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It's a leap of faith, most definitely, and maybe a bit shady when viewed from an outsiders perspective. Just give money to a stranger? Yes. Shady indeed, I agree.

But then again, if you chose to pay for it, which is your choice - you could download it for free - you actually get a font in five weights that has taken me a lot of time to craft.

It's your choice. But you can trust me. It's the Internet - people wouldn't lie on the internet, no?

And - I'll be the first to agree that this project needs more credibility and/or third-party involvement. I've already gotten the ball rolling on some partnerships with third parties for the future. Getting Hacker News'd wasn't even on my horizon. Superexciting! I was expecting friends and family to support this, like on my other design/charity project that I mention and link to on the about page.
I guess the privileged ISA still being a draft prevents full application processors from being rolled out. But is there anything preventing micro-controllers being mass produced? Why isn't there an Arduino with a RISC-V micro-controller yet?
"Artwork" does not imply "brand logo."

For that matter, most of my shirts don't have artwork--I like casual button-downs for everyday wear; but I look for striking colors, interesting fabric patterns, etc. I'm not pushing any personal style in particular, but it's a shame if there's nothing in your closet but work clothes.
I don't know why the argument that x86_64 has some affect on efficiency keeps coming up. All modern OoO chips microarch is decoupled from the instruction decoders. All the "strange" x86 instructions are effectively microcoded, which doesn't affect the execution performance of the instructions actually contained in high performance code. In many ways the ability to easily spill/operate against memory/stack provides instruction density advantages, and simplifies certain dependency calculations.

So, whether ARM64 has an power efficiency advantage isn't clear at all when one tries to actually compare them fairly. I frequently see people linearly scaling power/performance curves, or comparing cores that contain ECC, significantly more IO, etc against cores that don't and claiming that the core with 10x the IO bandwidth is somehow less efficient computationally because it consumes 5 watts more to power a PCIe bus.

So, lets get this out of the way, performance is not linear to power. Simply having a clock rate 50% faster has a large impact on power given the rough P=CV^2f equation because often the voltage goes up to support the higher frequencies. Worse designing for a target top end frequency of 4Ghz may entail extra pipeline stages/etc than one targeting 2Ghz in the same process. The result is significantly higher power draw at the same frequency due to the fact that higher frequencies are supported. Then there is leakage current/etc, which will be proportional to the number of transistors, so a design with 15MB of cache is going to waste more on leakage than one with 1MB. The extra 14MB of cache may only contribute another percent or two to the bottom line in many workloads, but frequently the difference between a processors at X performance and one at 1.5X is not due to a single factor but dozens of design tradeoffs that individually only net small percentage gains.

Bottom line, its better to compare implementations, and when ARM vs x86 chips are compared on similar grounds, they are a lot closer than you hear in glib remarks on forums like this. Intel's handicap in mobile (lack of native x86 android apps) and ARM's handicap in desktop/server all really come down to the software (and maybe in the case of some ARM products what one might consider alpha/immature products).
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I'm one of the (formerly) silent, happy masses who uses the default stack gleefully. Turbolinks is amazing, ujs is wonderful, and coffeescript is adequate until all the latest JS goodness is out for real. Make it so only the first page load happens as an HTML request, everything after that happens via ajax for a couple lines more code sprinkled throughout, and I still get the regular html fallbacks? Yes please.

I'm able to quickly make entire complex interaction flows happen smoothly and maintainably on a single page. Now, there's a point, where when you have to start maintaining the state of various widgets on the page with each other, it gets pretty iffy and its helpful to bust out React. But even then, it's actually usually quicker to prototype out the templates/api for the widgets using vanilla Rails.

The javascript helpers that Rails have are wonderful because they let me quickly build useful software for people, and the fact that they're idiomatically consistent with the Rails request/response setup (is it an html response, or a js one?) throughout projects and apps cuts out a ton of cost of me or other developers (some who'd never even used it before!) dropping back into code I've written later to efficiently change things. Not, "what's being used here? What's the api for that? how is this set up?" etc etc.

I've found that, across many projects with many people, in the long run, these JS helpers are amazingly helpful and clarifying. So I'm going to have to firmly - but respectfully - disagree with your opinion that Rails shouldn't include them, simply because your opinion doesn't provide an alternative that gives me better benefits than what's currently there. It just strikes me as though it will divert engineering on actual hard problems of value to a lot more of simply engineering for engineering's sake. I'm not saying I won't change my mind...I'm saying, show me something better, and let's talk!
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As one who takes methamphetamine (generic Desoxyn) for ADHD, I can't help but take issue with the sensationalism in this article.

If someone takes the same low dose I do but doesn't actually have ADHD, how could they be considered "cracked out?" simply because they are faking a diagnosis?

We know that low-dose amphetamines improve cognition in healthy individuals regardless of whether or not you have ADHD. We also know that amphetamines are very safe at therapeutic level doses and that you can take them your entire life without any problems. We also know that stimulant therapy actually reduces the chances of someone abusing drugs, even stimulants.

Why shouldn't all healthy people have a chance to reap the benefits from them? Why should you have to have a disability in order to be able to access the benefits from these drugs?

There's just no logic to the way society currently views stimulants. It's safe for me to use amphetamines to help with my ADHD symptoms but if someone without ADHD uses them in the same manor, then it's dangerous.
What kind of doses were those? I'm honestly curious what kind of doses are used "recreationally", since I was titrated over months until the APRN and I found a dose that fit and didn't have alarming side effects.
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> Again, this is super oversimplified; please don't use this description to prepare for your investment banking interviews.

Disregard that note, and sue Bloomberg and the writer anyway. Seems to work, according to the text.
I was prescribed approximately 25mg daily Adderall for 7 or 8 years, so here's my anecdotal answer to your questions...

> I still remember my friend who had a prescription for ADHD -medication,
> and they cut off this medication, and he couldn't do nothing but sleep
> for 3 weeks almost.

Wow. That is really irresponsible of them to cut him off so suddenly. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

I definitely had a "crash" if I suddenly stopped taking it for a day, cold turkey. Would pretty much be stuck in bed.

However, if I slowly weaned myself off over a couple of days (25mg-->15mg-->5mg-->0mg) or something like that, it was no problem. Currently I haven't used any in six months.

> What kind of state does prolonged use of amphetamines put the user ?
> Constantly being pushed to focus on one task, what kind of thought
> patterns does that create in the long run ?

Now that it's been six months past, I feel no long-term changes whatsoever. Mentally, I'm back to how I used to be before Adderall.

There's no denying, though, that Adderall often made me a bit more prone to anger while I took it regularly.

I also have to say that Adderall didn't really "push me to focus on one task." It helped my focus and energy somewhat, but I definitely didn't become some kind of extreme monotasker.

> Are we being just taught by the culture around us to work, work, work ..
> when we could be taking it more easy, having our thinking be more open,
> and not so closed and focused on the tasks ahead of us?

Absolutely, yes.

I think what bothers me about America's workaholic mentality is that it's not even effective. In the long run I firmly believe that we get less work done if we constantly push ourselves to exhaustion. We try to treat our entire work careers like we're university students trying to power our way through an all-nighter. It just doesn't work. I continually remind myself of this... the hard way.
fulldisclosure exists for a reason.
So a userspace fs, I'm guessing this will use fuse to actually expose a POSIX fs? Small sync writes will absolutely kill performance and will require all sorts of hacks like glusterfs has had to implement due to the amount of context switches. CoreOS really should have added whatever needed to ceph, filesystems are not something you just hack together overnight.
Most people don't have newiwsh desktop-class GPUs. Particularly in the enterprise environment most remote desktop programs are born out of
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This was not fact was not fun if, like me, you were a Mac fanatic and gamer back in the 90s. Bungie getting bought out by MS and Halo becoming a PC game was a cruel stab in the back.
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> But John fixed it by adding an extra parameter to all "facts" that represented the "time frame" when a fact was true...From the individual point of view "values" are replaced by "histories" of values, and from the system point of view the whole system is represented by its stable state at each time the system is between computations.

This reminds me of the way Datomic stores data.
Has such a top-down approach to attracting startups ever worked?

IMHO, startups are attracted to the right environment and capital (monetary and talent). The government, therefore, needs to change its laws and create the right environment.

For example: California's law that nullifies non-compete clauses. That alone has been responsible for so many startups, as people left Fairchild to start Intel, Intel to start AMD, Cisco, etc. and Cisco to start Juniper, and on and on.
Not sure I'm ready to accept that this is a myth.

From "Prescription stimulants in individuals with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: misuse, cognitive impact, and adverse effects", published in Brain and Behaviour (2012):

"In sum, the evidence concerning stimulant effects on working memory is mixed, with some findings of enhancement and some null results, although no findings of overall performance impairment (Smith and Farah 2011). However, the small effects were mainly evident in subjects who had low cognitive performance to start with, showing that the drug is more effective at correcting deficits than “enhancing performance.”"

Full text:

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They might have shipped sooner had they let everyone work normal hours. It's not just that the studies agree sustained crunch is a bad idea, I've seen several times in person that sustained crunch beyond the first few weeks lowers overall productivity. People start goofing off, or just staring at code without making much progress, or writing huge mountains of code when a little stream of code would have sufficed with more forethought. And the code that they do write they have to revisit later to fix all the bugs caused by sloppy coding.
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This is a bad comment for Hacker News, first because it calls names ("vulture", "mafia"), which the site guidelines specifically ask you not to do [1], and second because it's unsubstantive.

Thoughtful critique is good—especially when backed by concrete experience—but generic denunciations are boring and lower the discourse below what we're hoping for here. Empty riler-uppers are particularly to be avoided.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you should change the title in the page, or at least highlight what is unexpected.

Short version: Mark as bold the sentence "This experiment goes a step further by performing it one photon at a time to show the interference of single photons."

Long version:

First I was not sure what was the Young's experiment. I know the double slit experiment but I didn't know that Young was the creator. Perhaps this varies from one country to other, or from university to other, or from one major to other, ...

Second, I thought it was the usual double slit experiment. Build some slits in aluminum foil, a laser, a ccd camera and call it a day. The one photon at a time was unexpected.

I propose a new title, something like "Reproducing Young's double slit experiment at home with one photon at a time". It's a little too long, ...
>not one relevant to taxes or outsourcing, which I mentioned in my original comment.

Perhaps this is related to the fact that I wasn't responding to your comment?

>Some companies even brag about NOT outsourcing. Socially conscious marketing.

And?
There is, it's called Evekeo.

In the past (up until the 60s or 70s I believe), there was also a racemic mixture available on the market as well.
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> Retrocausality -- something causing something else before it even exists -- is also nonsense.

It would be, if that's what I'd said or implied, but it isn't because something like post-scaricity isn't binary, it doesn't just occur at one point in time, we'll grow in that direction slowly and problems will arise long before we get there due to rising unemployment, but I think you know that and you're just being obtuse. We are not discussing post-scarcity, we're discussing the problems along the way there if/when it occurs.

You seem intent on pendantically ignoring points being made by re-framing them as strawmen. This is dishonest and not how to have a civil discussion. Since you seem unable to communicate rather than quibble over words you don't like, we're done.
Is there no beauty in painting vivid pictures through
colourful expression?

Sure, being terse makes consumption faster and easier, but don't you trade

that for the tool of directing the reader's imagination?

I guess the skill is in being terse yet still descriptive?
I've seen this pattern as engineer and as an engineering director. You can always put the blame for these things on leadership's inability to make decisions. Too much time is spent in the theoretical, "what's possible" headspace that no final decisions get made that gives the team anchor points. It says a lot that the switch from open world to level transitions (a major decision) happened so late. Staying that there was no real plan to get to the end...that's the job of an executive.

The best executives I've ever seen, for better or worse, will regularly make decisions on the project so there's a continual sense of marching towards goals. They may not always be the right decisions, but making the wrong decisions can be less damaging than making no decisions.
I credit distrowatch for helping me find SolydXK. At the time they took debian testing as upstream. They ran on the updated packages for a few months and then, of stable, would release a big bundle of updates. So you were on a semi-rolling distro. They don't have enough resources to be doing this anymore - so their stable is now basically the same as debian Jessie.