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I'd certainly agree in a way. Consumerism along with the backing of private telecoms is one of the big reasons private companies like SpaceX can even exist. And I do expect that the first rocket to land people on another planet will not come from a government, but a private company. Such a comment would have seemed quite sci-fi in the 60s when there was no private space industry to speak of.

But at the same time, these are tangential achievements. Miniaturization and greater processing speed will certainly be nice tools. But the things that are really needed are effectively 0 fail rate self sustaining habitation, life support, energy production, and food production in extremely hostile conditions. We still have not entirely solved these and they are things we could have been working on decades ago, but as human space flight died so did their necessity.
In 1996 I worked as a federal contractor for a US Army base. They had different Unix systems locked down for security reasons. Had Awk and Sed to work with and ordered the books from Amazon.

Oracle databases and other databases exported data in fixed width files and I had to download from several Nix systems to import into one general Nix system using Oracle and then a DOS based Clipper 5 system and an Access 2.0 Windows system and they all had to get the same results.

If not for Awk I could not filter the files from the Nix systems.
Honestly you need to plan things similar to anything in life. Have a 1000 foot view of what you want to achieve, which in this case is distributed systems, now break that down e.g. distributed fs, etc. And again paxos, raft and match it up with whatever language that has market share and meshes well with what you want in a language. If you get stuck breaking things down do very brief and simple research into it and do not fall down the interesting rabbit hole.
I totally see your point. And in Perl-world, I would probably use Perl too – I mean, if both tools are equally ubiquitous, why not use the most powerful one?

I entered the field at the tail end of the Perl era, so I've only toyed with it a long time ago.
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"Hasn't even started"? They had a thousand people working on self-driving cars at one point.
does the web player still sound atrocious (free Spotify). Last time i've checked it came with memories of 96Kbps mp3s.
No real Scottsman!

What is a real entrepreneur then? Someone who quits their job and risks everything to fail?

You don't have to do that anymore for businesses with basically 0 startup capital requirements, > 90% margins and minimal time commitments ala software.

Are you calling for the classic starving artist entrepreneur who struggles through hell to build their business?

People don't always need to dance like that sort of monkey anymore, please stop demanding the weird masochistic performance porn. Working your self to a lonely death is no longer cool and shouldn't be again.

I'm sure you have other criteria that we must meet to be true entrepreneurs though. I'd love to hear them!
You should try attending a city council session sometime. You'd be amazed at what council members put up with.
adding socat into the mix if you do network related things! it’s amazing what you can do when you replace bits and pieces of a pipe chain with network endpoints
If Google promised to not inject more ads into My Day, I'd give them a break. But they did the opposite, committing to "continuing to experiment with new ways to surface unique content for users."

Regarding unexpectedly recording users: even if only one user was affected, the issue is that Google didn't show contrition. They characterized the problem as "touch controls behaving incorrectly" and did not acknowledge the privacy violation, except indirectly.

There's no conspiracy required here, the logic is very simple. Google is not losing money on these devices for fun.
1. -> Not necessarily, they might just be trying to dominate the market, or just make such devices popular, then increase prices. However, it's probably about data gathering (and having an ad platform in-house) too.
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I know it's less convenient, but there's dedicated WiFi hotspot devices that exist.

I considered getting a "dumb phone" and one of these devices because in some cases a tablet-style internet-only plan + pay-as-you-go minutes for the odd time I use a phone would be cheaper than a bundled smartphone plan.

At this point saving the $10/month isn't worth the hassle to me though and now I use Slack on my phone so damn much it'd never work :\
I'm fond of plastic jars with screw-top lids (Rubbermaid brand?). They're sturdier and longer-lasting than these, and less likely to pop open and make a horrible mess if you happen to drop them.
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One has to recall that there were some forces that wanted Perl to become a standard shell rather than a programming language. A shell is usually more limited in features, but it is frequently very forgiving, provides many shortcuts, and there are often multiple ways of doing things.

However, I've never believed it to be possible to have a language both as a shell language and a proper programming language for large-scale projects. I believe the two usecases are fundamentally antithetical, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
You seem to assume that the greatest feat of Bitcoin is it's price. Yes, sure the price might be affected (somewhat) by how exchanges operate and media covers. However, many people don't care too much about the monetary price, and play the long game. In the long run, the market always adjusts. In in the end, it is the same with any other commodity or currency.
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I have a repo dedicated to cli text-processing..

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That most of us struggle in a pointless daily grind, in the false belief that it gives our lives some sort of meaning. Most of us are wasting our lives doing stuff we don't really want to, instead of remembering to enjoy life. After all, we only get one shot at this.

That people should open their minds and be more accepting of new experiences that may challenge their own strongly held beliefs.

That we are much too terrified of drugs that are currently illegal, and not nearly terrified enough of drugs that are currently legal.
That makes no sense to me. Which laws rewritten how?
Couldn’t it also default to a “version” drawn from the superset of popular browser features at the time or the current year’s ES version?
I've once worked out the CO2 output of Ethereum, which I think can be nicely worked over. Ethereum uses 191'000 people-equivalent CO2/year (1 PECO2 = 9 tons of CO2) or roughly 4 TWh per year (I'm using numbers from multiple sources and past comments from me, I apologize if it's not lining up perfectly)

The average state employes about 300'000 people (324'000) to be exact (about 16 million in total, which includes teachers and similar).

So already the Ethereum network uses half of an entire average US state to just secure it's network. The US state in question does a lot more and it includes education and similar.

Bitcoin uses 68 TWh anually, about 17 times as much or about 8.5 average US states. To secure 200'000 TX per day. In contrast the US employees handle the entire state affairs, including taxes, education, etc. for 54 million people every day.
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I wonder if this would have built on Apache Pulsar (https://pulsar.apache.org) if it had been in open source and on the Segment team's radar at the time they started on Centrifuge. I work with one of the architects of Pulsar, and his first thought on seeing the blog was that Segment's scenario had a lot of similarities to what he and the team and Yahoo set out to do when they first built Pulsar there several years ago.
That is not harsh art all. If you have ever really poured everything you have into something for hours and hours a day and months on end only to be rejectd over and over again. "Death of a friend" is totally accurate IMO. Day and night you spend your time nurturing and growing this thing in hopes of it becoming more... When/If your project fails - TBH - its more like the death of a child.
I've never seen plastic that is actually okay in the microwave. It's "microwave-safe" in the sense that it doesn't melt or emit nasty chemicals, but it always blisters and discolors if you nuke any liquid in it. I dump stuff into ceramic bowls if I want to microwave it.
No, because that's a blurry part of the image where HEIF is better.
Our son gets occasional use of a mobile device. At 2-3, it was educational games on a phone (or Octonauts if we needed to distract him at a restaurant). Then he went months without even asking about it.

He's now 5 and uses an iPad now and then, solely to play Scrabble against the computer. His vocab is very good: he can usually beat the computer and has had 400+ point games. The other month, I noticed him playing against himself rather than the computer. He said it was because it meant he got twice as many turns!
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I'm not sure what's the point you're making with the gold rush migration, but most of the population to California came after Model T, and it was during and after the World Wars that California saw much of its population growth. Michigan had more population than California up until 1930s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_histori...

I believe the population growth has contributed to the growth of Silicon valley significantly. There seems some feedback loop between the population growth and the industry growth.
I found this [0] a while ago. I think its a fun exercise.

[0] : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...
Only that basically every right winger I've left didn't call himself right but center. Might be a European thing because they'll quickly call you Nazi otherwise, but still... "I'm not a racist, but...".

The other point is that they really do love their hierarchies, but probably don't think they do. Just looking at all the Burschenschaften (fraternities) I've seen with their strong sense for hierarchy and leadership. Yet only few of them acknowledge it and feel it's that way. It's only from the outside that you can see it really. Person cult is certainly strongest with the extremer parties. Looking at people in Austria dressing their babies in Strache or Hofer shirts and filling their Facebook profiles with photos together with them etc.
You never see that with the traditionally centrist parties. They don't have those strong figures but seem more like a homogenous mass of people where you're hard pressed to name one of them. But I have to admit that it's probably one of the reasons why they're losing so much nowadays where people are seeking for those personalities again and love to hype Jobs, Musk or whoever else comes along..
I haven't had a chance to read the full ruling, but it seems fairly obvious that if a government official designates a particular two-way communications channel as a place for communicating official statements (the Trump administration claims his Twitter account is such a channel), then the government official is subject to some restrictions on how that channel can be policed.

There was a case last year[1] where a federal judge in Virginia made a similar ruling after a politician banned someone from commenting on an official Facebook page due to not liking the opinions the commenter expressed.

And the general principle seems to be that the First Amendment does not allow government officials to silence their critics on an official communications channel; they can choose which channels to use, and refuse to open certain others, but once they set up such a communications channel they cannot discriminate based on the content or viewpoint of critics' speech in such channel. To do so implicates not just freedom of speech, but also the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances (i.e., if the government official bans you from the communication channels you'd use to state your grievances, how can you exercise that right?).

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/politician-dinge...
Sometimes its hard to understand the value of something until you see something much worse.

For an immigrant the contrast is very clear. For some one born and used to privilege not so much.

There is reason why so many new millionaires are made, but existing heirs of all those millionaires don't become billionaires. Without any real pressure, a persons efforts will juts wax and wane over time.
Tesla only has SAE 2, stay in lane and brake for obstacles (sometimes). They did a few videos of hands-off self-driving in controlled conditions on quiet roads, so they were trying for Level 3, but never really got there.
Depends on what you're looking for:

In many ways, p6 is the superior language. But as an AWK competitor specifically, p5 might be the better choice for performance reasons alone (while p6 has been improving, as far as regex performance goes, it just isn't there yet [1]). You might even be able to write tighter code in p5 (for one, p6 regexes return objects, not strings, so in cases where you actually want the latter, you'll have to throw in boilerplate).

[1] https://gist.github.com/cygx/9c94eefdf6300f726bc698655555d73...
Just heard George Saint Pierre (UFC champion) is doing this.

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I don't own a Tesla but from what I understand you can get OTA updates which will change the way the AP is working. So if you need to build a mental model on how to "use" the AP to be safe and then the AP changes without notice I can see how that could end badly...
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The frustrating part I find is that autopilot for pilots is actually a reasonably good description. Pilots are paid and trained to be alert all the time that autopilot is on.

It's also well known that an autopilot in a plane is no AI, it's simply following a course.

But I definitely agree it's a disingenuous name. It primarily gives the impression that you can take your hands off. So people will definitely get distracted for up to 6s which from the Uber crash is all it took. Plus beyond that you can have one hand on the steering wheel and be doing anything you want.

It's quite damming that even Uber were humble enough to realise how badly their system had failed with the fatal crash but Tesla is doubling down releasing PR statements that try to spin the statistics. I've seen interviews with Musk discussing the crash where he really seems not to be particularly bothered.

I can see Tesla putting back self driving by years if a legal clamp down comes. They are the company with by far the most miles driven with a level 3 system, but there's nothing at the moment to suggest that there won't be other crashes in Tesla autopilot cars that won't skew the statistics.

I've heard it said that self-driving cars will have to prove they're 10x safer. That takes 1B miles per death to prove. If self-driving is deemed illegal on open roads because of Tesla's recklessness it'll take much longer to prove that it is safer.
> an arc flash threw him back 15 to 20 feet

That requires significant amounts of energy.

> Tesla should have cut electricity to the equipment he was working on, but refused to because the company didn’t want to temporarily stop production.

Umm, WTF? That's insane at mains-level voltages. Sending someone into a live high voltage system is the kind of behavior that might justify charges for gross negligence or even attempted-murder. There is no way they didn't know this would be incredibly dangerous.

> install dozens of “supercharger” stations where electric vehicles can fuel up

That suggests a lot of power in a device designed to move that power quickly at high current. That's the kind of hazard that should require specific training and special handling procedures.

> Cal/OSHA also cited Mark III for not providing “a suitable barrier to prevent accidental contact with energized parts.”

Given the damage, this sounds like a "barrier to prevent accidental contact" wouldn't have offered much protection. This sounds more like a "only touch it with a long non-conductive poll" level electrical hazard.

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I suggest watching this[1] video that someone posted recently to a different "electrical hazard" story that discusses the dangers if working near high voltages.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfnEuRA7-vo
This is cost prohibitive, and I doubt most residential ISP's have the capability for this. I would like to have both a cable and a DSL ISP for redundancy but it's far from straightforward with IPv6 (and I have run IPv6 networks for not far off 20 years).
the person you're responding to appears to be a google employee who regularly comments pro-google statements in these type of threads, trying to paint google in a positive light.
For me the classic example of this is photoshop. You cannot buy old photoshop licenses anymore because they realized that people are happy with them.
Little kids have been bookworms since the invention of books. Somehow access to libraries didn't turn people into en-masse drug abusers, unless coffee counts.

Children are quite robust.
I think lyrics tend to bring thoughts to the forefront which can interfere with the task at hand. They can conjer images and storylines that force your brain to fill in the gaps, just like watching a movie. Not to mention the thought processes involved with listening to a well-written love song. You better hope your love life is solid or you’ll never get any work done.
Definitely messing around on her phone? I've got into the car with my kids and spent time using my phone to get directions to something, send messages to organise things, respond to emails, etc. My partner works in social media so is paid to review, post and respond on Instagram/Facebook/etc, including out of hours.
This will all be valid concerns the day we see a real 51% attack on real Bitcoin. So far Nash seems to be working.
For me it works well to listen to music with lyrics that I know so well that I dont even really listen to the lyrics anymore.

In general I feel like music works better if I know it well.

I like to listen to more distracting music though when doing a "boring" task that does not require that much brain processing itself.
If apple came out with something to compete with chromebooks, maybe $500-600 range

I hope they don't, companies with declining margins look to make it up in other ways that aren't always in the customers interest.
> If hash capacity were traded on a perfectly competitive market, then it would always make sense to rent 51% of the capacity at market rates, earn the transaction fees, and also perform a double-spending attack. There is no equilibrium point for transaction fees where this attack becomes uneconomical. The only defense is that the market for hash capacity is imperfect.

At this point in time the current hashrate of the bitcoin network is 32.500 PH/s, up from 5.000 PH/s a year ago and 1.400 PH/s two years ago. If you rent 51% of the network it's going to be rather obvious that something is happening, that will however not prevent an attack. Let us assume that you can rent capacity because the miners are greedy, what price would you have to pay? Let's assume that you can buy from miners that want to exit the mining business, so they do not care about deprecating the value of their hardware nor the bitcoin value itself.

So the assumptions are that 51% of the available capacity don't care if bitcoin tank and burn as long as they profit enough, and you're able to buy that. A 0.43% difficulty increase daily (average over last 2 years), bitcoin price of 7.600$, a 4MW powerdraw, and electricity prices of $0.08/KWh

Miners controlling 51% would profit north of $1.000.000.000 yearly, and if they just want to be compensated for that one year, you have to pay $1.000.000.000 to rent 51%. That is a lot of money, and at $20.000 high it would be tripple that value.

However, why would 51% of the capacity suddenly exit? Rather they want to be compensated for multiple years of profit, lets say 5 years and it's not unreasonable to expect bitcoin to reach $70.000 in that time. So we're looking at a $50.000.000.000 cost to coordinate the attack. That's expensive, and with that kind of money there are other ways to make them multiply. Who would pay that to ensure destruction of the thing we know as Bitcoin? After all, the success means it's likely that another *coin takes over, where you cannot 51% as easily.
2 is a really good point. It's the right wing parties here who talk most about direct democracy bla bla (but in reality only for stuff they would like to have). And present themselves as the people for the masses. Not that different to Trump I guess...

I'm more leftish but also feel that democracy isn't perfect. Mostly because of the "majorities voting for issues regarding minorities" thing. But authoritarian is even worse.
A possible context is that SpaceX and Tesla have been encountering journalism whose quality has been less than wonderful.

Tesla, at least, has been "encountering" problems of its own making.

Financial troubles, production troubles, safety troubles with its "autopilot" feature and workplace safety issues for manufacturing employees have all been reported, and I'm unaware of any evidence that such stories were lies fabricated from whole cloth. Rather, those stories seem to be fact-based.

If Musk doesn't like the facts, he has the power to change them (by remedying the problems at Tesla). But instead he seems to be in favor of forming his own propaganda outlet to attack those who report the facts.
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This has nothing to do with millennials. I am 44 and there were and are plenty of people in my demographic cohort sharing these characteristics.