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> There's a regular story told in physics departments that if you leave you can't get back in.

At least in CS, becoming a Professor of Practice is both higher prestige and a much lower barrier to entry than becoming an Associate Professor with Tenure. The job security of the Professor of Practice is de jure weaker but de facto much stronger. (Tenure doesn't mean shit these days, especially in the USA.)

> But in my experience, maybe people leave and don't want to go back.

Bingo. And it becomes way more extreme by the year.

After a couple decades in the tech industry with a modest lifestyle, 4.3% on your entirely post-tax brokerage account comes damn close to paying a full professor's salary. Retirement at 45 ain't a bad gig.

Get bored? No problem. Move somewhere nice close to a good-but-not-top-10-R1 university.

Teaching can be fun. You can always ad junct if and only you get the bug. Most departments are extremely happy because the customers LOVE being taught by people who did the real thing.

Research is similar: if you find a student you really enjoy working with or an idea you really want to pursue, you can opt to write a grant or take an industry gig for a bit. Student's choice -- chill poverty or same work but with weekly standups and more meetings and 5x comp. Again, the customers LOVE being able to tell Congress they are funding real stuff.

And you don't have to sit in faculty meetings where a bunch of people pretend that their grant agencies and students aren't customers, or that their department chair and dean aren't their line manager and skip line manager, or that their PhD students aren't criminally underpaid direct reports.

Overall, it's nice to be able to clip coupons on bonds and have uni admin fawning over you. It beats the alternative of the tenure track, where you have to continue wage slaving at a university whose admin has been totally MBAified and can't really offer your direct reports much in the way of solidarity because there are 100 28 year olds who can also be PIs on military-industrial projects interspersed with the occasional NSF/NIH grant.
That seems like a very dangerous experiment to conduct on a child.
Advertising does things like making people familiar to a brand, and to associate certain feelings, imagery, values and words (which would be "branding"). It's far from just making people buy things directly. Rather it's literally making people think about things otherwise they wouldn't think about.
I don't get why they can't just film a finale for the cancelled shows. One last episode to wrap up the plot lines.
It's funny to see people normalize increasing temperature extremes. It's not going to help you when summers become longer and hotter over time and people become physically unable to work as a result.

The limits of the human body and our ancestor's ability to survive in these heat waves were dependent on the waves being far shorter and less intense.
There are no issues, sure. At least as long everybody practices the three apes method…
Thanks for the link.
Good to know how propaganda spreads.
My recent observations with regard to green parties suggestion is that they're pointing at the wrong direction pretty much all the time.

two recent case in point : they've been closing nuclear power plant in france and germany non stop, and as a consequence we're burning even more russian gaz than before, and since the war the horribly polluting gaz imported from the US.

Second example : they've passed a law in france to force home owner to better insulate their housing, but the implementation details are so messed up that all they've managed to do is make renting even more impossible for students.

So now, every time i see a law beeing passed under pressure of green parties, i look at where the horrible side effect is going to be this time.
I've solved many combinorica-ish problems by extracting a sequence from a numeric solution and then using OEIS to find generating formulas then figuring out which one was the right one.
>Before a project starts using a new crate, members usually perform a thorough audit to measure it against their standards for security, correctness, testing, and more.

Do they? I mean really? Let's lay aside the fact that it's almost impossible to eyeball security. I just cannot imagine that Google works so differently to every company I've ever worked at that they actually carefully check the stuff they use. Every company I've worked at has had a process for using external code. Some have been stricter than others, none have meaningfully required engineers to make a judgement on the security of code. All of them boil down to speed-running a pointless process.

And that leaves apart the obvious question: I want to use a crate, I check it 'works' for what I need. Some middle manager type has mandated I have to now add it to crate audit (FYI, this is the point I dropped importing the library and just wrote it myself) so I add it to crate audit. Some other poor sap comes along and uses it because I audited it, but he's working on VR goggles and I was working on in-vitro fertilization of cats and he's using a whole set of functions that I didn't even realise were there. When his VR Goggles fertilize his beta testers eyes with cat sperm due to a buffer overflow, which of us get fired?
do you want a helm chart for this? the "requirements" page scares me, although I suspect this whole thing could be launched with a docker-compose / helm deploy very easily.
There is a benefit to using "go mod vendor". Some corporate environments lock down their CI/CD pipelines. By vendoring everything, the CI/CD does not need to make external HTTP calls.
Every time I see this notion pop up (which I 100% agree with), I think back to how YC published a list of potential startup ideas from current YC participants. One of them was a social network for kids. Just terrible and I'm so glad we've come to realize their harms.
This might be true at large companies where you're being handled by a HR team.

Smaller companies are typically very willing to negotiate. It can't hurt to ask for 20% more. The worst that will happen is they'll say no.

Asking for more than 20% gets a bit risky.
if pkd were still alive he would think that gpt is communicating with him specifically
Could something be done about "planned abandonment"?

It's too tempting a profit source.
Oof that was out of left field. Did not expect this here. Obviously wrong
That was also how OS/2 2.0+ ran Windows programs.
The smartphone is a government spy device so its not surprising they want to make more reasons to get one.
Into the Extreme – Fold Expressions – C++
template auto func(Args... args) { return (args || ... ); }

std::cout << func("str");

Does it compile? What will be the output?

Answers in the article :)

Special thanks for a lightning conversion, Daisy Hollman!
"security" by obscurity is the golden standard here. You don't want to see the massive incompetence at play if everything was open.
You mean the 'dead internet prophecy' right?
It's basically the Disney business model, still mining nostalgic brands from 40 years ago. As a parent I was lucky that I didn't have that nostalgia factor to make me push it onto my kids. I got a Switch based on their "family friendly" reputation, saw how scummy they are with re-releases, random subscription fees, and periodically locking down old games on their emulator, and decided I didn't want to make my kid become nostalgic to that corporate abuse in their future. That's at least one generational nostalgia chain cutoff, but there are many million others out there.
Interesting read. Have always enjoyed Philip K Dicks novels… sadly not surprised he struggled with mental and substance abuse. His books read in a way that often feature a character somewhat removed from reality or in some form of psychosis. The idea of what is real or not real is explored over and over again. I cannot help but think he was writing from his own soul or at least his own experience. He was always the looker peering into the another world that he just didn’t quite fit into. It makes me feel sad like he was often likely very lonely despite his genius and fame :/.
Daily weather forecast generated by AI
Tech companies are becoming increasingly responsive to wiretap demands
Superficial and entirely missing the mark. PKD spent years doing research trying to understand his most important mystical experience, and his extensive notes and documentation ended up in the book "exegesis" (also greatly influencing the philosophy underlying works such as Valis). None of that is of course mentioned in the article.

What we get is a random psychiatrist performing armchair psychoanalysis on someone he knows very little about.
I bought a house in a suburb of Rochester on a $80k salary in 2021.
Same house 2 years later would be double the monthly payment :)
What’s the best alternative for iOS?
> They’ll get there eventually

Debatable.

So many of their issues are to do with the lack of LiDAR sensors.
But by the same token, those orbits will be unstable and the particles will quickly lithobrake.
Doesn't this require a ton of resources (gas and mobility gear, manpower to find and move food, or continuously migrating your living area) and assume everyone you meet will be an enemy you will want to take food from?
That analogy about the FBI fingerprint database is one of the most tortured metaphors I've ever heard.
France has been closing nuclear power plants non-stop??? Some reactors are EOL, the same is true for the USA and other countries since the nuclear power plant building boom was on the 70s and early 80s. However, France is still very pro nuclear power.
Nope. I was in Austin during the winter storm in 2021 and lost power for a fair chunk of it plus was stranded in my apartment with little food. There was nothing I could do as the roads were filled with snow and ice and the city had no infrastructure for clearing the roads or dealing with the problems.

In comparison if something happened in my home town of Bellingham on the west coast, they'd be prepared by having the roads salted, making it reasonably clear and that I would've still be able to get supplies even in the case of a blackout.
Every generation of parents seems to have some moral panic. It's a way for those people to feel like they're in control (because losing control is scary and uncomfortable). But, well, news flash, teenagers are all about rebelling against their parents and it's perfectly natural for parents to lose most, if not all, control of their teenagers.

So do you leash your kids and monitor every single one of their actions? Do you really think that is the solution? Parents have tried this for millennia and it never works. Some go completely overboard and shelter their kids, who have mental breakdowns when they enter the real world. I've seen it happen first hand with home-schooled/overly protected friends.

You throw out an extreme anecdote. Remember the war on drugs? It was the same thing. Oh, your kids are gonna do crack at their friends house if you are not careful. Drugs are everywhere and kids are melting their brains. Yes, extreme things can happen to anyone, you can get hit by a car and die, that doesn't mean you ban your kids from crossing a road.

How do you teach them the right choice? Well, this is the art of parenting, and is hard. There are many approaches here. My approach is to treat my teens with respect, have frank conversations with them, and set some clear boundaries and expectations (you must do your schoolwork).

I also try to set myself as a role model for them by living my life to the same morale standards I'd want them to. I don't do drugs, I don't smoke, I don't drink lots, I don't go on random hookups (all things which I see common in men my age). I work hard but also try to remember to have fun and laugh.

It's worked so far. They are confident and happy and will confide in me things they are struggling with. I know they will do things that I wouldn't be happy with and will be unaware of, but that is the risk inherent in life and they will learn from it. All I can do is try to set them up for success best I can, and impart my limited wisdom.
It would also help to have compile-time guarantees about which nodes are running.

But I always like to say, why spend 5ns calling a function when you could spend 1ms waiting for a context switch or 50ms for the next event loop to tick over? Even modern microcontrollers are blindingly fast, and the majority of the time they spend these days is because of our brain-dead architecture decisions, not due to the underlying problem that actually needs solving.
Some people live at the cusp of the abyss but they are kind enough to dispatch so that we the rest dont have to
Couldn't agree more, I absolutely LOVE Caddy, but the docs were truly awful the last time I had to look, all forums, etc also referenced v1 a lot which was really frustrating.
I used to think I was the only person with my name, since my first name isn't common at all. Then I started getting fan mail, and discovered I had a namesake who had been in a movie with his very famous daughter.

I've occasionally gotten family dinner invites, airport and limo itinerary, and so on, basically since the dawn of gmail. I know far too much about the issues in his NY condo building. Once when I tried to explain I wasn't the person they think I am, they re-replied and were like "Well, of course you are!" and acted like I was trying to avoid them.

In the meantime, I've actually found another guy with my same name, and we're subscribed to each others' YouTube channels (even though we've never spoken). I wonder if the same celebrity namesake thing happens to him. I'm sure it does.

I totally feel for Connie Wang.
Check Lucas Pope experiments:
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...
“Bing, fire 5,000 of our workers with the lowest productivity scores”
I never get cookie popups. I use the, "I don't care about cookies", web browser plug-in.
Yea, that's a common complaint coming from other safe languages where the safety is accomplished by runtime features (such as garbage collection) instead of compile–time rules.

I think that most programs should be written in easier languages than Rust, since most of the time the engineering cost of creating a system is higher than the cost of running it. You can rewrite it in Rust once your system is large enough that eliminating the garbage collector will save you a few million dollars a year. By then you’ll have a complete understanding of the requirements, and you won’t have to experiment to get it right. Use a language like Lisp, which is designed for easy and fast experimentation, to write the first version of your software.
Wonderful, the fact that it runs as expected in multi touch devices has not gone unnoticed!
> Tesla and Waymo are arguably pretty close

No they aren't. The latest FSD betas have been widely panned.

And the lack of LiDAR sensors means Tesla still fails to accurately define the bounding boxes for scene objects.
> in fact our program recently paid for students to attend a multiple day seminar about how to get jobs outside academia.

Consider that preparing you for jobs outside of university should be the goal of your education, not relegated to a two-day seminar.

And also consider how relatively fucked it is that such a seminar is actually quite necessary due to the fact that the vast majority of your faculty haven't spent more than a trivial amount of time in industry. (Things that don't count as non-trivial industry experience include: the gap year between undergrad and grad school, the one year industry Post-Doc, sporatic consulting, the "spinoff" that never got past a seed round in which the university endowment or SBIR was the lead "investor", or especially the "several internships at top companies" lol.)
I wonder how companies go about retiring these sound processors on the technical level. Are those in need of continuous updates to keep working? Do they receive a final update one day which bricks them? Since the consequences seem so heartbreaking I would imagine that unofficial ways of prolonging the life time of this hardware do exist?
This isn't a case study. He is self reporting. With the amount of measurements he takes on himself he is bound to find something "statistically significant" by chance. p=.05 is still a 1 in 20 it's bullshit. Measure 20 variables and you'll probably find something "significant" just by chance.

This dude should be called out not for being a quack or for wasting so much money. He should be called out for using his son in this way. Hundreds of thousands of Americans need plasma transfusions every year. He's doing it for fun. And objectifying his son in the process.

There's a lot of exciting science happening in the anti-aging field. There's a reason researchers in the field think this is not only pointless but reckless. I've been hematoma'd. It's not fun. I would never speak to my father again if I got a hematoma or some other complication because he's afraid of his own mortality.
I bet they missed the 1 million subscribers who canceled netflix in Spain when they pulled this shit. Maybe some people in his family weren't paying for the bill out of their own account, but the service could easily be worth the price for the value all three members of a family get out of it, but not at all worth it for just one.

Even when a family member, friend, or a romantic partner watches a netflix show on an account that they didn't personally pay for, they're still watching netflix, still talking about good shows they saw on netflix with others, still posting about things they saw on netflix online, and still providing netflix with valuable data and metrics and netflix is still making money.
Above firearms, you want a community where trust exists.
SimCity (the original) had a big influence on me as a young budding game designer/programmer. In a way my latest game [SB] is a kind of simulation of our collective future, and how we try to live in the absence of the modern US/Western-style city infrastructure and services we take for granted now. Of the kind which SimCity models and brings to life so well.

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[SB: welcome to look in my bio here if curious]
It's not technically gambling, but it's every bit as insidious and preys on the exact same elements of human nature, except we allow it to happen to children.
Medicine and adjacent has pretty well-defined schooling pathways, afaik a nurse cannot claim to have picked up their skills 'extracurricularly' in the same manner that a future 10x SWE can - as a result we have a diverse pool that contains both CS grads from top schools who may be unsuitable, (plenty of incredible ones too, of course), alongside random 'uneducated' hackers who may be a good fit.

Thus, in lieu of a standardized framework we have to invent our own.

I very much agree though, the avg. CRUD shop could probably just ask Fizzbuzz and have the same outcome as these gauntlets.
I have some cheap plastic cutting boards that have a rubber edge. Zero movement on those. And you can just pop them in the dishwasher.
Nopia [video]
I was expecting it to be based on Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
Free-range, grass-fed, organic content.
> $9.99 Netflix plan won't get you 4k

It doesn’t even get you 1080p (for that you need the $15.49 “standard” plan, and 4k comes on the $20 a month plan)
Our main trouble is that there are like 30 Web- or streaming-capable devices in our house, not even counting ones that are packed away, and getting the balance between "usable by adults with little friction; locked down for kids" right on all of them is a real pain. Only the Apple-ecosystem stuff is relatively easy to manage, as far as that goes.

Worse, some of them are school devices that we can't manage. And having to physically manage device access is another annoying, never-ending task.
> the more companies cutting ties with China, make it easier for both China and US to have Military conflict on Taiwan

The coefficient of trade and belligerence is about 0.2, i.e. "a doubling of trade on average leads to a 20% diminution of belligerence" [1]. And trade with China continues to grow [2]. I wouldn't read the semiconductor re-shoring as materially changing the odds of a war per se.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Solomon-Polachek/public...

[2] https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
I think, as a society, we do want to see it, slowly, over time.

Perhaps requiring they be open sourced after a point in time or to be eligible for medicaid, etc. Maybe only new ones - but eventually we need to clean this up; as we're creating a digital superfund site each time, only covered up by people disposing of them or dying.
Don’t shame an amazing open source project for trying to be financially sustainable.
Never try it with private insight either, they'll just book you for insider trading.
The DMC-12 had stainless steel body panels, but it had a plain ol' carbon steel frame (designed by Lotus and similar in design to the Esprit) with an epoxy coating, and they have NOT fared well over the years. You can buy a new-build stainless frame for it, it only costs as much as a new regular car.

https://deloreanindustries.com/8-1-0-stainless-frame/
Gonna go out on a limb and guess that it's enough to send shivers down anyone who's heard the Therac-25 story...
Any window covering really needs to go on the outside (anything on the inside is too late, the energy is already heating up your room), so I'd recommend sunblocking fabric roller shades (Coolaroo is a popular Australian manufacturer, I have one, it's worked well for me on a west-facing deck).
Thank god. I was just thinking that Teams needed more bloat.
confidence through obscurity?

actually a semi interesting argument, which seems likely to be widely accurate in many places.
More paved surfaces too. Roads, driveways, highways, parking lots, etc.
The difference in mass between a pedestrian and any vehicle is so great that at the moment of collision, the pedestrian's velocity becomes that of the car, and the car's velocity is practically unchanged. (That is, energy transferred is a function of vehicle's velocity and pedestrian's mass.)

Mass of the vehicle only practically comes into play for stopping distance, and as a proxy for its frontal cross-section.
People should underestimate Tesla:

1. Lack of LiDAR sensors. Vision is still not (and IMHO will never be) an adequate replacement.

2. Waymo/Cruise etc. can upgrade their taxis easily with capabilities over time. Tesla is restricted by their promise that FSD will work on previously shipped cars.
It’s a joke as that is one of the few significant non-piracy uses of torrents.
The short answer is yes, we do plan to add versions for other countries. I expect Canada to likely be the first country we add, followed by the UK.
Earliest recorded sex act occured in Mesopotamia
> 18 hours a day is likely a pretty big exaggeration

Nope, not at all. Some days it was 20 (rarely). When you have to do the job of 5 engineers the only path is to be extremely well organized, driven and be willing to put in the time.

> I'd actually say that's making my point
> probably not too stressful tho

I guess I didn't make it clear enough. I used farm work as one of the simplest and oldest types of work in history. It is hard work. I would not dare say it isn't stressful.

My greater point is that what you are asking for simply does not exist. You are not going to be able to remove stress from work, no matter where people are working, at the field, a factory, warehouse or the office.

A couple of decades ago I got what I thought was my "dream job". I was miserable for six months, when I left. I could not wait to find something else. I thought my prior work was stressful and the new job would be wonderful. It sure taught me a different perspective on my assumptions.