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It's a terrible article on an important subject.

He completely ignores the extreme ultraviolet "light source" problem. As the features get smaller, light wavelengths are too big, and higher frequency light has to be used to get the wavelength down. Current technologies use ultraviolet light. The next step down in size is "extreme ultraviolet", which is actually soft X-rays. The "light source" can be either a synchrotron or an an incredibly expensive kludge where droplets of tin are vaporized by lasers.[1] 30KW of laser power goes in to produce maybe 100 watts of useful illumination. Two floors, tons of equipment. All this just to expose a photosensitive resist on the wafer.

At 14nm, the UV light source is a modest device. Getting to 7nm is enormously more complicated. 7nm may not be cheaper per gate.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xJEs3a-1QU
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> as futile as trying to outlaw the BitTorrent protocol

It doesn't need to be eradicated, just kept underground to limit adoption. Millions use torrent, yes, but many more do not and the movie studios are still raking in money.
Well, there's quite a bit of German and Latin together. Doesn't that qualify?
Also don't forget about feasibility.

Whether you start bottom up, or top down, your design may run into performance problems at some point. In cases where this is likely, it is better to determine key components, test their performance, and run calculations.
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Or at least single it out for that treatment... I think the more difficult problem with Doctorow's criticism specifically is the degree to which many Saudi women support the system. Are there also critics? Yes, of course, and I personally hope they make the kind of social changes the article champions. But it's not really something that can be forced on them from the outside.
I think you have that backwards. Bottom up is about the composition of already understood pieces into more powerful ones (the utility of which is obvious due to solving limitations/ inconveniences inherent in the previous layer).
Sprawl IS a new phenomenon, though. We didn't see the kind of suburban sprawl that we see today until after WW2, when cars became THE way to get around. It became more and more dominant and entrenched as the interstate highway system developed.

Remember, we're talking about relative density within a metro area, not how close each metro area is to the others. If you look at cities that were more or less fully developed prior to WW2, like Boston, you find that they're more compact, as opposed to, say, LA or Phoenix.

That said, I don't think it's the only thing making us fat. But I do think it's one contributing factor.
good reply. stuff for me to think about.
> There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without training and the rest with only modest effort.

You mean like English as spoken in the American South, vs Australia, vs England? They are each very different from the English I speak, I can mostly understand each, but it takes effort and sometimes misunderstandings happen.
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censorship is favored by any kind of authoritarian extremist group and is independent of left/right (which I perceive as an increasingly meaningless distinction).

organized censorship is practiced, historically, by organizations as diverse as the Ayatollah of Iran, the Chinese Communist Party, the NAZI party, and by some microscopic evangelical Church in Arkansas that you've never heard of. Now a certain kind of deranged college professor (and the students they influence) are doing it too.

So what is the left and what is the right? the categories we're accustomed to reading about have broken down. it's something else now and its time to acknowledge it.
If you (or someone on your team) is truly enjoying assembling DIY solutions using the best of what OSS has to offer, the possibilities of how to accomplish this are endless.

But for a single-command fire-and-forget commercial solution, take a look at http://gravitational.com/telekube

It allows you to, basically, define your own "Kubernetes flavor" with pre-installed components like CI/CD pipeline, databases, redis, etc, call it "developer cluster foo" and have X replicas of it running on any infrastructure. Telekube runs a single process per box and manages dozens of parts (kube services, docker, systemd, terraform) automatically for you, does atomic in-place version upgrades of the entire stack, etc. It is basically a "kubernetes appliance" and that's how many of our customers use it: ship it in a box into on-premise environments.

Yes, yes. It was a shameless plug since I work at Gravitational. We believe that DevOps folks have better things to do that spend any time provisioning Kubernetes and keeping it (and a dozen of components it now consists of) alive.
> The African says: "Look out of the window. can you see the bridge our taxpayers paid for?"

s/our/your and you have an explanation why many projects funded by the richer Western governments in any development country (no matter if Africa, Asia or Eastern Europe) tend to fail. Endemic corruption (and preventing it) is not very high on the radar of the funders, all the politicians are looking for when funding development projects is "we spent X US$/y % GDP in development aid", but unlike private charities which have to prove that they're not wasting money, there's no incentive in government-supplied monetary aid to check for efficiency.

Same goes for food or clothing aid - Europe just dumps excess (food) or waste (2nd-hand clothing, where the "cream" goes to Eastern Europe and the leftovers to Africa) onto developing countries without taking care to not destroy local industries. As a result, refugees come in, and most often those politicians allowing the ruinous exports in the first place are the first ones to complain about the refugees their very own actions caused.

It's sick.
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It'd be interesting to see what SHA2-512 would do since I think modern intel CPUs prefer that size to 256. (I could be wrong though as i have no source to cite just something I remember reading.)
Looks like Chain does as well: https://chain.com/docs/1.1/protocol/specifications/data#sha3
Normally I would count this as an auto-win for Apple but the interesting thing about these speakers isn't necessarily the hardware itself but the many services that back them. I play with both Home and Echo a lot and I'm most impressed by how quickly Google is adding lots of useful functionality. Their documentation and evangelism for developing on their platform seems to be pretty good too. I think Apple will catch up quickly as they did with the Watch.
To be fair, every so often you find a king.
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The demand for skilled Front-end engineers have gone up. Looking at the responses from this post you can see that a lot of back-end engineers find it hard to tame the beast that is Javascript & this mis-understanding has slowly turned to hate. Thus while they run away from it, this leaves an large opening. Let's face it the bulk of services we use now live on the web and Front-end is going to be around for a long time. Someone has to take on this task, this is why over the years I've personally seen front-end engineers earn the same as back-end engineers I don't have the statistics but I know folks personally. As people run away from JS this creates a demand for front-end heroes willing to take on the ever changing landscape turbulent but necessary. For crying out loud you are reading this comment on a page.
> Commonly understood in the field^ is that 60,000 examples is the sweet spot for training and validation data, 50k for training 10k for test/validation.

I don't understand how this could be true. Shouldn't the sweet spot be a function of the dimensionality of the data?
> It is very common amongst large companies to accrue hundreds or thousands of roles over time. Having an intuitive GUI lets you manage this debt, keep your roles up-to-date, and keep your system secure.

... Such as..?
Radical feminists and mens rights advocates don't even define happiness that differently - they just want it for different gender. (I know there are also feminins and mens rights advocates who deal with actual issues of the respective gender and don't bother with philosophy around happiness. Respect to them.)
>but you can't simply buy a $10k radio ad praising whatever candidate you like

Can I buy a $10k radio ad supporting some particular issue that the candidate also supports?

Can I buy a radio station and hire talk radio hosts that argue in favor of the candidate or issues the candidate supports?

>but in general the problem is somewhat solvable

I think that depends on what you count as "solvable". The systems which address the problem probably work better for some people and less well for others. Which people do you have reason to believe are beneficiaries of these systems, and what reason do you have to believe that?
> In Australia or the US, men act emasculated if they aren't driving a large ute/truck

I wish that here in the US we could still get a small pickup, with a 2-door standard cab and a short bed, but CAFE rules have prevented auto makers from going that route.

I hate four door, extend cab pickups. I hate the long wheelbase. I'd like to be able to buy a new small Ford Ranger again (4wd this time) - but I can't. Even the Wrangler has gone almost exclusively 4-door and "big".

I can't see myself in a car (well - beyond something like a Mustang GT or similar - but I already know one of those would get me in trouble with the law super-quick); I'm currently driving a loaner Camry from my repair shop (while they take care of some problems with my recently purchased TJ), and while it's been a great car (250k and runs like a dream, honestly - for a 1993 its not bad at all!), it just feels wrong to me.

So, for now I'm going to stick with my VehiCROSS and TJ - both used and paid-for, but both suck the cash outta my wallet in so many ways. And let's not talk about the carbon footprint for either (both get around 15 mpg or less - ugh). But I don't have a problem going off-road.

Which for an EV, I'm just waiting for this possibility. Right now, though, there isn't a big enough demand for EVs period, let alone pickups or 4wd. I've seen a couple of EV pickups (Ford actually made an EV Ranger back in the 90s), but the latest concept I've seen is just yet another extended cab monstrosity (but AWD). I don't want or need that.

What would be cool to see would be the OX truck with an EV option (but I doubt that will happen, as it doesn't fit its use or demographics - nor are they likely to be sold to regular consumers).

Finally, of the EVs I have seen - outside of the Tesla - the Volt actually looks rather nice, for a small car.
Ah, that's a good point. Still, it seems the design pattern has outlasted the attitude that created it.
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To be honest i count StackOverflow as social media.

I redirected Facebook's urls to localhost just in case I am even tempted (it pisses me off just being there so its kinda dangerous) and I somewhat focus my twitter on work/personal-work related news. Removed all notifications on everything except my own stuff.

This setup doesn't remove the anti-boredom fix pattern in my life but at least it isn't too far from the main thread so the context switch tax isn't too high.

I am convinced most of the +sides are deeply held coping mechanism triggering somewhere but the randomness of twitter and the comfy network of SO and HN are important to stay in touch with at least something.

I have friends who live from organic-farming and boy is it weird living in a world where computers, internet and all that chaos is easily null.

Ty for the book idea, might help to improve my devops ;)
>I guess 32-bit x86 performance is maybe not the best benchmark.

I compiled for 32bit instead of 64bit because I wanted the same executable to also run on a 32bit Macbook. When Thomas Pornin ran benchmarks[1] in 2010 for both 32bit & 64bit, the SHA256 hash performance didn't change as much as the SHA512. I'll recompile for 64bit and report back if there was a massive difference.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2722943/is-calculating-a...
Why can't you just use a prefix MAC with SHA-2 512/224?
>Cloud isn't less secure than on-prem if you are your average software startup or non-tech company

Even that's hard to argue, unless you rely on a fundamental incompetence within that startup or an often-unprovable competence level on the part of cloud providers.

There have been enough cloud-hosting provider security facepalms hitting the front pages now so 'cloud providers are better at security than small shops' is starting to be called out as the blind falsehood it has always been. Fundamentally it has always really been 'We're unable to see what these guys are doing behind the curtain so we'll assume good faith', and little more. The emperor may have clothes, or in many cases has been utterly balls-out naked, but up until now groupthink has been that not knowing = must be secure.

I am biased though, I spend most of my work hours analysing service providers big and small, self-hosted and cloud, and have probably developed a suitably sceptical view in that time.
For a properly engineered mobile app there are only downsides to using the public CA system (and thereby the devices CA store). So that would not work.
It sure does fire up more threads, but the performance boost wasn't really all that great (the 4 -> 5 transition increased the amount of parts I could handle by about 2x on my 5820k (6 core)).
Yet Dallas is still home to the longest light rail system in the world. The trains are not an issue, it's how decentralized the people are. The value is simply not there to justify the project in most people's eyes (and won't benefit most people).
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That's because income taxes on the wealthy are way too low, which incentivizes stuffing income into real estate, stocks, and bonds.

Earn a million dollars worth of either earned or unearned income, and you pay either (simplistically) 39.6% on earned and 23.6% on unearned income. That's too f'n goddamn cheap. It encourages peopel to pay that tax and put it into one of the above, rather than take the risk by starting or growing a business and taking a tax deduction for business expenses.

When the silent generation was in charge of things, income tax was never less than 75% for the top tax bracket, for over 40 years. And during that time there was massive private and public infrastructure being built, and we didn't have a $20 trillion national debt.
I don't think that's true. TuppleHash is THE solution for fingerprints. SHAKE is useful for really a lot of different purposes. Imo self made protocols could really benefit from STROBE today as well.
Do you consider Office Space a hacker movie?
Oh great... another self-driving car project... /s

To me, this just feels like another jump on the bandwagon. I have an Echo and, while it was awesome at first, with all the skills and everything it feels less amazing than it did when I first got it. Now, I feel like it mishears us all the time, it doesn't give the answers we'd normally get unless we say things in a very specific way, and all the cool tricks ("Who is the mother of dragons?") are just gimmicks now.

Unless Apple can actually make their version useful and able to understand questions that aren't formed in "robot" as the language, I don't see the point of this.
There's also Scots (not to be confused with Scottish English or Scottish Gaelic) which, while mostly relegated to “dialect” status these days, was previously considered a separate language. Here's the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Scots: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=sco
That reminds me a lot of watching my Dad and my uncles work on my grandfather's farm when we would visit there when I was a kid in the mid 70s. Lots of heavy equipment, no shirts, climbing w/o safety lines, cigarettes in everybody's mouth. Just an attitude of "get it done"

It is no wonder "farmer" is one of the most dangerous occupations in the US. They're the last to be impacted by health and safety regulations.
I think a block cipher allows you to build a lot. Cmac for mac, a block cipher is at the center of sha1/2, aes-ctr for prngs, ... But it's rather that it's used as the center piece of some algorithm whereas doing anything with keccak is just natural.
No Spotify, no buy. Being locked into Apple Music is a non-starter for me. It's still mindboggling to me that Siri can't/won't interface with my Spotify account. My lowly Amazon Echo supports this just fine. In fact, I prefer it to the spotify UX/UI.
Hmm, something is wrong with your benchmark: the absolute values in MB/s are very low for i7, and relative too — blake2sp should be much faster than SHA256.
Nice list of frontend conferences https://github.com/benmvp/frontend-confs
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Well, no shit. What we today call English is a creole that emerged out of trade pidgins used by Angles, Saxons, and Normans to communicate. It doesn't look like other languages for the same reason Garnet looks like neither Ruby nor Sapphire.
Russian is a famously difficult language to speak at a fluent level. You can make yourself understood fairly easily, but the nuances of both the pronunciation and grammar are quite hard to get 100% correct.

In particular, its system of declension for nouns and adjectives (and some other noun-like things) tends to drive non-native speakers batty. Wikipedia gives a good overview:

"Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, most numerals and other particles are declined for two grammatical numbers (singular and plural), three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter) and six grammatical cases (see below). This gives dozens of spelling combinations for most of the words, which is needed for grammatical agreement within and (often) outside the proposition. Also, there are several paradigms for each declension with numerous irregular forms."
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I've found the Home useful. All I can use the Echo for is to set multiple simultaneous kitchen timers and to play music while cooking. The Echo just doesn't seem to be able to handle natural language well or there isn't support for what I'm asking.
I'm not going to get into the fine-grained (and for the purpose of this discussion, basically persnickety) nuances of where English sits on the creole/pidgin/hybrid spectrum (especially since none of these terms have formal† definitions anyway).

Being as the basic facts of its lineage (a near head-on collision of German and French -- not just "contact in a few places"), and the fact that many of its annoyances (particular in regard to spelling and pronunciation) result directly from a watering-down of these two systems, are generally understood.

† Yes, there are widely accepted definitions for these terms, but they are more like conventions ("thought to arise from interactions between parents and children") rather than formal definitions, like e.g. SVO.
But RISC is nonetheless good.
People can't really though, because of zoning and government planning. Like even if you wanted to make an area more walkable by inviting, say, a corner grocery store to set up shop in your neighborhood, usually you can't, because of single-use zoning.

And before you say, "well then just move to the city center!" perhaps you should consider that we're talking about a very common urban form across the world that is strikingly uncommon in the US due to government forces? Not exactly "people making their lifestyle preferences", more like "government imposing lifestyle preferences", and it's mostly just due to cultural momentum at this point.
The better case for modern English as a creole is through Middle English, when Old English met Norman French following the Norman conquest of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypothes...
I think ever since it came out Pokemon spawned in the same exact place for everyone (hense cheating tools came about like maps that showed where all the pokemon are), but yeah you couldn't "steal" pokemon, everyone can catch the same pokemon which makes for videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-XnTDcQZjY
It must be an unusual place for Apple to be in, chasing trends as opposed to setting them.
A more accurate rephrasing would be:

The lack of effort toward monetization likely is an effect of the same cause as low developer pay.

I was suggesting that the two were linked, but not suggesting the specific causal link from monetization to developer pay of your version.

But you are correct that the original was unnecessarily elliptical.
No, it's still Germanic. It just got a lot of loan words.
More evidence today's Apple lacks vision. These products are niche. Some people love them I know. But look at the sales. They are not appealing to the mainstream. The future of digital assistants is not dedicated devices in every room of your home. I'm not sure what it is but it's not that.
Can you explain a bit more on how does it work? I heard this two times in past week here. Thx.
What if we sync account on Firefox, how much Firefox use our data?
So what should we do when a cow gets sick of something that an antibiotic can cure? Incinerate it is the only other option I can think of, otherwise you just get more and more cows sick of something easy to treat.
Do you still run a local caching DNS daemon on every server? If not, why the change?
Think of the economy as having a temperature-- 100 years ago, the US was hotter, more dynamic, more dangerous. And it's gradually settled into a more stable structure. Safer, but harder to make changes.
Update: Exxon stockolders too!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-exxonmobil-climate-idUSKB...
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I agree with OP, but this is not true. You can trust Amazon to be better at security than you are. In essence, depending on how (in)competent you are, cloud allows you to convert money into security.

If I am a complete zero when it comes to securing my home, and I get a professional contractor to do it. Is that "inherently less secure" because I have to trust him, now, too? Not necessarily, if he does a much better job than I would have done. It can make up for that extra trust.

If you are as competent, or more, than Amazon: sure. You are right. But not all of us are so lucky :)
I'm not prepared to disagree with you, but it's at least a complex question, right? Maybe there is a real social benefit to rich, powerful people being "out." Maybe there is something bad about who you are attracted to being a secret that you have the right to keep hidden if you want? Not all queer people are even capable of hiding it, right, so maybe Thiel being "in" is a sort of privilege that isn't fair in the first place? I don't like the idea of forcing someone "out" but his status as a powerful public figure complicates all this in my mind.
How come no ones seem to do it then, or not do it well enough?

Cities:Skylines has the same GC stutters.
I guess this hits a nerve. I am serious about liking the company and team. I've made many of my own startups and many thing I've missed there are here now - that's what I mean. I really wish I could be contempt with what I have. Trying to strike out on my own has also caused a lot of stress. Yes, I get the full-on power and passion for 3 days straight, but since none of my projects have gotten anywhere (so far) I've kind of lost motivation there as well.

Meditation? Yeah Vipassana is my friend. Can't say I follow Goenka's daily schedule, but it's here.

Thanks for the thoughts, I shall keep them in mind.
Reading some of the cases, especially the ones where the court has yet to directly rule otherwise on, are quite chilling in their potential application.