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I’d argue that the appeal of the licensed Lego products is precisely an experience. Instead of starting from zero and building everything yourself, you’re given a premade story, world, and characters. It’s similar to the difference between writing your own fantasy novel vs. reading Lord of the Rings.
Anyone else read the Dear Polly part ...and just couldn't bring themselves to the Dear Haunted / advice part?

I felt like just trying to sit in that situation; sort of ponder the whole thing without coming to any conclusions. How many people do I know who could be Haunted? How many times have I been Haunted myself? What got me out of that space?

I just couldn't read the advice part.

I think to the points when I've been in that dreadful place like Haunted. A few friends reaching out asking "how are you?" without offering any advice and especially not sharing a fucking story riddled with survivorship bias. Those little acts seemed to clear the fog; and even better, I knew that they just wanted to reach out and ensure that I knew they were thinking about me.
And Apple telling investors it will no longer release individual product sales, like the iphone, was a huge red flag to wall street that there are problems brewing and things are cooling off.
I spent my 20s getting a PhD. I don't think I've ever gotten the most out of my degree professionally, but as a way to spend one ones 20s, it wasn't too bad. I never had more than about $10K to my name until sometime in my 30s. Having a career in tech certainly helped--I took very few loans, but the ones I did have were paid off within five years of exiting academia and smartening up about my career.

I just wish I had gotten patents for the things I worked on in grad school, even if those patents belonged to the university.

These days I strongly advise young people to just get a bachelors and forget the rest unless it's required (e.g. for teaching).
Polly tries to pick up the author and tell her everything will turn out fine, she just needs to relax a little.

You're telling the author they indeed wasted their time and it's too late and it's their own damn fault. You're just being honest.

I prefer Polly's advise.
Perhaps people of my age were lucky to have had this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQbb3FXSEI
The following is a paraphrase from a Quora answer. Sadly, the source has since left Quora and I've been unable to locate it. Here's what I have from memory.

French military planners did not believe that the Ardennes was impenetrable. Tanks were used in WW1 and they were considered a grave threat, the whole point of the Line was to defend against a mechanized assault force. The battle plans they drew up had a variation extending the Line to cover the forest. It was dropped when a deal was reached with Belgium so that they could cover that part of the defense. Years later the deal was forgotten and so the forest wasn't defended.

A French division was stationed at the forest but it was recalled for cost concerns. It wasn't a failure of military planning, it was a failure of the government to follow through.
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There was a nytimes article about a famous author giving advice to young authors about keep trying, you can do anything. Meanwhile he didn't say he lived off a large inheritance. I think in the arts world its often the only real way and its a problem that people are encouraged to follow their dreams.
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> In addition to those, I found I really missed a REPL console and moreso something like byebug that RoR has. For those that aren't familiar, byebug lets you put the command "byebug" anywhere in your code that opens an in context REPL. It's enormously helpful for hard to figure out bugs.

This is like comparing apples and oranges, or at least, like comparing apples and apple-orange hybrids :)

Just saying that Rails (RoR) has a command like byebug that opens an in-context REPL, seems to ignore the fact that compiled languages like Go catch many errors earlier, at compile time, so you don't even need an in-context REPL or a debugger to find those.

Not saying that features like byebug have no use at all, of course.
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Hi, I'm another person involved with McKernel from early on. The name actually originates from Many-core Kernel (intended for many-core CPUs). In addition, a clarification regarding standalone LWKs, mainly two reasons why they "failed": 1.) incompatibility with POSIX/Linux, 2.) lack of device drivers and thus their lack of applicability to different platforms. IBM's CNK (still running on the BG/Q) is a prime example. Plenty of POSIX calls are not supported and it only runs on IBM's hardware. The multi-kernel approach solves these issues by providing basically full Linux compatibility through service offloading and easy deployment thanks to direct reuse of Linux device drivers.
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How is the obesity epidemic not affecting deaths?

I remember clearly nurses saying hospitals are full of elderly and obese people.
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Why oh why do people want a value to have different bounds depending on which system it is used? This is a source of huge confusion and why people stick to uint8 and other precise types
> It's a shame to see.

Really depends what you want from life doenst it? It becomes problematic when people do it without realizing the consequences.
I feel sorry for the person in the article, but it seems curious to me that this reached the top of hacker news...

Am I missing something?
Her story is sad. She seems lost, and I do not think she was helped very well by Polly. A lot of people feeling lost nowadays end up on the wrong side of 40 with little to show for it. It is heartbreaking to watch and must be terribly difficult for the families and people involved.
> It does nothing better than any of the existing mainstream languages...

Why say this? Even if you don't like Go it's objectively false. What languages are you comparing it to, Java? C++?
The students can by now program OK in the small, but I feel they will benefit from some good examples regarding programming in the large.
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35 years is still very young in the sense that you can still begin a new career.
I suspect cold-start performance of arbitrary Docker containers would be intolerable for most customers in light of the sizes and number of layers of many of the images seen in the wild. Most people aren't building "FROM scratch" images yet, if they ever will. Single binaries, or scripting languages with well-defined runtime environments, are far easier to meet customer-demanded SLOs when building a serverless platform.

(Disclaimer: I work for AWS, but this is strictly my personal opinion/observation.)
amazing playground, thanks for sharing!
Given the age of COBOL and the age of IEEE floating points, it would be very unlikely if it used a floating point number.

(And yes, I know that Conrad Zuse invented floating point over a century ago ;))
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Swift can get away with it because the majority of its users are using Xcode which has excellent tools for migrating between versions of Swift, and also interop with Objective-C code. Plus, the current compiler can target a limited number of older versions’ syntax but allowing use of new APIs for some degree of forwards compatibility in large code bases.

Whereas I doubt there’s one canonical Go dev environment common to the majority of its users to make easy migrating large code bases and providing simple syntax adjustments.
'Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.' — apocryphally also Sartre, but really who cares? Wisdom is wisdom.

To your quote: responsibility, sure, but its corollary is authority, and they exist together in precisely identical degree. Just as we bear the burden, if it is one, of the stories we write of our lives - we do nonetheless retain the ability to write whatever stories of ourselves we choose.

Sartre may consider that a condemnation. I can imagine no more liberating conception of life.
"Roads are highly redundant. You can route around almost anything."

Crash on the highway: pick a different road

Car breaks down: rent one (BTW, not scalable to a mass transit strike)

Medical emergency and cannot drive: call for an ambulance
that’s not entirely true. while your warm lambdas can and will take the traffic it your traffic ramps up, additional lambda instances will be spun up. you will pay cold start prices as they are spinning up. so, even if you have a heavily used lambda fn, depending on the traffic your p99 will still look pretty bad and you will not be able to guarantee that all requests will be processes in x ms or less.
I might have started from the "I’m drinking too much" part and raised that as the most important thing to address. Sometimes it's the result, sure, but more often it's the cause.
This is a great point, though it's also why I had bought into the move away from your network for opportunity mentality for so long.

Of course I'll leave my immediate family for opportunity - in my case, they're terrible people who posed a detriment to my future.

On the other hand I never learned how to function as part of a community of people (family, friends, whatever), and am left feeling like I have no support system. Which is apparently super important, but I only realize that now at 30 instead of earlier. :(
> It's more like "Hey! I wrote a book on this exact issue. I really hope it helps"

Except that's your notion and not what Polly was doing with their book mention in the article. There it served as a way to kinda say, "Hey, I also share some insecurity issues with you, caused this by book I'm touring on right now, and oh, here's the link to it". There was no other nudging of Haunted to read the book.
Agreed. The line that got me was "[I] don’t understand how I landed this far away from myself." Boy did that resonate with me...
When done right, subway commuting is amazing. I live in Manhattan, and my commute is 15 minutes.
Except it is about Chicago, not Illinois. Chicago's overall population has stagnated since 1990, but is now the most-educated big city in the country. This implies that "talent" is indeed flocking to Chicago while it sheds it's industrial past.

"Combined with other data, the continuing tale-of-two-cities story suggests large numbers of lower-income African-Americans are fleeing Chicago while somewhat lesser numbers of better-educated and higher-earning whites, Asian-Americans and blacks are coming in. That's leaving the city better off in some ways than it was a decade ago, but smaller."

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20171004/BLOGS02/171...
No, that's not what it means. If you have high concurrent execution, you get 'cold start' every time the underlying service 'scales out' to support more.
The MORE you use lambda concurrently, the more you hit the cold start issue.
Granted, it's just for that one cold start execution per-scale node (and they could probably just optionally pre-fire to warm things in that instance, like with a cache), but it's definitely there horizontally.
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Yes, yours is a good counter argument. I was trying to think of a possible benefit to Dragonfly that might be in the subtext of this memo. If my argument is correct, of course they won't write a memo that just comes out and says, "this way we can help the Chinese have more freedom," but instead would frame it as "greater access to information."
Weird syntax? I’m sorry this doesn’t look like your favorite language.
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So whenever anybody mentions "toxic food", you jump to the conclusion that they're saying all food is toxic? When somebody warns you about eating toxic food like Romaine lettuce, do you assume they hate all food? Or do you go out of your way to eat Romaine lettuce just to spite them, like so many people who disengage from rational discourse, thump their chests, and grandstand to defend all men from the perceived slight of being called toxic?
I was actually thinking of the POV of people writing in the language, not the maintainers of the project which is the language. I guess my point is that those two groups of people have different incentives.
Thanks for the heads up on gqlgen. Have you used its subscription + websocket functionality? This is the part I haven't figured out with graphql-go yet.
Both you and the parent are correct. Decimal floating point is a long-established thing, but the vast majority of "Currency" or "Decimal" data types in modern languages are arbitrary or fixed precision (to some configurable precision) which uses integer math under the hood.
This is going to disrupt balloon artistry!
No. The Irish government have been attempting just that and it's actually be exacerbating the problem.

The solution is for the government to behave if a countercyclical fashion: if the market isn't doing its job, the government has to compensate for the market failure.
I'm seeing a lot of words here, but not the three that matter: "I was wrong."

If you wanted to say "real estate is cheaper in the rural area, but you'd have to drive everywhere", then you'd be right. But that's not what you said. What you said was, "Anywhere that is outside an MSA, has very poor soil, no exploitable oil and/or mineral (and most mineral and oil rights are separate from the land anyways), not by a body of water, and has no electric/water/sewage service", and that is demonstrably false, and doesn't even pass even a cursory logical test, because for this to be true, then all the arable land and extractive natural resources would have be in cities, and if that was true, then where would the buildings be?

If you fail to understand what is going on in your basic assumptions, why should the rest of your argument even be considered?

I did notice, your phrase, "the higher education scam". That's interesting, since educational attainment has been shown time, and time, and time again, to be the biggest predictor of economic success. The long term viability and effects of shifting the cost of education in the past 25 years from state budgets to individuals, is certainly a concern and worthy of debate, but to refer to education as a "scam", makes me wonder about how well thought out your ideas on the educational debt crisis is as well.

I think you're bitter, and not nearly as smart as you think you are.
Nope...

BUT: the microbiome, as well as the immune system, are closely linked to the “physical” mother.
I've been reading Jordan Peterson's 12 rules and see a lot of applicability here, especially "treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping."
The wealth extractors and hoarders know that if the public that barely gets by with no money were to truely understand the extravagance of the greediest, they might face revolution. So this new landed gentry class must hide their extravagance from the poor public. I say reveal them wide open. Let it be understood how the rich behave. Let it be understood how much wealth is being extracted from the poor and concentrated for staggering wealth inequality. The world needs more things like the Panama Papers.
I wish that git for windows would just change the default line endings to \n. Most modern editors should also make this shift as a default, or if there's no \r\n combination in an existing doc, just use \n.

I, generally set this as default, and sometimes forget on a new machine... I tend to prefer those tools/programs that work in Windows, Mac and Linux even if not quite as good, so concerns about where I am is less. I use windows keyboard on mac, and change the mapping... only gotcha is when I need ^C in a terminal on mac, the muscle memory screws me up sometimes switching from working at home (mac or linux) to working at work (windows).

Some quirkiness with git's bash on windows (my shell default) get me sometimes too.
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why? just why? lol
I really wish Go 2 can make dependency management easier.
Ok, they couldn’t find a model to make a profit.

Their office was a whole floor in the World Trade Center.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there may have been cheaper places to lease...
I smell the second coming of the Python 3 fiasco.
Interesting that USA launched people on LOX-ethanol (Mercury Redstone), LOX-kerosene (Mercury Atlas), N2O4-Aerozine (Gemini), LOX-kerosene-LH2 (Apollo), solids-LOX-LH2 (Shuttle) - and Russia (previously USSR) always actually used R-7 LOX-kerosene with almost the same launch pad...

> Russia’s willingness to ferry passengers—including space tourists—gave NASA and other agencies a useful fallback option

Remember how much NASA opposed the Dennis Tito flight. Doesn't look like a useful fallback.

> the date by which the three astronauts presently on the ISS must use a Soyuz descent vehicle before its corrosive fuel renders the craft unusable

I believe it's the fuel itself which deteriorates, not the craft. Peroxide is slowly self-decomposing.
I'm currently halfway through a period where I miss a lot of life as I'm studying while working full time. My time commitments make it very difficult for me to do many activities, I'm often too tired anyway and I really cannot commit to a serious partner for another 2 years despite the fact I prefer to be in a relationship. I occasionally have periods where I feel like life is slipping me by but I refocus and remind myself that this is only temporary and that I'm working so hard for my future with concrete short-term goals.

On the other hand, I'm quite lucky. I have two children who I have more days than not, so I don't have the fertility pressure the author of this article has. I suspect her biggest issue with her life is her fertility, as she sees an entire path her life could have taken fading away rapidly. I've dated a lot of women over the last few years and the one thing I've noticed is that women over 30, and especially 32, often seem more focused on finding a father for their children than a partner. The author even touches on how hard this makes dating, the pressure these women feel to get serious and start a family in a very short period of time.

I'm 33 now and I have a large number of female friends who are reaching the point where things are becoming urgent. They've had these amazing lives so far, full of travel and hitting career goals, but they've neglected to find a stable relationship and now they're looking at their own fertility. I recently attended a small reunion of some college friends and of the 4 women, only 1 had children while 2 are 33+, single and childless and both of them seemed to want a partner/family. These are great women too who would have a lot to offer in a relationship but it's just hasn't worked out that way.

In either 12 or 24 months, my ex-wife and I are moving to another city nearby where her family is. It's smaller, cheaper (I could buy a house immediately), has a really amazing beach culture, etc. I intend to plant roots hard and put in a lot of effort to meet new people and make solid friends
"you'll get used to it" is a bad measure of usability.
Here is a great article on the subject:

"Why hasn’t the internet cut out the agent, even as houses sell to internet companies with the click of a button? In part because consumers aren’t really trying to inject any startup pizzazz into the largest (and most complex) transaction of their lives."

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/redfin-zillow-and-opend...
This uses a very common, very oft quoted, but also very wrong myth about why the Maginot line was created and what its purpose was.

Its purpose was not to stop a German attack head on, it was not to defend the entire course of territory that needed to be defended. It was instead designed so that the numerically inferior French army could free up as many troops as possible to meet the expected German invasion in the north. There is a reason all of the best French and British troops were positioned to meet the expected German invasion through Belgium and not anywhere near the Maginot Line.

When compared to its actual purpose the Maginot Line performed perfectly well. The Germans did not try and attack it, they instead attacked to the north, just not quite as "north" as the Allies hoped.
Not making Go routines values like Ada Tasks is what led to awkward solutions shouldered by the developer such as "context". Too many time Go developers were told to solve issues in user-land, this is the consequence of that.
I appreciate a good joke, but is this really necessary on a thread like this?

Here's the equivalent Reddit thread; better suited for this sort of comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/a1j3h6/go_2_here_we...
If Go implement generics I’m out
Certainly. But I am specifically asking 'simonsarris just whom it is he thinks he's helping here, and how, and why.
I would say the opposite. A lot of disappointment in their hardware lately, but required in order to use their software. iPhone users prefer iOS over Android, and Mac users prefer MacOS over Windows. I doubt most care much what device it runs on.
I don't see what's wrong with the quoted reply. Why is it so wrong to not settle down before 35? I have friends who were settled down, had kids, and divorced by 35; should we seek to emulate their experience over being single at 35? Of course not.

Nor do I see what's wrong with responding to a question with a relevant and timely personal anecdote.

> And there are some things, like travel and careerism, that will not outlive you,

Apple outlived Steve Jobs. Hamlet outlived Shakespeare.

And anyway, why is it anyone's obligation to create something that outlives them. That's hubris.
I think that you and Polly are both correct in different ways.

Your points on the time window of opportunity and the basic nature of tradeoffs is well-put and correct, and is the better advice to give younger people in the context of hearing this woman's story and reflecting on what the lessons are for them.

I think Polly's advice is way more helpful for the actual woman who wrote the letter, though.

Also the book plug was ham-handed, you're right.
I use React daily so wasn't expecting to learn much, but the vids on forms were helpful! Handling form submission can actually get pretty annoying in React if you want to do anything remotely customized.

Also love the idea of including "Project Ideas for Practicing" as its own module. Two thumbs way up.