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Absolutely the top two classes I ever took were in college

- Introduction to Terrorism (took is spring '00 - before terrorism got "cool"). Not "introduction to be a terrorist", but an investigation of the socio-religio-economic drivers of terrorism around the world (with a primary focus on Latin America and southeast Asia). This included defending a target against a range of terrorist actions (my group chose an embassy that backed to a river or harbor)

- Counterterrorism (fall '06; taught by a former member of the Israeli Mossad). The big assignment in this class was to plan a terror attack on the school.
I mean, better that in the short term than the long term of luck being the determining factor in having a few hundreds of thousands of tons of poison being dumped into my city or not.
I can't believe nobody has shown how violent vacuum implosions can be. Here are some of my favorite vacuum implosions:

Train car imploding:
https://youtu.be/Zz95_VvTxZM

Vacuum chamber imploding:
https://youtu.be/qs6p8tPaur4
Please consider replacing your Windows install with Haiku OS and just give up on running the programs you keep Windows around for. Your freedom over the long haul is far more important than whatever it is that Microsoft is doing for you. I spend my time these days writing native apps for Haiku in C++, which is a lot more fun than playing in a sandbox stacked against us all.
Fast compared to traditional VMs but quite slow for what it's doing (setting up some namespaces and a cow filesystem forked off the image).
Well...any history will attract a torrent of nitpicking, so this is my extremely reductist take. Motorola, IBM & Apple decided to join up on a common HW platform called "PReP" which was POWER/PPC based, so Motorola dumped 88k to play ball with that. PReP was a flash in the pan, but PPC briefly shone as Apples processor, and is still around in various forms (mostly embedded now, but POWER still ships in volume). Similar trajectory with MIPS. Clipper was never going to be a big player; it was a niche within a niche. SPARC, HPPA & Alpha got steamrolled by much cheaper, performance competitive x86 derived processors. In the end, most volume customers said "can it run my software fast and cheap" and by sometime in the 90s that was clearly an x86 (unless your name was "Apple", but that's a different history).
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ChatGPT qua ChatGPT can never help with the most advanced physics research. By its very nature, it will tend to pull you back to consensus, which is exactly what you don't want it to do in this case. It'll just sit there and plausibly babble about physics. It is super unsuitable for understanding such a mathematical domain that is so unlike language grammar.

An AI that uses transformers for language understanding and then adds something more like our frontal cortex might be useful, through.
Hi, sorry for the late response. The linked position is for the Fullstack position. We're currently in the process of re-writing this position more clearly as Fullstack position. We're not searching for Frontend-only developers, our Frontend Team is a Fullstack Team (we're called the "App Team").

Thanks for pointing out the salary ranges for Fullstack vs. Backend vs. API. This is indeed not correct and confusing. We value all Engineers on their experience and not on their preferred environment or programming language. I forwarded it!
I used to think like you but there are quite a few things that justify this

* Out of the 5K some fraction, say 2K, is going towards the principal (i.e. it is building your wealth). So now we are down to the same 3K you were paying for rent

* The government encourages home ownership with tax breaks. Out of the 3K left some part becomes tax deductible (mortgage interest and property taxes) until a cap. Say this is ~800 per month. So now you are already down below 3K

* The amount you pay is fairly fixed over long periods (10, 15, 30 years) based on your mortgage while the rent keeps going up.

* Finally, you get to pass this on to your heirs without paying any taxes on the gains (hence building generational wealth)
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What happened to /best? Was it too convenient for reposting sites?

Edit: nvm it’s still there. Must have mistyped it earlier.
> this is also why they kill older products. The cost of keeping the lights on is greatly elevated when keeping the lights on means keeping up with the latest codes.

This is a really good point and I think accurate when it comes to smaller Google endeavors. I don't think this killed Stadia, for example, but maybe Google Trips (an amazing service that I don't think many folks used and likely had few development resources assigned, or none).
I would be really surprised if more than 1 out of 1000 employees does that in real life just because of a change in the corporate tools.
That's overtly harsh take I think. Teams has issues; but asking employees of a company to use said companies tools internally isn't necessarily a bad thing. Hard to improve without dogfooding.
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That was your first programming class? That's actually a pretty amazing idea. I think many people's first exposure to programming is something low-level on the command line (printing like "hello world" then digging around with file I/O, network and other OS stuff) or special-purpose and graphical (making a little square or something in Logo) - doing the graphics stuff with a general-purpose language probably involves pulling in external dependencies or learning a simple image format like ppm/pgm.

Introducing a powerful language like scheme, having a graphical output and planting the idea that students should hunt around for ways to integrate with or otherwise poke at existing applications is smart.
Yeah, that's actually pretty common behavior for Windows and a well documented drawback of dual-booting Windows and Linux.
As you pointed out, even just dirt works. Noise abatement is done for urban freeways all the time, without changing the trucks, cars, road surface, et cetera.
Debian is quite an opinionated project and they take matters like these very seriously. Pages like these don't exist to judge packages, they're merely there to make people who do care aware of any risks they might not have heard of, and help them exercise control over their machine if they consider these "risks" not to be worth it.

I doubt anyone will really care about version checks, unless that's the only reason your tool needs internet access at all. Maybe if you make it an opt-out rather than an opt-in feature (or don't prompt the user at all), I'd be annoyed by that (but I know others aren't).

They're completely unnecessary in packaged Debian software because the Debian people will provide newer versions of your application for their users, so a flag to opt out would be nice. Using this data in a useful way, like adding a message like "new version available" would be confusing, because there is no new version available when you run the system update tool!

Personally I'd say it should be possible to disable version checks through build flags if you intend to package software through official repositories.

If you intend to do distribution and updates yourself I don't think you should be forced to alter your code if people decide to add your software to their distribution. The burden of removing confusion and making their version stick to their ideals should be on them. It would be nice to cooperate, but I don't think you can be blamed for someone else's redistribution.
Same for stuff like the "regulatory compliance fee" on cell phone plans. Folks, that's part of your price.
Google is a monorepo with sixteen layers of tooling to make it searchable, to not require you to spent 3 days making a local copy before editing, to manage permissions across orgs, etc etc etc.

A small organization of 1-20 people should not emulate the layers of tooling; just have a single git repo somewhere and call it a day.
What stops the landlord from raising the rent? All the landlords will be under the same pressure, so rent should rise universally.
Twilio to cut 17% staff, close offices
Wouldn’t you then just put more servers in and use the same 32MW footprint?
How many CI environment are (or at least should be) connected to the internet to begin with? That almost certainly eliminates the possibility of reproducible builds but also opens all kinds of security issues.

(I know sandboxes builds are not common place, but they really should be.)
The cleaning fee on AirBnB is actually one that has some logic to it. A property needs to be cleaned after each guest, regardless of whether you use it for one night or ten. The owner pays for it to be cleaned either way and it makes sense that this would get passed on to the customer. What needs to go is the "service fee" which is AirBnB's cut of the total. This is usually a fixed percentage and should just be counted as part of the price if I filter for places less than $X a night.
>I feel like this kind of comment is just used to dismiss people.

Almost certainly, these people hate working class language, but they can't say that out loud, so hide it behind false pretexts.
Low Earth satellites also need continuous active thrust/lift to maintain orbit because of the air drag. At dispense Starlink satellites come back in 1-2 days without thrusters.
They are not even necessarily connecting to the hotel-systems themselves. Often they connect to a middleman, which connects to the global middleman, which connects to the hotel (or maybe has a middleman on this side too). OTA-Business is a whole nest of snakes biting snakes, sometimes you are the first in the line, sometimes, you are the last in the line.
My county government got in bed with InvoiceCloud and prominently offers the payment option that includes a service fee when paying my property taxes. (The service fee for last half was ~$350.) It's still possible to pay via fee-less bank transfer for now, but the website says in the future I'll need to pay in person by check to avoid fees. This is instead of the original method of receiving paper property bills and sending a check in return.

The website was designed by contractors paid for by tax dollars unassociated with InvoiceCloud.

These are similar problems - billing and payment can be difficult problems due to the way the industry operates. But the trend towards making it more inconvenient (or in some cases, impossible) to pay by any other means that does not include a price gouging service fee is not adding value for consumers.
Putin's primary objective, from everything I've seen and read, is to be able to reassemble at least some vestige of the former USSR with himself at its head.

At this point, I'd say it seems to be an open question whether or how much it matters to him how much of that land is actually habitable.

It also seems like a) he views Ukraine as a somewhat rebellious province—daring to defy him, its rightful ruler—and b) he views Ukrainians as Russians, and furthermore believes that any Ukrainian who does not subscribe to this view is either traitorous or mentally ill...so I could see some fairly strong arguments for him deciding that they "deserve" to be nuked.

Honestly, in my view, the strongest argument for the position that Putin won't use nukes is simply that he hasn't done so already, despite many fairly significant setbacks in his attempted annexation of Ukraine.
Could be worse, you should have seen some of the silly complaints we got on the KiCad tracker in the past few years...particularly people trying to load 100MB svgs converted to PCB silkscreen because they want to abuse the cheap PCB fabs for artwork.
For reference, the Lac-Mégantic disaster happened 10 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
Interesting!

Out of sheer curiosity, I've been monitoring Paxos Dollar and Paxos Gold for 6 months.

If anything, they're one of the least active, more self-centered ecosystems. Binance USD is a relatively disconnected and slow ecosystem only sub-passed by Tether.

It's easier to show than tell. So here's a tool I made to visualize what I'm talking about:

- Paxos Gold: https://getpudding.app/#/home?address=0x8e870d67f660d95d5be5...

- Paxos Dollar: https://getpudding.app/#/home?address=0x45804880de22913dafe0...

- Binance USD: https://getpudding.app/#/home?address=0x4fabb145d64652a948d7...

- Tether: https://getpudding.app/#/home?address=0xdac17f958d2ee523a220...
It's not far off in terms of scale. How many hours of enough extra idle slots can a one-off game purchase pay for? For most games, it's less than average playtime.

Running a process to simulate an entire game world is very expensive, far more than storing a bit of data and responding to the occasional HTTP request.
Residents prefer to stick it to the greedy builders.
It’s because every dollar you pay off your mortgage is a dollar you get back when you sell the house. All of that 3K you paid renting is lost every month, but a sizeable chunk of the 5K you’re paying is effectively going into a high-yield investment account which you will “withdraw” by liquidating the asset (ideally). Even if the home value doesn’t grow incredibly, so long as it doesn’t lose value you’re still saving a ton of money over a long-term horizon.
Apple: Spy different
I guess the context is lost for Europeans. Apparently electronic immobilizers are not required by law in the US, so Kia and Hyundai did not include one on many models, resulting in higher theft rates.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/kia-and-hyundai-sued-by-city-o...

Now apparently because insurance rates are regulated, some insurers now refuse to insure certain Kia models.
She Studies Growing Arteries to Aid Heart Attack Recovery
The Media is mostly just a bunch of journalists trying their best to write interesting enough stories to keep their jobs. The stories they're writing are typically a reflection of what they think people care about: in this case, people care about the impact technology is having on us, and this is one aspect of it. The fact that we're here discussing this story proves that it was a good story to write. Suggesting this is a backlash against technology for "controlling the means of distribution" is silly (not least because WaPo is owned by Bezos so they'd be the last participant in an anti-tech conspiracy, if indeed there was one).
That's not "UBI" though. That's some funding mechanism that allows for more broad fishing without having to call every shot in advance, and penalizing people who then don't find what they were hoping to find.

Though at this point, which is easier between "societal UBI" and "changing how science is funded" is anybody's guess. Nominally, it ought to be the latter, but it may actually be more entrenched....
Following in the example of the Airlines I think it should be universally required to disclose all fees up front so that you can do a proper comparison - too frequently you don't receive those numbers until the very last step. Like rental cars that are $0.01/day plus $150 in fees, or GrubHub vendors that have service fees exceeding the costs of an entree. One of the things I like about Amazon is that they provide a total cost when comparing buying options from their marketplace.
Microsoft employee here.
I was actually handed a MacBook Pro on day 1, I didn't even ask for it my manager at the time just assumed.

There is a large community inside Microsoft using Linux as their daily driver.
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>I just got used to using KiCad 6!!

Then you'll be just fine, we didn't rock the boat on interface/interaction like 5->6 was.
I saw the option to share albums, but I wanted to allow a guest to see the entire collection. Happily it sounds like that is coming.
Easy - they tried (more-or-less "successfully") to take the IP of every contributor and hide it behind their own paywall
I don't think lack of feedback is a problem, nor would Microsoft have any trouble assembling a paid group of testers to give them feedback if they needed it without subjecting Github employees to the not-even-all-that-polished turd that is Teams.
Oooops, I was so used to the text being there that I just grabbed the link and didn't even check...

So silly of her to move it behind a paywall.
There’s a new inflation warning for consumers coming from the supply chain
I like your take and agree 100%. With the addition that referring to Windows 11 as “suboptimal” might be the understatement of the century.
You can get dioxins when burning vinyl chloride polymers (“poly vinyl chloride”), but not the vinyl chloride monomer, if my chemistry degree serves me correctly.
> Slack Pro is $12.50/person/mo. It's the same price for O365 which includes chat, video and the entire Office suite.

And how much is a junior engineer per month in a small European company, let alone a senior one in a FAANG?
So what's a better way, when persuasion and appeals to conscience have already failed? Surely you don't suggest that raw force is better.
Sure, but that’s presumably a stat from a potentially more favorable hiring market.
> Does teams allow you to draw on the screen?

i mean; no one can really tell you what to do with your sharpie.

(but yes; that's been baked in for a while)
Not sure how you were scammed. You still got to go first, which is the service you purchased, didn’t you?
It seems like that /frontpage one shows every single item that appears on the front page, rather than /rss that shows just the top items? Is there a hnrss.org ?comments one specifically for /rss? If so that would be perfect.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules/special_issues/analys...
Absolutely. I'd be in favor of some sort of graduated UBI for students/postgrads working on fields with broad benefits for humanity. $70k/yr or whatever for physics PHDs to be able to research whatever they fancy in the field would probably be an enormous boon to the economy in the long run. You'd have to build in some safeguards from abuse so that it doesn't turn into essentially a pension, but I think you could figure that bit out.
I doubt any employee actually cares about any of this and would bother to complain about it online. Other changes in the company have much more impact than which video conferencing software is used.

(Person who wrote the tweet does not work at GitHub)
You serious man? I see it every day when I have to use this god-forsaken Rails shit, it's so fucking slow to load the view and THEN it loads the data, literally the worst of both worlds
Sorry -- why do we need to provide disclaimers as to authors' philosophical leanings? Or is it just this particular philosophy that you think needs to be noted?
I think it's a dig at how resource hungry Teams is.
Thanks, it was confused thinking on my part, corrected!
The point of dogfooding isn't feeding your employees any old dog food. The point of dogfooding is that the dog food you make is so damn good your employees prefer it over making lunch boxes or eating out.

(It doesn't have to be perfect, or course, just do something better than its competitors to be attractive to use. I struggle to think of a single redeeming feature of Teams.)
My beloved started reading for pleasure a few years after grad school.

That's increased to daily and sometimes several books in a week over the last three decades.

Good luck.
I feel that. I bought a guitar in 1996 and took a community college introduction to guitar class, then took private lessons from a teacher for a couple of years, then signed up for lessons at a Suzuki school for a year, then took weekly lessons from a teacher at a Guitar Center store for a few months. In between I’ve bought books and apps and followed online lessons. Right now I’m working through a rhythm fundamentals class from Justin Guitar. I have almost no sense of rhythm.

I have a guitar at home and one at work so I’m often picking it up and messing around when I need a break from work.

I still don’t know a single song from start to finish (other than nursery rhyme songs that are just a few bars long). I’m pretty close though on Nirvana’s About a Girl.

I’m also essentially tone deaf but my kids, on the other hand, both have perfect pitch somehow. They can hear a microwave beep and tell you it’s a b-flat the same way I can say a car is red. I am going to see an audiologist soon because I’m wondering if the crazy squealing I hear non-stop is related to my difficulties.
Maybe that works well on Windows machines, on the Mac at least on the Intel-era some year-old Macs MS Teams is one of the most horrible, buggy, resource hungry, non-working app that one could imagine.
Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository
Casavo, Italian proptech startup that raised 700M EUR cuts 30% of the workforce
This isn't viable because of bias and blatant lies in LLM-outputs.

https://huggingface.co/ml6team/keyphrase-extraction-kbir-ins... is a decent tool to explore the constant stream of publications. The last mile still is left to the human.
Regarding offline I tested the photon-starter-app repo a bit and it looks like it already supports disconnections but without optimistic updates:

Here's what I did
- killed the network
- added a bunch of items to the todo list, which disappeared from the input field but didn't appear in the list
- switched network back on, items appeared in the list

I'm curious to see how adding optimistic updates to the mix would work
I personally dont care for the male and female nature of usb connectors. I feel it is only a matter of time before my kids has ruined a new cable.
Very cool - I have a homegrown setup where a script scans my iCloud audio notes directory and generates transcriptions for any new notes. Works like a charm.
Relative Value of Chess Pieces
>The worst part of this disaster

...is the fact that nothing will change, and it is just a matter of time before this happens again, and again, and again.

Our media barely report, and then under report the seriousness. It may as well not exist, except for all the harm that will continue for decades.

But the executives and shareholders have record profits, so everything is fantastic, absolutely no reason to change.
As far as I know mer, beastfolk and daedra don't exist on Earth, so only men remain. :)
I suppose the difference there is that by and large people who find the new tax too onerous can reduce their cigarette consumption or even stop smoking altogether, but people can't just stop renting their home.
Just ballparking the value of the house at around $1.5mil (you said last year, which I'm averaging out an interest rate of 4.5% and then rounding down. Assuming a 30 year mortgage) then in 30 years time, you'll have an asset with a value likely to be greater than $1.5 million.

Assuming you eventually have children, they may inherit this asset. That is wealth, and that wealth will transcend your generation.

That covers the literal definition.

On the other hand, the people who are lifetime renters will have spent (assuming rates stay static, which is unlikely) just over a million for which they have received no assets.

Your assumption is that they're pocketing $500k, and are ahead, but even if we ignore that their rents are likely to rise, while your mortgage is likely to stay the same, and the most likely outcome is that rental rates increase over time. Likely double. At which time they'll have spent the same, or more, or maybe slightly less, but still have nothing.

Meanwhile you'll likely make improvements, perhaps refinance if and when rates are lower, and the value of your home will almost certainly increase as well.

No doubt that it'll fluctuate in the meantime, and for sure there are plenty of maladies that can occur between now and 30 years from now, but at the end of the day, comparatively you are building wealth and stability for someone to inherit (or for you to capitalize into dollars, which is also inheritable) while lifelong renters are not. Assuming no meaningful changes (a big assumption) you will likely end up $3 million ahead of the renters on this timescale.
Rent profit could drop and still be at Fuck You prices for the tenants.
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