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The first language I used professionally was C and I programmed console apps on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes. All I really needed to know was standard C.

Guess how long the learning curve was at my next job where I had the learn the intricacies of Win32/MFC, COM and DCOM, when to use which of the 8 different methods that Microsoft had of defining a string and how to safely convert between them, why my C++/ATL COM object kept crashing the other developers VB apps because I wasn’t doing reference counters correctly…
This whole document is a harrowing read. I’m curious what progress has been made in the decade since it was published.
Hes referring to the Old Money connections that SBF bribed with hundreds of millions to finance their political grift... er I mean "donations"
Especially since we need more people thinking deeply about how to make education work, not fewer.

I'm not sure that's true. The US system is staggeringly wasteful, partly because there are 50 states and thousands of school districts all making out that they are unique and different and need to find their own ways of doing things (a critique which could be leveled at the US more generally). This is an invitation to corruption and endless politicking.

Amid all the various studies and reports and education manifestos, you know what I never hear? Of policies derived from surveying students about what they think and what does or does not work for them. Generally when I bring this point up it gets dismissed with some variation of 'students will just ask for more time off and less work and standards will crumble' which I don't think has any basis in fact.
Discussions, yes, but discussions aren't for the standup meeting. Those are for informally updating everybody on what you're working on and whether you're stuck on anything. They lead to 1 on 1 meetings to solve those issues.
> if I was lucky enough to stumble upon some great hack to make lots of money, why would I be telling people about it?

Because you understand that the number in your bank account isn't the score of some weird game. Having more money than other people doesn't make you a better person.

If you have enough money to reach your goals - pay your rent, buy food, indulge your hobbies - that's good. If 20 other people also have enough money to reach their goals, that's a world with more happiness in it. That's a better world. So why not tell other people how to make money in the same way you did, and help bring that world about?
There is officially no way to speak to a human. I'm in the same reset flow trap.

I wanted to get my data out, and there are various laws in various jurisdictions that require this ability. Because of this Google was forced to provide tech support via phone to help you get your data out. Believe me, I've spent a lot of time arguing with those folks. They do have access to some sort of internal email/phone directory though with lots of interesting contacts they are willing to give you to get you off the phone, but I've not had success yet with any of them.
There are some significant edge cases that can plainly make that unfair.

Let's say Kurt Cobain dies at 27 (or even younger) without an heir other than a very young daughter. ~95% of his earning capacity might be in the next 15 years, rather than the prior 5 years. The daughter might be cast into relying on charity while everybody else gets to freely commercially exploit his music after his death.

('the US social safety net needs reformed'; pre-empting those responses, because one is extraordinarily difficult to reform, the other isn't nearly so; that'd just be an excuse to hide behind)

Ritchie Valens comes from a poor family, creates a gigantic hit, dies at 17. His family deserves nothing specifically, while everybody else gets to freely commercially exploit his young talent forever.

A life of the author clause is inherently cruel. 20 years fixed, approaches that in a far more reasonable and fair manner. Families / heirs matter too. They often suffer, or otherwise carry a share of weight for the artist, so the artist can create, tour, publish, publicize, etc. Pretending otherwise is pure fantasy, it's life in an idealized vacuum.
Well they can publish it on LeanPub and charge 20$ instead of 200$(of which most goes to publisher). Some books are just predatory business.
I convinced myself these days that companies going to a size of more than 30 people or so automatically unavoidably switch into lower gears where workflows start to pile up a lot of friction, and politics start creeping in from all directions, thereby degrading satisfaction for everyone in their jobs and losing on the efficiency front.

Not to mention the deliverability of software gets affected negatively with more and more contributors to code and things becoming "legacy". More time gets wasted on managing tasks, tickets, meetings, project management, and simple things end up taking exponentially longer now. I feel it's basically the killing of fun in running a startup.
Coworkers are much more like family. You don't get to choose them and you don't have to be friends with them but come thanksgiving, you just need to get along.

In that context, wfh makes it a lot easier to just get along.
Anytime a leader sees new hires or contractors as a "speed boost" is when it all goes to the dump. The sooner we get past this idea, and start viewing new hires/contractors as "speed bumps" the better. Bringing anyone new into the fold should always be a slow process!
Can we do the same thing for X11? (Turn it into something new while maintaining its spirit.)
> Having a 4 year degree in Japanese from some random US flyover state isn’t going to make you fluent enough to translate business contracts anyway

That's not the point.

Random native speakers of two or more languages aren't equipped to do that either.
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Academics hate administrators, but are too timid/selfish to coordinate with other academics across departmental lines to undermine the administrative body - not least because academics hate administration and don't have a good idea for how to deal with it.
You need to know JS to be a React guy though and that's easily transferable to another JS framework or other frontend work, where is Dart used other than Flutter?
Yes, I did get to "keep" my bail money, but the judge knew I'd already assigned it to my lawyer to pay his fees, so he was very unlikely to forfeit it.
What makes you certain that there was less than a 1 in 20 chance that the lab leak theory was wrong at the time?

After all, percentage fbtou are going to wait for every theory to be 19/20 chance of being correct before you announce it as a theory, no theory would have been announced at all for COVID
> There's nothing tricky about fixing a brake, though. It's a portable skill from one motorcycle to another. Unlike, say, the tolerances for oval and taper of a cylinder.

Harder then you might think. I've seen someone not install the pads and have the rotor grind down into the caliper itself. Then installed the pad on the broken caliper and getting so crooked that it eventually warped the rotor into a dinner plate. IIRC the edge of the was about 1mm or 2mm out of line from the center of the rotor.

Swinging back on topic though, I do disagree slightly on the premise that the service manual is just a glorified page of torque specs. Speaking personally, fixing something isn't usually that difficult. Time consuming, demanding in focus, and wise to be cautious but generally speaking the procedure is usually well laid out.

What's hard is diagnosing the problem in the first place, determining what the fix is, and then locating the necessary parts or suppliers for those parts. The service manual's usually invaluable for the first bit.

Just to give a car example: You have a car who's instrument cluster who's center LCD that's stuck at minimum brightness. Is it a problem with the instrument cluster, the dimmer switch, or the PWM signal generator that controls the cluster's brightness?

As it turns out, someone thought about that. The service manual listed out a self test diagnostic for the instrument cluster; with engine off and key out, hold the odometer reset for 5 seconds, insert the key and turn to the on position. It will light up every light to full brightness and disregard the input PWM signal.

Who could have figured that out without the manual listing that procedure? I probably couldn't. I'd probably be reduced to parts cannon.

Electronics aren't immune to manufacturing defects, design flaws, mislabeled products, abuse, or the outside elements. And if something does fail, it's an absolute bitch to trace down problems with the electrical. Service manuals are invaluable both listing how things are supposed to work as well as often having extensive trouble shooting guides that give a hint at what could be a problem.
Amazon reportedly in talks to become an anchor investor in Arm's IPO
Next up: songs about back pain, erectile dysfunction, and lineament.
If I kill a car's engine or kill the music or kill this conversation do you understand what I mean?

The executive branch killed the coal industry. It was a swift action to bring something to a close.

That people in this thread can't disentangle one sense of "kill" from another is disappointing. My "murder" examples probably didn’t help but I figured people might enjoy the nuances (All of them could have been written about turning off, or killing, a bad radio station vs a good radio station and the arguments hold). Lesson learned.

My point has never been about the extent to which coal usage ends the life of humans. Frankly, that doesn't matter to anything I have said.
Unless they charge for the advice in which case it would be obvious, maybe they just know that keeping more people buying it is required for it to keep value
The surface laptops were also originally pushing the limits of slimness to push manufacturers to make pretty windows laptops, too, right?
My freshman year at WVU was the year Gee took over as president. That was definitely his thing to ingratiate himself to the students. The whole frost couple weeks he would go up and down frat row, and through all the big house parties and shake hands, pose for pictures, etc. He quickly got this vibe as the "cool dad" with his cute bow ties. This won the student body over easily, so we were confused when our professors were really bummed about it. Apparently word gets around on your management style and spending habits.

The dude ripped through money he didn't have, hired a ton of bloat, and is now cutting staff in nearly all the programs I held dear.
> unlike graduate students you don't even get paid

That's because they aren't doing work for the university, unlike graduate students.

> Should we also be mad that undergraduates are on food stamps?

Yes? Of course! It's strange that you didn't seem to anticipate this answer.
>So what can I do if thats just how I am ?

Most things are not written in stone. You can probably change even if it's not comfortable to do so. Maybe a different role or organization would be a better fit. But typically just getting your part done and moving on isn't the best fit for a lot of jobs and, even if you work for yourself, you probably even have more interactions with clients at that point.
folks (or organizations!) can just as easily run a wordpress instance with the ActivityPub plugin, it's a lot less messier than a full on rails app.

The plugin is maintained directly by Automattic, as a plus:

https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/03/17/making-the-social-web-...
Bill Gates has given $319M to media outlets to promote his global agenda
"We are made of star stuff"

-- Carl Sagan
why not svelte?
Well, my comment clearly was made before they made the change. I wonder if my linking to it actually tipped them off, or do they really have so many products that they couldn't check each one was converted?

Having this delay makes me now more concerned that they're going to "catch" more of the MPL ones and relicense them, too
I haven't seen too much of an effect on remote salaries. I only really see the difference for really high profile jobs or jobs in places like SF or Seattle where cost of living is insane so they have to comp you for that.

All the remote jobs I've seen pay the same as if they were in person. I've only ever seen a 5-10% bump in offer for non-remote... but that 5-10% is 100% worth it for some so they can live anywhere they want.
WeChat, unlike TikTok, is known to be directly controlled by the Chinese state. It's not a secret. Why wouldn't it already be banned on government devices?
What a weird post.

Lea became very slow in recent Intel cpus? News to me. Hard to imagine them shipping such a cpu considering x86 compilers pattern match to Lea hella aggressively.

Weird to show the more complex arithmetic codegen as a downside of not allocating int boxes. Having to shift or add (or both) a lot is way cheaper than asking the GC for memory or dereferencing a pointer to a box.
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Copyright is no threat to artists as artists create for their own drive.

Copyright will kill millionaire artists.

Currently the system has poor artists and millionaire artists. The millionaire artists will be hosed. The poor artists are already poor so not much changes for them.

Most music is produced by people at home and with friends chilling. Look at guitar center and all those stores. Lots of instruments sold. Same for art supplies.

There are only a few thousand wealthy artists.
Gotta love when GM is able to force their way through the approvals processes because they're GM!
Nah, we can program the drones to deliver wine and cigarettes to a moving vehicle.
Do they really need to develop street smarts for social media? Most people I know don’t use it or are only consumers.
The DNA indicates single common ancestor, with panspermia shouldn't there be multiple common ancestors?
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Everyone is replaceable. If you get hit by a bus tomorrow your company will have an open req for your position before your body gets cold.

They will send your next of kin “thoughts and prayers” and you will soon only be remembered when someone sees your name while doing a “git blame”

A less morbid example, what I call the “are you replaceable test”. Can you can hit on your boss’s spouse repeatedly at the Christmas party and have a job the next year?
It doesn't looks like you wanted to discuss flaws in GR with a dissident, who, obviously, too stupid to understand GR and SR. You told me that. You did the job. Now, «shut up and calculate».
I will try to remember. Vague recollection was that it was necessary to get something obvious to work.
It depends on the type of success you are after.

Doing well and creating great stuff can be due to hard work but raising to certain positions of power definitely requires gaming the system in ways that can be seen as anti ethical or at least counter to the alleged ethos of the company, group, etc.

People in different hierarchies end up optimizing for their careers and detract from any Analysis that will conclude otherwise, putting themselves in positions where they have always someone to deflect to and focus on personal branding over real results because, in the end, it's what allow them to also have real results some times.

It's an "end justifies the means" and "it's the name of the game".

It becomes more and more buteocratic, political and networkey the higher you climb/interact.

Those will be very interested in talking abour merit ( pretending others are "mediocre") and fairness while playing under different rules
"there is a postgres plugin for that"
We implemented tRPC at work and use all the other things that would have been 'tightly coupled' within our code base had we not planned a tiny bit ahead. tRPC is incredible but it's still just the transport layer between your back-end and your front-end. Allowing the internals of tRPC to be used deep within your business logic is just as bad as not having a clear 'controller' or 'router' layer where you can cleanly define inputs, schemas, and keep things separated. In this sense, if we ever decided to move from tRPC it would be relatively straightforward. Lifting an entire sub-system and running it over a queue for example would be trivial.
"I crashed the car" is definitely the punchline, it's what happened. "I'm ok" is reporting your status. "the police are coming" is also status. But if someone just texts to say that they're OK and the police are coming, I still have no idea what's happened.
Yes it should. Property is property. It is insane that some property somehow becomes unownable after an arbitrary length of time. If I own land, that land will go to my heirs or, if none exist, on auction. Then someone else will own it. It won't become permanently public and non-property. Intellectual property ought to work the same way. The great part is that we can create an infinite amount of intellectual property, so everybody has an equal opportunity to own as much as their fingers can write. Land is finite, art is infinite. If there were a lot of art available entirely for free, people would never pay for any new art and we will stagnate.

I guess patents could be forcibly taken by the government and licenses minted for free, if the current holder is determined to be maliciously setting the price for licensing too high and holding back science.
Not only that but you run into the very expensive reason why literally every large company has a lengthy documented process for firing (outside of layoffs of course, lol):

Lawsuits
That book has some very nice writing, but enough historical mistakes that it becomes less a work of interpreting real-world events than one of rewriting the real world to fit a narrative.
There are deliberate carrot problems, where the successful person deliberately misleads their audience as to the source of their success, and non-deliberate ones, where the successful people themselves doesn't understand why they are successful so tell
people the narratives that make them feel the best about themselves. You see this often when someone with prodigious genetic ability doesn't want to admit to others or themselves that their success was determined before they were born, and not due to hard work or some immeasurable character trait.
Process System Causality and Quantum Mechanics: A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith
We shall argue in this paper that a central piece of modern physics does not really belong to physics at all but to elementary probability theory... When we extend probability theory by allowing cases to count negatively, we find that the Hilbert space framework of quantum mechanics proper emerges...
That's a fair point. Depending on where you work you might have even more power than it seems at first.

A friend at IBM when they said "Okay, come back to work in the office" just nodded and gave positive sounding responses but never really went back to the office. Their manager decided not to push it to a point of separation. I suspect that IBM's understanding of their obligations in that situation were part of the equation.
"dropping 32 majors, ... The cuts will affect ... less than 2% of total student enrollment"
Now you've got it. We're a democracy and we tax ourselves to buy things for ourselves.
With numbers like 1.) YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT is somewhere between 20% and 50%, 2.) 95% decrease in FDI https://unherd.com/thepost/foreign-investment-plummets-as-th... 3.) double digit plunge in import and export in July https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/china-reports-double-digit-p... 4.) negative CPI

I would call it what it is: China is in a great depression
I think we need to completely revisit the ownership model here. Kill copyright entirely. (I would vote for anyone-- up to and including Mike Pence-- who made this a major plank of their campaign)

We have at least one corner of the universe where we've defeated scarcity. We can't run out of music. Hell, we can't even run out of a specific recorded performance, if even the most trivial efforts of due-diligence backups are performed. We should be proud-- we're at least one step on the way towards Star Trek replicators and universal abundance.

But the current system is so tied to the idea of "markets" and "ownership" that only really make sense for scarce physical goods, that we ended up having to force everyone, under threat of law, to treat a limitless resource that's part of our shared cultural experience, like a rare physical widget that must be owned, sliced up, and sold under restrictive covenant.

We should be taking all the money going into the content business-- all the funds being spent on the production of movies, music, novels, art, potentially even software-- and use it to bankroll an enormous centralized endowment for the creative community.

This immediately silences all "but how will artists eat?" strawmen. Even if you're not a live-show performer or merchandising expert, you get paid by the endowment on a predictable stipend basis, rather than having to hope you can effectively monetize a package of "rights" while dealing with an industry full of middlemen out to rip you off.

This would ensure that many, many more artists can live their passion-- how many great but unknown bands could spend their lives touring, if we took the money that bankrolled Taylor Swift's tour and sliced it up into 50k-per-person-per-year grants? How many sculptors could we keep on the books for the price of one Anish Kapoor? It would also be interesting to compare efficiency of funds delivery-- replacing a bunch of for-profit publishers with a single cooperative or state-run entity probably results in more dollars actually reaching artists overall.

It also avoids the perverse incentives on the other side-- if you make one world-breaking hit, you can't ride it forever. Just because you sung White Christmas once doesn't mean you get out of ever having to work again. If we eliminate the opportunity to slice and subdivide "rights" to a work, then there's no incentive to hold back maximum utilization of it. Imagine the improved utility of modern content services if they can get legal access to all the things-- Netflix and Hulu would have to compete on the best infrastructure, UI and tooling, rather than "only we have Futurama".
@statedeptusa cancelled snowden's passport a day before he arrived in moscow (you can google)

perhaps snowden flew to moscow once his passport was cancelled, with help from china, as part of a diversion
Not all labor is created equal, nor should it be. It's not equal, it can never be equal.

And there's nothing that can ever be done to change that, no matter how hard a state might try to force 'equal' distribution of unearned money.

Society should value one form of labor different from another, it's good that it always has and always will.

I've worked with plenty of very lazy bums that intentionally, knowingly do 1/3 of their job while other people have to work far harder because of them (or the business would fail and everybody loses). People like that are free riders, society should not be kind to them when they're repeatedly fired from jobs. All labor isn't equal, quite obviously, and treating it as though it is, is unfair to the vast majority.
Oh labels love AI: they can train their catalogs and produce “new” works from dead artists. Contracts already have AI clauses which, if an artist isn’t careful, gives the label rights to use their works to have AI produce new content under their name.