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> I have no idea what I'm talking about

Long term brainwashing can do that to people.

Would you respect someone who has studied Scientology for 10 years, just because it's a long time? I think in that case, the longer the worse.

Psychiatry is no different, pseudo-scientific quackery that exists largely to provide politically comfortable answers to questions society does not want to confront.

Oh, and to rubber stamp who the courts excuse for crime.

A generation of boys on ADHD drugs, thank psychiatry for that.

It is a corrupt and disgraceful occupation.
> It's just the there's only very seldom a reward for serving nonprogrammers. And quite often there is a reward for alienating those people so that developers don't have to spend all their time explaining basic principles to them.

This was definitely one of my main points. We just differ on whether that's "system functioning as intended" or if there's room for change. That's something that makes sense to disagree on. I'm describing the state of the system, and sure I made some judgement calls on whether that state was good or bad, but we still agree on the reality.

What you've described as the system functioning as intended are the things you've recognized bring a stability to the system at play; that without these ways of operating, the complex interplay between developer time, motivation to continue, and ability to produce would come to a screeching halt. The simplest solution is just to cut off from the outside world and continue in isolation, all I'm saying is that there are also other solutions that could be considered to keep that stability and make things even more productive. Do I know what they are? No. So I'm largely useless in that respect, but I will at least try to point out that stability is not the same thing as optimal function.
Simon Funk [1] makes a great point that in a mixed capitalist/welfare state, automation decreases efficiency.

Imagine a worker, earning the bare minimum to survive, who gets replaced by a robot with slightly lower operating cost. Now the robot is consuming slightly fewer resources that the worker would have, but the worker doesn't stop consuming resources in turn! Unless you're willing to kill the worker, he goes on welfare instead, and the economy as a whole is burning almost 2x more resources. Sure, the employer is spending slightly less, while screwing over the economy via prisoner's dilemma logic.

[1] http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20160704.html
Here's a link to the hardware:

https://www.visionect.com/technology#hardware

Details of the controller board:

https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectPandaDS.html

And the thing that was interesting for me the most, the screens they use:

https://docs.visionect.com/ElectronicPaperDisplays.html

Now why the screens were most interesting for me? Because "e-paper" name has in the past been used not just for e-ink-like displays, but also for super-low-power LCDs, which is kind of a different thing. Fortunately, Visionect seems to be using "the real deal", i.e. ink-based displays.

Now the only question for me - where can I get my 24” e-ink display for my computer?
It's a money grab for suppliers of original parts, but it is also a control point and power grab for many authorities.

A specific point that interests me is modification of engine control software. This can actually both improve performance and decrease pollution at the same time, and it would be prohibited in the USA.

(I'm not in the USA, but I am still concerned by this because the same things tend to float across the Atlantic.)
How did you find your first customers?
You would think it better to set it to a police headquarters.
Although I can see the advantage of having a digital label in a lot of cases, I don't see the necessity in a museum environment. There is serious human interaction necessary to change the collection to move and change the works of art. It would be easy to change the label at that time.

What use case is there to change the label "on the fly"?
It looks that way from looking at the README and skimming the code; I'd be interested to know if it differs somehow.
Awful article. It repeatedly conflates two very distinct arguments for simplicity in science: (a) an a priori elegance criterion when choosing between two theories that are observationally indistinguishable, and (b) a trade-off between simplicity and accuracy of two different approximations.
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Some people don't like the word much, but "serverless" is going to become a bigger deal.

You'll write your code, complex or simple; you'll hand it off to some cloud system; you'll write a bit of configuration; you're done. Likely the configuration part will become less and less required.

You won't think about hardware, scaling, load balancing, etc, it will just happen for you. The data store being used will be abstracted away so that you don't know/care much about who provides it. Configuration problem.

Containers, AWS Lambda, these are just the first course of this meal.

Why? Because developers are expensive. Time spent doing anything other than the critical piece of writing business logic code is time wasted, and longer time to market.

That's how I see the future of the server side.
There are no names except function arguments.

No 'x=...'
Why are these law enforcement agencies turning up to -any- latitude/longitude pair from an IP-to-location database? Even when the location is "known" it's still just going to point to the center of a city or region an IP range was allocated to at some time.

To map a specific IP to a specific physical location you want to arrest someone at, you'd have to actually go to the ISP (with a subpoena) and ask them what customer that IP was allocated to at a specific time, then look up that customer's address. They know that, right?
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I've done the same, to get rid of having 3 characters on the number keys and get access to all the hotkeys.

While also not having keyboard layout change, when SSHing to a server and not being able to make a slash
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Cut words. (I think the if possible bit is kind of redundant).
LTE Direct is already in the works, so the same thing could easily happen for 5G.
Usually museum labels are very high quality, mounted inside of laminate or glass. Definitely not $100 worth, but when you factor in design and installation labor then it might reach that in theory.
Ah, but that answers my question about how to get rsvp, events and now cards etc. to work.
While most are focusing on the "default location" issue, I can see another issue in this article:

Why are people expecting the output of an IP mapping database to be precise enough to send law enforcement to that physical location? From what I could gather from the article, law enforcement (and others) are treating it as if it was as exact as a reverse phone number lookup, while in reality there's no way a global IP mapping database can get much more precise than "around that city" (unless perhaps if the IP address is in a datacenter).

That is, even without it being a "default location", sending people to the GPS coordinates obtained from an IP mapping database is nonsense.
Might be worth to clarify that WebRTC encapsulates the SCTP data streams in DTLS which is just normal UDP packets. So there are no "real" SCTP packets on the network as a result of WebRTC.
One of the reasons from the article is multiple language support.
It's essentially a grading system based on:

a) how well passwords are stored - ie hashing algos and options, with plaintext as a fail

b) how well the company communicates the policy - a publicly available password storage policy is required for an 'A'
You think through the eyes of idealism. Consider this

You are the owner of a fortune 500 company

You need to hire enough people to fullfill 1600 hours a day, 14 days per paycheck.

You want to hire the people as cheaply as possible.

If the individual knows they only have to work 20 hrs per week to survive, they have the power to negotiate. If the individual believes that they have to work two jobs for 60 hrs per week to survive, the company has the power to negotiate.

Why would you pay more money for same value and less negotiation power?

In your ideal world there are enough starving/superficial/ambitious people that you can pay pennies for exponential growth.
Its funny how we link 'museum' with 'outdated things'. When I first saw that title I just thought that would be something like e-paper being obsolete.
I cannot understand the fuzz about multi-master replication, it either involves dirty/phantom reads, or it is awfully slow. Wikipedia has a lot of examples of these issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_%28database_systems%...

There should be a book about the dark side of multi-master replication at scale, about what can you trade away and still be happy with. Preferring either PostgreSQL or MySQL for this is just avoiding the technical complexity that multi-master replication is.
Yeh good compromise. The ideal solution would be for their API to not report a precise location if it doesn't know one. I guess they have no simple method of stating a region rather than a point, and if they did the consumer of the APIs would probably just use the centre of the region most of the time.

I guess they could just not give lat/long when unknown, but still state country, state, county, etc. if they're known.
It appears like the logical conclusion of capitalism: the majority of people being made redundant due to AI/automation, and a small handful of corporations basically ruling the world.
I don't normally comment, but given my background and general interest in the subject areas discussed, it's sparked an interest in commenting on the subject.

It's an interesting article, but I am a proponent of the idea that AI / deep learning / neural network based computing is still in it's infancy. I've worked in several of these industries and though newer companies are cutting into market share through a mixture of "intelligent" design and large-scale ingestion of data, I believe that it's important to admit we're a long way from being able to say that there is really a dramatic revolution through adoption if artificial intelligence / algorithms (bearing in mind I'm keeping well clear of the strong-vs-weak argument in using that term), in any given industry. Instead I think there are many fringe cases that carve out what might become the wider adoption of the future. These are nicely exemplified herein, but limited to mostly brute forcing the computational abilities of our limited (though fast and vastly impressive) advancements in technology.

For sure, the last 20 years have seen great change and so too will the next 20. However, I think it's sensible as (if/a) technological practitioner(s) to greet the change with a level and realistic perspective, we are still developing simple "AI" like systems. Also, businesses are extremely hesitant and cautious, both universally and especially across sectors, when make more than the necessary change required to one up each other. If you scrape off the top layer of innovation and hype, there is still a long way to go before we're swimming in the waters of a technical revolution (and one may argue how wise we are to seek it; one for another time)...
Didn't know James before reading this. Great write-up. And his blog looks good too.
Were the police using this as an escape to burn time? Why even investigate?
>(though I'm phasing that plan out).

Would you recomend starting something with a free tier and phasing it out if it's not working over charging up front from the beginning?

I can see pros/cons to both sides.
It certainly was more restricted than 2 non-irccloud networks at one point. More generally you can't assume the free version will continue to have the same functionality, because they've reduced it before and could easily do so again.
I wasn't saying you needed microservices or containers to do distributed logging. My point is that if you're building a distributed system, you need distributed logging (tracing) semantics. The actual logging mechanism (syslog, fluentd, etc) can be used -- as long as you propagate your UUID, etc.
The animations look like stock - there's a Getty credit at the end.

The intern probably just did the animated wordy bits.
My current theory is that this “automation bomb” won't really happen in the sense that 5 million Truckers are going to get laid off all of a sudden. Especially in the case of Truckers the average age is getting higher and higher every year because Millennials have said that is not a job they want.

So my theory is that as Baby Boomer/Early Gen Xers retire automation will step in and fill the employment gap. So there won't massive amounts of laid off Truckers sitting around. It will be under-employed Millennials, which is the same issue we have now.
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Doesn't all of the money that was going into the operating cost of the robot still end up in human pockets? Instead of going to the worker it goes to robot developers, robot maintainers, and energy companies.

Then the argument it increases inequality, but that's been the case since industrial machinery happened, as Piketty showed.
Hopefully the worker gets another job so now you have a productive robot and a productive worker doing something else.
Lots of great stuff on there! There's always something about investing you don't know.
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(no slur intended)
I don't think custom backends are going away either, I do think it will become way less prevalent then it is today though, similarly how all programs used to do manual memory management, this hasn't gone away but most programmers now rely on garbage collection.

So much of backend work is redundant, login, user info management, allowing the creation of groups of users, user following, user data uploading or sharing. Not to mention all the DevOps, managing CloudFormation scripts, VPCs, proxies, load balancing, dns, ssl, cdn, database schema, the list goes on, and that's before there has been any original development at all.

With react native and electron (I haven't found the atom browser or vs code weirdly restricted) the web stack is moving into desktop territory and with serverless frameworks becoming more prevelent hopefully this will make writing original software easier with less redundant work.

As to your point about data processing needing a custom backend, I see the exact opposite. Generally all this data is just funneled into a generic hadoop cluster and can be manipulated any which way from there using spark or any number of data analysis tools.
> I have seen a lot where joins are essentially done at the application level in loops in the relatively slow language

That's an indication of poor programming skills rather than programming language being "slow".
I mean realistically it would be best to simply return "unknown location" or something of that nature. But barring that -clearly absurd- idea, set it to some place that's obviously incorrect. I propose the moon.
“It suggests that there’s more going on in the outer solar system than we’re fully aware of”

This sounds like a mild understatement...
Ridiculous dependencies of popular libraries
You can easily get furniture and many appliances for free, at least around Germany. People will put old but functional things on the street for the truck, and if you're fast you can get some good stuff. Also, there are internet sources where people post what they want to get rid of. And how much do you really need anyway?

At this point, if I needed something specific, I'd just put up a poster, a neighbour probably has it in their basement and wonders how to get rid of it.

I'm on ~7000€ a year, and that includes health insurance, replacement of broken cheaper things (spare parts for the bike, clothes..) and also the occasional splurge like cinema or eating out. A car would not be possible, but if I need one I can either ask a friend or rent. A car is a liability in most European cities too. I could go down some in expense if I needed to, but then it would be less comfortable.

You can track your cash flow for a year and see for yourself where your money goes and what is essential.
1. I live in Switzerland, but I work with US East timezone. I am an evening person, and it is very convenient — starting working at 3PM and have the entire first half of day to spend with my family (they all are morning people).

2. There's Slack/HipChat for that.
Don't think about money, that only confuses things. Think about resources instead. Imagine that the worker burns oil to survive, and the robot also burns oil to function. Now replacing the worker with the robot makes the economy burn twice as much oil for the same amount of production (assuming the worker goes on welfare). If you think in terms of money and pockets, the picture will be more complicated, but the end result will be the same.
Typically the best / simplest way for sustainable mostly passive income is rental property. Lots of how to guides out there. Mortgage rates are really low at the mo if you want to leverage.
It's a good solution depending on write volume. Watching the pricing on these logging services is always fairly shocking to me.

I've done a similar thing with Mongo in the past with their capped collections.
> And God he says, lives in heaven with Santa Claus and
> their dog Marianne, implying that the Supreme Being
> is not only imaginary, but also gay.

That is like saying Ernie and Bert are gay. I'd appreciate if the author tried a little harder at interpreting childrens television from a childs perspective.
a kind of clock for sysadmin :)
That's how it works when the fundamentals shift, and it's hard to see because it's not like you lost a job - you just never got it to start with.
Exactly. If your API returned wkt text for the perimeter of the area, somebody who stores a simple lat-long pair is going to take the centroid and store that.
Completely agree with you. Just seems more sensible than the middle of a lake. Police will still turn up!

I wonder if it would be feasible to set it to one of the small islands map makers include to identify copyright infringements. Or, have a known fake territory where any 'dead' values can to be parked, such as the above.
Or into the pockets of the owners of the robots who develop, maintain, and power these robots.
"Unrolled linked list, In this model, the maximum number of elements is 4 for each node." - wiki

According to the README, it only uses 36 nodes for 10 Million records, so I guess it is like Unrolled linked lists but with a higher limit of elements per node?
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Yep, I hope for the same but I don't think it'll happen :-(
And what does he think that having high living standard is about, other than burning resources?

By his definition of efficiency, a dead planet is the most efficient.
Yeah, if you assume that workers never go on welfare, the argument falls down.
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I think Basque is probably not a good one to question... it's in a language family all of its own
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Not sure what you mean, but from my understating the coroutine e stacks are just allocated pieces of memory in the current address space ( might be stack allocated or heap allocated depending the the situation)
Potentially GraphQL.
> Invested most of my savings (20k€) into Bitcoin several years ago, and then converted everything to Ethereum in the pre-sale

Haha. I did the same except with only 30€ worth of BTC, now worth ~15K€ in ETH. If only I had had slightly more balls at the time…
To me it's just propaganda, normalisation, etc
This exists:

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Kitten -> meet laser pointer

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The burning of resources by robots doesn't by itself contribute to a higher living standard, unless you're measuring the living standard of robots :-)
>My clients almost exclusively get their information from the popular science media. Often, they get something utterly wrong in the process. Once I hear their reading of an article about, say, space-time foam or black hole firewalls, I can see where their misunderstanding stems from. But they come up with interpretations that never would have crossed my mind when writing an article.

Can you see the parallel with democracy? Autodidacts can not really harm the field of physics no matter how naively wrong they are. But we have voting rights and we believe we understand the complex issues in sociology, justice, economics ... I am depressed.
I don't understand the point your are making
Things like utility stocks tend to hold up. In the 99 crash Berkshire Hathaway was countercyclical and hit a low on the day tech stocks peaked. Also oil stocks were roughly negatively correlated with tech in 99 and may be today. Reasonably priced property not in the bay area?
> So my theory is that as Baby Boomer/Early Gen Xers retire automation will step in and fill the employment gap. So there won't massive amounts of laid off Truckers sitting around.

Young workers used to take those jobs, though. The young (especially men) are underemployed right now. If you're right, they are the ones hurt the most in the long run by automation.
But there are lots of ways to automate personalisation :-)
Sorry, I don't understand your point in the historical context. Original labour conditions in factories were horrible. The conditions did not improve through economic rationalization but because society recognized it as wrong and forced factory owners to employ better working conditions.
The a-hole part is certainly bad if it is true. Can you show some examples?

The "seeing more ads" part can just be the result of having fewer users.
It's worth reading the comments on this one. I'm surprised so many didn't realise it was satire, but maybe that says more about people's expectations of npm than anything.
It's just a constant.
Employers are hiring more graduates from nontraditional schools like Flatiron
One may also pay pennies for bullets, likely better to move both you AND your money overseas while you still can.
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>2) Once a machine can do the job, why would you hire a human at all?

Because we need a point in our lives, otherwise we will make up some gods and start killing each other. Jobs keep us busy, keep revolts down. Most frustrated and aggressive people are those without jobs and daily schedules.
I think the decision to automate is usually based on the capital cost of the automation, with the productivity/consumption ratio of the automation usually being higher than the displaced workers.

Take a robot truck. The difference in energy consumption per mile will be nil, but the auto truck can easily and safely drive 168 hours a week, compared to the death march legal limit for humans, 70 hours.

The per mile cost of the automation system will also likely be close to nil (a few tens of thousands of dollars amortized over a million miles).

So a system that isn't really more expensive (compare the up front cost of the automation to several years of labor) is more than twice as effective.
While it was nothing to do with websites, check out "Programming from the Ground Up". I think the title explains it all :-) It starts with assembly and ends with C.
I quite like this kind of challenge :)