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Two ways I'm aware of. If your time at the coffee shop is regular (arrive at 3:15 because that's when your break is from work) they can place you with other regulars (you go there with your wife every day after work, you get dark roast and she gets a tea). Second if you're a black hole of privacy features and everyone else around you is not... well you get identified that way. Like herd immunity there is a risk if your behavior makes you an outlier.

Imagine for a moment though that they can't serve you ads directly. I wonder if anyone has done research into saturating adds in a coffee shop for all the patrons? Everyone sees the same add for the Dallas Cowboys and triggers a conversation about football. Now you didn't see the add but everyone around you is talking about football.

Dev in finance here, VBA gets used more than I care to think about.

Could be sea food.

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I believe his point is that these methods are contentious for various reasons (religious objection being an example) so they have been heavily scrutinized and where exceptions have been found so have explanations. While most engineering doesn't receive the same level of attention, even if it could.

Can you PM me the names of the books. My wife does a lot of that stuff and she'd either be very interested or insulted that I gave her more work to look at.

There's nothing wrong, but little good either.

You can't escape the rocket equation.

Symbolically destroying small amounts of resources and depriving yourself and family of a clean environment to essentially complain. Hmm maybe scorched earth is the better description of whats going on here? Salting the earth is done by the aggressor, scorching the earth is done by the retreating party. I think it still fits.

Not without precedent. Salting the earth?

Thank you for writing all this out. It is very exciting!

Hey Matthew, hey Rachael, you should open an office back here in Halifax!

Is this really free? Doesn't it just lower the efficiency of the AC unit?

The parent seems to be suggesting that a vegan diet didn't work for them for health reasons. But countered objections to this by saying that it's difficult. (Which it is. Stupidly difficult to eat meat, gluten and soy free in my experience) But convenience is a different argument from health. Which is it? If the issue is convenience, I concede. If it's health there may be room to explore other options.

Though I admit there is nothing inherently healthy about eating vegan (oreos are vegan and I've gained weight while still being vegan while learning how to bake) I'd argue that choosing a diet on the availability of fast food choices is an indicator of an unhealthy decision.

Bit late to the party but this is a valid question. There's a lot of focus on writing the code, but the system includes the non code components. Can the developer keep the code relevant to the organisation.

That's for stocks. You can always short and potentially have no limits for your loss.

How do you figure? If they can produce anything with automation what do they care if there's no one to purchase it? Value will be expressed in other ways. I could easily imagine the 1% or whoever completely controlling production and allowing everyone else to die.

That the maximum is a loss doesn't negate it's place as the maximum. They could do worse for themselves. A house could burn down faster.

Don't just go throwing around exponentials like that. That would be more fruit flies than could fit in all volumn of the visible universe. Most die, thank god. Little jerks after my fruit.

What a silly set of arguments. Exercise is literally empty time for you with no other benefit? Lets put aside the fact that you receive endorphin from almost any exercise you do. You can't go to the beach, rock climb, play with your kids/dog, etc.? No, must be productive all the time. Even if that was the case, it's quality adjusted lifespan that counts for most people.

You may break your wrist sure. In the same way that you may get wrist injury from typing too much. Exercise will reduce the likelihood of other injury.

It must be coupled with processes that guard against errors though. Defense in depth. I'd imagine the pilot has a tick sheet to go over before takeoff and fuel is an item on that sheet.

I see this quoted all the time and I wonder if it takes into account the total economic benifit of the individual. I'll conceed that an individual who lives longer will (on average) cost more in health care. I also believe it when I hear that lung cancer is a cheaper way to die than many other ways. But what about the lost 20-30 years of economic output that would have taken place if the individual lived? On top of that we see benefits that can't easily be calculated, like being able to leave children with their grandparents for care. Can't do that if they're dead.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but was Dijkstra not known for never actually using a computer. He wrote code with pencil and paper. There's a gulf between academic code and the needs of the day to day programmer. That said, I agree with his statement about one liners. Code should be parsimonious. It should never be a puzzle to understand what the code is doing.

That's incredible.

"A user with absolutely no Linux or terminal experience"

I can speak to this. Both my wife and roommate use ubuntu referbished laptops I supplied. Neither knows what a terminal is or how to use it. It just works(tm).

Retired folk are (or can be) still an economic benefit as long as they live. Consider the trivial case of a grandparent watching children so the parents can have time to recover. But obesity and smoking do not kill people the day they leave work for the last time, it kills people in their 40s with years ahead of them to be productive.

Good point.

Well either I suppose. For the subset problem as you say a filter critera can be applied while looping through the collection. And that should be it. Now if the question was multiple criteria I could see the solution diverging rapidly. If the filter can be expressed as a rank we could sort the collection first and then binary search through it to find the boundaries. I suppose I'm just trying to imagine some way an interviewee may turn that into two loops, or three loops... more?

I'm hard pressed to imagine how this couldn't be done efficiently. Do you have an example which correctly solves the problem but takes too long?

The only thing I can think of is something like the output rewriting an array on update over and over.

If you read the article a little more closely you can see that the author is showing that the issues arose from attempting to prolong the status quo instead of fixing the root cause. I'm not certain how you reached the collectivist approach causing problems narrative.

I do this. Almost exactly. Asleep at 11 pm, up at 5:30. Lazy on weekends.