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> then a team of engineers builds a crazily complex pipeline to make the python perform in some reasonable time frame. (Hi, Spark!).

Having seen at least a couple of similar setups, I remain skeptical that this isn't, at its core, just a problem of ignorance of how "big" one can make/get a single server, before even paying a premium.

However, even for the "largest" commodity servers, last I looked, the premium at the highest end (over linear price:performance) was only something like 4x.

There was some relevant discussion of single server versus distributed in subthreads of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17492234 a few days ago.

> In my workplace, one example allocates bits of a job to roughly 100 machines, moving data to each, in a cloud environment where the data movement overhead is constantly fighting the benefits of distribution.

I'm confident that cloud environments contribute to hardware ignorance, since cloud providers offer a very limited choice of options, and I have yet to see anything high end.

This is especially a frustration for me with networking options, where high bandwidth (beyond 10Gb/s on AWS, until recently, and still only 40GB/s max, AFAIK) is nonexistent and, otherwise, expensive, and low latency options like Infiniband don't seem to exist, either, even at the now low/obsolete bandwidths of 16 or 32Gb/s.
Did 300M people live in that village? Isn't scale one of the things at play here?
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And I see that you've now added the explanation to the README:

https://github.com/harababurel/gcsf/commit/3d5ba8ffff2a18bf0...
Well it's more than just not being a bunch of instructions. It doesn't give you a ton of not hardware specific stuff that would be useful.
>Because you are already heavily invested

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/03/25/the-sunk-cost-fallac...
This is way off topic, but I’ve never seen the word goosebridle - googling it comes up with a phrase a wigwam for a goose’s bridle - and there its usage is meant as a rejoinder meaning “none of your business” - I’m curious how it ended up as a word to mean - I’m guessing - flashy features (jeez now I am sure there is a more common word for that) - is this a local thing, or is the etymology on the web wrong, what I’m saying is I’m curious how your usage of the word came about :)
He doubled-down in another tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018513369404493824
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Your reading comprehension is as evolved as your attitude.
> in reality it wasn’t a boardroom decision, it was some millennial they put in charge of the twitter account

The controls and policies on corporate communication channels are an executive decision, even if not every individual action implementing them is not.
What are the core features that differentiate Arc from other lisp dialects?
Those that do not confirm their email
The recent(ish) interview with Russ Cox on the "Go Time" podcast [1] sheds some light on this, but I listened to it long enough ago that I can't remember the entire reasoning.

[1]: https://changelog.com/gotime/77
It's not a typo. In an earlier tweet he says "Never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus)"

He's clearly implying that the diver fits the stereotype of old white men who retire in Thailand to have sex with young Thai boys/girls.
I don’t have enough experience to say how common my experience (or yours) is, but I don’t know how much luck is involved. I’m sure many institutions have solved these problems without containers and sicker.

But For various reasons, political, personal, technical etcetera, consistent, accessible test environments were not available. It was a huge bottleneck for developers.

This is why docker was so appealing: it allowed devs to circumvent the political and technical issues. We didn’t have to justify provisioning more instances, since we could just use docker compose to run stacks on local machines.

So I’m that sense, the choice and it’s benefits arose from non technical hurdles.
Oh, but your first sentence is all-too-true at face value.

Rust is currently in the process of baking asynchronous I/O into the language, and their implementation cannot do this: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2008/12/mother-of-all-monads.html.
Blame isn’t a good word for this (not what I intended either) because it suggests superiority, knowing better.

If we are not engaged in leading by example then it does come back to culture and society.

So, I agree but not entirely. Twitter and modern social media is practically a democratized manifestation of the paparazzi and the gossip mag. Gossip in this form is toxic as fuck - we’re not small villages where everybody knows each other any more.
Limited access highway driving, a la an iteration or two on what GM is doing with Cadillac today, seems a pretty logical use case. Many people do a lot of it, it's boring, it's easy to get over-tired.

It doesn't fire up the people who want robo-Ubers but it would have a lot of benefits, including safety, and seems like a much more boundable problem. I could actually imagine something like this being approved for consumer use decades before the more general case.
This article is basically a laundry list of why any legitimate money and most legitimate developers are and should be extremely wary of blockchain. Lots of buzzwords, big promises, and smoke, no real problems solved or paths to actual profit other than “I dunno, sell some tokens I guess”.
It would make sense to me: if someone causes distress on someone else through their actions, I imagine you can make a legal case for going after him/her, especially if the first person does it for a gain (of notoriety, publicity, fame, etc) rather than by accident.
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Typing from my phone, so just keywords. Emacs, SLIME, single repo, pair programming, monolith applications, mercurial, PostgreSQL.

Most influential was pair programming which I personally hated but had to admit it works.
Thanks.

Yeah, IMO that's pretty stupid and Musk would do well to take a break. :/

Pity, because I think he overall did the right thing with that sub idea - it was a good plan B and what was done in the end was pretty similar to it (strap the kids into stretchers with positive pressure full face masks). But calling one of the team a pedo doesn't help anyone; better to just shut up.
Extreme views provoke extreme response. When Yiannopoulos was to give a speech at Berkeley, the extreme left attacked. When Sarkeesian was to give a speech at USU, the extreme right threatened to attack. Kind of reminder to all of us to stay away from extremes.
I remember using the single disk QNX demo back in the day and being highly impressed with the functionality the crammed into that disk. Sad that it never went anywhere as a desktop/server OS.
Anonymity is very comforting, you brought your discussion to the table without stereotype or preconception getting in the way, much like this very site and the reason why reddit is so popular. It is the basis for free discussion, a foundation pillar of the internet.

It's truly amazing that the early internet was a social experaince that went though a weird product/service commercial driven phase, and now we find ourselves trying to balance both of those out.
Yes. I do not explicitly state that email have to be verified. Noted.
I had a similar comment re. eventual consistency; and I think this is a case of eventual consistency.

I think it doesn't work because the problem becomes "when to retreat". It actually introduces a third state (attack; retreat; do nothing), where I might retreat today, and you do nothing.

Out of interest, if you set a time/date on when to retreat, how would the message look like, and how would you define confirmation for both parties?
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If you disrupt someone's career, or their personal life, to advance your own career and fame, then you are certainly liable for damages, in the normal legal sense, unless you can prove public interest. If the targeted woman had been an elected politician, it might be possible to prove public interest, but in this case, public interest, in the legal sense, seems unlikely. And Blair has already admitted she did this to advance her career:

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“I’m an actress, comedian and a writer and so is my dude. Also if anyone wants to send us plane tickets we are more than happy to try and find your very own #PlaneBae,” she tweeted, before asking for a job at BuzzFeed. Brands also jumped into the fray, as brands are wont to do. Alaska Airlines called what Blair did a “good deed” and offered her a free flight. T-Mobile offered Blair free Wi-Fi.

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Ah, that is an unfortunate issue, and the error message is unreadable to boot.

> The issues pale in comparison to the horribleness of Glide, but it's interesting just how these tools end up being so damn flaky.

That's the crux of it, isn't it? The dozens of Go package managers that have come and gone over the years have provided us with substantial evidence that building a stable package manager requires several years of development. I think that's why I'm frustrated that the Go team hit the reset button again. Dep has accumulated plenty of bug fixes over the years to handle more and more of these edge cases, but vgo had to start from scratch.

On the bright side, vgo essentially can't fail.
Nothing in the ad said it was psychedelic, but yeah, applied deep learning on IoT-controlled plant husbandry. I hope to God they were just going through the motions of a job posting with a candidate in mind, because normally even MIT-related people aren't that blindly entitled about hiring as to label three different specialized skillsets minimum requirements without offering a lot of money.
Good advice @golem14. Similar thoughts. I wouldn’t have espoused techniques for passive identity mining though. But that said, the more dark patterns discussed, the better precautions people can take. Whatever of the technical possibilities, clearly and truthfully declaring why a service requires certain authorization steps is generally best practice IMHO - ethics before profit.
Did you really get to the end of the first paragraph before you decided this wasn't going to be about formal proofs/specs?

"It will then formalize the Two Generals' Problem and formally prove the impossibility."
>and they have appealed to the masses that are uneducated in how the internet works and why it was successful in the first place.

I question this premise. How much of the public actually buys the Republican line on net neutrality?
I'd agree with that. I don't work in banking, but definitely understand how various regulations can complicate things.
Wasn't Python and Postgresql intentionally created for learning purposes? I'm not saying that this project is just as important, just pointing out that "learning purposes" is not a good predictor of a useless project.
What could possibly go wrong, i just patch this one up and go home. Worst comes to worst, sysadmin is called first.

http://nehe.gamedev.net/tutorial/rope_physics/17006/
The article in question doesn’t actually seem to point provide any real direction to go in for current problems, merely it rhetorics that curtailing free speech rights for nazis would possibly result in curtailing free speech rights for gays, since the same laws allow both protests. It also selects different countries to point out that free speech limitation laws there don’t apply to Nazis or alt-right behavior. It never addresses that speech is limited in the US (libel, violence) and only discusses free speech in the context of government. Ie, people are still free to socially exclude nazis or whatever.

All in all, a very nuanced opinion of a very limited context, which itself doesn’t necessarily apply to many leftist problems with Nazi/alt-right movements being on the rise in my anecdotal experiences. The broad approach that free speech shouldn’t be limited by the government because such protections also protected minorities is true. However, much of the disagreement is how much alt-right rhetoric actually breaks current speech law, ie. libel or violence or assault. This essay doesn’t seem to address that.
You have the choice to move as much or as little to the type system in Haskell as you deem beneficial. You do not have to "type it to the max", as is commonly offered as a stereotype.
Awesome solution, simple genius. So many times I've tried to explain a similar principle for this kind of situation. Signs don't work! People don't read them (actually, they often don't even see them, at least consciously). Especially when it's a common action. You generally have to physically alter their path through the task to get their attention -- disrupt the affordances somehow.

If you don't want anyone to turn on the oven, cover the knob (or remove it). Same for a door handle. There's one case of something on the shelf that's earmarked for a particular purpose? Tie or tape it in place. A sign works to give reasoning, but first you have to slow down the distracted and goal-oriented person enough to read it.

Another good example of this kind of design is circuit breaker lockouts: an electrician needs to work on a particular circuit, so they turn off the breaker. To make sure that no-one turns it on and kills them while they're still working, they bar the switch in place with a physical lock that only they have the key for. Better, some models allow multiple locks to be attached (it's like a physical concurrency semaphore). Then the circuit can't be re-powered until all locks have been removed.
RBAC View
Hello, I have a really rough POC for an RBAC view.
https://github.com/jasonrichardsmith/rbac-view

Needs a lot of refactoring, and a designers input would not hurt either. The intention is to get an overview of all the systems RBAC rules. Eventually also get an understanding of what pods are running with what permissions (If this PR gets merged).
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66115

I would love some feedback on what other people would like to see out of such a tool. I would like to export the table to a pdf as well as render an interactive webpage.
The article content isn’t too bad but having “crop circle” in the headline is ridiculous when the phenomenon of crop circles has nothing to do with the subject of the article. In addition, the article itself starts off with some mis-leading information.

It begins by implicitly indicating that “U.K. archeologists” were involved in the discovery (discussed in other comments). It also states that it was “drone enthusiasts” who captured the image in the first place. In fact, the drone belonged to an Irish historian, Anthony Murphy, who lives in the area and has been researching, recording images of and writing about the Boyne Valley monuments for the past two decades – so not just a random drone enthusiast. After making his discovery, he reported it to the National Monuments Service, an organisation that is part of the Republic of Ireland’s Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

The coverage by the Irish Times is much better than the linked article:

* Initial report: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/scorched-earth-d...

* Follow-up article: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/newgrange-more-u...

Further background on Anthony Murphy: https://www.mythicalireland.com/about/about-anthony-murphy/
Eve could defeat any strategy by dropping all messages.
Well, to be fair, Friston's use of the term "free energy" has little to do with its use in thermodynamics (and, consequently, in biology). Here it is used to denote something to be minimized using the methods of "variational Bayesian inference" as a way of explaining phenomena studied by cognitive science in general and in the subject of machine learning in particular.
> Long to short, the website "loses" over $500 per week in donations. Had the NPO paid for a better site their ROI and general goodwill would be much better.

> Btw, the NPO does the same for their social media marketing. More "opportunity" is left on the table.

This is true in the cases where the money not spent with this organization is spent either with a less efficient (by some metric) organization, or on non-charitable causes such as a new car or a new cat for the potential donor instead. If the more expensive website simply relocates charitable donations from one important cause to another, the total goo might actually decrease even if the ROI on the website was good for the individual organization. If an investment brings in "new" money, it's obviously worthwile.

I guess my point is that it's good to compare organizations on various metrics, but not to the degree where they start using their resources to outcompete each other instead of doing good.
RIGHT!?

I remember the late 80s and early 90s as an absolutely wondrous time; using the computer as a means of connecting to someone else somewhere else was a little bit mind blowing.

I just spent a few minutes going down memory lane looking at the BBB's on this site: http://bbslist.textfiles.com/503/ remembering some of the door games I used to play.
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" ~ Linus Torvalds
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Explicit options require the cooperation of every intermediate program. If program D is called by C, which is called by B, which is called by A, and D gets a new option that we need to use, we have to modify C to pass it to D, then B to pass it to C, and A to pass it to B. Or we could just set an environment variable.

Configuration files don't let us override individual variables easily, in different invocations of the program. We have to generate a custom version of the configuration file for that job and pass that file's name to it.

Environment variables are only visible to children, so they are inherently secure; we don't worry whether permissions are too loose on an environment variable so that another user could see it or modify it. There is no such thing.
Whoa. Will SBCL emit false-positive warnings all the time when you dare to use lists in a Lisp, or does it at least try hard to infer specialized list types, going above what's expressible using the standard LIST type?
I also like the simplicity of SimpleNote, but I'd like something more secure.
This strikes me as "odd":

>Then he looked up, waited for a pause in the presentation, and said in a soft voice: “This number is wrong!”

>...

>Any other executive would have assumed his finance people could write Excel formulas and delegated the task.

All the (successful) executives I ever dealt with have a sort of "sense" for numbers, and surely do not really-really trust their finance people writing Excel formulas, or - better - they trust them as long as the results are reasonable and don't raise this "number sense" alarm.
It is not clear to me what the intention is with this stuff.

I mean, in a datacenter, aren't there "top of rack" switches that everything below gets cabled into and then you have the top-of-rack switches aggregating traffic into fiber and the fiber going into a much larger central switch?

Where in a datacenter do you have to worry about patch-panel concerns unless one is routing to testing tools of some kind?
Laws can't keep up with technology. But it may be time for a law to come into fruition since everyone is now a paparazzi and you don't have to be a celeb to be a target.

They know the name of the individual who recorded it and transmitted it to Twitter. They can go after her if there is a law and hopefully have a real punishment in place for this kind of behavior.

Furthermore the individual who recorded it also profited off it. She has a career that depends on how much exposure she gets and this is apparently the biggest thing she's done. She was also offered something by Alaska Airlines (their tweet was deleted), tried to get a Buzzfeed job from the attention, sent out some tweet about getting free plane tickets from her followers, and increased her exposure even more via the tons of new followers she gained.
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This is probably very interesting but I would need to pay for access to the article...
As several American lawyers have pointed out on Twitter, this is just about the easiest libel per se lawsuit you could have. I guess Elon can stand to lose a few million dollars, but it's still incredibly stupid.
FFS, Elon. You had this one in the bag. Even though Thailand didn't end up needing it, the sub offer made you look great and even crowded out the bad news about Tesla for a while. All you had to do after the rescue was over was say "Glad to hear all the kids are safe; we'll keep the sub mothballed just in case this happens again" and you'd have been golden. Instead you go off on these tangents about how Thailand is incompetent and now this, and now you just look like a prick for about the twentieth time this year.

Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I’ll start off. I chose a probotix brand machine because I didn’t want to assembly myself. I wanted the hobby to be making projects, not building the machine.
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> My far-fetched theory is that teamwork is still something very rarely found.

You could probably test this by looking at different work environments outside of Silicon Valley or even the US.

Also, a few years ago I read a NYT opinion article citing research into what teams perform best. It wasn't all that dependent on IQ, but on those where where, everyone contributes more equally, people were better at reading each other's emotional state, and which had more women[0][1]. It should be noted that women are better on average at reading emotional states, and that being better at reading each other's emotional state may play a big part in having everyone contribute equally.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/opinion/sunday/why-some-t...

[1] https://archive.fo/BM7BT
It is still tricky, because a sufficiently motivated doxer could uncover your real legal name if they saw your logs. Things like IP addresses and who your friends are could possibly out you. It's not sufficient enough to use an anonymous handle. You have to sign up for the service using an anonymous proxy and use burner phones which are virtual and not tied to a particular cell mast nearby (if the service demands phone verification).
Run it under an isolated user. You could even do it in a container and mount just the directories you want.

However if your platform has security flaws maybe you should reconsider.
You create a so called Genesis block on which everything is based. Maybe include a timestamp (in case of Bitcoin a newspaper headline) to prove that you didn't pre-mine and you are done. The Genesis block is then distributed with each implementation for bootstrapping the verification process.

You calculate the hash of each block (which includes the hash of the previous block) and check if it matches the hash in the next block. Each block also includes the difficulty of the network at the time to prevent mining more than x block per hour. The difficulty describes the "format" of the hash of each block, e.g. the hash in hex format needs to have 50 times 0 at the beginning.
Really? Then you could sue me for recording you committing a crime?

Ok, let's add an exception for really obvious cases. What if you are taken to trial and later found not guilty (despite my recording being used as evidence against you). Can you sue me now?

You can see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Beware unintended consequences. If you're in a public place then I have every right to record you.
The article incorrectly defines the two generals problem.

The problem states that the two generals have decided to attack but need to coordinate on when. Failure to attack at the same time will result in defeat.

Full details are available on Wikipedia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals'_Problem