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No. Unions are for protecting employees against abusive employers.

Your highest performing state is temporary. There will be times where you’ll have off days. You will deal with death in the family. You will be eventually injured. If you aren’t already disabled, you will eventually be (this is just old age). You may become a parent. You might immigrate and come under restrictive visa. You’re a human being with fluctuating states, same as everyone else, and an abusive employer shouldn’t get to power trip over you just because they don’t think it’s legitimate enough for them or something.

So yes, there’s a lot of reasons why a “high performer” might want to be in a union. There’s a lot of life shit we all go through.

Edited to add: this is not the mention your employer might just pull some crap like nepotizing a promotion over you, where a union would come in handy handy!
Not disagreeing with you.

But you have reminded me to do a self-assessment, find all of the hypocrisy I can, and correct it.
My brother got me into programming with logo which is like the original turtle. It’s pretty cool. Definitely seared recursion into my mind. And after generating graphics on the cli I felt comfortable to do simple js games
Do you think that the editor, cover art designer, potentially illustrator etc. don’t deserve to get paid?

I know at least one author that refuses “out-of-band payments” for that reason.

And this is to say nothing about advance payments where the publisher is taking the risk of a book not selling, and the author gets paid regardless, which can be a big thing for small authors too.
Wonderful! My wife and I just showed this movie to our kids last month, and they loved it.

I'd always assumed "Your mother was a hamster and your father stank of elderberries" was just a meaningless bit of Monty Python absurdity.

When my wife explained to the kids that meant your mom is a slut and your dad is a drunk I was flabbergasted. I had never reevaluated that iconic insult from my initial ignorant teenage assumptions.
And those whatchmen, you think they are more "justice league" or "the boyz"?

Because history has proven our people in power seldom demonstrate benevolence nor competence to solve the average citizens problems.
Recently bought that same printer on Temu for like $5 so this is very interesting.
Would love to connect it to something allowing me to control it remotely.
It's saving you from an O(M²) amount of device-to-device rclone and the consequent duplication of storage space used.
Anssi Vanjoki was the one that strangled the software strategy and created that mess. First by flogging the dead horse that was Symbian for way too long. And secondly by frustrating the Maemo/Meego strategy for something like seven years. And indeed failing to provide adequate leadership when it came to managing internal UI platforms.

Windows phone was a risky decision and they literally bet the company on it and then MS got all hand wavy about doing an update and then took their sweet time doing that update while Nokia basically died. The whole strategy could have worked but it would have required Microsoft to be way less flaky. And of course having outsourced the future of the company to them, Nokia no longer was in control of their own future. Which was an expensive mistake for Nokia share holders.
> Thiel's reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley. Thiel has publicly called on the FBI to investigate Google's ties to the Chinese government.

Seems like a lot of words to leave this comment buried in the middle of. The story seems like a soup of hopeful political operators trying to sow chaos, and since they're all on the same side, the publisher is happy to oblige. Talking to the IC at all gives them the unlimited option to call you an informant if you ever get involved in something counter-establishment anyway.

One gets the impression that part of America's new class system is whether you are connected to the intelligence community somehow, as if you have a certain level of responsibility at all, someone who knows someone always seems to be in touch or within a degree of separation.
> Culture wars are a sideshow. For US to be on the brink of any real crisis there would need to be a super power alternative. There is none and it does not look like any is going to be in the next 30 years.

Not really, not all countries fall due to external problems. Some crumble from within.

US has states with economies of diverging interest (e.g. carbon focused countries), diverging economies, and lots of civil unrest.
Hm… the q4 34B code llama (which is used here) performs quite poorly in my experience.

Using a high quantised larger model gives you an unrealistic impression that smaller models and larger models are roughly equivalently capable… but it’s a trade off. The larger codellama model is categorically better, if you don’t lobotomise it.

It’d be better if instead of making opinionated choices (which aren’t great) it guided you on how to select an appropriate model…
Epyc uses SP3, SP5 or SP6 sockets depending on model.

You can get perfectly normal ATX motherboards for Epyc. There's even a mini-ITX one for some reason:

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=R...
Is it your account you want deleted or someone impersonating you?

Because killing your own account can be easily done by posting objectionable content.
Exciting news! My brother and I just launched our brand-new app, FunKey, on the Mac App Store. Experience the joy of typing with mechanical keyboard sounds and mouse clicks. It makes work more fun and productive!
I always assumed all billionaires were in constant interaction with their country secret services, not necessarily willingly.

They concentrate so much power it's the logical thing to do.
Oh, you did https://sit.sonnet.io/! I love "useless" websites like this, there's just something comforting about them that I can't quite place. For whatever odd reason, this particular one randomly reminded me of this brilliant package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/emdash-extending-forever-into-...

Keep up the good work :)
You're right that it probably won't run that hot, but AMD will probably keep the TDP up at 350W with everything else - they did that with the last generation of Threadripper Pro - everything has a 280W TDP including their 12C/24T model.

Since this will mostly be an OEM part, I think that makes sense. By slapping the same claimed TDP on all cores, vendors can offer all SKUs using the same thermal solution (though obviously the low end will probably be overspecced).

Also, I don't think it'll be down at 120-130W - the 7900X (also 12c/24T) has a TDP of 170W, and a max socket draw (which it will hit) of 230W.
Interesting point. Automated bans with no recourse will mostly deter legitimate businesses. And there is a finite supply of legitimate businesses, but infinite fake ones.
China demographics are plainly bad. Also, they managed to degrade their topsoil faster than the US. Agriculturally, the huge contributor is their fishing fleet, but relying on that means they have to keep the US happy to guarantee a relative stability accross the oceans.

Maybe India could be a relative threat, but I don't think so. They're at the end of their demographic transition and they wasted a big part of it (from 2010 until covid) (basically, a country is most productive during a demographic transition, for multiple reasons). The issue is that they didn't build enough infrastructure. It's okay in immigration-positive country like the US (immigration is basically a demographic cheat code that bail you out of your mistakes). In India, where there is a lot of skilled emigration, it's a big disadvantage.
"If someone were to stand outside holding a big banner advertising something malicious/illegal they'll be in legal trouble pretty quickly, which I think is fair."

For the most part, you would not.
While it is not protected by the first amendment in the US to advertise illegal products, it is also not particularly restricted in most of the US.

To whit: If you hold up a big banner saying "fentanyl sale - 30 cents per gram", you would not have committed a crime or an actionable legal tort in most places.

The thing that is actionable everywhere is deceptive/fraudulent/misleading advertising.
Wow. So that was a bunch of navel gazing from the man who brought us Netscape. Are we sure he didn't just get lucky? I don't think I've ever seen anything discredit Marc in such a big way since the last time I remember him saying or doing something that discredited him in such a big way, like investing in crypto or claiming India was better under Empire colonization.

Also, citing Nick Land (neo-nazi), Filippo Marinetti (co-author of the Fascist Manifesto), Milton Friedman and John Galt (A LITERALLY MADE UP CHARACTER) is a bad read. Yikes.
96 cores? Have they packed 12 (8-Core) CCDs into this? That's insane.
The laminating process would probably blacken the entire paper
Then let's just call it "acquiring the book in a way that you don't know if the people involved in creating the book would consent to, but have a lot of evidence to suspect that they actually don't".
You might wanna take a look at Orion browser by Kagi. Built on WebKit like Safari, but not open-source (yet, as they say). The interesting part is that it supports addons from both Chrome and FF.
The article makes a fair point, but just like college, you have the problem of signalling value: does a degree/Thiel's program/award X only recognize potential, or also contribute to potential by drawing attention to the recipient? Regardless, is Thiel's model scalable, in any meaningful sense?
SpaceX battles regulatory process that could hold up Starship flight for months
You would balance the public interest in the revelation against the possible harm.

Best guess is they see the harm as minor as 1. It is not revealed who Thiel was informing on and 2. To the extent a target could guess, Thiel is very well equipped to protect himself from physical threats. Further, it doesn’t seem Johnson is implying physical retribution, it seems more like (arguably) he’s trying to expose what he sees as some sort of ideological hypocrisy. So any harm would be reputational (and debatable) if that’s the case.

Many sources for news articles act out of self interest, whether to benefit themselves or hurt an enemy, so that would not be inherently disqualifying.

(Not endorsing the presumed logic just describing it.)
On the one hand, I don't think this surprises anyone given Thiel's history.

On the other hand, I don't think the tech community talks honestly enough about the dangers posed by a small number of powerful tech people with fringe ideologies.
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My only complaint with the American university system is the insistence on general education requirements. Is there another country in the world that does not allow students to step directly into their major field of study?

I understand that the perception is that general education requirements build a "well rounded" student, but what if they don't want nor need those classes? The classes add to the cost of the education but amount to little more than memorization for tests, and students forget most of it afterwards. I question their value.
Might cause it to overheat
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I've also been banned from advertising on Facebook. The story is pretty funny, I spent a little bit amount of money to try a campaign, none really converted so I gave up. Then 6 months later (yes you read that right), Facebook banned the completely inactive account which had done nothing during those 6 months.

They do still send me ToS updates by email though like it somehow matters and that I'm somehow bound to it.
Went to a themed beer tasting where they played this movie. People were doing exactly this but shouting the lines before they were said on screen, kind of soured the experience. Good beer though.
Full disclosure: I'm a Gitpod Community Hero (i.e. volunteer ambassador)

Personally I used Gitpod at work every day (Nx + React on a fairly complex stack) for 2 years and I loved it.

Always fresh, always working. I don't use it (at work) anymore because I moved to another company and some of us are in Australia / New Zealand where latency becomes a issue (so far).
I work at Bunnyshell, so happy to see it mentioned here. Happy to share some more details:

Bunnyshell creates two types of CDEs:

- local IDE, code running in the cloud. The cool thing here is you get to use a local IDE (any IDE/editor you want), no lag, the user edits a local files and the files are synced in real time to the cloud environment. All editing on local, all execution in the cloud. Supports debuggers.

- remote IDE, code running in the cloud. When configured in this way, both the IDE and the execution happen in the cloud. No code on local.

The CDE is just one side of Bunnyshell, the other is provisioning environments on demand or automatically (eg. ephemeral environments on each PR). All these envs support remote development (if enabledd).

Our team makes heavy use of CDEs internally for actually building the product.
Waiting times in months in context of cancer, pregnancy, and other critical health issues. Distributing the public services through nepotist barter, even basic services like a stupid consultation. Doesn't matter if one dies with or without some debt on top of it.
That's what trade schools are for.
Yup. I wanted to learn programming as a child, but text-based languages scared me.
American MSM / cable news media has the same coverage style as their sports media. In many ways their political culture is just team sports, NFL, but transposed into another domestic sphere.

It's weird though how Americans you'd think would know better don't always see this. Was hanging out at a friend's house in the US, he tossed on CNN and I made comments to the effect of what garbage it was, and he got really defensive; as if the only alternative to that ... was Fox news and Trumpy Republicans.

I think many US "liberals" just feel continually under siege, and deep in a culture war, and everything is just absolutely binary "my side" vs "your side." But it's imho a trap.

E.g. the same friend just can't comprehend that we have a 3rd (social democratic, left wing) party here in Canada. To him it's just "splitting the vote" and we should all just be voting Trudeau to stop the evil Conservative horde. Because that's the corner US politics has been backed into. Completely tribal, team-sports, football metaphor pasted over everything. (And it keeps getting exported up here.)
Sure, which I think supports the idea that there are things other than wages that influence QoL.

We are told here that QoL was better 50 years ago. I wonder how many people, given the choice, would choose to live in 1973 instead of today.
This era is different than the late 20th century. There's no clear dividing line, the movement has been gradual but clear.

Whether it's different enough to push the US over the edge is a different story.
I was thinking about this last week around the news coverage of the kid who got rejected from 16 colleges and decided to go straight to working for google.

Even without the $100k, I struggle to imagine many people finishing college and starting their careers will be better situated than he is 4 years from now. Definitely some edge cases and it ignores the loss of college memories which could be significant to some but I do think this will become more of a trend considering the recent trajectory of higher education.
I like that this thread is going to become a bunch of invective where people who aren't libertarians are going to claim libertarian hypocrisy on subjects like (a) outing someone as homosexual and (b) suing a media outlet for what was effectively revenge porn.

Is it your honest opinion that all libertarians are supposed to be ethically okay with outing someone's sexuality or posting revenge porn tapes? If so, why?
This is probably updated version of Zen 1 core design AMD sold to China.
Though with webseeds it shouldn't matter that much, not to add redundancy with BT.
A small thermal printer would probably be direct thermal, which uses a heat head and heat sensitive coated paper. This fades away naturally, even if kept in the dark. Glue from tape will accelerate it, in case you're thinking about it to protect from abrasion.

There's also thermal transfer printers, which use a ribbon as "ink", similar to typewritter. These labels can endure much harder conditions, like scratches, high temperatures and fade. They're used all over the industry. But these aren't usually small printers and have a high cost. At that point I think you have better solutions on printing services (I understand if you don't want to have the files outside of your environment, though.)
You can put review on a system requiring additional ID/information/escrow payment.

A genuine business will be willing to put down some information and a cash payment for a review; spammers won’t have the time or resources.

You run the risk of a perverse incentive to trigger it for revenue but make the fee refundable or something.
Is that protesting immigration processing or immigration detention centres? I can see why a pro-immigration person can be against what looks like a prison going up in a leafy suburb. They may change their mind if what’s going up is simply a document processing centre that people visit when they need to.
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There are many laws regarding pet ownership and for good reason, if not involving an invasive species there's also animal cruelty issues. Pandas and other exotic animals need specialized care which a typical vet will not be able to provide. And that's if they aren't dangerous. Then there's the puppy mills, which is a huge issue on its own.
I think you're confusing Hamas with Palestinians. They're not the same thing. Palestinians are without power and supplies. Hamas got to bloody Israel's nose and has lots of newly radicalised Palestinians to recruit from. Equating the two betrays a deep misunderstanding of what's going on. Hamas leadership is apparently living in Qatar an not inconvenienced in the slightest by Israel's response; to the contrary, I suspect.
I suspect the only solution for these cases is some form of small claims court / independent arbitration process (and not just for Meta, but for all of the FAANG bunch and their like).

Can you imagine a big tech employee having to say to a judicial person, "The system automatically blocked the user, then automatically denied their appeal, and we have no way to know why, because there is no evidence or other supporting data because we deleted it all."

Surely any form of arbitration or legal scrutiny would turn that into an instant default judgement against the tech giant?

And while I would generally support the right of any business to choose who to do business with, there comes a point when a business becomes somewhat monopolistic, and a gatekeeper of access to the market, at which point these kinds of decisions need to have a reasonable route of appeal.

It remains to be seen if the behaviour of these companies will change in response to legislation, for example the EU Digital Markets Act has some obligations relating to "Allowing business users to access end users" that may be relevant.
Theres no trade schools for medicine.
Otherwise known as the "bootlegger and baptist" problem.
Palantir is like the dream tool for an authoritarian police state.
> The current political climate has destroyed neighborhoods

We used to destroy neighborhoods with bulldozers, which is a bit more permanent.
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You comment made me do a bit of research. Apparently the owner of Insider is Axel Springer, which in Germany is compared to Fox News. So I guess that pretty much answers the question (to me at least).
The issues you listed are non-existent with Gitpod. You can point whatever editor at it, and work on code residing anywhere.
T will be interesting to see the side effects of chronic use of these compounds. Still too early to know.
So people are catching criminals on the ring (all of the examples in this article are either criminal or ordinance related and should be met with a call to the police).

But because rich and or white people are complaining and many of the people on camera are black, we need to stop them from doing it?

This sort of bullshit logic is why we will have even more crime.
You should know that WebRTC is not ideal for this use-case, it has inherent performance and discovery issues. All web-based solutions are flawed until hypothetically the browsers and/or WebRTC step up their game. Fine for a pdf or something, but try it with large files and you’ll very likely have a bad time.

I must say LocalSend seems pretty great (even though they’re a “direct competitor” to my app https://payload.app/ )
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There are some Rust front-end web frameworks that presumably manipulate the DOM, and in C++/Rust to pass a string to JS you need to run a TextDecoder over your WASM memory, so it's probably not a deal breaker.

But like... if you're writing a website, just use JavaScript.
In tech, at least, that degree probably won’t even be something VCs consider.

Not worth finishing it up if your goal is to fund a startup. The connection and notoriety from PTs program would be just as good or better.
Wait, there are people that don't just get it from their distro?!
And the editor, illustrator and promoters as well.

And don't forget to send a larger chunk money to other new prospective authors that you don't know and that haven't even sold a single copy of their book (or maybe not even finished it yet)!
To make it look the same everywhere.
There is zero reason why landscaping and construction equipment can't have basic noise abatement features. Especially the worst noise offenders like ride-on mowers and backpack blowers. A little muffler goes a long way
I’ve noticed that post 2020 (“pandemic”), that socialization in industry has shifted. I think it has to do with remote work, or the change in employee-employer labor relations. I’ll admit, it’s hurt me a lot, and three years on, I feel like this is the new norm.

One of my previous managers used to have a measure of relationship health: can you make arguments at work that piss each other off (due to contentiousness, not assholery), but then get a beer together after work, and just chill. This barometer has almost entirely disappeared, where I had this relationship with most of my coworkers to now just one.
I'm sorry... what? Thiel's political opinions, alignments and investments are not remotely a secret. And having actually read the article, it seems pretty preposterous to imply it was a hit piece. If anything, this makes me feel like maybe Thiel is more complicated or nuanced than I'd previously thought him.
And it’s working like a charm. Look at half the comments here who didn’t read the article and go off on an anti-libertarian tangent.