The remote roles I have are all contractual. I mean, most companies want to save money — especially capitalism's capital — USA.
What's stopping startups and other mid-scale companies from hiring employees on a contract that is listed as a "contract role" and not "full-time"?
Regarding the time zone differences, I overlap pretty much with 8 hours EST. Also, most roles require you only to either overlap 4 or 6 hours, at least that was my experience. The point I'm getting to is, I could even overlap with PST hours healthily unless I was based in somewhere like Japan, Korea, or anywhere in Southeast Asia or Australia.
It's not so easy. The pattern you'd want to try and match or beat moving collectors is arenas, and they're really not trivial to use in C++ (or Rust). The only low-level language that supports them well is Zig. But even then, evolution of the program can often require large architectural changes.
So yes, in principle it's possible to match and perhaps somewhat exceed Java's performance in C++, even in large programs (just as, in principle, it's possible to match and exceed C++'s performance in Assembly), but we don't care about what's possible in principle; we care about what we can achieve with the budget we have. Or put another way, C++ has better performance/effort than Assembly, and Java has better performance/effort than C++ in large programs (perhaps not in all domains, but in important ones). The JVM was designed to (among other things) specifically make it easier to overcome some known performance problems that large C++ programs experience.
I don't think any such benchmark should exist. As long as the function only does one thing there is no upper limit. I have seen very clean codebases with a handful very long functions, but they were no issue she nice they only did one thing.
At that point you’re not playing the downloaded file. You’re either playing a transcoded version of it which will buffer as a computer tries to convert on the fly. Or you’re dealing with a network throughput issue related to the bitrate of the file you’re trying to remotely play.
Huh? Apple is literally working through legal channels, the article is pulled from the court filings which are public record. OpenAI is the one making blog posts.
Looking at the state of stomatology and medicine back then early velocipedes and bicycles were indeed mad. I wouldn't get on any of it earlier that sometime 1910s.
The "subsidy" (Einspeisevergütung) is a fixed price paid for power sold to electricity providers, for those who don't want the complexity of taking part in the energy market. It was supposed to accelerate the transition to renewable electricity production by making financing more predictable.
And it worked very well, as it started the global solar boom. Because it's not necessary anymore as an incentive, it's slowly getting phased out.
The Einspeisevergütung is not the reason why consumer electricity is expensive in Germany, though. That's more related to our grid.
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The British (including the American colonies) also did an arguably even more confusing calendar change in 1752, by switching the start of the new year from March 25 to January 1.
It does but it's not reliable. The update process is also the slowest imaginable other than Windows update. It takes several minutes at times just to discover which games need updates.
I said "never called them on their plausible deniability" to mean I never pulled off the veil of the conversation, so there's nothing to talk about in front of a judge.
FWIW both the company I was leaving and the company I was joining were startups selling dynamic seat pricing systems to airlines. Your call if that's a conflict of interest :).
For sure. I was thinking more of "normal" applications, as opposed to things like SQL databases. It looks like the SQL standard explicitly calls for the use of the Gregorian calendar for dates, so I think that answers the previous question of "Who else uses the proleptic Gregorian calendar other than programmers of datetime libraries?"
It’s correct that NPM is not unique but it is the worst for cultural reasons: no other ecosystem started with such a limited language, which lead to the culture of publishing tons of small packages working around things which everything else had builtin. A Python project which has a hundred dependencies is considered quite large but the median React project had north of 30 thousand for years and years.
I do not recall ever hearing of an organized effort to ban ads. These days, good luck getting bipartisan agreement, especially with all the dark money in politics being legalized and normalized.
That said... The modern internet is built off many free services paid for by people who buy stuff from ads. It is hard to imagine a world without ads - many sites and services would disappear. Hosting costs money.
I could see a dystopia without ads where a government provides free hosting for citizens. That quickly becomes "thought police" when an authoritarian leading head of state comes in. If we pretend like that will not happen, I think we would have a much more wonderful internet.
> In essence, then, those ten days in 1582 never happened and simply do not exist within the Gregorian calendar system used almost universally in the West today.
I find these things so much easier to think about if you consider the change as a change from one calendar system to another calendar system. Those 10 days certainly exist, in both calendar systems, they just represent different points in time. I.e., I think it's easier to just consider both calendar systems as the rules, extended forward & backwards infinitely ("proleptic"). Some people switched from a Julian calendar to a Gregorian one in 1582.
If you worry about the switch, then you have to ask "which switch?" which TFA only lightly touches on. The 1582 one is famous, of course, but not everyone switched, and other parts of the worlds switched as time went on, to as late as 1918, when Russia switched.[1] (And you can see other messiness in that table, too.)
Needing to deal with it is niche enough that I think most language std libs should implement the proleptic Gregorian calendar, and let an application whose niche requires it deal with the switch (& whichever switch it requires).
I don’t know where you’re drawing your conclusions from but they literally have messages from the OpenAI exec laughing at how he can still access data at Apple and talking about copying it, as well as messages encouraging candidates from Apple to bring unreleased prototype hardware to demonstrate during interviews.
A book I highly recommend, but personally found distressing to read, especially the chapter on the strategy of targeting civilian populations, which continues to haunt me.
TBF, if an evil SPECTRE-level corporation with global tentacles and Tolkien-inspired omniscience can't manage to quash some bad PR on Hacker News, none of its prospective customers would take it seriously.
Thanks for the reply. I agree with you that humans are animals and also part of nature. I don't think there's an implied put down of animals or nature in the poem. I think the author was talking about how meaningless and tragic human endeavors are, such as war, when framed against the rest of nature. While (some) animals would briefly miss us -- and yes, some would struggle to live without mankind, having become dependent on us -- this would be brief, and nature would continue without us.
What's stopping startups and other mid-scale companies from hiring employees on a contract that is listed as a "contract role" and not "full-time"?
Regarding the time zone differences, I overlap pretty much with 8 hours EST. Also, most roles require you only to either overlap 4 or 6 hours, at least that was my experience. The point I'm getting to is, I could even overlap with PST hours healthily unless I was based in somewhere like Japan, Korea, or anywhere in Southeast Asia or Australia.