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> Was he known for small paintings before these portraits were rediscovered?

Small is relative, but I've viewed (and occasionally copied and/or drawn) Rembrandts in maybe a dozen or so museums in the US and Europe and have never seen any close in size to the ones shown in the article -- those are much smaller than was typical for him. This Wikipedia page[1] should give you an idea of typical dimensions.

> would you expect significant deterioration of the paint if it was actually painted 400 years ago?

That depends very much on how they were cared for, and what support they are on (e.g. copper paintings tend to age very well; paintings on canvas somewhat less so); but certainly there are many paintings in pretty good shape that date from the seventeenth century.

(Not a professional appraiser, just a painter who occasionally sells his own work and a big Rembrandt fan, but I'd be curious to see a picture of your painting if you ever cared to share ...my email is on my website linked to my profile. Good luck!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Rembrandt
Property Testing Stateful Code in Rust
DNA testing: What happens if your genetic data is hacked?
One last response.. I think we should take a step back.

A clearly labelled image of a radio tower for a sensationalist story that a radio tower in Alabama was stolen, that.. that clearly labelled image is evidence of "left wing bias" and the "the guardian... putting its thumb on the scale." I don't think this is the story to choose for that particular hill to die on.
Seems like a fairly standard personality test. I just ran through it and got the same kind of answer I usually get on these tests.

I don't really see the value in these tests but, apart from the weird avatars, this one seems to be just Myers-Briggs with different words (for me, "thinker" instead of "INTP").
>> To achieve hat you're showing you need some depth to the button. Hard to accomplish with today's design trends.

This why some people complain about UI design "trends". They elevate an aesthetic choice over clarity, usability, or function (not sure which word is best here). Or in this case it seems part of the push was to reduce the screen space taken by a control.
Cracking the FAANG Interview. My experience and recommendations in 2024
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OpenGL was invented at SGI and it was closed source until it was given away. It is very popular in its niche i.e. CAD design because the original closed source SGI APIs were very successful.

DirectX was targetted at gaming and was a much more limited simpler API which made programming games in it easier. It couldn't do everything that OpenGL can which is why CAD programs didn't use it even on Windows. DirectX worked because it chose its market correctly and delivered what the customers want. Window's exceptional backwards compatibility helped greatly as well. Many simple game engines still use DX9 API to this day.

It is not so much about having an open standard, but being able to provide extra functionality and performance. Unlike the CPU-dominated areas where executing the common baseline ISA is very competitive, in accelerated computing using every single bit of performance and having new and niche features matter. So providing exceptional hardware with good software is critical for the competition. Closed APIs have much more quick delivery time and they don't have to deal with multiple vendors.

Nobody except Nvidia delivers good enough low level software and their hardware is exceptionally good. AMD's combination is neither. The hardware is slower and it is hard to program so they continuously lose the race.
Effects of Reduced and Altered Use of Social Networking Sites [pdf]
I did not mean it in a negative way, this is a great resource. But the math will be intimidating regardless for most devs who don't have a solid math/signal processing background. It's way beyond the simple linear algebra plus chain rule from calculus that are required to understand basic neural networks training.
Considering most rentals require a first, last, and deposit there is no theft. There is only failure to meet the terms of the lease.
Yeah, that’s roughly how it would work, except 30 years feels way too long.

If other people are better than you at seeing what some technology could be used for it, then maybe we should lower the barriers for those people. The whole point of the patent system should be to provide the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people.
Pruitt Igoe suffered from a number of structural issues (including literal issues with the structures) that had little to do with it being government funded. Indeed one of the biggest issues was the government's unwillingness to fund it - several parts of the project were cancelled, then when the city's population started to plummet and vacancies started to mount there was no assistance to make up for the shortfall in maintenance revenue.
> It's a nightmare to manage an IC who is friends with the CEO and doesn't think you're making the right choices

Since I find this take harmful, let's rotate the scene: what if you have no business being in the manager's seat above that IC in the first place, and you are effectively being used as a tool by someone who is not the CEO, but, say, a newly-appointed CTO? What if you _are_ making the wrong choices? What if that IC is one of the few people in the org having the experience and the knowledge to tell you that you are? What if that IC is making the right calls and suggestions, but your implicit directive you got from the newly-appointed CTO is actually to manage that IC out "because they are such a pain for everyone"?

I have been on both ends of this situation and I do believe most scale-ups are _not_ doing a good job retaining and nurturing their early-stage staff+ ICs into their larger era. This has multiple reasons, but it does often feel like there is a lot of value to be had if just those staff+ ICs weren't so horribly mismanagemed. A hire-above-from-the-outside is prime example.

And if I sound bitter - let's just say I have experience being "that IC". It wasn't pretty, and no - I was not an asshole.
Very tragic. Honestly could not have been more surprised to see this headline. I fully expected him to break the two-hour mark. Very sad for him, his trainer, and their families.
> The solution to the money problem came from a lawyer named Seamus Andrew, who had represented P.&I.D. in arbitration. Andrew worked in litigation finance — he took on cases with a high possible reward, then found investors to fund the court battle. After P.&I.D. won the arbitration, Andrew foresaw a costly legal challenge, so he made a deal with VR Capital, a London-based hedge fund that focused on exactly these sorts of “specialized situations.”

Ahh, one of those firms where the interview process is that you have to unironically recite Al Pacino's monologue from The Devil's Advocate. It takes a lot to make the government of Nigeria look like the innocent party.
I think you need to think through that four camera concept a bit more.

It would significantly increase the screen bezels because instead of just one notch you now have to bring in all four edges to accomodate the cameras.
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Carbon fiber weave and resins don't stick to aluminum and steel very well. It was an issue in the earlier days where frames using both metal and carbon fiber would come apart when the glue failed.
Thanks for the feedback!

When you talk about the "zoom out" effect are you referring to the ability to adjust the zoom level of the 3d game board? Or something else?

Unfortunately, today there isn't a way to try without connecting your Github account since Zilch bots are just GitHub repos. But some thought can be put into adjusting that requirement if enough folks aren't into it. I assume it's just the connecting of your GitHub that you're not into as opposed to creating an account in general?
Often, when inventing something new - it can be difficult to assess how novel the "new" thing is. Particularly when there isn't yet a word for it. Planck may have simply believed that this hinted towards something equivalent of an "atom" of light. Atom's were after all a relatively recent discovery in 1827, why couldn't you have an atom-like construct for light? and why would light atoms be any different regular atoms?

While we now know a great deal about this topic - placing such speculation in a paper would be problematic. Hypothesizing that such quantizations are common for other quantities would be even more problematic.

EDIT: Removed eroneous mention of michelson-moorly instead of milikan oil drop experiment.
Realizing the desired outcome a company may desire isn't dishonest. Being agreeable enough to play the game by the rules isn't dishonest.

You'd rather clever enough but defiant employees?

Or not clever and some other combo?

Being honest is realizing your situation and making tradeoffs to prioritize what's important. Pretending that your ability to call out weaknesses in the interview process makes you the best candidate is dishonest. If you feel that's more important you are forgetting why you are part of this process in the first place. If the outcome is they get a better interview process because of your feedback but you don't get the role, you failed in your original purpose. You need to be honest with yourself why you even applied in the first place.
> That said, I really don't understand the issue with their cut, or insisting on handling payments. In the vast majority of cases, these are not your customers. These are apple's customers they have given you access to.

Windows users aren’t viewed as Microsoft’s customers from the point of view of third party software. Same with MacOS. Apple has pushed this paradigm in iOS because it’s ludicrously profitable.

Controlling the evolution of a ubiquitous computing platform gives a company a huge amount of power. Add to that the power to control any commercial transaction performed on that platform is simply too much concentration of power.
The argument being made is that the distinction between an FPGA and CPU is irrelevant to determine whether something is emulation.

An emulator accelerated by an FPGA is still an emulator and a CPU simulating a console at the circuit level is no different in accuracy than an FPGA doing the same thing.

The main difference is the experience, where the FPGA can offer an experience closer to the original than a CPU running an operating system can, especially for older consoles. Not because of a difference in emulation accuracy, but because the user experience is different.
Is it true MI300 line is 3-4x cheaper for similar performance than whatever nvidia is selling in highest segment?
I haven't looked at a corporate personality test since 2008, so this could be way out of date, but sometimes these tests have a trick question to catch people lying on the test. I'm not familiar with this test but some tests will ask something like "sometimes I feel tired" and if you answer "never" the test maker will conclude you are a liar since everyone is sometimes tired.
The web browser is one of humanities greatest achievements and I don't mean that ironically.

The more you understand about the modern web browser and how stunningly powerful it is, the more you should be amazed.

And far from bloated, the modern web browser is trim and fast given the unbelievable feature range.

And if you don't trust something you're free not to use it.

When I see Chrome or Firefox and I deeply gladdened.

Go back 25 years and any time you wanted to do something at the user interface in any context it was hard and glitchy and maybe couldn't be done at all. Want to do something in a user interface today? Chances are the browser can do it.

Truly breathtakingly beautiful and powerful software and I love it.
When disambiguation matters, I always default to a label that says “press to ~”.
A lot of hand waiving about how "minor paperwork" for everyone isn't such a big deal. But very little coverage of what benefit that paperwork is accomplishing. This looks like a big bag of regulatory requirements, some which might be good and some which might be bad ideas. If it's the start of a discussion around what actually good regulations look like, then they have to start somewhere and maybe it will accomplish that. If it's an actual proposal and we have to take or leave everything, maybe they need to go back to the drawing board and figure out something better.
The Earth’s angular momentum is the exact opposite of renewable. It’s even less renewable than so-called fossil fuels.
I had one company spring this health screener on my with zero warning, which included such questions as whether I had ever been pregnant or made anyone pregnant, and whether I had ever been depressed and how so. Very weird stuff, so I challenged it and HR responded that it was a required test for health and safety at work.

It wasn't, it was some corporate type doing massive overreach into areas where they had no right to even ask.
Typically the way it works is the comp structure is such that after a few years in the role you can semi-retire. The goal of anyone who is a CEO is to try throw their hat in the ring, hopefully do a good job, and then step away to help other people who want to be CEOs. Generally they do this by taking on board seats or becoming an investor. The average CEO tenure is 7 years and the median is 5 years[1]. This is not a job you can do for a long time without it basically killing you due to the stress.

I'm sure you've seen all the before/after pictures they always do for POTUS. If you saw similar photos for folks becoming CEOs of a major company, you'd see a similar change. Being a CEO is a job that will literally run you ragged. It destroys your health, and is not something most people can tolerate for longer than a decade.

[1]: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/02/12/ceo-tenure-rates/
Only works if NVidia misteps and creates the Itanium version of CUDA.
Those titles help a lot. I wonder whether the Reddit poster saw titles.

With titles, some people will be dim or troubled enough to give the wrong answer on obvious ones, like "Starter Not a Finisher".

The right answer on other questions are trickier. Like maybe the company wants a handler of packages to be willing to toss the packages around "Good Enough", and some manager thought some people are a natural at that, and asked for a test to tell them. (Like when a non-technical executive was suggesting that I should give coding exams to senior software engineer candidates, and the strongest point in the argument was "This will tell us whether they do unit tests!")

Could titles be tricky, like if "Loves the Social Scene" is paired with image of someone partying hard, so the company might think they'll have hangover absenteeism, OUI, or other risks?

Or risk of insubordination, or disruption to the hierarchy? A self-image of "Natural Leader" in a worker-bee role could be seen as problematic by a simple-minded company.

Maybe Fedex is gathering data on which combinations of answers predict a unionizing troublemaker. Or, in the scenario that a shop floor employee is injured, which employees are going to be murmuring about it with others, speaking with investigator, etc.

If a company wants to be especially evil about it, some of these questions might be good for weeding out candidates with depression. Or for arguing pre-existing condition, if an employee later claims that working conditions caused mental anguish.

Then there's the meta of filtering out people who are alienated by this test, or who are not captive. Especially with the odd images in this test, I think many candidates with self-respect and other options will simply walk away. It's not like Leetcode hazings, where they've been conditioned since school that this is just the ritual you do to get that very-well-paying FAANG job. This is some different thing, to which you're submitting for a chance to work at FedEx.

What other possibilities?

Some of that could be useful to a company, if not very ethically. Also, maybe this was sold to the company as more than it is, based on flawed or fabricated psychological research.
I endorse Hidden Bar, it's just such a simple and obvious solution.

I use my Mac with a 43" screen at 4k/1x, so the space in the menu bar has never been a real problem... It's the sheer number of icons and the resulting clutter, especially as they're all tiny, monochromatic, and therefore hard to tell apart.

IMHO, 80% of apps that put icons on the menu bar, shouldn't, but the system doesn't really give them any better place. Lunar (<3) should just hook into the builtin system brightness control; Velja (<3) or Shortcat (<3) should've been panes in System Settings; and so on. And then there's apps that put icons in both the Dock and the menu bar - just why...
Could be. My understanding of the term is the same as yours, but reading it the wrong way would fit the facts, and I have to admit in general I can't be too critical of such a reading. The physics sense of "catastrophe" in use here is pretty obscure; I'm not sure I can think of another instance of it I've come across in English.
Yup, seems like either their browser or the apps CSS is causing those not to show up for them. Without those titles the test is nonsense.
Sometimes it is not even about the "startup spirit", but more like "why is it that we didn't do any projects of significance in the last year, and why is our incident rate 3x from what it was just 3 quarters ago, and why are all these migrations not finished yet?"
It's not, you are allowed to make personal backups. Depending on the jurisdiction you are even specifically allowed to break DRM to do that !
This and other proposed legislation is attempting to hit the ball out of the park on the first pitch. I feel it would be a lot more sensible and effective to legislate clear and present harms, such as holding developing firms liable for deep-fake technology if used for identity theft for the purpose of fraud.
I think it's more subtle than that. Rust has a notion of non-lexical lifetimes (https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2094-nll.html) and the compiler often completely avoids the use of the stack for small, trivially droppable values, regardless of their lexical scope. In some ways, `let` in Rust is a more C-like variant of the `let ... in ... end` construct from OCaml.

Not to mention that you can always introduce a new lexical scope with `{ ... }` in Rust code.
~/.ssh/config is one of the simplest, most useful features I use on a daily basis. It would be easy to accomplish much of it's behavior even if it didn't exist (bash script for each account@host), but it wouldn't be as elegant.

The config-aware shell completion is especially cool.
They did NOT see the titles, as shown in the screenshot and mentioned in the comments on the Reddit post. They weren't visible on their phone.
It is absolutely true. Apple doesn't take a cut from any of your examples EXCEPT if they make that payment through the app on their phone. If they redirect you to a website to subscribe, apple sees nothing. If your customers use the rails that apple has greased up FOR YOU then they take a cut.
Perhaps surprisingly, it is a realistic cost and could be much lower if the electricity market were efficient (as opposed to being an amalgam of regional monopolies with essentially no price incentives).
Well, no, at the minimum he talked to all 25 students.[^1]

Additionally, why would 1, 3, or 25 matter?

The behavior Chris described requires attending the school and visiting it often enough to view multiple cohorts.

[^1] When I went into the classroom at the appointed hour, the 25 students were all there ready to interview me.

[^2] Man, I wish I went there if it means you could talk like this all the time. The older I get, the more suffocated I am by the damp blanket of adult communication. At 20 I would have said it was immoral and boring to withhold engaging deeply, at 35 I need a damn good reason to bother engaging rather than smiling and nodding.
I wish I hadn't included my last paragraph - all the replies are focusing on just that and not everything else I wrote!

I didn't argue a stronger social safety net would fix everything, just that having a weak one exacerbates the financial concerns, and is the major factor that would tip-over those who are not having children for mostly economic-reasons.
One of the worst cases of this is the 'Airplane mode' toggle on a Kindle. Airplane mode turns off wifi but the icon is an airplane that says 'On' when airplane mode is on. When you click it, it turns to 'Off'. But what you really want to do is turn the wifi off and on, which is the opposite of the icon. 'On' means the wifi is off, 'Off' means the wifi is on. Terrible.
Yorick, your article struck me as incredibly reserved and thoughtful. Props to you, honestly.
They tend to be not much past a slightly-more-sophisticated version of those idiotic ethics tests prospects for low-wage jobs sometimes have to go through.

“Gee, I wonder if ‘C. Let your friend have the goods for free, since they’re really struggling financially’ is the answer this retail store is looking for?”
https://pnewman.org/engineering_mgmt_checklist.txt is about the best signal/noise ratio I have seen.
Railway travel has schedules you have to adhere, and all the boarding/unboarding overhead, and luggage limitations.

With the high expense of rail infrastructure (e.g. transporation in cities) I always wondered if you simply designated a dedicated paved lane for busses if that would simply be cheaper.
I think the most worrying thing about emulating old consoles by reverse-engineering them is that you're running out of time to test it. Say for example that the original Luigi looks blue in the hardware it was made for, but in an emulator he looks green. If there are no original NES left, you will never be able to know the emulator's code doesn't match how the NES actually worked. From that point on, the emulator experience is as canonical as it gets.
fantastic article
“pro-safety”

Is this a dog whistle for them too, or just for us?
US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
> It does not warrant to set the car on fire.

I agree, but it is also true that Waymo shouldn’t have been there. You can blame Waymo for not planning ahead, or the City/State for not being proactive about regulating where and how autonomous vehicles operate around what is basically a festival, or both; and you can also blame the crowd for setting fire to it.

However you want to slice that blame cake, it probably shouldn’t have been there and it had no way of making that determination without being directed.