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Aaronson's criticism boils down to:

"I understand the math and what it predicts doesn't match my uneducated, intuitive idea of what should and shouldn't be conscious. also ur dumb haha[0]."

A bad case of the Dunning Kruger effect, quite surprising for someone who deals regularly with the totally unintuitive aspects of quantum physics.

[0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1823, where he drops his troll mask.
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What Google will give you are usually some snippets for a [very] particular and usually constrained setup that Just Works™. But once you start adapting configs for your own setup - from software versions/brands, auth/app/whatever backends to security features, network setup (just otoh: Googled snippet might assume local sqlite db and you have remote MSSQL with LDAP auth, or the given setup might intend to run own unicorn and you want to proxy to supervisorded uwsgi, whatever) - things start to break in weird ways (if work at all).

It is a much smaller issue if you are building a system from scratch and only the launch date depends on your speed, but if you are trying to modify a part of mission-critical running deployment that already generates a revenue stream... well you have to first negotiate reasonable maintenance windows and then must squeeze yourself in. Googling around will give you zero clue how much time fixing broken things will take, because, well, deboogling is done by error messages as keywords.

Furthermore, only an experienced (I'm refraining from a term "trained" here) professional can evaluate multiple possible setups, give proposals to decision makers with more or less quantitatively expressed installation/maintenance/growth costs, evaluated downtime/security risks and business impact (solution A might forget the order while still charging the customer with 0.001% chance, while solution B might forget to charge the customer at all with 0.002% chance when the load reaches 47 requests/s, so which one?). Sometimes you just want to deploy something small quick and then at some time transition to something bigger. And knowing when that is reasonable and when the small system will stop handling the load allows to actually forecast and take weighted decisions.

To the defence of DevOps: cobbled together solution is often the best (weighing in deployment time/costs) for small internal services, first dev environments or early startup prototypes. And for large deployments, someone having a clue about both sides (code and operations) is necessary to moderate the decision taking process. Because what an operator thinks to be a quick change to code might actually take several man-weeks (who was the idiot behind this architecture?) and what a developer thinks to be a small change in configs, might actually require changing core hardware (what a moron deploys like that?). In my own short experience (including, but not limited to IT/CS/EE), I have failed to witness a project where everything is decided upfront and does not change until at least first (alpha/beta/customer preview) release. The more startupy the project (the less domain knowledge), the more first release target deviates from initial goal.

Just my 0.02$
Not sure you understand what "scientific theory" actually implies.
"A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

A theory is a proven truth until disproved ;)
A lot of this does not remove only telemetry though but also unrelated updates (see the list for details).

https://twitter.com/sitemeer/status/637331117541040128 lists eight telemetry updates.
If you look critically at the standard model it does not make much sense at all. I studied physics and philosophy some years ago. Some time ago I stumbled across the Basic Structures of Matter - Supergravitation Unified theory (BSM-SG) from Stoyan Sarg and it rocked my world view like nothing else. For me this is Gallilo/Darwin/Einstein all over again, ignored or reticulated by the general community but far more advanced and precise. Even the Newtonian worldview was 100 years earlier already discovered but ignored.
It even makes classically sense, not just mathematical.

From my perspective and this is also the general perspective of philosophy of science, not much changed in the last hundreds of years how we approach science.
People hat to change the model they think in, because it takes a lot of time.
In fact, it even got worse. Hardly anyone in science understands the fundamental problems of determining truth value and how hard it actually is.
Some of the test methods have fundamental flaws, for example: A negative replication is no prove that it does not work in general, it only proves that the exact atom configuration you are running does not work. If there is any unknown unknown, which you can't know, you can't know if the replicated experiment contains all necessary requirements.

Most don't understand the difference between mathematical and classical logic, that are the building blocks of science.

It takes a critical position that takes time to get, but I got a very critical view on science in general. Not the scientific method, but the implementation: the humans doing science. Having experienced how the broader scientific community actually ticks, understood how many psychological phenomena influence the scientific process.

Some weeks ago I was at a hacker camp and attented
https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-68...

So, after the talk I approached her, see seems very confident that the big bang happend, which I these days absolutly not, in fact, for me its as absurd as the flat world theory ;)
So, I asked her about the alternative cosmology group and some of the phenomena they reference to, good read:
http://www.cosmology.info/newsletter/2014.05.pdf

Having read nearly all of the papers they reference to, I go with their conclusion. The Big Bang did not happen.

She know none of the phenomena they reference to, none. Last year they found another quasar cluster btw, not as big as the one referenced, but they are more common it seems (is logical for me).

The problem is how we teach science, we highlight the stuff that makes sense in the model we are teaching, and ignoring the findings that do not make sense, until you reach a point where you can't. The point where the standard model made sense is long gone but as the saying brings it to a point:

Theories die out, when the last advocate dies.
Does this also affect UPnP? The article mentions only µTP
Christians are supposed to turn the other cheek. After enough times of being tread upon, that gets old.

The lion says to the elephant, "I am king of the jungle." The elephant picks the lion up with its trunk and smashes it into one tree, then another. The lion says, "You don't have to be sore about it."

In case you didn't notice, I'm the one with fresh and original ideas. You're the miserable person repeating the same old tired shit you heard from somebody.

If you find a person who says original ideas?

CERN has 2000 genius physicists all smarter than Tesla. Original trumps smart. Original is smart. The elephant slams the lion. The lion says, "Why are you so stupid." The elephant slams the lion with another original idea. Th elion says the same stupid common thought.
Personally, I love DevOps. I've played on both sides of the fence. More ops than dev, I'll admit.

The way I view DevOps is that you have end-to-end guarantees about software delivery. A lot of this draws from personal experience, so YMMV.

Story:

I was working in an organization where engineering had built a custom solution with their own database to a problem. It was using their own DB system, with the JVM, etc.. I was oncall for said service, because their DB kept getting into a poor state. My only real recourse to a page was (a) escalate to the devs (b) restart the service. I ended up furiously rewriting the service in Erlang over a weekend, and ended up getting told that my replacement was too complicated, and the previous one worked okay, because we could just restart it.

Take-aways: Without feeling the pressure, and side-effects from being woken up, and having to respond to on-call incidents for a service, it makes people put more value on the development time than operational time, although a service is very likely to be in operational time much longer than development time.

I have two other stories, but it'll take some time to write, and it's getting late, so I'll type it up only if someone is interested. Just so I remember - the tale of LD_PRELOAD and HDFS, as well as the networks and root access.

1. I think that ops staff should provide shared services to services organizations (hosting, deployment, etc..) when N services need the shared service (when N>2, depending on how many resources are available in your org).

2. I also think that ops staff should be able to "consult" on projects, as members of those teams during development. This is going to mean that those engineers are probably going to need to do some more development! Or, alternatively, the project team needs to be able to backpedal on some decisions if those ops consultants come in later on the project.

3. I think dev folks need to have end-to-end responsibility, including oncall, AARs, and on-call remediation. They need to take feedback from ops folks and act upon it, just as they would if product told them to do something.
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I love this analogy. SysAdmins need to have an special mindset that is diametrically opposite than these of the developers.

Developers want features and shiny things and following new trends and unicorns.

SysAdmins want 99.999%, and dependability and knowing that all the backups are running on time and writings contingency plans detailing how many minutes it will take to put a new infrastructure online in the event a fire occurring in the main data-center while the backup data-center is flooded because of a typhoon.
> Before, we'd have to run processing tasks on a fleet of EC2 instances and wait a few days.

Few days? Why?
As I understand it, the aim is to move as much of it as possible into C (rather than asm). Ultimately this should make it more maintainable, and lessy buggy.

Backwards compatibility is a given.
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> stops you from recognizing other people's emotions

Journalistic sensationalist garbage. I'm no advocate of drug usage but lying about things achieves nothing.

However, from an anecdotal perspective: my flatmate's ex-girlfriend had completely annihilated her brain with chronic use of that drug and, knowing her, would I agree with those incredibly inconclusive results? Somewhat - she definitely showed no capability of responding to emotions in others, but her brain way beyond fried: so it may have been systemic (or other drugs).

> little evidence

I wouldn't call it that, it is a weak correlation at best. They should have included significantly more people.
I was pleasantly surprised about the quality of the WIFI Lufthansa provides on its transatlantic flights (FlyNet). It's rather expensive at 9 € / hour, though.
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>It's an informative article, but the reality is that nobody cares. And I mean "nobody" in the approximate sense of 99.9% of music listeners.

The article, like everything else in life, is for those who do care.
2 ways to do thumbnails. 1 Precompute(what they did) and 2 Compute on demand(imgix)

Of course the best is to do something in the middle.
On paper you should be able to do the same with a HTML5 manifest file.

Don't get me wrong, it's a really neat wrapper, I'm just curious about why I should use this library instead of an already in HTML5 implemented, easy way which does pretty much the same?
No it doesn't:

http://www.cosmology.info/newsletter/2014.05.pdf
http://www.cosmology.info <- the other papers referenced

http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php
sorry, 4000+ papers and many replications are enough for me.

then, unified theories like strings theory is absurd and not even a physical one.

0 explanation of electro gravity effects (Q-Thruster to start with).

...

And then BAM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q43sqytcdLE

I'm standing on the right side and the model I have adapted makes actually sense, so, no, it is nigher good, nor does it explain everything.

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> It is still useless for me if you have struct with 'packed' attribute

It's somewhat sad that LuaJIT (effectively a one man project) contains a FFI interface with a hand-crafted lexer and tokenizer that supports the packed attribute correctly.
For most people, they're not going to die or starve to death if their startup fails. I literally have no money and live in a van right now, but it could be far, far worse so I have no complaints. Hit the reset button and try again.

People all the time even have spouses and families and manage to pull off respectable M&A events.

If someone doesn't try, they have to live with themselves and their regret for not answering the question of "could I have built something other people think is great?"

It's whether a person has the stuffing to schlep hardcore and drag themselves over the finish line.

Life's strategy is pure and simple:

Pick your battles carefully, and never give up.

Anyone whom has the courage and the inclination can and should experiment often to see if they can hit on something viable. Because unlike the lottery, it's possible to make a few bucks with passive revenue apps without much effort.
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Beyond these boring things, there exists some special interior design: One Kowloon Peak - mickey mouse shape, ASPEN CREST - diamond shape.

Also creative imagination: Oceanaire - 5/F became ground floor.

Search for "奇則" to open your horizon.

One of the investor to the building also invested in Facebook, Waze...
CORBA's "failure" was the distributed part, and distribution is an essential element of the architecture. Unlike COM, where you could easily separate the OO (IDL) based aspect of the architecture from its distributed implemention (DCOM), CORBA was always assumed to be distributed.

The idea of implementation language agnostic binary IDL is still powerful though.
This is a great companion to Arthur Melzer's "Philosophy Between the Lines". It has the subtext of answering how to convey an idea without also creating dangerously fanatical thought about that idea.
> I rarely fly economy but

How or why is that relevant ?
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This. Why do people think that changing default behaviour is ok?
Hijacking scrolling always bothers me, for now I can't even read the content because of the scrolling being too annoying.

Maybe I should write a browser extension to remove scrolling hijacking.
Yes. But why should Precompute take a few days?
Here's the DSM 4 criteria for GAD: http://behavenet.com/node/21591

> E. The anxiety, worry, or physical symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

I get what you're saying. We used to lock people up for many years just because they had an abortion at 17 and liked wearing yellow tights. But "Does this interfere with your day to day life? What do you want to change?" is an important part of diagnosis.

I think the problem I have with what you're saying is that I see, very often, people (mis)using psychiatric language to describe behaviour they don't like in other people.

Asshole boss? Sociopath.

Asshole employee? Asperger's.

Asshole with a gun? Psychopath. (Or, worse, psychotic.)

> A teacher friend once substituted in a classroom where every single child was on medication. Given that the disease prominence is circa 10% and not all kids are on medication, either she should have bought a lottery ticket or there was some other factor than strict medical necessity going on there.

Over-diagnosis is probably a problem, especially in the US. I don't know how diagnosis works over there. Over here it's probably too hard to get a diagnosis. But I'd be interested to know what a statistician would say about a class of pupils who were all on medication. We'd expect some clumpiness. And unless you know that 10% is evenly distributed (is there any reason to believe it is) you'd expect even more clumpiness.
I completely see the benefits of using guix, transactional package management seems at the very least an interesting alternative to docker in some scenarios, and could be very interesting from a tool automation perspective.

I don't want to sound negative, but I think the biggest problem with getting me or other ruby developers to package our gems to guix would be the following. The bundler/rbenv system I've been using for years is pretty darn good, personally I haven't had problems with it. I've used it in massive and small projects, and admittedly the only inconvenience is having to manually or through orchestration install the dependencies of certain gems, of which there are also only a few (mysql2 with libmysqlclient-dev and his nokogiri mention are probably the most notable). He does point this out but if you're using docker or some automation tool this is a pretty minor point.

Also I already ensure my gems run their tests on mri, jruby, rubinius, etc. and this seems like extra work for little benefit, especially when most in house deployment scenarios are running with docker or chef/puppet on top of the classic rbenv/rvm and bundler setup. My biggest question is after upgrading a gem version how easy is it for me to push the new version of the package to guix?

So essentially, I wish this article had more arguments to show why guix will better the life of ruby devs.
You'd be surprised of the horrors you can find in a game's C++ code base

While it's true that some languages make some horrors easier to bring into the world (if you take away people's access to the memory, for example, you remove an entire class of memory-related nightmares), in my experience, the key requirement for creating these horrors isn't the language; it's the programmer and the constraints they're working under (such things as inexperience, painful levels of urgency, inappropriate processes, team churn, and so on and so on). People can and will make horrors in any language, and if D becomes the new C++, in twenty years people will be saying the same things about D.
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Well, that's 5bn on 25bn in bookings. Once there's no driver it'll immediately be 5x higher gross. By the time that comes, I have no idea, Uber will be far larger. Easily see them doing 100bn/year
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Oh, shi- I forgot: /sarcasm
There was an article about a guy who landed a job at Google through the foobar. Here it is: https://thehustle.co/the-secret-google-interview-that-landed...
"portable" seems different from "ported" to me; it implies that it can easily support other systems, even if nobody has taken that work up.
The introduction is almost identical: '[Pylsy/PrettyTable] is a simple Python library designed to make it quick and easy to represent tabular data in visually appealing ASCII tables'
> Just my 0.02$

More like $2000. Very enlightening. I was reacting more to the conclusive nature of this:

> The author says that developers can do these things, but I highly doubt it.

That is not conclusively true in all situations. If my employer came to me and said: "figure it out," I definitely could and would. I would first recommend they hire an experienced devops but it's not like I could never learn it.

Dev and devops are not different like brain surgery and heart surgery are. Either role can grow into the other role and eventually (for the most part) do well at it.
> It's a sad thing that one of the worst airlines in Europe has the best wifi.

It's usually the same with hotels - wi-fi quality is usually inversely proportional to the quality of the establishment. I wonder if airlines have this problem for the same reasons.
Yeah, it sounds great from the "irrational human" perspective, which shouldn't be underestimated in importance.
I see - my mistake. That's a very broad definition of 'model' though isn't it? Including 'random numbers'? You might as well say everything is a model in which case the original quote says nothing :-)
Your piano tuner was completely correct. Piano strings have a non-linear overtone distribution, and if you tune to an electronic tuner without allowing for that they'll sound very bad.

Also, piano tuners can create just the right amount of movement in the sound by detuning the strings under each note.

You're not going to create that effect if you have no idea what you're doing.
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Preferably in a remote location that's safe. Like an island.
I'd really like to know if any of you have used the report feature. It seems like any report you got would show you a bug in your code. What were the bugs? How many reports did you get?
A sensitive friend of a friend experienced it 3 out of 3 times exactly like that. Maybe for some people the effect is lower, but most people are not very sensitive towards emotions anyway...
> I'm not sure how you feel, dear reader, but my Ruby environments feel like one giant, brittle hack

Of course things are not perfect (and guix may have a few cool ideas), but I think we should keep in mind that both rvm and bundler have been huge improvements.

The hacks people needed to come up with before rvm and bundler existed were an order of a magnitude more brittle.
This suggests that a sales team would do better without performance bonuses!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Tsk tsk, shame on you...
Notice the striking similarities of package management definition files and configuration management, where the latter does more related to state, coordination, attributes and templating files. Packages are just more generic containers of resources and metadata, configuration management makes those resources concrete on specific systems and applies tweaks to converge on the desired catalog state.

Btw, has anyone written a usable Guile-based cfg mgmt tool yet?
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Perhaps they have a few million images to go through.
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I tried to use it once. It looked promising, but i remember I had some problems with testing migrations.
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Disgusting, PC nonsense getting in the way of education on an important subject.