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During the past 5 years I spent untold hours helping 3 junior devs level up in a very supporting and encouraging environment. In the end, it did not work. The devs were not self driven or motivated enough to make a difference. They would make small incremental improvements, but nothing that allowed them to work on a task independently. They have up too quickly when they ran into a difficult situation or immediately wanted to jump to a subpar solution.

We had to let them go. Then we hired an experienced dev who was self driven and the difference is night and day. The senior dev costs slightly more than the junior dev.

I don't think I will ever try the "talent development" approach again. The talent needs to do that work itself. If it is unwilling or unable, then so am I.
On a quick scan does not seem to mention mercury delay lines which were a liquid memory technology commonly used in early days of electronic computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory#Mercury_dela... .

Photo of what the system in Cambridge UK with Maurice Wilkes next to it:

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/...
How could you possibly get evidence for it if it is the case?
Apparently this is true of nearly all academic labs, e.g. https://twitter.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1789319531430912042.
Maybe it means they'll finally ship Apple Silicon servers that have a comparable amount of RAM to their Intel rackmount models.
How are they planning to produce methane for return flights from Mars? There is Copper on Mars.

"Copper nanoclusters: Selective CO2 to methane conversion beyond 1 A/cm²" (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092633732...
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>A very small proportion of smaller developers might have been disproportionately affected

I don't think it was a small portion. The main point was that the lowest cost plan was horrible and a ploy to get you to buy Unity Pro. If you weren't a free (as in freedom) app, it as a complete negative to be on the base plan.
I wouldn't recommend starting with Use of Weapons - it is probably the best Culture novel but it took me a few readings to really appreciate it.

Edit: As far as I recall, Banks originally created the Culture as a background for the protagonist of UoW - the ultimate warrior:

"The method was that taking and bending of materials and people to one purpose, the outlook that everything could be used in the fight; that nothing could be excluded, that everything was a weapon, and the ability to handle those weapons, to find them and choose which one to aim and fire; that talent, that ability, that use of weapons."
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There really was a bit of an enterprise gold rush for these gTLDs in the late 00s.

They saw .google and .mcdonalds and thought "we should have our own one of those"..

And I guess after a while of paying the non-trivial gTLD fees to ICANN, companies eventually looked at the ROI and realized they actually didn't need their own one of those...

Funny how different brands in the same industries figured it out many years before others did.
Consider the book Refuse to Choose by the late Barbara Sher. This book helped me fill notebooks where before I would start a notebook and throw it aside after a handful of pages.

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Salesforce sandboxing is too easy to escape. Last time I needed to implement some feature for Salesforce, I've encountered 4 different escapes. It was also horrible dev experience.
"Is RAM the current main limitation?"

(V)RAM+processing power+storage(I mean what kind of average user wants to clog half their hard drive for a subpar model that output 1 token a second?)
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Read Player of Games, then the essay, then go back and read some more books in the series.
That doesn’t change the fact that it is inaccessible for no gain.
Consider it this way - I would say that scaling Mt. Everest now a days is relative easier than it was for early adventurers and explorers to scale far lesser mountains, in the past. Of course Everest is far more difficult, yet modern supplies, knowledge, sherpas/guides, and more have enabled even 80+ year olds to scale it. It's still a huge achievement nonetheless, but modern competencies have really enabled us to minimize the dangers. Though of course there's still substantial danger - many people find their final resting place there.

And I think it will be similar on Mars. What is being done is, itself, far more difficult than what was done in the past. Yet in this case we have a far better idea of what we need to do, what we will be facing, and so on. There will be unknown unknowns, and those will get people killed, but I think the frequency of such unknowns will probably be quite a bit lower, which I would claim makes it overall "easier."

In the past even "just" doing a transatlantic crossing was basically accepting that a good chunk of your crew weren't going to make it. In the early Age of Sail, you'd be lucky if you were left with half your crew. The grand explorers like Magellan fared even worse. For his circumnavigation, he left with 5 ships and 270 men. "He" returned with one ship and 18 men, a 93% death rate. "He" in quotes as he was not one of those 18.
Think of it less like moving transistors around and more like moving small groups of atoms around (also, you can get single transistor cells for analog and power designs). The processes required to place the rough groups of atoms in roughly specific places involves extreme amounts of energy relative to the size of what you are working with, which is supplied in a combination of chemical, radiation, and thermal forms. As a result, predicting what additional effects attempting to form specific micro-shapes might have is nontrivial. They extensively simulate and then carefully test all of their approved cells on an ongoing basis. Deviating from this could cause unknown issues, including damage, but doing the necessary work to prequalify your custom cells would be prohibitively expensive for most applications.

NB: this is obviously a simplified explanation.
Also over 40 and looking (not software, but also not following management track). Overall, I get the sense it is a tough market for most jobs right now. My only interviews have been where I have a direct in with or got the attention of the hiring manager through some other means.

Failing that, there's always tuning your CV to precisely match the job description so you pass the first automated system. So far I've been unlucky on that front. If it's because I'm not good enough at tuning, or if it is indirect ageism, I don't know...

Best of luck to you!
For what it's worth, /e/ OS is now using its own location service, but I don't know what, if anything, restricts access to it.
Dear. Android – Leave. The. Power. Button. Alone
You can see a list of current gTLDs here:
https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

Some of the entries in there are... interesting. Who the hell thought ".travelersinsurance" is a good buy?
“If you have any evidence of ageism…”

Can you give me an example of such evidence? Specifically evidence that would succeed in court?

Like do you think managers write down why they didn’t hire a person, and even if they did, they would type “Too old” (“too black”, “too female”) into such a system?

I have personally witnessed promotion discussion where the most senior manager thought someone should be rated the lowest (which leads to firing) because an engineer was “missing” for a large part of the year, yet was not ignorant of the fact that it was for a legally protected reason. Only after being called out by an engineer (not another manager) did the language change and the rating begrudgingly increased by one. None of the discussion was recorded in any way. I have witnessed similar discussions that boiled down to “person is female”, “person is neurodiverse” or essentially “person is not like me and my clique”.

It staggers me that large corporations are not legally required to record all such meetings - and of course it doesn’t stagger me because the USA is full of “feel good“ laws that are utterly unenforceable by design.
Forgive me, I forgot an important word there:

70% of Apples app store revenue comes from game MTX. This is pretty much public record thanks to Apple v. Epic.

I completely get why they are in their death thoes, but as you said: they have other lucrative revenue streams anyway. So I hope the EU keeps slamming down on them.
could you give some examples of which words you found long?

if you prefer shorter words, and moral relativism, you might like Neal Asher's polity series.
Synchronization scales for redundancy purposes unless you are single core.
This is like PushBullet but better. Nice work! Gonna try when I need to move something from phone to tabled to PC.
Not sure how I feel about this one. This is a specific choice on one hand being put into the core of nodejs instead of userland.

On the other hand SQLite is ubiquitous and adding this makes building embedded systems or small apps with a database much easier.

I guess this is to keep up with Deno offering a key/value store.
If your goal is to work for people that don't give a crap about you and don't respect you then yes. If you want to work people that actually believe you're more than a cell in spreadsheet then no, or at least not for the reason you mentioned.

Also I think that in a lot of cases it's more "we can't afford to pay a guy with 20 YoE" than ageism, maybe you're punching below your weight.

Recently I noticed that I get more answers for jobs that seems too hard for me than too easy.
They all have the same oeuvre that typo squatted and oddly hyphenated domains have and immediately make me suspicious just looking at them. Which is bad enough for the commercial purposes most of these were probably purchased for, but I can only imagine that they would be exceptionally useless for sending emails or other communications.

Another "ghost mining town" left behind from the wild west that was the first decades of the commercial internet.
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I’m a veteran SF reader but I only read The Culture books for the first time recently, and I agree with you, albeit you have to acknowledge their massive influence on contemporary SF. The Three Body Problem, though, I struggled to finish the first book at all, because I found the prose excruciatingly bad (or more properly I guess, the translation).
Because they know political posts are not allowed here.
Banks admits that the Culture itself is kind of boring because it is too perfect - so for most of its teeming trillions living their hedonistic lives on their orbitals life is nice and safe and a bit boring to write about.

So the stories have to deal with the edges of the Culture and the mission of Contact and Special Circumstances to try and make the galaxy that bit nicer by direct interference.
can anyone who lived through the past four years seriously doubt that possessing an independent capacity to withstand disruption is beneficial?

is anyone predicting the systems that most people rely on are going to become more resilient?
I had the Terran 1 theme as my cell phone ringtone for a long time :-)
Erin Brockovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Brockovich :

> [average Cr-6 levels in wells; public health] In October 2022, even though the EPA announced Cr-6 was likely carcinogenic if consumed in drinking water, The American Chemistry Council, an industry lobby group, disputed their finding. [18]

Hopefully it's dietary chromium, not Hexavalent chromium (Cr-6).

(My comment on this is unexplainedly downvoted to 0?)

Again, would battery recycling processes affect the molecular form of Chromium?
It's crazy to me that a decision to buy your own gTLD would even be approved outside the most rich and tech literate companies. The evaluation fee alone is $185,000 USD and you have to pay quarterly fees too if I'm not mistaken.
If Sam Kriss spent two years to write any of his blog posts into a book, he'd be Nietzsche. Still makes for a sparkling bit of thought, easily reread.
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It's partially true, considering the other two parties were pushing for it too. They had to agree. Plus, we should not mix Habeck with the Greens. Habeck is an individual that sometimes is not supported at all by his own party.

I still remember the discussions - they were literally the only ones not wanting to do it - they set hard conditions, red lines etc. Obviously this went against their political program - thus the resistance.

It was FDP that pushed for additional extensions. [0]

They even proposed to buy new fuel (and further extend) but no, of course not.[1]

PS: CDU/CSU did what unfortunately was hyped on TV - fear of 3 headed monsters etc. Greens, on the other hand, don't understand that we have an energy issue right now and extending nuclear reactors for another 5 years would buy us some time. The ideology won. The sad irony is that because of this ideological choice, they had to burn more coal....!!!!

EDIT: just found this [2]. What's more to add. They are admitting they could have kept the reactors open for another 15 years.

EDIT: according to Habeck, it was the chancellor that pushed for the extension. [3] confirmed also here. [4]

So all the Greens actually did was resistance.

[0]: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/ger...

[1]: https://www.dw.com/en/german-greens-lay-out-nuclear-power-po...

[2]: https://greennuclear.online/@collectifission/112588204256628...

[3]: https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2024-06/robert-habeck-akten-a...

[4]: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-chancellor-decid...
I had a similar experience thought not quite as outstanding.

The best manager I had was:

- focused on organizational efficiency. She’d tell you “you three, make a decision” instead of groups of 10+, which seemed to be the default

- wouldn’t sugar coat things, but was never mean (many leaders miss this). If she disagreed you knew it but it was done in a respectful way.

- the best part of her management was goal setting. I was 3 goals, and even 10 years later I still rattle them off. Short, actionable. Her attitude was “if your work doesn’t move towards these goals, stop doing it”

Like you, it’s hard to work in jobs later when management isn’t up to snuff.

It is possible to have efficient, well managed large organizations.

It’s just that the vast majority of managers don’t have the skills and as you said, without someone at the top setting the rules it never works.
Not only that but even if you somehow prove it, no lawyer will take the case for actual damages. So the discrimination has to be so egregious that there’s a high likelihood that a jury will award punitive damages and that they will survive appeal.
actually its really _hard_ in go to make cpu bound control flow, state, and allocation. do goroutines have any notion of locality? i've been looking and haven't been able to find anything
Yeah, my understanding is that there's a couple of moving parts for that:

- Methane is 28x more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2 is. I'm rusty on my chemistry but it seems like CH4 + 2 O2 => CO2 + 2 H2O, so by flaring it you're getting a 28x reduction in GHG potential even though it looks bad seeing it burning like that.

- The infrastructure isn't in place to harvest, liquify, and transport methane from oil fields. Oil itself is relatively easy to transport away from oil fields to refineries, while natural gas needs near-site processing to turn it into a liquid and keep it compressed. You also would need to build out (smaller) pipelines to transport it from the oil field to the existing natural gas handling infrastructure which may not be nearby.

It's one of those things where it's basically free coming out of the well but a big investment would be required to capture it and, assuming you're going to be pulling the oil out anyway, burning it is better for the environment than just venting it.

Edit: I do recall recently reading about some tech though where they were going to start using it on-site for fuel for equipment. I think it was for on-site generators instead of using electricity from the grid, but I don't have a link handy.
The article focuses quite a bit on asfoetida, but makes no mention of peppercorns which are native to India. When Europeans sailed to India for spices, they weren't going an asfoetida or turmeric run. It was pepper they sought (and I guess cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves too - though some of those might be from Indonesia idk).

I always assumed pre-Columbian Indian food had fieriness and heat from pepper (bite into a whole peppercorn - it's plenty fiery), so there was a pre-existing cultural affinity for that flavor. This to me explained the rapid assimilation of chilli peppers into virtually every regional Indian cuisine.
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I'll be starting a new non-profit project with an upcoming-but-not-imminent need for a community/discussion platform for groups of volunteers and service users.

I'm looking around for a battle-tested, self-hosted server app to facilitate community discussion that can be accessed using a smartphone app, ideally with no or minimal licensing fees. The project I am currently working with uses the Disciple[1] platform, but that's prohibitively expensive and has questionable reliability.

I am considering Discourse at the server side, with a third-party mobile app for the users, but I am interested in any feedback or advice as to other solutions that might be worth looking at. I am comfortable self-hosting, and I am open to new or established technologies.

Thank you.

[1] https://www.disciple.community
Normally dual use means it has a possible use as a weapon. Compute power is restricted from export to enemy nations and is considered dual use. There was once a moment when a Mac had enough computing power that it was prohibited from export during a few months until the new limit was established, which was cleverly used as an ad: https://youtu.be/l2ThMmgQdpE?si=xgLsybj86ErWnGvR

But in this specific case it’s utter clickbait.

Dual use: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dual-use
I expect the french railway one will join the illustrious list soon enough (https://www.icann.org/en/registry-agreements/details/sncf).

They registered oui.sncf initially during their rebrand. Once the guy who initiated that left, they switched back to .com domain (https://www.sncf-connect.com/).
That's a pretty bonkers statement. Cilantro is much more used worldwide (by about an order of magnitude). They look very similar, but don't taste anything alike. You might as well say basil is better than oregano. It's just not a very meaningful statement.

In a lot of the world flavor is about stacking complex flavors to get a melange of them. With the establishment of the top end of European cooking as French haute cuisine, there was instead an emphasis on simple, clear flavors. In that style, parsley, as a much more subtle herb, shines.
I have a customer with one of these vanity gTLDs. And always go to wonder why... Oh it is cool with all the subdomains and services, but still... Is it really worth the money for profile of company it is... Which is not exactly high profile or known...
Not that GPs point is particularly convincing, but are we really comparing the mastery of wine making and beer brewing to Coca Cola now, in a discussion on culinary culture..? That’s like comparing Fox News to Tolstoi.
Does this work on mobile? I use localsend so far, https://localsend.org/
Thanks! In my personal experience, I've had success delivering to the inboxes of Gmail, Outlook, and Zoho Mail with SES. However, my newsletter is entirely opt-in on my website. When I signed up for SES, there was a human review as to what I would be sending. So, I think Amazon understands spam is an issue, too.

Listmonk supports many email providers though, if your needs outgrow SES.
I've worked closed to people that were interviewing SWEs, including people I would consider old, age was never the problem.

It was either:

A. This guy is worth twice our maximum budget

B. He's used to technical stacks that have absolutely nothing to do with ours

C. New grads perform better at leetcode than him(not saying that's a good metric, but that's not ageism)

D. Culture fit.
The Irish Time described it as "a work of unparalleled depravity". - though I've forgotten if that is one of the positive or negative reviews ;-)
I'm sure Boomers would love this to happen. Then they can't even be criticized as a group while they continue to steal from the younger generations.
I have not heard this stance, that PCR tests are invalid. Is that common knowledge?
Dual use in this case means use both in personal computers and in data centers or "cloud servers".

It would be of interest because normally you'd be optimizing for very different characteristics.
The technical director on that remake had a sound head on his or her shoulders.

They correctly treated many aspects and details that today go ignored and addressed many of the issues that apply to us today with regards to adversaries who can by nature react faster than we can perceive.

The solution had cost tradeoffs, but in the end it proved the correct decision through virtue of the fact that the story continued (and they weren't all killed off in episode one).
Thanks for your feedback!

If you'd be happy to share: I'm curious to know what scientific field you work in? Do you do 100% computational work, or is it a mixture of experimental and computational?
The problem is how many jobs are there for engineers with 20 years of experience? This is related not not directly to pay.

You’d drop your experience because:

1/ very few roles.

2/ skills don’t match experience. If you’re not at principle level, this could be a flag.
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It works for me on Safari for iOS
> While Venture Global declined to make officials available for interviews, it has insisted its steel wall is designed to withstand a once-in-500 years storm.

The problem with those "once-in-500 years" figures is that they are based on historical data - and climate change is rapidly invalidating that data. Climate change doesn't mean it's 1.5°C warmer year-round, or the sea level is 20cm higher worldwide: it means weather becomes more more extreme. What was a "once-in-500" event a few decades ago might turn into a "once-in-25" event a few years from now. We are already noticing those changes in day-to-day life!
ZooKeeper or ClickHouse Keeper, Etcd, Consul.
Sounds like a bug that could most likely be fixed. I don't see any noticeable difference, maybe one or more spins of the throbber, practically instant on all versions.

What could possibly youtube be preloading in that 1.2MB that could genuinely and legitimately speed up video play by 4 seconds, and that can't be cached? It just stretches credulity.
There are any number of acceptable equivalents.

- overqualified based on years of experience. We don’t think they’ll be happy with the simple work we can offer.

- low growth potential. If the candidate has been a senior engineer for X years, that’s probably their plateau.

- not a “dynamic self-starter” or other euphemisms for “young and dumb enough to send on a high risk mission.”

It’d be a particularly clueless manager who can’t say what they mean without getting in trouble.
TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
The cost being the time and effort of a senior dev to mentor, which ostensibly should pay itself back as an investment over years. Sadly this rarely happens.
It seems to be corrected now.
What does reasoning have to do with geometry? Is this like the idea that different concepts have inherent geometrical forms? A Platonic or noetic take on the geometries of reason? (I struggled to understand much of this paper…)
https://archive.is/G9g7P