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A living wage, or even minimum wage, isn't being "compensated handsomely," it's being compensated at least enough to survive.

If having someone make paper hats 40 hours a week is a bad business model, that's not the employee's concern. Why should the person running the paper hat making business expect to make a living at it, but not the person making the hats?
The issue seems to be with how Windows handles file system operations. They allow filters to operate over each request. These filters are like hardware drivers in that they are created and maintained by third parties. So, MS has no real ability to change how things work because they don't have absolute control in the same way that Linux does over the operations (Linux device drivers are part of the kernel)
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Yup I'm totally sure my soldering sucks. In fact I started out my career as a hardware engineer, and there's a few reasons why I'm a software engineer now :-)

(Edit: To be fair the picture shows the first few joints where I was basically getting into the swing of things. Things improved after that.)
Maybe? https://threader.app/
> The NT file system API is designed around handles, not paths. Almost any operation requires opening the file first, which can be expensive. Even things that on the Win32 level seem to be a single call (e.g. DeleteFile) actually open and close the file under the hood. One of our biggest performance optimizations for DrvFs which we did several releases ago was the introduction of a new API that allows us to query file information without having to open it first.

Ouch that sounds painful... Is this why deleting gigs worth of files takes a bit? I could of sworn it's not a huge difference on Linux, at least when using the GUI, maybe when doing straight rm it's quicker.
I would rate the reliability of a battery press release slightly higher than a signed-off budget and timeline for nuclear construction.

And when it's press from a battery maker, rather than a battery researcher's university press department, the battery press release is far far more reliable. I'd say their cost overruns will be at most 20%-30%, compared to nuclear's usual 200%-300%.
No, Dr Rosemary is not quoted in the article as coming up with the number 95%. That number is mentioned before she is quoted or her name is used
It's probably illegal to subsidize directly (?), but by using a negative subsidy through "tax breaks" or other incentives it's circumvented I assume.
And if they cant get that then they will never be a baseline energy source as you cant count on them, so keep dreaming.
If I may ask, where did you find a front-end job you liked?
I think this lies firmly in a grey area of "healthy competition". Is it healthy competition if one state lets a company dump chemicals and another doesn't? Or if one state lets a company burn coal? No, it's just one state being greedy because they can socialize costs. I'm not saying this is the same thing here but let's not pretend like this "incentives" market is comparable to the labor market.
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Maybe. But still leave a pauper who understands how princes think.
I don’t feel that _I’m_ a hapless fool - I know how much effort I’ve put into learning what I know. I do feel (and have much evidence to support) that all of the non “technical” people that surround me think I’m a hapless fool every time they ask me a question and I don’t know the answer immediately off the top of my head, no matter how many times I did know the answer. I’m surrounded by “product managers” and “agile coaches” who imply that I’d better get everything done in minutes or they’ll “replace me with somebody who does”.
It explicitly is not a geocoder (which is address->location), it just parses and normalizes addresses.

It's meant to deal with something like "3 appt of 2nd floor", parsing and tagging "3 appt" as unit=apt. 3 and "of 2nd floor" as level=2, even if that string is mixed with further info like street and city and so on.
> Today I learned that lenders cannot deny loans

Lenders can deny loans and they can also reflect the risk in the interest rate. However, lenders only provide their input after the borrower evaluates the impact of a loan on their finances and decides based on his evaluation that he clearly and unambiguiusly is willing and capable of servicing and repaying such a loan in full. Only after that decision is expressly made by the borrower can lenders be involved, and their involvement is restricted to rubberstamp the deal decided by the borrower.
Ah ok

She mentione that it is much less harmful

Still not quantified with a source, maybe she knows one
There are a lot of "AAA" publishers that are not at the Ubisoft or EA level. Bandai Namco, for example, uses Unreal. So does Square-Enix.
This project is just about exchanging JSON data. CORBA "objects" are not pure data, but addressable RPC interfaces. Much more complex, and ultimately a bad fit for the modern web.
The cost of nuclear power is tribute paid to the global evil empire that opposes anything that threatens its ability to rule the world, the British Empire! A country that has nuclear power is a country that is energy independent and has a basis for advanced industry and medicine.

To lower the cost of nuclear power 10-fold in the short term, exit NATO and exit Five Eyes, and expose the British imperial anti-science frauds, beginning with Isaac Newton and Bertrand Russell. Without the irrational fear of radioactive materials and nuclear accidents that these frauds create, by depriving the population of understanding of the method of scientific investigation that has proven fruitful throughout human history, nuclear power plants would be the cheapest plants you could build per gigawatt of actual capacity, if fuel and maintenance costs for the first 10 years are considered. In time, with experience, it would be the cheapest to build, period.

An honest evaluation of the risk would open the door to the use of molten salt breeder reactors, molten lead breeder reactors, and the very high temperature gas-cooled pebble bed reactors, all of which are far safer than the best light water reactor, which already has an excellent safety record (but irrational fears restrict us to already-approved designs, designs approved back in the days when anti-nuclear paranoia was less psychotic, and make the process of approving new designs, however meritorious, prohibitively expensive). The breeder reactors offer the advantage of using all isotopes of uranium, plutonium, transuranics and thorium as fuel, and the pebble bed provides the highest temperature industrial process heat possible by any method not requiring the production of electricity first, with the possible exception of using thermite. Fast neutron breeder reactors using the U238-Pu cycle can generate enough extra Pu to power the pebble bed.
Nearly every older person I've worked with has an increased value due to their long experience. If there's a degradation of other skills, it's more than made up for. The older folks I've seen where this does not apply don't appear to have ever been all that great a worker.
It's not just Amazon. Tax incentives are very common and lots of companies get them. It's very, very uncommon for a tax break to apply only to one specific company.
isoskeles> Why quote the entire comment you’re replying to?

Not the person of whom you're asking, but I sometimes quote substantial parts of text to which I'm replying for three basic reasons.

The first is that in a large thread if can sometimes be difficult to find the original. In that case it's useful to have the comment there, not least because if you want to see the original you have the exact text to search for.

The second is that in some other forums it's the usual behaviour, and when it's a habit, and regarded as a "Good Thing"(tm) in other forums, that behaviour can carry over. I find it a natural thing to do, and sometimes have to think twice to stop myself from doing it.

And thirdly, in the past I've seen replies that genuinely don't seem to make sense, only to discover subsequently that the original text was edited. I fully appreciate that on HN the unethical editing of text to make replies look stupid is not "A Thing"(tm) but it does make the habit a useful one.
Are you going to get a powerwall? If not be aware that in some (all?) states if you don't have your own battery source, your power will be designed so it is interrupted during an outage.
>Notice that by adjusting how the fire propagates up, wind can also be simulated. I will leave that as an exercise for the readers who had the courage to read up to here.

This is what I cared to see.

The rest was not a mystery and seems like a pretty simple math/logic problem.

Although, now that I type this out, I am thinking the wind would be simple too...

Can anyone explain why the interest? I imagine there are college kids who do this type of logic.
This is a good article, but I think there is a lot more to be written on this subject.

I would really like to see a proper "long-read" exploration of what is a very real and under-acknowledged problem.
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PV is also interesting because the levelized cost of power from it has become very good, especially in areas of high insolation, and because its costs continue to rapidly decline. Low cost gives all sorts of headroom for such things as overbuilding and low efficiency storage.
I’m mostly shocked that Ultima Underworld isn’t getting more attention. Not as fast paced, but if memory serves me they shipped before Doom, and did some really in depth things for the time considering the hardware and prior titles.
Sure. This is assuming you are starting a new project, for existing projects the cost-benefit analysis is different. When you're starting a new project in PHP, there's almost no reason to start from anything else than Laravel or Symfony. These are powerful, well-written, performative frameworks that give you a lot of the plumbing (routing, caching, database, ...) of your app for free, and that allow you to focus on just implementing what you need to implement.

Additionally, you will find that other people (third parties) have written code that integrates with these frameworks, and this allows you to re-use their code instead of writing your own.

Finally, in terms of maintenance, it will be easier to hand over the application to new developers, because they might be familiar with either Laravel or Symfony.
http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/thehackernews/

If you don't believe that, than take my word. I'm an infosec reporter and had countless articles end up on that site. News sites often report on the same topics all the time, but there's a difference between running a story on the same topic and copying the text and replacing some verbs and nouns with a synonym, and then switching sentence order to pass it as your own. Every reporter has his own way of structuring a story. It's pretty obvious for us when someone steals an article, based on how you present information points and which information points from a —let's say 50-page academic paper— you decide to present. Many times, information I obtained during private email or phone conversations would also end up on their site. When I confronted the "CEO" (aka site owner) he said he found that information using Google (obvious lie) and replied with insults. They kinda stopped copying my articles after I called them out a few more times on Twitter, but I don't believe for a second they're now doing actual news reporting.

I have other reporter friends who'd tell you similar stories and interactions with their staff. At one point someone tried to organize a campaign where all reporters would call out The Hacker News and Security Affairs (another site engaging in plagiarism) on Twitter, and urge security researchers to stop sharing links to their sites, but that didn't materialize because some of the bigger names in infosec journalism didn't wanna participate. In hindsight, it was kinda silly (childish would be a better word), but this only shows how many news sites TheHackerNews has angered in the past few years. They're absolutely despised by most infosec news reporters and I know at least two people who are now opening a beer in celebration.

Recently, the site started declining on its own. Reporting has been awful, with tons of inaccuracies that now I don't even bother checking it in RSS feeds: https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/902600568262107136
They're not as shy as some people argue it seems:

They've gone into people's garden and killed the dog there.

Also I recently saw recordings of one or two wolves attacking a moose with calf so the part about only attacking in packs seems to be proven wrong.

Kids are often peoples biggest investment. I understand if they play it safe.

(I also argue that we should keep the wolves. I just disagree with people who claim wolves aren't dangerous to people.)
A photon doesn't care what race or gender you are. Neither does a computer. Mathematics developed in India or China or Africa works just as well in Europe, and vice versa.

You're absolutely right: our thoughts and ideas are biased and impure. That's why it's so important to test them with science and reason.
At least windows doesn't freeze your whole desktop under heavy IO.

Edit: I'm getting downvoted by people that never used Linux probably.
How silly of me to think that it was the lender's responsibility to access the possibilities to get the money back.

Love these capitalism excuses.

Give money away, no questions asked, blame the borrower.
There's a spec, but it's flimsy: https://github.com/DistributedObjectProtocol/protocol/blob/m...

It doesn't look like this project deals with consensus or linearizability at all. The "distributed" part seems to be about just (1) listening to changes from some master source and (2) issuing fine-grained mutation requests to that master (presumably, you then listen for your update to come through your subscription channel). The notation for mutations seems very basic, too.

As far as I can tell, this isn't really about distributed objects. It's a simple async client/server protocol with change subscription.
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Thanks for sharing, that was an interesting read. I know the IO performance has always been the main gripe with WSL.

It makes me think more broadly about some of the trade offs with the discussions that happen on Github Issues.

It’s great that insights like this get pulled out in the discussions, and this could serve as excellent documentation. However, the discoverability will be difficult and it always takes some weeding through the low quality comments to piece the insights from contributors together.

I wonder how Github (and Microsoft) could better handle this. They could allow for flagging in-depth comments like this into a pinned section and they could be updated collaboratively in the future (Wiki?).

It also feels like a reputation system could help to motivate healthier discussions and could bury low quality “me too” comments and gripes. It’s not so bad in the linked example but I often encounter many rude comments aimed against volunteer OSS developers.
Musk and Tesla have 'outmaneuvered' the SEC, management expert Jeff Sonnenfeld
Put down your phone if you want to innovate
Firearms-Related Accident Deaths Plunge 41% from 1999
Oh, they deal with it. But always on terms favorible to them. I sold off inventory to my old CoLo and they froze all my funds for 6 months until lawyers got called, and somehow their fraud investigation magically vanished. They are no better than mafia.
I don’t get most of the comments here, the content on the discs is supposed to be freely available from Microsoft. So what is this talk about windows copies?
They can, when teamed with dispatchable sources, destroy the economic case for expensive baseload sources.

This is why you're not seeing new nuclear plants much in the west. The decision makers know they face huge risk from future cost declines of renewables which, combined with gas, would leave those reactors unable to amortize their construction, financing, and fixed operating costs.

There are other solutions for long term storage of renewable energy to make it dispatchable. For example, making hydrogen, then burn it in turbines. The efficiency of this is lousy, but the capital cost can be quite low.
Land sale stokes speculation that Apple still considering RTP campus
archival node doesn't need to download anything extra. It just reconstructs everything just from the blocks.
Your belief about the state of knowledge of borrowers is wrong. I teach mathematics at a community college and it is clear that a knowledge of percents and the impact of compounding is lacking in a large portion of the population. In my state a state senator once claimed that since funding to the college system was increased 5% after a 5% decrease this meant that the college system’s funding had been fully restored. Do you understand why this indicates that the state senator doens’t understand percents? Do you see the error? Most people don’t.

There are lots of cases where borrowers do not understand all the terms of the loan. Have you read and understood every single loan document you’ve signed? I doubt it. Your belief that only the borrower actively seeks loans is can easily be dispelled by watching TV and seeing ads for loans.

It’s hard to understand how you can write

Borrowing money is the sole responsibility of the borrower...

And the write

The lender’s only role in the deal is to double-check the borrower’s assumptions to ensure the borrower is actually capable of keeping his word and pay back the money he is borrowing.
If the choice is between cheaper housing with a longer commute, or expensive housing with shorter commute, it's completely unclear that the latter is more beneficial to humanity than the former, even if we only consider the number of deaths caused by each scenario. At the very least you haven't presented any evidence that this is so.
Fukushima didn’t have any serious human or ecological costs, compared to accepted industry norms for fossil fuels. It looked bad, but did not cause serious damage. Coal has done far worse to Japan and it is accepted.
The name clash is less problematic than the alleged history of plagiarism.
I do not either. The alternatives are:

Do not make us aware

Copy paste, and someone will likely say [citation needed]

Paraphrase

Etc...

Where relevancy is high, links make sense.
That should be full costs, probably paid to a subcontracting company.
You may be referring to p-values, and the arbitrary 0.05 threshold but in that case, the connection is risky at best and wrong in general (common misinterpretation of p-value as probability of alternative being false)
Knowing what you don't know is better than not knowing what you don't know. It shows a wide breadth of knowledge and I suspect that with the desire and time, you could become an expert in any of these things.
Is that you, CORBA? Is this me?
> Then, what generaly happened was a programmer would think for a really long time, and then write just a little bit of code, and in practical terms, programming involved assembling many very small pieces

Oh how I bloody want to do jut this today. I want my program to be split into as small parts as possible, every part (i.e. every function) being defined in a separate file. But Python encourages the direct opposite - writing long files of code to avoid introducing too many "modules" and this is a debilitating headache.

> At some point along the way (he may have referred to the 1990’s specifically), the systems that were being built and the libraries and components that one had available to build systems were so large, that it was impossible for any one programmer to be aware of all of the individual pieces, never mind understand them.

Thanks to my ADHD it is very hard to me to fit anything that doesn't fit in half a screen into my mind. The longer a module growth the lower my productivity falls.
It comes up at least 95% of the time when discussing statistical analysis.
brudgers> Maybe? https://threader.app/

But isn't that only for Twitter? Maybe I've misunderstood you - can you elaborate?
Why you should be using model-based systems engineering in your design flow
not sure about 5, as mentioned by others, and i would split nr 9 into two parts. i agree with not needing a masters degree, but teachers certainly need serious training in educating and handling children.
That’s debatable, and I suppose relative. I’m still bitter about homeopathy and breast implants being given to patients on the NHS, which I am paying for through taxes.
Good at working independently and managing their own time.

Excellent communication skills, especially via text-based media.

Proactive about communicating status, progress, and blockers; and about reaching out when they need clarification on goals and requirements.

Takes ownership of a project instead of acting as a contractor who requires a detailed spec and will implement it without thinking it through.

Easy to get hold of and diligent about indicating when they won’t be available.

Able to collaborate effectively without physical proximity.

For overseas workers there are also concerns about language barriers and cultural barriers.

Edited to add: these qualities are also important in people who work face to face in an office. But people who are in-office, if they’re missing a couple of these qualities, can be still be highly effective with a bit more supervision. Remotely, any one of them can spiral into a major problem much more quickly.
I believe that started off as an accessibility feature back in the AIM days.
Anyone have a suggestion for American history? I am looking for something that focuses on how America grew into the leading world power in such a short amount of time comparatively.
that is just wishful thinking of people on the internet, the market is the prediction engine.
Ssd is needed (or enough ram) due to random access of state.
See my reddit post from a year ago, full sync took 25 hours:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7n4v64/correcting...

There's a lot of misinformation, some originating due to genuine problems (trying to use a hdd or geth with barely working garbage collector) and misunderstandings, some from intentional lies (especially two r/bitcoin moderators - thieflar and stopanddecrypt).
The problem is that governments still haven't figured out that 5% of a thousand is more than 35% of a hundred.

What keeps happening is that you have an area which has a successful economy because it has a climate open to entrepreneurship.

Then it becomes trendy to hate businesses and not worry about regulatory burdens or high tax rates because businesses are currently doing well.

Then the new regulatory burdens and taxes harm the local economy, especially small businesses, and the local politicians become desperate to show a turnaround. But you get more jobs faster to get them all from bribing a huge corporation to swoop in than to actually clean up your regulatory environment and wait a decade for small businesses to recover, so that's what they do.

Then the huge corporations are still making huge profits, so you still get calls for more regulations and more taxes, even though that's exactly what's killing your small businesses and making you dependent on huge corporations to begin with.

You have to break the cycle in the beginning. Once you're already on the back foot, the huge corporations have the leverage because your choices are to give them whatever they want (and one of the things they want is for you to be more dependent on them), or to suffer short-term government budget cuts as you lower taxes to save your small businesses but then have to wait for the lag time between when you reduce the taxes and when the local businesses come back. Assuming you're not already in the death spiral of economic decline leading to crumbling infrastructure leading to economic decline.
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