After my dates of employment I will parethetically add (bankrupt) or (shutdown) to indicate that it wasn't related to me personally. My best job was 18 months.
Yeah I had a manager grill me like crazy about short stints on my resume while I was interviewing for DigitalOcean. He told me it looked like I wasn't dedicated or trustworthy.
He wasn't my manager so I brushed over it and 6 months into working at DO they started 3 rounds of enormous layoffs that were handled so poorly even the executives doing the layoffs got removed by the board.
So I left and got to add another short stint at a company run by craven morons to my resume :)
I was laid off at my last 3 positions and can really relate to this. If it’s any consolation: how a company handles this is a good indication of the maturity of their management and recruiting function. I also strongly disagree with any assertion that would state “short stints = unreliable employee”. Nobody can make that assertion without confirmation of what caused those stints and the tech market from 2020 - today has been notoriously volatile.
There are plenty of great orgs out there that will soak with you before making assumptions, but as a rule most startups have fairly inexperienced management unless they are founded by a team that’s been through the rodeo a few times.
As for updates - my OS has a built-in package management system, which is responsible for installing and updating packages. Why should notepad++ bypass that and do its own independent update process?
Because other OSs do not and the notepad++ team wants all users to have a similar experience.
If you don’t need auto updates, just disable them.
More importantly, notepad++ being able to update itself is not the exploit here. Your OS’ package manager would download the same compromised binary as notepad++’s built in updater.
What OS doesn't have a package manager now? Windows, Linux, and MacOS all have their own systems.
On windows, the package manager downloads the release of notepad++ directly from github, so it would not have been compromised. The hijack was done on the notepad++ website at the webhost level as I understand it, and the built in updater pulled from there.
A browser can download updates and plugins to be installed locally. I too do not want all my apps making internet connections. Sandboxes / namespaces can help a little.
I think these days updates through the OS package manager is a better option, windows has had winget for 5+ years now, and obviously linux and macos both have their own established systems.
My personal favourite work of his is "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga". Most of the people are doing immediate purposeful work and are much more present. There is so much resilience (the bear destroyed hut), and there is also tragedy in it as well (the fire).
I like Herzog's work, but that's a really tricky one. Herzog only became involved after the film was completed, and then edited it down to make more salable. I liked Herzog's version, but I liked the original even more once I found it.
While Herzog certainly made it more popular, he lost a lot of accuracy by forcing it to tell the story he wanted it to tell. It certainly shook my faith in Herzog as a documentarian. He's a good artist, but you shouldn't trust him when it comes to facts.
The full original by Dmitri Vasyukov (Дмитрий Васюков) is available in four parts (one for each season) on Youtube. Here's the first quarter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttItxwzgbUs
I like that one as well. I just rewatched it again. One of the trappers in the movie is Mikhail Tarkovsky and I just learned he is actually the nephew nephew Andrei Tarkovsky, the film director.
I’m assuming they think that rich people spend more so they pay more. This is a fallacy, because poor people spend a higher portion of their income (over a 100% a lot of the time).
I don't get it - what about "taxing consumption" makes it "fair"? Poor people aren't poor because they spend more money than others. They are poor because they don't have enough money to live a "decent" life (assume a middle-class lifestyle) or to even save it. Right?
Until you get to things like Vimes Theory of Boots. Not all consumption is equal. Not all consumption can be reduced. A burger wrapper might not care about economic status, the bag of beans and rice might.
i thought most economists would agree that consumption should be encouraged and savings should be discouraged. and that'd be how progressive taxes work? people tend to save more and consume less as their incomes increase?
Can you expand on this? I’m guessing that it’s something to do with preservation of mass & energy? Like mass doesn’t have to be preserved over a spatial dimension (eg rotating an object) but does over time.
I explained in another comment, but it's more fundamental than that.
In pure mathematical terms, the vector space used in special relativity (and in theories compatible with it, such as QM/QFT), while being 4 dimensional, is not R^4, it's not a 4D cartesian vector space.
Specifically, the scalar product of two vectors in R^4 (4D space) is [x1,y1,z1,h1] dot [x2,y2,z2,h2] = x1x2 + y1y2 + z1z2 + h1h2. You can order the coordinates however you like - you could replace x with h in the above and nothing would change.
However, SR space-time is quite different. The scalar product is defined as [x1,y1,z1,t1] dot [x2,y2,z2,t2] = c^2 * t1t2 - x1x2 - y1y2 - z1z2. You can still replace x with y without any change with the result; but you can't replace x with t in the same way. This makes it clear from the base math itself that the time dimension is of a different nature than the 3 space dimensions in this representation. This has a significant impact on how distances are calculated, and how operations like rotations work in this geometry.
Google has no constitutional right to exist or have accurate search results either. However, it's value depends on the quality of their search results.
People outside the US don't care about the particulars of the US constitution like it's a holy document, but rather the US governance as a whole and whether it's well-ordered, lawful, and predictable.
All this rigor for a country without an actual formalised constitution. I mean, maybe the government should work on that first and make sure it has a right to work there first?
> Unlike in most countries, no official attempt has been made to codify ... thus it is known as an uncodified constitution.
Arguably it's purpose is to define where government responsibility ends and tyranny begins. Very useful if the population it applies to cares about it being violated
This is very exciting!
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