murph-almighty

I think the UK has been handling their end shockingly well, fwiw

We have standardized tests, already, nationwide.

And voting is legislated by individual states, that would theoretically implement their own standards though this may be intervened upon by the federal government). Heck, even standardized testing for students is done at a state level. The SATs/ACTs are privately administered. What example of a nationwide standardized test for literacy do you have?

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

The problem (like with voter ID laws in the US) is that it's a very slippery slope to voter suppression, and in the US we have a very creative history when it comes to voter suppression. You'd have poll workers who would present incredibly hard passages to read to voters based on a personal judgement call (read: black voters).

I (not OP) agree that dumb people voting is a problem but the alternative is to have arbitrary suppression of votes, which IMO is worse.

What state do you live in, and what is the density of your neighborhood (e.g. urban, suburban, rural)?

I've similarly wondered if I could get a pre-2024 Wikipedia if just for the "fact based" flavor LLM

It's beyond disgusting to me that the "News Bias meter" on the bottom of the article claims this is "unfairly" biased towards the left. Just because it doesn't reflect well towards your side doesn't mean it's biased.

My pet conspiracy theory is that leetcode is used to exploit imposter syndrome in candidates. After going through an hourlong session where you came up with the less-than-optimal but correct solution, I think it's easy for the interviewers to seem "disappointed" and lowball the candidate with a worse position/salary.

I think this partially explains the phenomenon of external candidates at Google entering Google at the college-hire tier when they may have been repeatedly promoted at their prior employer. Of course the comp is usually more so it's not a big deal...

My heuristic: If you have 5 or more arguments, you should use a config object.

I always got the impression that downdetector worked by logging the number of times they get a hit for a particular service and using that as a heuristic to determine if something is down. If so, that's brilliant.

The one true hybrid work model for tech (in my opinion anyway) is to just have everyone meet in-person in some cadence for sprint planning/PI planning/whatever your cycle is. Everybody syncs up every so often, and then you leave everyone the fuck alone while they go work. Zoom can handle one-off meetings for pairing or other quick questions, but planning out work/carving out architecture solutions is something better done face to face.

I've been more and more of the opinion that hobbies are what drive our sense of meaning and no so much work, but occasionally it's hard to remember that when you're dealing with the shittier aspects of work (for me recently, debugging infrastructure issues with limited visibility and just no progress at all).

We (mostly) make enough money to do pretty well, might as well use it to enable ourselves to enjoy _something_ in life. For a while it was improv for me, now it's more powerlifting, but literally anything you can enjoy that's not work.

I should clarify, the point is to not discriminate against a protected class.

It's common in fintech for data/ML models to go through similar overview. If you happen to disenfranchise a set of people because your model said not to lend to them, you risk legal jeopardy.

To clarify, I think it's good that this is a practice.

I think what OP is saying is that documenting the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere does nothing to actually remove it, and hence is of little value to anyone except whoever invested in the company and makes money licensing the software.

It's called piracy via a box set up in Eastern Europe and a Plex server.

Maybe a total coincidence that I read this morbid news on South Korea while I've started watching Squid Game, but watching a show that's effectively an allegory of capitalist decline in South Korea makes this news not surprising.

One perk I've enjoyed with error verbosity is the ability to spit out different logs depending on where in the function you've failed. I'm not super familiar with the shortcut being described but if I could do something like:

```x := potentiallyBuggyFunction ? genericErrorHandler("log message here", http.StatusNotFound,...)```

Where the `?` is kind of like a null coalescing operator, it might help?

The lay down movement is the start of this, imo.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Actually though this is a fucking big brother atrocity of a policy that people will inevitably circumvent and the government will pick and choose when to enforce.

Comedy Central runs a Youtube series where comedians talk about their drug trips, and the DMT ones always seem INTENSE. It seems like if you take enough you basically check out of reality for a while, wondering if that's true/what your experience was?

My parents will still try to pay for me sometimes, but my mom has venmo now so I can at least fire her whatever my costs were.

For all the weird shit I put up with in my family, at least money doesn't really come up as an issue in that sense.

Data transfer isn’t a finite resource like oil or gas.

Clearly you haven't seen those crappy limited data ISP contracts floating around. It's an issue for some people.

It could be that you haven't added the domain they're served from onto your blacklist.

A weird side story: I had a situation where an app on my Roku TV would crash if it failed to serve an add from a blocked domain (there were several but they mostly pointed to google ad domains). I actually _had_ to allow ads from the domains they called.

So these "information requests" could be, say, checking a user's IP to track fake news?

I tossed in a screenlock and my screenshot tool and loved it. I did miss the f* keys though, I just wish they'd kept them.

There are jobs, plenty of jobs, and yet somehow no one filling those roles.

Never mind that they're underpaying... or that we lost half a million people in the labor force...

Hi, was interested in applying but I'm out of the specified timezone. It might not hurt to mention you're looking for UTC+0 to UTC+12 here on the posting.

With that said, the product looks cool. Best of luck!

That said, I am also shocked by how many full time developers don't take the time to understand their own code. Let alone the libraries they use.

So many STLs are fucking unreadable. Golang's is the only one where I've actually enjoyed it a bit.

I would be quite a turn up for the books if this AI co-pilot gets suddenly and dramatically better in 2030 and it negatively impacts the software engineering profession. "Hey, that's our code you used to replace us!" we will cry out too late.

And that's why I won't be using it, why give it intelligence so it can work me out of a job?

Let the HK brain drain begin. If the US were to open their doors a little more to Hong Kong immigration you'd see a lot of those supposed "shortages" in science and tech disappear.

Clearly China has no interest in maintaining Hong Kong as a livable place, so we might as well help out the people who recognize they're tumbling towards an authoritarian hellhole.