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Good point about other distros catching up. Arch will be updating 32-bit until at least November and it could be another year or more until others like Tiny Core or Debian catch up to the package versions that Arch left off with. Will that now 8+ year old hardware still be worth using enough to switch distros when it is 10+ years old?
Funny how this thread is out of the front page. Either flagging or admins.

This is something that makes this industry look bad. Criticism is suppressed.
"Presciption opiates are an example where the drugs were clearly a huge cause, not just some symptom of a social problem."
I had the good fortune to hear him speak at my university in the late 1990s. Fantastic. Notably, he talked just like he wrote - good-natured, quirky, avuncular, a little bit cynical.

For what it's worth, when you read Vonnegut, you're getting the real Vonnegut. He put his heart into his writings, leaving all of us (and future generations) the richer for it.
That excuse doesn't really work because Gitlab offers a premium paid option for repositories hosted on Gitlab.com.
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Well it's also easy to model. NN needs lots of data from what I've read.

Also the whole sport analytic prediction industry mostly uses linear regression... But next hype thing is medical data for them but they're super slow in adopting new thing. Industry seems boring if you're not into sport and into modeling in general not just linear regression.
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Update: will just chill and not give any shits until my time runs out.

Got a solid new gig lined up, but out of respect I gave my company a large notice before leaving so they could replace me.

They're lining up a ton of work for me to do for this 'sprint' before I leave.

Should I just ghost them?
What's the next step for media (and for us)?
> I found out the hard way that Elixir and Phoenix docs aren't as prolific

Odd, because I have found the opposite to be true about the docs. I've found the docs proper to be quite prolific, well maintained and well-written with examples. This stems from docs being first-class citizens of the language, a dead-simple docs generation tool, and their dogged commitment on excellent documentation (which is why docs are first-class citizens to begin with).

> That and the names are less Googleable.

That said, the _SO/Google_ aspect (not docs) is _significantly_ less prolific - I totally agree with that. But I've found where with other languages I often find myself on SO (C# and JS mainly), I haven't even needed it because the docs are just so well maintained (and versioned). This, plus their community is _extremely_ active, on the elixir forum and github (also slack, but I use that less).

So now, when I google for elixir info, I'm basically googling to get to the official documentation quickly. If there is any question I have beyond that, I check the elixir forum, rarely (but sometimes) needing to post a new question. Perhaps I've just had a different experience wrt this.
Bulldogs

https://nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/can-the-bulldog-be-s...
I don't know exactly where the bar is, but I would propose that it lies somewhere above the point where going outside makes your eyes and nose burn because the air is so awful.

The US is not some magical pollution-free paradise, but at least the air is comfortably breathable here 365 days a year in most places.

It's amusing when the authorities put out an air quality alert here in the DC area. It's important for sensitive populations, but it's almost impossible for a normal person to even notice the difference. A code red air quality day in DC would be a delightfully clear and clean day in Beijing.

They should use cleaner energy solutions because they're killing a shitload of people right now. Dirty coal is only cheaper if you ignore the costs imposed by the pollution.
Which is why I have yet to see a company with a gitlab.com important repo - but Gitlab local installs? Aw yeah! (Gitlab EE is their main focus, IMHO - providing a public Github alternative seems to be an afterthought.)
> LTO tapes start out at what, 100GB and are something like 1TB each right now?

LTO-7 is 6TB. LTO-5 (the oldest in use) is 1.5TB.
I wonder if you couldn't make your own 3D printed replacement for that. Just a little piece of ABS that would get dislodged when your car is full.
Quadrotriticale, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Tribbles
Specifics on the vulnerability [1], proof-of-concept [2].

[1] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/867968

[2] https://github.com/lgandx/PoC/blob/master/SMBv3%20Tree%20Con...
> Incidentally, wouldn't the exclusive use of 64-bit pointers (and size_t) prompted by the inflated need in large address spaces lead to an ever more increasing demand for memory (due to in-memory objects being now bigger in size)?

Yes. This is the reason why some people have pushed for "x32" support, and why Linux 3.4 and above supports it (tl;dr: x64-64, but with 32-bit pointers: you get all the advantages of x86-64 without the pointer bloat).
FYI It's actually 8 years old for the EeePC 901 and the last 32-bit Atoms came out in 2009.
Yes, that's true. But you can only do a finite number of dereferences from the current frame without being destructive.
That 'testing' is taking place on the University of Michigan's M City track. I'm looking forward to testing during these conditions, in the real world, with someone behind the wheel acting as backup.

I'll revise my 5-7 year comment then - I think it will this amount of time (if not more) for these autonomous vehicles to move beyond testing (prod) in winter climates.

Driving on the interstate in a snow storm with semi trucks is no joke - there might actually be a threshold in which pulling over is the best option.
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Inform your dad he is moving into the computer history museum.
Why do you care if other people are happy being unambitious? Most people aren't horribly ambitious. How are 7 billion people all supposed to change the world?
You're mistaken. We have carvings that are older than the 2000+ year old Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), but it may be inaccurate to refer to cave carvings and inscriptions as "documents."

But even if you classify stone and clay carvings as documents, the statement is nonetheless true: the DSS are "some of the oldest surviving documents on earth." There are some fragments that are older (e.g. a clay fragment found in Jerusalem [0] dating to 1400 BC), yet the DSS remain as some of the oldest surviving documents in existence, and they comprise more than a mere fragment. For example, the DSS contains almost all the books of Psalms (the longest book of the Bible) and several copies of Isaiah.

This is an interesting find because it suggests there are more caves than previously believed, which may produce additional ancient witnesses to the historic texts of the Bible and other Jewish religious documents.

[0]: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Oldest-written-document-ever-fou...
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"> but is using one of the major cloud services cheaper than running your own?

At list prices? Pretty much never. "

???

It's almost always 'cheaper' for small companies to use the cloud.

It costs a lot of money to pay people to figure what hardware to buy, install servers, networking gear, maintain it, pay for bandwidth, backup etc.

But the cost becomes 'non starter' when you start to access all the nice things that cloud offers: Lambdas, S3, easy backups, etc. etc. and the fact that it 'scales on demand'.

Then of course there are the financing aspects: you don't pay for expensive servers up front, you 'lease' them effectively - which has serious working capital benefits.

All those things have considerable business value.

So sure - if you want to compare only 'server instance costs' - maybe 'buying your own instance' - specifically on a server by server basis ... maybe it's cheaper to buy a server.

But for most small businesses - the advantage of the cloud far outweighs the cost.

I'd argue that 'rolling your own infrastructure' would be risky and costly initiative that boils down to a 'cost optimization' only, and can't really be considered until a business reaches an operational degree of maturity and visibility wherein someone could really sit down and plan quite far into the future.

And even then I'm not so sure - this is why so many big and successful companies still use the cloud.
> I was thinking in use a Liquid Cooler but wonder if the Noctua could be better/less noise?

Depends, is your option of water cooling an All-In-One-solution that have become popular in recent years? Their performance is on par or slightly better than a large heat sink + large low speed fan(s), but they're not generally quieter, as you still have fans for them, as well as a pump.

I considered those options when building mine too, and as I wans't too enthusiastic about assembling my own water cooling system, I went for a large air cooled heatsink instead (the D15). No risk of leakage or pump failure, and proven performance/low noise.
Ah, ok, so if the can encounters a pre-mapped street signs, the car doesn't bother to actually check the sign.

Hmm... seems a tad dangerous to me. What if the sign is changed, or two signs are almost in identical position?

I suppose it will be ok if the pre-mapped version is used, whenever a confident visual prediction cannot be made (e.g. due to light, mud, bullet holes, or whatever).
This is a common (if not universal) practice for large law firms. My employer has software that enforces ethical requirements and triggers alerts when people open, export, or email too many documents.
Is that really a common thing? Cars depreciate rapidly and buying one that costs more than your early salary sounds like a complete disaster to me. Maybe the people I know are just unusually financially responsible?
Very few people with a tax liability of less than $7,500 would be buying a new Model 3.
But then you're going to be fighting with the crappy kernels from qualcomm. You're much better off avoiding them whenever possible.
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He, do it better then ;) The CPU emulation alone is about 300x faster then an original Z80 (runs at 1.2 GHz on the same MBP), most performance is currently burned in the CPC video emulation (way more expensive then the CPU). The CPU and memory system is quite optimized, the other systems not so much.
Awesome work, Axel - Flyway is our absolute go-to tool for all migrations, very easy, straightforward and one of only two pieces of Java in our stack that's so good we let it stay :)
This book was revelatory for me. I was aware of game theory stuff, but had no idea how it applied to groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Unlike with past languages, I've also found myself looking at the source code with Elixir, but it's because docs are first-class citizens. I think this is atypical of languages in general, and it's actually why the source code comes up when googling for the info. The answers are in the code in the form of:

```
@doc This is some useful, markdown documentation, which actually contains usage info.

## Usage

## Examples

```
That is absolutely right. You can easily write queries that can never be executed efficiently even with great indexing. Especially in MongoDB if you think about what people can do with the $where operator.

What would in retrospect be your preferred approach to prevent users from executing inefficient queries?

We are currently investigating whether deep reinforcement learning is a good approach for detecting slow queries and making them more efficient by trying different combinations of indices.
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Why wrong? Remember, we're talking about functional C here, so no destructive operations are allowed.
x86 isn't just 32-bit. Linux distros have been reluctant to upgrade their notion of 32-bit x86 to require SSE2. This means that x86 isn't just 32-bit but involves weird 387 floating-point math when other mainstream architectures use IEEE floating-point math.
>If half of the warriors are drunk or stoned, you'll lose whatever battle happens to come up.

If all the world leaders were required to take psychedelics on a quarterly basis there would likely be no need for warriors.

Every war is a civil war. We are all humans.
The reason for not using LLVM bitcode or ASM.js is already covered in detail here https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md

I am unsure how JVM or CLR are relevant. WebAssembly is not a virtual machine byte code (and neither is LLVM, despite the name). As the name "WebAssembly" suggests, it is like an assembly language level target for "the web" (more precisely, for JavaScript interpreters found in web browsers).

It is true that there is a lot of unfortunate duplication of effort and fracturing of technology happening here, due to historical legacy issues with web browsers. JVM and CLR are indeed highly mature and presumably secure VMs today. If we were to wave a magic wand and rewrite the history of the web browsers, perhaps it would be much better if JavaScript never existed and browsers used an off-the-shelf, standardized VM like JVM or CLR and we wrote web apps in C# or Java (or, at our discretion, F#, etc). This wouldn't solve the problem that WebAssembly is solving (i.e compiling native code, eg C++, for execution in the browser), but then maybe we wouldn't have needed that today if everyone (native and web) had standardized on a single VM target. But that's just not how things turned out, browsers created their own parallel technology stack from scratch so things like WebAssembly need to be created from scratch to work within the constraints that we are stuck with.
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The English language does not change because this is HN and everything thinks their IQ is 3 standard deviations above the mean.

"Nice _______ hack" has an obvious and blatant negative connotation, particularly when it's on its own like that. The implication is that this is just a way to make a few bucks. That's not what the commenter meant, thankfully, but that's only known after further explanation.
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> The more parts in assembly there are, the harder it is to control quality.

Which is why they tend to move to larger modular components. Things like seats arrive preassembled and simply need to be inspected and installed. Inspection can happen off the assembly floor and managed without disrupting production.

> You have to trust that the 3rd party supplier is meeting the required spec in manufacture and that the parts are damaged in transit.

You don't have to rely on 3rd parties to run an assembly plant. Your assembly plant can be fed by your own manufacturing facilities. But if you do rely on 3rd parties, it's definitely possible and companies like Apple do it with great success.
I'm 33 tomorrow and I haven't accomplished a damn thing yet. Furthermore, it sounds like you're way ahead of me. I make hardly any money and have no prospects for anything better. Actually my situation feels quite desperate at the moment.

What keeps me going is the thought that people in 3rd world countries have it worse, so maybe I shouldn't complain too much.
>You don't want a 30-min break in the middle of that 400 miles?

30 minutes if you can drive right up to a charger. Do you think that will be the case once hundreds of thousands of EVs are on the road? Have you ever road-tripped in the summer and had to wait in line for gas, which takes minutes to fill? I have. Often.
The payment part is unnecessarily slow at these things. We should be able to wave something at the device and walk out the door by now. But instead it's hit I'm done, wait a second to be able to hit pay with card, wait for it to tell you to enter a card, enter it, wait for it to tell you to enter pin, answer if you want cash back, wait a few seconds for it to accept and make a buzz to remove your card, wait 6 seconds for the stupid question "did you enjoy your experience today? yes/no" to go away (that I refuse to answer because it shouldn't fucking ask me in the first place), wait a couple seconds for it to decide to print the receipt and the cash to dispense, finally get your bags into your cart, and then leave.

None of the steps are really that long by themselves, but in aggregate it's easily another 1-2 minutes checking out.
Yeah, I've had this feeling every year starting at age 10.

Not joking.
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll have to dig that up.
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FYI, from the OP's linked discussion:

DMVPN capability would be outstanding and would make WireGuard much more useful in a AWS VPN situation
Building the actual boarding process into the software probably isn't as easy as you think, and airline ticketing is a long list of edge cases. I'm not a particularly frequent flyer, but the following scenarios from my own recent experiences spring to mind:

- "Your computer systems somehow completely failed to notify me in advance you cancelled my flight. Your airline has a legal obligation to book me on an alternative route, and pay compensation in the event of a significant delay."

- "I've followed your suggestion and been all round the airport looking for somewhere to print my ticket confirmation details, but can't find anywhere, and it's 11pm. Look, it's on my laptop screen."

- "Would you like a complimentary upgrade? You'll need to change your shoes first to comply with our business class policy, mind you"

- "We're overbooked, would you be interested in the option of a £500 and a hotel stay overnight? Any questions?"

- "You don't have an onward ticket? Not even a boat or bus ticket yet? OK, despite experiences you may have had with other airlines, we're strict on enforcing that country's visa policy, so you'll have to buy one. Here's the cheapest we sell, and this is the process for obtaining a refund after landing."

- "Oh, you've got a ticket with that airline, have you? We've got a codeshare agreement now - would you like us to put your bags through?"

- "The flight is delayed for five hours, here's your complimentary meal"

- "Look, I understand that your 777 has significantly fewer seats than the 747 it's replaced at short notice, but we're some of the first people to arrive, why would you bump us off? We're travelling on business so we need to be there and aren't at all interested in your compensation package. Yes, we have to be there on that day, for a trade show. No, we're not frequent flyers with your airline, but if it makes a difference a colleague of ours just got headhunted to a VP position in your airline. Yes, he sits next to us for the next month. Oh, there are seats available now?"

Needless to say, even where software can be written to deal with these edge cases, keeping it up to date with the latest issues isn't cheap, especially when you need (inexpensive) staff hanging around your kiosks just to deal with people that don't understand how to use them anyway.

Discrimination tends to happen in reverse, with special privileges created for customers that have a particularly strong need to travel, customers that have suffered from the airline's cockup, situations where customers need extra help etc. It's difficult to argue that "Computer says no" is an overall improvement on that.
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Automated checkouts aren't about each individual machine being faster than one cashier, they're about being able to serve ten people while only one cashier watches over.
Well, perhaps strictly evaluated functional languages.
I still would like to see the numbers backing up the thesis that especially Nissan and Renault, who are selling a lot of electrical vehicles here in Europe too where there are no ZEV credits in play, and lose money at that. Yes, the credit business helped Teslas profitability as a company in the last quarter, but that is a statement about Tesla as a company. They are making strong profits on the production of the Model S/X, but are spending all proceeds from that into the expansion. This means: building the Gigafactory, expanding the Freemont plant, setting up dealers and repair centers, running and expanding the supercharger network. At a year over year growth of more than 50% this is an amazing feat. I don't think that supports the statement "you are not making a profit selling electrical cars".
Vast majority of purebreds have some serious generic issues. I'm hoping that we as a society will solve this whole situation soon.

There is a BBC documentary on this https://vimeo.com/17558275
Yes! This is basically what we've concluded at Gratipay (née Gittip). Existing crowdfunding solutions are consumer-grade, and open source needs business-grade crowdfunding, as it were. We're working on it! :)
There is a well-integrated web api/interface to the shell-based services.
Sorry for any poor spellings, grammar, or odd words. Was tired and typing quickly without proofing.
I don't have experience in a lot of companies but the typical PM in my opinion is a waste of space. At least, that's been my experience so far. Regardless of money earned, I'd rather be doing anything else.
> I, for one, hope that WebAssembly will enable, say, Lua as a first class citizen on the web.

I can think of several languages I'd like to use on the web, but never really considered Lua.

I'm curious. Why Lua?
Not so; you can recurse back up over that structure.
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There was a time when you got good money to work in a grocery store, even in a checkout. I have (older) family members who decided not to finish college because they were making so much money at the grocery store, with pensions, in positions that would only pay minimum wage nowadays.
I've had friends praise Vonnegut's writing. For those who have read his works, where's the best place to begin?
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What's the going market rate to buy a reservation from someone? Say you wanted to be order #50,000 or higher?

Also: "last week design changes were still underway, which could hinder the ramp-up to full production"

This is kind of funny because it so often what you see in software which was his background. I wonder if any exec at GM ever pushes the envelope in this way.
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