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Here in Norway we use 24 hours when writing; but we use 12 hour system when speaking - if that makes any sense?

I.e. we would say: "Vi spiser middag klokka fem (5)" [We eat dinner at five o'clock]; but we'd write it with 17 typically. We never use the terms AM/PM but can occasionally specify daytime/nighttime if it's uncertain which of the two we are talking about. I.e. "Jeg kom hjem fra jobb klokka fem (5) om morgenen" [I came home from work at five in the morning].

How is this less confusing? := vs = will either push a new variable on top of a stack of identically named variables, or change the content of the top element on that stack? Why would anyone want any of that? Shadow variables are usually associated with hard-to-find-bugs, (i.e. forgetting that there is already a variable named 'xyz' in the current scope) not some great feature we want more of..

Isn't this very confusing in almost all instances?

Probably quite a few others as well...

This is certainly true. Not sure if the one we had in Norway a few years ago can be classified as 'lame'. But it did more harm than good I think, as electric bikes became associated with a government subsidy for the rich. Most of the money went directly to the richest areas in Oslo (which are the richest areas in Norway probably). The subsidy gave buyers of electric bikes 5.000 NOK (~$500), but bikes were hard to come by and very expensive at the time (2016), so only the rich got on waiting lists for bikes and swooped up all the subsidies.

Source (in Norwegian):

https://www.aftenposten.no/oslo/i/O3Vl/el-sykkelsubsidier-gi...

That's all I've ever heard as well. Perhaps the amount of pirates/refugees/drug-runners in those waters around Belize has turned that on its head?

Although a cafe will not have any of that, public libraries can often have some of that. But my point was that the horrid place they used to rent out in Aker Brygge (now taken over by another vendor) had very little of that as well. A shared noisy space + extremely tiny rooms for zoom meetings was all they had, and it wasn't cheap to rent a place there..

But at least here in Norway, there are other vendors that have much better deals. Perhaps things are very different in the US, but the product they offered here in Norway was not competitive. When I was in the market for something like that a few years ago, it was easy to find others offering much more (an actual office for myself) with access to a printer + meeting rom etc. for much less.

I never understood how he revolutionized the "office market" with that wework stuff either. Renting out horrid shared office space with a coffee machine and printer? I guess the beer on tap was sort of original? At my old office we had beer bottles in the fridge, but still... In Oslo the prices for those wework offices were very expensive as well, and there were no quite place. Why not just go to a cafe or public library (or both) and save the money?

Home assignments should be short and sweet, it does not take a huge complicated task to see who can and cannot write programs. There are differences in ability of course even among "good" programmers, but the main difference is between those who truly cannot do anything, and those who can.

> Is there a solution? Not within this system. No amount of union organizing or progressive legislation will alter the nature of work in it.

Why are they killing the union leaders if unionization does not work? The massive push by large industries to get unions out of the mix indicates that unions helps workers massively. Collective bargaining changes everything for the workers as companies are forced to give them a much larger part of the value they produce. A society where people make good money also creates a positive spiral of consumption which makes it much easier for others to create well paying jobs as well - when people actually have money to spend.

Since it's driven by people who want to get hired (or hire) I guess it cannot be more authentic than a job interview.

LinkedIn feels like a social network full of teenagers who knows their parents monitor everything they do.

Places where bitcoin is rarely accepted as currency (like Norway where I'm living), does not make it "unpopular" for ransomware (or other anonymous digital payments). As long as someone accepts it as payment, it will always be popular in that type of scenario.

I dislike the idea that anonymous digital payments are inherently bad; since they can be used for criminal transactions; which I often see here at HN. Being anonymous should not be a crime.

It's not true that there are no other theories; here in Norway we believe that it's caused by Thor hammering away up there. Some say he's hammering away at dark matter...

A storage problem on the horizon...

Never thought of that before, but it's certainly true. Always hated when we got cryptic explanations for the difficult things, and elaborate explanations for the stuff everyone understood anyway at the university. I guess professors have to explain things they don't fully understand from time to time

That's always nice, although I struggle to see the need for an additional device to play mp3's at this point...

I wonder if we just ever come to the conclusion that doing many things at once is difficult no matter what we do - at least if there is shared data involved...

   TypeError: lax.dynamic_update_slice requires arguments to have the same dtypes, got float32, float16.

I'd be somewhat intimidated on my first day of work if I cloned a repo with that much sloc...

It seems you've found the algorithm right there. Not only is this algorithm the good old mega-nested-if-test-of-hard-coded-answers for a few of the questions asked. It basically checks if you think you are at risk, then puts you "atRisk" if you are older than 56/about to retire/an immigrant/pregnant.

Sadly; that is probably enough to report relatively correct values.

> I’m not quite ready to reap what I sow.

> The problem was Darwin was a marketing ploy, and nothing more.

They are both objects; they only differ in size.