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There will, almost inevitably, be someone who needs 101TB of memory. Then you get back to the same place where you need to scale out instead of up. If you asked cloud architects for cheaper, lower latency network or faster more expemsive storage you'd probably get the former most of the time.

Spark already works nicely with 100+TB datasets, and those can sit in memory across a thousand spot instances. Technology like tidalscale's hyperkernel can also merge together multiple systems into a single addressable memory space at the OS level so that you can run non-distributed applications across multiple commodity machines (like a reverse VM).

If 3d xpoint can give competitive price and speeds to tradional DRAM, then it will have a place in the market. Nobody has seen pricing yet nor benchmarks for these. For Intel however, this could increase their component share from CPU/chipset/network/storage to also include memory. That is pretty compelling since it's a market they haven't monetizes (not counting memory controllers) since the early days of Intel.
We found that humans are the best animals to train for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_driver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauffeur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver
There are more and more jobs coming up, some remote and some not.

A lot of them get posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/, which is fairly active, worth keeping an eye on it.
>Using that logic, every single bug fix that even remotely changes how the API operates would be considered a major version. What would be the point of semver?

Yes. That's exactly how SemVer works. It signals to people that there was a breaking API change - it doesn't matter if you're on version 10495.0.3 - if you've somehow broken your API 10,494 times you're following SemVer. Although if you're that bad at maintaining a stable API you probably don't have any users you know... using it.

SemVer is predicated upon the fact that other people are using your API. It signals to them whether or not it should be safe to update without breaking their code that relies on your API. If you break your API - you broke their code. That makes you an asshole in their eyes. The entire point of SemVer is to signal that you broke your API so that people relying on it can examine their code for breakage, decide whether or not to update, or start working on modifying their code to match the new API.

If your API is very unstable then people aren't going to rely on it. If it's both unstable and you don't signal breaking changes I'd be amazed if anyone put up with working with it.

If I'm using version 3.0.2 I should be fine using any 3.y.z version. If you release a 4.0.0 then I know I need to investigate and determine whether or not it is safe for me to update to that version. If your API is still unstable and changing on a daily basis - you shouldn't be at 1.0.0 yet. 1.0.0 is meant to signal the "stable API stage" of development.
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> about 3-4 times per week.

You might wanna rethink your diet, that makes a very unhealthy impression.

> I don't want to touch a filthy screen.

There is an app for it. I think it was/will released this summer.
OP if not on website could you please post a short description here.
CS majors that understand programming but don't want to be programmers can add great value in a number of areas including technical support roles, consulting roles, pre-sales engineering, professional services (helping companies to implement software), product and or project management, analysts, etc.

Some questions to think about - are you good with people and can you do well in a customer facing role? If not perhaps some of the more individual roles would be better.
I think a better approach would be adding support for BSD drivers through some kind of shim.
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Your simple website is completely broken with JS off. It requires 614KB of JS in 2 different request. Also 2 CSS files.

Also the whole thing looks like a cheap template.

It's not bad for a high schooler, but you can do better.
The US has many social parasites? I think you're too caught in the day-to-day to notice how things are. The US is one of the hardest-working places on the planet. You take fewer days off and work longer hours than most people.

You value work too much, if anything.
I doubt there is much political appetite for this in the US/Europe. It would have to be led by neighboring Latin American states. And who would that be? Brazil? Their politicians are probably pretty happy to sit by and gloat and accept talented refugees.
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Star Ruler 2 was pretty much thought of as the definitive space 4x game on a strategy-focused gaming forum I read. Too bad the game didn't have financial success, but having it open sourced is really cool. (It's a genre where a lot of people have tried to make open source games, but none of them seem to have much traction.)
I went to a personal trainer once, the program was effectively 30 minutes of personal training on one day, 30-60 mins of 'on my own' the other, and the trainer gave me an exact schedule to follow. On the days with the trainer, we could rack up the weights and he'd be there all the time. On my own days, I had to go for much safer exercises - dumbbell bench presses instead of the bar - and at a lower weight.

If you want to just train, go for the safe options and a bit more reps. If you want to really break your limits, never not have a spotter. They will allow you to be a bit less safe on the one hand (e.g. bars with max weights) and provide you with motivation on the other. I never pushed past my limits before I had a spotter.
For every job I've had, I never had a coding challenge during the interview. I had one where I had a homework assignment beforehand that we discussed during the interview, and mostly just talking interviews discussing my experience etc. I also work in a small city on the east cost and make less than half of what most people here do ($65k so maybe not really less than half) so that might have something to do with it...
What in here (https://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-a...) is an actual critique on what marketers do? What's the argument?

It's all "kill yourself" some reductive thoughts about how they identify markets followed by a snide remark about marketing arsenic as a childhood sleep aid. Only that last jibe could be said to be anything approaching an actual critique. The rest is just plain abuse.

You think Hicks was doing it for the sake of a 'good cause' or because there was money in it? But that's part of the rub, isn't it? You can't really buy in without selling out. It's the same sort of dilemma that exists with a band like Rage Against the Machine. They advocate all of this stuff, all of this anti-commercialism, etc, but fully take part in it.

"Oh noes, they're encouraging me to buy things. The horror"

Fuck man, at least they're honest about what they're trying to do. Not everyone is.
Reminds me of the joke, probably with many variants:

> It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.

> On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

> The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

> The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.

> The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money and leaves town.

> No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with optimism.
If you have to be that specific, perhaps the employee picked it up elsewhere? ;)
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This is not entirely accurate. While many people do view their photos at small sizes on pretty poor screens, the dynamic range of the entire analog processing chain was typically much less than what even entry-level digital cameras offer today.

See for example: http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/dynamicrange2/

Also, for any print that is intended to fit in an album or a frame, there is little benefit over 3 MP. For really, really big prints? Maybe 8, to err on the safe side. Like most analog reproduction media, prints tend to be very forgiving.

Someone viewing their 12 MP photos on a 500 ppi HDR mobile screen is pretty much getting the best comparable experience since the dawn of image capture.

Which of course doesn't mean that the tiny, faded black and white print from a hundred years ago you find in your grandpa's old wallet doesn't convey much more emotion.

Edit: Too slow, crazygringo beat me to it.
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I'm really surprised this has taken so long. In 2000, I made it to my state's Invention Convention, even got an article in the local newspaper with an 'invention' I called E-Waiter. It was a 'tablet' with a simple Visual C++ app to place orders. I legitimately thought I was going to win. One of my judges was the founder of a prominent regional pizza chain. He pretty quickly made the assessment it wasn't practical. I didn't win the event, and being a kid I didn't pursue it further.

Every time I see one of these things, I remind myself that good ideas are only half of the puzzle, the other half is the ability to execute.
"Please put yourself in the shoes of someone actually operating a site." - I run 8 sites right now and one of them is processing 10,000,000,000+ requests a month. I speak from a position of experience on this topic.

"Every single issue mentioned in that post only affects end-users. Not a single issue for the operator" - so don't care about the user and the risks we expose them to, only ourselves? This isn't really an approach I'm happy taking.
Fingers also touch faces including the inside of mouths, ears, eyes, etc.
Actually, ∞. +∞.and -∞ are three different things.
I think the basic idea is good.

In Germany we already have many such Kiosks, but you can still go to a regular person and buy your stuff, without using this computer.

I had the impression many people don't use the Kiosk, don't know why.

My take is, you're standing right before a big screen and everyone behind you can see what you're doing, which feels kinda awkward.

Maybe they should have used an app for this.

Only you can see what you buy, you can take as long as you like, pay online, get your number and with it your food without the need to stand in line or something.
The ego on those people, it never fails to amaze me, condescendingly judging entire continents with thousands of years of history.
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iOS market share is much bigger than thought, because iPhones last longer (2017)
I wasn't aware that UEFI provided an execution environment. Are applications sandboxed or restricted in any way?
Hopefully the prostitute produced some happiness.
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There was an outpouring of scientific research into LSD and what it might be useful for in the years following its synthesis. Towards the 70s-80s, research efforts were quashed and its use became increasingly and negatively politicized. It is inexorably political.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_dieth...

I'd recommend Michael Pollan's recent book, "How to Change your Mind" if you'd like to read more.
Sure there is an infinity without a sign.
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Here's the actual picture of Seneca https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/wp-content/uploads/seneca-...

Good read.
That is if you aren't jailed without chance for a parole until X years.

Do you really think there's a minimum number of years to rehabilitate someone from theft? Vandalism? Murder?

If you believe it's solely about how long it takes to rehabilitate people, then sentencing shouldn't exist. Prisons should be run drastically different. And records shouldn't be made public because one of the main causes of recidivism is the stigma you get from being a felon.
There is a lot of savings in its low administration costs. Since it would replace a number of social programs that have high administration costs, a UBI actually saves money.

There can be additional cost savings in UBI (and even in existing social programs) if it is structured to incentivise people to work. Many existing social programs actually disincentivise people from working because they lose the income from the social program if they work (too much) and it results in a net loss for them, so they don't bother working.

If a social program is structured so that people don't lose all of their social program income when they work, then they realize a net gain in their income and they continue working. The longer they continue working, the more likely it is that they will gain experience allowing them to make more income on their own, resulting in a further reduction of their social program income.

A very simplistic example would be to remove 50 cents for every dollar they make at their job. If they received $500/month when not working, by the time they're making $1000/month at their job, they're receiving no social program income anymore.
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This isn't a joke. It's a parable about the velocity of money. ;-)
martyalain is saying that (s)he won't go through the hurdle of scaling a website for a 2-days buzz.
What is the worst that could happen? You hear all these stories

Asking for a friend.
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Hopefully, if they are innocent, that will bear out in court.
Or at least "Be Stable and Write Nice Code"
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Interesting how he thinks that science, religion and tech is more important than politics.
Just as some anecdata, I know of a single developer who works with Haskell; they do fluid dynamics programming for ExxonMobil in Houston.
No, they are not. Which makes sense, given it's intended for things like bootloaders, hardware diagnostics, etc which will need full access to the system.
That's not paranoia. He misunderstood what this is about, jumped to conclusions, and now can't backtrack. Notice how Lazare started by rejecting the validity of the exercise as:

> "absurd assumptions with no bearing on reality"

But the argument suddenly turned into rejecting the credibility and motivation of the person proposing it as:

> "making a misleading graph to advance a political argument".

Also while his "demonstrations" kinda' sorta' make sense when viewed from the plane, it's the details that are completely off that give away that there's no formal knowledge or training behind them but a mish-mash of ideas probably gathered from the media, internet, and his personal conclusions and assumptions.

The whole line of reasoning for this discussion is that all physics problems that assume the ideal gas, the perfect sphere, etc. are unrealistic, so they are political statements. Don't feed the troll.
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My bad... I misread this thread on my phone.

An APS-C camera in capable hands is just as good as full frame.
A bug fix is not always a breaking change but a breaking change is always a breaking change. SemVer doesn't care if it is a bug fix or not. The only single relevant detail is if it broke the behavior of the API for any reason. The reason for the breakage is entirely and completely irrelevant because the only relevant detail in SemVer is if it broke the public API. It's a binary "Yes/No" question.

Doesn't matter if it breaks it in a way that you don't expect users to have been using it - you broke it. Doesn't matter if you were just fixing a typo that changed behavior - you broke it. Doesn't matter if you were fixing a logical error - you broke it. Doesn't matter if you fixed the PRNG causing some results to no longer be possible - you broke it. Doesn't matter if you deleted a deprecated endpoint - you broke it. '

SemVer isn't asking why you broke it - it's asking did you break it.
Well, this falls nicely into the "bucket of common experiences lots of people can talk about". :P

Turning 25 in two-ish weeks. Currently just past my 3rd year at a FAANG after failing to figure out a "path more interesting than just a software job"* during college.

Life isn't rainbows and unicorns, but I'm building a nest egg while figuring-out-what-I-acutually-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up, learning, and playing with pixels (aka "doing AR stuff at work"). I've got a handful of (less close than I'd like to be) friends, my family is doing okay (even with a breast cancer-y mom; thank goodness that got caught early), and I'm managing to stay reasonably active. I'm probably going to break up with the person I'm seeing soon; the "breaking up" part probably won't be so fun, but least there will be some good memories.

The formerly straight-A student, state champ mathlete me sometimes wishes I could just be that good at things, that easily, again. But life is life, and I really don't want my existence to have peaked at high school. ;)

As for advice to 25-year-old me.. seeing as how I'm not there yet, I can't really say. I'm just hoping to glean some advice like the rest of us youngin's in this thread. :P

*18-year-old me knew she'd be good at CS, but wanted to avoid the cubicle life that both her parents had. Almost-25-year-old me... is fine for now, but there's something about fields of open-office desks that makes a person feel like a cog. Maybe I'll go to grad school or join in on a startup (assuming I can find/make one that I don't cynic-the-idea-to-death) in the next few years.
You seem to be making the argument that all dictatorships are communist. I can assure you this is not true, and would be surprised if you cannot think of any examples of non-communist dictators.
Could write a lot here, but it's not that people will travel less but that we'll ship more stuff. Basic idea is that as the cost of shipping goes down, we should expect to see much more of it. And for a variety of reasons I see shipping costs just being decimated in the next couple decades.
What I read in such a statement is something along the lines of 'The people of the world do not act for my benefit and as I wish, therefore they are lame'.

The hubris is as disgusting as the person's end game is obvious.

This narrative actually reminds of https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot...
I don't know how he squares that view with his support for Trump
Not necessarily, but saying that the "doors are kept shut artificially" is something straight out of r/conspiracy.
I was arguing against US intervention. But since you asked...
Mali. When i was there the local pharmacist had a picture of president Ford, of all people, up. Turns out the US had run a program to eradicate a particularly nasty parasite in the region. They'd also built the road, the irrigation canals that allowed them to grow rice, and the bridge that connected them to the other markets. I'm American and i don't know this stuff, gauranteed this is not being reported in the foreign press.

Kenya is one of the more stable countries as far as Africa goes. When i was there i was surprised to learn from the local newspaper that the majority of their governments entire budget is foreign aid, much from the US. They use that money to pay Chinese (not American) companies to build infrastructure.

My Iraqi friends, particularly a friend from Mosul, criticized the US. Apparently the problem wasnt that the US came (Hussein was largely feared and hated, and abused his people), but that they didn't take enough control, and so left a power vacuum which was filled by criminals (which would probably happen in Venezuela). However more recently the downfall of ISIS can be credited to US intervention.

My Libyan friends were frustrated by the US lack of intervention, though a little help was provided. It's amazing how oppressed people don't have a voice. I didn't know they hated Gaddafi until the revolution happened, then they were so incredibly passionate.

South Korea. Or do you think North Korea is better?

Every country in Europe. Especially Eastern Germany. But you deliberately exclude them. However a few eastern European countries had some US airstrikes to stop genocide, which actually seemed to work pretty well.

Pretty much every developing country that has been peaceful and stable has received large amounts of monetary, economic, or other aid from the US.

How do you quantify bad things that didn't happen? I would posit that since the end of WW2, the entire world on average has been more peaceful and prosperous than any other time in history. Billions pulled out of poverty. The vast majority of people living their entire lives without experiencing war.

But again, for both the US and Venezuela's sake, I think it is important the Venezuelans fix this.
Thanks for your feedback. The JavaScript is essential because the entire site is built in React (it's pretty much an SPA), but outside of that what would you suggest I change? I haven't taken any formal design classes so pointers in that direction would be appreciated!
There is something so very unnatural in Human History with a collection of countries being tied to the same currency.
> I don't know about an LSD trip but I've often wondered what exactly a baby perceives while in the womb or as a newborn.

I don't think they "consciously" perceive anything. But "unconsciously", we know that they perceive the mother's voice, smell, etc. They recognize words in the womb and they even react to it in the womb. And after birth, babies' prefer their mother's voice ( probably an evolutionary benefit ) over other people's voices. It's why a mother's voice has a calming/soothing effect on babies. It's pretty much trained in the womb to associate the mother's voice with safety and comfort and nourishment.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/08/babies-learn-recogniz...
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