In this thread… People arguing about multiple strawman definitions of Libertarianism.

My opinion is that it’s a useless term because nobody agrees on what it means.

No advantage over Arch IMO.

If you want to play with it, setup a VM.

Do NOT make this a thing again!!!

More fool you. There’s some damn good software in that list.

Conditioned to instantly fall asleep at the command-word “multipass”.

• It’s amazingly stable even though it’s a rolling release.
• Up to date.
• Maintained by many many knowledgeable people.
• Arch Wiki
• 99% of software you need is packaged, and then there’s AUR too.

That’s about it, but its my daily driver on desktop and laptop.

As a Brit… Government policy is doing a pretty good job. Everything is making running an independent site completely infeasible. They’re legislating as if the only people who run sites are big tech corporations who have money to burn on compliance.

I’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”.

Tibet on the other hand…

You realise avoiding the anxiety is worse than dealing with it.

Global war between who?

Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.

I see you like to party with Bernie.

Agree with everything you said, but if you’re going to ask me about anything, then the thing I do 40 hours a week every week should be a safe subject. If I’m interviewing a chef, I’ll probably ask them about working in a kitchen. I may even ask them to demonstrate something.

I think it’s a reasonable expectation.

The key thing is to be as relaxed as you can be. Interviewing is a skill you learn, so go for a few interviews that you’re not as interested in. Try not to go for your dream job first, because you’ll be stressed to hell. Get a couple under your belt first if you can.

Interviews aren’t an exam. They’re a conversation.

This is a good point. Being interviewed is a learnt skill. You get better at it by doing more of them. I always advise people to start a job search by going on a couple of interviews that you’re not that interested in.

I don’t prepare, because it’s testing a task that I do pretty much everyday. If I can’t do it on-demand I don’t see how I can call myself a programmer. That said, I do have some strategies.

Often the interviewer isn’t looking for people able to recite detail in the documentation. They are looking at the quality of the code you’ll produce. So I concentrate on explaining my approach to the problem, rather than the code.

• How am I going to structure it?
• Where are my concerns?
• What choices am I making about performance?

…and so on. If it’s on a whiteboard I’ll often write in pseudo-code that looks something like a language, but I’ll state that I’m not trying to write perfect, compiler ready code.

I let them guide me to the level of detail they are looking for.

If it turns out they want to score points on me for missing a bracket, or getting the order of arguments wrong, then I take that as a negative against the company. Interviews go both ways, and you’re looking for people you can work with too. So if they’re going to nitpick in an interview they’re probably going to be horrible to work with day-to-day.

You asked the equivalent of “What’s a limey bastard?” at a British pub. It’s quite funny, but basically everything you kicked off answers your question.

I’m not the only one seeing the 20 or so deals like this in the last few weeks. Right?

Is this because the SEC is shutdown?

This feels we’re going to get a movie like The Big Short in a few years time. “The Big Hallucination” or something.

Lets start by assuming the balloon stays the same size as it rises in the air column and we’ll ignore the temperature drop. The pressure and density of the gas inside the balloon remains the same, but at some point the air density outside the baloon will drop to match the density of helium inside the baloon. At that point the balloon would stop rising as the weight of the atmosphere it displaces is the same as weight of the helium filled balloon. It’s like a little boat on a sea of air.

However, balloons don’t stay the same size. As they float up the atmospheric pressure drops. The balloon will expand because the pressure inside the balloon is higher that the pressure outside. It still has a bouyant force on it because the weight of atmosphere it displaces is still larger than it’s own weight, so it continues to go up. Outside pressure continues to drop. Balloon continues to grow. Eventually the balloon bursts.

That this thread is full of results from existing studies.

An efficient interface is always an efficient interface.