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In earlier life, I authored this exact product (including distributed deploy) for a large investment bank and a fintech startup :)

This is immensely valuable to a lot of Python devs, especially in finance/quant community. Great work!

Edit: The reason why this is so impactful is b/c most users have no idea how to build a react app (along with the circus of build/deploy train one typically entails). They just want a quick-and-dirty UI for their Python model they developed in Jupyter or similar. If the model has legs, a separate FE dev would build a fancier front end later.

It is quite plausible that Russia would try to take down parts of Ukraine internet given everything going on.

Alternatively, could simply be someone fat-fingering things, given the insane numbers of blocks that RosKomNadzon has been putting in today (Facebook, Twitter, etc)

This reads like a machine that has DEP enabled and getting locked remotely ;)

On a more serious note, I ran macs on multiple occasions without an AppleID - it presents maybe one nag a month, usually when you accidentally open “Messages”.

Microsoft, sadly, has also been increasingly more annoying with pushing online accounts on people’s machines lately.

Who needs SWATing when you can send a CP pic (either real or with hash collision as per the thread few days ago) from a virtual overseas number/service and get FBI van to show up as well?

What about injecting code into a public website to download same pic into local browser cache without user’s knowledge?

The simplicity of the attack vectors here that would trigger the “manual” investigation is just dumbfounding and ripe for abuse/misuse.

Is there a more appropriate word to describe this? Honest question as a non-native English speaker.

Seems like this is a commonly used term/usage: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/us/amp...

The original is a delight to read. Sadly, I can't help but wonder how many would be "triggered" by the answers today.

How do we, as a society, start accepting rational self-criticism again?

Apple watch gives a moisture warning if the speaker port has water inside. Happens often after swimming or running in rain.

Russia already has law in works to make possession of StarLink hardware illegal. There was some coverage in January: https://m.slashdot.org/story/380606

I took an iPhone X into a 3 foot deep swimming pool to take an underwater selfie (don’t ask, not the proudest moment) and it promptly died - apparently if you drop the phone, the water tight seal has a tendency to fail “silently”. Caveat Emptor :)

Thankfully, AppleCare was in effect and it got replaced for a small deductible.

Great to see gadgets standing up to being used as opposed to needing to be cradled and soothed all the time!

Speaking about at least NYC, the nightclub prices have gone just a little bit too nuts right before Covid - think $2k for a table for 4 with a single bottle of ($30 dollar) vodka. $25 mix drinks were a norm.

Combined with lack of innovative artists and ever-increasing homogeneity of style (do I sound like a grumpy old man yet?), clubs seemed to have been racing towards a peak. Smaller venues were suddenly cooler, cheaper, and more interesting.

That’s exactly right, but doing so makes the process much more illiquid.

Who would control the listing of a company’s shares? A startup can choose to simply not make itself available. Similarly, most employees overlook things like right of first refusal that their parent cos have over their shares.

This is an awesome development, if it can also be used to push for more standard, employee-friendly shareholder agreement terms.

Mercedes has a good demo video about current state of this tech (EU only) - when you drive a car with it, it’s literally magical. Alternative tech uses a projector-like screen with 4K resolution, allowing for very precise light control.

Here is a demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0OJjvYPV3oc

The laserlights, like ones marketed by BMW, are not shining the laser outward into the world - they use them to warm up phosphor which in turn produces “regular” light. In a sense, it’s somewhat akin to an old school incandescent bulb, but using much less energy. In US, laserlights are reduced power due to regulations

Arrangements like this are much harder in US because 1) by default there is no health insurance if you’re a contractor, and obtaining your own is incredibly expensive and 2) there are also pretty complex tax implications of being a contractor; there are many other factors as well.

It also puts a candidate at a disadvantage, because looking for a job is heavily one-sided burden.

On a personal level, as both (occasionally) a candidate and a senior hiring manager, I always wonder about white boarding - i believe it works when the interviewer is looking for your thought process, and not code specifically. For example, something as simple as saying “I don’t expect this code to compile” at beginning of interview immediately puts candidate at ease and let’s you understand their logic and not the ability to recall specific function signatures on the fly.

Resumes are much harder to enforce, so they tend to be juicier. But if someone comes in and starts spewing clearly proprietary stuff, its a huge red flag during hiring.

Yes. In finance, pretty much all you do is proprietary and all opensource work must be painfully precleared, so most of GHs for people are empty.

Most companies (even megabanks) also have strict rules what you can and can't put on your linked in.

A resume is therefore crucial.

+1 on spelling. Having gone through thousands of resumes, I've seen some hilarious things. I'd never take away points for a couple of errors, but blatant ones are definitely a turn off.

Also, a public service announcement: if you were leading a project in the past, its "led", not "lead" :)

Hi Steve, nice to see you on here and doing well! :)

My first thought was Athena as well, but it could be Quartz (it started in 08-09 at BaML, vs Athena starting in 2006).

Both Citi and Barcap also tried (albeit to less success than JPM/BaML) to do similar things.

With that said, For those unfamiliar - at least two major banks run insanely large production python installs across thousands of developers. Core skills (nowadays) are python and react - and yes, we’re all actively hiring :)

All of the large banks also have pretty good open source initiatives - just check out github repos for JPMorgan, BaML, or GS. We have also been active participants in Pycon (key sponsors and doing sessions, like Steve’s) since at least 2009.

Instead of writing an uninformed and clickbait article that plugs author’s startup at the end, a simple email to GH support would have sufficed.

A new set of wheels for your average Honda or Toyota costs just about as much. I want these and I don’t even own a Mac Pro. ;)

United just posted their updated rules and that’s exactly what they’re doing - you can call in and request adjacent seats. Otherwise it’s one apart.

Open a document and go to "Review" ribbon and then click "Compare...".

You can do "Combine" which is effectively a merge interface.

Word already has a diff view implementation that is pretty robust - it’s very useful for figuring out what changed across manually-versioned documents. This is in addition to classical track changes feature.

Adobe Acrobat also has a diff (including visual diff) feature that can be used to do advanced comparisons if necessary.

Granted, author’s suggestion is more user friendly and integrated.

As a bit of an aside, it is surprising how concise and to-the-point each of the articles (points) are. Compared to contracts written in modern legalese or your typical website TOS this looks almost "dumbed down" and yet it was one of the most important documents of 20th century. Perhaps we're overcomplicating things a bit today?

(ps: native Russian speaker here, but the German version looks similar.)

I feel that many of these pseudo-secure, proprietary enhancements to email create a false sense of security for non-tech-savvy users. Given the smoke-and-mirrors presentation of this as a way to "secure your email^tm" and the plethora of recent info leaks, i am sure some poor c-level exec will get caught inadvertently sharing something with an external recipient thinking that it will disappear in a few days, but then find themselves in a middle of a publicity nightmare.

In my utopia world, i'd love to see basics of information privacy and personal security be taught in schools akin to Driver's Ed or Sex Ed classes.

Cards can be pulled physically but not replaced without changing out hardware associated with telenav units. See: https://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1149540

There are three components to my knowledge. below is my anecdotal knowledge so pls verify if needed :)

- remote car monitoring/bmw connected app. this can be tweaked (its off by default) via idrive. I believe there is also some anonymized sharing with "parknow" and real time traffic apps.

- maintenance notifications. this is on by default and can be disabled in bmw's new "my car" website. They also send you a postcard letting you know its on periodically.

- "sos" services - I would call BMW and ask to have it turned off (its on by default). The signing of the doc might be depending on the state you're in. Mine's NJ reg, but NY dealer.

If BMW ever shares the location data with third parties other than police, I would have major issues with all of this.

To answer sibling post, SIM cards are located inside the Navi computer, which is a big gray/black metal box behind one of side access panels within the trunk (or under trunk for most sedans). BMWs can also be coded (google that- dealer wont do it) to not use SIM data completely. If you truly want teleservices disabled, find a friendly BMW modder shop adept at coding and they'll help you void your car's warranty :)

Having recently gotten a new BMW (in USA), they give you a huge packet of about 30 pages explaining the BMW TeleService and the "SOS" button. They also make you sign a power of attorney-style doc giving them rights to notify police in case they believe your vehicle is in trouble and provide police/EMS with its exact location.

Mercedes and Audi have similar systems, as do others via OnStar. This is one of few cases where i believe having an "oh shit" button/system that automatically activates in case of serious accident or another event is valuable.

EDIT: oh, and this is entirely opt-in, at least on BMW.

Perhaps they're turning to group chats and imessages? Any meaningful use of instagram, snap, or similar platform introduces ads into your "friend news stream", whereas simplicity of whatsapp or similar platform avoids them, while preserving fluidity of communication.