dmoy

So far as I can figure, it would not haha. There's a reason why it's still just a hypothetical on my backburner of interview questions

But you have to think about something after hours of brio.

While similarly playing brio with a two year old, I thought about a different dimension not mentioned here - super loose tolerances make the search space really weird.

In true 2-year-old fashion, my kid would bend the rules as much as possible by literally forcing pieces to the edge of their tolerance to make things fit that shouldn't fit. 8 piece circle yea, cool, but with a sufficiently old brio set handed down for 40 years or whatever, you can totally make a 7 piece "circle" thing.

So I decided some day I'll craft an interview question out of that, to see if people can figure out a good way to map a set of pieces laid out with given tolerance ranges for piece, see if it can connect, etc. Haven't thought about it enough to really polish it for an interview, but some day.

Moore's law for 10-15 years was more like 20-100x ram sizes, not 2-4x.

Performance, storage, etc is definitely getting better, but it's a different scale of improvement

Free float rule was pretty low already for ftse, yea? Like we went through this with aramco still has free float under 3%, yet it's in vxus.

And the geography (especially in the more populated areas) is like 60-70% mountains and hills and shit. Australia has significantly more flat land for easy solar builds, with 1/50th the population.

Well for their sake hopefully it's just September and not Eternal September.

Sure, so what? If OP is a girl and is obviously writing an article about her own interests, what does it matter?

Wait beer in the UK is 11 quid per pint??? I know UK pints are bigger, but that seems really pricey

I am from the US and buy bags of sugar.

What else does sugar come in? If not bags? I don't think I've ever bought sugar in something other than a bag.

If you wanna be pedantic, the set of people who care about fast mpmc queues with bounded waiting is very very tiny across even the whole population of HN, let alone the broader populace. I would posit that <5% of HN even knows what mpmc queues are.

So of any statement of "<X broad group> just wanna have fast mpmc queues" should be obviously taken as a parody.

At which point... why rail on this?

It's a play on the classic pop hit song "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"

because you risk losing priority to someone else.

Historically not so much in the US, but yes now that the US has joined the rest of the world with a first-to-file system

Assuming "MANY years ago" is >15, then the US was still in a first-to-invent system

There are three ways I've seen it done, though it being Google I assume there's more

One is to try the bidirectional support with copybara itself, thought that usually requires more effort than it's worth.

Another is to have the external repo be the source of truth and then always import into google3. Kythe used to do this at least, though I gather it's not done that way anymore.

The third is to just replicate the patches externally (which is pretty easy to automate or semi-automate on a case by case basis), and verify that a re-copybara-export keeps zero diff

yea copybara is really for doing transforms in one or both directions.

E.g. translating from external bzl to internal blaze BUILD compatibility, changing between external imports and internal third_party style imports, etc etc.

If it's a pure mirror, copybara is super overkill

I think the latter interpretation is correct. As in digitaltrees runs a business that does not pay its employees a living wage, who then have to rely on food banks and housing assistance.

Same roads doesn't even control. If you lived in a town that e.g. changed the very local environment (say drained one specific swamp), the nearby roads my have less bugs for a very uninteresting reason

The risk isn't bank transfers to your bank for your mortgage. The risk is card skimmers at a gas station or whatever. The theft isn't when you pay your rent, the theft is something preventing you from paying your rent, due to some totally unrelated prior transaction.

I think the risk is higher in the US compared to Europe because Europe was way faster to roll out chip stuff, whereas in the US it's still somewhat common to have to use the mag stripe.

The main practical difference nowadays is that in the case of debit cards, you're out your own money for a few days, while with credit cards, the only thing that temporarily suffers is your open-to-buy/line of credit

Right, and this is GGP's main point

The risk to a debit card user in the US is higher because the money you need to pay your rent or mortgage may temporarily disappear due to fraud, and may take longer to resolve than your deadline with your landlord. When using a credit card, that risk is not on you.

It depends? It's certainly not gonna be more than you'd make as a SWE/SDE at a big tech company. But for semi diesel specifically you can probably clear $100k+/yr, so you might be making more than some entry level programming jobs that don't pay as well.

It's kinda like law. A mechanic doesn't make more than someone in the right side of the bimodal lawyer pay where 3Ls with the right clerkship or internship walking into a biglaw job paying whatever that is now ($200k?). But a mechanic might make more than the other tranche of lawyers fighting for the rest of the scraps who don't yet (and may never) have a good practice set up.

$500B is a lot of debt, it's comparable to the three largest car companies' debt.

It's still not super huge compared to the amount of debt in other industries, but I guess the thought is it's riskier?

Sure, but the net is that it imports like 30% of the electricity it uses.

Yes

CA only produces like 70% of the electricity it uses, they get power all the way from Canada not just WA

I resented being constantly 'corrected' on the local accent I was picking up from school as a child, but now I appreciate that an RP or close to RP accent turns down the difficulty slider in certain British interactions.

The accent bit happens in the US too, to an extent. Depending on the accent you grew up with, you get different responses from people in professional or professional-adjacent settings if you forget to switch the knob back to the more homogenized vaguely Iowa-sounding GenAm accent. This covers a gamut of other accents - regional or not (NE, aave, southern, val, etc).

But it's not nearly as bad as RP in England from what I gather - for one, a pretty decent chunk of the population would normally grow up with a GenAm accent with no forcing, unlike in England where it's a pretty hyper local <5% of the native population.

The real problem imo is that below 0% is really bad, and has the potential to spiral. So the fed does not target anything close to 0%, but instead targets some buffer above it.

So it's not that "2% is good", but more that "2% is the best buffer we've decided above the <0% super scary threshold"

I don't think that OP meant to say their wage income was low.

I think OP means that once their investment returns starts exceeding their wage income, their motivation for continuing to work drops.

Which, I kinda get. If you don't really like what you're doing, it's harder to stay motivated at continuing to work when your bag of money makes more money than you do.

It sounds like OP is already planning on some amount of return to work, which may be necessary because that exact point (investment returns > wage income) isn't necessarily a safe point to retire. But it might be, depending on how much you spend, and what your not-employer-funded healthcare costs are.

I mean, it depends on where you take your driving test. In a lot of places in the US (especially in some rural areas), you may still pass. In some cases you might not even drive near a stoplight during the test.

It's the torment nexus, which literally came out of a reaction to Facebook's rebrand to Meta

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

Ah hahah yea. Not too much need about hackers being prosecuted going around. Lot more news about hackers breaching companies though. Closure rate of law enforcement & prosecutors vs hackers has gotta be way under 1% lol.

Section 4 says to prioritize prosecuting cyber crimes. Not sure why they wouldn't already be prosecuted.

Not a whole lot of federal prosecutors. They're very selective about what gets pursued or not.

If they can't reliably build cases with a >90% success rate, it doesn't get prioritized. There's like <500 (federal) convictions per year on this whole area.

We hear about a few big famous ones in the news here, but most of it goes completely unenforced.

I mean, idk what's in your 401k fund choices, but in all mine I'd have to take serious manual effort to get in to QQQ or equivalent