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Or they do in fact want that clause just as it is. By design. They simply don't want to change it.

This likely isn’t about having different contracts for different hires. Its about their intrinsic need, or more precisely, their deep requirement, to have that clause in.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, as by definition, if this constant is valid for how this universe is as it is configured now then significantly changing the universe will likely result in a different constant. How you might change the universe enough to cause a variation is a bigger question. Concentrating all the stars (mass) to one place might do it. Maybe not.

The flip side of that question is the larger and generally accepted as obvious statement: a constant with value "x" determines or reflects how the universe is as of now. The duration of that "now" is likely much longer than the earths entire existence.

Out of curiosity, which country didn't have servants?

"I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results."

If scientists don't attempt to explain a dramatic claim using other mundane explanations I'd be very suspicious of calling them scientists. Occam's razor is a useful tool. Be very suspicious if dramatic claims aren't tested. Otherwise I have a bridge for sale...

"I also expect some new Venus probes real soon now."

Maybe. You should also expect a lot more telescopes of all descriptions and varieties to be pointing at Venus. Multiple compute clusters are likely digging through old and new imaging data even as I write this.

Love their trackpads. But their mice... not so much. I have a tiny travel mouse that has 4 buttons, scroll mouse and much better acceleration and surface detection and was bought for likely half the price. That travel mouse is deadly in games. The apple mice? Not as accurate.

But they look good and that is what Apple were aiming at.

I think we learn more about the assumptions of the complainer rather than who wrote the "witty reply". That and the spoiler can be applied to any number of people in government agencies who are meant to be taking precautions and setting up contingencies.

Well, I could go on a rant around their purpose and some of us would ultimately decide these files like so many others are actually just debris.

Instead I will say we can have a set of critters that cull them in various interesting ways. Critters that watch filesystems for these files and remove them if they still exist an hour after creation. Or remove them all on a schedule. Or block list them via .gitignore and similar. Sync scripts that have block lists for files and folders that match names. The solutions are endless.

This isn’t only a mac thing either. Other OS create their own variations of debris.

Draconian/authoritarian responses are becoming more common online. Offline in meatspace people are also becoming more guarded and wanting bans for all sorts of slights. These are not good signs for society in general.

Didn't know that fossil let you take everything. That's worth having.

These tools are worthwhile additions. Vscode is a important toolkit item for many. Just having it on multiple platforms is a useful common denominator that reduces friction.

Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences, as is often said.

Medium is a bit backwards. Their intention is to clean up commenting but all it really does is raise the bar of entry such that people often don't even bother regardless of intent.

A lot of medium posts/articles that should have opposing views as comments are often one sided echo chambers because of this.

Talking over background noise rapidly becomes quiet shouting especially in a club.

I think the guidelines almost need some "case law" examples. Although I understand why they wouldn't.

If you're wanting a lot of people to use your solution as you described, recognition of who is speaking could add a lot of extra possibilities.

Security is also an attitude and habit. So, failing at cybersecurity means they likely fail at other aspects as well. See also: security theatre.

What qualifies someone to be a Compiler Engineer?

Compsci degree? Working compilers? Opensource commits? Github repo full of parsers?

The problem with Jones is that he is like a Wheel of fortune. He mixes truth and half truth and everything else. Spin the wheel, reveal a truth, whether its true, nobody knows.

Then there's his previous(?) suboptimal opinion on Sandy Hook. That excessively muddied the water.

It worries me that most of tech was so quick to cancel his online presence. I prefer his type stays in the light rather than forcibly moved into the shadows. Real court jesters/tricksters exist to provoke the king using satire and humor and its a bad sign when they disappear into a dungeon, metaphorical or not. It would be interesting to see which "king" made the actual decision.

HDMI learnt nothing from the old db connectors like VGA. Try it with HDMI when the cable has to go in but you can't see the port. Get gud as they say.

You forgot to mention IEEE 488 which was both a great thing and the cause of many failed experiments. But I digress. Yeah I saw all those and a lot of others you didn't mention. Remember DIN connectors? They were nicely round, dimpled and standard. Didn't stop students plugging them in upside down. Students also plugged vga into 25 pin serial! Or 9pin serial for that matter. I've seen students try sd cards into usb then complain it didn't work.

You didn't address microusb or even its cousin the lightning cable. Talk to anyone who fixes phones and, after the screen or battery, those damned connectors are broken by design. Flimsy. They are D shaped but only barely. I can easily plug microusb in either way. Oops. Lightning breaks because you unplugged it too many times. Its not D shaped and works both ways. Still made-for-landfill.

Yeah, Usb was a game changer went it came out. Intel did that design for size, cost and just plain "ability to get it out there". Firewire didn't really pan out. Too expensive.

So many attempts at the perfect cable. They all work in their own way. USB A did ok in general.

Both of those came after USB 1, yes? So they would have that history behind them. A precursor can't be criticised for laying the foundation for better descendants.

Later usb dont have that defense. Those micro usb abominations have no excuse. They are just waiting to break and become landfill.

- Skid detection

- maybe early versions have dog/cat mode so the roomba is primed to expect this

- odor detection. Volatile gases.

I'd suggest color / visual but I'm not sure of the roomba's visual system or processing capability. I'm guessing not enough to run opencv or equivalent.

Considering plenty of chemistry can melt your face off or dissolve your lungs or otherwise make you disappear I'm happy that chemists have the sense to invoke formality and protocol in how they proceed. I'm guessing the better specimens are able to write their own protocols; know how they fail; know beforehand what is likely to happen and how to deal with it all. The lesser ones are likely ticking time bombs of rapid poisoning and spontaneous combustion.

"Look at the boring explosion. Did that entire hillside just vaporise? How boring!"

Said no one ever

I remember a chemistry teacher running around in panic because he dropped a sample of something (phosphorus or sodium ?) on his shoe and it was stuck. He had carefully taken it out of a small oil filled container. Smoke filled the room. His shoe was burnt and four classes surrounding that lab were evacuated.

If youre self employed and can't take a day off then you are running your business poorly.

Why? Because your disaster recovery plan hasn't been tested. Thats a significant risk.

That and your work/life balance is probably broken as well.

Or should be compelled to pay double time for anything over 40 hours. No excuses. Management need to learn how to actually manage. I'm looking at you games industry. Yeah I'll single you out but there are plenty of other examples. Theyre the ones who are angry reading this as they are repulsed by the waste of time.

Lets explore a few aspects, then...

If you're working more than 40 hours your "real world" suddenly involves much less community involvement. Your family has less time together. Interests other than work suffer. You probably don't have any civic involvement. Probably spending a lot of time in "junk time" activities. Sport/exercise is likely limited to squeazing in lunch time or other oddball times. A bunch of long term issues are likely chasing you even without your knowledge.

Everyone is different, I get it. Just don't think that 80 hour week doesn't have long term impacts. Hopefully the exchange is worthwhile to you. It had better be, you'll be paying 2x somehow in some way. And someone will receive the benefit of your lost time.

This quote in particular didn't excite me: "We removed humans (Homo sapiens) from the data set as they were listed with a maximum lifespan of 120 years, which does not reflect the variability and the true global average lifespan (60.9–86.3 years)."

Editing out data like that seems like fitting the data to expectations rather than letting it lead you based on its own trends. It doesn't do much good for the headline either.

I'm fairly sure that modern humans lifespans were shortened due to infant mortality rather than some aspect of the genetic clock. Its hard to keep average lifespan high when most of your children die due to disease and DNA doesn't have that many opinions relating to that and its view of maximum lifespan. If it did have opinions (unlikely) it would be simple enough: "lets find some individuals with some resistance to mix and make more of them". But requiring that DNA fit a narrative seems unnecessary.

I'd be someone who would have responded to the first HN comment about his workplace as "its a toxic environment, pack your parachute and get out."

I think life is too short to waste it sharing with toxic people. You are just withholding it from the good people. Tolerating political nonsense is a particular kind of fun or challenge for awhile but its really just an opportunity cost in the long term. Be clear about what you see as the benefit when doing so.

This doesn't mean you run from adversity but it does mean you evaluate adversity knowing that it still needs an actual benefit that exceeds its very real cost.

Not just (North?) Americans. Health insurance in general is overpriced due to multiple market distortions. Governments don't seem to want or, more likely, be able to fix this in a systemic way. So many vested interests.

Different areas/regions/countries have such different norms.

Where I'm from if someone said a property for sale had no power in the garage I'd be genuinely surprised and wonder what went wrong during the build. The same level of surprise as if there was no roof. Power in the garage is so useful. 240 volt power at a minimum as well. That level of expectation goes back several decades.

I don't own a Tesla or EV.