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Long-haul truckers have been doing this for decades for the same reason-- they don't have time to pull over and use the restroom-- and no one is upset about that. I'm sure there are many industries, white and blue collar, where similar norms are expressed.

Edit to add: I'm not endorsing the practice in any industry at all, just pointing out that its not a unique problem to Amazon. My comment would have been better phrased "why aren't more people upset about that?" It IS still definitely a problem!
How long is a severed head conscious for? (2009)
Cheers for the repo reminder, installing this now, really hoping this will make my air go longer.

FYI link to packages: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.17-rc1/
this might be a too complex topic to discuss properly here

imo you address two things here very well

- who pays for infrastructure

- how do you do governance

imo the second one could be solved if you decided how you want to do the first one.
Is Sailfish really the viable alternative we are looking for?

Back in the 90s we suffered from Wintel dominance where if you installed Linux on a PC, it was likely to be a less than pleasant experience due to missing drivers, etc. The modern day equivalent to Wintel is Armdroid. Despite Android using the Linux kernel, you can't just take an off-the-shelf Android phone and run a Linux distro of your choice. ASOP (Android Open Source Project) forks the Linux kernel once and then virtually all Android OEMs create a second fork of the Android kernel fork, apply their own changes and barely anything ever lands in mainline. Jolla's strategy to run Sailfish on top of Android kernel forks with Android blobs inherits the same problems of Android, encourages bad practices of Android kernel development, planned device obsolescence and the throw-away culture when the kernel fork reaches EOL.

There are further problems with Sailfish. It is built on top of the Mer, a Linux distribution built for Tivoisation. Mer refuses to use GPLv3 licensed packages. Mer packages are stalled on the last versions that used GPLv2 before they were relicensed to GPLv3. Most of these package remain unsupported and unmaintained for years and are probably vulnerable to many known exploits.

On top of these problems, Sailfish contains many closed components and the majority of Jolla is owned by Russian investors. Is this an OS that can really be trusted?

Fortunately the situation is starting to change and there are real alternatives which may be usable in the near future. There's PureOS which aims to build a Debian-based OS for the Librem 5 phone on top of mainline Linux, postmarketOS supports mainline Linux on a few devices in addition to Android kernel support, and now there's Maemo Leste which is built from the ground up to run on mainline Linux. These projects are still in their infancy but at least there is hope for the future. Sailfish, unfortunately, does not look like it will be part of that future.
You had to be the right kind of poor to be able to buy the OLPC. They were not very interested in selling domestically in the US (except for that buy 2 get 1 offer). Chromebooks and cellphones hit the price point now, and don't require an NGO.
On the possibility that intelligent life may have preceded humans on Earth
Retail in general is thin-margin. That is why you see Amazon try out all sorts of things from cloud to videos, because their core is so thin margin, that any non-core looks more like an opportunity rather than spreading out resources, say in contrast to a Google or Facebook, who have solid cores high margins.
So your service goes out to the web and finds small businesses that have crappy websites so they can be offered mobile friendly design services?
Feel like there's a few different things going on in your comment, but I'll focus on -- who are you blaming for "shifting the goalposts"? I believe I'm trying to return focus on the "pure context" of the grandparent; it seems disingenuous to argue I'm, at the very least, the only one shifting the goal posts.
In general, I agree strongly with this sentiment:

> What does a healthy, moderate digital life look like? I think that manufacturers and app developers need to take on this responsibility, before government regulators decide to step in

As a bicyclist and driver I believe one of the best ways to enact this would be add a feature that allows investigators / insurers to answer the question of “whether the device was I use at the time of an accident”.

I’ve taken to yelling “get of your effing phone” at drivers obviously looking down at devices while I’m driving, walking or cycling around; I think the phone doing that would be more efficient.
This issue is on feedback hub for anyone who wants to upvote it: https://aka.ms/Yxum93
The typical aphorism is "Locks only keep honest people honest."

Really, even securing your house is tricky. My place in Florida was built with the hinges to the front door on the /outside/ because of local building codes. Unfortunately, I only realized that after it was built. The locks are nice, but any enterprising thief would simply pop the hinges and remove the door if I hadn't taken steps to prevent it.

Bypassing locks is easy, and security systems are only useful when law enforcement is at the ready (rare in many places).
If they're going to be replaced by robots soon, isn't that a good reason to not fear spending on them, since they are a short-term cost?
It was a pretty nifty little device for its time, I used one as my main laptop for a while but it was super duper slow my raspberry pi3 smokes it. It would be so cool if they released that same form factor as a device that you plug your pi into. The actual industrial design was fantastic I would love the same housing to turn my pi into a little laptop.
>we need to continually to develop novel ones

That hits pretty close to what I think I am seeing here.

There are a few assumptions built in to Eroom's "law" which I think we have learned to avoid when looking at Moore's "law".

One is that we will not come up with an alternate or more effective way to address the problems drugs are currently addressing. Another is that we will not come up with a drastically cheaper or more effective way to invent new novel drugs. Still another is that we will not invent a drastically cheaper or more effective way to verify a drug's usefulness and safety.

With Moore's observation, I think people have learned to assume that any observable slow down will be corrected by the invention of some previously unimaginable technique or other machine that will keep things on track. (nothing really makes this have to be true, but we seem to think of it that way)

Similarly, any number of future inventions could completely reverse Eroom's observation.

As we get better at editing genomes, making nanomachines, and increasing the resolution of 3d printers, previously impossible techniques may suddenly make it easy to invent novel drugs, address the same issues without drugs, or change the game in any number of other hard-to-predict ways.

Given these increasingly plausible possibilities, I am inclined to see Eroom's "law" as the mere observation of a relatively short lived trend in human history.
They shouldn’t be pissing in a bottle period, they should be taking a break, they are just scared to. No one is forcing them to pee in a bottle.
Maybe become a Forbes contributor, look for blog writing jobs on Upwork, apply to content creation agencies, or write analysis of trends you can sell to hedge funds, investment banks, or private equity firms.
When I bought large items at crappy retailers like currys, the often refused to serve me without a postcode. I'd use SW1A 1AA, 2AA or 0AA

Except when buying a TV -- that would be W1A 1AA
It is still there and open source [0] and I guess you can say k (not kdb or q!) are it's successors in some ways. Definitely in the way they are all very much APLs, with or without the glyphs. If you read the APL book by Iverson and then go to implementations of APL, A+, J, K, you'll notice differences, but there are all identical enough to pick them up fast once you are proficient at one of them. kdb+/q are different beasts and that is were the issues start (and the big bucks are to be found); debugging (performance) issues related to critical software written on top of k.

[0] http://www.aplusdev.org/index.html
wait, you're sure there are many industries, white and blue collar, where workers routinely pee in bottles as a job requirement?

Really? In the U.S.? You're pretty sure about this, eh? Many industries?

I'd be curious to hear an example of one industry where "white collar" workers routinely pee in bottles as a job requirement, official or unofficial.
Everywhere and nowhere. I thought they helped inspire the current round of affordable computers (chromebooks, phones, cheap laptops, pi, etc)?
Meanwhile they shove all of their software developers into one of the highest cost of living cities in the world and pay them six figure salaries.
Take a look at the operating margins for international(negative), NA(barely positive even), and AWS.

Graphs for this are shown here:
https://www.recode.net/2018/2/1/16961598/amazon-jeff-bezos-r...

This is also in the article:

The e-commerce giant posted a record profit of $1.9 billion during the last three months of 2017, marking the 11th straight quarter of positive net income for Jeff Bezos’s company.

About $789 million of that can be attributed to a tax benefit resulting from President Trump’s tax plan. But even without the benefit, the profit number would have been the largest in the company’s history.
The 10.x region is the reason that a former employer is such a huge user of NAT. They'd acquire a business who were also using that range, and they'd integrate the networks via NAT because it was too hard & dangerous to change the acquired company's devices & services.
Which country are living in?

I'm from Denmark, and while we certainly do enjoy beer, it's not an everyday thing for most people, which also goes for the other Nordic countries. Similarly, my girlfriend is German, and while they do drink beer more often, they're actually quite good at moderation.

We're visiting Spain (Malaga) right now, and a glass of wine and maybe a glass of sherry is the most I've seen the majority here drink, and it's not an everyday thing. Mostly they drink sangria or tinto de verano if they drink anything alcoholic, in other words significantly watered down wine.
You are right. I researched this now and the details that were important when I last bought a GPS are now no longer relevant.

Other than battery life, some of the reasons people prefer a dedicated unit are: better aerodynamics than a smartphone+case, support for ANT+ sensors, more rugged in the face of falls (even for a smartphone in case), more easily controlled by hands in a bicycle glove, and the ability to still have phone service even if the GPS battery is exhausted.
If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent" - Dijkstra
Hosting a WCF Service from an AspNetCore Application (in .Net Framework)
Leery about going to read this - has sourceforge cleaned up its act at all since the download poisoning issues?
> If you want to change the situation, start social media businesses with a different business model.

There's a question of what kinds of business models are feasible in the current environment.

There's all sorts of business models that would be nice, if they were feasible, but which aren't currently feasible.

So actually, if certain types of business models are desirable, but aren't currently feasible, there's a deeper question of: are there ways we can change the environment the business models need to exist within?
Oh I totally agree. I'm just suggesting that perhaps this also affects the recipients of the packages.
> Are Amazon's margins razor thin?

They don't make any money on distributing products.
To "ignorant" shareholders, there's no difference between stock and cash compensation.
I guess law enforcement doesn't pay attention to stuff like this:

"A new American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) working group report on the quality of latent fingerprint analysis says that courtroom testimony and reports stating or even implying that fingerprints collected from a crime scene belong to a single person are indefensible and lack scientific foundation."

https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2017/october/...
AWS has pretty good margins afaik.

They have the money to make huge acquisitions and invest in planes, drones, etc. They have the money to treat their employees decently.
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Note for other non-rustaceans out there:

In this context, "Rc" stands for "reference counted".

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html
The way to look at defaulting is the way the bank would. As a business decision. The bank wouldn't bother justifying themselves if they walked away from a deal, they would just pay the penalty and move on.
Everything gets centralized when there are economies are scale, technology stack fixes can’t change that.

Look at the ultimate “decentralized” technology, blockchain. The majority of mining power is now centralized in vast centralized farms with custom hardware and cheap access to power and half the Bitcoin is held by about 1000 people.
This totally plays into the hands of the Chinese. The USA will be more and more seen as an unreliably business partner where single individuals have too much influence over international commerce and globally significant arrangements. So China will be 'open for business' and other countries will see this as a good reason to shop for alternatives, and in the meantime internal politics in China will silence the voices advocating moderation and de-escalation.
Still remember hoodwink.d wow that was a long time ago
I agree with you there (one reason I sell all my goog)
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You quoted it (I guess besides white matter it could also be just to the pia):

>"for each gray matter voxel we computed the distance to the closest non-gray matter voxel."

I do admit that whatever they did is difficult to follow without seeing images of the transform etc (and figure 1 does not help), but the idea they are somehow measuring density seems impossible to me.
That is correct only for the middle and higher classes. The working and lower classes are unfortunately still apt to drinking and sedentary lifestyles. It is definitely getting better, though.
If it's a norm, does it make it OK?

All traditions were new once.
> I believe Facebook is overvalued, but comparison to the value of a dog park is not exactly fair either.

One is a great place do be if it wasn't for all piles of steaming crap left around by irresponsible users.

The other is somewhere to exercise your dog
| I live in Seattle and often hear this joke: Being an Amazon customer is the best. An investor is great. An employee not so much.

The ever-increasing home price in the Seattle area seems to indicate it isn't bad enough to stop them from working there.
You know how many nasty germs a package comes in contact with even before an Amazon employee touches it and long after it’s shipped? Trillions, with a t.
Well, him and the people higher up the food chain that enable him. Tech workers at Amazon could organize to prevent this kind of mistreatment of warehouse employeees. If the AWS team alone walked off the job in protest, the resulting panic and media coverage would squeeze Amazon to improve.
Same here, only used menuconfig since both config and xconfig were unpractical. I'd be curious to read how many people still compile their kernel today for normal use (ie not for testing or kernel development). Back in the day I did because a new card often meant the driver (if any) was available as source only, while today nearly everything has been already built into modules and can be installed as such.
I'm no expert, but I would've guessed that denying ZTE access to US consumers would've been a more effective punishment than denying it access to US component suppliers.

ADDED. Maybe the former would've gone against WTO rules or GATT rules.
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If you can't grow your business to be a monstrosity without treating your employees like slaves, your business should not exist.
F-Script was an interesting array language object combo that was originally written on OPENSTEP. It fit great with Cocoa later and was quite nice to program in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Script_(programming_language...
Have you seen this? https://pi-top.com/

I don't know how it compares to OLPC, but it's basically what you're describing.
> IPv6 makes human IP addresses meaningless

Tell that to my blog dead:beef:dead:beef:dead:beef:dead:beef
you're comparing 2 very different things.
Costco (retail) appears to treat their employees much better - much higher base wages, regular increases in wage, benefits, etc.

Also know a past Costco corporate employee and only had a positive impression.
Surprised to see Ubiquiti on that list. Thankfully, the EdgeRouter series doesn't show up there!

Still, I'll be blocking port 1900 and focusing more on defense in depth on my home net...

The irony is that back when I was a teenager adminning our home routers, I'd always disable UPnP simply because of what it is -- at the time it stood to reason that any consumer POS device could bypass the firewall with it and do horrible things from the inside out. Nowadays I've become a bit lazy because I think I'm pretty fatigued at fighting this kind of junk.
Just to highlight supporting bugs from a non-Windows platform...
https://s31.postimg.cc/e37910orf/IMG_2425.png
There is (was?) a service that did this. I had it on one of my blogs a few years ago. People could use it to donate as little as a penny, and the donate button appeared on each article.

I was very surprised how generous some people were. 10¢, 20¢, or more. But in the end, even with tens or hundreds of thousands of views, the article that got the most donations still only racked up about eight bucks.
> reduce access to methods

A sibling questioned the validity of this for suicide, and I agree. Anyone sufficiently motivated to kill themselves will find a way. Knife, rope, drug overdose, threaten a police officer, vehicular "accident", skydiving, move-to-Oregon (for legally assisted suicide, that is -- OR's a nice place :)), sit in the garage while the car is running... every single one of these things is something that a suicidal person could come up with quite easily, and do, even if they don't have a firearm.

The only thing reducing access to firearms will do is change the method of suicide. Humans have been finding ways to do it for thousands of years.
> It looks like they're using up to 1/2 a gram for treatment.

Typically they use 0.5mg/kg. I think you may be confusing milligrams (mg) with grams (g).
Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters
...and it's not even over yet.
No, that is actually a hell of a lot of coffee.
The original "It's now safe to turn off your computer" screen in Windows 95/98 actually sent you to a DOS prompt. Because the computer was in graphics mode you couldn't see the prompt but you could blindly type the commands to switch modes and continue to use the computer from DOS.
> ...with integrity

I can't really agree here. To believe that _you_ have the right to delete things, but the unwashed laity that use your network do not, represents a complete lack of integrity. Believing that _you_ should be allowed to own all the property around you, so that you can have a sense of privacy, and accept that your company wants to lobby for the use of private medical records to build better profiles on your users... that's disgusting.

But I agree that all of this outrage will amount to nothing. I deleted my account in early 2017, but I know my data still resides on their servers, and is used to some sort of advantage. It's easier to leave the mafia....
Here is a pretty decent article about 90s companies [1]. Didn’t realize CompuServe was owned by H&R Block.

[1]https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/07/25/48...
Van Suwannukul wanted to complete his Ph.D. thesis in Thai. But he found that the then-new IBM PC was not up to working in the Thai alphabet. So first, he designed a graphics card (the Hercules) capable of displaying Thai characters in high resolution on an MDA display...
What's so special about Amazon in comparison to the Chinese factories where those goods are manufactured? Are we just upset because these people are geographically closer? Or is it nationalism; Americans/Westerners are too good for such treatment? Racism?
Is pro gaming a white collar industry?
Not the parent comment but I have heard that it is fairly common among UPS/FedEx drivers. I do agree the notion sounds pretty outlandish. To play devil's advocate, I would say it is likely more common than many people would initially expect.
I'd be surprised if both weren't already doing it.
Indeed it did. The XO started a wave a new, cheap computing that saw the Asus EEE PC 401 as the start of commercial products in this new category, and really got going with tablet computers around 2010.
How does this compare to other warehouse jobs? My impression is that warehouse jobs almost universally suck.
That's unfortunate, and something that keeps me only managing my own properties locally. I know it won't scale so much, but I feel like I have too much skin the game for the property to lose value on my own fault.

It sounds like a very bad experience with a management company. Was this your first PM company?
I'm going to pretend the downvotes for the above comment was done in humour, in the irony that I misunderstood what OP meant, then getting downvoted..
Because home prices in Seattle are dictated by the quality of the Amazon employee's work environment.
On the one hand, physical nexus rules seem like something of an anachronism. On the other hand, implementing some streamlined and low-cost process whereby small online realtors could comply with correctly pricing, collecting, and remitting sales tax to all the jurisdictions in the US--which have different rules for different items--seems like a nightmare.
Bezos’ great business leadership is exalted and his methods picked apart and adopted throughout Amazon.

But I do wonder how insightful, clever or useful those methods are when towards the edges of his empire people work in constant fear and pee in bottles to survive.
That's a poor argument. I've gotten offers from many tech giants. They all included a sign-on cash bonus. Often much bigger than Amazon's.

Amazon's total offer was usually about 100k lower. Sometimes more. Amazon SWEs still earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. So being treated poorly and paid less is relative.

In Amazon's defense, I have friends who enjoy working there. The MBAs especially love it. Again, it's not like anyone is stuck in some Nike sweatshop from 1974.
My fear is that the future of work for most people is not unemployment, but shitty jobs like this.

My feeling is that in order to avoid this and prosper, the people need to own the robots that do all the work (Marxism heyy). If robots provide huge productivity gains, then they will provide those gains for their owners. If it’s the big corporations that own them, they will see the gains. But as long as people are treated like machines, they will be left out of this prosperity. Instead, if the people own the machines collectively, then they can enjoy the productivity gains themselves as a group.

What do you all think of this?