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> It's rather unfortunate that so many people look up to him, despite his serious personality flaws.

It's as unfortunate as you decide it to be. A lot of engineers and scientists love reading Linus (and watching House) because it reassures them that an argument's worth can transcend its delivery. The world is full of successful, socially competent salesmen. It's great that we have role models that aren't that.
> I'm on the fence with GDPR until I see how it is enforced.

Can't we just look at how the previous incarnation was enforced to get an idea? Also, I think we can say it's a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. Unenforced, the law is worthless and punished only those who abided. Equitably enforced hurts a lot of smaller players. Inequitably enforced has everyone praying they are on the good side of the enforcers. Viewing through the enforcement lens can make it clearer the value, or lack of value, of the legislation akin to the value of previous versions.

To the topic of the article, the enforcement lens needs to be used as well. Even if people agreed with the potentially impending copyright laws, legislators need to take enforcement concerns seriously. This is why baby steps are ideal.
People chew and brew coca like coffee and tea
I'd be happy to be corrected on this, but here's what I understand:

While fetch doesn't preflight for GET, it does require an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. You can specify `no-cors` in the mode to circumvent this, but then you cant access the response body (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/mod...)
I'm not from the US, so I'm not familiar with that system. Although I would have expected "therapist" to mean a psychiatrist in the context of attention control (as opposed to interpersonal relationships).
I understand it’s not always possible, but your response (which seems to always be the gist of the first response when I make a comment like this) is usually overstated.

You don’t have to have some crazy special skillset or seniority. You just have to politely say no to any prospective employer who won’t offer it and keep searching.

Yes, of course negotiating power is limited if you’re in dire straits & must take any job. Definitely sucks and I wish we offered better protection to candidates in that situation.

But many people just don’t even think to ask, even when they already have a job they are OK to stick with if they need to turn down a different offer.
I think you need a Benevolent Dictator, or a council thereof, who can delegate as well. Inevitably, you'll have edit-wars, differences of opinion, etc. You need someone to step in and authoritatively declare, "this is what Grok considers to be truth".

Articles might need a warning before editing to warn users that certain edits or information will be reverted/removed.
> why is the website dependent on the database being up?

I believe they use "GitLab Pages" to host their main, public-facing website. If Gitlab.com (the app I mean) is down, then so is their website.
Are you missing a "/s"? Or do you mean that they are preparing for another round of funding and want to improve their valuation?
All this complexity is a sure sign that our trade is growing up. We've been around for long enough that the world depends on multigenerational legacy systems we've created.

The economics of developing and maintaining all kinds of systems push us in the direction of easy-to-inspect and easy-to-develop code rather than highly optimized code. We use existing systems (like SQL, like UNIX derivatives, like various internet protocols, like git, like Ruby, Javascript and the rest) because they're almost completely debugged, even if they're sometimes clunky.

Even if it's hard to maintain our mission-critical legacy systems, it's not as hard as maintaining the signaling in the New York City subways. Yet.

And nobody HAS to use Gnome or the wizziest GUI sugar on other systems.

Yes, it's discouraging when things don't work smoothly. But our job, as hackers, is to do our best to keep things running.
How many tech workers are highly-specialized interchangeable resources to be utilized in the highest margin capacity until uneconomic? About that many.
In the tech industry, our ability to obtain new tools and find new problems to solve vastly outstrips the speed at which we can properly understand either the tools or the problems. When relevance in an organization is tied to your ability to leverage the new sexy, of course the equibrium behavior is to be half-cocked 100% of the time.
It's easier to influence your mind by exercise your physics than vice versa.
Same feeling here, I usually skim these threads for the big names, but in this case there is so much historical context that makes this a great read. It would be wonderful to have been a subscriber to this mailing list back in the 90's.
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Looks like the 9% were mostly management in redundant roles, not production.

100% of the articles I have read about Tesla have been completely fabricated hit-pieces, or like this one, completely misleading. I think that at this point, they deserve the benefit of the doubt unless you're willing to actually read the article.
Fruits are artificially evolved to ever higher sugar content. They are better than candy, but they are also dangerous in excess.
I wish they had python 3. It's still stuck on python 2, which will be unsupported in less than two years.
Here is a link to the current version: http://www.kagge.no/index.cfm?tmpl=butikk&a=product_inline&b...

The description is in Norwegian but I can give a quick summary:
It gives recipes for breakfast, lunch boxes, food for hiking trips (hiking is very common in Norway), dinner, supper and snacks. The recipes are simple and tasty. There are discussion of what is healthy and what one should eat.

It has different authors. One of the co-authors is Rune Blomhoff who is nutritional science professor at university of Oslo and one of the leading researchers in the world on anti-oxydants.

In our book there are discussion for each dish what part of the food making the kids can participate in. It is to encourage children to learn about food themselves and get used to making healthy food themselves.
Actually Getting a job is NOT pretty straightforward. I have taken 100's of interviews and I can tell you that there are so many parameters, biases and equation going on before hiring a person that it becomes impossible to judge a candidate.
Rust implementation is in the works with grant funding, https://github.com/datrs
I thought Tesla had no marketing dept?
I think "laws or misstakes by big corps" are exactly what we are seeing happen #Facebook #GDPR
Also, since GraphQL is not meant to solve complex relationships and queries, a lot of that complexity will still remain in resolvers.

If GraphQL solved all querying problems between the front and the back end, it would be amazing, but it only solves the most naive problems.
Is it imprecise?

I can make claims about my worldview. I say the sky is blue. you say the sky is white (cloudy). we can argue about it, but there's no reason for either of us to change our opinion till we look out the window and see what color the sky is.

The problem with your standard of saying nothing is illegal till a court rules on it, is we require someone accuse another to trigger the court determination of fact.

in my very humble opinion it's perfectly reasonable to call something illegal if you genuinely believe it's illegal, regardless of status as a lawyer. But once the court has ruled, you need to change your opinion, or you're a crackpot. (Or, perhaps, the court is corrupt, but that's well off into crazy person land)
Santa Monica is already planning on enacting a sort of moat law that would seemingly protect Bird (conveniently HQed next door in Venice).
If that was the case they definitely would have noted it. Musk said "In addition to this company-wide restructuring, we've decided not to renew". He then went on to say the majority will be given the opportunity to move to other Tesla retail locations.

It reads more like the cuts don't include the Home Depot related staff (who surely work hourly + comission anyway, these are cuts to salaries positions).
Carbonated water.

Why put sugar in water? Water is great.
But, seemingly, only the newer ones with the paddles for both the acceleration and braking are limited to 12mph. The old ones still go faster in my limited experience.
How is HN not an ISP?

It appears to be offering IP service, including with an application on top.
It also speaks of a colossal failure in management. Either they were way off the mark in their hiring, or in performance management, or they have unreasonable expectations of their employees. If you are smart at hiring good people, there no way that 9% of them are producing negative value.
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I grew up in Berkeley California and every couple weeks in my sophmore year of HS in 2003 I would go up to Amoeba music, to grab the latest issue, and figure out what was cool, Dos and Donts, Guide to Anal sex, what have you. In 2009 my electronic music group Party Effects used to burn CD's, and then infilitrate the various distribution points of VICE magazine to include a copy of our Electronic Music Compilations.. To no success.. but alas The print magazine, complete with racy American Apparel ads was a part of my childhood. I dont know what happened or how they became a multinational news organization. Last year I did the music for an ad they did in Mexico City in a partnership with Samsung, and I thought I was being pretty cool, till they only payed me about $300 bucks in pesos, 5 weeks after I finished it. I have met many Vice magazine employees in Condesa CDMX and almost all make practicly nothing, but do it because it is 'cool', maybe their parents were rich. Interesting article, but I always guessed they were scummy, but thats allright..
There were some pretty massive layoffs with the merger already, leading into it, at least according to someone I know who was part of those lay offs.
Considering demand for product is outstripping their ability to produce product, their sales & marketing teams are setting a high standard of work the rest of the company has yet to meet.

Feels a little unfair if they were the ones getting axed.
Where do you live? I'm from the US and here it's very easy to find 100% juice as that's the most advertised kind and is on the "prime shelf" at the store. It's usually printed in a central spot on the label near the logo. The added sugar juices became very unpopular years ago when sugar got its current bad reputation.
For relaxation absolutely - for polio, not as great.
What an oversimplification of my comment. I'll oversimplify it for you so you can't misinterpret it: "This decision he just made is poor and Elon is human just like everyone else"
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Licensing content it’s their biggest cost so yes, that’s their (probably correct) strategy. But instead of ‘crappy’ I believe the right terms is ‘long tail’. Make something for everyone since relative producing costs are minimal vs buying that content and distribution costs are almost zero for low-viewing content.
sometimes me too.
This is a deeply disingenuous characterization of the author's point. The linked post is responding to claims made by blockchain proponents and businesses that the blockchain completely obviates the need for trust or outside verification, and points out that the actual technology falls far short of the hype and isn't the dagger in the heart of centralized institutions that proponents so often claim it is.
Yup. Lots of generous offers to purchase sunglasses of dubious origin, but no code.
Golang already has an exceptions-equivalent construct in the shape of panic() and recover(): https://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover

You’re free to write exception-full code using those constructs, although the community tends to use error return values for the most part.
the value of those jobs rests on the premise that they created something good. i think the jury is still out on how great tesla's actual products are (aside from entertainment value, which they clearly succeed at)
It should be noted that in the nineties the Linux kernel was very far from being as modular as it is today.
I don't know when dynamic module loading was introduced, but I recall in the very early 2K one had to recompile the kernel for nearly every new device added to the machine. Even when dynamic modules were available, not all devices could be managed as such and sometimes the driver code had to be statically linked to the kernel anyway.
Today things have changed: pretty much every new device install/insertion will let the kernel automatically load the relevant device driver without any need to either insert a driver CD or go online to download it. Of all those millions lines of code, only a very small part is actually executed.
I don't know where you get that idea from its not my experience working as an M&P grade in a unionised company in the UK.
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Nit: AIUI, the kernel has no stable API. It has no ABI period.
Without agreeing or disagreeing, I find it amusing that so many people are talking about it in this thread without any concrete examples. You could be having something Linus said in mind, and others will have other things he's said.

It looks like you're all talking past one other.
...and it's back up, as of about 2:20PM EDT. Was definitely down for me with 5xx errors earlier, though, checking from Boston. Both web and mobile app were failing to load.
Apart from "generally trying to stay healthy", I have trained myself to go through this process if I "Feel bad and don't know why":

Did you eat well? Sleep well? Exercise properly? Have a meaningful conversation today? Articulate and share an emotion? Listen to someone you care about? Do something intrinsically satisfying today? Enjoy yourself today?

If you can't answer yes to all of the above (add your own prompts), then blame that rather than Random Problem X and come back when you can answer yes and if you still feel bad and don't know why then tell someone, possibly a professional.

Usually once I can answer yes to the above I'm fine.
Again, I'll bring up what nobody seems to mention. With minute-by-minute pricing of electricity, intermittent supply problems can be greatly mitigated without batteries, peaker plants, etc.

On the consumer side, elastic electricity uses can be switched on/off through an app connected to the internet.

Elastic uses are things like charging car batteries, electric water heaters, A/C, refrigerator, etc.
I wonder if a satellite that would collect and beam down solar energy using microwaves would help future rovers eventually. Maybe NASA wouldn't do that in fear of the beam damaging something they want to study.
This is suuuper cool. I've thought of doing something similar for a while, but I tried approaching it from the "generate Go" angle. I also found the Go syntax too tedious to write a parser for (because I've never written a parser before, nor any kind of compiler, so the learning curve was too steep). So I was just going to try to build a simple, expression-based language that compiled to (and interoped with) Go. Unfortunately, I ran out of steam because the learning curve was so steep.
But that's a disingenious argument. The main reason people claim that the blockchain is a good use for timestamps is that nobody can be bribed, or hacked, to change the results.
That PR/MR icon is quite terrible, I much prefer github's which actually communicates the idea clearly and abstractly and is uniquely recognisable. This other one is just two squares, it could really mean anything.
If it's in your fridge it's probably still good. Might need to warm up a little first.
An African American man shouldn't have to thank a cop for not harassing him. Instead, police should do their job. I'm certain you don't thank every driver that doesn't hit you either.

Likewise, companies shouldn't expect me to thank them for being responsible. All they need to know is that being irresponsible carries consequences (eg. all the people leaving Facebook). Facebook giving overly-broad access to everyone under the sun is well-known (and the only reason Mozilla posted in the first place).
... and class inheritance, namespaces, smart pointers, move semantics, std::initializer_list, etc.. :)
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Looks more like C style macro token pasting with sugar.
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At what point is a scooter considered abandoned property? What's preventing me from just taking the scooter off the street and hoarding them?
Thanks Justin. I've followed your blog for the past few years, and really appreciate the input. So ideally, you know the market and are part of it? That would make less work on the validation side of things. But if you don't think you know your customer perfectly, how can you find out what they struggle with and would be willing to pay for?

Surveys, landing pages, etc...? Got any more?
Confidence in what? The accuracy of the article?
"It's alertness effects go away after repeated use and subsequent tolerance building"

Link to evidence? I don't remember seeing anywhere in the literature that caffeine stops being effective when used daily and long-term, nor does it match my own experience.

Thanks!
> anyone who thinks psychedelics are a shortcut or an easy way to do something

But this is how the early experiments with ketamine are being described - as a near instant treatment that takes a couple of hours and lasts for months.
> Somebody has to be keeping those stores in business?

Norwegians driving across the border to avoid the sugar tax?
That bureaucrat is the appointed head of the FCC appointed by the President and implementing a law enacted by Congress. He's not a lone wolf.
What a terrible menu. It has 'cultural poverty' written all over it. Food is a major manifestation of culture--food speaks volumes about the people who prepare and eat it.
I think because the path forward is so unclear and the field is so broad. Advances in material science come from left field -- no amount of playing around with bronze is going to make you spontaneously aware of the amazing properties of iron and steel.

We're constantly learning things in the semiconductor space, the battery space, and especially in ceramics, both industrial and superconductors, but almost all the initial breakthroughs came from curious people who had a "that's odd" moment when studying something unrelated.

Even the development of tin and copper working is suspected to be a side effect of better pottery ("hey, what are these little hard things in my kiln that came out of that strange rock") and iron working is suspected to be a side effect of better glass ("hey, what are those hard things in my furnace that came out of that strange rock").
Not the GP author, but I've been in Nashville for about 8 years total (with a couple year gap in the middle). It's got a lot to offer, but it's become such a 'hot' city for people that you've got lots of recent transplant and tourists and so it's not nearly as affordable as it used to be (still a bargain compared to SV and most coastal cities).

I will say that the tech community here is not great. There have been a few local "success stories" that almost no one outside of town will have heard of, and healthcare still dominates. You also don't have a lot of people experienced in the tech space - I think this is a double edged sword because people starting companies outside of SV is great, but I also think you see lots of companies not be as successful as they could be if they learned from people who have gone there before.

I now work remote and it's a pretty good compromise. I bought a few years ago and love my neighborhood. There are new restaurants and things opening all the time. There are more flights from the airport than ever because of the increased tourism. Traffic is getting worse (still nothing compared to LA, Atlanta, etc.) and it's definitely a popular place overall.

Happy to answer any other questions you have!
I'm not sure where you heard that: https://g.co/kgs/3va2C3
>Equitably enforced hurts a lot of smaller players.

So? The goal of the law is user data privacy and control. It doesn't matter if the abuser is Google or someone operating a site from their dorm, violation and misuse of user data is still the same.
>> The problem with your standard of saying nothing is illegal till a court rules on it, is we require someone accuse another to trigger the court determination of fact.

As someone who is involved in multiple IP lawsuits and one other major civil matter, this is exactly how it works. I don't claim people are doing illegal things. I am filing lawsuits against them alleging improper behavior and I let the courts do their job, which is determining legality and harm to parties.

Laymen don't get to decide what is or isn't legal, nor is it a wise decision to accuse people of illegal activities when no fact finding group has found that to be true. Trust me on this one when I say courts really, really don't appreciate that kind of language.
Return on farming basically return on acreage, which means it’s directly tied to the cost of the land. There’s no real way to make a farm economically viable in a high land value area. Going vertical would make the land even more expensive
Are they running hot? They're in serious financial trouble and have been unable to meet self-imposed production levels. Now they're laying off thousands of people.
This is amazing. Thank you!
Tesla is a ponzi scheme.
pi and e are very important numbers!
The hosted product, whilst far more fully featured than github, is horridly unstable.

Its got to the point where I am seriously considering moving our repos (~250) to a self hosted CE version.

Looking at the outage reports, it doesn't fill me with confidence. A lack of redundancy, no systematic testing of backups, a seeming lack of QA.

Gitlab has an outage of average once every two weeks, compared to github's once every 6 _months_ (look at the status pages)
Any plans to add formal sum types (as opposed to interface hacks)?
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Sometimes malls are converted to office space. According to the documentary, Making of Riven, Cyan repurposed a strip mall as office space while they were waiting for the construction of a real office. They originally started out in some guy's garage after finishing Myst and crammed 12 people in there, then moved into the strip mall -- which they said was "like heaven" by comparison, but they didn't just stay in the strip mall because it was still too small for all the staff they wanted to bring on.
Go actually has generics.

Just not for user-defined methods and types.