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> We already have a bunch of great runtimes, compilers, and opcodes.

I'm confused. Are you suggesting we, for example, use the JVM for this instead? WASM is being designed specifically with the web in mind, and has a lot of design goals which just weren't a concern for other runtimes. See: http://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/
I'd like to suggest having your dad and an Ars Technica journalist sit down for an interview. Get archive.org and Ars together to archive the footage and release a nice video edit in the article.
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> I wonder if Arch would consider doing the same (supporting 32-bit x86 as an alternative architecture).

Yes: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-ports/2017-Januar...

(Also https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-ports/2017-Januar...)
What I'd like to see: Twitter accept that they are largely done growing. Rather than chase after new users, they focus on their current users and focus on the core product. Pissed off investors dump the stocks, the share price plummets, and the founders take Twitter private.
Totally feel you. I'm 29 and have this sense of urgency, that i am running out of time.
My main problem is financial freedom. Is not about the money, it's about the freedom to do whatever i want, whenever i want. Is not that i want to buy a Ferrari tomorrow, i think it's more related to ability to travel to places and enjoy every moment of my life instead of sitting in an office.

When i look around, i realize that i am actually doing pretty great compared to the friends around me. I have had the privilege to study or work in each continent of this planet, Antartica excluded. I travelled and experienced lots of different places during my twenties, which are arguably the best time do have these experiences.
On top of that I bootstrapped two different companies which are running and profitable (one in South Africa and one in Hong Kong), but not yet enough to pay for my living expenses. Both amazing experiences, but probably also adding to the psycological pressure of "not being there yet".

And YET, i am somehow still deeply unsatisfied. I feel that i am not free and still unsure of what my life will look like in the future. Still bound to a salary.

Over the last year i made some small and big changes to my lifestyle to keep things in check:
- stopped the digital nomad life and got a easy, well paid job in berlin. That gave me the financial security and peace of mind back.
- completely scrapped tens of tiny dead-ended side projects, which were only adding clutters to my mind and taking away preciuos time.
- slowly accepted that things happen when they are ready to be. I'm dumping this "launch fast, fail fast" mindset. Most of the time a project takes lots of years to become successful.
- Code less and talk more to people.
- forced a bit myself to enjoy the small moments in life, like having a beer with my old time non-business-savvy friends.
- stopped drastically reading noise-making magazines like Techcrunch. You just read about the million dollar exits, but not about the majority failed stories.
- stopped reading business books and switched over to novel (sci-fi in particular).

Overall, my well being has improved a lot since one year ago. However, I believe once you experience this lifestyle, it's hard to go back and settle for the old one.

For the future, I will try to be more patient and wait for things to fall in place. But overall life is not a destination but a journey. As long as you enjoy the entire trip, it's all good!
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Millions of apps could soon be purged from Google Play Store
Well not exactly, but I feel like the JVM, LLVM, parrot, CLR, or any one of those that have well defined opcodes could be leveraged instead of producing something entirely new. There's quite a bit of investment in those projects... Does that make more sense what I was trying to say?
I was actually a little disappointed with "Lo and Behold." Maybe I set my expectations too high, but it struck me as very disorganized. It seemed like it was trying to cover too many topics at once and draw connections between them that weren't really there.

It still had beautiful cinematography, but I just couldn't enjoy the commentary.
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Reposted with added "upstart" so Arch fanboys can't nitpick their way out of this.
True that. And that dead (and removed) comment was by "Asooka".. Seems like a slur to Maurya Ashoka. Some times, things like that will also catch me.. was just wrong, but couldn't put my finger on it until now.
> (once the drivers get fixed)

I suspect this means they'll end up in the landfill regardless.
The more parts in assembly there are, the harder it is to control quality. You have to trust that the 3rd party supplier is meeting the required spec in manufacture and that the parts are damaged in transit.
"...and Windows)."

Was that supposed to be part of the humor of the article?
Hence why reports like above are helpful, so there are examples to draw from. Otherwise everyone would just be guessing. I bet many would love to hear about migration cases from RoR to .NET as well.
What do you mean? The announcement specifically says multilib is unaffected. I run 32-bit programs all the time.
I disagree. No one lives life in a vacuum.
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> no one offers a credible solution

> There are many VCs currently hunting for this product

Implies a difficult problem.

> algorithmic induction tech

Do you mean inference?
Read not just charitably, but informally, it should involve either a bulge or a prominent shot of the genital area, since that is something we (generally, hopefully) don't do unless we want to call it out.

I mean, seriously, the only people who argue this 'informal' reading are pedants like myself.

There's nothing wrong with it, but let's call it what it is. In context the point was reference to sex and genitalia, not the literal display of genitalia which I truly hope most of us would understand is not the case on the NYC metro (or any other, for that matter).

Of course here I am typing out a response to an outrageously pointless line of conversation that nobody in their right mind would consider serious, so for all I know that's the same kind of reasoning that led to my reply. I guess I'd just prefer to see less of this kind of noise here, and I'm sorry if I'm contributing to it.
Is it true that most of these bugs wouldn't be possible in Rust? I think Rust might have solved:

> heap-buffer-overflows, stack overflow, use of uninitialized data, SIGSEGV, undefined shift, invalid enum value, memory leaks

I don't think Rust can protect you from infinite loops. And of course, actual logic bugs where the output is incorrect (including "assert failures").
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They do have cameras for those kinds of things but most of them are a backup system and they have the actual signals, signs, and speed limits embedded in the GPS data. If you do a google search, you can find several instances of Tesla's speed-limiting a car going down the freeway where the GPS data was incorrect. The car all but ignored what the signs actually said as long as it could identify that a sign was there.

I'm sure there are light conditions that it can't handle, but there are so many fallback systems that it doesn't have to rely simply on visual data.
LA’s mayor wants to lower the city’s temperature
Talk nerdy to me
I've spent thousands on Twitter ads (for my clients) in the past but am spending less and less these days.

Their new card design (ie, design of the ads) apparently is a magnet for unintentional clicks. Around 90-95% of clicks for my last campaign were accidental.* The crazy thing is that their support team knows about the problem yet they still charge you for those clicks as though they are legitimate, AND they still let people create ads in that format. I've since taken my (clients') advertising dollars elsewhere. No wonder their ad revenue has gone down.

*I can only assume they were accidental because Twitter showed, say, 100 clicks, and Google Analytics showed just 3 visits. Yet Twitter support insisted the clicks were legitimate. That means people clicked the ad (unintentionally) and, upon realizing it's loading a new page, left the page before it finished loading.
AMD confirms it won't ship Ryzen drivers for Windows 7
It’s not just Google –Snap has a $1B cloud services deal with Amazon, too
Nowadays cc65 exists: https://cc65.github.io/doc/c64.html
If you are relying on something for your business that you paid nothing for, you get your money's worth.
Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine
Wow, that's a cool timeline. You should give it a try!
Didn't know it existed.
It's not all detected with radar, just the primary systems are. There are visual systems but they're not the primary detection system. With lane lines, it's mostly visual but they filter the input and have location-based data for things like signs and signals.
From my experience as a programmer and a musician I find it odd that Curtis advocates the need for a big vision to bring about real change. In other words, he urges people to do top down planning.

My impression is that working bottom-up is more suited for solving complex problems with many unknowns. Sure, many undertakings, like the Arab Spring, failed. And this is hardly surprising because a lot of success depends on happy accidents which you can't expect to happen. But bottom up "miracles" like modern computer technology or new musical genres do happen. Otoh, from the top of my head, I don't remember a single complex problem with many unknowns that was (successfully) solved with top-down planning.

Ironically, LSD (which apparently inspired Curtis a lot) is another classic example for this. It failed miserably at what it was intended to do but turned out to be a happy accident for other purposes.
How about you tell them that you need more than a week to accept, and then tell the larger company, whose official offer you are waiting for, that you have another offer and would like to know their decision sooner.

Seriously, you shouldn't feel pressured to accept an offer. You'll kick yourself in the teeth later.
FreeBSD did this too, right after I had just setup a local Minecraft server on an old Pentium D. It's a shame because it works perfectly for that purpose and now it'll just have to sit on FreeBSD 10 for the rest of it's life. I don't plan expose it to the outside world so that's OK for me, but surely 32-bit machines still have a purpose.
> Isn't a Giffen good then just something where one infers quality from price?

No, it's an inferior good (in the economic sense) in which the (negative) income effect of a price increase outweighs the success substitution effect.

What you are describing is a good that has a positive elasticity of demand with respect to income (or, technically, two different goods, because the higher price represents a different good altogether - one with a higher status symbol).
If they receive a copy of the software under a non-GPL license they might also be allowed to redistribute modified versions without releasing the source code. (This is usually the whole point of having the proprietary dual-licensing scheme).
Be glad they're still available to answer questions.
Ouch, that's bad. I wasn't aware of those, and yes, I agree, that's a good use of the word counterfeit.
It's the Monty Python cheese shop sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts
Technically it was a Mach based OS, with a POSIX compatibility layer from BSD.

The distinction is important IMO, because I beleave part of the ease of them supporting multiple platforms so easily is because it was all built around a microkernel.

Now Apple has more of a hybrid with XNU, but many of the core concepts of Mach are still there.
Radioshack could have lived on just fine catering to the enthusiast and hobbyist market but these days it's unacceptable for a publicly traded company to make modest profits. They're expected to make investors wild profits and show quarterly growth, that's just not going to happen in the market Radioshack was in so they tried to pivot out of it and failed horribly.

The trouble is that Radioshack tried to pivot from being an enthusiast and hobbyist store into a more general retail electronics store. They are small storefronts in strip malls not suited for carrying large stocks of big ticket items like the Best Buys of the world. Because of this limitation they focused on small consumer electronics, mostly phones, and pit themselves against both big box retailers and the Telephone Carrier who run their own shops in the very same strip malls.
How would you move an S3 user off cloud?
Do you have networking, load-balancing and performance experts on call if something goes sideways?

I guess we are aiming for different companies, my clients want scalability and do not want to deal with BGP issues, power outages, vendor RMAs and the other things people forget to add to the basket when comparing cloud vendors to dedicated hosting. Amazon buys networking equipment and servers on a discount you would not able to buy, they also get a great discount for the networking bandwidth and energy as well. It would be very hard to beat them in the datacenter game. I worked for companies where we were in charge of datacenters (I have built few) and companies using cloud services. Based on my experience you cannot meet with the reliability, security, availability and efficiency of AWS/GCP when using a small dedicated hosting provider.
Which ones provide a similar approach to Arch?

A six-year-old 32-bit processor (e.g. an Atom in an EeePC 901 or HP Mini 311c) is more than capable of running a modern desktop system.
Damn, am I the only one who doesn't feel long ago when we were looking for 64bit distributions to test owr brand new opterons? Arch did not exist at the time(if I remember well).
When I looked at it "only" built DLLs. IIRC.
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Yes, how can anyone disagree w.r.t. professional development?

Again, I only see how subjective judgments are relevant for hobby projects, which is fine when nothing is at stake.
That's not how Arch works... ;)
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You don't need a powerful cpu for gpu loads.
I've found that the premium depends on the store and model. Some seem to do relative pricing, others absolute. In the latter case, if you want a big rig it's best to let someone build it for you.

Often times in those cases you also get great service because a) if you build PCs for a living you're a computer geek and it's fun to build an insane PC and b) they often use their biggest systems as advertisement. At least, that's what I've seen.

+cable management is like black magic to me. If I were to take the money saved as payment for me to get it as nice as those places get it, I'd be below minimum wage.
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The book "Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel" by Stillwell does this in terms of identifying what is considered advanced in a survey of elementary math topics and showing how they fit together or don't, like how Groups drop commutativity of multiplication from the ring http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10697.html
Note that I did not say it always happens — when everything is cached, it performs as well as any other mobile-optimized site — or that it's specific to my device/carrier – it also happens on WiFi, Android, etc.

The problem is simply a brittle design which depends on a ton of render-blocking resources. The assumption is that those will be cached but my experience is simply that fairly regularly I'll click on a link, see the page title load (indicating the HTML response has started), and then have to wait a long time for the content to display. Many news sites also load a ton of stuff but since fewer of them block content display waiting for JavaScript, the experience under real-world wireless conditions is better in the worst case and no worse in average conditions.
You do realize your experience isn't typical, right? Most developers aren't going to look through the source code for the framework they use to answer a question about usage. They're going to google it.
Thanks for clarifying. I can see how it would be confusing for someone to be dropped into chapter 5 of the book with a section title like that.

Common Lisp hackers may use "Lisp" colloquially as a shorthand for the language they're working with ("Common Lisp" is a bit of a mouthful, after all), but I don't think many of them are confused about the existence and nature of other lisps, or that they tend to disagree with academics on this.
Except Phoenix and Elixir are just faster out of the gate than Rails and Ruby!

"tl;dr Phoenix showed 10.63x more throughput over Rails when performing the same task, with a fraction of CPU load"

https://littlelines.com/blog/2014/07/08/elixir-vs-ruby-showd...

You can tack on a Phoenix app on top of a Rails app's database and immediately get big improvements as Rails can be a bottleneck.
Parts of it are, yes. The issue with the truck was the height. The logs indicated that the trailer was being ignored as an overhead sign because its height was greater than the height of the cameras. The visual camera data was ignored completely by the system as the truck was perpendicular to the direction of travel.
The average age of a car on the road in the us is somewhere just over 10 years old. The averae person may be switching, but a bunch are switching into a new to them used car
I've heard this burst-to-cloud story for many years now - Paul Maritz pitched it heavily as the pillar of VMware's value/strategy when he took over there.

I've yet to ever see or hear of it properly executed in practice. I think it's a really hard thing to try and bolt on to a legacy system, and if you build a new ground-up app this way going full cloud to start is easy and cheap for a while until you're successful and then the economics are.. complex.

I think there's also the weird angle to it that the folks who have the skill to architect apps like this are very hard to come by.

Would love to be proven wrong and hear about folks who've seen burst-to-cloud work out in practice though!
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As a philosophy grad myself, there's nothing preventing me, from improving my mathematical understanding other than my interest and motivation.

More philosophically, if understanding machine learning requires understanding mathematics, what do I mean by 'machine learning' if I don't understand mathematics? Practically speaking, if learning machine learning entails learning mathematics, then the mathematics is just more learning.

My advice, don't look at it through an academic lens of prerequisites and required courses. Just jump in and see if it sticks. Beginning is beginning.
Perhaps you shouldn't be asserting yourself as an authority on what did or did not happen if you are too young to have experienced it in the first place.

I'm very young, only 27, and know that I missed a full decade of early internet culture and can't speak to it. Even given that, I had a 14.4 and fondly remember downloading a music video for hours. (No porn on the modems personally, I think I was barely adolescent when we upgraded to cable)
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Thank you for the recommendation. I plan to do some testing to setup a kubernetes cluster on bare metal and will try ovh for this aswell.
> But to generalize that to a total immigration ban based on religion

> or even more insane, a travel ban from some arbitrary selection of countries, makes no sense whatsoever.

The ban is not based on a religion, if it was it would apply to 50, not 7 countries. Each of those 7 countries at the moment is riddled with terrorism and or has an active civil war going on. Yes we are talking about islamic terrorism, but the keyword here is the terrorism, not islam. Terrorist organizations active in those countries have made threats to and and already committed terrorist attacks by infiltrating migrant/refugee flows. Given this, why is it entirely unreasonable to temporarily stop immigration from these countries, for 90 days until the new vetting procedures that will attempt to address the terrorism threat are in place? How do you vett people coming from de facto failed countries using normal procedures? Why label someone as stupid, racist, islamophobic, and what not for disagreeing with you on this issue?
Wikipedia's version: http://i.imgur.com/zGcdMVl.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areas_of_mathematics
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
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Hi,

that's a pretty cool service!

Can you publish a screenshot that gives an overview of the settings page?

And:
- What happens when I want to disable amazon@mydomain.com?
- Do I get any statistics? What about the disabled addresses?
- Do you have an uptime guarantee?

I was working on exactly the same service, but gave up because of some legal issues using a third party for receiving the mails (mailgun) - the easiest way to do it. Furthermore, there was too much to do for me alone.

I think 9$/year is a fair price.
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While it is probably the sanest objective in terms of "let's be real and honest about it", 120M or even ten time that is not going to cut it with their current situation as a tech unicorn getting to the end of their ride and trying to stop their valuation from melting.

For reference, They were still valued in the 30+ billions range mid-2015, and now barely hold above 10B.
They actually have that question in their FAQ: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#why...
Snap Committed to Spend $1B on Web Services with Amazon
Absolutely! I have a perfectly good little netbook currently running lubuntu 32-bit. If other distros were to follow suit then they would quickly render my netbook useless.
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That trend is absolutely normal and except Harry Potter nothing else is good literature. And Harry Potter is only good literature because it is a great story, a really good adventure epic. The rest are mere products, completely forgettable, in the same way modern pop is not going to be remembered through generations.