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Exactly. The barrier to entry is not the cost of a single line. It’s the cost of provisioning a global network where each server has a line with sufficient capacity.

If you’re bootstrapping a CDN company, for example, you can’t just start with a single server. You need the global footprint as a selling point. But since you can’t provision that bandwidth elastically, you’re going to have a monthly bill of roughly $1k per POP as soon as you start the company, significantly reducing your runway.

The reason there are so few solutions is because the status quo is charging $/Gb, it’s a huge source of income for cloud providers, and it makes traffic engineering significantly easier because users have incentive to minimize bandwidth costs.
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It merely states that Millennials as a group scored as more lonely than other generations, it doesn't fabricate a reason or cast blame.
Interesting thoughts on SSDs. I was under the impression that it wasn't so much the speed improvements they provide as the _power_savings_ that made SSDs useful in a Data Center environment. It was a single piece of anecdotal evidence, but the payoff due to power savings was roughly 8 months.
The article itself has 4 definitions or "attributes" for low-level languages that can be considered contradictory:

* "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."

* Low-level languages are "close to the metal," whereas high-level languages are closer to how humans think.

* One of the common attributes ascribed to low-level languages is that they're fast.

* One of the key attributes of a low-level language is that programmers can easily understand how the language's abstract machine maps to the underlying physical machine.

So basically the entire article's premise (the title) hinges on the last bullet- which can be contested. All the other mentioned attributes can be applied to Java, C, C#, C++. So failing the last bullet point doesn't apply to just C.
It actually can't exist at all for current modern CPUs (x64/ARM/PowerPC) since they don't expose a programming interface for many of the things discussed in the article (speculative / out of order execution, register renaming, full cache control).
The reason the headphone jack had to die was so they could waterproof it.
In a healthy democracy the people get what they want, even if it's dumb. Prohibition is the first example that comes to mind that won't offend many people here.

If the companies can convince the people to want a new labor classification badly enough then they can get it. Of course things will swing back if it turns out to be crap that is bad for enough people and good for too few.

The arc of progress is long.
Yeah, the way it works in Ballerina is that an endpoint is a keyword that can create an object that represented a networked location. This could be one of three things - either the caller that invoked your service, the service you author which is listening as an endpoint, or a service you want to invoke.

For the services that you want to invoke, you can create endpoint objects of different types. The objects during initialization use connectors to establish the communication. It's like doing a constructor call in an OOP. You can import different packages the way you would with any language and shared packages are available on central.

Once you have one of those endpoint objects, you can do type safe invocations against it. So you might create a Twitter connection creating a "tweeter" object. That connector then has functions which can be invoked, "tweeter -> tweet (params);". This returns a data structure that is strongly typed and mapped to the payload expected in return from the service.

It's also pretty simple to write your own packages which have your own connectors. The push / pull dynamics of packages with central are similar to Elk or DockerHub, but applied to code modules.
All the cities in california are failing to build for the demand. SF and LA are obvious because they are the biggest, but its a state level problem.

The core problem to me is taxation: California should have a Land value tax, but instead of that, it rewards owners with things like prop 13, and punishes workers by using sales taxes and income taxes.

Just changing that taxation would change everything: owners would not block development anymore because their land has negative worth unless it houses multiple people. Right now a big building that houses 1000 people pays more property taxes than a few houses that house 10. A Land value tax would shift the burden and make the few houses super expensive, while rent remains the same, and workes see increases in income and also in cheaper goods.

Of this there is no economic doubt in my mind. But politically, neither rent control nor prop 13 are revokable,so my assessment is that SF will hit a ceiling of growth. Maybe the last property owners will be left holding the bag as their expectations of growth will never come about. And then another city will pick up the slack, one without this issue.
It never even happens if you don't have javascript enabled. Unfortunately as of last year archive.org changed their site and wayback machine design so that it is no longer possible to use without javascript.
Is there a list of which registrars are participating in the early access period? None of the ones I tried seemed to recognize .app.
We shouldn't be stuck with it. In a large organization they should already have control of the endpoints. They can absolutely get every domain/VPN-joined machine to directly tattle on user traffic without intercepting anything. It's just that Microsoft's tools (or Red Hat's or Apple's) for that are less sexy to IT people and have less interesting names and hardware purchases involved than things like "Electric Eel Secure Firewall" and "NetShark 3000".

It's the Corporate IT equivalent of the security theater that still gets consumers to buy Norton/McAfee/etc products when Windows Defender and Windows Firewall are more than adequate, free, built-in, but "too quiet" and not enough slot-machine like glowing green "Safe" spinners.
The cheapest iPhone X on the market will tempt you to purchase straight away
The point of dynamic optimizations (such as ooo) is not only to hide implementation details (such as register file size) but very much to take advantage of dynamic opportunities that simply cannot be known statically.
The optimal schedule can be very different depending on whether some load hit L1 vs L2 or even was forwarded from the store buffer.

There are some classes of very regular algorithm where you could probably predict everything (and handle the memory hierarchy) statically, such as GEMM, but it's not very common.
And I forgot to mention, I've also had the experience many, many times where I've said "hi" myself (actually, I say something a little longer than that for my first message, I try to say or ask something about something I saw in their profile or photos), and then just never get a response, but they never unmatch me either.
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I think the (governmental) department treated them alright, and they made good money too. They were not the types that liked to blend with the younger devs, even for a cup of coffee. I approached them two years ago and asked if I could work with them for some time to exchange knowledge, but I only got a one line email response "not interested". It's not unlikely that they were annoyed that the applications they had developed over the years, which they kept pointing out were superior, were being phased out.
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time zones are really stupid as a modern society why not use one single time measurement

it would complicate coordinating something between Earth and Mars if both parties are keeping their own seperate time
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this is like going to a protest against abortion and talking about coffee cup design...
> The reason is that in these domains (e.g. game consoles, supercomputing), you know ahead of time the precise hardware characteristics of your target, you can assume it won't change, and can thus optimize specifically for that ahead of time.

Cell was a failure in large part because this proved to be less true / less relevant than its designers thought.

Source: many late nights / weekends trying to get PS3 launch titles performing well enough to ship.
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Article 3 says it applies when -EITHER- of the following is true:

(a) the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

(b) the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.
But is there really any programming language that lets you write to arbitrary memory? This is a problem of privileges rather than how low level your language is: it's not like you can write assembly that will give you arbitrary access to kernel memory.
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Native speaker here.

Either-or does imply exclusive-or, but it is often used less formally, so you will sometimes see it made explicit as "either x or y, but not both."
"There are no affordances to the taps. No edges to the active areas. Nothing to hint at what might happen. This creates what I call a “brittle” interface — where one wrong tap sends you careening in an unknown direction, without knowing why or how you got there."

Is it just me, or have smartphone interfaces gotten both more and less brittle over the years? I've noticed that very mature apps tend to be very non-brittle, and new apps (or revamps of mature apps) made by newer developers tend to be very brittle.

For some reason, I've noticed this conditional brittleness particularly with maps apps. Fancy "3D" features in maps apps exhibit this, as well as badly timed alternative route features, which present a button, then yank it away bullfighter style.
"It will work". Just as bluetooth? Humanity has serious issues getting serial to work over USB, yet this will just work? Across all OSes? We can't even make USB-C CABLES correctly, but THIS is a sure thing? Even the cheap ones everyone will buy? Or the expensive ones that has the same hardware but a nicer box/cable?

We won't have apple compatible cables, android compatible cables etc.? We won't have situations where that popular brand of "cables" doesn't work on new Samsungs/xxx?

Let's pretend that will be the case this time around?

Honestly I think audio enthusiasts are the only users for which that isn't the most absurd idea ever. Audio enthusiasts could use a decent DAC and for the first time combine regular hardware (wide selection of phones) and still get decent output. For everyone else though a headphone jack would be several orders of magnitudes better and cheaper. And guess what, it just works. I know people have done their darndest to make the microphone over 3.5mm experience as miserable as possible but despite that we still have/had a universal way to transmit stereo audio.

There are no decent alternatives even on the horizon. There haven't been brought up a single argument for the removal of it other than it isn't so bad to spend 10% of the device on adapters that you always need to carry. Seriously?
Yes because they were a "free" messaging service that could supplant expensive SMS carriers. They are different products at the end of the day, and a messaging service was acquired by a social network. Anyone can get tons of users selling a product at a loss. This is the standard startup story.

Why don't you approach an investor yourself and just start it.
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Nothing to do with the isp - but if you have users so you know who they are and then you also track people by ip network, you are now storing tracking logs that can be identified with a specific user.

For example if hacker news did this and one of your comments contained your city or company, now they can connect your account to an anonymized analytics user.
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It is utterly ridiculous that iOS is still lacking support for this super basic feature.
I agree.

But that also means the major roadblocks are sociopolitical and not technical (not saying technical challenge is not there, just that it's not the biggest issue).
I think that's a lot of tech bubble thinking. The majority of people vote along party lines. Even those who don't won't have "this person voted for copyright extension" on the top of their list of concerns.

Then when you back out to the primaries, how many primaries are going to be won because the incumbent voted for copyright extensions?

This is like the tech hysteria against Facebook, I'm not saying it wasn't warranted, but most people who do know the details just shrugged and kept posting cat videos....
"There are many types of work outside of Tech and Gig-worker (the two that most comments here focus on) in which workers are inappropriately classified as contractors in order to reduce carried risk and cost to the employer, but where the employer also exerts significant control over the time, place and manner in which the work is done."

Another example - Pizza Delivery. Plenty of Papa John's lawsuits out there. There have even been instances of franchises creating fake businesses to claim that's who the delivery drivers were working for, instead of Papa John's directly. (An example, 'Red Delivery Guy' here in Southern California. Claims to deliver everything like subway and such, but funny enough you'd only find these mentioned at Papa John's stores only, and Subway/Quizno's had utterly no idea their logos and trademarks were being used on this site.)
"I think their money would be better spent instead fighting for a new classification of labor."

But there's no need for it. These companies not wanting to pay people what the law requires is not a need.

"But I feel they are also not a regular employee."

Why not? Many of the things people cite (get to choose hours, use own equipment, etc) are things that many regular employees also have. How many of us here have flex time?

"It gives both sides rights under the law."

What rights would the employees have under this law? Would they get a minimum wage for the hours that they're logged into the app? Would they get vacation time? Would they get sick leave? Cause unless they get more than they get now, I don't see how this would benefit them.
Milton friedman was an advocate of LVT, and I think stiglitz or krugman as well. There is economic consensus on LVT being good, although how good it is is hard to know, as LVT is a very hard tax to politically pass.
Is this really all the same COBOL application? I'm truly impressed! Is there some kind of GUI toolkit for COBOL or the COBOL in this case only the logic behind the application and the GUI here is another language/framework?

I ask because your parent comment certainly rings true if this is all COBOL!
Seconded opinion for strong regional government with zoning control. If the property owner fiefdoms aren't going to address the problem, it's time to take solving that problem away from them.

To give an example of how bad this is, the city of Atherton has sued Caltrain 7 times over the electrification project, the latest one related to (wait for it..) the use of 5 45 foot poles instead of 10 35 foot ones. https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2018/03/01/caltrain-and-ath...

And this despite the fact it comprises less than a mile of the track and doesn't even stop at the Atherton station during weekdays.

How can anyone expect this problem to get any better without major changes to zoning control and major revisions to the property tax/rent subsidies? I'm not holding my breath, and neither are all the other people that are starting to think about leaving.
Vim's user interface is vastly more complex than the Kindle's. For 99.9% of my interaction with the Kindle, the only things I need to remember are "top=menu", "right=next page", and "left=prev page". These actions are not intuitive, but they are extremely easy to remember.
Yes you can run the syntax & model checkers from the CLI, although then you need to manually write the model-checking settings file which I don't think the video series covers. It is covered in Lamport's Specifying Systems book, or you can take a look at the settings file generated by the GUI toolbox and adapt it to your own uses.
Health insurance providers have every incentive to make people healthier - or at least use medical services less.
If we're going to split hairs, an actual straight line would be tangent to Earth at the point of the boat, and you could sail forever, so long as you do it at the speed of light and don't hit the land masses on some other celestial body.

There is some definition of "straight line" that includes a course of a constant bearing, or a rhumb line. It's straight when plotted on a Mercator projection.

By that definition, keeping to a true east or true west bearing would be a straight line.
Bat: cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
One feature that many languages don't provide is the ability to have direct control over how aggregates are organized in memory.
Definitely seems like a market opportunity. Did you find any interest when you were pitching?
No, the only issue raised by Kafka's request to burn his papers is whether or not the copyright passed to someone else on his death. All works eventually become public domain, regardless of the author's wishes, since people die and copyright has a time limit.
I'd take a guess that the recent problems with the TSB migration are down to something like this. (Google it if you haven't heard). They tried to replace lots of ancient systems with a big new one and ... it didn't work.

Root cause on something like this is problematic: management instituted a hard deadline despite signs of serious problems early on, and there seems to have been some monkey patching being applied to live systems as they try to get it working. But a big factor has got to be the huge problem of figuring out what all those old legacy systems actually do.
They do have a legitimate interest (in the sense of article 6(1) of the GDPR), namely providing an internet archive.
Yeah, this is a very important point that many people seem to be missing, including the authors of the original article it seems to me. It was certainly a big problem for performance of games on Cell in my experience.
I don't see this as polarizing. The focus of the campaign is not something negative about the opposition. This seems about reaching people who share a common interest and motivate cooperative action; however it could easily be used as outreach to those with opposing views seeking to inform and persuade.

As far as "impersonal" is concerned. It's goal is just the opposite: to initiate personal contact and interaction, interaction which occurs after the initial contact. It could be used in an impersonal way, but as you indicate that would be offensive and produce the wrong result.
When a lie gets repeated enough times, eventually it becomes a fact.