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I'm not sure what the point of this blogpost was. As far as I can tell, the author discovered eval() but is making it more complicated for no reason? There also isn't any actual patching going on.

Taking mobile orders usually requires accepting coupons/rewards programs which franchise owners are not always obligated to participate.

Imperial China is basically the Greek/Roman empire of East Asia. Both of these civilizations made deep and lasting impact on the culture of East Asia and Europe/North Africa/West Asia respectively.

Confucius is like Chinese Plato/Socrates.

I've worked in healthcare, I find the software practices absolutely atrocious. The consequence of this has been ransomware attacks:

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-10/...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-03/ireland-h...

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/585686-tallahassee-memo...

https://www.oceancitytoday.com/news/atlantic-general-hospita...

Common practice for the websites of law firms (and some other fields like private equity) to have the headshots of all employees on their website with job title and description in a nice table.

Example of a different firm where you can even filter by school: https://www.wlrk.com/attorneys/?asf_l=View%20All

It is too much. I was Google SRE and there is an internal meme showing a time series graph jumping backwards during the double 1am at DST. These mistakes happen everywhere and are best avoided by a system that doesn't allow them to happen in the first place.

Not at all. Everybody using UTC would just not need to deal with leap seconds anymore. A UTC second is the same as a TAI second. It's a no-op for the vast majority of UTC users. UTC will just drift slightly more from UT1.

This change only affects people who need UTC to be close to UT1 and also somehow don't know what UT1 is.

I don't see how replacing all UTC in software with TAI is more realistic than breaking UTC sync with UT1 (isn't it literally doing the same thing?). The whole point is that going forward, leap seconds are going to get harder to deal with. Especially in the case of a negative leap second, which seems like a more "true" y2k-like scenario.

A lot of people in this thread are criticizing this move, but let me offer an opposite view.

One of the largest electronic health records systems has code that predates the UNIX epoch. Much of the time handling code is custom written to deal with this. However, the code was so poorly written that the system would lose data during the double 1 am window that occurs during daylight savings time shift. Hospitals would just shut off all of their computers during this time to deal with it.

As the article notes, issues with leap seconds have also brought down reddit and cloudflare. Many people in this thread are treating this like some sort of display of incompetence, but if you've ever written code that deeply interacts with time, you'd know how difficult it is to get right. A sign of a good system is one where it is difficult to fuck up.

IMO it is better to guarantee that time always moves forward rather than trying to match computer time to human time.

Bear in mind nearly all of the people receiving letters should be <65. I quickly skimmed the paper and it seems like the authors don't have enough data to come up with a quality adjusted life-year type of statistic like the NHS uses.

I disagree with this definition. We have yet to produce a perfect model of the world (aka, a theory of everything). All models produced by "science" thus far are "wrong", at least on some level (ex. Newton's model doesn't cover relativity). I think "Creating models with predictive power is also a precise definition of science." is a fair description.

This comment is incredibly out of touch with the world of big law. Not only do associates get cut, but many people stall out and can't make partner.

(also the whole concept of "Up or out" comes from Big Law/Consulting... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out)

You are just as "set for life" in big tech as big law. In fact, if you're looking at the last decade, big tech won hard considering tech stocks and how big law froze (and even slightly cut) salaries during the great recession.

> That's why we use double reviews.

We being Europeans. Double reads are not standard in the majority of the world, including the US.

The medical pipeline doesn't have to be sensitive to federal funding either. There is nothing preventing residencies from being privately funded (besides the fact that most are currently publicly funded).

Medicare funds this out of a broad idea of it being a public good if there are more physicians. Note, there is no obligation that physicians work in public service after residency. This is in contrast to if you go to med school on a military scholarship (in which case, there is an obligation to serve).

In other words, if medicine weren't cartel, the government wouldn't need to pay doctors to train new doctors.

Thunderbolt 3 is 40GBits/s (5GB/s). PCIe 4.0x16 is over 6x the bandwidth.

Pretty much all hotel chains require ID these days, even if you're paying with cash. There are also some state and local ordinances that require hotels to take ID of guests, so I doubt it's Airbnb's choice to do this.

Deletion is another matter though.

> Besides, if "racism" is the explanation behind it, how are you going to explain the immense popularity of Chinese food everywhere in America?

Probably in the same way that one could explain how the existence of Taco Bell does not preclude racism towards Mexicans.

Alternatively, the influx of tech money greatly increases the cost of property in Texas. In turn, senior residents start to no longer be able to afford to keep up their property taxes. Eventually a proposition appears on the ballot to limit the growth of property taxes...

1) None of these incidents occurred in SF

2) Politically motivated violence is rare in the US and right-wing violence obviously exists as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2018_United_States_mai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Whitmer_kidnapping_pl...

Implying that people who enjoy wearing red hats should avoid SF is like telling liberals to not open their mail. It's absurd.

3) They definitely make 49er hats in bright red:

https://www.rallyhouse.com/assets/images/products/59001909-1...

https://m.hatland.com/prodimg/m1/49ers-super-bowl-xxiii-gold...

https://www.neweracap.com/medias/sys_master/root/h75/h28/891...

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/1f6093f0-cbdc-42ac-a096-c65...

I've never seen this behavior in SF, especially considering how many people wear red 49ers apparel...

Oregon still seems to be doing relatively better.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...

A 6br lakefront house in Minneapolis is just as expensive as a nice condo in Boston (op literally notes they spent the same amount).

I mean existentialism literally gained popularity post WWII. See how much more popular Neitszche and Kierkegaard became many years after they had died. Camus, on the other hand, was celebrated during his lifetime.

Is it so absurd to think that the pandemic is probably one of the worst events many people today have ever experienced? One of the reoccurring themes of existentialism is that individuals form their own meaning, a meaning that may be radically altered if they've lost their job due to the pandemic, have been hospitalized due to the pandemic, or have lost someone to the pandemic.

How is the current pandemic now causing dread in people? Sure, most people experience existential crises individually, but now we have an event that is causing a lot of people to experience it at once.

In fact, the first time existentialism became mainstream was in the aftermath of World War II, a large scale global disaster that shook people's faith in God and Government (capital G). Is the coronavirus pandemic not the most global disaster since WWII?

Would hate to work in the kind of environment where coworkers don't trust each other. At last big tech company, people willingly added their compensation to an internal spreadsheet.

200k is a 22 year old at a FAANG vs 30 year old MD.

I was a somewhat successful premed student (99.9th percentile MCAT, CS major), and I went the FAANG route instead. Physician and tech salaries are similar in that the top makes alot more than everyone else, although the bottom for physicians is a bit higher. For less competitive people who may only have only gotten into a single med school and whose job prospects with a biology degree are limited, the med route can make sense from a purely financial point of view.