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I still remember when Python 2.4 dropped the "rotor" module, which supported Enigma-like encryption and decryption. From https://web.archive.org/web/20030620052059/http://python.org... ;

"The original Enigma cipher was broken in 1944. The version implemented here is probably a good deal more difficult to crack (especially if you use many rotors), but it won't be impossible for a truly skillful and determined attacker to break the cipher. So if you want to keep the NSA out of your files, this rotor cipher may well be unsafe, but for discouraging casual snooping through your files, it will probably be just fine, and may be somewhat safer than using the Unix crypt command."

See https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.3.html for the deprecation notice: "The rotor module has been deprecated because the algorithm it uses for encryption is not believed to be secure. If you need encryption, use one of the several AES Python modules that are available separately."
What i'd really want is a tv series that looks like Villeneuve's Dune, with ornithopters, ships and all, and has a soul of Lynch's Dune, and is 10 episodes for the first book.
This assumes those citizens have an avenue to signing up and paying for Starlink's mobile offering, and whether Elon will cooperate with requests from those nations. I can't imagine he'd put his ability to sell his cars at risk.
You probably mean "c'est fait par du monde" or maybe that's some way of mocking french language that I am not aware of !?
An order of magnitude from approximately 0 to approximately 0. If I fly somewhere on a 737 Max, I've got great odds of it being a normal plane flight. And it'd be reasonable to assume the odds are getting better as pilots get used to the plane and remediations are put in place.

If 1 in a million odds are going to scare you off a plane, you shouldn't be flying anyway. The response by the regulators is a waste of time and money. Let alone trying to remake an entire company as this article title calls for.

Maybe a call for people to get a $ discount when flying on a 737 Max as hazard pay would be reasonable.
> Where WFH falls short is building alignment on larger initiatives, and that's what we're seeing.

Where are we seeing this? I'm a manager at a mostly WFH company and we don't fall short on this.

Big thing is this was never an office based company, WFH is in the DNA from the co-founders and while we regroup occasionally, remoteness has not affected our ability to grow and build meaningful things. One could argue that we might do better if we were an office based company but as far as I know there's no data out there showing that this would be the case.
Thanks for the feedback! Going to take a look at what integrating with Matrix would involve.

> -more use-case examples in the README might be a good idea too. Workflow is an overloaded term in my head and I did struggle to figure out where I'd reach for the "hatchet" in my day to day.

Agreed, can't really find a better term than workflow to describe a set of tasks that execute and are dependent on each other. To execute a single step it's basically a background job runner/task queue, but it's chaining those tasks together and sending the output of one task to the input of another which makes it more powerful. Regardless, I'll add some more use-cases to the README.
So what does a scrum master do again?
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I bought Eve brand motion/occupancy/illuminance sensors for high traffic areas. I run them in Matter mode so everything is local and vendor neutral. I use an Apple TV as a controller and I use HomeKit automation to create rules to turn lights on and off.

By using occupancy and time of day conditions I can have multiple rules to turn on lights to different brightnesses at different times of day. I turn on sets of lights vs individual lights so it’s not the absolute most efficient in terms of power but on the other hand having lights turn off automatically is a good saver when you have kids.

I use Lutron Caseta wall dimmers and dimmable LEDs everywhere so they already have a nice fade-off effect. I once tried to code a fade-on effect but it turns out that instant on is preferable so I gave up on that (it was unreliable anyway).

For low traffic areas like closets I use Lutron Caseta motion sensors; they work great and have very little configuration.

One note of advice - there is a lot of grey market Lutron stuff on Amazon; you can get burned by clones or up-labeled stuff that doesn’t function exactly as advertised. I would stick to buying at a home store or buying from the Lutron store on Amazon.
Yes. I'm not sure that a clearer explanation of the author's argument would call this nationalization at all. The author seems to be arguing that Boeing is already essentially nationalized in terms of the disadvantages of a nationalized industry, without the advantages, while at the same time, is nationally essential and can't be made to stop operating, or even punished that harshly. I think the author's suggestion could be better summarized as: seize Boeing, and have the state keep it running during the time it takes to break it up into private companies that would compete with each other and would be actually private, rather than quasi-nationalized. If anything, the author seems to be more pro-private-industry than many comments here.

I'm not sure if the author used 'nationalize' in the title to be provocative, but if so, given the comments here, it seems to have been an unfortunate choice.
NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
RAM is a factor too. I’ve written some programs for Arduino in C that would be a good match for assembly because the stack and C calling conventions are a complete waste. (e.g. sometimes you have no recursive functions). The thing is portability —- as much as I love AVR-8 if my requirements grow AVR-8 has no nowhere to go except maybe an FPGA soft core. In C I can switch to an ARM microcontroller which I find really uninspiring but just performs better.

That’s the one trouble w/ AsmBB that it is specific to some particular architecture.
I'm not trolling. I'll summarize in three points and stop replying because I think we're talking past each other and it's a waste of our time.

1. The use in phones is a silly illustration. You can ignore phones. No one in this thread specified a form factor or power output requirement except you to bring up counter examples for an argument I'm not even proposing.

2. The math you did makes sense, but doesn't disqualify this conceptually as a generator. Even if it's of laughably small power that's literally all I said was it's just a small generator.

3. The use of the terminology of battery is misleading, these are small power generators. It's not a scam until someone says it's useful for X, where X is someone it's not useful for. We agree on all the X so far.

That's it. Cheers.
Agreed, but I'm thinking this could have been done 15 years ago or more? Google Maps let you scroll around in real time way back when. Not correcting, just sort of asking--I'm way behind on how graphics coprocessors work these days.
In the early 90s the internet was great. The problems started with companies and their inherent greed.
I'd go further and say that once you're committed, stick your foot down and get on with it.

There's quite a few junctions just on my semi-rural commute where you're turning onto a fast moving road (60mph limit) from a full stop stop where you can only see a few hundred yards or less of the road you're joining. People seem to recognise the danger, but a lot of drivers react to it by being overly cautious pulling out and getting up to speed which just increases the time you're in the danger zone.

edit: also, don't just turn your head, my truck instructor insisted I move my head forwards as it changes your view even more and can make things like motorbikes more obvious.
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> But maybe Alice wasn't sure of her own readiness

I'm not sure I understand how Alice could be unsure of her own readiness. If she's not ready, then she would have said "no, everybody is not ready to order."

> And, second issue, what if Alice was saying "Hm, I don't know [what to pick]." as a way to tell the waiter that no, everyone is not ready.

Because the riddle is "how did he [Bob] know?". We are told from the start that Bob is right, and asked to explain why.
The absurd is attacking Facebook, while enjoying the open source products payed with "dirty money" from their business practices.

Turns out free beer tastes really good, regardless how it was produced back in the farm.

I should not be surprised, it is hardly different from enjoying products that people know are coming from sweet shops, but hey they are so cool.
The "happiness" index is not applicable to remote workers. Happiness index is essentially measured by asking locals how happy they are. This has nothing to do with whether an outsider (e.g. an American) would become happier if they moved to that country. It is more of a cultural indicator of how they approach and view life. Countries where the culture is to complain a lot get a 'low' happiness index (e.g. France and Italy), while people who are are pragmatic and rarely complain get a 'high' happiness index (e.g. Denmark).

Asking locals how happy they are has little information whether an outsider would be happy living there.

Just an example: Dutch people are very happy living in the Netherlands. But someone who is used to living in a city with good restaurants and good weather will absolutely hate the Netherlands. Biking is not fun when it's windy and rainy outside, but Dutch people don't mind it because they think it's normal. Dutch people also don't care about food as much as Italians (a thick piece of bread with a thin piece of slice is a lunch), and the stark difference in quality of restaurants between Netherlands and Italy shows this.
Unless Elon offers it for free, they'd start at the bank level, blocking payments. Then they would put pressure on Elon, putting Tesla's ability to sell there at risk. That's before they do anything from a technology standpoint.
“Running Twitter” is more then just keeping the website up and running
Eh I walked into being full time dad of 3 kids from two different biological dads 4.5yrs ago.

Not much has changed really. I talk to my partner and mates for mental health support.

Re. time to yo self, I still have the same hours in the day, I chose to spend that time w my family by walking into this life. It's still my time. I just love spending it all with my family. Kids are great and my misso is my best friend. It's epic.

Need an hour to myself? Well lucky I get up before the rest of the household does. Great time for some stretching and drum and bass.

My misso makes me play CS2 with my long running homies if I haven't for a week or two. She knows it's how I keep in touch with most of my close mates.

One thing I have realized is. Tech and dad are a shitty combo. IT is high stress, zero job security work. Case in point. All the industry certs aren't nationalized approved certs/licenses, most are company or product based. Which if the industry moves on your up shit creek. Builders or plumbers or sparky license on the other hand...always relevant, doesn't change according to which company is flavor of the month.

Easy af to go work alone as builder or normal trade. Whilst you can do this in IT (currently what I do) it's hyper stressful and you have less job security than being a statistic for a big firm.

This basically compounds on the stressor of being a parent. I've found IT is completely sh*t when looking at employee mental health.

They treat the concept of your mental health like crap so it gets swept under the rug. Never had a heart to heart convo about some mental health problem from any peer in IT. Have had plenty of yarns w old tradies and bosses in labouring about it tho and gotten plenty of tips along the way.
I live in Aarhus and its pretty good here, but I do think the lack of international airports nearby can make things pretty painful for remote folks who plan to visit other countries and family abroad. The nearest airport (Billund) is at least 90 minutes away.
Or maybe women have reasonable standards that men think they are entitled not to meet.
In the header, there’s a button to disable live notifications.

On a side note, showing a list of forum users to someone who isn’t logged in is probably a bad idea. Is it something configurable?
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Feedback as to their performance gaps

Training materials and “what good looks like” references for self guided study

Mentoring from yourself or good performance seniors on team

Specific goals and projects to aid in development

But emphatically the solution is not to force the rest of the team back to office as some sort of punitive measure.
Don't think it works... I'm just on the homepage when I go there

Edit: apparently you need to be signed in, I thought people would just be able to visit and send a message but apparently not
Yeah, I've been there too in the past. Two-thirds of the population in the U.S. have never used counseling before, and mental well-being often gets neglected. Maybe consider giving it a try in 2024? That's where Option 1 can be an excellent introductory experience for first-time users.
I "love" Brother for their printers, but please stick to that.

This list is as random and arbitrary as someone wiping their ass and produce an equivalent list.

The only saving grace is the context: it's the UK site so maybe it's tailored for those people but I still have my doubts.
Just installed it and nonstop upgrade ads, not what I expect from a GPL app. Maybe one or two but nagging, no.
Kafka Troubleshooting in Production (book launch)
Kafka stability is hard to achieve, especially in high throughput environments. If you wish to hear about the the challenges of handling Kafka clusters in production you can listen to my interview on the Data Engineering Podcast (https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/kafka-troubleshooting-in-production-episode-406?fbclid=IwAR27bYXVK7MS2KNAF3Y2I4Z2wiydhrwi46zLarfChq_GNF-lkHB2dIHpNn8) where I talked about real production issues that can occur in Kafka clusters and how to handle them.
These production issues are also covered in my new book (https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Troubleshooting-Production-Stabilizing-premises/dp/1484294890) where they’re assembled into a comprehensive troubleshooting guide for Kafka clusters deployed either in the cloud or on-premises.
If you're an SRE, DevOps, DataOps or SysAdmin in charge of maintaining a Kafka cluster up and running, or just interested in better understanding of latency issues in Linux, this book is relevant to you.
The point of this service is it works with unmodified existing LTE phones. "supports sat comm" is not a requirement.
I saw exactly this for companies that made the transition in 2020. At the native WFH companies I’ve worked at it wasn’t a problem

IMO companies should embrace what they truly are and not force it.
Anytime you have an improvised fitting, eyestrain results. Long term eyestrain is deleterious to your vision. QED.
(Edit: just one semi counterexample)

I work remotely with a live in partner of 7 years and we’re both feeling a lack of fulfillment. I work remotely, they work in an office.

Sure the pandemic might have had some play here but I don’t think it’s because we’re not in an office so much as these last few years have put things like “work” into perspective.
Background checks only confirm information given as part of an application. Employment and job title.

References however can be more about the quality of the work including "would you work with this person again?"

HR only does the background check part. The job of an HR department is to make the company look good. They do not want to start a conversation about how they hire bad employees or initiate a conversation where the former employer will tell their side of the story.
For kids in that age range, I'd recommend checking out Bootstrap [0].

[0] https://www.bootstrapworld.org/
Thank you. Right now it's a just explorable small section of Colorado. The premise is a post-earth world where players build up villages around trade, inspired by Ultima Online.
> I blame about half of the anti science backlash on breathless journalism [..]

This isn't a science-specific problem. Journalism has serious issues with incentives.
> They have outstanding investments in real estate

This argument has never made sense to me. Businesses don't want offices and most lease them for the long-term. It's a cost of doing business they begrudgingly pay for so employees have a space for equipment, away from family, etc.
Oh yeah. Couldn't care less about that.

I mean it several levels back from that, being a subject in my own story rather than merely an object in anyone else's, being someone who has an identity and makes decisions and engages other people as a person in my own right.

I wasn't anybody even to myself, which is why I couldn't ever do anything. I could be used by people to do their things, but I wasn't an agent even in my own life.
OFDM and QAM are techniques that increase the data throughput through a channel of fixed bandwidth, but this is achieved by increasing the transmission power more than the increase in speed.

They are not at all efficient from the point of view of the energy consumption.

The best energy efficiency is achieved with quadrature phase modulation (QPSK), which allows very low transmission powers relative to the noise of the communication channel.

Any increase of speed above that is obtained by a worse energy efficiency.

Despite that, OFDM and large QAM constellations are very frequently used because for the modern WiFi or mobile phone communication it is typical to be very close to the access point or to the cell phone tower so the transmitter is able to use a power much greater than the minimum necessary, in order to increase the data throughput.

For logic circuits, the constraints are very different than for communication channels. If the logic circuits use DC power supplies, then the controllable elements, like transistors or vacuum tubes, must use only 2 states, on and off, otherwise they would consume too much power. So even if one would want to make a gate with ternary logic, it would have to be composed of transistors with binary states, otherwise it will overheat at the current circuit densities.
Ahhh I misread the article then! And Woah ok, I genuinely didn't think that would be possible without phased arrays like starlink uses for its normal service. Amazing!
Starlink’s direct to cell service works with regular 4G LTE radios
I’m in a similar boat. For me, I think it’s burnout. If I have a week+ off of work, I’ll start to get the itch to start a project, but with work the way it is, I hardly even touch my home computer anymore.

I have a lot of things I started during those weeks off that never really make it off the ground, because the interest falls to 0 the second work starts back up.
So you do acknowledge they exist?
> email pretty thing

What do you mean by that?
> If it doesn't work for you, don't work for Apple.

"If you don't like it, leave!"

Following this advice bolsters bad policies & practices by removing opposition from institutions.

It's noble to stay aboard to fight the good fight. I'm envious of engineers able to take on the risk.
I was responding to the suggestion that nationalization imposes a ceiling on quality.
Does the Greek/western Andromeda constellation shock you equally? Because that’s what it is as well.
Steel can work. Just not that steel.
> here's a conservative and comprehensive list of results which have been solidly reproduced

This sounds more like textbooks.

Journals are usually intended to be venues for experts to talk to each other, not even "professionals in the field".

There are some journals (sometimes called "translational") that try to bring scientific results into practice, though these are often limited to fields where "practice" is its own huge body of knowledge that doesn't always overlap with "research" in that field (e.g., Medicine).
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No but the title

>Sama says "build for GPT-5 and AGI Now; GPT-5 in 2024, AGI in 2025"

is basically bollocks. He didn't say that.
Ah, I see. I didn't realize there was a miniseries. Such a long and detailed book could probably benefit from a miniseries as opposed to films.
I've been in the same state this summer. I burnt half of my savings bootstrapping my startup that failed, and gambled the rest 90% on crypto (longing crypto lol, it's 2x since then)... so I spent 2 months lying on the couch, rewatching my favorite movies and sleeping 12 months per day on Prozac. Ended up starting great relationships with my university classmate, it's much more meaningful now.

Creating a product and seeing people loving it brings me the most joy, from my experience.
Most people don't know what they're missing. None of the pages linked (in either the submission itself or the comments here) or other comments actually show any of these graphical features in use.

This is a problem that extends beyond this submission and talk of debuggers. It's basically insurmountable for anyone who didn't use Google Reader to know what the experience is using it looked and felt like (and in a few months when it will no longer be possible to use Google Podcasts, there'll be another casualty).

Reading your comment, all I know is that Xcode lets you "view bitmaps in the debugger", but that's a pretty varied range of possibilities for someone who hasn't actually seen it.

Folks who are looking to have an impact would do well to document their setups and show how they actually get work done, lest we end up in a future where people don't know how to run a Python program[1] because nobody was ever explicit about it, instead relying on tacit familiarity.

1. <https://corecursive.com/brain-injury-with-jason-mcdonald/>
Aside from the fact that everyone wants to be away from their family is fundamentally flawed, here's some articles specifically talking about the relationship between tech companies and real estate:

https://fortune.com/2023/10/12/atlassian-rto-hybrid-work-rea...

https://fortune.com/2023/11/12/return-to-office-hybrid-work-...

> The survey also found that 80% of companies have already downsized their office since the pandemic, and 82% are worried about being able to keep their current one, whether that’s due to a recession or an underutilization of space.
Interesting, thank you for offering your POV, and changing mine.
>I wonder if this service will facilitate collapse of censorship in dictatorship countries like China and Russia.

I don't know why you left off America. We have a whole censorship industrial complex here as Greenwald, Taibbi, and Shelleberger have amply covered: https://twitter.com/search?q=censorship%20industrial%20compl...
Docker is every bit as open and not locked in as podman. Perhaps even more so as it's so widely used and doesn't require redhat specific projects around it. Are you confusing docker with docker hub?
Cooking and baking have replaced a lot of the hobby time I spent on software side projects over the last few years.

The best part about it is that you can share it with almost anyone and they’re going to appreciate it, which is hardly true of most software.
Clickable links:

https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/kafka-troubleshooting...

https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Troubleshooting-Production-Stab...
Why not? GPL is free as in speech, not as in beer.

All it implies is: you can get the source code, so if you don’t like the official App Store version you’re more than welcome to build your own.
> We'll see whether they can keep up WFH as they grow

I don't think transitioning a medium or large company with a WFH culture into WFO is even possible. If companies grow that way, I'm sure they will stay that way.