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GitHub has a Read Only option, and package managers of most languages have a way to convey that the project is abandoned or provided security fixes only.

You don't have to feel guilty to abandon the projects. Most us do it, every day.
In order for a market (that's reasonably distributed) to move in a direction, there needs to be some level of consensus. If everyone thinks there will be a crash, then there will be a crash, because everyone will sell.
>All I've observed is a crazy growth of prices, making buying anything very prohibitive.

If only there were a good word for that...
Things have also cooled off in the Palo Alto area. I've seen houses dropped by $400k in the last few months, typically from nearly $2.5M to a bit under $2M. At first I thought it was just to get a bidding war started, but the homes then sold for not much over the lowered price.

This is still a far cry from "affordable", but it's a change of pace from the last six years.
Can you just randomly drop in solo or with another person to a trivia night? I've been to a few, but only ever as a sub on an "established" team.
So would I, since wired networking is my jam. But I get the point the GP is making. The pool of potential buyers who would appreciate the value of that additional investment is small and (presumably) only getting smaller with time.

Anecdote: I realized how out of the mainstream I was when recently viewing a video produced by a high-profile gamer on Youtube showing off the specifications of his desktop gaming rig via Windows Task Manager. Yes, he had gobs of memory, many cores, and dual RTXs. But what caught my eye was that the network chart showed he was using wireless networking. On a desktop PC with two RTX 2080s. It make me laugh a bit; it made me cry a bit.
> incidental encoding conditions with materials not easily verbalized with relations that are arbitrary

An example of such conditions and materials.
I hate the direction they are moving with the port situation on their products, which is to nickel and dime you for the privilege of using different connections. I can buy a brand new iPhone and macbook, and come home with no way to connect them with the supplied cables, I need to buy a dongle. I can't use the same headphones with my computer and phone anymore, either; apple doesn't include the 3.5mm dongle with their phones anymore and instead would gladly tack on $10 for 1-inch of cable that should have never existed on this earth in the first place.
Well, I don't like the pushiness of it. Just take how this story dropped off the front page like a brick. If someone slapped me on the butt or head and said "hey there, you look like you really want some nice ice cream", even if I actually were up for ice cream, I would lose my currently existing appetite for ice cream until the memory of that creep has faded.

It doesn't matter if someone else accepts being treated that way, or didn't quite catch what is going on.

I also don't like how the general shift to selling experiences and status symbols instead of tools. The sheer inability to leave people alone and in peace with what works for them, just because it some marketing people have an idea how to get them to "engage" some more and buy more stuff. For example it's kinda nuts that laptops and smartphones are advertised with how thing they are, they're thin enough either way. In a context of humanity hardly even beginning to address the problems our consumerism caused, this is all just lethal circus. All that went on before the removal of the headphone jack, but that is part of it.

Since the Iraq war I avoid flying when I can, even before climate change became scary real, of course I'll avoid products of companies whose attitudes are incompatible with a rational marketplace. Because either that will end, or humanity will end. Just like I don't rely on a $0.50 chip, I don't rely on the "ideas" of equivalent thinkers, or the "awareness" of the mass of people.

> this had the best specs for what I wanted, so it was a sacrifice I would have to make

Well, to me that is entirely backwards. Customers are looking for something, but are denied that thing because companies have other "visions" for them. People find the story interesting and it garners a lot of votes quickly, so it is dropped to the second page just like that... Nothing spells "courage" like that kind of stuff. I just checked, just in the time it took me to write this it dropped from the middle of the second to the third page, but still managed to garner more votes. If the companies treat their fanbases as children and they end up acting like this on their behalf, flagging and downvoting what they don't want to hear, and/or if the companies themselves fuck with online discussions and the consumers look the other way, I'm against it by default either way, before we could possibly get to any technical details.

In short, there is a difference between a good reason for something, and a rationalization of something that was pushed onto you. Yes, I also use an external soundcard and like wireless headphones, but not for mobile devices, and the discussion isn't about "why did most people buy devices withouth headphone jacks once those became available too", this is about things being pushed unilaterally, for sheer profit.
It's a boom for everyone; it's a boon for sellers.
It's not as crazy as it seems. Usually the best thing to do is compromise to close, since the Buyer wants the house and the Seller wants to sell it. Buyers and sellers often overestimate the other side's patience and wear it to the bone, then lose a home/sale pointlessly. Presumably everybody is in contract because they want to do the deal, and agents work to make that happen. Agents do have a fiduciary relationship with their clients, but if you enter into a real estate transaction don't be surprised if the people involved act as if you are serious about it and it's in your best interest to actually close.

That said, of course there is a group of agents who sweep problems under the rug to close. In my experience, there is a higher than average amount of agents like this among the top producers. But the group is not that big.
The world had mostly moved on from 3.5" floppy drives when apple dropped them, they were mostly used for windows boot disks and to transfer files between machines. Their complete hardware control allowed them to drop the former and their tiny market share meant they didn't have to care much about the later, floppy disks being incompatible between macs and PC's. The G# being a desktop machine also meant that for anyone that really did need a floppy drive an external one was an acceptable option, carting around dongles is not.

The world didn't care about wireless headphones until their wired option was taken away. It's a solution to a problem of their own making.
IDK, looks kind of like supply and demand starting to balance out in an area where that's allowed to happen. Mostly through sprawl, rather than other, denser types of development, but it is allowed.
It's not supposed to be perfect. It's just a solution to that problem.
Remember when optical drives where removed from laptops? We had to carry an external optical drive. Some times we'd forget it. It was inconvenient. But we survived.
Builders keep building homes, home prices keep going up. In order for people to buy the newly built homes, you need to keep adding people capable of affording the inflated housing prices to the market. As you stated, millennial's (and many others) cannot afford it due to stagnant wages and student loan debt. They also cant afford the insane rents in many cities so ~23% of them live at home with their parents.

Eventually there are a ton of empty houses on the market without buyers, sellers are forced to lower their prices. People in upside down mortgages cannot sell as housing prices are lowered and foreclose, further dragging down the price. Market crashes. People with capital swoop in and buy up houses to rent out, driving up rent further as they can set the price.

This collapse will be slightly quicker than the last as the market is not as propped up with sub prime style loans. If salaries don't keep up with inflation a crash is inevitable. Deck is stacked against people without a strong financial base (upper middle class parents) but hey, they can stay on their parents health insurance for longer now, so that's nice.
I'm naturally inclined towards BSD simply because of its extensive history (though I've spent little effort towards it thus far), but even still this article is wholly unconvincing... of anything. It really doesn't say anything about ZFS, jails, or even the current state of affairs beyond a respectable number of packages (and more importantly, linux compatibility); it just assumes you already accept that they're better, and for some reason haven't already switched?

It also badly requires editing

Hopefully someone has a better argument for FreeBSD than this... mess
I'm not even sure whether the science is sketchy and well depicted or whether the journalist's interpretation went off the rocker...
Washington Bitcoin pioneer seeks Chapter 11 protection
Kind of refreshing compared to the platitudes and metaphorical pats on the heads that would typically greet children undertaking this sort of thing.

Except for that whole thing about dealing with potentially existential problems for humanity.

Scott Morrison is doubling down on the party's conservative position in the midst of an implosion caused by the party's conservative position. Australia politics is pretty compelling right at this point in time.
I believe the 7 was the slimmest iPhone. The notch phones are noticeably heavier as well.
Removed from that quote is context of course, which is extremely relevant, but that didn't stop the media from making sure they induced a profiteering panic among the people that subscribed to them despite the outcome being possible nuclear death.
I found this panorama shot on their home page: https://www2.ipp.mpg.de/ippcms/eng/externe_daten_en/panorama...
How Unreal renders a frame is also interesting:

https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2017/10/25/how-unreal...
Even as a DINK millennial couple with a combined low six figure income a home purchase feels like a poor investment. Not only the down-payment of $100k+ but the property tax increases and then having to pay that mortgage for 30 years. Since we expect mobility and a certain level of future uncertainty it just doesn’t make sense for us and many more of our generation to tie ourselves to such and expensive geographic anchor.
Modern 5ghz wireless can fully saturate most home broadband connections, and if a good router is used, the added latency is trivial.

If the house isn't already wired for CAT5, wireless makes sense.
What this is allows, and I'm hoping a full fledged service will be announced on Thursday or Friday, is running containers as Lambdas. i.e. if you application starts fast enough, you can just set a container to start and run as a request comes in. It can also shut down when it's done running.

This allows things like per second billing for container runs, serverless containers (there's no container running 24/7, only when there's traffic), etc.
Sure, we might, but the "issue" of management of macro-scale solid radioactive waste has never been anything but nonsense. It is a completely manufactured "problem." Mix it with concrete and cast it into large bricks so that it's hard to lose and infeasible to steal, vacuum seal it in plastic wrap as a precaution against outgassing, drive it to the seaside in lead lined semi trucks and toss it off the continental shelf.
I haven’t used Clojure much in the last two years, but this is the part I remember is most surprising, and completely congruent with what Rich describes. You hear about this thing, it is a Lisp, and you wonder if it might be some edgy thing, moving fast, breaking things, showing off this mighty power (that Paul Graham wrote about) of Lisp.

And it is a little bit of that; but it's also a lot more of an intentionally conservative, even boring, extremely practical tool for building real things in a concise manner. In this way it fits into the Java ecosystem well, alongside many other very boring, robust, proven, reliable chunks of code.

Much of my work today is in the Node/NPM/JS ecosystem; although that has its advantages also, some days I really miss the boring reliable conservatism of Java and Clojure!
Yeah, the 3.5mm port is certainly easier than the USB port to make waterproof. Probably easier than speakers and microphones too.
$25,000 can EASILY be spent, and triple that, just on getting well water, septic and electrical services to a rural property. I could buy 20 acres in Okanogan county WA right now for $18,000 but it'll be at the end of a dirt road, with no sewer, no water, and looking at $30k to extend grid electrical to it (or build a $20k off-grid photovoltaic system).

I'm guessing from your comment that you've never actually done the budget on what it costs to turn "cheap" land into somewhere you can build a nice residence.
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones that can actually go both ways. It has a wired and wireless mode. The wireless mode is great for exercise and chores, but if I forget to charge them I can still use them.
CPUs also have some iterative weirdness in that successive generations do, to a certain degree, depend upon the computation of the previous iteration to calculate the layout.
I really hope this helps with the cold start times on Lambda. We were currently looking heavily into moving our API from Lambda to EKS, but if this impacts cold start times, I think we will look at how it ends up looking like in practice.
Nice informative article but has only one sketchy paragraph on Trump. Almost as if the editors didn’t want to talk about it.
What can an SUV do that something like a Volvo V60/V90, Audi A4/A6 or similar cant? Do you really need the extra ground clearance because you have a kid in the car? A Honda Accord should work just fine for three kids, at least the estate version.
> He ran Ethernet to all rooms, and put in other silly features

Isn't this normal by now?

My house is only a few years old but wasn't particularly expensive. When I bought it, it was already wired up with ethernet - I just had to replace the wall plates (they were RJ11 outlets instead of RJ45) and hook up an ethernet switch.

From what I've seen of other homes, it appears to be common for electricians to use ethernet for phone lines. Why wouldn't you? The difference in material costs is neglegable.

Why should this significantly increase the cost of a new home? Re-wiring an old home is annoying, but I don't see any reason why it should cost much for a new home.
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How expensive is Ethernet to all rooms? That decision strikes me as a no brainer for any newly built house. Even if no one actually wants Ethernet in all rooms, it guarantees that Ethernet is present in the particular room(s) that the eventual buyer will want it in. And it will still be present in the particular room(s) that the next buyer will want it in. In contrast, if a room is missing Ethernet, it would be far more expensive to add it in after the fact.
It's a shame about the burger thing. If they'd found someone a bit savvy, they could have parlayed their fame into far more money than the cost of the tourist hordes, and been well places to either retire or re-set the business.
I think if this was the case, wealthier people would swoop in and buy them up by the dozen, then rent them out for triple their mortgage. They would all be sold in bulk before the builder broke ground. Capitalism is very kind to those who already have capital.
If you’re constantly switching then it may be a good idea to buy another dongle.
> And no human’s life is measurably better since Apple had the “courage” to remove the 3.5 mm jack. But a lot of our lives are just a little worse

Good old shortsightedness at play here. No one looks past this year or years to come when faced with changes. Here's what I think, based on history, is happening here:

# Wires are more bad than good for average consumer:

a. Neglected security based on assumption that since it's not wireless, it's immune to eavesdropping (think side-channel attacks). Wireless puts security upfront and center.

b. Cables get lost, break, are not long enough, are not compatible, damage the connectors, bad cables damage the device, cost extra, etc. Wireless doesn't.

c. Cables are cumbersome. They get tangled, you need to remember to carry them, have backups, etc.

d. Cables have short range.

Apple evidently cares quite a bit about user experience. Wires hurt user experience so they want to get rid of them, one by one. You can't push towards superfast, low power and generally more advanced mobile devices and accessories, if the industry has no reason to do so (because everything works and has for the past 50 years).

It's tiring reading every day how someone is upset because their favorite feature is gone because they can't see past their front door.
Clustered processing, where info is being sharing among your machines as the processing is happening. Anything you imagine running simultaneously on racks of machines will benefit immensely from faster interconnects between each machine on the rack.
Yes, that’s exactly what the linked article mentions

> If your application is written in a scripting language,
> odds are that you can simply move it over to an A1 instance
> and run it as-is. If your application compiles down to
> native code, you will need to rebuild it on an A1 instance.
And S3
Is the Real Esatate License Worth the Money?
A friend of mine saying that choosing a real estate course to get a license a great idea while doing my job. Can anyone explain this to me?
We're going to see a lot more of this. Dependencies are a security risk. If you're writing a secure system that will be storing personally-identifiable information as GDPR defines it, then you need to audit every dependency that you include in your project (and every dependency that each of those dependencies include). And then again every time they change version.

The golden days of including any old gem or npm package that seems to solve the problem you're looking at are over.
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Yeah, Rich is obviously right. Concerning Clojure, or any Lisp variant for that matter, I came to realize that the cost of the unusual prefix notation -- which does cause inconvenience to people trained on using infix -- needs to be offset by the usefulness of defmacro, i.e. the possibility of using macros. Paul Graham insists that it is surely worth it, but unfortunately, he does not show convincing examples. So, I keep sitting on the fence. I am ready to be convinced, though, with compelling examples of a problem that I cannot possibly solve with defun and for which I would need defmacro.
Loss of the ethernet port is a real pain. The cat5 dimensions are awkward for a thin laptop so you can accept it for a machine that does basically nothing locally. But as soon as you have a hundred GB of stuff on your laptop you need to transfer you wish you still had wired ethernet. In fact, 10G. And then you buy a Thunderbolt to 10G dongle. It is brilliant that the new Mac Mini has 10G on-board.

Back in the day serial and parallel were very useful for interfacing to real world machines. Now everyone uses a simple linux board like an rpi, but in the interim it was seriously inconvenient to interface. USB1 is absolute rubbish, USB2 not much better.
The selection of software that simply works on Linux (especially Debian & derivatives like Ubuntu) eclipses that on FreeBsd.

I've seen attempts at bringing the Linux ABI to FreeBsd, including the familiar and popular apt package manager. If and when it's as easy to "sudo apt-get install package" on FreeBsd as it is on Ubuntu, it will see an increase in adoption in both the sever-production setting, and as a development environment.
You describe the history of American suburban sprawl, ignored the fact that it's wholly unsistainable (as documented in may articles posted here, suburbs go bankrupt in 50-100 years when the maintenance bills and bond payments come due, unless they can force cities to subsidize them), and ignored the fact that is already exists all over the nation.
No, “we” did not carry external optical drives. By the time Apple removed them, downloading music and software was already mainstream. Removing the headphone jack is not the same.
I'm pretty welcoming and gregarious, I have had random people join my team before when they asked (my teammates were less comfortable at first, but relaxed and welcomed them later). This will definitely depend on the crowd. It may be easier to start your own team (or playing solo at the bar) and just start getting to know the other teams for a while first before asking to join them.

It also depends on the location. One is a restaurant, people are generally less welcoming to random folks sitting at their dining table (unfortunately). The other location is a bar. It's much easier to just join a random team. Find 3 people sitting at the bar and ask if you can join them. Or, like the last folks that joined us, find a table with several empty seats and ask to join them.
> Firecracker was built in a minimalist fashion. We started with crosvm and set up a minimal device model in order to reduce overhead and to enable secure multi-tenancy. Firecracker is written in Rust, a modern programming language that guarantees thread safety and prevents many types of buffer overrun errors that can lead to security vulnerabilities.

This is awesome! Really excited to try this out!
Wow, this is such an eye opener. I have always considered myself an ok programmer, but always struggling with trying to be effective.

Your four points on effectiveness happen to me on a daily basis, but I tend to see them as annoyances, mind you, I rarely refuse to help and advice. This gives a whole new light and meaning to all those interruptions.
Seeing the existence of toxic femininity acknowledged only brings out the pain, the bitterness and the loneliness suffered in a long life of such abuse. No acknowledgement, however admirably expressed, can undo that damage nor justify my forgiving it.
All that machine learning and still so many fake reviews.
I was understanding until I read:

"he emailed me and said he wanted to maintain the module, so I gave it to him. I don't get any thing from maintaining this module, and I don't even use it anymore, and havn't for years."

in the thread. Then, I looked through the commits and realized how not ready @right9ctrl was to maintain a heavily used package. Basic linting and small, iterative changes are absent.

So, when I see Dominic-さん just "handing" the package over -- it seems careless. This is often why -- I try to write my own packages unless I absolutely need some sort of framework. It's trading one set of problems for another (the potentiality for bugs vs. a package as a security issue).
But that argument is justification works for removing any technology, whether superior or not.

If you allow only one technology, it will be cheaper irrespective of whether the disallowed technology is better or not.

This makes Apple’s decision worse. It’s an admission that wireless audio is an inferior technology, and that the only way for it to succeed is by removing the alternative, ans/or making it significantly worse.
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