> he cites a statistic that 50%...
Not a statistic so much as an anecdote. He makes it pretty explicit, I thought.
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Not a statistic so much as an anecdote. He makes it pretty explicit, I thought.
Language changes. We used to make up words like "shopaholic". Now we might say "toxic consumerism" if we didn't already have a word for it. Different forms that mean the same thing; no need to get worked up over it.
Maybe you're thinking of a different book?
I think you've misread the article a little. It's not so much a problem in the sense that there will be an overwhelming wave of junk that piles up on street corners. The problem is that there's a generation which is about to share a collective experience, one which will enforce an already minimalist tendency. The article doesn't spend most of its time going on about waste management. It's about the physical and emotional toil associated with handling an estate. That's why it focuses on stories of individuals struggling.
As someone who lost a parent this last year (and spent three days just removing food from the house), I may be a little biased. But that was my reading.
If you're looking at maximizing nutritional value, sweet potatoes might be a good bet. You eat the leaves and the tubers. Similarly to potatoes, you can grow a large quantity in a small area.
If you're looking for luxury items that may be hard to find in a shortage, then you have a lot of options. Though they might take more or less skill depending on the crop and climate. (Like artichokes).
It's about repeated calls e.g.
a.f(x).f(x)
a.f(x)
f(f(x)) = f(x)Not every position is responsible for the worst aspects of every decision made at a company/institution. No company is perfectly ethical, as people aren't perfectly ethical. Most of the work at Monsanto is for the greater good, and the world is a better place for it being around.
Because having a job is better than not having a job. You could say the same thing for being a dishwasher, say. Just because people typically don't want to make an entire career out of a job doesn't mean that discrimination isn't problematic.
> Under the laws enforced by EEOC, it is illegal to discriminate against someone (applicant or employee) because of that person's race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices....
That's a terrible take. Programming is often a rarer and more difficult skill to hire for them many of the domains programming jobs touch. Most places will hire you just based on programming knowledge, and will train you in the domain knowledge.
All of the jobs you've listed are highly technical fields, and unusually specialized among programming jobs. A general SWE position doesn't often require much more than just programming.
Admittedly, it could mean many things. But it pushes my mind towards fully automated gay space communism.
Immersion outside of a classroom context, as an adult, is a terrible way to learn a language on its own. Your exposure to comprehensible context is lower than in traditional language learning methods.
In a classroom setting it can be highly effective, but is still best paired with traditional approaches. Grammar is difficult to teach through immersion, and there's no obvious benefit in doing so. You can spend hours going through various combinations of "y" and "en" pronouns hoping to make it stick. Or you could take a quick pause and explain that, roughly, "y" replaces "à + noun", "en" replaces "de + noun", and move back to immersion for practice.
People often seem to have done reasoning along the lines of "children learn languages through immersion, children learn languages faster than adults, therefore learning is faster with immersion." But that's obviously flawed logic. It's just that people rarely make their argument explicit.
I worked with the county doing road construction and logging for seven years, then was a teacher for a couple years after that. Now I work at a cushy FAANG job.
I still miss both of my previous jobs often. Construction wasn't super meaningful, but there was a focus on making quality artifacts that isn't really the same in software. (Software is too complex, too large, and has too many constraints.) Working with physical implements is nice. I miss knowing the weather more intimately, and being physically exhausted at the end of the day.
Teaching was very meaningful, but emotionally exhausting. If the pay hadn't been terrible and if I had found a supportive administration, I'd probably be happier teaching. I miss working with children, being a part of a community.
Having worked these sort of jobs and having enjoyed them, I don't think it's condescending at all. I think there may be a bit of ignorance there. If you didn't grow up doing physical labor (I grew up on a farm) then you likely will have a hard time adapting to physical exertion/pain. And you have to recognize that you'll likely encounter physical injuries, especially later in your career. (In my shortish stint, I managed to injure my shoulder, and it still affects me). But if SWEs still like the idea, then they should give it a shot for a year. Software will still be there.
I'm not convinced that's true. When writing Python, even before tools like mypy, most of my tests weren't assertions about types. They involved types implicitly, and so functioned as a form of type checking. But most of my tests were about invariants and specific oracles
For example, I don't need to check that a result is a `str` if I'm checking that it starts with "my-prefix".
I'd be much more inclined to say that a simple contract system could replace most unit tests.
So you're saying that Firefox did not on fact have an outage due to a change in their telemetry servers? That's not what the article said.
I understand that you mean to say that it isn't intended for networking to be taken down by telemetry. That's nonetheless what happened, and it could have been prevented by treating telemetry as a different class of traffic (not collocating it with normal requests), or by not having it, as others point out.
> In the coming weeks, we’ll bring HTTP/3 to more users when it's enabled by default for all Cloud CDN and HTTPS Load Balancing customers: you won't need to lift a finger for your end users to start enjoying improved performance.
In their blog on June 22, 2021. [1]. It probably should have been it's own standalone message sent to users (a "this should be a no-op" email), bit to claim that it was unannounced is misleading.
1. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/cloud-cdn-...
The technology for this vaccine is over 20 years old. Just because it's the first authorized one of its kind doesn't make it "experimental"
> with no long term studies
There are also no long term studies on the effects of COVID. There are no modern vaccines that have ever had and significant long term effects that didn't manifest within the first month or so after vaccination. (Dr. Offit goes over this in an episode of Oh No! With Ross and Carrie: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/oh-no-ross-and-carrie/ross-a...).
> questionable efficacy
In fact, we know the efficacy to be quite high. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't make it worthless. It's still the best way to prevent infection.
> A lower mortality than the flu
We're talking about a difference in mortality for children of around .01%. Even if true, it's an irrelevant fact. The main personal argument is to protect others in the family, including possible immunocompromised individuals. I've personally lost a mother and two grandparents during this pandemic. You really think, if given the choice between killing their grandparents (with a high likelihood) and a 1/80,000 chance of serious side effects (and no reported deaths) from a vaccine, that most people should opt not to get the vaccine? You fucking psychopath.
You want to describe your diet? Then just say you don't eat meat during the week.
A slippery slope argument. The fact that there exists a gradient of willingness to monitor remotely isn't a sufficient (or even necessary) condition to guarantee that most workers will be monitored: equilibriums can be established at 0% or 100% or anything in between. If remote monitoring isn't tolerated by individuals, I don't think it would become a prevalent practice, even without coordinated collective action.
Apply your logic to pay. Some employers pay very low wages. Others pay high wages. If you just quit your job, will the system reach an equilibrium with low wages? No, in fact, we know that wages in tech are quite high.
At least with LearningJ, the examples tend to be short because the language is more terse than others. Reading J is more like reading math than a programming language. And so the snippets tend to be smaller. Nial may be similar.