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I agree with the sentiment, but the ability to study (read guides) and demonstrate understanding/retention of the material by actually doing something (playing Factorio) is a good signal.

It can take a long time for the police to show up, and a very short time to be stabbed. Arming STAR members is probably a step in the wrong direction, but I agree that they need to be able to handle these situations on their own.

This program deals specifically with nonviolent people, they presumably have some sense of what they're getting into and understand that violence, while not impossible, is very unlikely.

No mention of fractional share mechanics. Anyone have info on how those work?

I see claims floating around of $2k/share trades, but only on fractional share sells. I wonder if people are confusing a real squeeze with Robinhood burning money to piece together whole shares.

> _just_ a Texas-sized solar farm

Have you seen Texas? Boy howdy. That's 23,155 Noor Power Stations[0]. Scaling costs linearly, that's $58 trillion[1].

[0] 268597 (tx) / 11.6 (noor) square miles

[1] $2.5b * 23,155

From a very, very casual gamer's perspective, how did expectations get so high? Consumers are demanding more, companies are promising more, developers are worked to the bone and everyone still ends up unhappy.

Does pricing, pre-orders, or online play have anything to do with this? It feels weird that a sports game can change a few names and ship a $60 title, but a company like CDPR goes through absolute hell and still ships a dud -- what's the incentive for that?

Anecdotal of course, but I've spoken to many people currently living in poverty who are firmly against measures like this because they worry people will freeload.

I'm sure it comes down to the news cycle, the American dream (I'm reminded of Wright's/Steinbeck's "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"), personal politics and upbringing, but at the end of the day it feels like crabs in a bucket.

I try pointing to single mothers working two jobs, or the disenfranchised, or the honest hardworking people who are just unlucky, or even a mirror, but it never seems to stick. I'd love suggestions on a better argument.

Yes, absolutely. The idea that nobody should starve because they can stroll up to an intersection and fill their pockets is based on a lot of assumptions that are simply untrue.

The US is huge, some people would have to hitchhike quite far to get to a high-traffic area. There's also no guarantee of receiving any handouts at all, so I'm not sure I'd use the word "easily" (or even "possible"). And after hitchhiking and begging all day, praying for a few bucks to buy rice, you're not actually going to want to buy rice. You're going to want alcohol, or something fatty and sugary, or just plain drugs.

Your framing of this problem trivializes a terrible, dehumanizing experience, and is out of touch with the reality of the impoverished middle-American.

"absolutely no problem being gay and going to Iran" doesn't exactly align with having to conceal "your nature"

Well, my grade school science teacher was also my gym teacher (he may have held a third position). So we mostly just sang periodic table rhymes and made baking soda volcanos.

Despite what you may have heard, the average middle-American education doesn't prepare you for the hard science of the real world.

I learned about it through The Anarchist Cookbook. They don't teach you in high school not to transport gasoline in a styrofoam container.

My company's moving towards WFH and my productivity is suffering, even though I've worked remotely for years with no problem.

Many employees are new to remote work, and are now distracted by the virus, changes in the workplace, etc. This leads to bottlenecks for anyone relying on upstream work, and there's a chain reaction. I'm waiting a lot longer for work correspondence and code reviews.

It's reasonable to be distracted right now -- doesn't seem too bad yet, but it's impossible to work at capacity with these factors.

There is (or was) a movement on Instacart where you'd tip $0.22 to show that you intended to either tip cash or increase the tip amount after delivery (which somehow benefits the shopper).

I support separate modules for everything, and am amused at the thought of connecting a Roku to an old console TV and running it through a 6-figure sound system.

OP, please do extensive research on any bootcamps you might consider. There was a recent HN thread calling them out, and I've found them to be pretty scummy myself. (I was a accepted into one of the big ones and asked for way more money than advertised, upfront. I was offered a teaching position at a Uni bootcamp under an abysmal curriculum. I've been to the recruiting events as an employer.)

I know they're not all bad, but some programs thrive on taking advantage of people in your position.

I don't have a good answer for this, but I find the notion that you can learn something in just a few hours that will profoundly impact your career intriguing.

Interpersonal skills (re: AwesomeFaic), grokking bureaucracy, learning how to learn are all career-long pursuits that define most careers (I would argue).

Tools like awk and sed are great but ultimately of marginal importance to the average developer. In fact, I haven't even found the sum of all similar efficiencies to be worth dealing with.

What I'm taking away from this is that many (most) companies are grossly underpaying their engineers. I've been through the SF/NYC Senior SWE interviewing gauntlet twice in the past three years, and received 10+ offers at half this rate. Levels claims to be checking offer letters, which is great IMO. It's really hard for people to know they're being undervalued when the employers are low-balling and the self-reporters are lying.

It's so variable that I don't think there's even a good answer for this. My current company does the engineer -> management track, so there can absolutely be an abundance of management jobs. You can also work as an Junior/SEII/Senior for 5+ years without being promoted at all. Keep in mind all of these titles are arbitrary/subjective.

I've seen a few that are just plain left-aligned HTML with basically no styling, and I think they're beautiful.

Does anyone know of any like that? I can't remember any offhand.

I worked with a designer who had Trypophobia and refused to mock out a GitHub-style contribution graph / punchcard. Friendly reminder to not create products that inadvertently terrify people.

I'm not even convinced current data/networking conventions are optimal. Something will come out, probably not before 2025, that will make us think of traditional network requests (and definitely the DOM) as archaic.

Sure, but Coinbase's KYC prevents it from being a reliable long-term alternative. There's still a central authority with your identity, governing whether you can move your money.

Zuckerberg's recent testimony indicates FB does something similar with "shadow profiles". Those "people finder" and genealogy sites have also been doing this for years. My _guess_ is that it's not explicitly illegal so it's fine unless you break some other law(s) in the process (acquiring data illegally, defamatory profiles, etc.).

I don't think people with more impactful secrets deserve more privacy than anybody else.

You mean "technology that's everybody's"

He was also the host of a prime time game show for 5 years.

Maybe I had a heavy lunch and dozed off at my desk? Or fell asleep at the beach/pool/park, or any number of plausible scenarios that don't involve living with a crazy person.

These aren't super common situations but they do happen, and a security flaw like this can be the difference between someone stealing an electronic brick and someone making off with corporate secrets and customer PII (if it's a work phone).

I don't think this is totally inaccurate, though there are probably more puppet accounts than sincere Blizzard apologists.

I'd be more worried about the influence that propaganda machines can have, and what's freaking me out is that you actually have to look to spot those sorts of posts. Most people don't look.

I don't remember who posted it or if it's the same course, but https://workflowy.com/s/E9HW.jGUYboLrGj

This is a bit hard to say, right? Google is also responsible for the normalization of aggressive user tracking and the creation of the ad-ridden tire fire that is the modern internet.

I spent a couple of months last year researching Liubo and constructing/play-testing a crude recreation. Of course, we don't even know what a full game set looks like, much less how it was played. But the result was a decent game, and I like to think there's enough overlap between board game enthusiasts and history nerds that someone could crank a few of these out on Kickstarter.