CIA has the same problem other government agencies always do with recruiting programmers: they just don’t pay enough to compete with the private market.
See the federal government in general. People like my dad elect politicians who actively want the federal government to fail, and then use the government’s failures to justify that: “see, they were right all along!”
Is that weird? Seems optimal for each region to grow the most efficient crops for their local conditions, which would require at least some of that type of trade.
It’s a lot more rare now in my experience. Role queue locks you into at least 2-2-2, and open queue everyone kinda knows you’re getting 4 or 5 DPS anyways. Even in role queue off meta picks you might get a try hard annoyed every once in a while, but generally isn’t so bad.
Depends! Generally to win a typical redraft 12 team league you need to hit on your first two draft picks, and then a couple more late round picks that outperform, and then have the rest of your team be at least okay. The top two picks are mostly luck, so the skill is finding those two high-value-low-cost late rounders. For daily fantasy you’re really hunting out guys that have the potential to have a one game fluke but are cheap (ex. a backup player that has 2 touchdowns in a game for the first time ever). When that happens pretty much all the top teams will have one or more of those players.
The trick is just to not be good at them. At least in Overwatch, at middle or low tiers you can just ignore the meta and play whatever, no one cares really.
The mistake they made was having it be closed invites for so long. Facebook butchered Facebook Chat, and my whole friend group was ready to jump ship. Except Google wouldn’t let us, and then Facebook had enough time to get Chat/Messages kind of good enough again, and by the time anyone could get on Google+ no one cared to.
“The End of the World is Just the Beginning” by Peter Zeihan. Probably needs to be read with a grain (or two or three) of salt, but it’s pretty thought-provoking.
In our case googling “Comcast service <town name>” pulls up a page from the city government’s site that has contact info for our Community Connectivity Manager. That person, when contacted, got us hooked up.
Talk to your local government. We were in the same situation, and it turns out Comcast was legally required to service our house, they just didn’t want to (because of the expense). A few days after getting the government involved we had a trenching crew on-site.
This is a fascinating story. The PGA has done a terrible job of keeping players happy, and now they’re facing big money competition and banking on morals to hold players back from jumping ship. It’s worth noting that most of the guys who switched this season are either irrelevant, on the tail end of their careers, or controversial/disliked on the tour, so they don’t have a ton to lose. It’ll be interesting to see next season if we see big name “squeaky clean” players jump ship after the “villains” take the bad press this year.
Seems like the common thread in these failures is outsized “guaranteed” returns. Are there other large systems or companies still paying out double digit rates now?
Odd Lots is also a really excellent podcast, even outside of this episode. Their coverage of the past couple years of supply chain issues has been so cool.
100 times this. I’ve worked at a company with a commit history going back to 1979 (literal paper logs at that point, plus in-file headers), and another company where we lost ~2 years worth of historical context/info to WIP commits because “our internal GitHub instance has that info” turned out to not be true when we migrated to a new instance. Nowadays, the relevant info from our PRs gets copied to git, and I hope in 40 years if someone has a question they can still see that history if needed.
This is probably the best take. If someone says that ads are part of the deal, fair enough. I can go somewhere else, or I can honor the deal. Otherwise, seems unethical to me.
“Hey, viewing this ad is the price of getting this product I’m offering” “No thanks, I’ll just take it”.
I don’t think it’s an incorrect argument. We’re free to seek out ad-free content, or paid content, or whatever, but unilaterally rejecting the implicit terms of an interaction is ethically grey at best imo.
Edit: this would mainly apply to sites that detect and block ad-blocking. Other sites are a little less clear imo.
I guess you have think of the cost savings vs an actual fire too. $1.6B worth of property destroyed and a $55m cleanup project after the Boulder fires just now. That can justify a whole lot of $100 fire extinguishers even if they’re only marginally more effective (which it’s not clear that these are, just saying this is a problem you could justifiably throw some serious money at)
I think the point was that seniors as a demographic generally vote for politicians that don’t support those policies, against the wishes of the majority of the rest of the population.
It's because having an actual shrinkwrap file in a library introduces a huge number of conflicts. If library A has 20 transitive dependencies, and library B has the same 20 transitive dependencies, deduplication based on ranges can leave you with only 20 transitive dependencies. If both libraries have shrinkwrap files in them, you can end up with 40 transitive dependencies, even if those are nominally compatible with each other. When you consider that even with the current behavior projects end up with thousands of transitives, you're looking at adding literally thousands or 10s of thousands of duplicate dependencies to a project. That's not even considering that some duplicate dependencies will just break things if they show up multiple times in a project (older versions of react, for example).
Are there any public companies actually working on this? The last time I looked it seemed like the answer was “Chevron, kinda”, but that doesn’t seem like the right spirit.
I’m not that surprised tbh. A couple of years back the Chrome Dev Summit quiz did the same thing. I thought that was the joke (“haha, they’re requesting allanswers.json at startup”), and didn’t realize it was apparently unintentional until they revealed I was in first place at the end of the day.