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They don't have to be exclusive to appear exclusive. You can find the same conversation popping up all the time about people being snobby about the color of their chat bubbles. "Think different" may as well mean "think like everyone else" today, but the company is built on that messaging and people eat it up.

Boeing believed they shipped it as a standard feature, and included it in the plane's the manual. They found out in 2017 that it wasn't working. After their shitty planes start falling out of the sky they turn it on for the loudest customers, keeping what was intended to be standard now a premium.

Which part of this shitty behavior exactly are you trying to defend?

I'd like to see where that 70% of job growth being from California comes from. Not that I'm trying to be argumentative, but seems to be wildly unlikely.

The top "growth" in terms of average number of employed increase doesn't seem to back that up:

https://www.governing.com/topics/mgmt/gov-states-strongest-j...

In terms of raw job additions it looks like it goes: Washington, California, Texas with all similar raw numbers.

https://www.deptofnumbers.com/employment/states/

Does the "you are no longer logged in" screen not infuriate anyone besides me? There doesn't seem any purpose to it just redirecting you to the landing page when you were trying to access a forum post that doesn't even require you be logged in.

Absolutely mind boggling with as much as they pay people they do something so stupid and haven't changed it after so long.

Basically any computing device as well since all the processor manufacturers have defense contracts.

Interestingly there is a rendering of what appears to be a Predator drone on the AMD website:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-aero-defense-soluti...

I don't understand this. Were you afraid your stove was a weapon in disguise?

I think there might be fewer people who actively seek them out, so competition might be similar to any other job. I know a common sentiment I see spread around to would-be remote workers is that you need to work on-site for a while and then be given the chance, which isn't always the case.

This is just me speculating though. I had no issues finding a fulltime remote gig but I think it might be more common for people like me in the DevOps/cloud area than strict developers maybe.

I believe Artifactory proxies and caches PyPi as well via remote repos.

Well we would never know the answer to these questions, and more, unless we looked.

Maybe there is no causation or relation, maybe there is, what is the issue with finding out?

I'm sure at one point studying many of the attributes of what makes a serial killer were considered with the same contempt.

I mean that is a significant reason mobile development is fragmented. Some things have to be tailored for the device if you want any kind of mass appeal or reliability.

I think it would be a huge mistake to NOT tailor a specific experience for a Linux phone since it would then be doomed to obscurity (more than just by fact of not being Android or IOS) like the million Linux desktop distributions that never "just get it" out of the box for 99% of people.

This article made me wonder, if overnight everyone switched to electric vehicles what would happen to the coal industry? I'm not advocating for either, but would we see a significant resurgence? I'm unsure if electric vehicle use is factored into the daily requirements for places that are ramping up renewable energy...and if not I can only assume the requirement for every household charging their cars is massive.

I tried doing what the OP described, become some interesting blogger person, but threw in a 2 or 3 line article about some mundane error I had with a tool one day mixed in with all the other wordfluff.

Surprisingly the error code drew a ton of traffic compared to anything interesting I could have possibly thought about writing.

I would have done the same thing.

It doesn't mean there is a law granting us permission to do so, which was the part of the comment I replied to that I took issue with.

Its just something that is gray and we have to do when we need to.

It is the same logic as the, "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by 6" crowd, interestingly.

You don't get the right to speed due to an emergency. Call an ambulance.

To your other point, it is not "flouting the other" law (yield the passing lane) if its 1 person doing 100 mph trying to pass you. The law is in respect to the "normal" flow of traffic, not the fact that any one person is trying to go faster than you.

This is what I was looking for, and I truly believe you are completely wrong as well.

I follow the line of thinking that includes utility software and backend services/platforms as described here:

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

Hence, the word has different meaning from person to person. So there is no wrong, or at least it exists on a spectrum, and everyone complaining about the original comment's word choice is just jerking their ego off.

Maybe it would be easier for both of us if you wrote the definition for real-time or systems programming, rather than just saying something isn't one or the other.

Enlighten me, please.

https://www.aicas.com/cms/rtsj

http://blogs.windriver.com/wind_river_blog/2017/05/java-on-v...

Real-time programming can be done in any language, Java for example.

I think you're conflating writing device drivers/kernels with systems programming, which includes those things but is not limited by them.

Regardless, the term's meaning can't be lost if its apparently this hazy.

Go is a systems language. The term isn't confined to device drivers. It includes platform/backend software such as web servers and things like message queues or the Docker ecosystem.

The term is nebulous though.

The author says as much. The title is clickbait, but the article basically says you're locked into AWS no matter what, and arguing over stuff like Lambda lock-in is pointless considering the other avenues AWS already has you on (like IAM).

I wasn't talking about sales tax, only yearly tax filings. Anything that is on an itemized tax return should be moved elsewhere into programs specifically for giving money for that instead of being given a coupon off of what you owe.

If there is some reason you report produce on your tax documents then no, it should not be there.

The point is they aren't all based on societal good. The ones we use as individuals and like might be, but how many corporate tax incentives exist that are bad for everyday people?

It shouldn't be the IRS's business to reward people. If there is a reward for doing X then there should be a fund specifically for giving money to people in those scenarios completely independent of taxes.

Its much more transparent to say "we have a fund for X, mail us the required proof and we will send you a check", then it is to add layers and layers to the tax code. That also means everyday people are aware of what our representatives are arguing about and the dollar amounts being held responsible for the programs.

Then we get simple taxes without all of the itemizing nonsense.

I'm in the camp that there should be no incentives for taxes for anything. Similarly there should be no difference in filing married vs separately or with children.

To me it just feels wrong to incentivise living a certain lifestyle by getting a discount at just existing. It is great when it incentivises the things you want, such as hybrid cars or something, but what would happen if someone wanted to give you a discount for purchasing gas cars when they become less common because of relations to the oil and gas industry?

Or maybe tax incentives for purchasing private telecom service if/when municipal networks ever become commonplace?

If you they can lower tax liability for a certain amount why not lower it to the actual level needed across the board instead of keeping some cushion to give away coupons?

I think it is important in the context of what people are trying to use NNs for. Most of the time it is some type of classification, in which case there is always a chance it will be completely wrong in the sense that anything other than the expected output is not correct in any way.

Which leads into unknowingly building NNs that are actually building classification networks and not realizing approximations might not fit into your model.

My dentist gave me two options for removing my wisdom teeth a few years ago, 1: go to a dental surgeon and be put under, 2: have some kind of anesthesia but not be "asleep". I chose #2. It was some sort of concoction that, if I remember correctly, was only meant to stop me from remembering the pain/experience.

I don't have the paperwork but I've always been curious what is was that he gave me/if it was common practice. Also, if it was purely a sort of amnesia, was I in excruciating pain during the time?

I have since moved away and not been back to a dentist. If it is common, I can only imagine the stupid things I would have said or done during the procedure since during the onset I remember being extremely high. It kind of made me embarrassed to return the couple of times I did only because I don't remember what I could have done.

Physical infrastructure isn't going away anytime soon. I work in migrating people to public cloud and we are seeing a resurgence of people moving to "private clouds". Mostly vMware and OpenStack. Most people have begun realizing their CTOs cargo-culted AWS for their resumes and its costing more than owning DC or colocating does.

I'm on a remote team as well that primarily uses Webex. It has kinda been the gold standard for me. Lately the audio has been declining and we started to use the Slack calls more often, which have been fantastic especially with the drawing tool. Other than drawing, voice, or screenshare is there something Zoom does that has made remote work easier? Or are you referring to better in terms of reliability and usability?

I've seen sharing Plex libraries from people who couldn't close a pop up on Facebook lately.

Not to mention all the side-loaded Firesticks with Popcorn time.

The problem with this is Netflix appeared as a one stop shop. That was what people wanted. Now that the streaming market is splintered you need 3 services for all the content a typical person wants to see. I can see this contributing to a comeback of pirating. Now the primary reason for keeping Netflix around are its originals which I don't think will keep people on the hook as they continually bump the subscription tiers.

I've been thinking it will only take a couple more subscription price bumps. I've already lowered my subscription to the lowest available and will likely just get rid of it altogether in favor of other means of procurement. If they inch towards the 20$ mark for basic I think they will start to decline.

I've already seen many people who I would never believe could pirate anything reliably turn to sharing Plex libraries.