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One thing that makes .NET Core makes me special for me is PowerShell Core.

I have been coding quite a bit of PowerShell Cmdlet in C# lately, on Windows and Linux, and it's very nice that I can pass around .NET datatypes interactively, and in a script.
CoinTracker iOS app makes tracking ERC-20 tokens easier
Clever Goffin's cockatoos cut tools to the length they need to reach food
Many of the features (Dependency injection, etc) seem only to be available for ASP.Net Core. What about cross platform desktop applications? Do we have a GUI layer that is cross platform as well?
In re-reading my statement, I understand the confusion, when I said 'not being able to rely on code inspection is the flagship feature of a GC' I meant, glibly, that non-deterministic deallocation of memory in a way the programmer does not have to (alternatively, cannot) reason about meaningfully.

I suppose in reality it depends. Finalizer hooks are absolutely bad, I agree. Which means that resource management has to be grafted on top of a GC memory model. Since the compiler won't be helping you enforce the management of resources since, as you point out, it's out of scope, it introduces a new vector for error. Rust allows you to bind the two and handle them together, both in a checked/enforced way. I've yet to see a GC'd language that does the same, but I can't think of why one couldn't exist.
Edward Snowden: Saudis Used Israeli Spyware to Target Khashoggi
SQLite's safe mode is not comparable to LMDB's; SQLite is vulnerable to silent data loss in a crash.

https://wisdom.cs.wisc.edu/workshops/spring-14/talks/Thanu.p...

LMDB is not.
There is a user, they are using the system, and that’s about as much as we know about them.
You can flag posts.
We are quite confident that 2.0 can meet all the customer needs of 1.0, but going far beyond in terms of scalability, at a much lower cost.

A great example of this is "doing work in a loop". Sure, you can spin up a process and try to schedule work yourself. At that point you're responsible for monitoring, and addressing all its failure modes.

In the 2.0 world-view, you can delegate a lot of the tough synchronization and scalability problems to the platform instead.
"GPUs from nVidia" == GPUs from TSMC, rebranded, repackaged and resold by nVidia

"CPUs from AMD" == CPUs from TSMC, rebranded, repackaged and resold by AMD...
It has runtime as in "C runtime", that is the code which runs before and after `main` and the code of standard library. It doesn't have runtime as in "Java runtime" (or "C# runtime") that includes the code that runs alongside your code (garbage collection thread).
Use Zoom a lot. Haven’t noticed anything. Have Fiber if it matters.
I think we probably agree. I'm not arguing that you can't have hard realtime constraints on a GC language, just that when you're interfacing GC memory with underlying resources you have to graft your own ownership model on top (socket.close()) which is not enforced by the compiler (in any language I've seen) introducing a new vector for error. Rust binds the two deterministically and statically validates both.
Logging is built-in. Just append /_logs to your deployment URL and you'll see all stdout and stderr of your underlying functions.
How would the GC in this case inform you when an object is deallocated? The whole point is scope can be extended arbitrarily by anything and that finalization may happen, or it may not, at some point in the future.
Nuclear waste storage is a political problem, not a technical one.

The Yucca Mountain project is the long term storage option. It's isn't really that hard, relatively speaking, to dispose of nuclear waste. Just put it in a hole and mark it so no one goes there. But no one wants to be the host - not because it's inherently dangerous, but because it's scary.

Yucca Mountain would already store all the waste if it weren't for one Senator from Nevada.
What is your affiliation with RocketChat?
As far as we are aware, no one until today had solved the problem of compiling to serverless functions.

If you look at the solutions out there, they all involve you dealing with low-level APIs or config that have little to do with how you write most apps and frameworks in mainstream programming languages.
And where do you think the money to pay the ARPANET contracts came from?
The data can be stored anywhere. Now is only in charge of executing your code in the best infrastructure provider available.

It completely takes away the pain-points of setting up and managing the cloud infrastructure directly.
I am amazed that I cannot find a copy of the source code from the time it was freely available now.
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I was able to register but haven't received an email (yet). Hopefully it works on the Note 8 as well, but given that it is mentioned a grand total of 0 times on that website - I'm not holding my breath.
Rust doesn't require a heap, you can use it fully statically and still get the deterministic destructors when your stack object is destroyed.
"But I could already see major limitations looming ahead: the huge amounts of land needed, the lack of scalable ways to match their inconstant power to society’s unremitting thirst for energy."

I sometimes wonder if authors of these pro-nuclear articles are paid to astroturf for the nuclear power industry or if they are just unaware of what solar is capable of.

The "huge amounts of land" claim is incorrect (https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/22/we-could-power...) and in reality much of solar power could be deployed on urban hardscapes.

The second claim seems to ignore the possibility of batteries and other large scale energy storage, never mind that solar would be complemented by other renewable energy sources.

The other problem with the nuclear industry (ignoring all the much talked about safety and waste storage issues) is that it ends up being a centralized power source. Living in a solar unfriendly state with the most profitable energy utility in the country (no rate review in 30+ years) I do not want to see any more centralization and the corresponding corruption. Yeah, I know centralization doesn't imply corruption and abuse of power, but it sure makes it easier.
I agree, they can do a better job articulating what is “awesome”.

For me personally, there are 3 main reasons that I have been super excited about .Net core:

1. It is C#, in my opinion the best statically typed language. The easiest way I have described it to other folks is it is Java++. Combine it with really good intelligence, and it is like the code “flows out of you”. Part of the reason for that is the effort put into the language itself (getters/setters, lambda functions, etc), but equally and possibly more important is the support of Microsoft, so this is a language/toolset that is being used daily to make itself better. (In my opinion this is why Jetbrains is so good, the developers use their own tools constantly).

2. It is cross platform from the ground up. I can’t understate how great it is to have an alternative to java

3. Rosleyn: being able to compile and potentially be as fast as C++

Just my 2 cents
It doesn't matter why it's a problem, all that matters is that it's a problem, and you have no ability to demand the residents of Nevada allow Yucca Mountain to open. With that said, there are valid geological and hydrological concerns as to why Yucca Mountain should not move forward. They are outlined here [1]. Therefore, there is no adequate solution, only a demand that a suboptimal solution be implemented to support a suboptimal generation technology.

[1] http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/yucca/techcon1.htm
RUSTful English officially needs to be thing
We are planning to give you very simple hooks and integrations to support WebSockets (e.g.: PubNub or Pusher).

For scalability reasons, it's likely you'll want to separate the code that deals with the "request-response" lifecycle from the realtime subscription.
> GM and Nissan are making compliance cars that permit them to continue to make the same shitty ICE cars while still meeting fleet emissions standards.

I don't know about GM, but that's incorrect about Nissan (at least in Japan). Nissan has bet big on EV and is bending over backwards to get people to buy them. They built a national recharging infrastructure with Mitsubishi. They offer unlimited charging for $30 per month and even had a promotion where they gave you free unlimited charging for 2 years! If loan money from them to buy a car, they even give you a rate on their EV that's slightly more than half of the rate they offer on their ICE cars.

They are probably doing almost nothing in the US, admittedly (I don't know, as I don't live there). But here in Japan, they are definitely and obviously all in on EV. It will be interesting to see what happens when Toyota and Mazda's joint venture starts producing EV cars (which I think is supposed to be in 2020). At the moment Toyota is crushing everybody (nearly twice as many cars as the nearest competitor) thanks to Prius sales. Once they offer an EV car, things will get interesting in Japan.
Okay, so give it an off switch.

Gate it behind a long 20-step procedure. Put a video of a guy repeatedly telling the user "hey, hey, this is bad, don't do this unless you're a developer and know why you're doing it, it's a bad!".

I mean really you don't even have to go that far.

Just give it an off switch.
I wonder if it is the garbage collected language with the highest performance ceiling now?
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I think it's fair to say that "average" Rust code will be faster than "average" C code due to lack of pointer aliasing issues as the average developer doesn't care about/understand this enough to make the annotations in any codebase I've worked in. Can you make both equally fast? I don't see why not, they're both LLVM.
I've had Centurylink for years (fiber and DSL) and they consistently seem to throttle most video sites. Netflix/youtube has always been hit or miss. If you ask about this on reddit or dslreports you immediately get shills claiming that they would never do that / it's impossible. Weird.

Using a VPN always fixes the issue.
You've now passed the limit of abusive behavior. If you post even one more of these, we are not going to unban you after 3 months.
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How does one buy one? I'm in the eastern Europe.
A counter point is that as solar and wind decrease the cost for intermittent the cost of reliable constant power may actually increase due to the shutdown of coal plants and the potential of new carbon taxes which would functionally provide a subsidy for the creation of nuclear plants as they could be a more profitable option then the creation of fossil fuel plants.
Interesting! Do you have a book on the subject to recommend?
Definitely! After we are done with the native versions :)
Indeed.

I'm on the lookout for a solid system that can boot a vanilla Linux kernel (something like an x86 laptop or ARM laptop, sub 10 inches preferably) that can make phone calls, receive SMS, and has a built in 4G modem.

Does such a thing exist? I'd rather have a crap phone attached to a powerful computer, than a powerful phone that locks itself down so much that it's a crap computer.
Servers will also eventually go cold, unless you pay for them 24x7.

With the Now 2.0 design, you instead are very likely to not suffer from cold instantiation to begin with, due to the healthy constraints imposed by the system.

In other words, instead of ignoring cold boots, you just want to embrace them and make them minimal to begin with.
The post only mentions .NET Core, but should actually be mostly talking about ASP.NET Core that runs on top of .NET Core. The features such as dependency injection and Razor Pages are ASP.NET Core specific.

Microsoft have announced that they will be porting WinForms and WPF over to .NET Core so that they no longer need the heavyweight .NET Framework. However, this DOES NOT make WinForms/WPF cross-platform. They will still be restricted to Windows but will allow you the benefits of .NET Core, such as allowing side-by-side versioning.
I propose "MiMo" lanes (Micro mobility)
To be fair Musk was a billionaire before Tesla, and considering a company like fox Conn getting 3 billion or $230,000 a job to make a plant in Wisconsin, Tesla getting a subsidy is par for the course.
Which American city are you living in where public transport is so excellent?
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This is an easy mistake to make. As wind and solar ramp, they push out generators that cannot generate intermittently: coal and nuclear (nuclear plants in Illinois, for example, receive a zero carbon subsidy currently [1]; they cannot afford to operate without it, and require $235 million/year in subsidies; Washington state recently voted against a carbon tax, therefore we are beholden to deflation in renewables and batteries to save us from ourselves). Combined cycle natural gas is perfectly paired for highly intermittent renewables due to how fast it can throttle (see: the duck curve). Unfortunately, these combined cycle natural gas plants are capital intensive, and the frequency in which they're called upon will dwindle as more solar and wind is added to the grid [2]. They will end up as stranded assets.

As battery costs come down, they will push combined cycle natural gas out [3] (batteries are already cheaper than peakers in some markets, and several utilities are replacing their single cycle, inefficient gas turbines with stationary storage). Hat tip to Tesla: They're putting an enormous amount of controllable load to sink renewable power into on the road and in garages [4]. Great foresight.

[1] https://www.elp.com/articles/2016/12/illinois-pass-subsidy-b... (Illinois passes subsidy bill to save state's nuclear power plants)

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-20/texas-is-... (Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money)

"In the cut-throat Texas energy market, the construction of these coastal wind turbines—some 900 in all—has had a profound impact. It’s been terrific for consumers, helping further drive down electricity bills, but horrible for natural gas-fired generators. They had ramped up capacity in recent years anticipating that midday price surge would mostly be theirs, not something to share with renewable energy companies. Without that steady cash influx, the business model doesn’t really work, the profits aren’t there and companies including Calpine Corp., NRG Energy Inc. and Exelon Corp. are now either postponing new gas-fired plants or ditching them all together."

[3] https://electrek.co/2017/12/13/solar-batteries-to-take-10gw-... (Solar + batteries prepping to take over 10GW of US natural gas peaker power plant market)

[4] https://i.imgur.com/oLBNeW4.png

Disclaimer: I support the continued operation of existing nuclear generators (and extensions of their license to operate) if stringent safety requirements are met until renewables and battery storage can meet the base load demand nuclear is currently providing.
To be perfectly clear: Now 2.0 is already fully rolled out to all regions.

As a matter of fact, this is an example of executing `now --regions all` :)

https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1060616737215795200
That is a very kind offer, thank you!

I tried quite a few different strains of Cannabis but wasn't able to find anything that worked for me. Some high CBD strains did help a bit, but it was a mild help. It also wore off within an hour or two so I had to redose constantly, which wasn't feasible at work.

Would oil be much different than a high CBD flower?
I think the main problem I'm having is that 1.0 was already cheap enough and scalable enough for my specific use-cases.

I totally understand how 2.0 is cheaper and more scalable, but the trade-offs are that it's much less suitable for serving occasional requests for data that depends on large server-side files (in my case machine learning models and SQLite databases, both which can be 100s of even 1000s of MBs).

I guess what I'm saying is that for my specific use-cases I don't need a Now that's cheaper and scales more easily - 1.0 already had the performance and price that I needed.

Now 2.0 (or Now Lambdas) do look amazing for cheaply handling a vastly scalable amount of incoming requests that don't need to work with a large blob of data on the server. Now v1 remains my perfect environment for hosting scale=1 persistent servers that can serve those large data blobs. I'm finding it hard to imagine a platform that can combine the best of both worlds - but I'm exciting to see if you can indeed pull it off with 2.0.
Sanely designed/mature libraries I might add. I went through an exercise to build a simple web app with Rust and ASP.NET/Core - I was mind boggled how mature the .NET Core stack/ASP.NET felt compared to pulling in 3rd party crates that are constantly in flux. Even after you're done fighting them the code still looks daunting compared to C# - there is a certain cleanliness to it.

Not criticizing Rust which is a very new and different language - I am just comparing it's current state to something as established as .NET now that it's cross platform.
Decided to answer my own question - here's a great history of the NW aluminum industry:

https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/alu...

The last active NW aluminum smelters closed in 2016. Most of the rest were victims of Enron and the 2000 energy crisis.
Is the cost based planner relevant to OLTP-style queries, where everything is an indexed lookup, or only to OLAP-style queries that involve scans?
We end up in a worse place societally if we go with line of least resistance every time. "Education and freedom to decide" results in patients asking for antibiotics for everything from a common cold upwards, and opiates for every headache and broken bone which has major consequences for everyone. Upto and including the end of the antibiotic era and stories of needless opiate epidemics.

A couple of weeks of serious discomfort, especially if a clearly temporary condition, is not something to be erased at every opportunity. It is a normal part of injury and healing and something we should not necessarily expect to automatically numb out of existence with drugs. Which is broadly what the surgeon and medical folks told me after my operation (for something else though). Along with the suggestion to try a couple of Nurofen, but to come back and talk about if it remains too much. I got ONE dose of something opiate based, the morning after. For everything else I was frankly expected to expect serious discomfort that will go away in time. It did, though my rate of swearing rose quite remarkably for a week or two. :)

For chronic conditions where nothing else has worked of course they should be available. After an appropriate level of counselling and warning of the ratcheting down of effect and addictive consequences of extended use. Which suggests a prescription regime that treads lightly down that path. Offer 2 or 3 days of opiates first and explore every avenue before they become a daily medication that you will end up addicted to.

Freedom to decide is what risks ruining it for all, including those chronic patients who have no working alternatives, as their only option becomes hidden behind a layer of freely chosen, but needless addiction. That means it's necessarily slower for those in real need to get enough coverage and dosage, but hopefully only those that truly need end up on a daily dose.
That page is embarrassingly wrong about how power management works in Intel CPUs. By default Intel CPUs will not allow their rolling average power consumption over a period of ~1 minute to exceed the specified TDP (95 W in this case). Once the limit is reached the CPU reduces its frequency to bring power consumption down. Intel optimizes their CPUs to achieve a good balance between efficiency and performance when operating at the TDP.

What you see in Anandtech's review is the result of motherboard firmware effectively disabling the power limit by setting it to a very high value. This is a common practice among enthusiast motherboards in order to boost scores in reviews. Unfortunately it also results in drastically lower power efficiency and lots of clueless people, including many tech writers, complaining about unrealistic TDP numbers.
Read the wiki on every term you aren't familiar with and then do pairwise google searches for papers containing any two of the words in the set, so e.g. "probability" "Lie groups". If you have specific question I can maybe answer them or provide a link at least.
If they throttle high-bandwidth applications they can provide less bandwidth and save money, I'm not surprised at all this is happening now that net neutrality is out the window.
Leveraging Serverless Architecture
Documented where?
arguing the pros and cons of alternatives absent the timeline is false framing. the question is not what can solar and batteries do some day, the question is what can we do to drive emissions to zero by ~2050. solar and batteries alone cannot do that.
Not a Costco, but at a WalMart I was stopped after buying almost 100$ in groceries and had misplaced the receipt (not really paying attention, it was after a long day...)

The person at the door stopped me and asked for my receipt. I wasn’t even sure if I had gotten it so I told them and they insisted they see it.

After checking my pockets quickly I said I didn’t have it and they insisted I try and find the cashier and get one.

They really wanted to make sure I hadn’t stolen a plastic drawer.

I’m 99% sure this was made up, but the lady claimed that because of its size I needed to produce a receipt (a 20$ plastic drawer you might keep in your pantry...)

Every time I think back I get annoyed with myself for not just walking out on them.
If the USPS is doing well, it's hyped up as a miracle. If it's having problems, its problems are hyped up as insurmountable.
Or perhaps we can change the rules of the game? It's noteworthy that he doesn't consider the possibility that a company delete/destroy the data.

As it stands now, its a no-brainer for companies to save as much information as they can about a person because there's almost no down side. The risk of a data breach to the individual(s) far exceeds the risk of a breach to the corporation. The incentives are massively misaligned. I'm cautiously optimistic that GDPR (with all of it's many flaws) could mark the beginning of slow a transition from corporate data hoarding to minimalism. You heard it here first: Corporate KonMari Consultant will be the trendy Gen Z career.
>Voice calls are free on cell phone networks

Since when?
This is the biggest value of structured data, as soon as you convert something to a string you have lost all your leverage.
Very important: you absolutely don't have to switch to or configure any cloud provider.

However, it is a very healthy thing to understand the "behind the scenes" in case you need to interoperate with existing APIs or databases[1]

[1] https://zeit.co/docs/v2/platform/regions-and-providers
There are surprisingly quite a few. In my case I have issues with discs in my spine and neck.

Sometimes it can be an autoimmune condition like multiple sclerosis or rheumatoid arthritis. Sometimes it can be downright mysterious such as many cases of fibromyalgia.
Thank you for trying to make media accessible in this way. I know you're breaking the law, but someone must restrain copyright's long arm.
There are a lot of .NET engineers who assume they can't use docker or run on Linux, and simultaneously a lot of other engineers who think if they build on .NET they'll be married to Windows or Azure. So I can see why the cross platform nature of it gets harped on a lot. Personally I think the strongest case for .NET is the C# language and associated tooling, but the only way to really appreciate that is to dive in.