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"Money spent keeping someone alive who has no chance of recovery is money that’s stolen from the treatment of people who could benefit the most from it."

There are people who everyone agree are alive (ie. no brain death, can communicate without problems etc) but who are suffering from a terminal illness and therefore have no hope of recovery. Should their medical care not be paid for by insurance? Would you characterize insurance money used for their care as "stolen"?
I think it's that, by their nature, video editing programs need to use lots of very fast low-level code (C and assembly), and it's really hard to write safe low-level code.
I don't know, I'm currently using Linode and am trying to keep my stuff as platform-agnostic as possible (just give me dumb Linux boxen).

Most of the great new features proliferating on other providers seemed designed to encourage vendor lock-in. On my current project, I made one concession to my usual aversion to proprietary lock-in and went with AWS S3 for storage of user uploads (also looked at Azure's offering but my BizSpark application was denied, so meh), since there really is no equivalent. I'd thought about using Linode's beta block-storage (which would have probably been more performant), but I was afraid I would be forever fighting with managing volumes and nfs mounts (or massively overbuying capacity).
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Video codec installation also contribute to the instability.
Oh, it can easily be mindbogglingly expensive, but it can be done on a (relative) shoestring, too. (Though arguably, to some extent, going cheap just means you are leeching off someone else, as the guy at the other end will need a bigger everything to make the signal to noise ratio acceptable at both ends.)

I've tried it a few times, out of pocket expense was way less than $1k - using software to generate smart modulation schemes like JT65b, you can get performance orders of magnitude better than what a human ear can pick up - leading to orders of magnitude less impressive - cough - stations.

Costs were more or less like this:

Computer - $0. (Already had one for other purposes)
Software - $0. (Gotta love freeware!)
Soundcard interface - $30 in parts
Transceiver - $250 (Early nineties vintage)
150W solid-state amplifier, 2nd hand - $40, needed fixing.
Low-loss feedline - $65, plus a couple of hours in the car to pick it up.
Mast - $0 (Repurposed an old flagpole)
Antenna - $180 (DIY 2x12 element yagis. Cost of materials)

Now, this is a bare-bones setup - more power and more antenna would make life a lot easier. Also, it would be nice to be able to rotate the antennas (Now I just aim for where the moon will rise and wait for it to whizz by)

However, it works. After a fashion.
Yes, all software has bugs. And pretty much all modern operating systems are good. But some are better than others in much the same way as all Olympic 100m runners are fast but some are faster than others.
> Halfway through he notes how processors have millions of transistors, each being slightly different, and notes how we are just soooo lucky to have found a hardware bug now.

I read that as the other way around. He says:

> We should all be more surprised that it took so long for a major hardware bug to be found, than the fact that one was ever found.

Which I would read as, "it's surprising we don't discover bugs in hardware more often".

I would also say, that in the world of embedded devices, HW bugs in silicon are the norm, and your chips come with some form of errata.
Think I had this older article in the back of my head when writing that:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/08/here_c...

I don't disagree about urban white collar porn (sitcoms, dramas, sure but all those house hunting shows too) but neither of these were the main thrust of my comment.
And it's not only that - Time spent not doing our own designs (and instead spent memorizing how to use magical frameworks) is time not spent advancing our technical understanding.

It's a sad state when otherwise very intelligent people think it's bad practice to use plain C and a clean OS API that has been stable for decades (because that was somehow "magic" und impossible to understand and error-prone), and advise you to use the Boost filesystem module just to concatenate two paths.
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What does the Spectre/Meltdown bug mean for a person planning to buy a new Windows 10 computer? Should I buy an AMD CPU based computer instead of an Intel based computer?
You can still break wireless headphones, your phone, and pretty much anything with you (including you) while cycling, so I fail to see how your point is relevant.
I recall a biology seminar speaker [1] saying (only half-jokingly) that we can already cure any disease whatsoever as long as it's in a mouse. It's just the rodent → human transition that's difficult.

[1] Can't remember who exactly. Would have been at the University of Delaware, probably around 2012.
Somehow related to this, I came across today the very curious case (from 2007) of the normally functioning man who was discovered to be missing most of his brain.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-b...

But this is a case where brain tissue is killed/removed over the course of decades, giving neuroplasticity time to work.
There is also an ego aspect to it. When people have done well they think it is all skill. Look at people who were really successful on crypto and now give financial advise as if they were an economist. Or go to a casino and talk to someone after they win big.

What they can gain is in the ego as well. Though I 100% agree, always follow the money. But never underestimate how often things are written with the purpose of saying "look how great I am, you should envy me."
"Mice genetically engineered to spontaneously develop breast cancers in all 10 of their mammary pads also responded to the treatment."

Woha, I had no idea that we can genetically engineer animals to develop cancer. That is impressive, and a little scary...
Currently it seems to be via https://discordapp.com/nitro which has a smell of "c'mon, guys, help us out" about it.

I think they should charge people who want to create or run a server $5 a month or so, but that's just my uneducated opinion from the outside.
A GSK3 antagonist, lithium, treats bipolar disorder. It's a small world in drug development.
Ha, no I was more thinking along the lines of a ML approach based on successful couples.
With the exception of the github profile, that's not my experience at all -- if anything, lots of hiring managers want to ape that sort of experience even if they can't really assess it because the alternative is something like this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/a-job

Spending 2 years learning how to interview when you could have been spending 1.96 years getting passably good at something and 2 weeks on interviewing is madness, though.
Right, it totally wouldn't help current Intel processors. This is totally a future microarchtectural change. Also, there's not really a way to use Rings 1 and 2 in long mode since long mode requires paging to be enabled and the PTEs only have the one bit for ring selection.

But (given the idea that we're talking about future chips) it could help describe protection boundaries in a finer grain way to protect against Spectre in the same way that AMD is protected against Meltdown.

The main issue with spectre (in a long term sense) is that the CPU really has no way of understanding that you're running lower privileged code in a higher context, whether that be BPF in the kernel, or JS in the browser. IMO, we're going to be fighting the same battle over and over again as the all of the mitigations so far are heavily microarchitecure specific.
I recall a crackpot that pulled every last one of his own teeth and replaced them one at a time with polished rocks from his own gravel driveway.

I think it was a video segment on The Daily Show, with Beth Littleford as the correspondent. So that would have been quite a long time ago, somewhere from 1996 to 2000.
Download page: "it's FREE forever"
So in this terms free is rather without charges
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This list feels incomplete. I wish I could find a link to the referenced HBR article to evaluate whether their study is worth anything.

For example, I'm surprised to find no mention of quality of life or more specifically work-life balance. Surely that's a dimension that motivates at least as many people as "loyalty to a social group," and it's rare to have a meaningful discussion of compensation without considering the trade-off with work-life balance.

What's more, there's no mention of the enjoyability of the work itself. I think many software engineers can attest that it's hard to beat a tight feedback loop combined with a problem that's just on the edge of your circle of competency. Or, to put it bluntly, would you be more motivated in your job as a {insert money-is-no-issue-dream-job here} or working the "returns" counter at Macy's?
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Well, perhaps you can see that saying people who are "fortunate" are "jerks" for complaining when something isn't fair is quite baffling, then? And perhaps you can see that using the phrase "this is something humans can do" can come across as quite condescending? And perhaps you could see that the same argument could be used against any company with cash reserves, whether they employ engineers or minimum-wage line cooks, then?
Those are all old drugs whose patents have expired. Drugs start off being patented and exclusive first.
And it's not just embedded devices. AMD and Intel put out tons of errata too.
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“Results” is a loaded term. In computation, “results” means the return value of a computation. Intel does keep you from observing the result of secure_stuff. What it doesn’t do is clean up all the side effects.
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That doesn't mean or say anything at all, for a far more useful breakdown try this: https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

If more people would expand their horizon and realize there's more to politics than "left vs right" then all this bipartisan crap flinging might get toned down a bit.
> War is the final arbiter, stupid as it is.

Perhaps when it comes to sovereign states, but with individuals you have things like tort law, instead of simply killing the person you have a dispute with. Why couldn't there be something like that on the international level?
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> Is it alluring?

This CANNOT be over stated. If it matches your own view you have to be even more wary of it than if it doesn't match your own view. If it fits in your own narrative then you want it to be true. If it doesn't fit then you don't want it to be true.

Always consider your own bias. Does it provoke a strong emotion in you?
There's a great book on motivation that splits this differently:

1) realizing/seeing the impact of your work on real human beings

2) having objective metrics that you are influencing

3) being part of a team that treats you like a human and cares about you

The book is called "The Truth about Employee Engagement" by Patrick Lencioni
Every time a new framework or tool comes out and everybody jumps on it. I always wonder if somebody will realize that you are trading one set of problems and work for another.

As engineers we really need to stop supporting these sort of effort and take the time to help each other become better engineers that write and maintain our own code. We need to promote learning and mastering the underlying concepts that things like kubernetes tries to hide and shield engineers from.

In most cases tools like kubernetes are so vast and huge so they can be the solution looking for many problems.

It is also curious how once kubernetes became big how many small shops needed "Google" level orchestration to manage a hand full of systems. And how hard people ripped their software stack apart into many many micro services just to increase the container count.

I think if most engineers took a step back and said "I don't know" and took some time to truly understand the requirements of the project they are working on they would find a truly elegant and maintainable solution that did not require tweaking your problem to fit a given solution.

Every tool and library / dependency you add to your solution is only adding more code and complications that you will not be a expert in and one day will find your self at the whim of the provider.

Far to often do we include tens of thousands of lines of code of somebody else's work all for a handful of lines of code that if somebody would have had the confidence and support from other engineers around to try and truly understand the problem domain could have implemented and owned the solution.

The general trend I see as I get older is that we are valuing the first to a solution rather than a more correct solution. Only to be stuck with a solution that requires constant care and work around.

So I plead to all engineers, devlopers, programmers or whatever you call your self. Please stop and take a moment and think hard about how you would solve any given problem without the use of external code first. Then compare your solution to the off the shelf "solution looking for a problem". You might surprise your self.

I will also like to point out that if when solving a problem your solution looks like a shopping list of third party tools libraries and services; you might not fully understand the problem domain.

-- sorry for the rant --
Blatant advertisement for overly expensive training course?
Ah okay I get it.
Tom Brady owns a multi-million dollar house next to "The Country Club" (yes, that is exactly how it is referred to, anyone who has to ask which country club does not belong) and he was denied a membership until this year:

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I think my most memorable passage from that book is that cats are higher class than dogs because they are (mostly) useless. :P

The upper class hobbies are definitely a thing. Equestrian > sailing > skiing > golf probably. Golf only being this low because it was "democratized" by muni courses and popularized first by Arnold Palmer, then by Tiger Woods.

Skiing is probably the most approachable of the activities for the upper middle class professional, but it's a $300/day activity that necessitates travel. A fairly devastating expense for many.
> there's going to be a lot of shakedown scams from bad actors.

I'm not sure how that would work.

Any compliant service is likely to allow self-service (eg: a button to delete a comment; a link to list out all data; an edit function to correct wrong data).

If you're storing personal information and don't comply with the law, you risk a fine. Just as you risk a fine for mismanaging health data, or risk prosecution for storing data that is illegal, like child pornography.
i'm biased :), thats a disclosure. :)
You can easily use a VoIP number to set up Signal if that's really an issue for you.

The alternative (using Telegram's homegrown and dubious cryptography and lack of actually encrypted group messages) is significantly worse. Here's a nice summary of the issues: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/49802/43733
Lectures, for me, are a great touchpoint, and, in the context of academia, a great way to set (and maintain) a rhythm. But they (almost always) require me to actively take notes (something I can't always do) to really take anything of value away from them.

(All of that is to say, I agree with you.)
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It reads better if you replace experts with “well trained technicians”. Having worked with hundreds of physicians, I’m confident in saying that expertise follows the power law in this field, too.

Only 1-2% should rightfully be put on that pedestal our culture reserves for health workers, and the other.
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