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I agree. This is probably also the reason for the record amount of share buybacks. Credit has become cheaper relative to equity.
You and I seem to be using a different denominator to quantify "most" services. I'm thinking of it as "most" in terms of who has all the resources / budget. You seem to be thinking of it in terms of sheer number of services or engineers working on them. The fact is that the highly demanding services have the huge majority of the resources, and are the most sensitive to performance issues. If your service uses 10% of Google's datacenter space, you won't accept a 5% or even 1% regression just so you can port to gRPC, because at that scale your team can just staff someone or even several people to maintain the pre-gRPC system forever and still come out ahead on the budget.

Totally agree that world-facing APIs will all be gRPC and that makes perfect sense to me.
The JJ Abrams movies have never been in the same timeline as the TV shows so the new show will be in the same timeline as TNG
This is just shifting goalposts to justify the horror of the US war machine, whose interventions since Vietnam have followed the same disastrous pattern. And quite the minimizing elision to call this “poor judgement.”

Staging coups and killing leaders, not imperialism. Engaging in false flag attacks so you can maintain control of a foreign country, not imperialism. Covering up civilian massacres and lying about how many of your troops are dying to maintain support for the war at home, not imperialism. And so on and so on and so on.

Again, what to your mind constitutes imperialism if these actions do not?
"Loss aversion" as a cognitive bias is not just the desire to avert any loss.

If it really is a general cognitive bias, it will show up as a difference from expected statistics.

Imagine a held asset that has an even chance of going up or down. You'd expect to see about half of people sell it and half hold it. A cognitive bias would alter that ratio. If 75% of people sold it, and only 25% held it (despite even odds), you could say that there appears to be a bias at work.

A great example of cognitive bias at work in the real world is the Monty Hall 3 door riddle. Most people get this wrong even though the math is not hard.

But simply avoiding a predicted loss is not "loss aversion" as a cognitive bias. It's not even a bias at all; it's rational to avoid loss.
This is a point I frequently try to make among my peers when the topic arises. Right now, in the U.S. we're seeing people's information sources splintering. With people attaching themselves to sources that conform to their worldview. But if you go back to before the middle of the 20th century, hundreds maybe even thousands of newspapers ruled the day. With some of the most respected papers of our day churning out tabloid crap chaff in that time (looking at you NYT). Many were little more than party organs.

So it's not now that's strange. It's 1950-2000, that's the weird time, where there were a few news sources that people more or less believed in.

I'm not saying we're not losing something but we are probably returning to the more common state of the "news".
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Would love to read it but it is behind a join/login wall.
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Since it is somewhat risky if you’re not completely sure of what you are doing (as is my case, since I would be almost blindly following steps), and since there is a software hack to jailbreak it, I preferred the latter.

But the community there is very helpful and I’m convinced that if I were to physically hack it, I would find enough help there to guide me through.
> hard not to wind up on spam lists almost impossible to be removed from

I’ve been running my own infrastructure for years now and know various people that do this also. Not once have I heard about anyone winding up on a blacklist. The only way I could imagine that happening is either a new server inheriting a legacy IP with bad reputation, or possibly running your server inside a home ISP network, which are frequently rejected by MTAs. Is there any other way in your opinion?
Finally, I hope this has a hopeful version of the future like TNG
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Isn't the point of RMS and others in the libre-internet movement that it's exactly those groups that Cerf identifies, namely governments, that we want to ensure don't have unique traceability capabilities because they also have coercive capabilities?
Look at HN's signup process.
This.

In Greece, Italy and Spain (likely elsewhere but these I have seen first hand, and never in the US of A) there are corner markets that sell very good wine from big barrels or stainless steel vats. you can buy or bring your own reusable containers, glass or plastic or whatever.

the problem is too much packaging of any kind. Buy small and local. Much more sustainable.
> So I disagree with you that page speed is not the primary goal here

I think you're missing the bigger picture behind it. Google is making a power grab to appify the WWW on their own domain, and they are coercing publishers to implement it by giving lower search engine rankings to sites that don't go along with the scheme. It's an abuse of their position. It goes against the fundamental nature of the WWW and the basic ideas of decentralized technology.
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With the inline hashtags I suspect the poster is not a regular part of the community, and will not return.
You mentioned that there are lots of little networking things that you don't know about. Have you tried a setup where you use another network namespace to put only certain apps living in that namespace through the tunnel? REF vpnshift. https://github.com/crasm/vpnshift.sh
Is there a shape that resembles a sphere (not a cube and not a point) but in higher dimensions will take the same relative volume as in lower dimensions such that this rejection probability stays the same?
Somewhere around 80km/h on a fairly-long-and-steep-by-Australian-standards hill is the most I’ve done on an upright road bike, but that wasn’t with pedalling by the top speeds. Trying to accelerate by pedalling at those speeds on a bicycle is very dangerous. You can only sanely manage it if your gearing is way higher than the typical road bike has, and the vehicle is well-maintained so that you can be confident you won’t have any slipping chain (an easy recipe for disaster in such a situation).

In the anecdote I started this thread with, I was on a trike which is inherently stable, so it was much safer for me; and I was just rolling down it rather than pedalling—and I stayed at the top speed for at least a minute or two, because the mountain was that long and steep! (It had taken a long time to get up the other side of the hill, perhaps an hour or an hour and a half, I don’t recall precisely. Fortunately I got this payoff!)
And baking cakes, bread, pies, etc.
Thanks. I assume you mean this?

https://www.smartertools.com/smartermail/business-email-serv...

That's way more than I need, and if I can avoid Windows I will, but...it is cool to see a competitor to Exchange.
I was referring to streets, not roads. Also, automobiles are an appropriation of public space for private use (parking, denying others use of the street while you're driving on it, etc.) so I hardly see that as a counterexample.
True, being not in the same namespace resolves the confusion. But a decent chunk of people on this forum might end up using both (assuming the chat application takes off). If it's humanly possible, avoid name collision.

I'll stop belabouring the point.
Ah, understood.

How many minutes don't have a quote?
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i work for a bank. my coworkers are mostly not very competent. also sometimes when we move to a new system we don’t get the actual business logic. we just reverse engineer it from the data. the people who knew how it worked were laid off a long time ago
YouTube pays more for longer videos, hence the format of making a point repeatedly and only adding new information as rarely as possible during the video.
The metaphor is completely specious. Every game in gambling is either you win or you lose, it's completely binary. And you own nothing. Stocks, you own a part of a business, and there's effectively no chance it goes to $0 value on a single "hand". Maybe you could lose 30% on a bad day, as an on paper "loss", but you hold it or buy more, and in the long run you will end up ahead. The odds are biased in your favor with stocks, they are biased against you with gambling.

And the stock market offers the option to reduce volatility through diversification. You have no such option with gambling.

Only rather superficially, if you're randomly choosing stocks, randomly buying and selling them, then maybe on the surface they both seem like they have similar odds. But they really don't.
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I suspect kinda the latter, even though all legal literature on the subject claims that shareholders are the least important entities.

Somehow (neo-classical) economists have convinced the world that shareholder wealth are sacrosanct, and thus corporations will do all kinda of short term idiocies to boost share value and by extension shareholder wealth.
I'm sure the fact that Google ventures is afaik gitlab's biggest investor has a lot to do with it too.
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The first sentence of the article is about TRR/DOH being turned on by default in the next patch.
Currently he belongs to the Swedish minority living in Portland, Oregon (USA). ;-).
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The Crimean peninsula specifically provides direct access to the Black Sea, and in turn humongous economic and military access to southeastern Europe and Turkey.
It was a strange time because of government regulation requiring some sort of public service reporting, but I can't remember anymore detail that that...
Yes, though I’m enjoying ST:Discovery, WestWorld, and The Expanse, I really miss optimistic sci-fi.

Is there anything like that out there now that I’m missing?
But perhaps not quite as critical as for current transplants? At least that's my uneducated guess... anyone know?
Spamassassin almost cost me my career. A manager at a big company over a team doing my "dream job" emailed me, and Spamassassin threw it straight in to the bit bucket for whatever arbitrary reason it did. Fortunately a recruiter at said company was more persistent and managed to get through to me by phone. That job ended up catapulting me onto a career "hockey stick," and if it weren't for that, I'd likely still be languishing in some sad corner of IBM.
As someone who transitioned from Java to C#/.Net to Objective-C and finally to Swift, AMEN TO THAT!

I learned not to say anything as apparently every software engineer "generation" needs to follow something "hip" when very young. Some will grow to see the cycle as it repeats itself in front of them, others will die believing "my programming language was the best, you just had to stick to this list of best practices".

Also, "bad design" quite often means "not the way I'm used to and feel comfortable with".
What timeline is Discovery in then?
It boggles my mind why creatives seem to always think that the audience wants "something different". You had a good thing going. Change up a few elements, improve a dew things, but give us more of the awesome formula that created a phenomenon in the first place. I would hate to see Stewart's latest effort go down the same drain as Enterprise and Discovery.
The only point in this is that mozzilla will apply it as a default, which then is retracted at the end.

As of now this only serve to start a flamewars over all the drama people have with mozzilla
You don't need to avoid it. Email was designed in the age of unreliable connections. It can withstand downtime just fine.

Almost every mail server retries for a few days, so you'll get your message, just late. Those few mail systems that don't retry have issues with greylisting - and unless you're fond of stories about Nigerian princes in distress, you're going to use that as the first anti-spam measure anyway.
Depends on your definition of anonymous. Who are you trying to hide from? You ISP, government, the site you visit? The answer might lie somewhere in between "just sign up with a VPN provider" and "reinstall your OS, drive to a Starbucks at least 50 miles away and use their WiFi, never logging in to any site you visit."
I agree. Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to measure the effects of any particular regulation. It's a one-off, under very specific historical circumstances and it interacts with a huge number of equally unrepeatable events.

I don't envy economists. No double-blind lab trials here. Even if we had Putnams Twin Earth our experiments would probably fail for some weird semantic reason :)
Hikvision makes a "rifle" product that jams drones (unmanned aerial vehicles). See http://en.hikrobotics.com/uav/uavinfo.htm?type=18&oid=513

Hikvision also sells the drones, and a bunch of other accessories. Scroll down to page 9 of the following PDF: http://oversea-download.hikvision.com/uploadfile/Leaflet/Bro...

I was able to get invited to hikvision's main product showcase/"museum" in China to see all the products that they make - including the above referenced drone jammer...And they do some pretty awesome (and scary!) stuff. I'm sure there are plenty other companies throughout the world which produce similar drone jammer products too. (Its just that this jammer, i actually saw in person.)
> If I open source it then anyone could just take it and rebrand it and pretend it's theirs.

Not necessarily. Depends on what license you use for the code, but if it's not a copyleft license they can't even create a (legal) copy if you maintain copyright and don't give anyone a license to copy the code.
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Are the Abrams movies even Star Trek? Feels nothing like ST.
Yep, the old `fatalError("You need to implement this!")`.
This trend, imo, is connected up with the deeper issue of ever-widening rift between the (shrinking) middle class and the calcifying wealth of the upper classes -- there isn't a lot of opportunity for folks in the middle class to invest in quality 'fast-rising upstart' stocks (like the article talks about) today relative to, say, a couple decades ago -- the barrier of entry has become unbelievably steep.

How about the "accredited investor" limitation?

In order to invest in something that can generate great wealth (eg., a startup, I believe futures, a number of securities), you need the accreditation, which means either making 200K+ US two years in a row, or having 1 mil US in non-primary-household wealth.

Now, one could argue that it's intended to protect people from themselves - the guy or gal mortgaging their house because a snake oil salesman convinced them to invest in something shady. But doesn't it also block off a whole set of possibilities to a select few in the name of protecting the little guy?
Okay, there are a few here, so I apologise for how long the list might be. Either way:

1. Wario Forums

https://warioforums.com/

A site I run about the Wario Land and WarioWare franchises, which covers everything from the games content to their universe to the tech involved in the games and their design.

The level of dedication to the series honestly surprises even me sometimes, especially given that we've done stuff like reconstructed the soundtracks in original quality by seeking out the samples used from commercial sample packs and merging them with the MIDIs from the games, found tons of unused content in the games by datamining the files and what not and are basically working on a complex level editor for Wario Land 4 right now, basically disassembling the whole game in the process.

2. Various fan game development/ROM hacking communities (Mario Fan Games Galaxy, SMW Central, ROM Hacking.net el all)

Because to me, the world of fan game, ROM hack and game mod development feels a lot like the web development scene in the 80s and early 90s, where everyone was building interesting things for the fun of it rather than because there was a commercial incentive.

The fact you legally can't make money in these fields may have actually helped keep them interesting, and to some degree makes them a bit like the open source community for game development.

3. TCRF

https://tcrf.net/

What can I say? It's fascinating to see all the early unused ideas for games, as well as old data found on the discs/cartridges/whatever.

4. The Lost Media Wiki

https://lostmediawiki.com/Home

For much the same reason as above, except instead of focusing on unused content, it focuses on unreleased or hard to find works instead. It can be interesting reading about media that say, aired once about 20 years ago and hasn't been seen since, or what not.

5. Hacker Forums

https://hackerforums.co/

What? It's basically Hacker News in traditional forum form, and was launched here a few months ago.

But yeah, those are just a few of the ones I enjoy.
With a company like Wells Fargo that's moving from scandal to scandal I wonder when is it enough and we should just close the company? They repeatedly have demonstrated that they are not able to engage in ethical business practices.
Find a customer, any customer. If you're light years ahead of the competition, they'll say so.

If you built something you can't sell, then it's not worth anything to the market.

Don't worry about your superior competition getting the jump on your technology. They'll do fine without and they know it (and it's your uphill battle to prove them wrong). They're superior because they sell more than you do, and that part of the operation is an essential part it appears you have overlooked.

If you thought selling was hard, try raising money.

Definitely shake down your friends and family if they've got money to speculate with, as they tend to offer ridiculously friendly terms. Traditional investors will leverage your limited runway against you, so don't waste your time with them until your circumstances require you devote your full time to hitting them up.

The thing that impresses investors most is knowing you don't need their money. The way to get there? Sell your product and get your customers to love you.
True, but we're talking overall trends here, not just one FANG stock. Overall, private equity and big institutions have learned that they can fund companies and receive all the gains without ever dealing with the SEC or the general public. It's definitely a part of the story about the "rich getting richer."

I'm a multi-millionaire right now, but I don't hold a candle to the wealth of even the CEO of the company I work for and I definitely don't hold a candle to the billionaires we love to talk about. My entire net worth is a rounding error for them! That is how insane the wealth imbalance has become and I say this as a "wealthy" libertarian-minded person.

Reagan's trickle down was a lie. And while wealth is not a zero-sum game, it is certainly true that some wealthy people have a lock on wealth creation via their connections and their power position, which is something aspirant individuals such as myself will never have access to.
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It's clearly more realistic. They don't have to deal with roadworks, they have preset pickup points (no need to figure out finding a safe space to stop), they are relying on other drivers being cautious around a bright orange vehicle rather than trying to act like a real car, they have explicit screens for communication with pedestrians rather than trying to do it implicitly like we would (I.e. slow down to let a car out vs having a screen say "after you" or whatever).

Much easier (though still very hard).
First off, you cannot ignore the $876mm capital portion of the budget; that money needs to come from somewhere.

Second, that $500mm covers every employee of BART. The administrators, maintenance personnel, police, and other non-operator functions do not go away. Without knowing what portion of that line item goes to operators one cannot make a judgement on how much cheaper the system would be without them.
Paradox seems like a strong word for this. "Draw a random chord" is almost a pun, draw from what distribution? Until you tell me, there really is no one answer.
The problem isn't Emacs, since the core program works fine on Windows (as does vim). Many packages for both also work just fine.

But then there's that subset of packages that don't work fine. Some can be fixed with fiddling, but then you lose that Emacs thing of installing a package and be on your way (usually a point in favour of Emacs over vim I might add!). And some just can't be fixed, which leaves me either using a different editor for those needs or just not using those packages by using conditional configs.

However then we run into a little peeve of mine: the reason I want to use a tool like vim or Emacs is to have the same tool working the same way everywhere. I don't want to learn and more importantly maintain two setups. I want to sync my one setup across any machine I use and have it work the same way. I also don't want to have the situation that my editor works one way on system A and another on system B.
Wow, Heisen-Swift, where the Heisenbugs are in the language specification!

What an object is, which is roughly equivalent to its observed behavior, should never depend on how it is declared.

let greeter = LazyGreeter()
let greeter1: Greeter = greeter
print(greeter)
print(greeter1)
greeter.greet()
greeter1.greet()

UPDATE: just in case it's not clear, this prints the following:

greeter.LazyGreeter
greeter.LazyGreeter
sup
Hello, World!

So the same object responds differently to the same message, depending on how it is declared. Yikes!
Do we, though? IME, though I like going to conferences because they're fun, they usually don't offer much in the way of making progress, except for "personal brand building."
Crimea has a strategic value to Russia its their largest warm water naval base, the rest of Ukraine is nothing but a liability.

They can hold Crimea because it has a large Russian ethnic population and like it or not regardless of the reasons behind it a sufficiently significant portion of it seems to not to mind being under Russian control the same cannot be said for the rest of the country.

The reason why Russia isn’t going to go much beyond Crimea is the same reason why Turkey never really tried to annex the Greek part of Cyprus it knew it cannot control it and it doesn’t want another Kurdish situation which this time would be also supported by another NATO member.

There are a lot of reasons to why but none of them are really that complex.

Russia’s movements in theater are the same since the early days of the Russian empire and are governed by geography the rest can be easily factored in by measuring environmental factors and Russia’s own capacity and capability.

Syria as well isn’t that complicated, Russia didn’t want to lose an ally and their only port in the med and they as sure as hell didn’t want another NATO controlled zone in the region.

Beyond that they also needed a “real” conflict to test the modernization of their military its the first time Russia has been employing combined arms with precision ground, naval and air based strikes in its operational history.

Syria was a great excercise for them they got to test all their new toys on targets that the general public doesn’t really care about whilst Ukraine and previously Georgia had many more limitations due to geopolitical pressure.
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Discovery is set before all of that, so for now it is prime