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Time for JIT-compiled vimscript, I guess? Why should Javascript have all the fun.
> If Project 2025 succeeds behind its wildest dreams, it won’t even come close to even balancing things out.

You're pretty optimistic about that. Trump has amply demonstrated that he can be ruthless. And he'll bring on people as cabinet secretaries and undersecretaries who will be of the same mind.
1st amendment is a prohibition on the government. Essentially the government or any authority can never take control; exceptions being extremely niche.

Therefore it's correct for it to be out of control.

The author arguing that this is a problem is someone arguing against civil rights.
The reason I moved off antd.
The barrier of entry is way higher compared to tech, though.
Learning to count bits without a calculator can be learned, but spite… ahh, spite is a gift from the gods.
You should always try to arrive at an answer before giving up. You won't get anywhere if you won't even try.
Honestly it’s the recruiting process working as intended

Sounds more like a bored sadist who's throwing away talent entertaining himself instead of focusing on finding suitable candidates.

Reminds me of the stories about Steve Jobs 'joking' that people are fired when they were trapped in an elevator with him.
My answer would have been the same. When asked to work it out, I would have pointed out that I simply wouldn't; not because I don't know how, but because if I need to know the number of bits it takes to store such a specific number, there is probably a reason. That reason could be storage of some form, such as wire protocols or files, and I don't want to fuck it up because I miss a step or misremember something. So, no, I won't even bother memorizing it, let alone, calculate it by hand.
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Hey! 15+ years of backend experience in small and enterprise-like teams. Able to cover the entire backend: code, databases, message queues, API, devOps, etc.
I have experience in complex high-load projects, analytics databases and etc.
I was recently in the big island and this was both unexpected and wild to me. The difference of a couple miles could have an enormous impact on the weather over time. We stayed a couple of days in Volcano Village and like clockwork it'd be rainy there but sunny or at least partly sunny just a few miles down the street. Then there are rain forests, cloud forests, deserts, and every thing in between.
I tried to cross the border into Argentina north of Puerto Montt. I wanted to check out the Argentinian side for a day or two. But they wouldn't let me across the border with my rental car, and I got turned back. I suppose the rules are a little bit different in the far south?
On the one hand, yeah, this guy is to some degree complaining on the internet because he was rejected. It’s annoying: No one likes listening to complaining.

On the other hand, a) this guy does have a point - it’s very very strange that you can have all sorts of interesting, highly relevant expertise and tech interviews don’t care at all, they just ask you generic stuff that has nothing to do with the job, b) he’s allowed to complain c) you’re complaining about him complaining.

I see a sort of weird logic all the time (usually around interviews or dating) where someone is complaining on the internet about how the system is broken and they are subsequently accused of some moral failing (being “petty”). I don’t think you know anything about this guys attitude or how this guy works on a team - you don’t know him!

I guess the lesson is “don’t complain on the internet”, which I suppose I agree with.

I guess I’m complaining about people complaining about complaining, so I’m part of the problem, too. But seriously, let’s engage with each other in good faith and not just assume someone’s a bad person because they’ve been hurt by rejection.

Edit: grammar
Does awesomekling get to remain BDFL of Ladybird? I appreciated the project because it gave the impression that all the pork was stripped away and 100% focused on the engineering.

Meanwhile Mozilla spends a massive chunk of money on the organization and the philanthropy and the blog posts, and the activism, and the salaries of people who have little resemblance to engineers.
Something that wasn't mentioned here before is that Chile is quite close in terms of grammar. Other South American countries supposedly have deviated more.

It's hard to understand some Chilean speakers but that's because they don't modulate their voice and cut or join words. But grammatically they are "correct".

There is a lot of Chilean slang and it's almost universally understood from north to south. But people are aware of it, it's usually not used at work. And then there are a lot of words which are just different, just about every fruit has a different name.
> What does “democracy” mean to you? A country where people vote, but unelected bureaucrats and lawyers actually run things and will do what they think is best?

"People" generally don't have the expertise to run things in a complex modern world. Bureaucrats and lawyers aren't always better, but pace Damon Runyon (quoting sportswriter Hugh Keough), that's the way to bet. [0]

"Democracy" in a complex modern world means that "people" periodically get an opportunity to toss out the bureaucrats and lawyers — because ballots are better than bullets.

[0] "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/04/race-swift/#google_...
And if it is, good luck scaling LBFGS to anything useable, like vgg-16 scale…let alone a 7B param LLM.

Back in grad school I tried to use LBFGS to optimize a small lenet network. I want to say it used over 128GB before OOM.
Bruce Bastian, WordPerfect co-creator, has died
Get clear plastic drawers maybe like this: https://www.amazon.com/IRIS-USA-Inc-Stackable-Plastic/dp/B09...

Label them with a P-Touch machine. Use 1" tall label tape. (Or use another kind of label.) If the label tape does not stick, apply duct tape to the drawer than apply a label on the duct tape.

If you need to put multiple kinds of cables in one drawer, use Ziplock Freezer bags. 1-gallon and 2-gallon sizes are good sizes.

For example, I might have a drawer labeled USB cables, then bags i side for Extensions, C-to-C, A-to-C, A-to-B, A-to-Micro-B, A-to-Mini-B, OTG, and for USB-Meters. If I get too many cables to fit in a drawer, I can move the USB-C cables to their own drawer.
I don't know, I don't use spreadsheets a ton, but for my fairly casual usage Calc is good.
I use Writer a lot, and it's great. When my largest complaint is "it doesn't have a font I like pre-installed", that says something about its quality.
Relatedly, one of the claims made about the Pirahã people is that they have no words for left and right in their language, instead they orient themselves relative to the river bank.
I'd not encourage the usage of an AUR helper. Just pointing to the AUR page should be enough.
Whatever for? As TFA notes the vast majority of Chileans live in the middle, in or near Santiago.
This is by far the most intuitive way to me. I rely on it even on Windows thanks to WinCompose instead of trying to memorize these alt-codes.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mirror/libX11/master/nls/e...

http://wincompose.info/
That's a cool blogpost! I'm mostly using Cursor now (just waiting until someone makes a kick-ass Emacs package so I can switch back!) so I can definitely see your perspective.

I'd be curious to hear a bit more about the kind of work you do that made you switch. Also if there's anything you miss in VSC/Cursor vs Jupyter. If you don't mind a small email exchange, let me know and I'll drop you a message :)
Ah, is this one of the reasons Windows users are so attached to full-sized keyboards with numpads? In any discussion of TKL-or-smaller keyboards, there’s a cohort of people baffled at how any keyboard without a numpad could be fit for purpose. I take it this Windows feature is among the reasons why.
"Doesn't support NTSC framerates" is a "tremendous amount of product development"?

To me, it's "author / project lead has no background in the industry or even basic knowledge of video."
Travis Kalanick as Head of Robotaxi at Tesla? Deep Dive
That’s fair in theory, but it really feels that they’ve made it more difficult to find the open source version of Qt last I checked. I haven’t tried to use it in a while, but I recall last time I tried I just gave up.
I’m told that prior to industrialization there were areas along the Andes (in Peru for sure, presumably Chile as well) where you rarely if ever met the tribes living uphill or downhill from you. It was way easier to travel north and south.
The Bloody Hundredth (Masters of the Air was based on that) had the highest casualty percentage of any combat unit in the war.
Mentioning first "Donald Trump and Bill Clinton" second in this context is a huge bogus.
If a bot relationship FEELS real, should we care that it's not?
I disagree completely. Libraries like ranges are dumped into algorithm, and are de-facto considered parts of the language. Reflection has gone back to have range support added, for example. Another one is that span has a performance overhead due to it being implemented as a normal type. If it was part of the language rather than a library type, the compiler could make assumptions about it, but instead it’s treated equivalent to me writing it myself. I would much rather gcc saw me passing a span around and could treat it as a special built in type.
I imagine “a lot of care” like this:

Ok, let’s write this veeery slowly, good, let’s check now it got written as intended. Right, let’s check again just in case, but this time slowly and paying a lot of attention… ok looks, good, moving on
I'm working on quick capture! Just a prototype so far for saving text snippets: https://wonger.dev/posts/in-the-works#gimme-that

Ideally, note capture is as easy as screenshots. It means removing nonessential menus, decisionmaking, buttons, etc. For example, having the app start with an editor and keyboard open, versus having the app start with a list of existing notes. It may mean gesture shortcuts.

For a published app with adjacent ideas, check out Bebop for iOS: https://www.jackcheng.com/bebop-design-dev-process/
Ah yes. First the problem isn't there. Then the problem is there, but it's too small to be an issue. If you have heard of the "narcissist's prayer," that is the defense that the ruling parties of CA and NY always run when you call them out.

These are just the ones who were both obvious and politically disfavored enough to get punished. Read about building in SF if you want to hear about the big boys.
This idea is somewhat prevalent among native Chilean speakers, but I respectfully disagree. Even under formal settings, many of the features of colloquial Chilean variants are present, and often an additional effort to neutralize the accent needs to be made to sound “formal enough” to other Spanish speakers.
> folks with this type of attitude don’t make good team members in my experience.

Comparing this line here with what TFA is saying, the lack of empathy is astounding.
Difficult enough to need some time to think, yes.

If it was trivial, there'd be no point in asking.
Competition is good. We need diverse search product again.

Kagi is great but more options would be good too.

OP's product is clearly at a very early stage. OP's post is also pretty opinionated.

Hard to say which impact on product it will have - but as long we have more options for search engines, this will be one out of many options.
in case there are any prospective interview candidates out there, completely freezing during an interview is a super negative signal.

Remember to take you Vyvanse so that you can stay focused, and make sure to throw in some beta blockers so that you stay calm during this toxic hellscape of modern interviewing.
I don't know if you read that reply as hostile or just saying "hostile in general" but I can promise there was a smile on my face and it wasn't "hostile" at all. The mental calculations is a pointless exercise. Math is so incredibly different than big-system software, and it is more about working memory than anything else, and solving arbitrary math problems won't get you that feedback.
My biggest beef with TKL is not having a full sized, edge places enter key to thwack.
It's fundamentally immoral and something the US should repeal.
Are those guys still banging on about that Metaverse? That's taken a decided back seat to all the AI innovation in the past 18 months.
>Every car will end up worthless

Not all of them - my last two went up in value towards the end as collectables (ferrari 308, mk1 mazda mx5). They start getting a bit expensive to maintain after a while though.
It's been a long time since I've read TENM but I don't think Penrose argued that AGI was impossible, just that consciousness was not computable by a Turing machine. Presumably you could create AGI by utilising these quantum effects if it turns out that Penrose is correct and they do something.

I wouldn't particularly bet on Penrose being correct but until someone figures out how consciousness actually works or proves that it's somehow a big self-convincing illusion I don't think we can completely discount the idea that there's some kind of physics involved.
"Production" is a big word to use for a piece of software. There are different levels of "production ready," depending on what you care about.

Some enterprise production questions:

* Is it HA? What HA topology is it designed for?
* How many messages-per-second can it ingest?
* What about with multiple clients?
* Can you front-end it via a load balancer?
* Can it guarantee only-one delivery?
* How does it handle errors? ie: when a message is retrieved by a client and the client errors after the server dies, what happens to the message - does it redrive or expire correctly when the server comes back up?
* How does it guarantee consistency in a multi-node environment?
* How dies it behave when a node dies/runs out of memory?
* How do you monitor it?
* How do you recover a corrupted instance?
* what happens if/when the SQLite partition runs out of space?

etc etc.

I use SQS as a main pipeline, and I would want to know a bunch of these things before I'd even consider replacing it. But for someone with one box on a VPS somewhere, you probably only care if it runs for a year without crashing
FYI AVGN is not a gaming nerd irl or even interested in games in general. Afaik Mike Matei created and curated AVGN persona. Perhaps even worse James Rolfe doesnt even write his own movie reviews https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2021/10/05/the-cinemassacre-... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/cinemassacre-plagiaris...
Relatedly, there is evidence that ketogenic (which are fasting mimicking) diets can be helpful:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/keto-diet-prevents-early....

https://ncats.nih.gov/news-events/news/ketogenic-diet-alzhei...
The way Mac does it is even easier. You just hold down the lay, and you get a popup with numbered options.
its a photo finish to infamy?
It's expensive, and it's a long way away from anything else.

I've been twice and both times the Big Island was my favorite. Maui and Kauai are spectacular in their own ways, as are the few rural areas of Oahu, but there's nothing like the Big Island. The drive from Kailua-Kona to Hilo over the Saddle Road (which, in itself, goes to around 6600 ft) is spectacular, and if you have enough time to make a day of it, coming back around via the southern ring road is well worth it. If you get up early, Waimea and the surrounding area (esp the NW protuberance of land) are worth seeing as well. Huge variation in biomes in very short distances.
Running pgbouncer is a really obnoxious workaround for connection limits in PG. I hope someone makes it obsolete at some point. Don't get me wrong, pgbouncer is great for what it is, but it sucks it's required at all for larger numbers of clients. If nothing else, it would be nice if it could be bundled into the PG process for simplifying ops.
Location: Chicago, IL US

Remote: yes, or hybrid

Willing to Relocate: probably not, but maybe for the right role

Technologies: Python (pandas, flask, dbt, sklearn), Ruby (Rails, sinatra, chef), Java (spring/sringboot), HTML/CSS/JS (react, angular, jquery), SQL, Terraform, AWS, Clojure (no professional experience but a lot of side projects)

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: hiremehn@proton.me (alias)

Hey there! I'm a software engineer based in Chicago with 10+ yoe working in consulting and startups. I've had a good amount of exposure and experience across the stack, working with devops heavy projects, microservices APIs, and frontend applications. Most recently I've been deep in the world of data cleansing/pipelining/analytics, but not sure if I want to continue that path or return to more traditional application systems development.

I'm open to senior/lead eng roles at product shops or consulting shops. Would love to either work in an interesting tech stack or solve interesting domain problems. Would love to be in a role that's science/environment/medicine adjacent. Preference for teams with mature CI/CD and testing practices
Ray. so ecosystem is now open source
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I wrote this email to the bugtraq mailing list when I was 20, 26 years ago: https://insecure.org/sploits/MesaGL.openGL.overflow.html

I've learnt a lot since (see CV). Now I'm mostly interested in cloud-native system architecture, AI/ML, data engineering, platform engineering and developer tooling. I've managed large teams, but I'm not above doing the work myself. Mostly looking for fractional CTO roles or similar for ambitious early stage startups.
From the article:

> To distill the essence of the halting problem into a simpler form, Radó imagined sorting Turing machines into groups based on how many rules they had — one group for all one-rule Turing machines, another for all two-rule machines, and so on. Sure, that leaves infinitely many such groups, since a Turing machine can have any number of rules. But the number of distinct machines in every group is finite, since there are only so many possible combinations of rules.

> With two rules, there are already over 6,000 distinct Turing machines to consider; that number swells to millions with three rules, and to billions with four.

I'm pretty sure the standard terminology is "states", not "rules". This deviation made it harder to understand.

Each state produces 2 transition rules, depending on the symbol at the tape head.
Yes, Tenerife is awesome, a different biome almost every few kilometers. I've been there hiking several times, and I always see something new!
Boogie-boarding... O_o
This is purely anecdotal but has anyone else noticed it is quite rare to see a job posting based in Amsterdam that accepts fully remote employees. My guess is the Dutch government is providing some strong incentives to companies to prevent the proliferation of fully remote jobs.

I might be completely off base here, but they seem to be providing some incentives that exceed the incentives that cities in the States provide companies since the US hasn't been able to stop the trend entirely.

Or is it something in the Dutch culture that finds remote work off-putting?
You mean like Obama assassinating a US citizen?
> Remote case-by-case

Can you clarify what case-by-case means?
I leave my keychain at the door when I get home. This is probably a common practice.
Yeah I agree that generic UI elements should not be protected by IP law. What‘s baffling to me is that the design that Figma AI produced is so clearly derivative in layout and graphical style choices. There absolutely is more than one good way to design a weather app. The thought that many companies might soon use Figma AI as their starting points for their designs is kind of depressing to me, seeing as there is already so little originality present in current UI/Visual design anyways. Things might get a lot more generic and uninspired quickly.
Fun fact: On a DOS PC, typing these codes was possible even on a keyboard without a number pad, by using the cursor keys instead. This works because those keys produce the same scan codes (with the only difference being either the presence or absence of some prefix byte, depending on the NumLock state).

0 = Ins, 1 = End, 2 = Down, 3 = PgDn, 4 = Left, 6 = Right, 7 = Home, 8 = Up, 9 = PgUp (and by exploiting the mod 256 parsing, it should always be possible to find a code that doesn't contain the digit 5)

Don't know if Windows emulates this, probably not. I wouldn't be surprised though if some part of the Windows keyboard driver translates the (different) scancodes sent by an USB keyboard into the legacy ones, just like the Alt+number handling does expect codepage 437 when there is no leading zero :)

Some might say that this kind of "cruft" is what makes Windows a horrible OS - but IMHO it's really cool to find such backwards compatibility, and sad when it goes away for no good reason, to be replaced with entirely new cruft that logs everything you do on your "Personal" Computer and sends it to some cloud service...
I assume maybe the other one is to align more closely with Argentina or something? If you look at the time zone map, they just as easily could have had the whole mainland country on one timezone. Bolivia, Paraguay, and parts of Brazil share the same timezone as the northern part of Chili and are just as far east as the southern parts of Chili.

Easter Island makes sense, you don't necessarily expect islands that are far away to share the mainlands timezone. Antarctica is one that probably catches a lot of people since most time zone maps don't even bother to include it and there is no real population there.
zuck has said before that ML will help make the "metaverse" more viable.

he still needs a moat with its own ecosystem like the iphone
I know in a lot of past submissions here about academic fraud, a good chunk of the comments wondered how it wasn't a punishable crime.

Well, now we know the answer! I hope we get a lot more of this. Given how much of academic funding is provided by the government, it's not unrealistic to think that the feds can break the back of academic fraud by pursuing more of these cases.

The burden these people cast on society is arguably worse than a ponzi schemer. They steal money from taxpayers, the livelihoods of researchers, and time from those who can least afford to waste it.
If you want to bring a Chilean rental car into Argentina you need to obtain and pay for a specific permit at least a few days before you pick up the rental car. Maybe that was missing? When I crossed the border they were very thorough with checking this permit.
can somebody please please integrate SAM with 3d primitive RAGging? This is the golden chalice solution as a 3d modeler, having one of those "blobs" generated by Luma and likes aren't very useful
Your comment has me wondering what it is specifically I find so irksome about the interview question in the blog post. In one of my first interviews they gave me a fairly well know riddle and asked me to work out the answer on a white board in front of them. I had no problem with that, actually I found it pretty fun. There’s something about this question, I haven’t figured it out quite yet, that bothers me more than other analysis questions. Maybe it’s just the flavor the writer added to it, I’ll have to figure that out.