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These are federal jobs so all of the pay bands are public knowledge.

I mean Congress doesn't arrest people

I'm NOT a developer. I'm actually in tech support. I can write scripts, identify bugs in code, and am up to date on cloud and k8s, but mostly I don't write code, I debug systems, write up bug tickets, and deal with customer issues. Even with these less impressive skills I was able to land 3 offers above 150k base comp for TECHNICAL SUPPORT in the past month. It's still a seller's market for skilled people in tech. Yes you need to pump out as many applications a day as you can -- the vast majority will never get back to you, will ghost, or will freeze midway through the pipeline. But there are still plenty of offers going around and only so many people who can credibly do the work.

Yes the SMB space, and the MSP vendor space (aka "The Channel"), that sell through to SMBs, seem to have not missed a beat.

Well, 1) He publicly claimed it was his final terms, but there is no reason a board should not at least try to use any leverage they have to try to interrogate that claim.

2) The valuation is not the only thing the board and Musk need to agree to. There are break up terms, ability to accept a higher offer if one materializes, liability in case of funding breakdowns, antitrust assurances, etc etc. So again, any leverage is useful.

Surely the idea that a young motivated constituency used the most modern communication methods available to them to campaign for their preferred candidate, successfully moving the needle somewhat, is pretty mundane?

The only thing I can think of that NFTs could potentially add to Amiibos would be part of a form of DRM. The amiibo data is trivially piratable onto NFC cards, and there is a cottage industry of custom amiibo cards.

Still though, if you pirate you don't get the actual official figurine, there are certainly other ways to implement DRM, consumers hate DRM, and despite Nintendo's well known aggressiveness in litigating and preventing piracy, they don't seem to care about DRM on amiibos, apparently because the data is not the core value-prop.

Indie developers typically want to design, well, their own game. Their own vision, art, music, mechanics working in concert. I don't think anyone is dreaming of creating a showroom for a bunch of random other assets out there in the world. Asset-store flips are already considered jokes. Original, boutique art in an indie game will always win out and stand out.

They'd still need to do the work to implement every single item you are talking about. No indie would even want to do that. Nobody goes indie to work on compatibility drudge-work. Maybe if they are trying to jump on get-rich-quick financialization trend, but not if they want to actually work on their art.

Spotify may have deemphasized shuffling in albums, but they now force you to queue completely random algorithmically chosen songs with albums if you use the "Spotify Connect" feature to remotely control another endpoint.

So -- users streaming to say a Chromecast or smart speaker will get Adele's new album completely in the right order if they press the most prominent button, sure, but it won't end, it will add a jumble of tracks you didn't pick to the end of the album. I'm not sure it was worth the trade.

And no, if you are using the Connect feature you cannot disable this autoplay "feature" any longer. See many angry users here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/AutoPlay-Option-...

Sway itself may not use dbus, I think that's right, but a desktop workflow built around sway for day-to-day use will typically utilize DBus for e.g., pipewire, a notification daemon, xdg-desktop-portal (screen sharing) at the least. But you are right of course that these are not sway and you don't need to use them. A typical user would need to be motivated to actively avoid it.

If popular usage of a word drifts and the new usage is widely and unambiguously understood by most speakers in a target linguistic community, it is the folks writing articles in objection who do not understand its meaning.

It's not exactly blackout testing if the blackout testing itself is highly visible and gets positive earned media.

Having worked on the support side of this dynamic, mostly in problem and incident management, I have honestly seen 12 months of product roadmap completely blown up by stability issue after stability issue that our support staff could not possibly workaround. It's really corrosive to the morale of the support staff to just be unable to do anything to help.

In my case this was a relatively mature company on a version 2 reimplementation of an existing product, so it wasn't a complete death sentence. It eventually led to a complete house cleaning of CTO and product management in the end though. But, the company sure didn't fail!

The only expenses that could have gone down are commuting costs, and I suppose new 'work' clothing.

As someone who lives within walking distance of my office and rarely buys new clothing, I'm in the negative just without free coffee alone, let alone other amenities and increased costs at home.

In normal times, true. However unemployment insurance has been significantly boosted by the CARES act during the pandemic

I wish discussions of networth at these scales were more nuanced. If the stock of your company goes up 50% or whatever, but you can't exactly sell more than x% without tanking it or losing control of the company, it's just so much more complex than you're 50% richer.

This is not to discount that they're filthy rich, and certainly enough of it is liquid for them to buy in essence anything they want. So much discussion about billionaires in the press seems to discuss stock fluctuations as if they were cash injections directly into a bank account, which can't hold at those scales.

How much could Bezos actually liquidate tomorrow without losing control or tanking Amazon? That would be an interesting number. I don't have a clue

There are plenty of blue checkmark specialists in these fields on Twitter who are ready to go to critique and contextualize their field. Of course the issue on Twitter is A) finding them B) filtering the low effort and bad faith trolling in the replies.

Other than twitter, I'm not sure where else you can find that audience that is accessible to a layman.

I don't think anybody has masks to wear even if they'd like to. I certainly don't. The US surgeon general was also adamantly advising people not to buy masks over the past month. At this point, any and all masks are being redirected to hospitals, as there is a critical shortage. Paint shops in my local area have donated their entire supply to the local hospital -- the health department is encouraging people to hand sew masks to donate. If we had a surplus for every family, I'm sure things would look different.

A number of low power radio stations came online after the 2013 application window with the FCC. These are hyper local and often very diverse and essentially equivalent to word of mouth. My city has more than one, they cover the city limits and some of the suburbs. One in particular is full of music nerds playing their own niches for an hour or two every week. I do a show myself :)

I think it is besides the point for the risks of merging anything into Linux. He's right on that topic of course.

But it is a separate point he made about using zfs in general, and it's certainly not correct if you take one look at the activity in the zfsonlinux project on GitHub.

The etymology of a word is a useful signal but it should not be mistaken to be the definition in actual usage by speakers.

There's a lot less of it than non beach front land for one.

It also has pretty universal recreational purposes. People love to go to beaches and swim, sunbathe, picnic, surf, play volleyball, etc. I'm surprised it's utility is even being questioned, this is a very strong cultural norm.

This does not cause ambiguity to anyone. Its a distinction in search of a non-existent problem. The dictionary will change to follow our usage on this one, and we will lose nothing. Compound words become closed all the time.

That doesn't seem to track with the latest USGS numbers here. https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium...

Bolivia doesn't even chart for reserves (i.e., extractable right now). Have they brought significant capacity online in the last year since this report was collected?

For resources (extractable in principle) there are 62 million tons of identified resources worldwide, of which Bolivia has 9 million tons. That is a lot, about 15%, but certainly no where near 50-70%. Notably Argentina has 14.8 million tons.

I guess I'm just curious if there are better sources or if I'm misunderstanding the USGS report.

Disney acquired a team for this, BAMtech, which had successfully run the infrastructure for MLB, HBO Now, WWE, among others. Certainly none of those were near as large as this, but they should have had the experience to know what works without needing to bootstrap.

I don't doubt this statistic, but this is only an argument that we should find a way to better disincentivize drowsy driving rather than to soften the drunk driving laws. A few states have passed laws to penalize drowsy driving already.

Privacy as current corporate strategy is better than nothing, but it's not really good enough when you're talking about health data or other personal data that will still be highly sensitive for many 30-40 years on from now, when the entire board and leadership of the company and market will have changed in unpredictable ways. There's no true solution to long term uncertainty other than confirmed zero knowledge software and/or regulation.

A young teacher still getting their masters and fighting for tenure will probably put in some work, yes. Young people in any profession will try to get out ahead of their peers early on.

The idea that most teachers are attending conferences or blogging about teaching all summer is odd though.

I come from a family of teachers. My mother started teaching later in life, got her Masters and was hustling when I was a teenager. After a decade teaching, I don't think she spends even a minute thinking about school during the summer.

My dad is now retired and has probably the best sort of pension imaginable in this country. Certainly nothing like that safety net will ever exist for me. I can't really compare his experience though because it was a different generation of teachers. He was very involved with his union too.

Teaching just seems like a varied profession based on where you are. I hear and believe the talk about teachers being undervalued, underpaid, overworked etc. But my family has done very well for themselves back in NY, with a lot less uncertainty than a lot of other professions.

Has anyone publicly done the work to cite law/precedent to object to the fairness here? Certainly I can provide my own personal reasons, but citing law and previous settlements would bolster the case (and this specifically asks for it too)

In NY at least small and medium liquor stores would disappear quickly if their legal mandate disappeared. There's usually one right next to every supermarket, who would love to sell wine.