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It is worthwhile for us to read and reflect on the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.*
This seems like an appropriate moment to remember Cow Clicker[1], and reflect on it's lesson:
"The player is initially given a pasture with nine slots and a single plain cow, which the player may click once every six hours. Each time the cow is clicked, a point also known as a "click" is awarded; if the player adds friends' cows to their pasture, they also receive clicks added to their scores when the player clicks their own cow. As in other Facebook games, players are encouraged to post announcements to their news feed whenever they click their cow. A virtual currency known as "Mooney" can be bought with Facebook Credits; it can be used to purchase special "premium" cow designs, and the ability to skip the six-hour time limit that must be waited before the cow can be clicked again."
"Unexpectedly to Bogost, Cow Clicker became a viral phenomenon[...]Although continually disturbed by its popularity, Bogost also used Cow Clicker to parody other recent gaming and social networking trends;"
"'bovine gods' eventually revealed that 'Cowpocalypse' would occur on July 21, 2011 (exactly one year since the original release of the game). From then on, every click made by players would deduct thirty seconds from a countdown clock leading to the Cowpocalypse. However, players could extend the countdown clock by paying to supplicate with Facebook Credits: paying 10 credits would extend the countdown by a single hour, while 4,000 would extend the countdown by an entire month. After $700 worth of extensions, the countdown clock expired on the evening of September 7, 2011. At this point, the game remained playable, but all the cows were replaced by blank spaces and said to have been raptured. Bogost intended the Cowpocalypse event to signal the "end" of the game to players; when addressing a complaint by a fan who felt the game was no longer fun after the cow rapture, Bogost responded that "it wasn't very fun before."
'He was initially contacted several weeks before the summons letter landed in his mailbox – in the form of a message sent via the messaging service Viber: Kirill Ivanovich, we are waiting for you, Krasnodarski Krai, 10th Brigade of the GRU Special Forces."'
Uh, did they just expose his real name?
Now how much would you pay? :)
“Unfortunately I don’t think we’d have anything to add as we have no idea how cryptocurrency works (even after having it explained to us repeatedly), don’t own it, and don’t follow its market,” he said. “We just set out to make a funny commercial!”
Priceless.
>In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website” >In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”
OMFG, thank you.
Not too hot, not too expensive, not too on fire, plenty of water.
wow, really? you mean like on cable, different cable boxes fill the ad time slots with different targeted ads for different people?
(sorry if i'm being dense, i've never had my own cable)
>> other useful things one can do in the dev console?
There just seems to be a suprising amount of built in stuff in the browser that does more than rendering text/layout.
I participated in some interesting work at a hackathon a while ago that used a web audio component to signal back and forth between various laptops and phones. It was mostly getting hacked together in the browser dev console.
(I'll come back with some code if I can find it...)
EDIT: OK, here it is: https://github.com/cantino/ultrastound
Is there a "terminal developer's guide to front end"?
That put things in perspective for me, because I had thought that the back of the restaurant was a hard dangerous s*** job - - in fact the hood fans and ac didn't and work, the food thermometer in my shirt pocket regularly read above 110F, and I was generally surrounded by sharp things, hot things, greasy floors and boiling oil, and the shift manager chest bumped me and screamed in my face. But for that guy it was a promotion.
That was in Texas, which is a "business friendly" state, so those progressive reforms might be more... incremental than the average hn reader might wish.
The link gives HTTP 302, but doesn't load from the new location I guess?
Also, maybe in lower COL areas than SF bay it might be easier for them to source labor and services at a cost they were willing to pay. They kept saying it was because of covid, but my previous and following landlords both managed to provide basic essential services like legal mailboxes and working toilets. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When I moved in, the place was riddled with broken stuff. The toilet, sink, dish washer, and washing machine were broken. It took months of email and "support tickets", to get that stuff fixed, I fixed the toilet myself, and let the small stuff slide. Management was almost unreachable and seemed disorganized at the local level. It was totally surreal.
All for the bargain price of 3400/mo. Luckily it was a short lease. This was mid 2020, so I was happy not to be downtown for while, and San Rafael was wonderful, but I was out of that place as soon as the short lease was up. It took them six months to figure out how to cash my final check.
When looking for my next rental, Greystar managament was an instant deal breaker, and I would recommend avoiding at all cost.
The first link says "On Wednesday evening, a Canadian Border Services Agency spokesperson said truckers would remain exempt from vaccination, testing and quarantine rules — a reversal from what the government had said publicly just hours before."
My top hit on the search is a primary government source stating that: "A Canadian truck driver who is not fully vaccinated can't be denied entry into Canada—Canadian citizens, persons registered as Indians under the Indian Act and permanent residents may enter Canada by right. [...] Any individual who is symptomatic upon arrival to Canada will be directed to a Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) official and will be directed to isolate for 10 days from the time they enter Canada. As of January 15, 2022, unvaccinated or partially vaccinated foreign national truck drivers, coming to Canada from the US by land, will be directed back to the United States."
It seems like the fraction of truckers who engaged in cross-border trucking with the US were subject to a Canadian federal vaccination mandate, which applied to some workers in the transportation sector as well as many federal workers, but this requirement was dropped a couple of weeks ago for cross border trucking.[1]
Are the truckers still protesting even though the requirement for cross border truckers to be vaccinated was dropped? Do they have some further demand?
Is anyone here able to kindly cite a (non-editorial) journalistic source which summarizes these events?
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadian-truckers-sta...
Perhaps this article is not meant to be understood by a mere programmer like myself. Could someone kindly explain what I should be worried about?
I have been advised that employers notice when candidates are spamming their resume without making a visible effort to demonstrate that they have studied the particular company offering the position, and that they are particularly well qualified for, and enthusiastic about, _this_ position, and understand and meet it's particular requirements. I have been taught to expect a very low response rate otherwise.
Also, even if I could work that fast, it would be hard to find that many positions to apply for in any limited geographic area, so by implication I would probably need to be willing to relocate to absolutely anywhere, sight unseen and alone.
I would not have time to consider or prepare for any code screening or technical interviewing in the particular tooling required, so I would feel like I would setting myself up to YOLO the interviews.
It's hard to imagine myself realistically keeping this up for weeks at a time, while also handling any interviews or prep, which in combination I would expect to need to spend 10's of hours on per interview.
Honestly, I would really like to know if my views or assumptions are incorrect, and whether I'm being too lazy, too perfectionistic, or too pessimistic?
"A harbinger of our brave new world order has been revealed yet again"
"There are those who can’t stand that you can get into your privately-owned vehicle at any time of the day or night and drive virtually anywhere you please."
"These budding authoritarians view that and all other forms of personal freedom as threats to their power."
How am I supposed to take this content seriously. :/
When I was younger my dad's friends thought my Mitsubishi Eclipse was spearheading an invasion of crypto-imperial Japan, and now the "New World Order" is trying to take away their gigantic, heavy ass cast-iron engines? A turbo six Charger would still be fast enough to kill you and several bystanders. If it's superior handling and gas mileage upset you, you could always weld a couple of boat anchors to the front bumper. :)
Damn, that kind of puts things in perspective. Is this a new idea?