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There's a Dalek in a room on the lower left, looks like a kind of police booking room. Scooby and the gang are just above them.

This is a great comment.

Firefox used to _stand_ for things that internet savvy folks cared about, and at least some of that would trickle down to make even the non-savvy user's browsing experience better.

Seems like this is in support of "Firefox Suggest", which seems to show sponsored links. I really don't like advertising so I really don't like going down that road.

Can't they just take Google's yearly $600,000,000 payment and build the best browser "for the user" while also addressing technical debt and organizational issues so it can continue as an open source project if/when the money ever dries up?

My fault, I shouldn't have mentioned that because it's not my key point. Given animals that come in to be spayed, say in a large US city, how risky is spaying? Is it worth everyone paying $300 more to reduce it by a very small absolute percentage? Should vets actually be more up front about this than the ones I'm familiar with are?

50% survivability increase, but is that going from 2/10000 to 1/10000 deaths? My impression is that spaying is relatively safe, so how much are we willing to spend to get more 9's?

Edit: deleted distracting details that the comment below rightfully calls out.

DJs have timecoded vinyl records that do something like this, even allowing the DJ to scratch the mp3 that is being played.

Reading quick, it's because the tab is used to indicate nested tabular data in a column. I wonder why not just have a zsv in the zsv?

Glassdoor didn't make a reviewer's name public, that seems to be a persistent misconception, although there are still things to fault them for. This link is claiming that OpenTable is going to publicly associate first names and profile photos with reviews. This seems much worse, if we're comparing cases.

As a counterpoint, I really like that the whole puzzle is just a text file. It's simple, and as I mention in another comment, it reminds me of learning to program in my early days.

This may not have any other real purpose than to be a piece of art. Or perhaps it's aimed at a narrow demographic of kids who are already decent programmers. However, it's also entirely possible that others will create a whole ecosystem of "unofficial" tutorials and libraries/frameworks around it.

Happy to see this, I used to love coding adventure books as a kid, where you'd type in a BASIC listing and try to "hack the door" or play a simple video game. I love that this forces the reader to actually solve the problem by using a cipher, looking forward to tackling it!

I have aphantasia and wasn't seeing how it'd have a particular effect on FPS games, at least the ones I've played.

Crosshair placement for things like leading shots? Or more for building a mental map of where the enemy is likely to poke their head up? I would think these things involve spatial imagery/memory. I do remember putting a tiny piece of post-it note on my monitor to act as a red dot sight in Killing Floor, but my guess is that'd help anyone headshot zombies better, not just us aphantasics.

Spatial imagery (map knowledge) is unaffected, so I can't see what effect aphantasia would have here?

"It's based on the source code of Pixel Dungeon, by Watabou." I also played the original Pixel Dungeon, great game and bonus points for being free and open source!

I think the parent comment's fix is to not use btrfs and warn others about how risky they estimate it is.

Yep, although if we're worried about an adversarial Glassdoor, then the OP screwed up their opsec by sending their real name in the first place. Even for regular Glassdoor, it's in their email logs which might get leaked alongside anything else, anyway. Still should have the right to easily delete info, though, I'm not trying to blame the OP for being angry about that.

It sounds like they aren't doing that, from what the glassdoor rep wrote. It sounds like the author is concerned that, in the event of a data leak, that their name can now be associated with their reviews, instead of just their email address.

It's possible that different sets of people hold different opinions. I'm in the "build the people's browser" camp. I don't care where the $500 million comes from, but it doesn't seem to mostly go into Firefox development, and I wish it would.

I would think you could have a company focused on one thing; e.g., "making the people's browser" (with more explanation so the goal is clear). Hire people who believe in that goal. Make it relatively easy for people to leave so they're not tied to their job; e.g., generous severance, active help networking with other prestigious tech companies. Maybe even force people to take a break and work elsewhere for a couple years every N years before coming back, to keep people from getting stuck in a rut. Keep the company relatively small so that it _has_ a primary direction.

Ah, totally fair, I was thinking more about hardware than the OS stuff. On my side, I prefered the rear fingerprint sensor and plastic (lighter, less slippery) on some earlier pixels. Nexus 5 was my favorite, I think I'd be happy with new guts in that phone (although waterproofing is nice).

On the OS side of things, when switching between activities, very rarely my last activity is to the right in the carousel rather than to the left. Because I can't predict when it happens, I can't mindlessly switch to my previous activity, which is surprisingly annoying.

What do you hate about the Pixel 8? I have one and find it pretty good, although I'm a very casual mobile phone user (USA-based, on Google Fi). I like that it's at least slightly smaller than the Pixel 7.

I really like using Slurm, the documentation is great (https://slurm.schedmd.com) and the model is pretty straightforward, at least for the mostly-single-node jobs I used it for.

You can launch a job(s) via command-line, config in Bash comments, REST APIs, linking to their library, and I think a few more ways.

I found it pretty easy to setup and admin. Scaling in the cloud was way less developed when I used it, so I just hacked in a simple script that allowed scaling up and down based on the job queue size.

What do you like better and for what use-case? Mine was for a group of researchers training models, and the feature I desired most was an approximately fair distribution of resources (cores, GPU hours, etc.).

Could your manager have helped figure this out? Even if they can't change anything, it can be helpful to loop your manager in so they aren't surprised if a simmering conflict erupts down the road.

Agile isn't meant to imply speed in the sense of LoC/s, though right? The speed in Agile is about getting customer feedback sooner rather than later (so maybe a kind of latency?). I don't think sprints are mentioned in the Agile manifesto or related materials.

And even within frameworks like Scrum, I don't think that "sprint" was ever intended to mean that programmers are supposed to be in permanent crunch mode.

Are you sure json is faster than pickle in recent python versions? That's not intuitive to me and search result blurbs seem to indicate the opposite.

Same, been paying for it for years. I'll be canceling it when RIF dies though, this just feels too much like the beginning of the end.

I feel that this could be dramatized in the style of The Cuckoo's Egg, but with that IT dept playing the roll of the Russians. Maybe take a little literary license and make them a literal Cold War, Soviet-era KGB cell.

It seems nearly impossible to determine how a company or team operates from the outside. An independent organization that could categorize approaches to software development along different axes (and also share true salary/TC info) would be useful.

I don't know if it's a well-written makefile, but Python builds are straightforward, even with stuff like LTO enabled. Also sqlite.

Probably worth $50 when time is money but all I got were results I could have duplicated in GIMP, as someone who doesn't have a lot of experience with GIMP. It looks it just picks a font and an icon?