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It has tried and failed, get better bombs on your planes that explode when they hit kindergartens.

But bonus point for assuming everyone is Anglo white on here.

Your ideology and bias is showing. You're fighting a straw man that has nothing to do with what I said.

I find it odd how Americans try to convince themselves there are a lot of ways to be high class. A doctor might have slightly better standing than a plumber but ask yourself this, who would be served first in a restaurant, the doctor, the plumber, or the millionaire who just drove in on a Ferrari with a model on each arm?

Given that the Waltons family is worth more than the bottom billion people on the planet and their main achievement was being born from the right vagina, yes exploitation exists.

Now the question for that billion is, are the Waltons worth eating? Which I suppose depends on how badly the crops have failed that year.

Better than work pieces. Sorry boss someone out a 3/8th piece in the 5/8th holder. That $10e6 titanium piece is now scrap. We'll do better next time.

How is that different to gcode?

Op missed the part where they need to batch run their solution 200 times over and pick the quickest root. Like always ignorance begets confidence. That's not even talking about part 2 which you need to completely refactor the solution from the previous problem.

You sound like the type of engineer I get hired to replace at three times the rate when the project is on fire because they didn't understand the spec.

> Where exactly is the complexity?

In understanding the question.

At any rate, you still haven't replied to my job offer. I need you to do two weeks of free work for me.

There aren't any I could find, I had to do everything from first principles and the notebooks were left with my employer.

>For context, for my first job as a developer the take home assignment I got was creating a web app that logged realtime CPU usage and created a graph of that CPU usage that was updated in real time.

That's at worst a 4 hour job to do with a beer over the weekend. You sound incredibly incompetent if you can't tell the difference in difficulty between that and that they asked OP to do.

That assignment is 1/128th the work of point 1) from OP.

Sound great. I have a job offer for you. Contact me for the two week unpaid test.

I met a welder who had hourly prices above work samples.

The $300h one looked like a piece of art. The $20h looked like sea gull crap landing randomly around the piece.

If you want to be paid more: ask for more. It is astonishing how few people do.

So one so outdated that no discipline uses?

Yeah. And because they are sparse the representation is both tiny and stupidly powerful.

The hyper volumes between vertices can have single weights. Say you have a pump that is contaminated with cholera. You can either model the pump as a node on the graph with every person drinking from it being connected by an edge, allow an arbitrary number of edges between any two nodes, or allow for a relationship that can connect an arbitrary number of nodes.

I built a rather sophisticated simplex based trade analyser for one of my contracts for a broker trader. From what I've heard it's given them an edge since no one even knows about it. It's been three years so my NDA and non-compete are finished. I might get around to writing it up if I don't get hired to do another one.

Real social networks aren't even networks, they are simplexes.

Not sure about that. Tape drives have always been better for long term storage.

Every country that has had a GDP ppp of over $8k equivalent 2010 dollars does not have replenishment birth rates.

You ignore the destruction of capital war causes. Germany in 1945 had maybe three bricks still stacked on top of each other, but had lost less than 20% of its prewar population.

Really? Because I wouldn't accept a normal salary unless it was 20% higher than my contracting rates. Because I go through my own company I get to minimize my taxes so much that regular employment seems like a ripoff by comparison.

In 1875 the great power of the world were the UK, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Germany, USA, China, Japan, Turkey. Half of those countries are not on the list, thus we truly underestimate the effect of wars and revolutions on r>>g.

Burning down London stopped the plague too.

Why? For developing that library I'd be perfectly happy if he'd made a fund raiser then spend the money on hookers and blow.

God knows that happens enough in finance for much worse outcomes.

And this is why I no longer work in open source. Know nothings who have no idea about what they are talking about doing character assassinations on those who do.

You don't think that a library that is supposed to add async support to web requests needs to run a swarm of vms to test the responses of said library?

>Maybe you're right that it's a bit naive to throw money at internet eccentrics who don't have a plan and trust that they will manage things well.

I don't expect him to manage it well. I'd have been happy if half of the promised work got delivered and the money was spend on hookers and blow. I know most of the fees for my portfolio are funding that type of thing already.

This is why I do not work on open source projects any more. Entitled know nothings who demand that everyone live on $5 a day in a dilapidated share house because they do.

I've had people stalk me, much like this post, and demand I give a line item breakdown of where the expenses are going.

This is a huge problem for the ecosystem since we are being left with the no-hopers who are unemployable for a reason. And the corporate funded developers who have a huge conflict of interest.

>If it's "shitty" and cost almost $3k, you were either taken for a ride or have unrealistic expectations.

16 gb ram, i7, 1tb ssd, 2tb hd. It's also 5 years old, but I'm just too used to the bloody thing to get rid of it. That developer laptops are basically mass market machines is the reason why so much software sucks and why nothing new is being pushed out.

>What kind of work and developer are we talking about? The only ones with computers near this cost I've met usually called themselves "Engineers" and were doing fluid modelling/finite element analysis. Or realtime video processing.

My title does have engineer and principal in it, the other words change every six months or so.

I run a lot of ML models locally before I let them run on the real machines. Most of the cost of the laptop came from all the ram I need to run a couple of dozen VMs to see how our wonderful heterogeneous data environment reacts to something being changed - most of the time the answer is "badly".

The tone of the article was very much about the 5k being a ridiculous expense. I find that very odd.

If you're a volunteer and expect to be paid make it clear before hand. If you've written open source code and someone takes it without paying for it ... that's the whole point of open source. If someone tells you to work for them without compensation tell them to take a hike.

At any rate, drama like this is why I don't work on open source any more. Too many people with too much time and too many issues.