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Immaterial quantities of labor, the real work is in the design and implementation of the systems and those are the jobs we should want. Assembly workers should be retrained or given basic income imo. Then products should be built where it’s most efficient - and if that means centralizing in one or two countries, that’s just fine.
Definitely this. I used to think I preferred manuals for the sense of control. When I got a Tesla, I realized what I was really looking for was responsiveness.

I also have an Audi TTS which is automatic but has a "manual" mode. Apparently it can shift faster than a human being, which makes it much quicker to leave it on auto if you're going for a fast 0-60 time. Just stomp on the gas and it'll shift at the optimum moment. But since that's rarely what I actually want to do, I find the auto-shifter too conservative for my taste most of the time and drive it in (no clutch) "manual." But the Tesla is just better: faster off the line, perfectly responsive, never in the wrong gear. I don't miss manual at all when I drive my Model S.
It definitely makes you look a little farther ahead to plan your moves so you don't have to constantly keep working the clutch to move forward another couple feet like folks with automatics do.
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Rich European countries are majority automatic transmission on new sales now too. They're lagging behind the US somewhat in absolute numbers but the same transition is happening, just delayed.
Google made Chrome to load pages 10% faster so they could include 20% more ads and 30% more trackers :)
I gather the key point is that one of the employees expressed disappointment in the election outcome, and suggested that other employees might feel similarly.
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Your last sentence pretty much puts us in agreement. I will add an edit that says I am not trying to say never consider engine braking. Just realize that cars can get behind you quite quickly without you realizing it, and not signaling that you are stopping is dangerous.

I have the same problem on my bike. I don't always signal when I'm about to stop at a corner, and have had folks near hit me for it. (Granted, if you are stopping on a bike, it is literally harder to signal that you are stopping. Point stands that if I could, it would be safer.)
I got a paragraph in and was like -- he had to run eight tests a thousand times to get one yes/no answer each, didn't he.
I completely agree with @jbeckham.

The TLDR posted at the top of this article (i.e., there's too much JavaScript on the web) does not line up at all with the problems presented in the article.

The common denominator for poor web experiences is not JavaScript it's not SPAs, and it's not client-side rendering, etc. It's a poorly managed software development life cycle: ill-defined requirements, poorly architected SPAs, not vetting performance impacts, etc.

JavaScript is a victim of its own success. It is more accessible to novices and easier to implement than ever before. It's to be expected that with the growing accessibility should follow a growing number of poorly designed JS-heavy apps.

> as many or more JS-heavy performance disasters cross my desk in an average month as in previous years.

I don't think that's a refutation of JavaScript itself. An abundance of bastardized JS-heavy web apps built by novices doesn't refute the usefulness of JS-driven SPAs and client-side rendering.
> I don't think it's possible to have an actual allergy to git, so some training in that area would probably help their productivity.

I was going to go back and add "does he need any training" to my original comment then life got in the way and I promptly forgot!

Absolutely do run training; could for example set up a Pluralsight account, run through modules on GIT and any other stacks that are needed. If someone doesn't want to use version control in this day and age then I'd have to agree that'd be my number one priority to get fixed.

Understanding feature branches would be a very powerful change. Not sure exactly how applicable this is to your situation but on a general level I'd recommend making them as atomic / small as possible as a way of starting. I.e. by reducing the scope of an issue down to the MVP, then it becomes easier to just get that done - add additional features/requirements as following issues. And then get on to pull requests ASAP so that you can preferably sit together and review / discuss the changes. This would reduce the feedback cycle down to maybe a couple of days, which would greatly help the pace as well. Good luck.
I'm not convinced you need those published details to begin with, especially to the degree to justify the enormous legal apparatus necessary to perpetuate the patent system. Its become much easier to reverse engineer almost any physical good that the original proposition "publish the technical details of your inventions" could just be a future act of good faith and less a legal requirement for a government granted monopoly on the invention. Probably the best example is Coke - theres a popularized meme of the formula being a trade secret (and thus not patented) but the actual drink has been reverse engineered at least once a decade as a publicity stunt for most of the last century. Turns out the value in Coke is in its trademark, not in its formula. That applies to almost every context most people formulate when trying to justify the continued patent regime we have in place.
How risk is propogated through correspondent banking relationships is (I think) not common knowledge.
I'm not sure it's really that big a deal. My dad taught me to drive by going out to a lonely national park with a lot of parking lots and letting me figure it out. On an automatic, yes. 20 minutes later he said, okay, good, now drive us home. And I did. Driving isn't that magic. So I will probably teach my kids how to drive our pickup first, and then for laughs we will take my 455 horsepower Camaro out to learn how a manual works. And then they will not be driving it much after, hahahaha...
Having that mode is pretty common these days, isn't it? I have it in my Rogue, my dad's Grand Caravan has it, Car2Gos (smart fortwo and the mercedes sedans), a friend's... something? (some hatchback, idk) had it.

I haven't actually seen a car without a sequential/manual mode for a long time, come to think of it. Used to drive a 2003 Grand Caravan that didn't have it, but it had a few different automatic modes that helped fill that void for hills.
Competition ALONE is exactly what drives prices down.

The endless supply of students with a government guaranteed loan is why they are not going down, why would they? It completely violates the most basic element of our economy.

Fully socializing those things is a solution better than what we have now, but that is the point where those things stagnate (US K12) which is why I prefer the free market solution and still think it is perfectly capable of producing exponentially more opportunity than the car without an engine (socialism).
Funny you mentioned SSTV. I'm putting some SSTV software together and have an SSTV contest award hanging on my wall. It's a lot of fun. Fast-scan (what I always think of when I hear ATV) seems pretty extreme to me though. :) Wiki seems to indicate it's used for drone work...or could be...
Sure, in my situation this is the case. I am not sure about others or how much percentage of the population has the same situation.
Well, mileage varies there. For the most common for loops (equivalent to map or filter), I find it easy to see what they do at a glance. For many collection apis I have to look it up.
College administration costs have been expanding rapidly over the previous decades. Part of that could be attributed to federal mandates, e.g. everything to do with investigating/achieving Title IX compliance is the result of government regulation and probably wouldn’t exist in an unrestricted free market.

Accreditation is also related to government and can require colleges spend money on things they might not have 50 years ago.

I suspect the biggest cost driver is federally-backed student loans though. When you’re paying with what seems like free money it’s a lot harder to control costs. If students run out of money and drop out of your school, that’s a bigger driver to keep costs down.
I'm not sure I follow. The above poster claimed that women's and men's leadership styles are often different - not that one is any better than the other or that all men are distinct from all women. I fail to see how pointing out mental differences between women and men disproves this statement. If anything, it reinforces this statement about average differences between genders.
Lets just wait for the results and not make assumptions on LinkedIN profiles and smart investors.
Since engine braking is an extremely common way for motorcycles to reduce speed, there are any number of aftermarket products that are essentially an accelerometer inline with the brake light, which will turn on or flash the brake light when sudden deceleration is detected.

I can see no reason why this wouldn’t work equally well for cars.
IMO this has already been proven to work as long as it's easy to pay. Just think of all the successful phone apps where the paid version is there to remove ads.
> This is an easy argument to make

For the record, I'm not making any value judgement or "argument" here. I'm pointing out that GP's complaining about issues that aren't really technical, but fundamental business practices.
I agree with this. Walmart in particular seems to consistently offer lower prices and fewer fakes. Walmart has free 2-day shipping for orders over $35, which is almost as good as having Prime; I just have to batch up household items that I want to order instead of ordering them one at a time.
It's enough that only a small percentage of students are taking out private loans. New private loans are a very small part of the problem.

I'm not really concerned with whether or not students are able to attend their "college of choice."

If government loans provide enough to go to a state school, or even enough to live at home or off campus and go to a community college for the first 2 years, I'm fine with that.

Also you'll notice that I mentioned bankruptcy in my comment.
We at Hiber [0] are working on an actual low-power solution, which will give the device a way to transmit once a day to a sattelite with a custom 144 bytes user payload. The device location is already encoded, so you can focus on filling those 144 bytes with anything you'd like. You'll have global coverage and a central system to extract the data.

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> "- Not distributable"
This is something that's actively being worked on. It's also useful to look at the systems that are more easily distributable, and compare other features they posses with Postgres. Aphyr has provided a wonderful service with Jepsen showing just how difficult correctness in general (with and without the added complexity of distributability) actually is.

- "Poor resiliency" Do you mean something by this beyond as an aspect of distributability?

- "Hard to upgrade" The story here has been much improved, both with pg_upgrade and though features such as logical replication.

- "Schemas remains at postgres core" Would you elaborate what you mean by this?

I would also ask you to elaborate what you mean by "However it's also one of the most (if not the most) bloated." In terms of binary size? Feature set? Actual on-disk data representation? If so, what are you comparing it to?

Similarly, "It feels like things haven't changed that much since the 90's.": Having used Postgres over the years, I can certainly say that things have become much easier. What in particular are you thinking of?

I also struggle to square what appears to be complaints of capability while also expressing frustration with "postgres bloat and overall complexity of the system." As with all things, there are tradeoffs and resource limitations. What would you in particular are you looking for? And given the nature of Postgres as an open source project, what are you doing to ensure that those features you desire are being worked on? There are plenty of developers and organizations that are willing to work on bespoke features given the appropriate support.

Jepsen: https://jepsen.io
Hence checks & balances. It's a different sort of regulation than the grandparent was talking about, though - voters don't get to directly tell the government "You can do this and this, but you can't do this", they just get to vote the people who make up the government out if they start doing unpopular stuff.
One data point on public works construction, the Davis-Bacon act and "prevailing wages".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/08/31/union-wa...
Ok, here's an extremely rough back-of-the-envelope calculation. As you'll see, these numbers can be out by orders of magnitude, and it doesn't greatly change the conclusion.

Oumuamua interstellar asteroid.
230x35x35m, ~= 280000 m^3

Density assumption: 2 x water. => mass is ~500,000 metric tonnes.

Spotted only after passing the Sun.
Assume we'd spot such objects only if they came within the orbit of
mercury so are well illuminated.
Assume one such object every 10 years (we've not been searching very
long with automated telescopes), and we spot all of them.

Mean mercury orbit radius ~ 60,000,000 km

Area of mercury's orbit: 1.1 x 10^16 km^2

Mercury's orbital area x path length in 10 years = volume swept by one visible object
in 10 years.

Asteroid velocity ~100,000 km/h

Path length in 10 years = 100,000 x 10 x 24x365.
Swept volume ~ 10 x 10^25 km^3

Distance to Alpha Centauri: 4.37 light years = 4.37 x 9.5 x 10^12 km = 4.15 x 10^13km

Sol's "cube of influence" ~= 7 x 10^40 km^3

Cube of influence / swept volume = rough estimate of number of asteroids in cube of influence.
Number of asteroids: 7 x 10^14

Mass of asteroids: 3.5 x 10^20 tonnes.
Mass of sun: 2 x 10^27 tonnes.

Conclusion: dark interstellar asteroids like Oumuamua are a tiny fraction of the visible mass of the galaxy.
I figured out how to eat, use my phone, etc., driving a stick shift car. If manual transmission cars were safer, they would be cheaper to insure.
I looked for pretty much the same, and it seems that if you don't use problematic features, you should get closer to C than many other ways. Especially once you activate e.g. LTO compilation or so. Types that can represent bounds can allow further optimization, even possibly reducing the size of struct fields due to the internal-only way of LTO compilation.

I would not expect dev time to be longer, except for the initial learning as such/onboarding.

My reasons are apparently quite a bit more ambitious than yours though, so it's hard to compare.

The cases where I'd go for the hassle that non-standard tooling is, allow large gains from deep static analysis/formal proving of limits due to foregoing conservative, non-adaptive hardware limits. A C-version would look like seL4, including the proofs. I'd try Ada/SPARK for it automating a lot of it away and having specific features to support this "lock elision" use of software verification.
Well researched independent thesis. Highly recommended reading for anyone practicing UX design. (Learn these evil practices so you can avoid them)

TIL: there is a "dark UX pattern" called "Privacy Zuckering" defined as:
"You are tricked into publicly sharing more information about yourself than you really intended to."
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Living trees are only about 15...18% carbon by weight. [1] Other greenery is probably even less, given that significant proportion of trees' mass is in the trunk as cellulose (some 50% of it)[2], which is about 44% carbon.

On the other hand, CO2 is only about 27% carbon (also by weight). [3]

[1] https://web.extension.illinois.edu/askextension/thisQuestion...

[2] https://www.britannica.com/science/cellulose, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose

[3] mostly O16, mostly C12, 12 / (12+16+16)
Ideally, once you have covered the R&D cost, it should be free for all.

Not unless the R&D cost includes all of the R&D into unsuccessful products that didn't get productized.

Also complicating the debate is pharmaceuticals, where you're also covering the cost of FDA approval, clinical trials, etc. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_drug_development this cost comes out to several billion per successful drug among established players. (A single drug is several hundred million, but most drugs fail.)
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It’s pretty simple. Both regulation and guarantees reduce competition in certain elements. Example: colleges no longer have to compete on pricing because students no longer have to save to go to college. The loans are easy to get and colleges are guaranteed on payment. Due to this, pricing competition because much less of a concern for colleges.
Quit giving your periods of hypomania to other people and spend it in service of the side of yourself you hate most.

Focus on MRR in the company of you. Budget so your low's can live off the worst case scenario of your highs and make it happen, knowing yourself wholly. Seems like you stopped living for the hypomania and accepted 'crazy' without the smooth descent to that point that allows you to love all sides of yourself.

Not a doctor.
> Prime shipping is no longer certain to be two days.

This is the most egregious thing. For items sold by a bunch of different 3rd parties it somehow picks one to buy from as the default. And sometimes that one isn't Prime eligible when another seller is. Sometimes it's not even the cheapest new option. Sometimes the default one is fucking backordered for two weeks but there are other sellers where it isn't AND they have Prime shipping.

I have never had a more infuriating online shopping experience than the last 3 times I tried to use Amazon. I don't want to search through 60 different sellers to find the best one. I don't want to gamble on if they will even send the right item. I don't want to be lied to about "Prime Shipping" which is 100% meaningless now.
If the operator gives up after the 10th random character given on the phone, it's still quite secure.
At the same time, "cheap" can hurt the effort at education. My freshman dorm room had me and one other roommate in a single room that I recall as being 8 ft by 15 ft. It was probably larger, but the issue wasn't the size but that he liked to come in at 3am and go to bed, falling asleep to the TV, while I had an 8am class and really had problems sleeping with noise on.

Did I need to learn to deal with it? Sure. Did I learn that you can fail a class in college? Yes I did. Was that a loss of time and money? Oh yes it was.
This article seems to start with the premise that JS-heavy frontends improve the developer experience. This, I would heavily challenge.

Compared to a Rails, Django, Express.js, or any similar more-traditional framework that does server-side rendering with HTML templates, a little bit of JS and AJAX sprinkled in, SPA apps with frameworks like React are significantly more complex and requires more specialized knowledge on the frontend. I'm just starting to dive into React and Redux, and the amount of jargon and complexity is mind-blowing. All to solve the complexities of what? Bigco's massive bloated app with thousands of developers working on it?
How is it contained in the earth? Wouldn't the pressure eventually escape, either by rupturing its container or seeping through the earth?
For me it's not really about choosing the gears, per se. Yeah I can do that in an automatic, but it's hardly the same. With a manual you get coordination between foot, hand, brain, and you are one with the car. For an enthusiast it matters.
State schools, my friends. If you're in-state, you might pay 1/4 or less the costs of a private college.
Fraud is not allowed in the 'free market.' Regulation need not apply, proper courts and remedy for fraud are required.

We used to live in a world where a retailer or manufacturer would stand behind their product and not let anyone sully their name. Since today's consumers seem to lack the ability to discriminate between 'cheap' and 'value' we are in the world we're in.

One particular retailer I'm fond of in this regard is Home Depot. If I have any problems with any of their merchandise, they take it back, no problem. They stand behind what they sell and I appreciate that.
I would expect native SSL to have better perf than at least some of those. Maybe. Probably not ipsec and wireguard.
The asymptotic means for tails and cycles of random functions are in Theorem 3 of
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Sure, but "tor’s simple utility for punching through nat" (although said by the parent and only agreed by you) makes it sound like NAT hole punching is now simple, universal and stable. If it is all those three via TOR's utility I'd love it, but I'm guessing it is neither or just one.
I would love to see an actual low power, long range system: a cross between Bluetooth low energy and LTE. Allow devices to transmit at a higher power than Bluetooth and with much smaller receiver on time than LTE.
Unless you have a full-ride scholarship, go to pleb-tier state school. If you are studying a STEM field you'll have to learn the exact same math and science as the Harvard and Stanford grads, but you'll do it for far cheaper if you attend a public university in your state of residence. If you want to do a postgrad program, don't worry: top tier schools will come sniffing if you're good enough, no matter where you're coming from.
That sounds like a sweetheart of a deal! I managed to get a 2014 Dell for about that price (after RAM upgrade to 16gb). One SSD and one spinning disk. But the thing was great for popping off the back and plugging and unplugging things. I'd have killed for a Thinkpad though!
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Yep, one of my favorite ways to mess with tailgaters was to drop a gear or two and drop the clutch. *of course not recommending anyone ever do this since it's dangerous as hell.
From comments above:

> Historically, men were in charge of certain kinds of work, the kind that is now paid, and women were in charge of other kinds. These complemented each other.

Seems pretty similar to idealized nuclear families of the mid 20th century

> As we move away from traditional family and tribe or community based social organization towards more paid work, our male leadership patterns seem to have become more dominant and we have lost that balance.

Now we're even talking about "traditional family" organization.

I'm not making any statement about whether this view is right or wrong, and I know plenty of families in traditional roles that lead fulfilling and financially stable lives - my parents among them. That said, these comments absolutely do describe "traditional" families where men and women's work are largely segregated. The above commenter is absolutely not "projecting an awful lot".
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Most people I know that refer to engine braking have always meant something faster than an automatic would do. Unless you are talking about letting of the gas and downshifting in an automatic.

Is it guaranteed to get you in a wreck? Not at all. But, I would be surprised if people weren't more keyed to the "red light" in front of them than you are letting on.
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Most Ubers in London are hybrids because that gets them off the congestion charge. Hybrids are automatic because there's essentially 2 power sources. Outside London it seems to vary more, but then a lot more of them are manual.
I agree with you. Amazon's questionable inventory tactics have been a factor for me in deciding to sometimes shop elsewhere. Although, I don't mind the ads, they're selling screen space, I can happily scroll past them, the adds are often very relevant, and they are clearly marked sponsored.
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