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"When I moved to Rome from Washington, DC, one sight struck me more than any ancient column or grand basilica: people doing nothing."

Yes. It's like a big small town. It's quite refreshing - though it can be frustrating if you want to get something done.
An acquisition was pretty much an expected outcome since there was no way a company with $10.5 million in VC funding over 10 years could go public. IMO the comments as a service space is a terrible fit for the VC model. It's easy to get to scale by offering a free service, but very very hard to monetize. You can force ads on your users, but you end up being at the receiving end of users' wrath, as was the case with Disqus.

I've tried talking to VCs with the idea for a Disqus alternative [0] and many of them shared the same concern : market size. It's tiny. A back of the envelope calculation gives me a number between $100 million and $200 million in ARR potential with most of the revenue being generated via ads instead of paid subscriptions. Disqus serves 17 billion monthly pageviews which translates to roughly $1.7 million in MRR. So yeah, I guess this space is more suited for the artisanal variety (bootstrapped companies) than the VC model. Another guy who's been working on an alternative for 3 years is `foxhop with Remarkbox [1].

[0] https://www.hostedcomments.com/

[1] https://www.remarkbox.com/
Well the garden I mentioned is close to a busy street. It could be the increase in traffic.

I'm happy to hear about your insect diversity. I hope if you ever get fed up with them you'll use natural countermeasures, such as installing bird nesting booths (a great tit catches over 300 bugs per day...and it sounds nice). I mean in Africa they're starting to use bee hives to deter elephants from farms, surely you can't be worse. May the frogs and spiders be on your side.
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Really? I don’t believe you. “I don’t like Americans because my country was once involved in a horrific war with Americans” is the same to you as “the African people are genetically fit to be slaves”?

When everything is equally bad, then nothing’s any worse than anything else. I think that second statement is clearly worse than the first and, as an ideology, has implications that are orders of magnitude more awful.
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Yes, I hold no such illusions. It was more intended as a indication that I am no longer interested in their services after the news of this acquisition.

Unfortunately the "Other" option when deleting the account did not give opportunity to comment on why the account was closed.

Hopefully they will see a large number of users jumping ship now in the coming days.
So? Checked lots of retailers/vendors in China, they all told me the same story - no Epyc in stock, but Intel's latest servers/processors can be shipped in hours. In fact, I ordered several Xeon processors last Sunday and they showed up on my doorstep yesterday. For Epyc, I need to pay the full price and wait for 4 weeks to get anything with the Epyc logo on it.

when searching the keyword Xeon on taobao.com, I got over 100 pages of results, from $130 second hand E5-2670 to stupidly expensive Platinum 8180. Searching on Epyc gave me a blank page with 1 and only 1 seller promising to ship in 4 weeks.

AMD is not ready for such a battle with Intel and I am not going to waste my time on such half baked products which is not even really available to consumers months after its paper release.

posted from my new dual Xeon based workstation.
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I found that these kinds of languages make a LOT more sense after learning some logic [1], specially relational logic, to the extent that it's essentially the same thing.

[1] http://logic.stanford.edu/
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>The weakness and passiveness of western "democracies" is astounding

It's frustrating for me too, but having spent a significant amount of time in both China and the USA, I can say with absolute conviction, I'd still rather live in the USA.

But consider this. The only reason we tolerate their shenanigans is that they offer their unwashed masses to us as the 21st Century-equivalent of slave labor. Look at what is happening to their lands, waters, and sky. There is no doubt that China continues to be exploited, continues to remain in the position it has always occupied in dealings with the west.
I tend to be specialized in A/B Testing, Analytics and Personalization.

I enjoy the precision needed to get actionable data, talking through all the use cases, and the constant experimentation.

I do on average tend to find the 'build it, and maybe throw it away in a few weeks' style of development isn't for everyone however.
Start off by teaching your kids how easy it is to fix things. Involve them with easy things to start with and then gradually more complex things. By the time their 17th birthday rolls around (or whatever age it is in your country), buy them a broken car for their birthday. They're very likely to quickly learn how to fix it.
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I get 50MB up and down fiber with 900GB data (512KB FUP) for 6 months at 4500 Rs (which is about $11.64 / mo) in Pune.
This is great news, I hope they make it in the cloud! It will be interesting to see how this plays out... There are many optimizations for Intel CPUs in kernels and VM hosts, hopefully this will not be too big obstacle for AMD.
The OS and API surface is the same. Why did you comment without even checking what the article is about? What's the point except the useless ignorant snark?
I'd argue that it's both anti-progressive and anti-intellectual. I live in a stereotypical flyover area, and the sentiment is spot on. People vote against things that would clearly help them, because that's what everyone at church is doing.

This isn't an overstatement either. I know these people. Their opinions are what someone told them to think. Almost completely void of logic. Fox news said some shit, so it must be true! This sounds exaggerated. It isn't.

Some guy was running for office and totally did the "Jesus, show me the way" campaign. Crosses on his election signs, the whole nine yards. He was neck in neck with the incumbent (who was well liked, I might add) just based on this crap. Until he got arrested for nearly beating a guy to death. Not very Jesus of him, is it?
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Hey, yes, I know who he is and no, I didn't read his books, simply because I don't think any sane person will publish a working trading strategy... even if someone does, it will be quickly arbitraged away... Maybe the book has some truth to it and maybe it is a good read, but the fact is you'll have to put a lot of time and work to find an edge in the market... good luck and just remember, those people are making more money from books and "education" services than on the market itself... some of them don't even trade...
zero surprise that the Atlantic staff would free up time to do a hit piece on the Midwest. It's not like anyone had previously thought that UW Madison would match Yale in the endowment Dept. Atlantic loves doing cultural victory laps over the Midwest to assauge their other more obvious setbacks
If you do 3x12 pushups (or 2x to failure) every single day when your current level is wall pushups you will over train.

There are a lot more people in this world whose level is wall pushups than you may realize.
Btw all the toys were new to them. So probably they just spend a few minutes with each to try it out. You're quicker if you only have to try 4 and pick one.
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The Red Zone is only a thing you should be doing within a function. Once you call another function you need to update the RSP regardless.

This "at all times" is most relevant when you have interrupts in your execution that you can't predict. When an interrupt runs, you can't know how much of the redzone has been used, so you assume 128 bytes below the current RSP value.

> Also, how can a vDSO function "allocate" stack?

By updating RSP and using the stack properly, that is what I mean with allocating the stack. It's normal code.

> It would have to know about the current stack space as configured by the go runtime, and somehow dig into this go-runtime-specific record of the current stack limit?

No, you simply use push and pop as usual. The go routine sets up the stack, the bug in the blogpost is that the go runtime assumed the vDSO would only use a couple bytes on the stack, but it used more because it did a stack probe about 4 kilobytes into the stack.

>Isn't the only available option for any exported function just to /use/ pre-allocated stack space (by subtracting from rsp) - I don't see how it could possibly extend the pre-allocated stack.

Not at all, as previously mentioned, stack is simply the value in RSP, you can update that as you want. PUSH and POP the values you need and the OS will implicitly allocate memory for the stack as needed.
This and the fact that AMD now offers tensorflow support for their GPUs: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12032/amd-announces-wider-epy...

Means there is finally some competition in data centers.
This really puts into perspective of what kind of moat facebook has and just how much overlap there is with companies like Disqus.

Personally, I like Disqus because you aren't required to log in to one specific social media account and integrating it with your site is pretty easy.
Probably academic research (similar to what I do now), but in more of a moonshot attempt. A bit more mathematically involved than what I currently do.

More open source contributions.

More larpwriting and fiction writing. To some extent this one's always sunk by procrastination, though. :P

Visit my family more. I should do this anyway, but I'm on a lowish income and it's expensive to visit them.

Oh, more political involvement! All the current meetings of my local party's group are scheduled immediately after work. Free time would really help with that.
Thank you - I didn't know about it (#^.^#); got some reading-up to do now....
The author states:

>"Unfortunately, AWS’s VPC product has a default maximum of 50 non-propagated routes per route table, which can be increased up to a hard limit of 100 routes at the cost of potentially reducing network performance."

Could someone explain why increasing from 50 to 100 non-propagated routes in a VPC results in network performance degradation?
>>Well, that's the problem, right? If it's genuinely hard to gather data that would rigorously demonstrate either A or not-A, on what basis do we believe either A or not-A? It's sound to say, "I have no belief." It's less sound to say "A is the default; the burden of proof is on those claiming not-A."

Let me guess, you are a religious person...

That is the basic foundation of a religion, you can not disprove god there for god exists...

Sorry... no

>>That's exactly how forming hypotheses work. You run into a couple of isolated, non-rigorously-acquired observations / anecdotes, you form a hypothesis, then you formulate a way to test the hypothesis and gather data. Until you've run the experiment, your hypothesis is just a hypothesis, not concluded fact

Well that is a complete bastardization of the scientific method.... You completely discount the "way to test the hypothesis and gather data." part of it. If you can not test and gather data to support your hypotheses then your hypotheses has no merit and should be dismissed completely by any rational thinker. You the individual will entertain your own hypotheses privately until you devise a method of testing and proving your hypotheses with rational thought to others.

Not simply posting it out there and claiming anyone that can not disprove your hypotheses means your hypotheses is correct. Simply because it can not be disproven does not mean it is proven
Not only that, but monoculture is bee bonanza one time of the year and a wasteland in the rest. Unsurprisingly, bees need to eat the whole year, and they prefer a variety of plants and flowers which mature at different times. A diversified garden or farm supplies them thorough the year.

Bees are not the worst case because they can make honey to prepare for lean times. Insects which don't stockpile long-term reserves are out of luck.
They also have a paid version where no ads are shown.
Why would you want an only 3 week old version with an unknown number of untested and unproven features?
In my most recent playthrough, I've found that some of the mechanics don't make a lot of sense from an ontological perspective:

"Friends, countrymen. The rampaging horsemen of Kirghiz have long plundered the world and burned down cities and used the bones of our fellow Christians to fertilize their fields. We have heard from our friends in Gotland that Kirghiz intends to do the same to their houses, and we shall prevent this. Sound the alarms, muster the levies!" Two months later: "Er, never mind, Gotland surrenders." And a month later, "Friends, countrymen…"

Beyond that, it can be fun to watch just how screwed up the game can get sometimes. I had one playthrough where the Kingdom of Andalusia was located in Hungary, the Kingdom of Africa in Italy and the Kingdom of Italy in Africa.
I'm having trouble with it--I sincerely want to work less and am financially able to if I so choose. I only want to work part-time to cover modest monthly expenses and health insurance (since employers typically don't pay for or subsidize insurance for part-time workers). I only work full time right now because of health insurance because for my healthy family of four, paying for it myself is a larger nut than my house payment was when I had a mortgage which screws up my FIRE plan.

There just aren't any part-time techie jobs, or else I'm not approaching the problem the right way. After a 2-year contract concluded at the end of 2016, I took three months off and tried to find the part-time work I desire and then I panicked and found an FTE role again.

I don't want to be cashier at Target, I just don't want to be a developer working 40+ hrs. anymore because it's absurd for me to do so but I feel like the risk of retiring so young is too high because once you're out, it's hard to get back in.

I simply want more free time to work on things I care about and not be dictated to regarding when I can take time off or for how long. Again, I am financially able to do this, but either I am psychologically unable, or just haven't put the pieces together yet.
This is basically how Big Real Estate already treats most cities.
Reminds me of late 90s Microsoft calling everything .NET
This seems to be an argument for or against simplicity. DAOs are just one pretty useful way to abstract database access. In the beginning they are almost always too much for what you need as far as data access, but provide a consistent way to access persisted data. You don’t need them, but they are a safeguard against the future where it gets more complex and you don’t want to refactor a bunch of code.

There’s also multiple ways to implement and having a DAO that spits out transfer objects or value objects that aren’t connected to the db is perfectly fine and nice and OOP.

In some situations with complex data structures that require lots of transactions the DAO becomes more important.

In the end, Im not sure what the article complains about. Author shows a simple example as being bad, but doesn’t show an example where it’s needed. And the negative isn’t substantial.

If anything it gets you thinking more like the database system and that could be a pain if you switch off of relational or between systems that represent data differently.
I wonder if it will run on a Nexus 4 or HTC Wildfire. Would be nice to see if I can do without a new phone after my current OPO breaks.
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I've just become a Girl Scout Co-Leader for my daughter's troop. I was an Eagle Scout growing up so the landscape / environment is pretty different.
In talking with other Troop Leaders there are some that are making use of webapps / social media and those that aren't. I'm personally using Trello, Google Drive, and am working with the girls to standup a little Wordpress blog on my AWS account.
Are there any SaaS companies that offer special pricing for charities / Girl Scouts / Boy Scouts / Stem Scouts / etc? Does anyone have any recommendations on where to find out more information rather than contacting each company directly?
Interestingly enough y would be ——— • ——— ———, which is the same length as • •••. Although I think it's still faster to "say" es.
> Getting the flows into K8s apps from outside the K8 network is amazingly clunky in its current state.

Ingress components are maturing, and I think will seem more natural once they've matured, stabilized, and become more visible in the documentation.

At present though it's a bit of a hump... Running my own K8s cluster on-premise I suspect like a lot of that clunkiness ie because in its natural environments (Google and Googles Cloud), it has direct access to nice load balancing and routing systems/services.
They haven't structured the sentence well. They are taking credit only for their WiFi networks.
Besides Google is not a carrier and hence they can't logically take credit while talking about carrier innovation.
In that case, a $90M exit is extremely impressive. The data must be very valuable to drive that valuation.
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It isn't. -fstack-check consistently checks the stack at a 4K offset. It wasn't designed for Stack Clash protection, but in practice, it works as long as all the code was compiled with it (which on Gentoo Hardened, it would be, at least for typical C/C++ apps). The whole stack is still being probed (except perhaps the first page), it's just being probed ahead of actually being used. The caller was responsible for probing the space up to that 4K offset. It's counterintuitive, but in practice it works as an effective mitigation (and it exists already, so Gentoo might as well use it until real Stack Clash specific protection lands in GCC).

Edit: to give an example: if a function uses 6K of stack space, then -fstack-check will probe pages from [SP+4K] to [SP+10K]. [SP] through [SP+4K] are assumed already probed by the call chain, and the [SP+4K] through [SP+6K] region is being probed explicitly. In the end, nothing gets skipped over.
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China won’t listen. They under report their fishing by orders of magnitude.
look at the last "who's hiring?" ...every month I see more and more listings outside of the Bay area
I think this is mostly due to services like Disqus targeting the CMS space like WordPress or Squarespace heavily, while at the same time making deals with established online presences like online newspapers, etc. Essentially, while it may seem trivial to you or me, we aren't their target user, they want low hanging user fruit. Eg, copypasta this one line and it all works!
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This is one of the few occasions when you hope that an acquired service actually is shutdown. I wish they'd sold to Yahoo.
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I guess that is just more reasons to live in a rural area then a Urban one then. Less likely though courts will be creating databases of ruin on their citizens
I've lived on the Midwest pretty much my whole life and Illinois and Minnesota are generally Democrat states with large city populations. The other state I've lived in, Iowa, historically has been pretty tolerant (but that is changing recently) and was the fourth state to legalize gay marriage. I know people from a lot of small towns where they were taught evolution and were not anti-intellectual at all. The Midwest covers an absolutely huge area and while some people follow this stereotype probably the majority of people in the Midwest don't.
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“I asked a “Waste Collector” on the street what happened that he has to work in this job?”

This guy sounds like an asshole, tbh
Indeed, has potential to rejuvenate older phones, albeit from custom roms. But I'm still trying to find the minimum specifications for this flavour of Android. Anybody have any ideas?
Age can both help fix the problem of feeling well-off and exacerbate it.

It's easy to be among the top in something in the little group that a kid in high school is exposed to. Even in a big district, there are enough things to be good at that you can be the best at something esoteric. Then you go to a good college for that thing, and come in thinking you're all that, and suddenly realize that you're average. But college exposes you to the fact that there are innumerable niches in that thing, and you can pick one and be among the best at that niche from your graduating class. You then go off to work, thinking you're hot stuff with your new top-of-the-line special credentials, and think you know more than everyone else in your field. Surprise: You don't. You meet someone who's been in the field for 30 years and can solve the special problems that you're uniquely good at in their sleep. And that guy has someone he calls when he can't figure something out.

It's sort of like looking for records in a baseball game: There are so many possible records to set and precedents to break, that there's something new for the announcers to go on about in most every game. There's a lot of room to be unique, special, and valuable.
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Percentage-wise, the population of Ohio has grown more than New York since 1960.

edit: Another way to put it is that Mississippi has doubled in population in 100 years - roughly 1.5 million to 3 million