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Are you just misremembering the treatment of gay/trans people growing up?

In my neck of the woods, being gay was not acceptable, we would constantly use homophobic slurs, and being trans (not a cross dresser, but actually changing gender/sex) was treated fairly similarly to insanity.

Nowadays, IME most people think that being gay is acceptable and unless they live fairly rurally or something probably have gay friends, and mostly people recognise the validity of being transgender but still find it a bit of an "out there" lifestyle choice.

I don't buy the idea that the Christian community were more supportive of these things before and things have regressed. I think you just care about them more now for whatever reason.
I think a big factor is that kids see adults do stuff and think that doing stuff and making things is normal. That gets them out of 'if it isn't store bought it isn't real' mode.
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> Document your accomplishments

I’ve had a quarterly updated resume and longer form career document for over a decade. I don’t think I’ve ever had to update my resume specifically for a job opportunity. It’s constantly updated.

> While you still have access to Slack, ask your manager, previous managers, and/or colleagues you worked closely with if they would be willing to give a reference check for you for your next role.

You should already have them as contacts on LinkedIn

> Potentially also ask for endorsements on LinkedIn

On the other hand LinkedIn is merely a place to keep my contacts. I find it to be more of a self aggrandizing cesspool than Facebook.
It's at least technically possible to build an iOS app without any Apple tools. It seems like there are some guides already (https://vojtastavik.com/2018/10/15/building-ios-app-without-...), and I imagine it will become easier if there's suddenly a lot of interest in avoiding Apple tools.

I agree it's not entirely clear how this will play out, but I don't think a simple policy of sideloading only apps approved by Apple (or someone acting like their proxy) would be compatible with DMA rules like

> The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores using, or interoperating with, its operating system and allow those software applications or software application stores to be accessed by means other than the relevant core platform services of that gatekeeper.

There are some security-related caveats, so perhaps Apple can use those as a pretense for denying sideloaded apps access to a bunch of features, but I don't see how they could block simple games etc.
I don't have numbers so I'll just say that it has only ever been disassembled slowly and according to plan!
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Except the cars that are designed to be loud. Engine breaking trucks are pretty bad too.
Depending on one’s character sheet this percentage might still turn out to be overly optimistic.
Before making this assumption:
ask chatgpt 4.0 right now.

In general the default should flip from it can't do x to it can do it until ypu tried it and verfied it.

Also, be sure to retest with every new release.
Yes. I haven't been to church much lately but in more conservative denominations (Catholic, Lutheran) I've seen direct politics in the pulpit, go vote for this or that Republican or support "our" party. Having grown up with "separation of church and state" seeming to be something everyone could agree on, it gives me chills.
The experience just sucks, it's a glorified ChatGPT wrapper with all the "As an AI language model..." warts. The stilted mechanical speech of ChatGPT does not resonate with the snapchat user demographic. Snapchat is a wild place, 80% of the real conversations on that platform would be flagged in red TOS violation text were it pasted into ChatGPT.
Well done, very clean and functional.
I'm really curious about the implementation, since I'm also working on a static web app. It's been hard to deal with browser APIs manually.

- Could you give a brief overview of how the project is built, or what libraries are used? I found two in the source, React and Workbox. I've never heard of Workbox before, and I'm still figuring out how service workers are used. But it seems like a big part of the source.

- What factors made you choose Google Drive for syncing? And was it easy to set up?
I can’t believe I would have to explain the value of having hundreds of unconnected accounts if the goal of a spammer is to have their scam persist for as long as possible. It is a weird line of argument to say that because Apple doesn’t do everything perfectly, they should not implement any mitigation strategies at all.

Like seriously, I have no idea what you were trying to say, or what do you think Apple should do, or what you want to convince me of.

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This argument is being made for every single skill that AI assimilates from humans. Of course neural nets are doing "exactly" the same - their whole end goal is to simulate what humans seem to do.

But the reason we ask ourselves if AI genereted X in masse is legal or not is not about how things work, but what their impact is to living human beings. Laws are about protecting humans.
This is the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen.
These laws make no sense at all because basically no one is actually hurt by ad tracking (it actually improves ad quality and relevance), except if you just think advertising in general is wrong.

All of these data privacy laws are just a minority of people wanting to push back against capitalism and big tech. I get it but it's such a waste of energy.
I've never understood the reasoning, except maybe as nerd-sniping.

If there is any technological progress, then future people collectively will be much richer than us, and so they will be able to solve their problems much more easily than we can. Even problems they inherited from us - those should be trivially cheap for them to solve in a few hundred years.

I see it as "they owe us" (for enabling their existence at all) rather than "we owe them".

And if there isn't any more technological progress, then there won't be many future people.

Our obligations to present people, to enable them to have their own self-determined futures, seem far more important to me.
There's a lot of talk about apprentice pay being too low and the process taking too long. What a lot of people seem to be missing is that being an apprentice is a young man's game, that journeyman wages being bad or good is highly regional, and that the path to running your own business is fairly direct. It's an entirely different path from the two-step college to white-collar job pipeline most of us probably went through. You work hard pulling horsecock wire or cleaning shit out of sewer systems fresh out of high school to have the option of either pushing far and hard after your journeyman's card to make incredibly good money, or making a wage that ranges from kind-of-bad to kind-of-good wholly depending on where you live.

If you had a rough start in life, bad grades, no applicable skills, no money to go to college, no family support, etc. but are willing to show up and get your balls busted for a while while you learn, you could do a hell of a lot worse than the average journeyman's wage, and you stand a chance to make a hell of a lot more.
If the state tried to prevent people from talking about officially public information, that seems like something that would be slapped down on first amendment grounds alone.
Actually apple updated it so that when you lose sight of the QR code, the link gets moved to the bottom center of the screen, where it stays for a while. Why it's not always positioned there, I don't know. Having to chase a moving target on your screen is some real dumb design.
I think Valve has a financial incentive to keep Proton compatibility in a positive state, as it increases sales of the Steam Deck and encourages players to remain in their ecosystem. Or, I think it's more likely than the majority of AAA game developers having a financial incentive to maintain Linux versions of their products.
Not to mention the dating and marriage prospects without a college degree, even if you outearn a degree holder, are worse.
Many US cities and towns permit construction to happen at relatively early hours - like 6 or 7 AM. That’s usually not a problem if you’re a 9-5er.

It is a massive problem if you work late shifts. My wife works in the restaurant business and 6 or 7 AM she’s still deep asleep.

We had construction near our condo for nearly three years where spring, summer, and fall the jackhammers started at around a little before 7 every weekday. It was brutal for her.

That, plus various other issues, lead us to decide our next home is going to be a quiet single family home in a suburb. Yes - a suburb!
Well, yeah but your definition is also kinda recursive "mature" sector is a regulated sector. Well restaurant schtick to me is way more mature if we stick to original vibe.

The thing is most regulation is happening where people actually get hurt. Hey, I am not super pro regulation person, but in comment above, I just tried to disprove something that seemed false. I am not going steelman pro-regulation arguments any more :)
After 20 years that account might have escheated.
Isn't this exactly the use case for which flatpaks are designed? Isn't Redhat/Fedora in the process of adopting them as the primary way to support third party/proprietary graphical apps like Steam? Doesn't the current Steam flatpak avoid this issue?

TLDR; isn't this already addressed?
We don't really do brain mapping in the sense that would apply to nanotechnology. The actual mechanism of working memory is pretty hard to establish in humans at this level.
The UI redesign called Cheetah was also forced internally and a lot of OGs left during that period including the long time VP of Eng Tim Sehn. Lots of internal politicking, late hours, and then layoffs the next year, for a project many of us weren't sold on. Not fun. And when the rollout data showed what many of us suspected, it took too long to pivot. The thing is up until then I think Snap's top-down design-driven culture was a strength and supported its innovation. Sometimes you have to do the unpopular thing. It works until it doesn't. I hear things have softened since.
But it would also likely take out the grid itself. If all of the massive power cables strewn all over, connected to very large expensive power station transformers, become overloaded at the same time from a CME, I don't predict good things for those transformers and a lot of other things. The laptop would not be able to be recharged without solar or something. It takes a long time (1-2 years is my understanding) to get one single transformer at a power station, under ideal conditions. They are basically made to order, and backlogged.
Converting a 401k to an IRA can mess up future backdoor Roth conversions as well.
Anybody can go buy a Camry and use it to build a business, sell Uber rides, or even use it as a platform to build aftermarket parts for converting them into taxis. That doesn't make Toyota open in any way.
> Well there's your problem. They planted trees which are totally off for the local environment.

That's also why most squirrels you see in the Seattle area are eastern grey squirrels.

A bit over a century go people decided that they wanted squirrels in the parks.

You'd think the easy way to do that would be to send some people out to head to the nearest forest and capture some western grey squirrels and release them in the parks. But western grey squirrels only like to live in native trees and eat native plants, and parks are mostly non-native trees so that wouldn't work.

The parks are mostly non-native because people like parks where the trees aren't too dense, aren't too tall, and have wide canopies. The native trees here are more toward the tall, dense, triangular canopy kind of tree.

They had eastern grey squirrels shipped in from the other side of the country. The kinds of trees in the parks matched the trees where the eastern grey squirrels were native so the hope was they'd be happy in those parks. They were, and they were also happy to live and native trees and eat native plants, so were also happy to spread from the parks.
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Thanks for this! I took a peak at traffic to the "artificial general intelligence" page. Quite the surge in traffic for 2023: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&plat....
Related: https://dictionary.apa.org/experimenter-bias (= Subjects behave in ways that they believe help the experimenter.)
> I remember growing up with the church and experiencing community.

While everyone likes to generalize their church experience as “the church”, the fact is that the experience of the church, even at a given point in time, varies a lot by particular church community (parish/congregation/etc.), even within thr same larger organization.

> Today we see things like christian parents abandoning their gay children, wanting to “cure” trans people, or “christians” voting for trump and it’s clear that religion and therefore, for many, community has been corrupted by politics

None of this is new. I grew up in great, accepting Church communities in the 1970s and 1980s, but even as a kid I knew those weren’t the only kind.

And even then, religious organizations being deeply involved in and affecte by basic political disputes (on every side) wasn’t new. We (and the institutions themselves) tend to celebrate it for institutions that were on what is, in retrospect, seen as the right side, but a view of history that only pays attention to the history people like to talk about is misleading.
Things I love about it:

- gofmt. The fact that it comes with an opinionated formatter means I don't waste time with bikeshedding.

- Simplicity. I love how Go just gets out of my way and lets me do my work. I also don't need to worry about crazy abstractions and deep levels of inheritance.

- I usually don't need to worry about performance bottlenecks. Go is pretty fast.

- Typed. Over time I ended up hating languages like Python and JavaScript because of the lack of typing. Typed languages let me catch a large amount of errors at compile-time, and it also serves as documentation.

- Go-routines are a very elegant way to deal with concurrency.

- The standard library has a great selection of tools like JSON parsing that are usually not native in other languages.

- Dependency management is pretty good. Not the best, but definitely better than languages like C++.

- Single binaries. You can compile a Go application into a single binary and have it as the entry point of a container.
The result are very small containers that start up very quickly.

Thing I don't like about it:

- Error handling got better over time, but it's still annoying to find out if an error is of a specific type in legacy code.

- It would be nice to have more built-ins for lists, such as .includes(), .filter(), .map(), etc.

- Nil pointers. It would be great if there was a way to ensure points will never be nil.

I was really skeptical about it at first, but it quickly became my favourite language.
I'd argue that one comes with the other though. Once 32 hours is normalized, 40+ hours becomes an outlier, which means that 50+ becomes an extreme outlier.

Within a few decades culture changes and working 40 hours would be looked at in much the same way we work at 50+ hours. Even then there will still be people working 80+ hours to make ends meet but fixing that is basically fixing poverty which is definitely much harder.
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Proving this is a very high bar to meet for performance reviews.

Most formal performance reviews will be on a carefully worded standard form where literally nothing the manager selects can be libel, and even for informal references, most criticism (even if unwarranted!) is not libel.

If a form asks "How satisfied are you with 29athrowaway's performance this year? " then answering "1/10" is opinion, not fact, and also likely to be true opinion. A written statement "29athrowaway has absolutely not met my expectations this year" is very difficult to be proven false, it's plausible that these expectations indeed were not met. "29athrowaway has never ever done anything right since they were born" is rhetorical hyperbole and generally not treated as libel despite being technically not true. "I think 29athrowaway should be fired" is not purporting to be fact. "29athrowaway was rude to customers three times in the last week" is extremely hard to prove as false even if it is pulled out of thin air; even if you have all the interactions recorded, there's probably something which can interpreted that way. "29athrowaway did not fulfill their tasks in project XYZ" is a tricky one (and so most formal performance review forms will never include statements worded like that, at least if they're approved by HR/legal), but depends mostly on how well documented the assignments were, and if they can somehow be stretched to assert that you performed only 99% of them, that's not really libel.
Moving it around wouldn't mess it up. You can move a 401k from a previous employer to a Rollover IRA at any major custodian. This is not a taxable event (you just move pre-tax money to pre-tax money), so it doesn't matter if you sell whatever it's holding and buy the equivalent at a new custodian. The only reason to need to keep a 401k where it is is if that custodian has some unique investment option that you want there that you can't get elsewhere, but that's pretty rare.
The GDPR is very much responsible. They exist solely because of the GDPR.

And you don’t just “brush up” on an 11 chapter 99 section law.
Yeah, IIRC in New York arrest records are available and can be requested online… but there’s a $50 fee per request, and you don’t get mugshots. Enough availability to ensure the police can’t hide arrests, but also enough barrier to discourage mass collection and abuse of the data.
Even more so, if they were to do a control group with a 5 day work week, I'm certain the 4 day workers would still deliberately work harder to prove that 4 day work weeks work, thus providing more evidence to convince bosses to implement them.
1) Canada. Similar distances, I expect resale price is more affected by supply of older models. The US had 115k Leafs sold through 2017, Canada had 5.5k sold through 2017, or about 40% on a per-capita basis. Not sure why such a discrepancy. (Though from a quick check, after currency conversion, the starting price of a 2023 Leaf in Canada is 8% higher than in the US before taxes. Compare to e.g. a Corolla which is 11% lower before taxes.)

2) 17¢/kWh in AB, though current rates would be either 23¢/kWh on a fixed-rate contract or current floating rates are in the 25¢/kWh range.
I think I learned more from the fellow juniors in my first couple of jobs than I ever did from managers/supervisors/seniors - remote work is easy for me now that I’m mostly “baked” but think it would have been a huge detriment for me early career.
Yes, I ran into that pain while working graveyard, myself. Simply no way to work around it.

Awfully uncharitable of all those construction workers to whom I'd just sold coffee and snacks, to make a bunch of noise and keep me awake, imo.
Yes, they are. Sometimes the lines become problematic.

A famous example is Apple Computer and Apple Corps (the Beatles music holding company) with a long history of arguing about lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Something similar that confuses me is the recent shift from calling the river "Yangtze" in English to calling it "Yangzi".

Yangzi is the correct pinyin spelling of the syllables that "Yangtze" was meant to indicate. (Similarly, if you want to spell them in modern pinyin, you'd have Laozi instead of Lao Tzu/Tze, Sunzi instead of Sun Tzu, and of course Kongzi instead of Confucius.) But the Chinese name of the river is something completely different. What's the point of updating the spelling of the English name as if it were also the Chinese name?
Thanks for the link. I watched the first 20 minutes and will watch the rest now. It's very interesting.

A small note, popularity (being generally recognized) is not a good indicator of the validity of any view point and it certainly does not mean we cannot challenge them.

> It's also more nuanced than hot takes suggest.

I believe as an Iranian and a history enthusiast, what I expressed was one of those these nuances which is presumably being labeled as hot take, or am I mistaken and you referring to something from somewhere else?

edit: fixed typo
Many US cities and town permit construction to happen at relatively early hours - like 6 or 7 AM. That’s usually not a problem if you’re a 9-5er.
It is a massive problem if you work late shifts. My wife works in the restaurant business and 6 or 7 AM she’s still deep asleep.
We had construction near our condo for nearly three years where spring, summer, and fall the jackhammers started at around a little before 7 every weekday. It was brutal for her.
That, plus various other issues, lead us to decide our next home is going to be a quiet single family home in a suburb. Yes - a suburb!
The Australian Tax Office portal lists all of your active superannuation (or ‘super’, which is basically 401k) accounts, and offers a link to kick off the transfer process.

Despite having one of the most contradictory and complex taxation systems in the world, they do make some things very easy.
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Fill the pot with water and heat it above the melting pont. Cool it down and the wax will form a skin so you're left with just a ring to scrape off.
Where I work, Teams is all that we're allowed to use. This has dramatically reduced the amount of communication taking place overall, and has increased the use of email (emails will get answered eventually, Teams chats might not).

We also don't use SharePoint much, although I consider that a good thing, personally.
The white noise still causes stress. I remember vividly how peaceful everything was during the Covid lockdowns when almost no cars were on the road. You suddenly could hear the wind, birds and other sounds you normally don’t hear.
ChatGPT is fine as a name, it's pretty distinct. But GPT2, GPT3, GPT4 is OpenAI using the term GPT as if they are the only ones making them. And apart from EleutherAI nobody really challenged that naming conventions so far.