currently working as a junior frontend developer? If so, your goal should be to become more valuable to the place where you're working now. You want to build up a reasonably long tenure at your current job, show a history of promotions and raises, and impress your coworkers enough to establish a professional network.

Ask your manager or senior coworkers what you should be learning if you're not sure. You should be trying to become the owner of multiple parts of your employer's codebase, which is a good sign that you've moved up from junior to mid-level or senior.

This may sound counterintuitive but you need to trust that excelling at even the tedious parts of your current job will open doors for you later on to let you actually do the exciting things you're interested in.
This should be a showstopper, critical issue. I’m surprised to see this still be in the wild after being posted on Friday of last week.
> but there’s a lot of totally undrinkable, maybe even semi-poisonous, expensive wine

“A lot”? Really? Change your wine merchant if that’s the case.

That said, sure, I mean, if you want to include flawed wines like ones with brett, ones that haven’t been stored properly (e.g., in the sun), wines way past the their peak, etc., then one will certainly run into some bad wines at any price point.

That’s sort of a given, imho, and is in no way a reflection of the quality of the wine.

That certainly doesn’t in general make the high end wine “fake” or not worth a higher price (at least to some point), which is the point of the linked article.
Isn't present day Carl's Jr. just Hardee's by another name? Hardee's began as a burger joint as well.

According to research from the University of Guelph, hotdogs are comparatively uncommon in fast food because hotdogs are harder to cook consistently and have a shorter window of enjoyability which makes them less suited to fast food than hamburgers.
This article is old, and the headline misleading. It's talking about Q1 2021 sales, which in practice means it's talking about 2020 movies, which means that these are weird, pandemic-fucked numbers that don't really mean anything at all.

There are more recent numbers available. Here's the end of October, the latest week available right now: https://www.mediaplaynews.com/research/sales-report-for-week... -- at the bottom of the page, you can see a link to the previous week, and you can step back week-by-week.

If you do that, you'll see that DVD sales are larger than Blu-ray sales, but it's in that 50-something range, which puts it about on track with pre-pandemic trends. Also, disc sales in general keep falling annually at an incredibly fast rate, so both DVD and Blu-ray are tanking.

The obvious cause for this has nothing to do with particular weakness in the Blu-ray format, but that the "mainstream" disc market is now increasingly streaming, and the disc market is bifurcating into:

1. Technophobes who don't understand new technology, and who don't understand or care about HDTV, and so just buy the same DVDs they always bought.

2. People who want the best possible image/sound quality, collectors, and physical media fetishists. This is a niche market, and always has been.

The obvious end state is that DVD fades out in the same way that CD sales are fading out in the music world, and that 4K UHD Blu-ray ends up in the vinyl-style collector niche.
Thanks! -Joseph A.
I like the Impossible sausage. The Beyond Meat burgers and sausage are not compatible with me.
And who is going to train the First Officers to become Captains?

Apart from the safety factor of having that second pilot to share the load, Captains are valuable teachers to train the First Officers up to 'Captain' levels of experience and aviation knowledge.
You're not a financial company. Grain futures have an actual use. Come on now. You're insulting the reader base here.
Cool I'll take a look at it! -Joseph A.
"It's not patently absurd, it obviously bring some benefit to their life to chose this"

For the vast majority of people in the last four decades working out of an office was not a decision up to the employees so I don't know where this is coming from.
> I would disagree with all the reasons. I understand that it's some real problems the mentioned services solve for you, but I can easily point to a person who has none of those problems. Like my grandma. She doesn't see any point in any of the mentioned products.

This doesn't make any sense, there's nothing in the world except food, water and shelter that's actually needed for every living human being.

You're grossly mischaracterising or misinterpreting the meaning of "solving a real problem".

What exactly is all this crypto-technobabble solving that isn't just feeding the system to make it work? Where is the end where a person is going to use all this bumbling infrastructure of finance primitives to actually solve a problem they face? Again, not a problem created or caused by the other mumbo-jumbo lying around, piling solutions on top of solutions still looking for a problem is ultimately not solving any problem. If the fundamental piece of technology you are working on doesn't have any applicable uses in the end, all the other pieces supporting this fundamental are not solving anything of value.

I really, really don't follow your line of argumentation, I keep looking for the base argument and there's none except for "if some people believe this has value, then it has value". No, like Matt Levine said to SBF, the fundamental economical value of this thing is zero.
Do they? The Scandinavian countries have almost no skilled immigration, and had very little unskilled immigration until recently. Sweden still seems like a pretty great place to live.
Maybe https://ase.zorbus.net/ ?

Note that at least one EOB game (probably all of them) involve teleportation traps that you're supposed to have to catch by watching your compass as you move - an automapper would instantly reveal that you'd been teleported, spoiling the effect.
Ability to take on responsibility for a broad and ambiguous scope that involves technical complexity. Communication skills to distill those challenges into resource asks for the business side. Ability to develop and share vision, plus measure and communicate progress against milestones to implementing vision. The ability to suggest at least a few key metrics to measure success.
Perhaps a quick skim of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential might help. His position is that running a restaurant is very different from cooking for yourself and friends.

But obviously many people do set up and run restaurants.
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‘$COIN went from "no risk of bankruptcy" to a "small risk of bankruptcy" to its bonds yielding ~15%’

https://twitter.com/stockjabber/status/1594821293186195459
I tried a Beyond Meat burger. It tasted so much like the real thing that I did not finish it. It had that rusty-nail sharpness I have not missed at all.

I have been vegetarian for ~30 years. Pork and ham are the only meat I have missed. Knowing how pork is produced in the US, I would never buy any of it.

Unfortunately, fake meat is as "packaged and processed" as it is physically possible for stuff sold as food to be, making it not really food at all. That is too bad, because meat production is a huge driver of the looming global climate catastrophe, enough so that people switching to a meat substitute would cut their CO2 footprint more than giving up their car. But it is hard to recommend switching from actual food to merely food-shaped stuff. That said, a huge fraction of Americans habitually eat stuff not really food, already. If those were to switch to a meat substitute, their diet would have no more non-food than before. Unfortunately, those are the least likely to switch, no matter how closely it matches the real thing, unless it gets substantially cheaper than real meat.
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You may want to measure the actual power usage and light output of your LED lights. Typically, green LEDs are less efficient than blue or red, which may cancel out the perceptual differences.
The only way to know for sure is to wait after severance runs out and file a transfer to the new company.

If USCIS denies your application, then the 60 day clock starts the moment you stopped working (for Twitter laid off folks, this has already started).
If USCIS approves your application, then the 60 day clock begins the moment you stopped being an employee of the company (for Twitter laid off folks, this is January 4).
I can believe that.

But the fact that this was done on a Threadripper 3990x, a high-core count (but slow interconnect / core-to-core communication) kind of computer, makes me believe that there's a degree of parallelism in this problem.

Otherwise, another computer (ie: higher GHz / less core count) could have been used instead.

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I really don't know this specific algorithm: ECPP. It comes down to how that works... especially its parallelization.
Ok maybe I should take them separately:

> Do any IRC clients support inline media upload/viewing, profile pictures, voice/video calls, or replies/threading? These are the things I would consider the core essentials of IM. Any serious platform has all of this plus a whole lot more.

Media upload is purely on the client side. If IRCCloud lets you to drag-and-drop an image, uploads it to some server, and then sends the URL, then that's still entirely IRC (I will receive the URL), but IRCCloud is making it easier for you.

Same for viewing content: I send a URL, and your IRCCloud will show a preview (image/video), while my client won't. That's purely on the client side.

For voice and video calls, IMO I don't want it in my messaging app. I can use my browser for that, or a dedicated app. And again, share a link to my videoconference over IRC.

Replies/threading are a tricky one. I hate the replies in Discord, and I don't really get threads. I see Slack channels where the rule is "answer only in threads", which to me says that they want a forum (like Discourse), not an instant messaging app.

> But in this case also users not using the same client or same server as I am get to see those things.

Pretty sure that if you use replies or threads in Matrix when talking in an IRC channel, then people on IRC won't see them as replies or threads.
I'm not sure there's much daylight between "social stratification of IQ scores" as posited by Harris and "scientific racism". There seems to be a widespread belief that "scientific reasoning" is an inoculation against white supremacy (or any other kind of bigotry), but a bigoted statement rooted in a scientific claim is usually still just as bigoted.
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