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It really depends on what you mean by important? Some of my most important code saves a company millions of dollars a year... It's not at all important to me, but it does it's job and it is important to someone.

The most important code to me is a difficult question... I look at code as solutions to problem. What's most important to me, is the code that made me realize none of us are free (weird as that sounds). I can track anyone on the web from their discussions (provided enough comments, i.e. 1000+ words):

https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/104189476543920128...

Expanding on this system I built an investment framework part of which is incorporated in (https://projectpiglet.com). It has helped me make 100% yoy returns since 2013 (including >200% last year, even with the downturn):

https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/107014266501716787...

It's the basis for my startup, but perhaps more importantly, made me realize we have no freedom. I can do this with no funds, in my house, with a computer. I track a couple million people in real-time (public data only)... I wrote a blog post about my introspection:

https://austingwalters.com/the-last-free-generation/

In a sense, it's open my eyes to the dystopia we are building and it's changed my outlook dramatically.
Be aware of calorie content of different foods is essential for choosing a healthy diet. But what people usually mean by counting calories is setting a goal for how many calories you eat a day, and then eating only that much, even if it leaves you hungry. That does not work over the long term for most people.

What does work much more often is focusing on eating foods that are filling but low or moderate in calories, and eating when hungry.
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Well, this is important to me, but it isn't exactly a scientific breakthrough or as worthwhile as what others might say, but several years ago at the utility I'm currently working for, we have this stupid method of adding users to a HMI...by manually typing in their user ID, their name and some default password into the user credential file onto the HMI (this is also a crappy HMI software, so the text document isn't even hashed) and then emailing said password to the users.

Anyways, what I did was write a VBA code that

1) Allowed me to take the user ID of the people that needed to be added into said HMI, then get their first name and last name from outlook using an outlook api and automatically adds these users into the credential files.

2) Send the email to the same list of users after I update the file onto the HMI (the HMIs themselves in an air gap network).

Why is this important? Because it got some of my other coworkers to trust that I can find bullshit problems and solve them (this isn't the only bullshit problem I have to do over the years), thus gaining their trust and overtime, got a promotion.
Picking sharding specifically is weird given the many problem spaces where it won't work.

Also, whatever unnecessary scaling solution you come up with today for the problems you have today is not likely to be applicable to the problems you have years down the road; features will have changed, apps will be rewritten.

I think people underestimate how much a handful of properly specd servers can achieve. My best experience with "at-scale" was 25+ million users, heavy API usage (and the API hits weren't trivial / hard to cache), and we could handle all the load on 2 beefy servers (but had more for HA and lower latency (they were distributed)).

Quick search and I found a dual EPYC 7281 with 256GB DDR4, 2TB nvme, 2TB ssd, and 12TB HDD for $500/m in LA. Now it obviously depends on what you're doing, but for most startups to max this out, they're either extremely successful or extremely bad software engineers.
It was amazing, and it was such a startling, yet “obvious-in-hindsight” way of packaging the potential isolation imposed by the sheer scale of the universe. The sense of dread, loss, and ultimately hope was almost overwhelming. I feel lucky to be alive at a time when I can hear on a website about a book written in China, find a digital copy of the whole trilogy professionally translated, and then discuss the experience on another site full of like-minded people.
That's just silly, I can't see any evidence for that. What causes you to believe this?
> I didn't read the article yet but what are some responsibilities an average failed restaurant owner should take?

Think of a restaurant owner more like the founder of a start-up. They're literally responsible for everything. Or should be, if they have any sense. Outsourcing every single aspect of a start-up isn't a great idea, is it?

Ideally, a restaurant owner creates the concept, menu, picks the location, hires staff, trains staff, sets service standards, cooks or interacts with guests, orders product, sets prices, etc... You can't just hire people and expect success. If you're a first time owner and not in the restaurant at least 70 hours per week, you're probably going to fail.
I predict complex urban drop points in subways or steam tunnels to compensate.
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Are there/where are libraries for GNU Prolog? Am pretty new to Prolog, am having trouble finding any! (Maybe it's easy enough to convert libraries meant for other Prologs?) Thanks.
All things considered 3 seconds isn't impressive.

My site is fully loaded and functional in the browser in 1.6s according to https://www.webpagetest.org/ and its a giant web app with more than 1.5mb of JavaScript application code.

As far as actually generating documentation my documentation is dynamically built into various formats from a data object and written to file in about 3ms.
The headphone jack is the biggest thing for me that comes up in the comparison shopping. I appreciate that some people enjoy their wireless headphones but to get 100% coverage for me I would need two or three pairs to charge on rotation. Or I could have one set that lasts me in every situation basically forever

I was hoping that one plus would have kept their jack but it feels like 2018 is the last year to buy a flagship grade phone with headphone jack? I have an HTC One from a while ago that recently got patched to android 5 which is good enough for today.
Ok then don't edit your comment at all. Changing the context of the responses to make them look bad is a dk move full stop the end. Clear enough? Good o. Best.
A lot of colleges have an option to "audit" a course. My own experience was that in spectator mode, I didn't really learn anything, because courses had a "learn by doing" aspect that was pretty valuable for me. Also, courses I was taking for a grade always got priority for study time.
side note: i started to get into zsh and then serverless. zsh was balking at finding node.js/yarn stuff and running commands. I had to revert back to bash
Many ramen restaurants will have 3 people working but maybe 15-20 seats. I've also seen sit down restaurants with 1 waiter doing 2 floors by a combination of self-service and automated ordering.

SF needs to adopt more Japanese style ordering machines, density, public transit...
Yep. It’s easy to reverse engineer these arguments, because they are true in some respects. But the fact is that plenty of restaurants in the city find ways to stay in business.

Make a better product that the market will reward, and then either go high volume and lower costs or go high price lower volume for a premium product and increase your margins. Either way, you have to have a viable business model that works for the market as it exists not some fantasy market that the author things it should be. No one is saying rents in sf aren’t high, or that there aren’t real problems like the author is pointing out. There is a crisis of affordability. The question is, can your business model work in those conditions? Sounds like the answer is no. Sorry to be harsh, but the market is harsh. That’s the point.
I’m going to tweet the Infosec and Intel communitites.

There’s no valid reason to flag my post.
Probably this UI: https://www.facebook.com/live/create

I didn't do it alone of course (probably a dozen people have worked on the UI, and hundreds on the backend), but it was my main project for around 9 months. Lots of videos that people care a lot about go through there.
>>Grievance scholars isn't a real label

>I agree essentially, its a meme created to debase the humanities.

Stop trying to associate humanists who care about literature and art, and social scientists who care about truth, with political activists who have academic cover.
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>Bashing Apple never seems to go out of fashion.

I keep hearing this and people's memories are funny. It wasn't even a fashion until Steve past away. Apple were the media darling for the during iPhone 2G to 5 era. It started with iPhone 6s when they had a first YoY iPhone Unit drop, mostly because iPhone 6 in previous year were doing far too good. Then the bashing seems to get louder as every iteration after it continues.
Looking at the text of your flagged comments, they read like unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, not something relevant that would contribute to substantive discussion on the topic.
I’m sure you can have some 12 drives in the same box as your database.
I think you are imagining that it’s some small, throw-away comment, but it’s not necessarily.

MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory for example was originally opposed by the university president at the time with huge community backlash against the university becoming connected to a military research lab.

Part of the original charter of the lab was that its scope of operation was very, very strictly restricted to US air defense, and very strictly not the development of offensive capabilities. There was even a huge report commissioned by the university to detail exactly the defense needs and set boundaries around them in terms of what projects could possibly be approved for funding at the lab. The “no attack” component of this was a giant, first-order constraint of the whole multi-million dollar endeavor to even create the facility at all.

On the other hand, I do agree many other cases could be like what you suggested. Just saying not all.. and some of them would be directly, loudly predicated on “defense only” mandates where it would be a huge surprise if the research was subverted later.
And a solid living wage for a single person in SF.

It's a problem if you have children to support.
The Russians had the advantage of a far larger population and natural resource base, so they could out-produce the Germans many times over.
It's not a fatal flaw, unless they choose a location with police surveillance, but why would they?
I thought the Kiwis went all in on Silverstripe??
You haven’t eaten from a restaurant in 4 years? You haven’t gone out to dinner or for a drink with anyone in 4 years ? Hmmm
I say all the following as someone who is generally pretty pro Western Intelligence and skeptical of any tinfoil hattery, BUT:

> As you say: agencies, not agency

This seems to willfully ignore the immense degree of cooperation between Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, SSEUR, etc. It's hard to get real numbers, but I think one would be safe in making the assumption that spending of Five Eyes + friendlies absolutely dwarves any other intelligence expenditure. So call it "the NSA" or whatever, but we are referring to the giant, interconnected "Western Intelligence" supra-national agency whose capabilities were considered to be the stuff of science fiction before the Snowden leaks.

> The remaining problem is statistical correlation, where studies show it is actually not trivial to perform and takes time and repetitive behavior.

You are disingenuously shrinking the problem space here, by pretending that Tor is somehow bug free, or that all known bugs and flaws are already known. This is vanishingly unlikely. The question is not "are there exploitable bugs in Tor", but "how many zero-days do these organizations have?"

Further you hand-wave away a well-known problem by saying it's "not trivial to perform". You're talking here about an organization that literally taps underwater cables with specialized submarines, and arguably scans and extracts metadata from virtually _ALL INTERNET TRAFFIC_.

The parent said:

>> "I’m confident the government can demask users on demand as needed."

which you then attempted to reduce to the absurd by saying:

> Your argument also assumes that everyone is immediately fucked when one powerful adversary can break the anonymity

Which is a bizarre reading.

> feel free to check the largest non-exits in terms of capacity, and investigate the motives. It's all public information.

Other people's motives are "public information"? Lulz.
Do you mean 150/hr?
Those SF-based servers are getting every one of benefits.

Engineers outside of American tech centers are generally highly underpaid.
I'll grant that for sure. There are indeed plenty of politically motivated scholars (importantly, usually students! not professors!) that fail to meet challenges and intellectual/social hurdles gracefully, but much of the disdain for SJWs is predicated on a presumed moral high-ground—"we're better than them because we care about truth, and facts while they don't" (just as the so-called "SJW" types often feel their political motives are morally superior to those who are opposed to them).

But if the opposition to the so-called "SJWs" has resorted to hoaxes and other fraudulent tactics, aren't they just as bad as the people they're fighting? Haven't they regressed to a similar tactic of "deplatforming" and effectively similarly nullifying the chance of an open debate?

Both "sides" (and there really shouldn't be 'sides' in this—as in most cases the binary division line in this conflict is a gross oversimplification of the issues at stake) are guilty of poor decorum in the academic arena. Pots and kettles, really.
in most cities those places are even more heavily monitored through CCTV than a park, so I am not sure if it adds value. On one hand you have the god eye in the sky and in the other CCTV in a metro.
The chat networks do.

As well as several of the methods outlined for protecting/locating the dead drops. WiFi hotspots, bluetooth beacons, etc.
1) I received duplicate alerts as did many others. Timing of mine is suspicious; something a skilled hacker would do

2) military looking couple decided to goad me about my suicide bag that evening.

3) many others received duplicates

4) reports of duplicates, relevant at least to a technical malfunction (no conspiracy theory) didn’t make it into any official reports despite having occurred

Flagging a theory — that it was a hack or otherwise intentional — which explains why i would receive a duplicate suspiciously timed and then harassed about a suicide bag — isn’t helpful to the discussion. Makes it look like sweeping under the rug, even if that wasn’t the reason for flagging.
This is the first time I’ve heard the entire state of Illinois being labeled a “rich locale”. I’m assuming the author meant Chicago suburbs? That or they’ve never traveled through rural Illinois (95% of the state).

Illinois is also home to some of the most violent and poor metropolitan areas in the country. East St. Louis which ranks in around 18x the national homicide rate and South Side Chicago which is consistently one of the most violent places in the country.
Not mentioned here is that Tawla had a slightly rough start [1] (that they purportedly righted):

> My reactions were mixed on my first visit, but by the third, I was a major supporter. Flavors blossomed, and I could sense the kitchen becoming more confident.

I went early on, found the food to be reasonable but not great, and ultimately didn’t return. Roughly, she shot for Mourad-level prices, but without the track record or execution. I grew up with this food, and while (again) it was okay, it simply wasn’t great. For $16, that should be an amazing dish of mujadara.

I assume many people felt that they’d rather get tastier middle eastern food, rather than feel hip with the pretty decor. I’d love to see an upscale middle eastern restaurant succeed, but the food has to come first.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/diningout/article/Ta...
Informative. Never had any idea that these MIDI things allowed people to use different music to reproduce it. I mean I always thought that MIDI was something about connecting real instruments to computers or something, never really saw a use for it. Reading from the comments it seems people used to share and play these on a previous era. Interesting. The video of the game sounds interesting I guess.
Do you have evidence of the duplicate alerts? Of the couple? If you do, please share it.
You don’t even need an in house ordering machine; everyone has a smart phone so just make a mobile system or website. It’d be easier if there was an aggregator like UberEats but for dine-in.
>>Saying "hi" for fun to other civilizations isn't even something we do on our own planet with our own people.

Actually, ham radio operators do exactly this. They literally send out messages out into the ether with the hopes of someone replying.

QSL: https://rsgb.org/main/get-started-in-amateur-radio/operating...
One of the things that frustrated me about the notch was the general public so deeply offended about the use of the top and bottom of a screen? The whole universe had to adapt to this weird non rectangular design for some dumb reason but I liked when speakers pointed at me and weren't muffled by my hand.
That is the whole point of 'STEM' it is to separate technical from humanities. Otherwise you would just call engineering, or biology, or math. Someone knew exactly what they were doing when they invented the word 'STEM'.
Extreme distaste and aversion of the public internet.

Decentralization can only happen by meeting some prerequisites that we as a society are not even comfortable talking about.

I don’t want this and insist it’s not coming from defeatism. I say it because I desperately want to change it. I just have yet to be presented with a way out that makes a lick of sense.

I come from the advertising industry. The mindless assertion that private industry can be trusted in moral pursuit is breaking our society, and the modern web browser has accelerated that.

Decentralization is not a path. It’s a goal. There are two general paths:

One is through public regulation of the corporations that broke the internet in the first place and approach something resembling economic justice, making room in the public consciousness for decentralization to proliferate.

The other path, a shorter path, is to consider the internet as a public plaza. Equal access, free speech, defended by democracy instead of by capitalists. The public provides an ethical base set of internet services and regulates hiring and privacy practices in such a way that citizens can use these to pursue their livelihoods. Decentralization can proliferate from these spaces of unmitigated discussion, which are not reliant on the ruthless advertising economy.

These are each still well outside the realm of the public’s imagination, because people simply have no clue about the advertising regime that governs their lives.
Sure, maybe the market is working "just as it should," but if it is: why is that an excuse for all of the collateral damage done to waiters/cooks/hosts/cleaners throughout the whole city? It's an objective fact that the vast majority of the service staff cannot afford to live alone in or near the city they work in, much less support their families. Is that success? Is that fair? Should we really be content to let these people suffer the fear of not being able to put food on their table and a roof over their head simply because the equilibrium point of two lines on a graph says so?

Maybe the state of the restaurant economy is fine – I don't doubt that – but what about the service staff who make it up and work there daily? Or is the solution just to get a job in tech?

If we're advocating for market-based approaches, though: lower the cost of housing by building more housing, and building it fast. Both affordable and market rate. That would solve a lot of the Bay Area's problems.
You're not alone on this.
Similar story to yours. Every component of our system was developed by me, right down to the the business model as far as what users do day-by-day. I didn't speak up from the start about ownership, and once the product was profitable I was kicked out.

I'm still recovering from the burnout, now broke and unmotivated to move forward. Hundreds of users still spend their 9-5 hours looking at a user interface and performing their job that I'll never be credited for.
It is sad how much of technology got lost over and over.

The Greeks in 500BC weren't matched again until the Romans at about 50BC-50AD who weren't matched again until Florence in 1400AD.

How could Medieval art for the ruling classes be so terrible compared to mosaics and art for the middle classes in Pompeii?

It is terrifying how much human progress and time have been wasted.
For me, it's been codes that have been for internal use. One ran a room full of production machines. Another has been in use for a decade, and is the main utility for manufacturing a complex apparatus that requires a lot of adjustment and testing steps.

So each time one of these programs goes through its mainloop, a little bit of money comes into the kitty. ;-)

Possibly a coincidence, but these are also the programs that I was the most disciplined about writing so that they have been in production for years with extremely small and manageable lists of known bugs.
That's right. Do you think something is wrong with me?
Tonnes of people buy things like this right now, on their personal phones using text messages to people that they actually go and meet (or their drivers), using no encryption whatsover.
Serdar Argic’s successors run a depressing amount of the world today.
I used to live on the same block as her restaurant (Tawla) and only went once (despite eating out pretty frequently). The concept - upscale Mediterranean - just didn't resonate. There's a similar restaurant across the street serving upscale Burmese that seems to be doing really well.

That said, a friend who runs one of my favorite places in SF posted this article to Facebook and said it's really spot on. Diners expect food to be cheaper than the labor market permits.
Wanna write a competing software solution?

If they didn't have an IP contract, I'm interested :D
I've found the McD's self-order UX pretty good. What's bad about it (as someone that hasn't used any other restaurant's self-order).

It's the supermarket self-checkout UX horrible -> I'm automatically treated as a criminal because I can't checkout the next item before bagging the first. I have two hands darnit!
That is quite interesting, and thanks for referencing Pew. The closest I could find was the one below [1] that says that Republican support for universities in the US is declining, and that the reasons were (in order) cost, "professors bringing their political and social views into the classroom" and "too much concern about protecting students from views they might find offensive" (the latter being closest). However study [2] suggests the difference might be more nuanced.

Also, (though I am not in academia, my gf is and I spend a lot of time on campus): I'm not sure how much is really being "shut down" via complaints from so-called "grievance studies" faculty. The few cases that make the news seem so cause célèbre that I feel their very rarity is what makes them newsworthy. But then again I'm not a close observer.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/26/most-america...

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/20/republicans-...
Fantastic.

Duke3D and Bermuda Syndrome nostalgia time.

I used to love listening to midis back in the day, I think the soundfonts that came with my Sound blaster vibra 128 were top notch at the time.
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I would be interested in something like this as well. ;)