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They didn’t get the magic functionality they wanted because magic isn’t real. Coming from a devops background with more of an emphasis on “ops” than “dev”, my (admittedly biased) opinion is that a lot of developers believe three things simultaneously:

1) Ops people are bitter, power-tripping killjoys who couldn’t make it as developers and do nothing but click buttons and think up ways to make the lives of developers difficult.

2) Ops/infra really isn’t as difficult as ops people would have you believe, and some day very soon all the ops people will be replaced by code.

3) Someone else should write the code that’s going to automate the ops people out of existence.

These developers are like highly specialized scientists who think that their PhDs make them experts on everything. They have no idea what happens to their code once they commit it and they don’t care to learn, but they’re pretty sure that it can’t be all that complicated.

Ops will—like everything else—eventually be eaten by software, but the people who drive that transformation sure as fuck won’t be JavaScript specialists who can’t troubleshoot their inability to connect to the VPN. They’ll either be systems/infra people who can code, or well-rounded coders who understand that infra is actually nontrivial (or a group comprised of both).

If it seems like I have a problem with devs, it’s honestly only because a vocal minority of devs have a big problem with me.
The idea that people can't remember trauma but that it still affects them, and what we really need to do is to uncover those repressed memories has caused immense harm.
And on the other side, you have these damaging western capitalist companies that ultimately seek to ensure (mostly) US subservience.
In Japan orphan drugs get priority reviews and patients don't pay anything (i.e. government/social security pays 100% for the rare disease). Companies who produce such drugs have almost carte blanche to make any price they want, since "nobody" is directly paying in the end.
Makes sense. Although if the idea is to choose one language because it has been created with the purpose of being as simple as possible, it might be normal that we want this to be as optimized as possible. If I already know that I'm gonna have to install a fourth keyboard on my smartphone and switch to it every time I write in Esperanto so that accents are easier to type, that might an unnecessary barrier we could get rid of.

Basically, this was invented decades ago by a few people. It's 2018, I wonder what language would be produced if several thousands people collaborated online to simplify it to a maximum, while retaining its capacity to express any idea.
They don't wanna "add GC" they wanna add the optiom to usethe GC of the host system, the JS runtime.

Don't know how this will play with other languages.
> talks about how having a teacher or going on meditation retreats will help you become better at meditation than just going it alone.

Maybe I'm cynical, but that reads like a pure monetization strategy to me.
Even before manufacturing, the design is still a mess. 4 broken keys on a 2016 MB Pro. I don't type all that hard. How is that "pro"? It's got me very seriously considering switching over to linux.
Fossil fuels all have massive hidden subsidies, since the cost doesn't include handling the waste gases and other effluent, which will end up being covered out of general taxations. If your fuel bill included an element to clear up the environmental mess, then coal and oil comes out much more expensive that solar and wind.
What it does have is the algol 60 idea of nested scopes

For example if proc A contains a variable X and declares a subroutine B within it, then B can access X, even if you take a pointer to B and call it from elsewhere (effectively that pointer to B also carries info about which instance of A it came from ....

These days we've largely forgotten about this idea of how variables should be accessed and inherited between subroutines - hardware designers used to design support for these language features (display registers in Burroughs mainframes) - to be fair as a feature it honestly doesn't add a lot of practical functionality considering what it costs
Is it dangerous to perform some IO bypassing the kernel ?
I suppose not regarding this commit, but the kernel isn't there to check calls of the application ?
I’ve always been wary of one-to-ones with the manager for the same reason. Is it ever good to talk about problems with a manager, especially regarding other people? It’s like the prisoner’s dilemma. I still don’t know what’s best for me to talk about in this setting.
> value of your house dropping by 50% in a year would not be very surprising?

That's crazy, does that happen often in the U.S.?
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The Flash devs I met went all downhill with Flash, because they never learned how to code and suddendly needed to do it.
While employment is a good argument for company's locus, it's definitely not irrelevant for a company selling physical products where those are manufactured.

In fact, it matters so much that most western countries require the country of origin to be stapled onto the product.
Someone more familiar with kernel workings than me should clarify, but my understanding is that IO generally happens via a syscall which requires the thread/process in question to context switch between userspace and kernel space, which can be very expensive. By enabling IO polling in userspace, you get to avoid that context switching.
Thanks for the detailed, informative post. I'll be selling my Ubiquiti networking gear ASAP to upgrade to ARM-based and x86-64-based networking gear.
I know, and it's not even like it's a long article. They must have got to that sentence and then just rage quit or something.

It amuses me, but I won't say I've never done it myself, particularly when I'm already tired and irritable, and I'm reading a piece by an author who's taken a provocative stance without quickly getting to the point. Tough to make that accusation stick here though.
Let me know what you think, but I suspect spelling is not exactly the issue, but rather the fact that there is not a single way to write each sound. There are several sounds possible for each spelling ("ough").

If there were a single way to write each sound, then the spelling in itself wouldn't really matter, as we would only learn the spelling of each sound once and be done with it; we'd always recognize it.
No it doesnt fly in the face of facts, your claims do. Solar is not reliable neither is wind, elecric cars arent anywhere close to being accessible for poor countries. The cost of creating the infrastructure of those things are impossible to create for those countries, even countries like india will not be doing that anytime soon.

Being a power systems engineer does not put you in any better position to discuss this problem than other people as this is not a powersystems problem.
A new general computation model for Dune (OCaml builder)
Tok Pisin and other English-based creoles are not simplified English though – they’re languages in their own right where English has served as a major influence. I don’t think that many English speakers would view Tok Pisin inflecting verbs for transivity, having inclusive/exclusive and dual/trial pronouns and making extensive use of reduplication as being simpler.
English had native accents, as in naïve, to show that the double vowel was pronounced as two sounds, but they have declined in use over the year. Cooperate isn't spelt with 'oö', which makes pronouncing it from the spelling difficult. But English has never really been spelt phonetically anyway, so it is now overdue for a reformation really.
UK south coast, not perfect by any means but there is enough of a tech scene for me to be employed and not have to commute far. Cost of living here means I can comfortably afford to by a 3 bed house in a nice location. UK weather is crappy but I get 6 weeks PTO so make the most of going on cheap trips to places like Portugal.

I think if you’re happy within you can be happy wherever you are.
not the same at all. The investments into getting phones into peoples hands were market driven, energy infrastructure is not.
Indeed, and I suppose spelling bees makes sense for any language that is not written exactly as it is pronounced, French being one of them.
From what I've read so far, Esperanto only has a single way to write every sound it uses, so it would be much less challenging.
> The big drawback is that, unlike Javascript or Python, there is just no way I'm going to be able to teach Rust to previously non-technical people.

Plenty of "non-technical people" learn to write simple (buggy) programs in C in a matter of months. And once you know the basics of the C machine model, it is quite feasible to work up to Rust.

The thing about learning Rust though is that it's not really a mature language just yet - it's a hell of a moving target! Even Rust+NLL is a very different animal from Rust w/o NLL, and this goes for so many other features.
The kernel handles the IO. You just don't need to enter the kernel (syscall) to issue it, it is done via a kernel<->user memory mapped ring buffer. Roughly, I don't really know the details well. See https://lwn.net/Articles/743714/
Why is everyone acting like robinhood stole people’s money or destroyed people’s lives? They wanted to make a product that would have been incredible value for costumers, got yelled at by the existing market and are now retooling to see if they can still put it out another way. No one has been hurt and they are just pushing forwards to get this out.

You guys make it sound like they sold people’s private info to undercut the democratic process or killed innoscent people by putting untested self driving cars on the road.
A power amplifier that costs $250,000 only
Yeah, simpler to just serve all content from the file server sitting in your garage. After all, you tested your site from the laptop on your kitchen table, and everything loaded just fine.
https://lobste.rs/s/5pkmvy/assessing_software_engineering
Can someone help me understand, or reference an article, what is hard about meditation? Or what are people seeking to improve upon when seeking meditation servicss?
It works, but the point of the article remains the same because &dyn Animal is also a fat pointer.
My reading of the book suggests it has nothing to do with monetisation, but is based on years of scientific research. I'd highly recommend the book if you want to find out how meditation effects your brain.
This was a disappointing article on a few levels.

1) it doesn’t make a clear logical case for why manufacturing isn’t done by Apple (or many other companies) in the US, right now

2) it doesn’t give reasoning about why sotuation is unlikely to change, or if it does change, how it will not look anything like industrial-era factory labor manufacturing

3) it doesn’t explain that these realities have nothing to do with Apple, except that Apple finds these economic realities faster than other companies

4) it ends completey abruptly without drawing any real conclusion or thesis or adding any insight (based on solid reasoning)

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The fact that Jean Louis Gassed can’t use a screwdriver has nothing to do with anything...
Manufacturing of complex computer systems is complex, therefore requires many different competencies, said competencies must communicate to resolve challenges, and that in and of itself is hard. This hardness requires (literally) an ecosystem of skilled workers to address. Could Apple (or any other company) build such an ecosystem? Yes, if they did it from scratch early on, when the cost to build it was low because the ecosystem was relatively simple. But now, its not a simple ecosystem, and it would be painfully expensive to replicate.

It should be noted that there is probably a strong difference in the complexity (therefore difficulty) of manufacturing high tech products versus other consumer products like cars/trucks, general electronics. That difference is the velocity/pace of new features going to market, required to drive sales. Tech products literally compete on feature sets. Sales of cars and toasters and espresso makers can depend on many factors and so they are not constantly racing to update the product every 6-12 months. I could be wrong here, but I believe the conclusion that tech manufacturing is like all other kinds of manufacturing is baseless. And in fact, the fact that so much has moved to China is the strongest evidence that it can’t simply exist anywhere.
The problem with JavaScripts == (loose equality operator) demonstrated as a game
All human existence have an effect. If you factor in all the good things that coal and oil provide that solar or wind cannot then you will quickly realize how superior it is despite the obvious problems with co2. Put another world, id rather live in a world with access to oil and gas than one only having wind and solar energy.
Not so much STEM (more accounting), but I'd check out the book Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand. It explains basic accounting concepts via a simple lemonade stand business. Might give you some inspiration.
The author does write about GE's business problems. GE capital, as mentioned above. And the Alstom acquisition, which was a too expensive bet on the wrong horse.
Yes. Instead of using a syscall to get/issue events you use a mapped ring buffer. See https://lwn.net/Articles/743714/
That was my point, but other commenters seemed to be saying that if you can't remember trauma then you must never have been traumatised, which is a false thing to say.
If you consider that there are places in the universe that are moving away from us faster than light, then in some sense we already live in a universe where we can only interact with "immediate surrounding particles". It's just a matter of scale.

Humans who are 10^100 times larger, in a universe where light is 10^100 times faster, might wonder what kind of universe we could possibly live in, given that all our interactions are within such small scales.
Nothing will happen before renewable energies are a better(cheaper) alternative.

Otherwise all the oil will be burned, no matter how many global regulations there are. There is no global governemnt which could enforce a carbon tradung scheme and I doubt is is a good idea in the first place. Too complicated to check and therefore too many holes to circumvent any regulation.
And since many states(and people) are really struggeling and in conflict, the danger of global warming is too abstract for most, to provide enough motivation to serious limit their economy which would weaken them, when they do not trust their neibhours to follow it.

Also ... is it just?
The west and especially the US used soo much more oil to get to where we are now and now all the others who want to get in the same place are supposed to not fuel/kickstart their economy like we did?
I doubt it.

So I would focus energy directly to invest in all the alternatives. The sun still provides much much more energy
than we need, we just have to use (and store) it adequately. So lots of work to be done there, but we are getting to it.

But I doubt the efficency of conferences. There have been so many and the outcome so little than talk talk talk and some papers.
Yeah, I know what you mean. For myself, I find it helpful to remember that everyone is doing the best they can do to survive. And this can mean simply trying your best to look after yourself, if you aren't doing that well then you don't have much left over for anyone else.
> Because if something as trivial as reading news makes you incapable of forming an independent opinion

No, that's not the correct reading of this.

It's that if the news were published, the coverage and public discussion would be highly sensationalist and emotionally charged, and everyone would be made to feel like they have to have an opinion on the topic.

It's specific to the nature of this case, given that it involves a highly prominent figure in the Catholic Church, and sexual contact with children.

So it's not "something as trivial as reading news", it's something as serious as everyone's opinion being unavoidably influenced by the sensationalist media/public discussion of an inherently emotionally-charged case.

I don't know where you live, but the importance of ensuring jurors are free of bias or prejudice is a core tenet of the British legal system and all those derived from it, of which Australia's is one.
Indeed it makes almost no difference to act alone. Even if somewhere like the USA completely cut all CO2 emissions today, with liberal estimates by 2100 it would reduce the temperature by less than 0.15°C, which is about 1 standard deviation of measurable temp.
I would really like to see each of the generated faces next to the 3-4 closest neighbors in the training set. I have a feeling that their claim would be seriusly diluted by such a comparison. Likely the end result is extremely close to the inputs.
If you honestly can’t think of why anyone would do any of those things, you lead an incredibly blessed life.
Not sure about this. You can damage most devices by hitting them with a hammer or pouring coffee on them. That's about $50 cheaper to do.
And yet, how little effort is it to use saline or boiled water? Boil the kettle, leave to cool. Warm water is more comfortable anyway.
There are cables with lead sheaths that are over 100 years old and still in service.

However, a lot of the polymer based insulation HV cables installed in the 70's and 80's have failed prematurely, most notably XLPE water treeing issues, which have cost many billions of dollars.

Installation costs often dwarf cable costs, especially in high density population areas.

There are also benefits like lead having better fault current tolerance and moisture resistance and many other technical details.

There is way, way more to cabling, and especially HV cabling, than most people realise. It isn't just run two wires from your AA battery to your torch bulb.

People make entire careers out of this sort of stuff and there are no easy answers.

We also still use lead in most car batteries, gun projectiles and fishing sinkers, not sure what your point is.

(PS : And for that matter, the use of depleted uranium in armour busting shells is just because of the availability and atomic weight, I am far more outraged about this.)
Yea at this point I should quit Vice..
That railway and strange border is an old remnant of the Treaty of Versailles.
So you don't "ask" the kernel, but pump your data inside a special memory space where the kernel will perform IO with it?
https://www.eurordis.org/en
I advise everyone reading Die Kunst des stilvollen Verarmens. Wie man ohne Geld reich wird [The Art of Growing Poor Stylishly] by Alexander von Schönburg.

This is a book about why you do not really need all this stuff that commercial capitalism is trying to sell to you. It has inspired me years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander,_Count_of_Sch%C3%B6n...

https://www.rowohlt.de/fm/592/sample%20translationSchoenburg...

https://www.amazon.de/Die-Kunst-stilvollen-Verarmens-reich/d...
jemalloc can use madvise(MADV_FREE) to return pages to the OS.
this is great. In a previous life I would bid construction jobs, and it was noticeable how much dead space you would end up with in say, a high school or a prison.

Nothing like this, though.
So as much as Bret Victor is a visionary, all his ideas never scaled up to real world requirements. Additionally attempts by other groups to implement his ideas met failure, and have squandered millions of dollars by this point. I really thought he might crack the scaling issue at some point, but instead he has just applied his ideas to something that doesn't need to scale; 'dynamicland'.

Props for thinking out of the box, again, I guess. But a 5000 year art project that combines paper and lights? I guess I'm not seeing the relevance.
The problem is that if you assume your encrypted traffic is being collected and stored today, and you want it to stay secret indefinitely, and you anticipate quantum computers will break discrete-log-based crypto in 20 years, then you need to deploy a post-quantum cryptosystem today.
That's what I meant: strtok() is well-defined in what it does. The man page is really short. I don't understand people who complain it doesn't do something it's not supposed to do. Yet it's very useful in what it does.

Your mileage may vary but it's also a common issue having to filter out empty items out of something like ",foo,bar ,,,,baz,,xyzzy," where you only really want those four words. You will especially encounter this in parsing user input which might have extra whitespace, or badly formed lists of items.

Use strtok() to split C strings into tokens delimited by the given set of delimiters. If you want to catch each comma but skip over any whitespace and split at the first '=' only, then use something else.

Let's say if I'm going to need a configuration file for my program I'd most certainly start with something I can parse with strtok(). I would really need very specific needs to warrant a more complex format that would require a more sophisticated parser in which case using one would be a no-brainer.
What was your strategy in one-to-ones, and what would you have changed?
> But was your choice to learn Java somehow related to it being popular in industry?

Yes, but only partly. I had evaluated becoming one of Java, C++, or Oracle programmer (I know the last one is not the same thing, but was a career option nonetheless).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality
Nothing like a good C++ flamewar, but we already have a fine compilation of the case against the language - https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
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Should be about 50x faster, based on my rough estimates
I found the following hard and found an app useful in mitigating these:

* Initially, committing to a daily practice. After 6 months this problem disappeared one my meditation became a habit.

* Getting comfortable with the different techniques. Focusing on your breath is fairly straightforward (in practice, but equally quite difficult to start with) whereas techniques such a loving kindness and resting awareness can be a bit tougher to understand. The Headspace forums suggest everyone struggles with certain techniques, so having a guide was useful (for me).

From reading of "The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body" it seems there is always more to learn but as an app meditator I can only give you the above experiences.
Hey I’m all for language experimentation, though if it were truly a modern language designed for the world based on population, consider that it may be a tonal language with characters! Or just use English.

Esperanto was created in 1880, it’s older than world war 1, it’s older than English as the international language, and it’s older than Europe having much exposure to Asian languages
Odd. I was using uscd-pascal in the early 90s...

I even found some p-system style Pascal source in the mid 90s, so it didn't die in the mid 80s. IIRC p-system was running on everything from 8bit CPM to Unix boxen too.
I think the kernel provides results in a special memory space where you can read it without using system calls. Performing operations in the kernel on a memory area writeable by user space sounds really dangerous.
We also need to suspect that no state will spend immense amounts of cash to build an expensive machine to chase supposed particles unless they can also develop and test militaryly useful technologies such as high vacuum technologies. CERN's website explicitely states that they are not about military technology but as per some post at HN recently we know that CERN officials can lie when it suits them. I'm not saying it's good or bad that they do military research if they do (after all internet came out of DARPA) but I'm saying that particle search may just be a cover and not their main purpose.
Here, maybe? That's all I could find. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901693