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Advantest | Software Developer – Build and Test Automation | Böblingen, Germany | onsite (hybrid) preferred | Full-time | Visa Sponsorship | https://www.advantest.com

Advantest develops Semiconductor and Component Test Systems. Your job includes improving the C++ development experience for our software engineers developing the software controlling the V93000 test system. No domain knowledge in semiconductor testing is required.

- We are moving the build system from Ant, SCons and Make to Bazel.

- We will be writing AST transformations (Clang AST) to automatically replace dated types and operations with their C++ standard library counterparts.

- We plan to move all code to C++20 modules.

Your impact:

- Contribute to our efforts to move the build of our C++ and Java code from legacy build systems to Bazel.

- Contribute to our efforts to use `clangd` as the LSP-provider of our IDE, Eclipse.

- Implement and run automated transformations to free our code from legacy cruft.

- Provide first-level support to our developers facing issues with the build system.

The skills you will demonstrate:

- Required:

- Strong knowledge of the Linux environment (Shell, Python, Ruby, Git, RPM-based packaging, GDB, LLDB, util-linux, coreutils, iproute2, bcc, perf, ...)

- Knowledge of the C++ build process (compiling, linking, build systems).

- Preferred:

- Knowledge of the LLVM/Clang ecosystem, particularly libAST and clang-tidy internals

- Development or maintenance of a SCons-, CMake- or Bazel-based build system.

Technologies: C++17 and newer; Linux (RHEL7/RHEL9) only; Bazel; Clang AST (clang-tidy); GNU Make; SCons; Ant; Eclipse CDT; Java

Contact: Apply via the job description: https://jobs.advantest-career.de/en/offer/software-developer...
An argument somewhat undermined by the example “in an age of synthesizers, the acoustic guitar…” which sounds pretty tool-focused to me, lol.

This seems to be an insinuation that guitar playing is a skill while electronic music is some form of cheating. I’ll grant they’re different, but as someone who can play passable guitar who is interested in getting into electronic music, I’d hardly say the latter requires less skill. On the contrary; I find the number of things to learn (rhythm, drums, bass, string, leads, synthesis principles, sound design, effects, putting all that together, mixing,…) quite overwhelming in comparison.
It sounds to me like you're using classes to implement curried functions. In this case with the IO / DI context as the curried parameter.

Working in functional langs I just do DI with higher order functions.
> The change came at least five years after Prime Video — home of on-demand favorites such as “Game of Thrones”

Huh?
I installed it just for trying on my retina display, and all icons looked crisp. Are you sure you didn't get an older version, as this is beta?
If you are gonna make a big announcement of how great your icons are and they are blurry on 20% of screens.. maybe the issue isn't with your users.
Do you think we need historization for data and that current technologies do not solve that problem ?
Upvote if yes !
My phone has that weird habit of going into silent mode in the night.
I suppose that's one solution: if you don't want to become ethical you can just change the world (as in reframe it) until you do. I see nothing wrong here: he gets to profess his ethics, but doesn't actually have to live it. Mission accomplished. /s
Belize is not an island.

Anti-science is not limited to anti-vaccines, it also encompasses all the public health measures, supposedly being a limitation on "freedom" and "bodily autonomy", claimed to be steppingstones to authoritarianism - all by people who want absolute 'freedumb', and all the benefits of living in a complex society but zero of the responsibilities of maintaining the complex society.

I will grant that the connection here is more tenuous than a herd of anti-vaxxers making a measles cluster and spreading it.

But the broad anti-science thrust both suppresses general public health measures, and in openly "anti-woke" states like Florida & Texas, the administrations actively undermine public health measures, even outlawing such measures, and preventing cities/counties from implementing their own.

Thus, it is no surprise to find that Texas and Florida are the locus of these infections, and to find that juxtaposed vs Belize successfully eradicating the disease.
No it is exactly one version ahead, the number is just bigger by 13.
Firefox ESR 102 is based on firefox non-esr 102 and ESR 115 is based on non-ESR 115. There are no ESR versions in between.

As an analogy think of fedora and red hat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Relat...

With that same scheme it would be red hat 6, 12, 19, 28, 34 instead of 5,6,7,8,9.
Thanks!

How do you deal with file paths/bind mounts, etc? Seems like for things to work "seamlessly" you need to have a duplicated file system with exact same paths on client/host.
They could be saying "by the metrics and values of this thing I'm criticizing, I'm successful by not doing that."

Also, financial success is on-topic here, as this forum originated for Silicon Valley bros seeking wealth. In past lives, we were "greed is good" Wall Street bros. I'm sure some percentage of our earlier counterparts started out really loving spreadsheets, before the schemes.
It's no different than using sign in with Google.
And there are bajillion apps out there that offer sign in with Google, doesn't mean every Google user is subscriber of the app.
Same thing with threads.
The difficulty becomes that, in a bad organization, a good manager can easily get stuck unable to both be a good leader to their team and be a good manager as seen by the organization. I've had multiple managers fired/reassigned because they were leading the team well in a fractured organization, but because they weren't prioritizing the things that upper management wanted over the objections of their teams.

If what the team wants to do to succeed is at odds with what the organization thinks it wants, the manager often can't square that circle.
Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, considers Canada a postnational state. He'd open the borders in a heartbeat if it won him the next election and a scary amount of people in Canada would support it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postnationalism#In_Canada

Thankfully our country hasn't devolved to that point yet.
Ultimately "fake work" is work disconnected from the bottom line or profit goals of the company, since this is capitalism and that's the ultimate measure and purpose of a corporation.

It's not much of a surprise that Google, Meta, etc. are full of this kind of thing, because they have embarrassing quantities of ad revenue, and yet also a burning "need" to employ in areas almost entirely disconnected from ads (for now).

I won't dispute that these companies can and should do these speculative or non-revenue-bound things. But you can see how they go off the rails very easily, and this is what ultimately ties back to the article's main point about lazy management.

In the end responsibility, shared vision, and clear goals are key. And I'm not entirely convinced that those things "scale up" to the organization size and sheer insane revenue-firehose of FAANG type companies.
still lab stuff, not scaled and not that impressive since other techniques using silicon (in lab) are roughly the same from an efficiency pov.
Thunderbird is such a nice email client - it fulfills my basic needs and it just easy to use.
> But based on conversations with over 30 people involved in the tech industry, including current and former tech employees,

I do accept the writer hypothesis that there are lazy managers but "30 people said so" as an evidence of anything is just very lazy.
> Again, it may be my incomplete POV but I have never seen any Windows user look at source code to try to understand a particular function to adapt the software to their workflow. I've seen numerous Linux users do this.

It exists, but in smaller numbers than you'd hope for.

Eg, Slashdot is full of greybeards who apparently believe computing peaked in the 90s, learned next to nothing since, and as a result can't understand why systemd does what it does.

I don't mean they disagree on the technical merits, but like they're confused as to why would a Linux system needs functionality that caters to a modern desktop laptop user, and it's not enough to have what was required in a server room in the 90s.
> The author argues in that life is very likely because it is the most efficient way to increase entropy in the universe.

Shouldn't that be: to /decrease/ entropy locally?
This might come off as quirky or weird but one of the things I miss the most about "iCal" (Calendar.app in macOS) is the infinite scroll (year, month, and week views). Fastmail's calendar has the infinite scroll on the month view, but not any other views.

I usually hate "infinite scroll" on say a timeline feed, but for calendar, it is exactly what I need as I very often move between months when I'm looking at my calendar.

Is there an extension in Firefox that'll bring the infinite scroll to calendar? Anything on the roadmap officially for that UX?
Absolutely yes. If you do some envelope math about the scale of the problem, you realize it'll be a crisis like nothing we've ever faced before.

For example, in Bangladesh, 45% of the population (74m people) live within a meter of sea level. Bangladesh is in some ways like a huge Mississippi River delta.

Imagine what would happen if 74m people had to flee their homes... It's tough because humanity has never dealt with a migration on that scale. But the outcome will certainly be chaotic, there won't be supply chains to feed that many people let alone house them and provide sanitation. And in that level of chaos there will be military response and violence.
Those are a few percent higher than the Silicon/Perovskite cells that will supposedly begin production this year. I don't understand if this is a new type of perovskite or a novel method of applying it. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/perovskite-solar-goe...
I'm experiencing this now since I've been doing both for awhile now. It's enough to not worry whether or not I should buy that $10 beer with my dinner but not enough that I don't have to debate with myself if I should be ordering 2 or 3 of those $18 cocktails every day on my first ever euro trip. Not a bad life for sure but there's quite a few things that still feel out of reach. Like private jets or even just first class
Try asking them to type in "i understand this cannot be undone" in a text box before they confirm.
Do these people have really have nothing better to do than doing "high-tech investigations" of such matters?
> Awesomebar

Haha! Hello, fellow longtime Firefox user. I also vividly remember this term in Firefox's marketing a long time ago, but the most recent results on Google are from circa 2010. Seems they've largely dropped it as a public-facing term :)
Erdogan links Sweden's NATO membership to Turkey's EU accession
No True Microservice would do something that dumb.
I believe so too. It's a neat arrangement for the northern countries that get to keep their hands clean and humanitarian reputations intact because places like greece and italy do it for them.

But if they had to do it they would. The same attitudes and dynamics that allow this to happen in southern europe are also in place in northern europe.
Robotics also sounds cool, but while I'm sure the showy performances for the students were interesting, the nitty-gritty of programming and fine detail probably wouldn't be. Whereas in literature, it is the deep analysis of a text that brings greater richness and makes it more fully satisfying to read, the pleasure is not necessarily from the spectacle but its careful consideration.

Borges is an author who many of my friends in the sciences enjoy. He explores ideas that you may find interesting; try The Library of Babel [0], its very short and easy to read (like most of his works). Another novel which you may find perversely enjoyable is Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel, which contains a series of descriptions of strange and fantastical machines in fine detail, each associated with a different and increasingly deranged tale.

You might also be interested in the intersection of literature and computer science with Sanskrit, the first formalized language claimed to have been made "context-free" 2500 years ago (though I wouldn't say so), which has a rich literary tradition deeply intertwined with its structure and logic. There are many other examples of literatures you may find interesting, but I'll leave that pursuit up to you!

[0]https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...
> If you're stuck in a situation where you're not getting great feedback on what to work on, that seems like a great time to just build things and experiment on your own.

Such projects could certainly lead to all sorts of career successes... if someone high above you recognizes the value of the project as measured my immediate marketability and profit. But in the other 99.99% of cases, it just looks bad.

"The rest of everyone is over here doing real work, but snide's over in the corner fucking around with someone no one told him to work on. Does he think he's better than everyone else?"

With rare exception, it's just not a good look.

To even begin to guess which projects might be that 0.01% that would get you noticed in a good way often requires having worked there years anyway, wheedling yourself into conversations your pay grade has no right to be in. And if you can do that, why work on the project at all? Wheedling itself is a far more certain path to career success than Thomas-Edison-ing some killer app.
I wasn't the one making an universal truth out of it.

"Their libraries are written in/for C"
Thanks for mentioning this, I was literally in the process of switching to the beta channel to see this new UI!
Notice I said clickpads. Touchpads work fine once you work around Wayland's bizarre fear of enabling tap-to-click.
Dashcam images reveal where police are deployed
Encapsulation helps the signal to noise ratio.

If I create a REST API no one complains they don't have access to the inner-workings, local variables, etc. But if I give a similar experience and call it a "class" suddenly it's ugly and mean.
MongoDB Releases Vector Search
An epistemological crisis rooted in a shitty incentive system and powered by bad statistics
snapshots are great but can be hard to implement + not straightforward to 'drill-down. What we need is simple historization + diff checks
In the public sector, studies like these are the pretexts for unpopular policies for minority interests. Science seems like an obviously good way to balance minority and majority interests, but when studies become a forcing function for narrow political interests, the results have been equally as obvious. When you have the power of the state, what do you need truth for? There are a number of third-rail studies that are doubtful and even implausible but they underpin policy, so they are sacred relics of progress for which the punishment for questioning them is exile.

The social sciences are largely irreproducable, and our socities tolerate it because they give the bureaucracy the tools it needs to manage the legislative branches in a form of capture. Show me a study that demonstrates an official narrative is baseless, and I'll show you "a problematic fringe theory from a now-former academic."
>Why not "a person who went to a school you've never heard of, but has a job they enjoy deeply and that gives them purpose"?

Because when a person has a lot of money, it vastly increases the scope of available activities that they enjoy and give them purpose.
Perhaps a cat ran over their keyboard/phone?

Anyway I think in such cases it's useful to have an "export my data and delete account" button instead of one that just deletes it.

And then still wait 24h before you actually do.
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665266 115 will be released tomorrow.
Blaming immigration into Europe on climate change seems like a stretch. It's about political and economic instability.
Institute an account recovery fee and save it off to the side for a couple months.
8+ might be too much for you.

My sweet spot is around ~7 hours. Less than 6.5 and more than 8 makes me feel the same, but if I manage to sleep around 7, it's completely a different story.
Whatever you are forced to chose doesn't make the other options disappear from the market.
The stupid quirks are what make countries charming. AM/PM isn't unique to the US, but it's not like European countries don't have their own types of silliness. Americans are similarly baffled by the lack of air-conditioning in buildings that clearly need it given 40C summers and the fact that restaurants in many countries serve bottled water by default when the tap is perfectly fine.
That is assuming anyone able to fire you actually knows the things you do are unnecessary.
thanks. seems like the geniuses in the original commenter might be getting stuck on the second P
> the incredible thing about Twitter is that you can DM almost anyone.

I can't imagine having open DMs. I've tried that, and ugh, the unsolicited messages from strangers were terrible.
I think you misunderstood me. I meant how they link to sci-hub at all given the legal implications.
>I'd love to see an example of such an accepted accountability at least once in my life.

I think that's the point, you wouldn't see it. If a good manager gets unreasonably or unfairly reamed by his boss, he's probably not gonna tell his team about it, because it would be a blow to morale. If it was indeed the team's dysfunction, he'd try to improve it.
> Europe has a strong xenophobic streak running through it at the moment, in each and every country there is a right-of-center party either ruling or gaining strength to the point that people are seriously worried they will be able to unite. Most of these campaign on fear-of-the-other and immigrants are obviously a very convenient scapegoat. Housing shortage, the social contract that has become unstable, school quality and so on, each and every problem is traced back to immigration, no matter how ridiculous the link.

Caught many people off guard, but this disease has also spread to Canada. They’re just a lot more subtle about it compared to most Western countries.

Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise to us since one could argue that it likely spread from the US? However, on a whole we still don’t blame immigrants for housing shortages and job losses (yet).
Sure. But if the entire Universe is taken as one system, then entropy is increasing. There can be local variations. Maybe life itself is a form of Maxwell's demon.

The veritasium video points out that 'ordered' is very hard to define, since at the beginning of the universe, if we assume the big bang, it was very 'un-ordered' and lowest entropy, and also if we assume the end of the universe is the 'heat death' with all particles diffused evenly, it is also 'un-ordered' and highest entropy. And in-between, if we take 'very ordered' as high entropy, then life is very ordered, a very un-likely state, thus very high-entropy arrangement of particles.

Don't think his video came down on clear explanation, just that 'ordered' is a difficult concept.
Stop treating non-sciences like sciences.

The social sciences have a certain hypocrisy to them. "We do not need to be as grounded in math as the other sciences" runs up against "Our results are mathematically significant and deserve the same respect as the other sciences."

Doing statistics in the hard sciences is easy, yet we study them at a graduate level. Setting up variable controls in hard sciences is easier, yet we spend years training people on eliminating even the smallest chance of error through rigid lab protocols. The hard sciences allow you to collect enough data-points, that a large effect size is almost always statistically significant... yet we report p-values religiously every step of the way.

Social sciences have none of those affordances, yet they somehow get away with even less mathematical and statistical rigor. I mean this both in training and in practice. The social sciences are harder to control. It is a 'science' that can say very little about anything (purely due to difficulty of setting up controlled experiments). Yet, social science produces a disproportionate number of 'spicy' results.

Not all fields will produce 'ground breaking' work and that should be fine. I'm not sure where the incentive/impetus for it comes from, but social scientists build storied careers on results that would get rejected from any respected science journal for lack of rigor. It is as if there is this pressure on every academic to prove something fundamental about human nature few years, all while it's plainly clear that we as humans know almost nothing about human nature. If centuries of work in this field has not been able to find a few foundational facts (fancy alliteration), then maybe the field needs to reconsider its ambitiousness and self-assured confidence.
I'm sad that sync did not make it this iteration, but hopeful that it will next time. I love using Thunderbird again. I long switched off of dedicated e-mail clients and forgot what I was missing. I have had to retrain myself to not open a new tab when I'm expecting an email. Not to mention, browsing mailing list threads is impossibly better: it has a nice threaded view that you just can't get in any web interface I'm aware of. But proper sync would be nice to have, seriously. I would really like if it could sync account credentials, personally, since I have a decent number of machines and a handful of e-mail accounts, but even if it didn't it would still be useful to have some form of sync for preferences.

I'm sure some people don't like the redesign. Personally, I think it's alright: it is a bit more on the "modern" side in some regards, but it's still reasonably pleasing to use, and still not too white-space heavy, and that's all I really care about.
Not everyone's that lucky genetically. I go to bed at the same and I can get out of bed whenever I want and yet I can't get 7 hours let alone 8 hours. And no I'm not the type who can be refreshed with less than 6 hours of sleep (those are the genetically lucky ones).
Just a guess, but maybe there were curious about the shipping fees.

Probably most of my online purchases start with trying to figure out where the package will be shipped from so that I can factor in import taxes to the EU. Surprisingly many webshops don't indicate their business of location clearly.
Lots of businesses make money from people who are poor. Your average McDonalds demographic.
Origins of JSX and Why It Exists
Yeah, I've had the same experience, I will say I'm slightly more productive at work, but am I about to give up an hour or two of rare leisure time every day to be more productive for my employer when my current performance isn't an issue? No thanks.
What good are 30 more hours if they (and the others) are less productive, more irritable, and overall less enjoyable? Why not just sleep 3 hours a night and get 150 more hours every month?

People need different amounts of sleep, and the same person needs different amounts at different times. Just aim to get what you need.