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What the actual fuck is a "post delivery abortion"?

> Most employees are paid a flat base salary of about $300,000 alongside a yearly grant of around $500,000 in PPUs, or profit participation units, a form of equity compensation. And that's it.

That's a whole lot of it. If I'm making $800k a year, I'm going to care very little how much everyone else is making. I definitely feel appreciated and valued at that scale.

Windows is just full of hostile, anti-user patterns these days. I've considered building a windows box just to have a gaming rig multiple times over the last few years, but every time an article like this or their crusade against Chrome reminds me that Bill Gates is still the same anti-trust monster he was in the 90s.

It's almost as if that whole "small goverment" line has been a canard the entire time

For a while, I had an Automator script that would set my desktop to the APoD even night. I need to go resurrect that. It was so much better than just accepting the default all the time.

When I taught algorithms, I had 2 or 3 textbooks students could buy if they really wanted them, but there was no required textbook. I provided students with detailed slides and lectures notes covering the course material. I would try to find a handful of websites and videos I had vetted covering the topics using the same terminology as we used in class, or with a note explaining the difference.

Not only did it mean students were not stuck with a surprise bill for a book they'd rarely use, but it also meant I had more freedom to teach what and how I wanted. Since I was teaching it with a focus on being a day-to-day developer, I put in my own section on await/async style coding and optimizing chains of dependent asynchronous calls. It was one of my favorite sections as it was exactly the sort of thing I would actually do in my job.

Hah! I can break it by accusing it of pretending to be the Basilisk. It always returns a SERVER_ERROR

He hasn't heard about this. His ears are clogged full of private equity funds.

$615 million dollars seems like chump change for 9 million counts of identity fraud. I recently read a story where the local DA in Portland charged a homeless man for identity theft for stealing a wallet. He hadn't tried to represent himself as the other person; he literally just had the wallet and ID.

Yet again, turns out it's OK if you're a corporation.

My initial question:

> Write me a generic type in typescript that takes a record from string to any and returns a record with all top-level keys prefixed with "test_"

Even after a lot of coaxing and correcting, it still would only attempt to prefix the values. Finally, it landed on a generic that was essentially the identity function for Record<string,any> with typos. Every time it included a demo snippet it claimed showed how its code word work. To give it credit, the example input and output were correct given my prompt, but the provided solution did not generate those results.

I cannot tell if I'm the victim of Poe's law right now. If this is satire, it is brilliant. If it's not, I highly suggest taking a long hard look in the mirror.

Who is the adulterous woman here?

Edit: the above quote is from NASB Proverbs 30:20.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, And says, “I have done no wrong.”

Wow, that's quite the leap. Peacefully attending a public gathering in yellow shirts with printed slogans is nowhere near the violent insurrection perpetrated on Jan 6, 2021. You are approaching "Hitler was a vegan" territory.

The right to ignore someone else is not the right to have police arrest and remove them without charges because you don't like the opinion they're expressing. That's fascism.

It probably negatively impacts your post-tax income. All of that showy opulence has to be paid for by someone and I'm pretty sure Chuckie Threes hasn't worked a day in his life.

Fact: it's undemocratic and downright naive to choose your leader based on who came out of the previous leader in what order.

Fact: it's undemocratic to arrest people without charges, especially when it is just for expressing displeasure at the current government.

This looks like it got some sort of silent ban hammer. It went from high on the first page to nowhere on the first 4 in about 15 minutes.

I don't care how many downvotes I get. An article about discrimination against marginalized groups in tech was flagged by "TechBro8615" because he is sick of "sociopolitical drivel." You can't make this shit up.

This is Hacker News distilled into a single article. If someone pitched this to The Onion, they'd throw it back as being too on-the-nose.

Thanks for reminding me that Tech Bros still do exist. I don't miss them.

It's not that 20% of those laid off were from minority groups. It's that 20% of the company was laid off and they're all from historically underrepresented groups in tech.

The Spark EV was one of the best vehicles I have every owned. Quiet, snappy, fun to drive, easy to park, and surprisingly roomy. I lost count of the number of times passengers were shocked by the rear doors. It did everything I needed it to do to exist in the bay area.

It's not just through 3rd grade anymore. It's all the way through the end of high school.

https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-education-board-ap...

My point was that everything they were they were trying to patent was an obvious trick of the trade. They were trying to patent thing along the lines of: generate->filter->rank. It's how basically any recommendation engine works and has been described in numerous existing patents.

But I tried not to be a jerk at all. Every time they asked me about a different aspect of the system, I could just say something like, "We used standard software engineering techniques using an algorithm built in to [common language] to sort things here. It's a fairly common approach to this sort of problem." After a statement like that, the patent lawyers had very little to pull on. They'd move on to another aspect and I'd give a similar answer.

When you open the bottles, it's just beer vapor.

I check for it every few months. If they do publish it, I plan on filing a challenge with the PTO. It has now been long enough that I don't think it will be published.

When I was at one of the FAANGs, the corporate legal people wanted to make a patent for a recommendation system I was the tech lead on. They called me into a room with two patent layers for a disclosure meeting. In general, I have an issue with software parents, but I definitely didn't believe our work was patentable since everything seemed like an obvious extension of standard practices to me (think agents reaponding to events).

I then proceeded to spend the next hour telling the lawyers that there is nothing novel in our system, that all of the connections and features would be obvious and intuitive to anyone familiar with the trade of software engineering, that all technologies in the system are common practices, and just in general refusing to let them reframe it in legalese to make it sound like something it wasn't. I could tell they were getting frustrated by the end, but it was one of the best hours I have ever spent. I'm proud I didn't let a megacorp patent standard software practices.

This seems very Stockholmy. $BIGCORP is interpreting law beyond what is actually says and is using the automated systems of $MONOPOLYCORP to make life harder for this one person for doing things well within their rights because he decided to ask for clarification and to talk.

Maybe we should just lie back and think of the mushroom kingdom?

Frames were a great way to keep around nav before the sticky css attribute. However, they were horrible for linking.

Also, that is the best definition of the real numbers I have seen so far

That cold open joke is amazing. I miss MIT.

Also in the article: cops using disparaging slurs, wasting people's time, joking about institutionalizing people for no reason, judging people as criminals for knowing the law, and denying water to someone locked up.

New York's finest, indeed.