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I used to love to go to sears. As a kid I would spend hours thumbing through the Sears catalog, and circle Christmas gifts to give hints to my parents. At one point most of the appliances and tools in my house were Sears brands.

Unfortunately, reading some of the comments to a story gives me headache. Especially the "corporations are evil" type comments. Sears was killed by two factors: 1) Lampert's self-dealing and attempt to extract personally enrich himself, and 2) optimizing everything to extract as much cash as possible, from every facet of the business.

When I was younger, there was a classic business case presented in an MBA program regarding frozen pizzas. A food company sold frozen pizzas that was great and had a very strong customer loyalty. In search of more revenue, an MBA calculated the cost savings if they reduced the number of pepperoni. Unsurprisingly, they made more money and no one complained. Bonuses were handed out. Year after year, they started to "optimize" the pizza. After several years of this, sales tanked. Customers stopped buying. They hired consultants who performed focus groups and they found out that customers didn't want a cheese pizza with a few toppings. They never fully recovered revenue back to the original levels even after trying to win back customers. Once they broke the customer's inertia, customers started exploring other options and found better ones. The key take away is: don't be myopic and only focus exclusively on short term gain because you may run your customers off.

I have seen this pattern repeated over and over. Amazon is the now biggest example. Every interaction I have with Amazon is getting more onerous. It used to be I would go online, search amazon and order. Now the product search results are festooned with ads, sponsored products, and the product that I want at higher prices, while the lower priced products are hidden. They arbitrage postage. New ads on prime video. I can go on and on. Eventually people aren't going to take it anymore, and when they do they will find better, cheaper options. I know I have.

This happened at Sears. Every time I interacted with sears it was less enjoyable. The products became cheaper and lower quality. Recently, I wanted to purchase an olympic weight set. Heavy cast iron weights. Sears used to have home a large selection gym equipment. It is one of places where someone will go in to buy a barbell, and will return for more products like a curl bar, more weights, and pick up a few other items while you were there. Nope, they had determined it was more profitable to become a market place and take a commission and not hold inventory. They optimized the inventory to only hold items that sell well or have high mark-ups.

Being a cynic, I really don't think Lampert cares. Although I don't think BK was the plan all along, he is obviously using it as a financial engineering tactic to shed obligations while he owns all the real estate. His self-dealing was so bad a number of investors were threatening lawsuits a few years ago. Ultimately, he will kill the company and still walk away with a dump truck full of money.
I have to say, the fact that your (quite simple) blog immediately loads a 10MB javascript file doesn't endear me to the concept. If that's to power the "secret dustingetz.com admin dashboard", I'd suggest loading it only when the link is pressed.
Are you using Twitter API to get the data?
I think it might be a bit easier on paper but I still struggle with it regardless of the medium.
I helped make https://www.Levels.fyi - a lot of folks reference our site as being the most accurate for FANG compensation. I would also check PayScale, Paysa, Blind, etc
The most shocking thing in this release is that amazon internally uses Twiki. Happy hacking, black hats!
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Exactly, and Amazon is still growing so even as some jobs are gradually replaced by machines the total number of workers is still increasing.
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Peppermint willl survive multiple weeks of neglect and abuse.
It does by default, though technically, it has an interpreter available if you need it - see http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Interpreter.
That's a great point. No need for moderation through postal mail because it's all 1-to-1 communication. OTOH, all broadcast media is heavily moderated today.
https://xkcd.com/949/ Though between my family members teamviewer has a basic file transfer mode that works quite well, pc to pc, assuming both parties have it installed.
That is not use-after-free in the way that the security community typically uses the term. This kind of problem is an order of magnitude less likely to lead to RCE.
The Amazon of China, Jingdong, has a fulfillment center that handles hundreds of thousands of packages a day and employs just five people: https://youtu.be/RFV8IkY52iY

Amazon used humans because the investment to build full automation was too expensive and take too long to build out compared to spinning up human labor. However now the logistics of the fulfillment center are well understood and they can be rebuilt with full automation.

It was clearly a matter of time and money, not “these jobs are impractical hard to do with automation”
Andrew Tannenbaum goes into detail in his exploration on how to make operating systems reliable:

https://www.openu.ac.il/home/wiseman/2os/microkernels/tanenb...

In a debate with Torvalds, he also cites a lot of examples of microkernel use:

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/reliable-os/

Although most are commercial, Genode is an example of an open-source system built with the architecture. It's a variation of Nizza architecture whose idea was to minimize attack surface and complexity to just what a specific application needs.

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf

https://genode.org/
E.g. can you quickly spin up a REST-like HTTP interface for your goods?

On the contrary, it started life as a Bell project called S, more or less a math/stats DSL. It was implemented in GNU as R, and R became one of many competing "stats packages" you may or may not be familiar with: SAS, Stata, SPSS, etc.

While it can be used for general purpose programming, its main advantage is that it is still primary a math, statistics, and data analysis DSL at heart. The concept of a "data frame" (which you are familiar with if you've used Pandas) as a data structure originated, as far as I can tell, in R. Data frames are built into the language, and the language offers custom syntax support for them.

Also, the standard library is full of high-quality statistics tools. Fitted model objects have handsome, human-readable string representations. The formula DSL is elegant and convenient. Manipulating data (replacing missing values, etc) is easy and relatively concise. Math and linear algebra is similarly and it is linked to BLAS so it's pretty fast. Plotting is built into the language and it's pretty intuitive, even if the defaults aren't that pretty. The language is also fully homoiconic and wildly dynamic, allowing you introspect and modify pretty much any chunk of code.

And all that's just in the standard library. The package ecosystem is downright enormous. You can write R packages in C/C++ just like in Python if you need something to go fast, aided by Rcpp. There's Shiny, which is a self-contained HTTP server for data-driven web applications. GGPlot2 was a minor revolution in elegant data visualization. The Tidyverse package collection was similarly mold-breaking by letting users write organic "data pipelines" instead of imperative code. Caret is at least as good as Scikit-learn for general-purpose machine learning. XTS takes the pain out of time series manipulation and modeling. Data.table can efficiently join and subset billion-row datasets in memory using indexes. The list goes on.

Long story short:

- domain-specific niceties
- batteries-included standard library that mimics features found in big monolithic stats packages
- has general-purpose programming capability
- extensible in C for speed
- built-in plotting that's not perfect but it's pretty good
- huge package ecosystem.
Apparently the bug doesn't actually delete your files that often, if you read the article. Also that second one isn't really something unique to ext4, is it? Seems like a universal problem.
I pretty much agree with that thread's replies, not much to add.

I didn't know VLAs though (they didn't exist back in the day when I used C). Even though you still have no growable buffers/reallocation (AFAICT), I concede those open up a wider class of complex programs.

Thanks for the pointer (pun intended) on VLAs, will check them out.

Still no garbage collection though (and I agree with you that neither is Rust's).
Lead (/leed/) researcher - most senior of your research team.

Plumbologist - a person researching lead (/led/).

Plumbous researcher - researcher made primarily from lead (/led/). Probably an AI that deeply resents the materials-based engineering flaws in its processor core and robotic reality interface.

Lead (/leed/) plumbologist - most senior of a research team investigating lead (/led/).

Plumbous plumbologist - aforementioned AI, but dedicated to self-improvement.

Lead (/leed/) plumbous plumbologist - most senior of a group of lead-constructed (/led/) AIs, investigating the mystery of why the human progenitors chose such a bad metal for building robots.
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> the small percentage of people who are unhappy

Citation needed.
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> roughly flask for R

Unfortunately, not even close to flask. Plumber doesn't even handle concurrency...

https://www.rplumber.io/docs/runtime.html#performance-reques...
Learned something new today.

The other Soyuz incident in 1983 was Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L, sometimes known as Soyuz T-10a or T-10-1.

Found below from wiki.

It was an unsuccessful Soyuz mission intended to visit the Salyut 7 space station, which was occupied by the Soyuz T-9 crew. However, it never finished its launch countdown; the launch vehicle was destroyed on the launch pad by fire on September 26, 1983. The launch escape system of the Soyuz spacecraft fired two seconds before the launch vehicle exploded, saving the crew. It is the first case in which a launch escape system has been fired with a crew aboard.

In early US space program, in one of the test flights before Apollo program, a 2 stage rocket failed mid flight. The rocket escape system attached on top of the capsule fired and successfully saved the capsule. But there was no crew in the capsule.

Just watched this PBS special on the US space program. Pretty interesting footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jia78xRMTEc
We had plans to move DataModel (manages all data ops) to serverside. We even have a half baked DataModel in Scala which we thought we would do it once we understand some usecase. But currently we have put it on hold.

We would love to know your
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- ops on data on serverside

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Currently the main plan is the lunar gateway station:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-lunar-outpost-will-exten...

The Europa Clipper mission is also currently scheduled to launch on SLS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System#Missions
Amazon is correct. Equity is an inherently risky asset and is something better suited for those who can accept the risk.

If you're making $12/hr, adding Amazon stock on top is a feast or famine situation and would almost certainly cause issues in the next few years. We're on the end of a 10 year bull market, and the most likely situation is trending down.

As the saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Why wouldn't you want an Abrams? It does all the things. Sure, it's pigfat, but it's a proven design and it's not hard to stick an APS on it. Honestly, the Abrams is kind of like the A-10 and the F-22, even if you are trying to make fun of the US military, there is just nothing to latch on to with those platforms. They do what they are supposed to do, even when taking cost into consideration.

Edit: I admit to not reading the article and not knowing about the over-production.
Very nice. Your numbers are consistent with my experience, and the presentation is very useful.
iPhones are assembled by hand and Amazon uses human pickers over automated warehouses which have been around for 30+ years.

Human labor is both cheap and dependable where automation takes capital and introduces risks. Just look at Tesla who cut back on automation at their factory.

The trend is for companies to do things by hand as they scale, and only automate when it's either required to stay competitive or the business enters a near steady state.
I read this as "Terraform Macs" and thought this has something to do with Terraform and somehow provisioning macOS VMs.
But they are being replaced with engineers, salesmen, and customer support, not with warehouse employees. Different skill sets and likely, a net loss of jobs for the poorest and a net increase of white collar positions.
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Unbiased point: Amazon can raise wages to $15/hr (or higher!) and STILL do something wrong related to how they compensate their workers. Pay/compensation structures for many workers are more complex than just "how many dollars are you given gross by your employer". If their compensation isn't actually better, then there's reason to draw attention to it.

As someone below said: If past(bonus + base pay) = current (base pay + bonus) it doesn't matter what the numbers are for base and bonus, they're still the same. And if things are still the same, there will still be people who are upset with their compensation.
I know this is a teensy bit on the late side - this is our first year after taking it over from WhiteHat. Anyway hopefully it's a valuable introduction to some new threats that everyone doing stuff related to websites should be aware of.
This is a great argument for entering into an existing market, rather than trying to find a new one.
"Row polymorphism" sounds like exactly what protobuf does, which I think is the right answer.

As I mentioned, I've heard people argue that the client and server should pre-negotiate exactly which version of the protocol they are using, and then that version should have a rigidly-defined schema. It may have been unfair to suggest that this is a common opinion among type theorists -- I don't have that many data points.
I noticed that too; My best guess is that the display just sticks to what it last knew if it doesn't get any updates, and the leaking LOX from the 2nd stage caused enough damage or interference to interrupt communication. It's at least my assumption, since the 1st stage continued to fire (i.e. accelerate) until some 8 seconds later, according to the NASA report [1] (Page 3)

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/public_...
> But there are fewer women in software now than there were 30 years ago. Are women today "wired differently" from their mothers?

But are they really ?, do you have any data/reference to back it up, I was under the assumption that there are more people, both men and women, working as programmers, than 30 years ago.
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Ya this thought is common "In the deep waters of theoretical physics, the "problem" is that the scientific method gets to be a little abstract. A theory is falsifiable, in principle, but not in practice." but I dont know of an area where it applies. Even the vacuum energy (way beyond my academic level) is verified in experimentation with the Casimir effect.
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Thanks. Still looking for a retraction. But those are notoriously hard to find. Everybody likes to report on the retractions of others, but not on their own.
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Ouch, thank you for writing that all out. I've been using MacOS for decades now and really just want to change it up. Still don't think the Linux desktop is quite there, but maybe I'll just buy a used Thinkpad and give it a real shot as my full-time work machine.
Yeah, I've given a lot of thought to ideas similar to your last paragraph, but all my attempts ended up having worse usability than just using arrays and indices. I eventually gave up and decided to stop worrying and love the indices. :)

I should note that one nice thing about the ECS style is that it's built around threading around Systems, which consist of references to the various Components. So it's a natural fit for the borrow checker.
How is dtplyr on the memory aspect? Doesn't it force dplyr-style deep copies?
Focussed media attention on the Great Barrier Reef may be the one way to wake up the Australian electorate.

Here in the U.S.A., hurricanes are great promoters of climate change awareness.
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"Bezos is no fool. He will reduce his headcount, and step up his automation effort to eliminate as many low-skilled jobs from Amazon. Then he will lobby Congress to increase the minimum wage for his competitors that still employ lower-skilled workers. As these competitors will lack the resources to automate, they will be driven out of business, and all their workers will lose their jobs. Less competition will make it easier for Amazon to raise prices." - Peter Schiff

I'm all for voluntarily raising wages for your employees; that's a great thing. But if we see that Amazon is backing efforts to raise the minimum wage, we'll know Schiff was right.
That's very interesting. I had a chance to possibly work at the NYC Facebook office which I didn't capitalize on, after reading this I'm having intense FOMO.

Are you in Big Tech or Finance?
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This is interesting but, how much? Can’t find the pricing....
I don't get hdrhistogram at all. It's really just histogram with a shitload of logarithmic buckets.
The timing on the release of this information is very _interesting_, considering:

"Currently, Amazon is one of the leading contenders for an up to $10 billion contract to build a private cloud for the Department of Defense. [...] Bids on this contract are due tomorrow."
It was all over the news yesterday. It didn't get buried.

More likely, today's event provides some positive increase to the political argument in favor of plowing billions more into getting all the new US launch systems up to where they need to be.
Not sure what to think about Bernie needing too go as far as naming the bill "Stop BEZOS"

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-stop-bezos-act-s...

It was a political move, and it worked it got Amazon do respond. But seems a bit childish.

Remembering when I was making $7.50 / hour, bump in salary would have been better than bonuses or RSUs. I think in that salary range, this is still a good move.
Reservoir sampling with outliers?
"MINIX predates L4 and has evolved independently."

Minix 3, a new system with the same name, doesn't predate L4. Tannenbaum probably learned stuff from the L4 people given he cites their work in his microkernel debate with Torvalds. They made a custom kernel since their requirements were different than L4 people's. They might have also thought it would be fun. Lots of researchers like just doing their own thing for the experience.

"L4 has had quiet success in the embedded space. "

Don't understate it: OKL4 claimed deployment in a billion phones mostly for baseband isolation. Got acquired by General Dynamics for big bucks. So, there's one, success story.
I'm always surprised that cheap satellite text messaging has never become a thing. All these new cheaper satellites, you would think it would be the ideal low bandwidth application. But lower the prices and greater abundance never quite happened.

Somewhere in a box I still have a 802.11b wifi router with a built in 33.6kb dial up modem, which was the perfect thing at the time.
I don’t know if I would call it “fake news,” but it is certainly derived from the 24 hour news cycle. When a new story is constantly needs recycling a old one is cheaper than finding a new one. This is’nt fake just a rehashing with a different attitude.
Is there any evidence that Wikileaks works for Russia, as opposed to some other nation state, eg China or Iran?
I flat-out don't understand what argument you're trying to make here. My response to your claim that DNSSEC is widespread because of signed .NL domains was simple: that's because registrars in .NL do that for zones automatically, holding the keys themselves. That's simply theater.
The purpose of the example was to illustrate was that in the long term equilibrium, the only food options will be food trucks, cheap+bad restaurants and expensive restaurants. Medium price/quality restaurants die out. Also, food trucks usually only run during the day, leaving residents with the option of either cheap+bad restaurants or expensive restaurants in the evening. That is pretty bad situation that should be avoided.
This fails in several key spots. First, not every update should require a complete migration of all at rest or in flight data. Adding that as a requirement will instantly kill many efforts.

Second, you can't convert "to and from" a format you don't have specified yet. So, you have to first push out all code that can convert to a new version into all spots before you can start using that version. This will similarly kill many efforts.

If you are a smaller shop, you can jump both of those hurdles. But, I will gladly assert that extra work of jumping those hurdles will grow faster than your ability to advance past them.
Well, it was clear that _you_ think so.

My point was that you should consider the meaning of the word under which the post you're replying to is correct, especially given that the author was claiming specific domain experience.
Nice, I saw Canny used by Expo :)
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If you want to do any of those things, Linux is already so niche that you probably know what you're getting yourself into.

But for most people, the discrete graphics option is easier and more stable, but counter-intuitive - usually more power is better. So worth mentioning.
Privacy is not opt-in, thanks. The actual benefits must not be great as Windows is the most user hostile of the big three, and not much improvement since 7. It's clear soon after install that you'll be doing things the way MS wants.

The second you misunderstood, it refers to forced installs to 10.
Would it be possible to find the general location by checking ping times?
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This is true. Even if you manage to build 2 billion + matrices, with bit64, I don't know any modeling packages that can handle those objects.
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While that sounds wild, there is really an article in an Russian newspaper that tells, that allegedly Roskosmos was investigating whether an American astronaut could drill the hole to return home his ill collegue sooner.

Here is that article, machine translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...
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I specifically mean wearhouse workers. The automotation technology isn't good enough and whether or not they implement it has little to do with these wage changes.
> Really, then why nowhere in this philosophy creating new value or new means of production is considered?

Uhhh, it is. It's just that those who create new value are the wrokers making that happen, not the holders of capital.