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I feel the controls are an inseparable part of each game. Even if the original cabinet used generic buttons, the precise positions of those buttons are still important. That's why I never really got into MAME cabinets. Wiring up some game ROM to a "least common denominator" (or greatest common multiple) stick/button/ball layout is just unsatisfying and does not adequately replicate the experience of the original cabinet.

That, and emulation is just not perfect, and you can often "feel" when you're playing through an emulator and not the OG electronics.
What?! This runs completely counter to my experience living in a small town. A town small enough that the post office doesn’t do to door delivery, you’ve got to go pick it up and the closest DMV is an hour away in the city. Small towns don’t generally have services like that at all.
I am not sure and I have used systemd through NixOS in particular for a good half a decade now. While I have not tried to fight it, it does come across as being somewhat opaque to me, but I can generally deal with it and have not gone out of my way to “read a book” on it. It did annoy the hell out of me about a month ago when I had this “conversation” with it:

> sudo reboot
[sudo] password for ninjin:
Failed to reboot system via logind: Connection timed out
> sudo halt
Failed to set wall message, ignoring: Connection timed out
Failed to reboot system via logind: Connection timed out

Never expected to be in a situation where I could not shut down a machine cleanly like that. But maybe I was missing something?
Yes, from what I've tested. You obviously need a device with a touch screen though (a physical mobile phone, tablet or laptop with a touchscreen)
right so if the city wants to plant trees between the aisles they can do so, right? lol
I meant fingerprinting by third-party applications like messengers, IDE etc.
Demonstration of β-Ga2O3 nonvolatile flash memory for oxide electronics
> Get a job...

Actually, this doesn't work. Many people who are homeless--and thus, constantly committing small 'crimes' like loitering--actually have jobs. According to recent statistics, 53% of people in shelters and 40% of people living on the street are 'working homeless'.[1] It's simply not practical to live off of a single job in parts of the country where it's easy to get a single job--which makes it harder to make an honest living. And if you can't make an honest living anymore...

> Avoid prison to be sure you have a good life...

This is another problem with "Get a job". Most places will not hire someone once they have a criminal record of any kind, which means that going to jail once permanently ruins your life--there are some places that hire people with a record, but those are few, far between, and take full advantage of how desperate the people who work there are. Of course, this is only exacerbated by flaws in the criminal justice system, which include things like "evidence presented as rock-hard proof may actually be complete bunk"[2].

> Crime continue to exist because selfish people put selfish needs ahead of sociology and human rights...

I mean, I'd agree with you if you were talking about tax evasion or wage theft. In fact, wage theft makes up a larger percentage of overall theft than any of the things people think of when you say the word 'theft'. However, you explicitly stated that you're talking about people who are poor or who have a risk of going to prison, which excludes a lot of white-collar crime.

[1] https://endhomelessness.org/blog/employed-and-experiencing-h...
[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/putting-crime-scene-dna-a...
To be fair, after reading the thread about how people are voting with their feet about systemd-based distributions, I think there's a fair bit of trolling in this thread.

"Dropping systemd" would mean that they either use containers in an OS that most likely uses systemd itself, or they otherwise use some niche distribution (such as Antix, Devuan) that I've never heard of being used widely in a production context.

Other aspects of systemd might need getting some used to, but it's nothing that a reading of the Archlinux wiki didn't solve.
Ironically, once I cut all vegetable and, in fact, all plant-based calories, out of my diet, I experience dramatic health and fitness benefits. I expect in this case the conventional wisdom is also exactly backwards and in fact transparency is more important than privacy.
I recommend this stream, a 24/7 curated list of retro TV: https://www.twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow
Honestly as a senior if I only focused on my ability to ”grind leetcode” I would probably be laughed out of interviews instead of having more work than I can handle. Your milage may vary but don’t underestimate team play and personality/charisma. Few team managers want the team to be more disfunctional after hiring you.
I don’t think it’s “dictating morality” in so far as “seeing the big picture”. If your goal is to spread knowledge as effectively as possible, why limit yourself by the very rules working against you? I mean I can understand self-preservation but what else? The laws in question aren’t really about morality anyway.
Please, please, please don't ask your reports questions like this:

>"On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your approval rating for our management and CEO?"

Use an anonymous survey if you really must force a staged set of answers.

The most important questions are ones like these:

>"How are your family/children doing?"

Regardless, most of these examples will make you sound like an emotionless robot. Build real rapport with your reports and then you can ask them much more interesting and insightful questions than these without sounding like you're reading from a script.
I have to say my last trip to the US (Austin this spring) in spite of the ESTA thing was the easiest ever. I didn't even have to fill a paper form or answer dumb questions - just fingerprints and in.

You used to have to fill out in writing if you'd ever been affiliated to a communist party or done, drugs, where are you staying, how long, and be interrogated. I almost got deported a couple of times for saying I hadn't figured which hotel or how long I was staying.
> people who are bad at explaining stuff will usually stay bad at it for the rest of life (but can still be fantastic in e.g. architecting things).

How does that work? Explanation is fairly important there, I'd have thought.

> Being a senior dev is IMHO much simpler. It's all about being able to solve problems independently, without needing supervision, guidance or tutoring.

See, I think this may be the disconnect/product of title inflation.

In a system where you have junior engineer/engineer/senior engineer, what you're describing is probably engineer, not senior engineer. In a junior/senior system, it's, ah, a senior junior? :) A senior engineer should be a kind of force multiplier (though such is the level of title inflation that that maybe is now more staff in some places).
Do you happen to know more about how the companies that only offer the phone numbers prevent fraud?
For me personally - if I refer someone and they mess up the interview, I wouldn't take it as them being a "quack". If I referred someone it's likely I thought they could do the job fine, it's just that they didn't do a great job convincing my coworkers - and that's okay.
He goes right into it in the next paragraph, where he says that they're perhaps more competitive due to lower emotional competency and implicitly poorer self awareness.
Why did we believe that we could build an algorithm that provided trust? We can provide "trust", which is when we narrow the definition to verifying whether mathematical objects have been tampered with, or whether they can be observed without secret keys, but we could always make safes.

Trusting a safe isn't like trusting a person.
Charisma is one of those factors that bypass conscious mechanisms.

Experienced managers think they aren't screening for charisma but I would say 99 percent of managers who say this actually are, but they just don't know it. It's subconscious.

I can somewhat prove this to you because there's science on this. Charisma isn't very measurable or quantifiable but a physical attribute similar to charisma is, and that is physical beauty and height.

The more attractive you are and the more taller you are the more likely you are to be hired. It's absolutely true. There's so much studies around this it hurts. Just Google it.

There's even been a news segment in 60 minutes where they literally sent in a ugly dude with a shitload of Ivy league credentials and a handsome tall dude with nothing. And it was incredible. Ugly dude was grilled like a mofo and not hired. Handsome dude was a shoe in, didn't even get asked any hard questions.

The interesting thing is, the hiring manager wasn't even aware he was being biased. When asked in a subsequent interview on how he chose each candidate he stated credentials, but was completely unaware he wasn't even looking at credentials.

Now you yourself may be the exception just like how everyone thinks they're the exception and I'm sure you have examples to prove it too. But humans are inconsistent, I'm positive that at some point during your experience you mis-judged a person with rizz as being more technical.

Its human nature. We are wired to be biased this way. Nothing consciously immoral here. Just note that the first human bias being triggered by any reader reading this post is that they think they themselves are clearly above this bias. That should be the first thing the reader is thinking, and if I guessed correctly on that... Likely I guessed correctly on everything else.
It’s satire of the post it was responding to.
Back in 2001 - 2002 I was out of work and it was miserable. I had been doing webdev for 2 years in nyc during the dot com bubble. In addition to looking for work I was also trying to move cross country. I remember days of just spamming my resume out to 40 or 50 new email addresses that I would harvest from monster.com. This got me 2 interviews in 3 months.

I was very surprised in terms of how much harder it was to get interviews compared to just 2 years earlier. During the height of the dot com boom I had arrived in nyc on a greyhound bus and found a job writing java servlets against mysql/postgresql in 3 days w/o any contacts.

Looking back I would have been better off taking any job and reading as much new tech as I could. The long aimless days were as damaging as the lack of income.
I don't know about Discord that was given as an example earlier for a single login, but most tools allow you to have multiple emails with a single account (eg. think Github which most of the same companies use).

There is nothing stopping Slack from doing the same while still getting money from companies needing their service.
In general, the Executor or even Queue abstractions are much better and safer ways of doing multithreading and multiprocessing. These days, I rarely ever directly create threads. It's fine for situations when you must but parallelizing work can usually be done better, safer, and easier with executors.
And with AI developed by Western engineers it will finally be possible to listen to all phone calls, read all emails and watch video from all cameras. Fully automated people management.
> sell at a loss

They don't even necessarily need to sell at a loss. They can also just get economies of scale that don't work for tiny local businesses.

Still has the same effect in the end.
Million mile BMW motorcycle project that was canceled
The volume of applications we are getting for our open roles is huge and the proportion of them applying because they were laid off is higher than I've ever seen.

Given that, as you will expect, hiring teams we need to process a lot of applications and make snap decisions. You need to ensure you rise to the top by

- Keeping your CV brief and relevant

- Making it clear what things you specifically did in previous roles and their benefits

- Make it clear (e.g. in a side panel) your abilities and how they match the role you are applying for.

But yes, it's hard. The days of applicants getting ten job offers at once are over for now. At least outside AI and outside of senior positions.
> I question whether anything was actually done

It sold services. There's a big market for that.
I definitely failed at one or two places on the behavioral / experience questions, but a few told me explicitly I need to improve my technical chops (I was grateful for the feedback). I felt like nobody was unfair at all, and that I just need to refresh my knowledge in the fundamentals. Basic DS & algos, concurrency, programming language trivia, etc.

Startups are kind of hard to get an interview at these days, you ideally should know someone already working in one, who can vouch for you. I don't feel like they have a low bar either, just less rounds.
What was the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of the Titan submersible?
I'd argue against most countries not having their own classification system. That has not been my experience, and I don't understand how e.g. a demographic census would even function otherwise. But whether or not this is true, it's inconsequential to the main point. And that's that you're absolutely right the boundaries are often quite arbitrary, but such is the nature of any and all classification systems. You end up with weird edge cases at any sort of binary line you draw.

So I think the issue is not one of arbitrariness, but would it even be useful to have some sort of a global categorization system for humans? And I think probably not. We're a species just a bit too addicted to dystopia, and I'm increasingly averse to pretty much anything that begins with the words global or world.
XKCD did a What If about this very scenario:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/

If the generator cost $100 to buy and install, it would take nearly a century to pay back its install cost even in one of the rainiest locations in America.
Why the static between changing channels. Analog TVs would change channels instantly.
I was talking about running an exit node. In an ideal world everyone could run an exit node and help others to bypass censorship. Unfortunately sooner or later some sick fuck would abuse it to post CSAM or hack something. And then good luck explaining the cops that it wasn't you.
> Just because you refuse to say it publicly does not mean you don't know it.

Does that honestly sound fair to you? I'm not putting words into your mouth. Please respect my agency and I'll continue to respect yours in kind.

> Please, by all means, show me examples. Not anecdotes. Not opinion. Hard examples.

Aren't examples also anecdotes? https://www.sheerid.com/business/blog/why-and-how-you-should...
> Take for example, Headspace, makers of the popular meditation app by the same name. The company created an exclusive discount to help teachers who might not be able to afford the app use it to manage their stress.
My father and now me are in the "badly neglects lawn equipment but somehow they carry on" camp. I'm not sure what it is, but our stuff just works. I have a shed for my equipment but I leave the gas in over the winter, I crank them right up once I need them the next year, I use gas from last year that's been sitting in the can ...

and these are cheap sub $200 machines
It might also be related to industry size. I've done games and robotics - both relatively small industries compared to "web".
> The worst bakery in my city is leagues better than the best bread available at Wal Mart

You're lucky to have a dedicated bakery that actually makes bread, or maybe you just live in a big city? There's probably twenty bakeries in my midsize city, but they all bake cakes, muffins, confectioneries, and whatnot. None of them actually bake bread.

Walmart bread is truly awful, with the only thing going for it being that it's cheap and consistent. My preferred choice in my area is the sourdough bread from Aldi, which at least only has the ingredients that bread should have, with no sugar or soybean oil or other junk.
Whatever about a software architect (that can mean practically anything; it's very fuzzily defined) that's rather unfair on actual architect architects, who are absolutely concerned with the practicalities.
Covid drastically increased the uptake of cards in Germany. Cash only places became a lot more scarce.

Japan though, now there's a place where cash only shops are still prevalent.
Well DDG earns money from ads as well, so presumably the same reason.
You seem not to have worked with the VM tools that do the same thing as a Dockerfile. Had you, you would realize that your points are invalid and I can have the same guarantees with VM as containers

If you think Dockerfiles are great, then you haven't hit the day 2 problems yet or explored the better alternatives for defining containers.

Also, the whole point of the original post is to point out that what you are saying is not magically true for containers
Is there an explanation as to why this industry is growing so rapidly in Latin America right now?
You're only arguing that all lies would end if all lying was an immediate death sentence.
Dinit – service manager and “init” system
I think your idea of certificates handed out by government is horrifying, but I agree it seems to be the only way to guarantee that you are who you say you are - even though it comes with several potential avenues for abuse.

I think we'll see two "tiers" of internet.

One tier will be for day to day usage for "normal" users - banking, social media, news, etc. A tier that you digital ID will be used to verify you are who you are, and others can be assured that they're talking to the person they say they are - though there are flaws in that system if someone can get a hold of another persons' certificate.

The other tier would be the unverified internet - things like boilerplate/startup communities, activities you don't want your digital ID tied to, something to still allow people to remain semi-anonymous on the internet if choosing to.

Not sure if this will be what actually happens or if governments just slowly decide to force people to use only the verified internet while trying to access the "outernet" (or whatever buzzword they'd use) would be met with scrutiny and potentially criminal charges.
There's also a very long history of ideas that were fundamental to scientific and societal progress being morally repugnant to a majority, initially.

Heliocentrism, democracy, etc.

Without some degree of freedom to violate the majority's morality (or even one's parents' morality!) without judgement, we should expect society to stagnate due to arbitrary lock-in of the status quo on any sufficiently controversial issue.

Privacy is great because it lets groups violate the majority's morality invisibly, without flagrantly disrupting the sense the majority has of there being a moral order.

Privacy gives you the upside of social innovation without the downside of a generalized, diminished belief in the morality of others (which can be a downward spiral for societal self-organization.)
in this tool (and others I've seen, maybe zulip does this), you can mark threads as "done", and mark messages as canonical.

with slack, it's easy to have a thread with 15 different answers which are all slightly different.

The "knowledge retention" features I'm looking for is being able to mark a thread as "this is the decision made", have that highlighted in metadata and archival, maybe be able to link off to a notion page, and have the thread closed to finalize the decision.

EDIT: the number of times I've had to kick people off a thread because they're adding bad info during a crisis reallllly drives my desire for marking canonical messages lol
> Really? You don’t see how a recruiter would miss things if there’s 100+ spam/totally unqualified resumes for every legitimate one?

Your comment makes no sense. You're arguing that a recruiter should miss 100% of all contacts because otherwise they would miss things.

It's like arguing to throw the baby out with the bath water because otherwise your recruiter would miss things like the soap.
Dengue is breaking records in the Americas – what’s behind the surge?
Build a dirt cheap, tough-as-nails field computer in a Pelican case (2016)
I will not continue this discussion unless you answer my two questions with yes or no.
See, again, this is what I'm talking about with the title inflation.
You mean Johnathan Swift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
How are you planning on dealing with licensing for the iOS version you are working on?
It's just such a miniscule amount of power.

Do you want to know why you don't see power dams below a certain size and height? Because gravitational potential energy is not very much. And I say this as someone who gets more excited by the Niagara falls power station than by the actual waterfall.

I also question their math claiming 200w per sq meter.

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-power-can-we-get...
Legit lol on this one.
Can you define spaghetti in this context, and point to examples in the code?
While I am not a professor, apparently I get to say I was cryptographer according to this paper (albeit accidentally). Normal software developers take on pressure to manage technical debt, where engineers are pressured to reduce costs against safety and reliability. In finance, they get pressure to fudge models to hide risk. In security and cryptography, the pressure is the ethical pressure to be the one who takes the shortcut only you and your business sponsor undersand, which weakens the scheme in favour of some other economic purpose, or worse a political one.

To work professionally in privacy and cryptography is adversarial to the point of being gladiatorial, where there are very serious (and sometimes dangerous) interests involved. This work is not for the meek.

The moral aspect of it is that you need a belief in truth and the value of personal integrity that would sabotage most other careers. When you design security protocols, you are engaged in governance by other means. With real government and the economy using the internet as its substrate, using math and technical reasoning to moderate their more extreme urges is a kind of moral responsibility. Not to pontificate too much, but when I was a kid wanting to become a hacker, it was because it represented a way to be an ethical steward operating outside these systems. Not a gatekeeper or spoiler, but someone whose skills maintain a balance. In a career as a hacker working on these problems in govt, I did good work that I think has kept some specific totalitarian urges in check, by depriving them of the certainty and impunity an abuser requires. I tell younger people working in Privacy in govt that it is the only place in the public sector where demonstrating courage is the job.

This is a great paper, and almost a decade later I would observe that if you want to really make a difference in the world where you can secure the freedom for yourself and others to really flourish and be a benefit to humanity, finding ways to practice the triad of math, courage, and compassion together is the indomitable x-factor. Each without the other are useless, but the person using them together is often history's most decisive actor, imo.
if you're getting a lot of "i dont get the point" comments on HN from a very technical crowd, you're probably onto a new market need or WAY off depending :)
The Marines don’t have any race problems. They treat everybody like they’re black.”- Gen Daniel “Chappie” James Jr., USAF, circa 1970.
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