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Serverless or Not? That is the question
Author of the book here. If you have any questions, let me know. Happy to help any way I can.
> Everyone goes nuts when the US suggests implementing tariffs against countries that already have tariffs against us. You gotta admit, the message seems to be that other countries are allowed to protect their domestic industry via tariffs and the US is just supposed to deal with it, don’t wanna start a trade war!

You do know the US is already heavily protectionist and many tariffs are protections against the US's price dumping due to its heavy subsidies, right?

And that the US already has plenty of tariffs to boot?
Wireshark is worth a couple of hours of play. It was quite a revelation to use it on a non https connection and watch myself transmit my password letter for letter in clear text :) Yes one can imagine how that is, but still, doing it is different.
Yes, the author is exaggerating, but he definitely has the point: the "we care about your privacy" is utter hypocrisy in the modern web-world. There are a few companies that do care, but most don't and yet they have the courage of putting up all these false claims.

You know what's great about the GDPR? It's that all this is stripped naked and lies just in front of our eyes. The requirement to click hundreds of buttons in order not to be tracked is a slap in the face of each European user.
I think he went into quite a bit of detail from being quicker (less actions) to being more discoverable.
This depends on the VM you are using.
Currently GraalVM gives Scala a huge speedup (sadly the speedup comes with startup cost, etc, which would not benefit the bechnmarks game)
If it's 0.25% then at least we know it's not important.
I don't do a lot of CRUD but it always struck me a lot of this work should be configuration rather than coding.
If you try to close your switch it will break.
This is all true, but it does do something to start redressing the balance. Once we're at the stage where content creators have some of the control back, then we can start looking at reducing the stakes for non-profit content, limiting the claims rights holders can make if they abuse the system, etc.

Expecting a solution that covers everything first time -- and trying to persuade people that the special cases are necessary without seeing the system in action -- is a great way to achieve slow/no progress.
He’s talking about the millions of people not yet born.

When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging.
Are the Brains of Transgender People Different from Those of Cisgender People?
Beat is pretty much the best of both worlds for me. It doesn't have Uber's "let's flaunt all the laws because disruption" attitude, but it still has all the advantages, and every single driver I've booked with Beat has been fantastic. I'm never getting a taxi without using Beat these days.
> But given Musk's(Tesla) constant need to shift blame - car crash, negative news (Pravado), deflecting questions on financial situation of Tesla and now this, it is not looking good for Tesla.

I agree with much of what you are saying, but this line is really out of place. He needs to shift blame for car crashes? How many crashes do his cars have per 1,000 miles vs the others?

Deflecting questions on their financial situation? Which question from the shareholders meeting really went unanswered?

I agree that the handling of this incident is strange, but the rest of your narrative isn't as clear as the negative filter would have someone believe.
Youtube video quality and speed is unparalleled. There are times on my phone when even jpgs on imgur take longer to load than 1080p video on youtube. I don't know how exactly they pull it off but I guess it's a combo of local caching and deals with ISPs and phone carriers. Smaller competitors have no chance to compete.
Overwatch has wait times, not just load times, and it is beloved by FPS players.
This seems to be the point of the issue.

What I heard on the radio was "do you lose your job, lose your wife/family, yet continue to play?"

So what about the case where playing the game IS your job (which is a growing field?) What about the case where your wife/family is playing it with you?

I'm not denying there might be some underlying destructive problem, but to my layman ears it sounds more like something someone is interested in that contradicts what another believes to be "properly functional."
Speaking as somebody who works on the FreeBSD kernel at Netflix, the whole article is kind of nonsensical. We don't use FreeBSD because of "latency". We serve clients over https that could be tens or hundreds of ms away using the kernel TCP stack. The folks who care about latency are high frequency traders, who care about every nanosecond. They tend to use userspace / hardware offloaded solutions and do things like busy-waiting for messages.
PSA: Playstation has a 'Family Management' feature where you can limit game time played on sub-accounts. You can set time limits per day and the action to take like auto-logout. It reminds the player as they get closer to being out of time.

I don't think we know the effects of modern video games on younger (aka developing) minds yet. Many of these games hire psychologists [0] to help engineer game play to keep people wanting to play because if they get bored and move onto another game it could be a loss. I don't think old school games like Zelda or Mario were engineered this way.

Think about a game like Tic-Tac-Toe and how after a certain age it becomes boring. Now add leaderboards, points for certain types of wins, customizable X's and O's, customizable game boards, avatars, seasons, etc. The game is the same but now you have multiple games encompassing the game of popular 'skins', points, 1-upping competitors, etc.

[0]http://theconversation.com/the-business-of-addiction-how-the...
Customs will rarely pick your package, I received a letter that some items were confiscated 6 months after I was reshipped and received them.
I think this only due to the fact that most owners equate mortgage payment to rent.

If you properly account for running costs, depreciation and capital cost then renting "should" cost about the same as ownership.
I wonder how they arrived at Creative Commons' CC-BY-NC as the license.
These licenses are not meant for code but for artwork, right?
I recently noticed the same with the FastPhotoStyle code [1] by NVidia, so I'm wondering if there is something that draws their legal departments to this license?

EDIT:
Creative Commons actually discourage the use of their licenses for code [2].

[1]: https://github.com/NVIDIA/FastPhotoStyle

[2]: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...
If we're going to be political about gender, shouldn't we be political about the invasion and oppression of the native people by Europeans and Latin culture?
If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount.

If the manufacturer can't make a profit at the tariff-burdened price, they just don't make the food in the first place. So you go hungry.
For most MtG players, the game rules are the sum of the game rules and the set of cards which are legal to play. Including other potential card text is not relevant, or at least at that point you are playing an unofficial variant of the game. Also, I think constructing a turing machine just under the comprehensive rules with only ability text is a very simple exercise (even exluding trivial cases like an ability text which simply instructs you to evaluate a turing machine as part of the execution). You could probably print a set of cards to make a usable assembly language, no need for any turing tarpits, which is another reason why no-one is particularly interested in this interpretation of the question.
The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for public transit projects
I think it's your comment that's naive. Mature organizations have strict separation of duties, and a great deal of oversight over code reviews and code deployment. It is becoming obvious that Tesla's focus is on execution speed and other aspects (in this case internal security) are suffering.
You can manage people and organize access without actually having the ability to gain access to their credentials. In fact, that's how it's supposed to work in safety-critical environments.
> The best counter argument you have is sarcasm?

Yeah, I was tired and irratible when I wrote that. As quotes, it's actuly true: his small but extremely vocal 'cult' following is a big problem.

I still don't agree with most of what his most strident critics say.

I think he's being unusually straightforward in thought and communication.
Scraping ICE employees from LinkedIn
This is why true net neutrality covers services like Google Facebook reddit and YouTube. But you won't see anybody mention this anywhere.
Not at all.

Here is a perspective from the Norwegian foreign minister [1], with google translate [2].

The key word here is uncertainty and unpredictability.

[1]https://www.nrk.no/urix/_-vi-ma-jobbe-annerledes-med-donald-...

[2]https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Yes written Spanish. Not sure how people fix it when they speak? I hear people say "muchachas y muchachos" a lot on political rallies.
Related HN discussion from two days ago, linking to a NYTimes article by the authors of this paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329396
I personally wish it was closed Alpha to be honest. I get tired of repeating myself to those expecting an alpha like what other companies release. 75% of the game isn't actually in the Alpha yet, so there is a long way to go before it's representative of the final product.
both are actual multiplayer games, so it doesn't match parent's description
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> GPL religion...

So, You claim religion harassment?!
There is a big recent trend for inventing new UI/UX solutions for things that aren't broken until they are.
I'm really looking forward to see this problem to be addressed in the near future.

That hamburger menu button in Chrome kept me from adopting the browser until I gave up only about a year ago.

There are so many projects born and die each day, it's a mystery to me why nobody have solved the famous Linux Desktop UI problem so far (Mac OS did though). The 'about' item often is the first thing I'm looking for when I see a new app. And if I can't find it within a minute, it gives me a instant idea that working with it will be no walk in a park.
Programmers capable of auditing such a contract to the same level of reliability a lawyer would get you are vastly more expensive than said lawyer.
I think you’re making an assumption that the ongoing trade negotiations is static. It’s not. Today it’s parts, tomorrow it could be fully assembled goods.

If you’re going to negotiate, you don’t play all your cards at once.

I don’t think the end state of the negotiations is protectionist tariffs for the US, it’s to get China to drop their protectionist tariffs. If we reach that end goal, how is that a bad thing?
It’s time to rein in the data barons
XChat was using this model for as long as I can remember seeing it.
That lack of risky things is a Fata Morgana. Risky things were done. The world was almost destroyed, multiple times.
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Indiegogo sends debt collectors after Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega Plus campaign
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Standard currently has Essence Scatter, Divest, and Wizard's Retort. It's not that counterspells have gotten cheaper, but graveyard recursion is fairly prevalant and "Can't be countered" clauses are on some pretty beefy finishers right now.
> It is well known

A quick search suggests that is mainly known among alternative therapy sites and there isn't much science backing it up. Since high-blood pressure costs the NHS in excess of £2bn a year, I would expect a fair degree of research.
A dog-ate-my-homework tier excuse, from Elon Musk?

What can I say, except "lol".
You can Google around for articles on what places like Iran and Afghanistan used to look like. They're instructive. Then read up on the history of those countries, and how things went wrong.

It's also instructive to pay attention to the names. Some of them are going to jump out at you, and at least a couple times you're going to think "wait, isn't he the bad guy" when, once upon a time, some recognizable name was "on our side" (but really was on his own side all along, and willing to play at doing a major power's bidding in order to get funded/armed/maintained in power/etc.).

And some of the names of the foreign-policy wonks are going to get eerily repetitive, and you'll wonder how these guys managed to stay cozy with administration after administration despite their track record of literally leaving desolation around the world. Worse: you're going to read their bios and find out some of them are still in positions of power and being taken seriously today.
Singular "they" sometimes gets a bad rap (less so in the last couple years) but it's been part of the English language since the time thorn (Þ) was an English letter. It's appeared in well known written works by respected authors, such as this usage by Shakespeare:

"There's not a man I meet but doth salute me as if I were their well-acquainted friend" - A Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3

As you point out, even people who criticize it use it, because it's natural in most situations. There would be very few people who would naturally say "each of the children called his parents" over "each of the children called their parents."

https://www.npr.org/2016/01/13/462906419/everyone-uses-singu...

>A lot of people tell you it sets their teeth on edge, but my guess is that they're not listening to themselves very attentively. Everyone uses singular "they," whether they realize it or not. In an engaging recent book called Between You & Me, the New Yorker's self-designated comma queen Mary Norris says that that use of "they" is "just wrong." But flip back a few pages and you find her writing "Nobody wanted to think they were not essential." If that sentence got by a New Yorker copy editor in her own book on grammar, what hope is there for anybody else? If you insist on coming down on singular "they," it's best to be a bit ironic about it, since you're almost certainly going to be making a hypocrite of yourself before the day is out.
I'm not the person you responded to, but not really. My college courses - admittedly as a Computer Science major, not Software Engineering - were laughably lacking any practical education. The closest we had was one group project, and we didn't even learn about things like version control.

Security? Forget it.

I've never gone to a bootcamp, but I'd wager that they at least mention security in their classes. College was the equivalent of the PHP documentation that had incredibly insecure examples that people "learned" from.
Until recently, it was "so embedded" in the anglophone (and all Latin languages) to use the male gender when unspecified (AND plurals in Latin languages), and yet enough people appeals to sense did make a difference.

Why is it cool to change the language about gender, but not about culture?
At this point I'd argue your case is a bit special and you may need special arrangements. If it is that critical for you to have a gazillion of IoT devices and untrusted VMs accessible from the internet via IPv6, get a /48 tunnel from he.net
There are various multi-language benchmarks, e.g. https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
Most people and small businesses I know around that period using FreeBSD switched to Linux and started giving Linux a serious try in case FreeBSD was completed banned.
Google rolls out Messages on the web for Android users
I've had this go on for about four months: we were acquired, and although some of our code would be integrated into the acquirer's offerings, our roadmap was of no interest to them, but since we hadn't been legally integrated yet, we couldn't be assigned to new teams or given new work items.

This information wasn't communicated to us directly, though, so everyone but a few very senior people just noticed a gradual drying up of tickets and tasks. There was a lot of looking for things to do and looking busy for the first couple months, though as we started to figure out what was going on there were more and more spontaneous frisbee games and slacklining lessons, culminating in the whole of our satellite office leaving the office after lunch to go on a hike one day.
Not necessarily. Story-rich games are essentially one-time only experiences, even if they are very fun to play through.
> How is is it that these changes could have made it through a code review process

Most companies allow you to add on code and then push it after it has already been approved (mainly to account for small nitpick changes)

> get deployed?

I would assume through the normal process? You don't have to immediately try and blow up everything causing an immediate rollback. If you are smart, you'll pull a stuxnet [0] and carefully fuck up the machinery to try and make it go unnoticed.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099969
> @jchw told that he don't know any reason why Aseprite forked to LibreSprite, other than Linux distribution issue.

That is not at all what the post said. jchw's post (with my annotations):

> I purchased Aseprite because it's nice. I'm curious if the author has ultimately benefited from changing the license [of ASEprite], though. I'm not sure what it [making ASEsprite proprietay] does practically aside from that Linux distributions can no longer package it [ASEprite].

Nothing in that post is referring to LibreSprite. jchw is not asking why LibreSprite exists. jchw is asking whether taking ASEprite actually benefitted the author of ASEprite in the long run.
> If you don't like it, play a different game.

It's not that I hate it or the developers for implementing the mechanic. It's that it's not always conducive to a person in a relationship or with children. You can always dismiss the person as the problem by telling them to play something else, but clearly those people don't want to play something else.

We understand why (in some cases) you can't just quit at any time. Like you said, that means someone can avoid a PvP fight or a lopsided ranked match by disconnecting without repercussion. It sucks sometimes when you can't help but disconnect at the drop of a hat, and I don't necessarily think that those types of mechanics are the fault of the developers.

For example, I was playing a ranked match when my partner fell ill. They were making it fine for a while, but I was asking if we should go to urgent care. They flip-flopped multiple times on going over the course of 10 minutes. Then I plainly asked, "Do you definitely think that you need to go? I don't mind disconnecting to take care of you, but if I do and you decline, I'll get penalized for no reason." It makes sense that I would incur a penalty for dropping the match, but it still sucks.

The point is that if the developing company can find a way for quick disconnect that doesn't interrupt the spirit of gameplay, it would be a boon for a lot of players. I know that competitive/ranked modes are pretty much off limits for me during most of my play time, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to play against people who are trying their best.
It almost escalated, multiple times, where it boiled down to someone in lower chain of command refusing to take the destructive action.

The book and series The Man In The High Castle (SPOILER) is essentially about the disturbed equilibrium between a nuclear and non nuclear power.
So why not free trade? I hate the idea of tariffs, but when your "allies" have had non reciprocal tariffs something needs to be done. I think all of this would go away if all tariffs against US products were removed
This is interesting. The marketing has certainly been disturbing, reinforcing the worst uses for this sort of tech and overstating its usefulness for those cases. But ... unlike Google's contract work with the Defense Department, I'm not sure Amazon could legally get away with refusing to sell an on-demand product to a government agency. This service is nowhere close to the worst thing that's running on Amazon's servers on behalf of governments. The software exists and could easily be set up to run directly by governments or their contractors on Amazon's infrastructure (I guarantee that is already going on far more extensively than Amazon's own specific service will ever grow to). Ditto for GCP and Azure and everything else.

I sympathize with these investors, truly, but the only solution here would be to get out of the cloud computing business altogether.
> Every 30 years

Interesting pattern that repeats across multiple fields. I wonder how that compares to the average USAF career duration.
Absolutely, you can see the problem with relying on one source of income in the oil dependent countries. Towns and Cities with a dominant employer have similar problems.

On the other hand having a closed border and expecting to do everything yourself leaves you exposed to potential famines and in a general state of poverty, see North Korea for an example.
... when you nonsensically pretend that VAT is an import tax.

"Once value-added taxes and sales taxes are included in an international comparison, America’s taxes on imports are much lower than those of almost every other country."[1]

The point still stands when not considering VAT, but the difference is far less pronounced. Though I am hesitant to trust the authors' research given the above.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/business/trade-chin..., also https://tradediversion.net/2017/03/08/on-the-nyts-building-t...
I actually just replaced a 3 year old Samsung Electric Dryer. The heat was no longer working, and I suspect it was the heating element. To access the heating element required me to:
- Take off the control board
- Take off the entire top of the dryer
- Take out the door
- Take out the Front panel
- Take out the drum

I only figured this out after finding a service manual, as I did not want to risk destroying a dryer to figure out how to fix it. A new heating element was $80 off the grey market. I wanted to see how much it would be to get it fixed by a service place, and any service place I went to wanted to charge $100 just to look at it!

When I saw a new dryer was $400, I just decided I did not want to deal with it anymore and bought a new dryer.

I will not be buying Samsung products again.
I would also add that it seems that some of his business ventures are anchored on their ability to oversell the feasibility of a central idea and subsequently manage lowering the client and the public's expectations. The Boring Company is a prime example.
Drew

Have you ever consider using Dragonfly. It appears to dramatically beat in perf test FreeBSD (2017).

https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/perf_cmp.pdf

I’m curious to hear your take on Dragonfly since you’re a kernel developer.

Thanks in advance for all your work.

Edit: more recent links (2018) with even higher perf

https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/dfly1.pdf

https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/dfly1_p.pdf
The same reason you use they, them, and their instead of dropping pronouns entirely. It's easier to make language gender-neutral than it is to remove the slot gender occupies entirely.

There are probably other reasons.
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And indeed that in my opinion is an issue.

People in Quebec are french-speaking or francophone, but calling them "French" is dismissing everybody in Quebec who is not of "pure" French descent.
"2+3=(massive system crash)"

[Examines core dump] "Hmmm, might have been okay..."

The cartoons are funny and have never gone out of style. I still refer cow-orkers to them and get laughs.
If I may ask, why do you use FreeBSD in particular then?