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Which is why it's so important to have -- ultra-clear -- (have you looked at the clang documentation or GCC manpages?) guidelines on how to disable optimizations that can be dangerous/unpredictable (strict-aliasing comes to mind) "within" -O1 or -O2 or -Os

One shouldn't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater (-O0) in order to get some semblance of semantics that won't pull the rug under your feet when you're not looking.
> Walmart has always promoted from within. I bet very few people have worked part time in Walmart for 1+ year while going to college for a business degree and not been shortlisted for a promotion.

A close friend of mine from high school started worked at Walmart while attending University. Interestingly enough, she was a business undergrad and, as you suggest, she was shortlisted to management before even finishing her undergraduate degree. She went on to get an MBA and went corporate within Walmart and is still there today, nearly 20 years later.

> The college subsidy will give them more managers with ground floor experience.

Given the above anecdote, I wonder if their decision to subsidize college is just tied to how grossly expensive an undergraduate degree is today vs. yesteryear.

In any event, they will continue to pull managers from the "competent" pool of employees internally and get good PR at the same time.
That's always been what I wondered as well. UBI solves everything, except for the part where an actor who knows explicitly that all of his tenants will be getting a flat amount per month, then why not raise prices to capture some of that as well? Why wouldn't everything just increase in price slightly, everyone can afford a little bit more now.
What do the two have to do with each other? I'd say it's a coincidence, I don't think MS is trying to steal Canonical's thunder or anything.
No it's not. It was much worse before. This is in fact a step forward away from that dystopic vision.
Yeah I’d like to hear more about this “hollowing out.”
This is a landmark release for .NET.

The most important since at least framework 4.0 maybe even 3.0.

We are getting:

- Span<T>/Memory<T> : A 0-copy, unified way of accessing Managed or Unmanaged memory.

- Channel<T> : High performance thread-safe queues (like go channels)

- Pipelines : an async, 0-copy version of Stream

- In-box support for Array/Buffer pooling (finally!) (MemoryPool, ArrayPool)

- Better primitives for pointer manipulation and memory marshaling. (MemoryMarshal)

- New primitives for high performance parsers and formatters (System.Buffers.Binary and System.Buffers.Text)

- Improved support for SSE/NEON via Vector<T>

- Microsoft.Windows.Compatibility : Windows specific APIs on .NET Core (Registry, EventLog, NamedPipes...)

- Tiered Compilation

- Faster tooling

- Wider Platform support

If you write code on .NET, you should [Edit] evaluate this release with to see if it fits your business needs [/Edit]

Doubly so if you care about runtime performance.
I wasn't making a judgement call either. Just stating how much I like fried chicken.
Any idea about required VS versions? The announcement makes no mention of Visual Studio (or maybe I missed it?) but the download pages says it requires a preview version of VS2017 which is unfortunate.
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“break”? no, but spectre is a confidentiality attack, and not even the only confidentiality attack that can be done...

yes you could, but the noise floor won’t be great
Large and complex pieces of software, and operating systems in particular, tend to be tightly tied to their compilers. It is never easy and in some cases practically impossible to port to a different compiler. I expect that Microsoft has come to terms with the fact that Windows will only support being compiled by their compiler.

When a different toolchain introduces a new feature for finding bugs that would be useful for Windows, the Microsoft compiler team can add that functionality to their own tools instead of porting Windows. An advantage of this is that they can customize the feature for exactly their use case. Yes, this is the definition of NIH syndrome, but that’s how large companies work.
in California, community college tuition is on the order of a grand a year, full time (in state) - less if you are only going part time, which you probably would be, if you're working enough hours to get the walmart reimbursement.

At those rates, the expensive part is the time off work, even when you are only making $11/hr. (I mean, employer reimbursement is still a nice gesture, every little bit counts.)

I find it... unlikely that the private universities are cheaper than the community colleges.

Now, your last two years, at a state school, in California are closer to six or seven grand a year, full time, so half that for your half-time plan, and that's a much bigger bite, but I still kinda wonder what kind of private school could do cheaper, though we're getting more realistic.

In California, at least, if you go to any of our very good public schools, you will almost certainly be paying more just to keep yourself alive than you will be paying in tuition

(which isn't to say I don't think we should subsidize them more; I'm just saying that most of the cost of going to california public schools is... living in California.)
And us foreigners will be asked for our Reddit usernames when we enter the US.
Is it at least able to consume CMake projects so we can mix and match until more packages are available?
Reddit works because it’s anonymous, information-dense and relatively ad-free. Change any one of those three and the user base will abandon you.

It’s been Reddit’s dilemma since the beginning: you can’t monetize a toxic user base that has total freedom. Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects.

I’m still skeptical of Reddit’s ability to turn a profit. But as a community platform it’s the best out there IMO.
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I can't find a link to the it now but in the late 90s/early 00s there was a great research paper that found that we have lost a significant fraction of our phytoplankton biomass, estimated at about 10-20% of the population between 1970 and 1995 due to pollution in the oceans. Our most important oxygen producers are also the most vulnerable to pollution and ocean acidification.

The sky isn't "falling" but combined with all of the other trends we've been seeing, we have no idea just how bad it can get it or if there is a cliff where our economic/political systems begin to rapidly collapse under the pressure of environmental effects. From what I can tell from the last few years of research, our best climate models have been woefully underestimating negative second order effects and since our ecosystems and economies are interdependent there are few to no positives.
yes! They should call it Macbook WOZ (expandable, geek and dev friendly, which actually would be the real PRO version) with lot of ports and a beefy battery (to charge it once at night)
As a thought, if you take apart a laptop battery pack they often seem to use fairly standard looking batteries (AA sized form factor) but with plain packaging.

These individual cells generally have basic info printed on the side of the package. Seems like manufacturer model number maybe (unsure).

It'd be interesting to see if these battery cells can be identified easily enough and replacements found. Kind of thinking it shouldn't be too hard. :)
Let's not get hyperbolic and compare data mining to murder.

If you think it's not OK that's your opinion, but do a survey among regular folk of "is it OK to have web sites mine your data to provide you with targeted ads and free services like search, maps, email or you wish to pay $5 a month" and see the results. Make sure to include there people from all walks of life and age and all over the world.

Personally I like having choices. Data mining should be just another mechanism to pay for the services provided. I know for a fact that if these companies didn't have "data mining" as a mechanism to provide otherwise free services I would have never used those free services for the past 15 years or so, growing up in a country where electronic payments were available much later and the per capita yearly income was super low.
Would that be Jennifer Government by Max Berry?
Did you actually read it? It compares three cases: dynamic linking, calls through a function pointer and calls where the address to call is compiled directly into an immediate call instruction using a small JIT intended to emulate the LuaJIT case.

The benchmark didn't even include a static linking case! In general, however, I expect the static linking case to perform like the JIT case since both will almost always use a call with 32-bit relative immediate jump. I was a bit confused about why the article author chose to write a JIT rather than just use static linking, since I think they achieve the same thing here.
The more and more I read on Altman, the more and more it feels like fluff and snake oil.

Stanford dropout, a major failed startup, pretty much kinda "failed" into the position he is in today.

He doesn't add value at all.

Edit: This was flagged as "a personal attack" apparently.
While I don't love Window Update's behavior, that particular major update was released about a month ago. Your brother has been postponing it for weeks.
I don't think he was saying that waterfall is faster; I've never heard anyone say that. But WF is more rigorous and probably better suited for safety-critical software like avionics; the trade-off is that it lacks speed and flexibility.
Facebook also tending to restrict access to information behind a login.
Compared to reddit, which most of its content is publicly visible.
They are built on two very ideas though.

The amount of times I have to ask someone on Facebook to get information for me is upsetting. To clarify, I'm banned from Facebook, not for being a dickhead though
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Neat idea that has existed in other spaces for a while.

There are groups of sailboats on longer voyages that keep in contact, often back to a base on land, over SSB. If you don't respond to the daily check in it is assumed something is wrong, and everyone is told about it and if anyone is close to your last position you hope they can look for you.
Long, but at what price?
I found Cinammon to feel slightly laggier than MATE. So MATE it is
I'd presume defenders would say, because with the increased purchasing power at hand, there would be more incentive for developers to build. When instead the money is squandered through public housing, homeless shelters, halfway houses, and other intermediaries, the housing is slow to be built, with low accountability for either landlord or tenant to get and receive their value.
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Well FFI calls will never be inlined, by definition, and that's kind of what people are testing here.
Right, that's the point—a useful C compiler nowadays needs to be a GNU C compiler, not a standard C compiler.
Thank you for your advice!

I definitely should get better at writing a copy. I'll try to trim it down, make it stronger and clearer.

I'm thinking I will add a bright theme, some people may prefer it and it will have stronger contrast.
The money in (real) UBI comes from somewhere, obviously. It's not like everyone just has more money. If you can already afford the basics then it's going to come out of your money in taxes to a greater or lesser degree. So for people in a normal middle income range you pay and then get the money back. Higher income people would pay more and get back the same as you. Low income people would pay little or nothing and get the same back as you.

How that actually plays out in a market like ours hasn't (can't) been fully tested, but it seems a promising idea.
Not it doesn't need nudges. The point is to be universal.

The problem is that some of it will go to things you and I personally don't like. Too bad.

However, that's a political disaster--especially when coupled with the toxic racial politics from the right wing in the US right now.

Even the article is somewhat guilty of it. While it may play well to the New York Times audience, if you want to sell UBI, the overemphasis on minorities is not a winning PR move. It's even more irritating as Stockton is known also being a white trash meth epicenter.

We need to get the fact that the problem is being POOR is the issue that needs to be fixed, period.
Let’s not start giving false choices.

I simply don’t believe your assertion that the choice is between free services or paying a monthly fee.
I'd offer a much simpler explanation. The buzz around Bitcoin reached a critical mass where people at home with no knowledge of cryptocurrencies or blockchain technology suddenly got caught up in a bubble. As the interest increased so did the price so it became a feedback loop.

People saw their friends and coworkers talking about huge gains and wanted to get in on it. Coinbase allowed anyone with a smartphone and a checking account to buy Bitcoin which further drove up the price. Meanwhile the supply was only going up incrementally. So you had a huge swell in demand and no corresponding increase in supply. This resulted in the price increase.

Then when the supply of buyers slowed down there were more sellers than buyers and the price dropped. This is the most classic form of a bubble and I'm surprised that people are looking for alternate explanations, like the introduction of futures, which I find absurd. If it were so easy to predict a crash simply because you now had a vehicle to short it, everyone would have done so. There are ways to short most securities that are traded and yet not all securities collapse in value. The author cites two examples of extreme bubbles- the subprime mortgage market and Bitcoin in late 2017- and blames the crashes on the creation of vehicles to short them. In reality the mortgage market didn't crash until people started defaulting on debt en masse and the vehicles to short the mortgages existed a long time before the market crashed.
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Pretty much. Companies are using the tax cuts to signal goodwill to the market, but in reality the temporary increase in benefits is an expense coming from pre-tax income.

The tax cuts are causing increased employee benefits is a red herring.
"You're assuming that it's realistic to expect that a requirements gathering process is able to precisely define all requirements"

No, I'm not. I am assuming it's realistic to expect that a company actually put some effort into finding out what they need, and getting us that information so that we can actually plan out a project.

"None of these assumptions hold even in conventional engineering projects."

Part of the reason for that is that companies don't do any of that research. They don't look at what they need; they think about what they want.

One of the biggest reasons people here dislike "Agile" is because management uses it as an excuse not to plan anything, and fly by the seat of their pants every two weeks.
China , Russia have strategic interest to protect. The EU , i'm not so sure what it is protecting, and reading this law it's really hard to tell if we are supposed to have some kind of advantage now. It seems more like an extreme, wrist-slapping attempt of its leftist lawmakers.
Honestly medium can't die fast enough IMO.
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There’s always the exception that proves the rule, but yeah it’s pretty waspy once you move a level above the kids hired out of university.
It wasn't my intention to imply that it was expensive - within an order of magnitude of current prices shows how relatively cheap it was, given that electronics and sheer scale will have driven down the cost of parts (if not necessarily the end user cost).

I expect the difference is in the vendors' margins (i.e. nowadays the option price is almost pure profit/salesperson's commission).
I'd put the number closer to 100. All states have at least one metro area with good enough transit, and most have either two larger metros or at least one good-sized college town.

I'm not sure which "couple of cities" you're thinking of, but I'm pretty sure I haven't lived in either of them. And even when I've owned a car, I've never used a car day-to-day.
I'm focused specifically on housing because approximately everybody needs somewhere to live. That ought to raise purchase prices and rent prices. In effect, it would mean anyone who bought before UBI raised the price would be subsidized by those who buy or rent afterward.

It seems like roughly the same economics as rent control: if I, as a landlord, own rent controlled units, then I want to make as much money off them as if they were not rent controlled. Unless I can get them reclassified, the only way to do so is to raise the monthly price so that over the course of an average tenancy, the numbers add up to what I could have rented the unit for without rent control. What you end up with is effectively a Ponzi scheme.
My initial thoughts...of course Scrum disempowers developers but that's not what the article is about. I see a hyperbolic title and a bunch of complaints about how "in the real world" things work differently (entrenched opposition will always sabotage progress).

What is a manager but someone who has control over the controlled? I'm surprised with so many ppl nodding their head at this list of complaints about bad software processes at bad companies, masquerading as analysis. If you think it takes more than 2 days to learn _how_ to be a Scrum master, you don't understand the role. It's not complicated, difficult, and time-consuming enough to require a singular employee...unless your process is already screwed up. Good luck finding whatever magic bullet you think will save you that isn't Scrum-based teams.
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I can verify turblety's comment. I've tried multiple times to get Lazarus working on OS X, and the closest I've gotten to getting it working was the IDE to actually show up, but crash trying to get the Hello World example to compile and run.
Reddit is going down.
We need to eliminate all the single use plastic objects. This is a good first step.
You've even bothered to create a specific username? Nice.

So, mr skeptic, here's dozens of articles about investigation: https://www.om.nl/onderwerpen/mh17-crash/

They even had a separate presentation in Russian at the bottom of the page.
I don't know yet.

I've heard about at least two languages that adore threads, and have issues with multi-processing. Perl6 has threads in its runtime helping its GC --- and calling fork kills its programs. I don't know yet if rust has threads _required_ in a fashion that makes it crash if you try to fork().

perl6 cannot fork; and golang behaves badly if you fork in a program that uses goroutines. Ends up unhappy, since shared library manipulation is kinda dependent on the process loader. Oops.

I'm tempted to hope that the Rust lang devs have kept use of threads out of its required runtime. To answer your question, I didn't mean to imply that rust cannot call fork(2), and I hope it isn't true. I meant to say that I wouldn't call Rust a C replacement; it's an effort to solve a problem (threads with shared heap or stack) that C flat doesn't attempt to consider. I love C, and feel obliged to learn Rust.
If your best argument against man-made global warming is "But the phytoplankton will be fine!" you might as well admit defeat, because that's like arguing against preparing for Hurricane because alligators will be fine.
Yeah, it might be kind of interesting to play around with IBM i/OS/400.

Oh, and I guess I shouldn't have called it a mainframe operating system; that's z/OS. IBM i is their minicomputer operating system.
> This is because of how much of the unix clone ecosystem has been built around C workflows

Absolutely correct.

> convincing linus and sysadmin greybeards to modernize linux

That's not what I'm suggesting. Anything that's already written in C can and probably should continue to be so. What I'm suggesting is that people who prefer to work in other languages should have an easy way to make their work available beyond their own language community. I'm not talking about interpreted/scripting languages here. I'm talking about compiled/systems languages. Stuff that gets linked together, or that should be able to use some sort of dlopen/FFI back and forth fluidly despite multiple languages being involved. There's some work to be done there, but everyone seems to prefer hiding in their own language bunker instead of reaching out to others.
not true. That happened in early-mid 2017. Yes, there were more applications late in the year, but the run up in Nov/Dec was just mania (Coinbase #1 on app store). Yes, volume manipulation, tethers, etc, etc, but that retail speculator mania was the main thing.
IME the PM works best when acting as a shield from random questions or future things or other not-important-this-instant distractions, but shouldn't block direct clarifying questions or feedback from you to a stakeholder. I'd keep them in the loop, but the ones I've worked with haven't wanted to just be a glorified "I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!" middleman for basic things like that.
He also did a Reddit AMA where he only answered the softball questions about UBI instead of how he would actually make it work. IMO, the guy is only running so he can sell more of his books.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/87aa2z/iama_andrew_ya...
I like bash's <(...) operator and often use diff -u with it:

diff -u <(cat file1) <(cat file2)

Obviously, the 'cat' commands can be more complex commands, which make this more interesting.
It blows my mind that Facebook is even top 5. Do people actually spend time on the site?
This is really nice and all but I'm pretty sure shortage of workers is not the reason this doesn't already happen. But if this helps to raise money / grants, I'm for it.
I'm not sure this is "universal" basic income if it's only for 100 people...
Like I said, I like choices. I never said that those are the _only_ 2 choices, but they are 2 choices. And one of them was easily available and made it possible to use those services wherever I was, no matter how much money I had or how old I was.
Minor nitpick, the zeroing (or lack thereof) of the padding is not undefined behavior, it's unspecified behavior. Undefined behavior and unspecified behavior often look and perhaps behave the same to the programmer, but have semantic differences. In the face of undefined behavior, the compiler is allowed to do pretty much anything it wants (including formatting your hard drive and/or launching the nukes). With unspecified behavior, the compiler implementer must make a conscious decision on what the behavior will be and document the behavior it will follow.
For what it's worth, the University of Florida is ranked #42 in US News's report (https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-florida-1...). I'd probably consider it the top public Floridia university.

Brandman appears to be linked with Chapman University and is focused on adult education. Bellevue University appears to be independent of any university and is also focused on adult education.

So my guess is UF was chosen in part because it has a long running "distance and continuing education" department?
They work together - tax cuts made the labor market even more competitive