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This variant is already being found on nearly every continent as I type this. We still don’t seem to know if this variant is more or less contagious or more or less deadly. It’s too late to stop it’s spread. So then what? Just keep pushing the worldwide vaccination campaign? I don’t see what else can be done that wouldn’t simply be kicking the can down the road more.

To those who want social media regulated, this is the kind of thing you'll actually get. So be careful what you wish for.

I'm not sure why you'd be getting downvoted. This year's Tour has been off to a very rocky start and fan interference sure hasn't helped.

Though not quite the same scene as gig work, the matter of classification has long been an issue in the tech scene, at least where I am in Canada. That said, I think some clamping-down has occurred of late. Recruiters used to openly solicit 'incorporated' developers, despite the actual working conditions being almost entirely equivalent to that of an employee: hours set by the employer, requirements to be on-site, often sitting beside full time employees, etc.

So it appears that the only way to get Fitness+ with Apple One is to go with the most expensive (Premier) option? That means you're also getting Music, TV, Arcade, News+, and iCloud. It's awfully presumptuous to think one would necessarily want all of those things. They really need an a la carte, bundle option that gives you a discount with multiple services.

I'm losing track of how this works, of late. Canadian-born Ted Cruz was able to run for president, with at least one state ruling that he was eligible[1]. Of course there were the made-up controversies about Barack Obama, which I think can be dismissed. John McCain, meanwhile, seemed to get some kind of clearance from Congress to be able to run, as we was born in the Panama Canal zone[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz#Citizenship 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#2008_presidential_...

I have never prepped for an interview in my life. If they're asking me questions or to solve problems related to my field, I don't really need to study. If they ask me things that are irrelevant, then that's another thing entirely.

In short, I am a specialist, and am hired accordingly.

There is often a gulf dividing capitalists and free market advocates. Plenty of capitalists are more than willing to embrace regulation if it protects their interests. The likes of Facebook and Twitter may jump at the chance to cement themselves as monopolies via some kind of nationalizing/utility regulation.

At this stage, both major parties in the US seem to be moving in this direction. The Democrats are no surprise - what is a major surprise is how quickly the Republicans and people like Clarence Thomas are moving to agree. But getting these two sides to agree on the details of the implementation will be no small feat. So while I think some regulation is almost inevitable, I can't predict what it will look like.

This seems to further confirm a major shift that is happening in the American Right. They've been moving pretty swiftly to the "left" on economics, with Thomas's statements following the protectionism that we saw during the Trump years.

The American Right of prior decades, by contrast, was often against what the federal government of the time was doing to Microsoft (the Big Tech bogeyman of the time). And does anyone remember how the American Right stood against the Fairness Doctrine?

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

I didn’t think that “natural” conversation was an actual goal on HN. You see this particularly in the way that humour (among other things) is often downvoted and discouraged.

It does say "Ever Given" near the front, albeit in much smaller size.

>Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list!

Off-topic, but does anyone else find it odd to find fillers like "umm" and "uhh" to be typed out on sites like HN or reddit?

There are still companies trying to impose metrics on software development. It isn't just lines of code, it may also include commits per day. And this isn't even taking into account various "Agile"-related metrics, like story points per sprint and the like.

I wonder if we should name the companies who do this, or if it is fighting a losing battle? In the end, some management just wants to look at charts.

I know a contractor who has worked for a major company that I won't name. He has told me that their source control was, for a time, Google Drive. He knew it was a recipe for disaster but real work was nonetheless getting done, and the client was satisfied. They didn't know how the sausage was being made, but they liked the output.

I think a lot of people who haven't been around the scene wouldn't believe these stories, but this stuff happens a lot. Like major commercial projects with no tests whatsoever (unit, integration, or otherwise), that are still successful and making a lot of money.

This is fine until the boss shows up. No on wants to tell the boss to get lost, even if the event isn't officially on work time.

Related note: do it during work hours, if possible. Not all of us want to be expected to take an evening to devote to work events. Even if I genuinely like my co-workers, there are times that I want to set aside where I don't have to think about work.

>I suppose if you spend all of your day in front of a computer, you'll have difficulty understanding what the human body is capable of on its own with enough time and discipline and you'll just assume everyone is taking shortcuts.

You're assuming an awful lot. I am sure there are more than a handful of people here who know when there is reason to be suspicious of someone's gains.

>Members of the military routinely do 12+ hours a day of physical exercise, including hours of cardio, and yet none of them have problems disappearing (and only about 2.5% of military personnel use steroids). Triathletes, similarly, can spend 6 hours a day or more on exercise.

Members of the military get very fit. But the body transformations we're seeing in Hollywood are emphasizing physique. Practical fitness is less of a consideration. And many bodybuilders do very little real cardio. Even when getting lean for competition, some do little more than fast walking.

Triathletes competing in the Ironman will obviously do more than 6+ hours on event day. I don't personally know of any who train like that. Three hours per day would be more like it, and not necessarily every day. There must be room for recovery.

I can speak more personally about road cycling. Six hour training blocks simply don't happen. Even six hour races are not that common even at the top pro levels.

>Cardio doesn't consume muscle unless you combine it with starvation. Muscles are the last-ditch choice of fuel. On a proper diet, cardio burns glycogen and fat.

Obviously the diet is key here. And my original point wasn't specific enough about this, but here goes: a lot of these Hollywood "transformations" aren't being honest about the diet versus the claimed exercise regimen. I don't want to take anything away from them in terms of their accomplishments - it is tough to nail all of this to achieve the body they're getting. And steroids help.

>while Pratt spent nearly 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, for over 6 months on cardio activities to cut weight for the first Guardians movie (as he already had the muscle for the character underneath his excess bulk and just needed to reveal them).

The problem is that they tell these stories, and people believe it. If he had really done six hours of cardio per day he'd likely disappear and have no muscle.

Diet and exercise is, make no mistake, a huge part of it - all of that has to be on point. The reality very much involves manipulating hormones, and that means steroids, growth hormone, etc.

That this kind of thing is on the table shows how short our memories are. After the Snowden revelations (among others), now governments expect us to believe they have pure intentions when it comes to breaking encryption?

So is this the narrative that is being pushed by pro-MBS astroturfers?

>Ubisoft is actually from Montreuil, in France.

This is unnecessary pedantry.

https://montreal.ubisoft.com/en/

The only time I use vim is when I am forced to use it.

Agreed. One Parler, one could search for terms like "execute" or "hang" and get thousands of results. It was a vile place. The owners of the site have chosen to die on the hill of protecting that as "free speech".

The evidence is now hidden in terms of linking to Parler itself, but people took screenshots of the things being posted on Parler.

There were open calls for murder and violence. This not protected speech even if it was in a genuinely public forum.

It would have to be something preloaded, and with unusual privileges. Otherwise, it isn't installing anything silently on Android. I don't think this would happen at all on iOS.

Good question. I wish I had a more sophisticated answer, but everything I do is fairly low-tech. First, memory: this works for nearly everything in my case. Second, a whiteboard for grocery items, which I update as needed. Third, just keeping momentum going for my goals.

For what I might term "loftier" aspirations (diet, fitness, etc), I just make sure I am being consistent. Those things have to be built into your lifestyle, or at least, that is the only way I can get it to work. There was a time, for instance, when I did track my nutrition with a spreadsheet. But after a few months I realized I could manage it all within my head: I had gauged my daily macro needs, and could largely judge by eye, and it has worked for years since.

I have tried todo-style apps, as an example of where I have tried a more explicit approach. I find that they are just procrastination and delay lists for me. If I am not actively doing it already, with exceptions, it probably won't be done at all.

Maybe I'm too cynical with regard to today's corporate practices, but what would be next? Maybe weekly tasks can be filed as Jira tickets? Burndown charts for how one's week went?

If it works for you, great, but this seems like something I would never want to import into my personal life.

A lot of companies don't care if you have x years of experience. They hire based on what they think is talent, and then train them. Even for senior-level positions, they may only care that the person is senior, not necessarily, "has x years in language x".

To be sure, there are companies that do care about domain experience - and I personally value it as well. But that experience often carries a price that some companies will jump through hoops in order to avoid paying. I've seen that first hand, unfortunately.

>If you're 40+ and have dozens of large projects delivered in the real world for both commercial and government clients, Hackerrank and its ilk can still make you look like a beginner just because you couldn't solve one of their toy problems in the ridiculously short time available.

Is this a flaw or a feature? What I'm really asking is: is it a coincidence that some of these tests may tend to filter out an older demographic? It may be yet another one of those ways that some people can be filed away as not being a "culture fit" or whatnot.

Is it Jira that sucks or the management methodologies that cause it to be such a dumpster fire? Scrum-style management is the norm now: it is increasingly difficult to escape it now. So this means project managers are chasing burndown metrics and the like, and organizing everything on boards that are tweaked to death.

Atlassian is basically the centre of the so-called "Agile" industry these days. Jira is just a reflection of it.