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> In all my career (started coding in 1986) I keep hearing about 1), worked in several RDMS agnostic products, never saw a customer actually migrating into another RDMS.

no kidding, you hear about this way more than it actually comes up. especially for the folks who treat the RDBMS as a dumb store and don't use the features.
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I think it's the inverse of resumes of people who have really achieved something impressive being relatively short.
I don't think it will be the downturn that eliminates it, so much as it will be LLM-accelerated coding, and the normalization and incorporation of these tools into standard development workflows.

If you think co-pilot is cool now, just wait and see what it does in 5 years. A team of 10 tomorrow can probably replace a team of 50 today.

So maybe the interview process in 10 years is more like: "build an auction site like ebay in the next hour."
As always with large companies, what you see as a consumer is only the tip of the iceberg. For every user-facing line of code you have a hundred or a thousand lines of code made internal-only services, for interacting with partners, for variations due to local restrictions, etc.
Happened to me last year, US startup said "let's wrap this up today and not drag it out".
In other countries there are automated dispatch agents pretty similar to Uber/Lyft. There isn't that much difference between them.
This shouldn't be surprising. Even before she was old and "of questionable judgement" she was voting for and sponsoring stuff like this. Go back to the war on drugs era and you can find sound bytes of her advocating for all sorts of absurd stuff. And by "absurd" I don't mean "didn't age well but was the party line". I'm talking about stuff that violates rights in excess of what the average party politician was pushing for.

That said, even if you strike her name from the list you know this is bad because it's a bunch of bipartisan long time congresspeople who are sponsoring this bill. When the careerists of the swamp get together to do something we the people always lose.
This is awful advice.
I keep trying to organize my academic friends to join unions and engage in organizational sabotage of administrators, who have completely taken over the academy and left most faculty in a state of abject misery. Huge endowments seem like part of the problem, universities are essentially run as financial concerns with a vestigial teaching staff attached that many regents would rather do away with completely.
> Sure, if you can find fuel.

Of course you'll find fuel; ICE trucks aren't being banned. You can use their fuel.

Might be slightly inconvenient to have to drive to a depot once a month, but people will do it if the economics are right.
> Any termination of employment before then is either a with-cause firing or a layoff where severance is required.

If they're paying you until that future resignation date, it's not a firing or a layoff, is it? The part that your employer is responsible for is your salary, not providing you with things to do.
8GB of ram? For a hobby? Very resource intensive, eh?
You're here defending while brushing apart valid points that people bring apart without any logic. Is Canadian healthcare system good if you're dying? Yes, it's god send, they'll do everything to save. But if you happen to not be dying, good luck with this system.

> Well yes of course, why or how would you include those people?

That's the entire point, you can't take those numbers at face value because how many people who need MRI aren't prescribed one to begin with.
Chess or Go AI operates on a chess board.

LLMs operate on a keyboard.

Both statements are false. Chess AI don't use real chess boards. LLMs don't press down switches.
It was a simple question. Author claimed it’s found everywhere, but if it’s not installed by default im not going to find it in enterprise environments
There is (or maybe now "was") a pretty big industry of Americans writing things for foreign students who don't write English fluently. College application essays, homework assignments, even academic publications. Mostly rich kids from China. My friend used to brag about the time his application essay got a kid who barely spoke English into an Ivy League school lol.
Hard for me to find a charitable interpretation.

Twitter had a longstanding feature to help identify government mouthpieces that was working fine.

Musk either under pressure from those powers or just to score own-the-lob points started adding the tag to loved cherished public institutions like NPR and The Guardian, which have longstanding & sifndicisnt editorial freedom protections & don't make sense for this label.

Rather than do the right thing, Musk just cancels the safeguard entirely. Takes his ball & bat, tells everyone to go home.
Do you think the lack of talent is what's preventing the company's success?
Sounds like you don't have a good relationship with your company and/or manager, and a lack of trust and thats whats driving your "no, no, no...".

What i've learned is if I can't have some kind of conversation with my manager about possibly leaving or being unhappy in the role, unhappy with compensation, etc.. then that is partially on me having let that relationship sour.

Obviously a lot of this depends on the kind of manager you have, and situation with the company and loads of other factors.
Sometimes "success" means selling investors on a growth story. Hard to do that w/o headcount.
When my wife tells me “you should call your mother”, I don’t think her brain assigned probabilities to “you should call your TV”, “you should call your xylophone”, “you should call your airplane”, etc, and then chose a suitable high-probability word (“mother”).
> Life hack: Put your resignation in writing with a date in the future.

This sounds like such a neat way to deal with it. I wonder if it's legally valid in my jurisdiction (in Sweden.) I have never heard of it but yet again, why not?
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I guess I was imagining a scenario where Gnome 55 on Gtk 7 completely breaks compatibility with older Gtk apps and all the distros stopped providing Gtk 2/3 in their repositories and there were conflicts/headaches trying to get it all working.

As long as Gtk continues to have backwards compat, old/unmaintained apps should never just 'stop working'.
They already don't
"Eid" is the day, and "Mubarak" means merry/blessed. So "Happy Eid" could be the sentiment if you're uncomfortable with pronouncing "Mubarak" (which is completely phonetic, by the way) or just "Eid Mubarak."
> Just about anything with only one instance is essentially hobby.

Not high availability? Sure.

However, I've seen software out there that ran as a monolith with a single deployment unit, facilitated lots of business processes and entire teams of people for continued development. Not everything necessarily needs high uptime, either. Some software can also serve particular time zones and have ample windows for scheduled maintenance, upgrades and so on.

There's probably at least a few classifications between hobby projects on one end and HA distributed systems on the other.

>> Cant say I would call these specs “hobby” at all

With this, however, I'm inclined to agree. In my eyes, "hobby" would imply something more along the lines of: "Just give this half a CPU core and about 512 MB of RAM, maybe up to a GB of storage depending on what you'll use it for, it'll probably work well enough for a few users."

Some software that mostly fits that definition, in my experience: Nextcloud, Apache2/Nginx/Caddy, Grav, Mattermost, Gitea, Heimdall, YOURLS, PrivateBin, phpBB, Uptime Kuma, Zabbix, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker Swarm and plenty others.

Some software that needs more resources: SonarQube, PeerTube (for encoding), OpenProject (Ruby app), Sonatype Nexus (bloated Java app, but lots of functionality), Matomo (issues with displaying historic data with low resources), BackupPC (compresson of backups), K3s and other Kubernetes cluster distros and plenty others, too.

Not to say that it somehow makes the software worse, just that people have different expectations. Perhaps more realistic expectations on my part for hobby software should be: "You should be able to launch it with whatever spare resources your laptop has."
People abuse their power, but that wouldn't matter if you really had nothing to hide. But everybody has something to hide.

Your social security number? Your bank account number? Your debit card PIN? Yeah, pretty sure you have something to hide.
It just feels crap that if I register as123125125.net then it might be taken off me just because a bunch of network operators can't be bothered to use the DNS properly.

You're quite right about the original intended purpose of .net, but even so if someone wants as125125.net they should register it properly not just be able to phone their mates at Verisign and get it taken away from someone who has paid for it.
there was a crazy spike in hiring and salaries during the pandemic, with many companies hiring whoever they could find, as fast as possible (hence with higher salaries). I'm assuming that's what OP is referring to
Coming from EU, one month notice both ways is the norm (a lot of people get hired on temporary contracts 6/12 months before becoming full time employees)

Only once I've given ~ 3 months notice simply because I didn't think I was a good fit in the company long term and I didn't have anything lined up yet.
I met her at an SVLG dinner and had a discussion about encryption; it became instantly clear she doesn’t know what a computer is past that it is a TV that takes input, and that encryption is just “evil people wanting to do evil things.”

There was no reasoning with her either, frankly because she is well-aged, and thus thinks herself “wise” with very little left to learn.

It was honestly infuriating.

[edit] In case anyone thinks I’m exaggerating, I promise I’m not. I went back to look at my texts to my now-wife after that meeting, and I was livid and extremely disappointed. She was at a table of, at the time, a dozen or so cybersecurity experts from industry and academia, and instead of listening to (or rather, hearing) what they had to say, she pushed forward an agenda of “trying to stop evil” while “protecting the children” and “thanking us for our concerns,” all while explaining that she understands encryption and knows how important it is, but that it’s more important for the military to have it and normal people don’t really need it as much. After all, it’s not like we don’t talk to other people in coffee shops where people can overhear and stuff.

Ugh.
Only 116 entries? The fictional companies wiki has over 1000.

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I have no problem with companies that censor for their international audiences, since asking them not to do it is akin to asking them to simply be banned in an overwhelming number of places. I think the advantages to having American companies operate abroad in many places is probably worth making this trade off.

I DO think we need legislation stop this censorship from affecting Americans though, because that's a tradeoff not worth making. And companies have a very clear profit motive in these cases to comply.
A bit like finding in favour of london's old, awful slums by comparing them to the Somme.

"Well yes, kind of..."
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
First the argument that we failed to automate it hence it is expensive is feels specious.

But let's accept it at face value. And now take it all the way. Suppose you reject 15 papers for every single one accepted.

And suppose that accepted pays $3K

So what costs $200 per rejection?

What is that work that you need to put in that adds up to costing $200 per rejection? Or $300 or $500?

In my experience at least half (if not more) of the rejections come right from the editorial desk ... someone spending 5 minutes with the paper.
Do you believe that Saudi Aramco is just going throw their arms up and be like “well, the dinosaur fumes era is over everyone! Pack it up.”

The two technologies of electric and combustion are going to coexist with each other.

The rebirth of F1 into this new hybrid generation, as well as the new dPi hybrid prototype class will prove to you that Maxwells Equation is not close, and we breaking a new era of acceleration, braking, downforce, top speed, and fuel efficiency.
> plumbers , carpenters, construction workers, chefs , explorers

There’s not enough real world demand for everyone to do these jobs, so what this really would amount to is masses of unemployed people subsistence farming, rotting on the street or being absorbed into organized crime syndicates or militant groups. Just take a look at how this plays out in many poor countries today.
I had so much fun with CNN models just before BERT hit it big. It would be nice to see them make a comeback.
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I think Elon Musk would tell you otherwise
This seems to be a common trope at HN where the failure of a company must be because of their hiring practice. Your comment also implies that the current failure has been engineering. This couldnt be further from the truth, Lyft had some of the best and smartest engineers. Lyft paid as well as they did because of the risk these engineers took in moving on from Google/Meta/Twitter what have you.
FWIW, I found Lyfts interviews to be the easiest of the companies I interviewed at.
The companies current downturn stems from the combined blow of COVID and focusing only on rideshare at the expense of not diversifying their revenue streams and their hiring or engineering has had very little to do with it.
At a continuous 80km/h on a level road in the summer I can get down to 160Wh/km even in my 2015 S 70D. I have a friend with a Kia Eniro and he gets similar numbers to you most of the time.
> There is no "current directory" on an UNC share

SetCurrentDirectory allows setting the current directory to a UNC share. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...

> Also wrong, it's not the command line shell that keeps track of the current directories, it's the Windows kernel itself. But I agree that such a scenario is quite useless as you can never be quite sure on what CWD you are on a given drive

Not for a long time. It's set as a special (hidden) environment variable like `=C:=C:\current\directory`. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100506-00/?p=14...
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> there are good odds your company will say "we accept your resignation effective immediately. Goodbye."

No, it's not common practice for tech companies to immediately fire anyone who resigns.

A 2 week notice period is basically standard in the US tech industry. Some companies will take resignations and then remove the employee's access to sensitive material (code, chats, documentation, etc.) but require them to be available for 2 weeks to participate in handoff conversations. They continue to be paid, however.

It does happen that companies will immediately fired people. However, companies rarely do it because they stand to lose a lot of transition information and it also poisons the well for any future resignations. It also sets a precedent for remaining employees to not give any notice, which means everyone is going to start quitting without any notice in the future. This is bad, and companies want to avoid it.

Giving extremely long notice periods (e.g. "I plan to quit in a few months") could push the company to move up your departure date, though. The only time long departure notice is really warranted is for executives and truly key employees. Most people over-estimate their importance to their company and their project, IMO, but in some rare cases a single person can be instrumental to a company. It's nowhere near as common as people assume, though.

In practice, it's not really a huge loss even if it does happen. Most people get raises when they change jobs and the new company is often willing to move start dates up if you ask.
The takes you have posted in this thread aren't moored to reality, and have nothing to do with left vs right wing. I hope these comments influence you to reevaluate things, but I am done engaging with you.
She has always been a militarist
Not in the field but I’ve heard that fasting allows the body to consume mis-formed/old cells. Is that something that would help in your case?
That and keeping mtor low perhaps?
The premium is actually 42.9%, since that is the amount a developer needs to raise their prices to offset the App Store's 30% fee.
I detest leetcode-style questions, but system design questions are even worse. At least leetcode-style questions have some type of objective evaluation criteria. System design questions are entirely subjective and whether or not you're successful generally comes down to whether or not your first impression of a problem matches the expectations of your interviewer.

At my last company, we stopped doing system design entirely because we found it was completely uncorrelated to whether or not a candidate did well on the job.
Cheers! Yeah. Not great. At least most (not all) of the state laws are pretty reasonable by themselves (awful to track in aggregate) if you're small beans and just getting starting.

What sucks is that lawyers, consultants, and sales tax software companies love to make the answer to the "do I need to worry about compliance right now?" question super opaque and scary unless you pay them $$$$$$$, when the short answer is "no" (with a few caveats) when you're just getting started.
That Car&Driver article is written in California, so I would have guessed it's US gallons, but now you're making me doubt :D
Because he represents their views and is an extremely powerful senator besides?
Yeah, my "gives one answer" was an incredibly misleading phrasing - I meant the encoding should be greedy and so [7,7,7,8,8,9] should have just the one answer of [[7,3], [8,2], [9,1]] and not also become [[7,2], [7,1], [8,2], [9,1]] or any other variant.

I feel like Prolog is sold by many as being able to solve predicates in both/many directions, with all the grandfather/ancestor/append examples, and my apparent frustration is in trying to use it that way in general and finding that doesn't work and that trying to produce working predicates that do work that way is seemingly impossible (without clpfd or cuts).

My most recent foray into Prolog was in starting with solving the Countdown numbers game (without clpfd or cuts) and then trying to use the predicates from that to answer further questions like what sets of tiles can reach all target numbers or what the highest necessary intermediate result is, or similar. I didn't just fail; I failed to learn anything useful. Getting those answers in a few imperative languages was trivial and educational.

Since then, I've reduced the goal to writing an any-mode rle that can return just correct answers and not infloop, without cuts or meta-programming. Simpler things seem easy enough. Rle seems just complex enough to make it impossible but is still logically trivial.

Your rle definition looks good to me, of course, but I'm not sure I can work out how to usefully compare it to other (+,-) answers. Certainly, I've only been checking for correctness in all modes, including a lack of infloops and a lack of extra answers.

I'd be happy to engage in offline conversation about it, but I'd likely just be yelling at clouds. I am interested in discovering which logic languages can trivially provide an any-mode rle and in working up from there to larger problems. Clearly, from this thread, prolog+clpfd is one.
The reverse scaling will be the problem more than the commodity price. As gas stations close, finding a refueling place will similar to what early adopters of EVs faced, but without the ability to do >90% of fueling at home or anywhere else the electrical grid reaches. Although maybe it'll become a thing for some people to store tanks of gasoline at their home. At that point I'd trade for a diesel vehicle, though, if I had a hard requirement of an ICE.
Because when streaming started the tech was new. So the differentiator was the technology. Now they’ll morph into just a media company.

It’s funny that CBS and stuff was a tech company 100 years ago.

Similar is the morph of Google into just a clear channel or other ad company. Search and adtech was hard years ago so they were a tech company. Now they sell ads and data.
I think the issue is that "tech" is a shifting label that requires novelty.

My great-grandfather came over from France to work as an "engineer" in the mines of Minnesota. I suspect that for him as for me, the novel technology created an opportunity for quick-on-the-uptake people to make a decent living figuring out the new thing and making it go. But eventually the technology becomes settled and boring, so it's a different thing both in terms of skill and economically.

If you're interested, you might look at Wardley mapping, one axis of which involves technology moving along this axis: Genesis -> Custom Built -> Product -> Utility/Commodity. Also relevant is the technology adoption lifecycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle
Clinton's emails, that are rightfully a matter of public record (unless they were classified, then she should've went to jail) get leaked, and it's the end of the world and calls the election into doubt.

The same people want to read the communications of private citizens.

They aren't even pretending that there isn't a double standard anymore.
unfortunately for the legacy car manufactures, like so many legacy companies. They have a huge amount of administrative bureaucracy and expense.

A new company doesn't have decades of bureaucratic bloat.

You can see this when you compare Toyota, Ford, and VW's profits on EV's versus Teslas.

Nearly everyone else's profits are less than $1000 in profit per car. (Some are even negative)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Tesla-vs-Toyota-BYD-VW-and-For...

Meanwhile Tesla's are nearly $10,000 profit per car.

BTW, I still wouldn't invest in auto companies and don't think Tesla's stock is gonna grow to the moon, because apparently when everyone makes EVs there's going to be serious issues with being able to make that many batteries via rare earth materials. But I'm no expert.
Maybe for the same reason that you shouldn't mount chips upside-down lest all of the electrons fall out?
Xbox removes Twitter integration due to API fees
California uses "jungle primaries" where the top two vote getters regardless of party advance to the general election. You can't blame the two-party system here, voters could easily choose another Democrat if that's what they wanted.
I have never understood this "slavery" argument. It's not enslavement, it's fulfilling a contract. They won't put you in jail if you don't show up, you're simply in breach of contract.

It's like if you're a freelance and you accept a project. They can't force you to work on the project until completed, but they can certainly levy financial penalties against you if you don't.
Wow, I would hate to work with you. Blaming the failure oof the company on engineering of all departments. And imagine being your coworker and not know the animosity you have towards them and the compensation they negotiated. Or maybe you do show it?
Yeah, as a Californian asking those around me why they support her over another Democrat in the general after a jungle primary, "seniority" is the answer that stood out.
I honestly think it’s mostly that voters simply don’t know.

She’s a democrat, but runs against democrats (usually), and wins largely because she’s been there forever and, tbh, California is a pretty spectacular place to live.

Thus, as CA is pretty great in general, Feinstein “can’t be that bad,” so why mess up a fine thing.

(Keep your “CA sucks” comments out of here please; your perception doesn’t matter in this case. Most Californians like living in California, by and large. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but neither is any state.)