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That's not at all obvious. I think first you'd have to prove that all those extra costs "logically follow"...
I use a different approach to learning new languages: I try to find out why the language really exists. Often, there is a very good reason that justifies all the work of creating a new language.

Often, this has more to do with the environment, runtime, etc., and the features of the language merely exist to serve that purpose. If that were not true, someone probably would have used an existing language and changed the runtime.

For rust, it seems to exist to bring modern, safe language features to a minimal C-like runtime existence by doing all of the work in the compiler. C has continued to thrive all of this time because it has a minimal runtime and a stable ABI defined on nearly every platform. Rust has a minimal runtime and supports the C ABI very well, so it has a great chance to have a big impact in areas where C/C++ might otherwise be used less safely and less productively. So my focus when learning rust is how to use the C FFI while still writing idiomatic rust.

It's harder to learn that way, but I find it more satisfying, especially in cases where I don't have an immediate project that's going to use the language. The fact is, no matter how many programming puzzles I solve in rust, it's not going to make it any more likely that I will rely on it for anything but a toy or hobby project. But learning the rust FFI does make it more likely I will rely on it in the future. Puzzles can be solved in any language; weird corner cases in the FFI cannot.
Nothing, but some of the details are not available to volunteers. Even if you know where all the lines are, it may not be clear how to attack those lines. There are redundancies and branch switches and feeder cross connections. If you knew where all the switches and cross connections were, though, then you could really take advantage of any weaknesses in coverage.
It's possible, that you've got unlucky with a first interviewer, who had a bad day. And than bad mood reverberated. It happens. It's a noisy process. Don't judge them to harshly. (I don't work for said company.)
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Agreed. It’s pesticides you don’t want to touch.
I've never understood this argument; sqlite specifies a file format, but that's hardly the only requirement.

By this argument, any database with a public file spec is a flat-file database.
Because sometimes you don't know how to build a better model? You should be aware of even the best model's pitfalls.
It's not just drivers who don't let someone from the empty lane 'cut in' - there are those that stop completely and let
in 3 or 4 'poor sods who were stuck on the wrong lane'. This breaks the system just as badly! The trick is to merge 1-1 as fluently as possible or you've broken everything.
As long as you write your own wrappers to the SDKs changing cloud providers is definitely doable. We started full AWS stack with Lambda but have now been slowly refactoring our way into more cloud-provider agnostic direction. It's definitely not an existential threat level lock-in. Serverless technology is only starting out still and I'm pretty sure 5 years from now Lambda won't be the go-to platform anyway. Plus honestly we've learned so much from the first big project on Lambda that writing the next one with all of that in mind will be pretty great (and agnostic).
I can see the comment in the post about the UK; I am used to this practice in a lot of EU countries I go; in the UK however, they don’t do this and the amount of roadrage there is quite staggering. I do not drive there but when I am in taxis/Ubers, the amount of honking, cutting in, swearing, (racial) insults and flipping the bird I have not seen in other countries. Ofcourse mostly in/around large cities but I have seen it in tiny villages too; enough anyway for me (YMMV) to think it is not an anomaly.

Not sure where all that anger comes from but I am happy that a hardly ever saw it in other countries where I drive or take a taxi.
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> It improves the lives of all those who are agnostic to their mode of transportation but want to get to their destination faster.

But they're not getting to their destination faster. They were getting there in fifteen minutes, now it takes three hours because they can no longer afford to drive but the bus doesn't actually go to their destination.

> We'd make separate bus roads, bicycle roads, and car roads, and then the road user would select their mode and their road and be done with it.

You don't need separate roads, you need mass transit that actually goes where people need to go.

Or better yet, to put more people where mass transit already is.

> Prioritizing a car solution makes it worse for busses and bicyclists to use the same road.

A bus can use the same uncongested road as a car with no problems, and traffic congestion is the same problem for both. There are a hundred different ways to address congestion other than "punish drivers" -- add new mass transit routes, build more housing on existing routes, lower or eliminate mass transit fares, switch from property tax to land value tax to encourage density, etc.
Yes, that would be very useful to have. Some runtime, or some central application, so that the user just has to download some HTML, CSS and Javascript -- not a complete copy of Electron each time. And if this application could be used to browse the internet when the user enters a URL, that would be useful too! Game changer!
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But doesn't cruise-control ususally disengage when you hit the breaks? This is only half the idea of single-pedal driving on the break pedal.
Demanding proof before continuing a discussion is a way to avoid discussions, not elevate people's understanding of a topic. Many people here do not have the same knowledge of the topic and may simply agree with the first theory that makes logical sense to them if no other data is presented.

Being that this is an internet forum, where people come to discuss things, there is no harm in preemptively presenting evidence to show why Forrester is wrong. There is nothing at stake here.

If he is wrong, it should be fairly trivial to find evidence showing why. I personally await this evidence because I find Forrester's model to be sound.
Trust > features & polish.
The point of the article is that your intuition is incorrect. By inhibiting zipper merging you are forcing congestion backward, and leaving carrying capacity of the road unutilized during congestion when it is most at a premium.

Pushing congestion backwards is exactly the cause of a lit of traffic jams. I've observed this myself every single GD day on the 210W freeway between Hill exit and the 134 exchange. People get over way early, causing huge congestion to the merge entrances. If they'd stay left and zipper, everyone in the jam would save about 5-10 minutes. This is thousands and thousands of dollars a day of cost in completely avoidable congestion in just one two mile stretch of highway ( albeit it a particularly egregious one)
I know that they exist, but if you look at your examples, you have to manually cast maps into a list which is a bit strange coming from Ruby/JS/Scala.

Once you have something sufficiently complex (such as using map, filter, and reduce all at the same time), there becomes so much line noise that it starts working against you.

With JS/Ruby/Scala, you chain functional methods as opposed to Python where you can keep wrapping functions.

Something like

let arr = [0,1,2,'test'];

arr
.filter(x => typeof(x) == 'number')
.map(x => x*2)
.reduce((x, y) => x * y)

becomes a little more cryptic with Python:

from functools import reduce

arr = [0,1,2,'test']

# with lambdas
reduce(lambda x,y: x + y, map(lambda x: x * 2, filter(lambda x: type(x) == int, arr)))

# list comprehension equivalent
sum([x * 2 for x in arr if type(x) == int])

While Python is very beginner friendly, it has a really strange (in my opinion) approach to functional concepts. However, it is has other features that make it really nice to work with (like decorators, data classes, sets, robust ML libraries, really nice built ins).
What do you think happens if the car in front of you is coasting, and you're trying to match its speed?
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Android is not exactly known for its buttery smooth interface...

https://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-fix-galaxy-s9-lag-and-...

https://superpowered.com/android-audio-latency-problem-just-...

Not to mention all of the security vulnerabilities that don’t get patched.

The advantage of updates is that it encourages app developers to take advantage of the latest features. For instance, the author of Overcast, my favorite podcast app could release a new version that required iOS 12 a month after it came out without having to lose any customers - anyone who could run iOS 11 could run iOS 12.

As far as updates, just the integration of shortcuts and Workflow has done wonders in iOS 12.
> We were vendor locked when we paid for Unix or Windows servers, then we got Linux and BSD.

NT was released in -93, FreeBSD 2.0 (free of AT&T code) was released in -94. GNU/Linux also saw professional server use in mid/late 90's. People still lock themselves in though.
This isnt cool. These are not accurate. To properly judge any colorization you have to compare against real color photos. Take a color photo, convert it to b+w. Then feed it to the colorization bot. Compare the original to the colorized. It never comes out very accurate. So you know that neither are the historical photos.

Converting b+w to color is like taking a photo and making it into a 3d model. No matter how hard you try, you are inventing data. It isnt a revitalized photo, it is a new piece, an interpretation of the original. Call it computer art, not history.
Or in Paris: give way to cars that are more dented than yours.
Probably OK for some uses, like when you publish as a web app anyway, but for others it burdens you with keeping up with the aggressive release cycle of browsers.
I don't really see cloud-provider competition lessening or hardware getting more expensive and less efficient or the VMs getting worse at micro-slicing in the next 5 years. So why would I be worried about rising costs?
Source:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/27/amazon_q1_2018_earn...
On the contrary. Most of that money is the capital that makes up Amazon and its subsidiaries, which has consistently grown faster (created more wealth/benefit) than almost any other entity in our society.

That's your neoliberal take. Personally, I'm a little dubious that wealth created is 1:1 with social benefit created. But to say that his bank account benefits nobody would be a misrepresentation.
You guys should do a test: randomly have a team of 10 or so people re-interview, without disclosing to anyone that they already work there. I would bet a good amount of money that at least half of them would fail the interview loop or get thrown out in committees, easily 2/3rds at Staff level and above where committee is less accommodating. Record it. Publicize it internally. This will be the best "humility" training imaginable.
what the fuck moral crusades guise as medical
BART now discourages "stand right, walk left" because it leads to "'uneven wear' on the escalator's gears, which can lead to more breakdowns and need for repair."

https://sfist.com/2017/01/16/bart_says_actually_standing_on_...
My friends and coworkers often speak a lot of praises about the survival/industrial game Factorio. In the game, pollution from the player’s generators attract hostile creatures that one has to manage. The player can use renewable energy an option, but it’s not as easily productive or scalable as other sources of power.

I haven’t played the game, but I always thought of the pollution/conflict dynamic and renewables being more safe (but harder to get right) as a statement on environmental policy.
I've never actually seen this work in practice, so maybe i'm missing something: Isn't the overall flow of traffic defined by the speed of traffic within the narrow section? E.g. if the speed limit and actual speed of traffic in the one- lane construction zone is 45mph, how people merge prior to that point should be irrelevant. The same number of cars are going to get through at the same rate.
Adam Curtis talked about Forester and the study of “cybernetic systems” (to use the contemporary term) in general, in episode 2 of “All Watched Over By the Machines Of Loving Grace” [0].

The core argument (which is alluded to in the Logic Magazine article) is that in the 1960s when computers were beginning to be integrated into companies and governments, there was a strong desire to have the computer solve all the world’s problems. Of course, the problems were not well understood (and still often aren’t), while at the same time the computers were woefully underdeveloped. Therefore simplifications were made so that the computer could calculate something that looked somewhat reasonable. Of course the models were symplistic, and the data encoding symplistic and biased as well. But hey, the computer “solved” the problem, and as we all know, “Computers don’t make mistakes.” Eventually (and Forrester encouraged) the simplistic world was confused for an actual complete description of the real one. Most damningly, industrial leaders and politicians, started trying to make people and society fit the simplistic model, instead of improving the models to better fit society. Why? Well, there was a computer model made by Very Smart Men(tm), and it gave cover for what was already decided, so it must be right.

It’s as if the proverbial dairy farmer that received the report that begins, “Suppose you have a spherical cow...”, started selective breeding and cutting his cows to optimize for sphericality, as opposed to milk production, because the report says “spherical cows.”

It’s a similar pattern we’re seeing play out with ML, where the assumption is that the classifier is correct regardless of its actual performance.

[0] https://archive.org/details/AllWatchedOverByMachinesOfLoving...
VPC cold start times are the bane of my existence. I do hope they deliver the super-fast cold starts they promised this year
No. At the scale of Netflix 7 years ago:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/netfl...
The researches seriously acted like it was a surprise that discrimination between light blue and dark blue is faster than between two shades of light blue or two shades of dark blue.
I was hoping Trump would kill the chicken tax in his gusto to eliminate tariffs. There aren't any small trucks in the US because manufacturers found out they (a) don't have to offer them and (b) make more money from larger cars.

Mahindra was going to bring some interesting cheap mini-trucks but the chicken tax among other things scuttled it.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/automobiles/7-trucks-that-might-b...
Dynamo is really the hardest lock-in in the ecosystem for me. Serverless Aurora is still easy to kill with too much concurrency/bad connection management compared to Dynamo
Actually you'd expect a collision with 50% probability after only a much smaller fraction of the 2^64 space. This would be the birthday paradox, and unfortunately I can't find a calculator or software at the moment that can handle 2^64 power factorial to calculate it properly.
I loved the book. Totally agree with you. It’s not about being like him; it about finding your own limits and hopefully in the process do more that you could have ever imagined.
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> Standing is denser than walking, so the throughput is greater

Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency is well studied mathematically. Here's the authoritative paper: https://www.scribd.com/doc/228831637/Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Effi...
Counter terrorism is not the real reason there is a war here. Several countries in Europe fight terrorism, and they don't need to go to war.

The american are still here because they benefit from it.
How'd you mute a site permanently?
Yes great idea! The different applications (or URLs) could be opened simultaneously and displayed as ‘tabs’ for the user to manage in the central application.
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I do think language has a dramatic effect on thought, with the caveat that most human languages are pretty much similar in what they are capable of expressing, because all human languages serve basically the same purposes.

So when you learn a new concept via language, it can have a dramatic effect on your life. But whether you learn it in English or Russian isn't going to make a huge difference, because they aren't that different in terms of what they can express easily.

For example, if you take examples of so-called "untranslateable" words, usually you can translate them pretty easily. German has the word "Fernweh" which means longing for a distant place in the same way that nostalgia means longing for home. No direct English equivalent, yet I was able to express it in English in a few words with no trouble. We have yet to find a word which is completely untranslateable, or a word in one language which could only be translated into another language by means of hundreds and hundreds of words.

So language can have a big effect without the differences between human languages being so important.

Similar logic to the Invariance Theorem for Kolmogorov complexity[0], which essentially states that the programming language you use to calculate the complexity (description length) of an object doesn't matter much, because Turing-complete languages can all simulate each other. Human languages are capable of simulating each other very well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Invarian...
If I remember right, drinking coffee causes your body to lose water faster - so drinking coffee and water seem kind of contradictory.
Doubt you can block it like that without blocking netflix. The source domain is probably be the same.

I assume the Pi Hole still uses DNS to block.
My dreams have morphed over time as my circumstances have evolved. These days my dream is to have more serenity and to strive for contentment. I hope that a bit that mindset inspires my immediate family and friends.

In our culture the trap of chasing fame, success and ever more money is a never ending vicious circle. There always will be those who have more disposable income than us. That is just the way it is. So as hard as it was for me to accept that earning more only works to a point, I can finally say that I am able to keep my ego in check and live within my means. I haven't stopped in my efforts to deliver ever greater value, it simply means that I am content with the process of learning and gaining the expertise that in turn is better remunerated.
Is this a hackathon for spoiled children?
Not really. Geosynchronous orbital slots are filling up very quickly. They tend to space them about 2 degrees apart due to interference.
Government development can be bad, but it's nothing compared with most other large verticals (bio, insurance, finance, air lines...). None of the absolute statements here are remotely close to universally applicable (check out forge, 18f, national labs, the recent NSA ghidra announcement, etc).

> Setting up a git repository

Git != GitHub

> Every single patch has to be pushed through a public release process

Rebase is your friend.
That’s just the CDN. Netflix is still by far AWS’s biggest customer and its compute is still on AWS. I don’t think most companies are going to be setting up colos at ISPs around the world.
So use a diary or a digital diary with a reminder (aka most calendar apps). The point is to keep in touch at regular intervals, and talking or meeting is more meaningful than a message or a post.
Modern Android has a fake back button on the bottom. Thankfully, it's been a long time since I've seen one of 'those' apps or webpages that insists on pretending my phone is an iPhone and puts the back button way on top.

Since I'm ranting anyway. I wish chrome on Android would put the address bar down at the bottom too, even Microsoft figured that one out. Also, since we know Android dropped buttons to save money for manufacturers, why can't we have some luxury phones with real buttons?
We have been connecting to mongo db from without lambda for the past year and sure you don't get single digit latency but r/w data happens under 30ms in most cases, we even use paramastore to pull all secrets and it's still without that time frame.
In the entire history of New York, not a single start up began in NYC and grew to be successful and market dominant there.

Outside of SV, "startup" is a pejorative term for a business that doesn't know how to make money. So you're right, New York doesn't have any startups that grew to be successful. They do, however, have thousands of success businesses, including some extremely large businesses that were once as market dominant as the tech companies are today.
At the moment I am playing 'Cities: skylines' which it one of the best city cims at the moment imho.

But the real question is: does it simulate what we know or what works best?

Ofcourse I think it simulates what we know which might not be the best for people.

When you read the works of Christopher Alexander you will get the feeling that we need to redesign our areas. And this is not what a sim simulates..
I agree. I think the real conclusions ought to be (non-exhaustive):

Keep the model's assumptions in mind when making decisions based on it.

Always remember that it's a model, and consequently always wrong (as measured against reality).

All models have to be fine-tuned over time, especially dynamic models (where the system being modeled is itself subject to change in structure, consequently invalidating the model).

=====

If you emphasize that the model is just a model, and its assumptions (both for excluded factors and included ones), then you can make reasonable decisions guided by the model. If you fail to do that, you'll start to believe the reductionist model and make flawed decisions.
I agree - I sure didn't stick with studying medicine - but there they are.