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Sort like monads I imagine as soon as you understand it you lose the ability to explain. I have given up "understanding" them and just try to understand when and where to use them.
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Three men own the majority of wealth in the US by themselves. It's exactly the same kind of thing. Except instead of "ennoblement", we tell ourselves that we can strike it big and join those at the top.
Or maybe driving to different locations is part of the job requirements?
That's what Elon looks like.
Yeah, but the average EU power consumption today is 0.35 TW, so with only a hundred of those in parallel (more likely spread around the Europe) you could literally satisfy 100% of EU power demand, and still have plenty of spare capacity.
mozjs was a pretty old codebase with some design decisions that made sense in the mid-90s but don't make sense now baked into the API.

The API needed to change to support things like a generational garbage collector. The set of needed API changes was quite large.

Now the project had two options: Make the changes incrementally or all at once. The incremental option would mean API changes with each release until all the changes got made. The all at once option would mean you'd need to do a complete rewrite of all the relevant mozjs code and all the relevant Firefox code all landing in a single release. Since the time needed for that rewrite was measured in years, that would mean maintaining a branch and dealing with all the merge conflicts from other ongoing work. In practice, it would have meant a much slower pace of web-facing JS feature development at best; more likely a complete stop to that.

Given those choices, the JS team went for the incremental route. Yes, it was painful for API consumers who needed to be running against current versions. But in this case, I expect it was the right tradeoff.

I should also note that V8 breaks API compat regularly, though not to the extent that SpiderMonkey had to, due to being designed 15 years later with many benefits of hindsight.

[Disclosure: I work on Firefox, closely with the JS team but not on the JS team.]
I don't live anywhere near SF although I do live on the North East Coast of USA so I suppose I am subject to the bias you are talking about.

Tesla mass producing their cars has been a massive headache for them. I think it would have benefited shareholders if they had stuck to the niche of luxury vehicles that they were demonstrating success in.
If you want another example, I saw this a couple days ago:

"Also exciting - we only have 27k signatures right now, and removing all the ones taking row vectors reduces that substantially to under 10k. That seems doable pretty easily, and we can convert without performance penalty between row and column vector seamlessly (I believe)."

https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/compiling-the-math-library-i...

Those sound like big numbers to me! That's a real problem that DynamicHMC.jl doesn't have to worry about, for example.

I think Stan's autodiff is faster than ForwardDiff.jl/ReverseDiff.jl (other than Stan models regularly taking several minutes to compile), but I'm betting on Cassette-powered Capstan/Zygote getting there in the next few years.
Do you have any recommendations for learning the app to make what you’ve made?

I don’t suppose I could bribe you into recording a video of yourself making some diagrams...

Your algorithms book is excellent and fun!
> the stock market only averages 7% on long time series (30ish years)

I believe that's inflation-adjusted, whereas the article seems to be ignoring inflation, other than mentioning it once.

> If you add the constraint that you must cash out in a fixed 10 year span, 7% returns are harder to find.

That constraint doesn't actually exist, from the investor's POV. That is, an investor has the choice of investments with or without that constraint. The fact that VCs have it doesn't mean they're not competing against funds aren't constrained.
"Affordability" and "opportunity" are the same thing. If I don't have the opportunity to find affordable housing here, then it isn't affordable for me. Conversely, if I can't afford to live here, I don't have the opportunity to live here.

Value creation is a different matter though - a place can become less affordable and create more value, or can become more affordable and create less value (Detroit, with its vacant subdivisions, being an obvious example).
What about Google Drive? Do they index the contents for advertising purposes?
What are quaternions, and how do you visualize them? A story of four dimensions
Yes. When governments compete, you win. When you're stuck with only one option, you're more likely to overpay.

Especially in a large popular state that is difficult to get away from in more ways than one.
They have a competitor. If OEMs switch to AMD because they can’t get parts from Intel those sales could be gone forever.
You’d need a fundamentals-based argument like “the economy is all based on lies” and “technological innovation has stopped” to proclaim something like that, not just “there’s usually a downturn every 10 years or so.”
So does macOS' Mail.app
Really? I can't think of how it's good for society to ask anyone outside public service not to put their job ahead of (for example) their family. I don't see why the CEO of WidgetCo should put widgets "first in their life."

I might have even respected Obama saying "Joe's in charge today, I need to take care of some family stuff." I think that a position needing total dedication of a person is an indicator that the position doesn't have enough support.
What a frustrating article! It doesn't explain anything about why the highway was opposed, how the battle played out, etc.

The "old" map shows I-95 just ending, and doesn't show where it resumes. The most obvious thing the map should do given the story is show what the old path was and what the new one is, and it doesn't do that! The second most obvious would be showing Mercer County, which is blamed in the article for blocking the highway, but guess what, it doesn't show that either.

It sounds like there is an interesting story here, but that article utterly fails at telling it.
May I answer through analogy to ground our discussion in a topic more familiar?

How do we define running?
The expert/fit runner can:

-	Run faster than those that haven’t trained.

-	Run further than those that haven’t trained.

-	But at some very picky level of semantics, we understand that running is the exercise and the physical adaptation it produces might be referred to as “running fitness”.

-	and if we wanted, we could insist this superficial discussion barely scratches the surface, after all sprinters and ultrarunners train differently and develop dramatically different types of fitness.

-	Here’s the kicker – someone might insist “so what, anyone can do that. I can run a few steps myself”. But we understand that the level of running fitness achieved by an expert runner is something beyond innate ability of someone who has not trained.

===

How do we define mindfulness?

Those who are expert/fit at (Shamatha) meditation can:

-	Upon realizing they are distracted, refocus the mind or calm the emotions. This is true for both intellectual distractions (a half hour ago, an intriguing idea just came to me and I was swept away) and emotional distractions (a half hour ago, a deep depression settled in and I was swept away).

-	Recognize subtle distractions as they arise in the mind, and dismiss them before they hijack their train of thought.

-	But at some very picky level of semantics, we understand that (Shamatha) meditation is the exercise and the physical adaptation it produces might be referred to as “mindfulness”.

-	and if we wanted, we could insist this superficial discussion barely scratches the surface, after all shamatha meditation is altogether different than metta meditation and both produce different types of fitness.

- don't be that person that says sells the topic short and says "so what, I can do that". Yes, you can. but those who have a shamatha meditation practice can do it in a way that is beyond innate ability of someone who has not trained.
I would add garbage collection to that. Being able to ignore memory management and trust it to be handled at a non-deterministic time by a separate entity outside of your control is certainly useful, but it's also about as "magic" as programming gets at the language level.
If you don’t want the housing pressure brought by new jobs, don’t allow new jobs. If you want new jobs without increased housing pressure peg the number of new housing permits to the number of new jobs.
Or put another way, look at what happened Silicon Valley for a splendid example of how NOT to do it.
I would assume he’s referring to calling that guy a pedo, then doubling down on that again, plus setting off a serious SEC investigation because he has the Twitter discipline of an 8 year old. I agree about the pot though, I’d be no more put off if he and Joe drank a beer, which is to say, not at all put off. In 2018 smoking a joint is not news imo.

What is news is someone like Musk who seems to be cracking like an egg, giving interview about how he can’t slow down and works until 2AM, taking the time to chat awkwardly with Rogan. All he needs to do to rehabilitate his image is stfu, stop tweeting, stop calling people who helped saved more than a dozen people pedos, stop lying about going private. It’s not like he’s a good speaker so just... shut up. If he just did his job without the running batshit commentary he’d be in none of this shit now, and there would be one less SEC investigation in the world.
IIRC there was a post on something similar being done in the times prior to the British Raj - small valleys would be damed off to capture the monsoon rains & insure that rivers & springs flowed year round.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40278311?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
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I think I'd focus on remote freelance work via sites like Codementor and the usual sites like Upwork (yes pay isn't great but there are some good gigs there) or your personal network. A recruiter is incentivized by filling the role, and that's usually the result of checking boxes. Unless they have no other candidates, what reason would they have for going the extra mile?
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>Especially in a large popular state that is difficult

I agree, and states in the US being too big is the root cause of the headache.
Can you look into it first? Yes you can but dual quaternions are more suited for this.
do you live in a cold climate ?

I wonder if it would be just ok in a warm place with near zero crime rate.
They're lying anyway. It was an email.
wtf is this women advice... (i don't actually want to hear how you justify it)
I wrote my first Go application that was to be run on a very Linux instance (1 GB), serving results to HTML from an in-memory map of some 150MB. The memory growth was really out of control, panicking with "out of memory" under even low load until I added debug.FreeOSMemory after serving each search result. Even with that, I had to change the instance to 2GB. It was a one-off excperiment, but I missed releasing memory by myself to ensure a manageable working set.
I'm surprised this isn't enabled by default. Under what circumstances would you not want to enable this flag?
Are there other companies that are using Intel fabs with real volume?
It seems easier and cheaper than forcing everybody to have good hygiene. Maybe the Nazis could make it happen, but I think we'd lose much more than we'd gain.
I didn't know HPE was hiring male models to be cage monkeys: https://www.semiaccurate.com/assets/uploads/2018/09/HPE_Xeon... I guess it's as good a side gig as any.
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I assume you meant 1000x not 1000% (since the latter would only be 10x.

Is there any evidence that even as many as 1/1000 startups provide a 1000x return to VCs, considering that the return is only a fraction of a total exit?

Even then, assuming all investments were equal, that's a very meager return of 1099 on 1000. For a 10-year fund, that wouldn't even beat inflation, let alone compete with something like Treasuries.

An article that delves into more details (although there's some glossing-over, still):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874278 https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...
Kinda interesting a CEO of a company with federal contracts can smoke weed and won't face any repercussions.
There deliberately aren't many tricks like this (I don't know of any others, in fact), because having to choose between aesthetics and performance is a terrible tradeoff.
We're in the process of doing that where I live.

https://marshallfibernet.com/

The reasons this is getting off the ground at all is because our city government spent the past 5 years dotting every i and crossing every t to be able to drop the hammer on AT&T and WOW! without retaliation. Also, we own our own electric utility, and on top of their ROW they're also bankrolling most of this operation with a sweetheart loan deal (overpaying for electricity worked out in the end, who knew).
In America? Sure, there's plenty of negative narratives and stigma, often religiously-based, going around about people that smoke weed. It's not uncommon. Sessions' views are a good example of these.

In light of the other weird stuff Elon has done- the drugs (due to stigma/etc) unfortunately fit into a convenient narrative
It seems like the biggest issue is not that he doesn’t have the skill set to find a job but his (admitted) mental illness. He needs someone to help him through that first. No, I don’t have any answers, but I do know how hard it is to do well at a job if your mind isn’t clear.
Can we just get universal income and be done this?? Capitalism has to become obsolete at some point.
I've been listening to his Guided Mindfulness Meditations a few times a week. The body scan has been a phenomenal way of for me to relax into the difficult emotions and feelings I sometimes experience. Highly recommended.
Yeah but he's the cool bro CEO of a tech company. TECH COMPANY.

Losing money, it's okay because Tesla is a tech company.

Fail at core parts of a car manufacturing business, it's okay because Tesla is a tech company.

Call a pedophile, then triple down on it and... actually no that's just okay. Hope he loses that lawsuit.
I think its more an issue with game design than it is with how big it actually is. Like you don't need infinitely generated worlds to produce a sense of scale, you just need it to take time to explore, and a good reason to explore. And this is ME's greatest failure I think: You can't interact with anything. You skip around space instantaneously, so the largest thing in the game is the citadel.. it's the only object that takes any amount of time to actually traverse (that, and planets, which you don't really want to explore). Yet you jump around that too, and are only actually interacting with preset objects.

The problem I think is that there's nothing to interact with. And there's no interesting ways to interact with the things you can interact with. Like star control 2 is technically a small game, and a small world; it just feels big, because it actually requires time to traverse, and there's actually things to find. Zelda games tend to be even smaller (primarily a sequence of small rooms), and yet feel much larger. Again, time, secrets and interest play a large role in why it feels that way.

people try to use procedural generation as a crutch, to avoid actual game design (see: no man's sky, minecraft; note the latter is popular by accident, adventure mode was intended as the primary, but loses its appeal quickly. Creative mode became the primary appeal by accident.) but its simply not sufficient without giving a compelling reason to actually explore and interact with the map.
I also agree with that https is a good thing but Google is probably pushing it for the wrong reasons and forcing it with Chrome "unsafe site" thing.

I like to keep protocols simple but I understand the need for https. And it's nice to know my employer/ISP doesn't know exactly what subpage i am browsing of a site that could just aswell be http as it has no logins or w/e.

It wrecks sane easy caching though. Instead we have this "free" as in free beer Cloudflare alternatives or paid CDNs. Trading dolars for surveilence of our page viewers.

I kinda prefer easier surveilence over monopoly surveilence if I have too choose between those two.

If you are doing subversive anti-government stuff you could still use a VPN that's hopefully not a honey pot ...
The latter is obviously better? Shader replacement is fairly fragile and circumvents whatever QA process the game developers had in place - if the shader could be incorporated into the actual product I would think it would be better than shipping thousands of patches.

However, I agree that shader replacement is great for the consumer especially in situations where developers have agreed to vendor lock-in/specialization agreements. It's only questionable to me in the sense of benchmarking applications.
thanks for reminder, already have the book on kindle and totally forgot about it
Fair enough - I used to work under a board that was about 20" by 20" by 30 feet. It was crazy to me that it's now rare to ever see a tree that tall and straight on this entire island any more, but once it was just a normal piece of building material in an old grain mill.

There were also markings on the wall about max weights in hundredweight (cwt) - I think the building was from the mid-19th century.
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Neat story of small independent FTTH ISP that leased dark fiber from the power company to connect a city of 15,000 in rural GA:

http://www.thefoa.org/tech/ref/appln/FTTH-DIY.html
Having the electrical utility controlled by the local county can be a huge advantage. The counties in eastern WA where the local PUD (public utility district) owns the last mile AC power distribution networks have been generally quite successful building their own dark fiber networks. Because of course they don't need to ask themselves for permission to build, they already own the poles and ROW, they just do it. They already have linemen and bucket trucks, flaggers, insurance, spool trailers, etc.

Then ISPs can reach end user customers by paying the PUD for L2 transport across their networks.

This new PUD fiber infrastructure exists separately from whatever the local Telco and cable TV operators have built.
Thanks very much for the reply, that is very interesting. It is really a very smart feature, and I cannot explain rationally why that is the one thing that pushes me over the line into "this is too creepy."

Do you record what responses people choose? If so is that data used to personalize the responses or just stored in aggregate?
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> I keep thinking about Wayland. It's really a double-edged sword. Aside from my pet peeve that it by-design blocks, for inane security reasons, my favourite feature of sdtui, which is X11 selection stealing, it also offers no mode that would work over a network—for example, to transfer picture data you can only use EGL or shared memory.

"it by-design blocks, for inane security reasons" or "for inane security reasons, my favourite feature of sdtui, which is X11 selection stealing". Either way, ik curious what the inane security reasons are. Also, why is blocking bad in Wayland?

It seems like one of the biggest complaints about Wayland is that it doesn't work over a network.
Does anyone actually work that way? I've tried it a few times, and every time I tried it it turned out to be unusably slow.
HPE Solution Architect here -- HPE has 4 lines, 3 public / 1 private. DL385 and DL325 are rack based servers aka traditional pizza box.

DL385 is your workhorse platform. DL325 is a 1P design based for heavy PCIe connected (read: NVMe) devices.

The CL3150 is a cloudline server and will likely be more consumed in the service provider space, in my opinion.

The Apollo 35 is available to top 200 volume accounts (which has been annouced publicly, but is not available to your everyday customer.)

This type [of information leak] is my worst nightmare as someone who works with resellers, letting these types of documents in the wrong hands or somehow access is breached like this.

Edit 2: I am a server SA, MASE. I configure servers all the time. If customer demand shows the swap, you could see the proc move over to other lines, such as blades and the HPC markets.
Intel previous technology to 14nm is 22nm (2011 [1])

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/process
Tesla automotive does not have a 20% margin, it's much closer to 10%. In the '18-H letter they claimed 20% margins including ZEV/GHG credits and added back Services & Other (in all Tesla 10-Q's the Services & Other are subtracted). Tesla calculates gross margin by not only including the ZEV/GHG credits but by basing the margin on the retail price of the vehicle rather than the bulk invoice. Cost of stores and R&D expense are also omitted from the gross margin.
Europe is a no-go area for any startup. Instead of building your product, you will spend all your time complying with thousands of GDPR-like laws, difficult tax regulations, different languages etc. and every country has also a lot of additional national laws (Hackerparagraf in germany for example). It's just not worth it.
Yeah, but most people don't know him for much more than Pascal.

I am aware of Oberon and Modula, but had never got a chance to touch them. And that's much more of his work than Pascal.
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Hah. There's definitely pain out there that can't be studied to oblivion. Anyone so pompous hasn't experienced, for example, a cluster headache.
I can't wait until the MTA gets so bad that people tell me, "you take the subway? sorry, we're not interested."

But in some sense, having a reliable vehicle is a microcosm of a particular location and mindset. Nobody I know owns a car. We still mostly get to work on time, though.