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I'm not an expert by any means, but as far as I know a lot of the issues are partially attributable to the fact the F-35 is trying to do everything for everyone. If that's true then I imagine planes that try to do one thing well have fewer issues on average.
Former Air Force here. Standard thing. Not big news.
>Medium price/quality restaurants die out.

People's preferences are not wrong!
If people no longer want to give patronage to any kind of establishment that establishment is not entitled to continued business.

Under what circumstances should a restaurant go out of business if not these in your opinion?

The long term equilibrium will be that places to eat that attract people's business will continue to flourish.
It's very much the norm. The JSF is the safest program that's ever been fielded -- the Osprey had multiple crashes and fatalities at this stage of its development.

Government procurement needs an overhaul, and this program has been badly over budget and time, but it is delivering a successful product.
Recommended link near the end of this article:

http://www.rightattitudes.com/2017/06/16/rapoport-rules-crit...
That was a very educational tweet steam. I hadn't heard of 2/3rds of the issues he raised.
Thanks for the link and info. Will d some more looking later this evening.
Does anybody in the industry know why there was a push to move away from specific role planes that excel in one area to ones that can do any area decently? I know in theory that there would be savings having one platform, but making one jet modular for 3 different roles is seeming to be more difficult than just designing 3 different jets. It can't beat the EuroFighter in a dog fight and can't match the stealth bomber for ordinance carried (actually a guess...please correct me if wrong) and can't match the A-10 for ground support. It just seems like a massive mistake that is now too big to fail.
> bought a home for $200k in Western Massachusetts. Paid in cash so I no longer have to pay rent/mortgage

Thanks for sharing your experience Michael in that blog post. Can I read that "$200k paid in case" as in all paid off without loans even from family/friends? If so, $200k seems like a high saving amount considering average American household are in credit card debts. In other words, Google job did pay really well with RSUs and bonuses so that you can save up to buy house in one shot?
I wouldn't list machines being able to communicate emotions to people as important. The limited value I do sed is having a machine express uncertainty or surprise if given ambiguous or rare/conflicting input. Other people may like it more. I don't enjoy talking to my phone as others seem to find natural.
Efficiencies did increased like 10 times since the time of first experimental machines, yet even that got EUV just to the level of barely usable.

So you still need the multi-megawatt death ray as a primary light source for a fab scale use.
I've been playing with the new text-to-speech features, and they are SO much better than before (at least on Android). The new podcast-like audio interface is smooth enough that you could use this safely while driving, walking, or otherwise commuting. I am a heavy audiobook listener, and this is finally a viable option for catching up on articles that I want to read passively.

I thought the old voices were fine, both on Android and iOS. The new ones are from the Amazon Polly API (according to https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/11/17961564/pocket-redesign...). Between the two schemes, I think you trade off performance/battery (old TTS system) life with data usage (new version).

The new voices are maybe a little more natural sounding, but the pauses between sentences were better with the old Android voices, IMO. It looks like it will still use the system TTS engine when there's no data connection. This is cool, and I hope they make further improvements in the TTS area!

Seeking forward and backward left a lot to be desired on the old version. It skipped by paragraph, which worked but was not great since different articles have different paragraph lengths. In the app, you can now skip back and forward 15 seconds, which is more natural.

Unfortunately, on my Bluetooth headphones, skipping backward goes to the previous article, not back 15 seconds. They really need to have this as an option, because even with ANC headphones (Sony WH-1000XM2) sometimes you miss things due to loud noises or inattention, and you just want to listen to the last sentence or so. Audible and Google Play Books have this little feature that makes a huge difference.

Funny enough, I had a side project that was supposed to be a TTS-focused reading app, because I wasn't satisfied with the options from Pocket and Instapaper at the time. I built out the backend using a couple AWS Lambda Functions written in Node.js:

- One to strip an article to unformatted text only using the Mercury Web Parser API (https://mercury.postlight.com/web-parser/) and to do some additional cleanup. Text was saved in DynamoDB

- One to synthesize the text with Amazon Polly and save to S3. This was to be done when the user wanted to listen, not when the user saved the text article, to reduce costs

- One for streaming the article. This was where I left off. The idea would have been to get it to stream and sync up across your life, such as being able to pause on your phone then pick up on your Google Home or Amazon Echo. I never got around to writing any of the apps for the individual platforms, as I was focused on another project.

It's great to see Pocket create an almost-perfect listening app, so now I can focus on other stuff I want to do.
> The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.

Now, I'm not saying that directly applies to your problems, but there's good reason this is a saying.

Going from 80% to 100% will take as long or longer as going from 0 to 80, because the last 20% is all edge cases that are a nightmare to test and mentally exhausting to comprehend.

Sometimes, it's just never cost effective to go from 80 to 100, and it's best to just leave it as is, even if there is some manual work left over.
> Do you think the rest of the world is simply going to sit idly on the sidelines after watching the success?

I think Europe will. When it comes to business, they tend to eat their young.
>"Seems like using ‘Vandalay Industries’ is a terrible idea."

It's obviously meant to be a joke.

>" Maybe anyone over a certain age? Do people under... I dunno, 40? 30?... watch much Seinfeld?"

Seinfeld is one of the most syndicated shows in television history and has been since the show ended. In some markets its on multiple times a day, it's also on Hulu. It's not really a generational thing.
You are grossly simplifying the value that SSGs provide and problems they solve. Gatsby has some quirks, but it does strike a good balance of providing value whilst giving you plenty of control. It does the data capture and transformation of content I want, it gives me a place to explore and visualize those parsed datas, and it lets me control how to render that content in a context that very closely resembles the final artifact (jsx, html). It doesn't cram a new DSL down your throat (jsx is close to html enough, and, it's optional). It has excellent debugging in node and the browser. Hugo doesn't have those, Jekyll super doesn't have those, and everyone's home grown scripts certainly don't have all of those. There isn't a one-size-fits-all, but saying it's a poor tool because it has a lot of dependencies is silly and immaterial.
It's the norm for any new generation fighter, but the F-35 is easily the most complex platform ever developed.

Debugging the F-22 took over a decade, and there's still intermittent problems. That was a platform started in 1981 and tested in 1997.

The F-35 by virtue of having reinvented everything from the helmet to the engine is in for a lot more trouble. It started in 1992 and had a first flight in 2006, ten years after the F-22's first.

If the F-22 is any benchmark the F-35 has another decade of trouble, possibly more.
If the US loses Taiwan as a potential staging area, geopolitics all around the South China Sea would change significantly. Basically, every country adjacent to the South China Sea would lose a big chunk of their autonomy.
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There's a film called The Pentagon Wars that seems to describe the exact same issues in regards to the Bradley fighting vehicle, so while I can't say if it's the norm, it certainly isn't unique.
Pretty standard response -- inspect everything to make sure there aren't any more of the faulty components (which evidently they've identified, which is a bit surprising in terms of speed), and then let them fly again. Happens all the time.
For paypal, texting is even the only 2FA option for non-US citizens. Baffling.
Not yet, 1 megawatt death ray is more economical than a freaking cyclotron+fel combo for now.
Edit: the very next post I read makes for a much better application https://arstechnica.com/?p=1392695
how does this compare with fusioncharts ?
I did not mean to come across as saying I want escape systems to not work.

With space launch systems, any use of escape system is dangerous and best to avoid. I think it will be a long time before aborting/escaping from botched space launch and recovery will be as routine as aborted takeoffs and go arounds.
Over a trillion dollars over 28 years. There are about 250 million U.S. taxpayers. That's $150 out of the pocket of every single taxpayer, every year, just to cover the cost of this one monumentally embarrassing failure. If you're a U.S. citizen born after 1974, you've been setting fire to this money annually for your entire adult life. No value has been provided other than as a government subsidy to military contractors, and if the whole point is just to transfer wealth to military contractors then we might as well just call it a subsidy and have them sit on their hands rather than continually embarrass us with their empirical incompetence. It's hard not to seethe with rage at the thought of all the better things that this money could have been spent on. I look forward to wasting my tax dollars on this boondoggle for the rest of my life.
> It's very much the norm. The JSF is the safest program that's ever been fielded -- the Osprey had multiple crashes and fatalities at this stage of its development.

Is that per flight hour or some other metric? Care to provide a link?
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did you try to port it without marking it as portable in Google Voice? I would be interested to see if that flag actually matters.
I hadn’t considered this as deeply as I should have.

I actually recall something out of the Regan Administration where a similar scenario actually ended up with numbers of 20 out of 50 - however that was largely speculative and not officially confirmed.
That’s what I’ll eventually do. Right now I don’t have a product at all. Just want to evaluate the idea.
I have my own little forest. I do get personal enjoyment out of it everyday. But I also feel an enormous obligation to protect it as precious habitat for the critters who live there as their habitat all around my woods slowly shrinks and they run out of places to go. I am, in particular, very protective of my box turtle population (quarantined one girl this summer to [successfully!] stop another outbreak of a virus that killed over a dozen turtles last summer) and would like to see if my family is willing to plant some large patches of butterfly weed to let run wild in our hay field, especially since the drop in non-monarch butterflies this year compared to last is distressing to me. (It was a good year for monarchs, though.) When I'm in charge and get to call the shots, I want to let nature reclaim the fields entirely.

I do it because if I don't, who will? It's priceless to me that I am privileged enough to have this .5 sq mi plot of undeveloped land to call mine, I feel a sense of responsibility to care for it. If I was a millionaire, I'd absolutely buy up undeveloped land just to let it sit and run wild. I fantasize about it all the time.
> While nobody in a sane mind will use node.js for an airplane autopilot,or a space mission software,

The Nightscout artificial pancreas system runs Node.js.

https://github.com/nightscout/share2nightscout-bridge/blob/m...

With this bug, glucose monitor readings would stop being delivered after 25 days.
Eventually Google search will just index e-commerce stores and affiliate blogs, and you'll still be required to watch a video ad in a modal to proceed.
Reposting (without the inflammatory 'did you even watch the video' comment) at the request of asr:

the video doesn't dispute the benchmarks of the 9900, but rather they dispute the published compared benchmarks of the ryzen 7 2700X, which used default, unconfigured memory settings to push the benchmark down, while the 9900 benchmarks used configured memory settings (as it should)
Applies very well to the Space Shuttle design, and more recently the F-35 from my understanding of that situation.
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I think it depends on the mobile provider and country.

Most of these attacks are social engineering.
How do you solve the dynamic parts that are sometimes required in a site ?
What do you mean by eating the young?
I'd like to know how the team made that amazing SVG-based animated banner image. That alone looks amazing!
>The problem isn’t the fluff we read online. The problem is that when you go long periods without reading novels, it’s harder to pick up a novel and enjoy it.

Can't it be both? If our brains adapt based on the way we consume information, wouldn't it make sense that both abstinence from reading novels and reading through a drastically different medium would potentially degrade performance in reading novels?
I fully agree, I don't understand the emphasis on performance both in the literature and in comments on the subject.

Additionally, it is more common to see CRDT libraries that make character-wise operations and create an object for each character (eg. y-js.org, github.com/google/ot-crdt-papers), which is not ideal.

Obviously there are also libraries such as Atom's Teletype that have string-wise operations.

The cynic in me feels like the CRDT vs. OT war misses the forest for the trees. What matters is lacking features, and the feature that is most needed and least described is a systematic way to offer a diff editor matching the normal experience. Indeed, after having been offline a while, one wants to see and select how their changes will integrate the shared resource.
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>two folders get the same special icon

Nope, I just tested, only 1 folder gets the special icon.
As a child I remember reading one of stories of Stanislaw Lem on where robots did all the work mass producing goods trying to find markets for them.

It ends with replacing humans with crystals. (so a combination of paperclip problem and automatization)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Diaries (1958!)
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Specifically, the gradient crawl that evolution gives must yield viable organisms among every step. If something is within a local maxima that cannot be climbed out of while remaining viable, then evolution can't do anything by definition. That doesn't mean that a better global maxima doesn't exist, and an organism engineered to a better state.
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I resubmitted my comment, without the 'did you even watch the video' bit.
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>Moved out of my $3.3k/mo Manhattan apartment and bought a home for $200k in Western Massachusetts

You have no idea how much the people of Vermont appreciate this. Be sure to tell all your friends who want out of NY how great Western MA is. ;)
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You can check §205.602 here : https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f1...

"I messed up the specifics but the point is that "organic" old style pesticides were often worse ..."

You have not supported that argument, that organic certified pesticides were "often worse" You seem to be misapplying the term "organic" - its a movement/brand name, not a complete selection criteria. The name refers to the "organism" of the plant,animal,ecosystem. It is a general principle that permitted substances and practices should in addition to appearing safe in the immediate term - not be alien to the life and ecosystems involved (much decreasing the likelihood of unexpected reactions in longer term)
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They try and boil it down for the lay person, but often fail. It's nice that as you say they at least they include the sources.
> Unless OP means to imply that people can't mentally separate the machinations of the state from the rules of a game

I think this is pretty much it. Behavior is learned. The participants were playing the game in a way that was irrational when viewed in isolation, but natural in the context of their lives.

If the commons takes more than it gives, it becomes irrational to participate. This tendency persists and spreads over time and people and eventually crystallizes into an aspect of morality, where collaborating with the (exploitative or oppressive) commons is viewed with suspicion and distrust (think "Party Officials"). Eventually this habit becomes so ingrained that it emerges even during simple games.
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That Balenciaga is an absurd shoe. It's the running shoe equivalent of a Gaudi hotel facade. It looks like it belongs on the cover of Yellow Submarine. The lines are crazy. The curves of the sole section near the front of the shoe are in a complicated dialogue with the curves near the back.

Check those tangents, man. If you've ever used something like illustrator, imagine where the spline controls would be. Then try the same with the Nike. They're different.

I wouldn't pay $800 for those shoes because for me, $800 is a lot of money. If I were megarich and I needed sneakers maybe I'd pick the Balenciaga out of an appreciation for how they're pushing the edges of sneaker space. I'd be more likely to buy nice leather shoes because they'd suit me better.

The reason you can't tell the difference between that and a generic sneaker for middle-aged men is that you're used to the higher fashion brands using a separate set of cultural symbols as their baseline instead of looking at the design itself. We've gone past that. Rich people aren't wearing wingtips to show how rich they are anymore.

In fact, "formal" clothing and couture has long been a way to show you're on the way up, not that you're there. Old money doesn't try to keep up with fashion.

Rich people want to wear sneakers, t-shirts, jeans, hoodies, and all the other normal sportswear that everybody else now wears but they want it to be interesting instead of generic. That's a valid role for a fashion designer. Not addressing that market would be idiotic.

The reason it's easy to fake your way to the top of fashion week is actually that 90% of everything is shit, in every field and at every level, so there's no way to look at a given person's stuff and say definitively "nope, I can clearly tell you aren't successful by the way your clothing designs look". You might kick Michael Kors out by accident.
Thanks this is really helpful. Cheers.
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And a similar possibly wrong usage is "conference" when used as a verb, maybe, since "confer" is probably okay. But "conference" seems to have become accepted, I've heard it a bit. There's this trend (from many years, not just recent) to make nouns into verbs too, e.g. "Skype me". The "confer" form as a verb probably sounds archaic to many, since it's not commonly heard or read (AFAIK).
This reminds me of a story I read from some operating system book: Guys working on an early OS profiled the system and found that one particular routine is taking a lot of CPU time. They worked hard optimizing it but found it didn't improve the overall performance at all. Turned out that routine was the idle loop of the OS.

I don't remember if it was a true story or just a joke.
I spent about 7 years at MS and 7 in amazon - mostly around databases. Now I have been with Snap for about 3 years and it has been going great. My reasons were:

- Agility. Snap moves 10x faster than amazon/ms.

- Small size. Our dev community is so much smaller than Fb etc. Last quarter our reported user count was around 188MM? So the amortized # of customers influenced per dev is very high.

- Ownership. I am the tech lead for all of analytics in snap (an uber lead as we call it). In Dynamo I was the TL for the storage part alone, my other offers from fb/twitter/oracle et al were around running parts of their machinery. Nothing came close to the extent of ownership provided by snap. An L1 in snap owns 5x of what an L1 would own in FAANG.

- Rest of the benefits remain equal / better: You are surrounded by smart people, you have hard problems to solve, perks, benefits and comp are very equivalent to / better than fang.

That's pretty much what I tell people during my job sells / interviews as well! If you are looking for the above, you can't beat small companies. On the flip side - FANG do have the scale very few others can only dream of reaching (dynamo did millions of qps per region and ran in 10s of regions). I am obviously hopeful we will make snap that big :)
It's bugs, all the way down.
> Rents go up when people can afford higher rents.

Only if supply is capped artificially, e.g. in major cities where it's almost impossible to build.

> Consumers take out loans and save less when unemployment is low and they feel safe in their job prospects.

Other reasons to take out loans: The wealth effect (currently fully in force), cheap loans (record low interest), easy loans (no risk assessment), outright stupid loans (US student loans) or loans that are necessary to make ends meet. All signs of a market overheating.

> Chapter 11s were at the same level in 2011 -- were you predicting a recession then too?

There was no reason to predict it when it had already just happened.
It’s even worse, since there is also the opportunity cost of what could have been done with all the time & materials. A purely direct wealth transfer of the net profit would at least save that all, which could have gone into something else.

And possibly also environmental costs.
From a strictly money perspective, you get the pay bump from the promotion, then another pay bump from changing jobs.
impressive. but to be honest for a guy with white skin and blue eyes its not that hard to fake your way into the fashion week.
Nike has plenty over $200.

There doesn't seem to be a noticeable difference between their $80 and $240 shoes though.
Perhaps this view of social media was naive during the Obama era. There was lots of hope about Obama using social media to get elected, the Arab spring using social media to democratize, etc. But in the end, we saw that social media has a major flaw and this flaw has been since exploited in very damaging ways by both corporations and nation states. This so-called flaw isn’t a big, it’s a design problem for which there’s no effective mitigation other than applying moderation on a massive scale.
Last time Microsoft decided to replace NTFS with something modern, they took about 15 years to give up. If they start now, we can expect them to give up roughly in 2033.
I'd argue that, in this context, sleep() itself is buggy
Waymo handed out pcbs as earrings and their patents were bs.

Most companies want lidar to get cheaper not better. Very rarely has the solution to a perception problem been "better sensors" as opposed to "more ml".