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petaflops really aren't about just summing up the flops of many independent nodes (at least within a supercomputer context, which this one is).

It's about synchronized petaflops. DM and Google's internal networks aren't like the MPI-Infiniband networks- as published, they are significantly lower bandwidth and higher latency.

A lot has changed in the past few years as people are starting to figure out what are the appropriate models for large-scale synchronized flops-computing. In the TF world, that includes things like Collective AllReduce (now in TF< originally implemented in projects like Horovod).

When I worked in the supercomputer world, I couldn't get my code to do synchronized scaling beyond 128 nodes, so I couldn't really get time to run my codes there (so I left for Google, and ran exacycle, which provided more unsynchronized CPU flops than anybody for a while in the mid 2010's).
Yeah but for most people, $$$ is a very important goal and, when sufficiently large, overrides most others. Especially other goals in the professional space.
> As of early-January 2019, WeWork had a valuation of roughly US$47 billion

Well holy shit, I did not expect that.
The RTL-SDR community at Reddit is a good place to look for resources if you are looking to get into this: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR
I'm fairly new to the React world, but the content of that article was really interesting!
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Entirely depends where you are. You could live a decent lifestyle (coffee daily, eat out 3-4 times/week, have your own studio apartment) in many European cities on $1,000 a month, total. At that point your yearly costs are maybe $15,000, given $3,000 for emergencies or random expenses.
I think that says more about your friend than it does the book. When I read the book back in high school I felt it was less, how can I manipulate people, and more, how can I become someone people enjoy being around.

Is your friend on the spectrum by any chance?
My networking knowledge ends slightly before BGP gets involved, but that article was fascinating.

I love that sort of thing, looking at one domain and saying "what if we treated it like this domain?" and then actually doing it!

Really awesome stuff.
A response I'm imagining you'll get from college administrators today: "To truly teach history, we must first begin with those who were not part of it and understand why they were not. Why weren't there any important early black computer scientists? Why were women mostly absent in elucidating the laws of motion? These questions should form the basis of further historical study of physics, surgery, etc."
"People have told me for an app of this caliber"

Also, that's not really a good yardstick to use. Bigger issue for you is... you. Even without looking for outsized "profits", you have living costs. Assuming you work in the US (or similar western-ish country), $30/hr to provide the level of professionalism you'd want to provide is not enough. For the project: adequate time/money for meetings, travel, equipment, tools, testing, documentation. For your operation - time/money for dealing with your taxes/finances, investigating any server stuff you need to do, any other miscellaneous stuff...

On 'hourly' - I typically, use between $100 and $150. I go less sometimes if certain criteria are met (history of client paying on time, largish duration of project, interesting space to learn new skills and meet new people, etc). I do not bill for 5 minute meetings or 3 minute emails. I usually don't charge for travel time (driving 30 min for a meeting). If I need a $50 service or tool for the project, I'll buy it, if it helps me get the project done. I do not bother adding on misc line items like that, as in the majority of cases, these tools/services just make me better at my craft, and possibly can be used in other projects later too.

Higher rate (project or hourly, whatever) give you the opportunity to budget to get better - again, tools, or videos, or conferences to meet specific people, etc.

Assuming a western country, look to budget for at least $60/hr, regardless of your experience level. The rate should help you take your own process and your own image of yourself more seriously. Missing a deadline may be easier for some people who say "well, they're only paying $25/hr". Treat everything as if it's high priority and urgent, and charge accordingly. Then deliver on that.
I will be asking her what they are teaching her over the week.

I am struggling to find any coherent solid information about what the EAT-Lancet diet actually is, or why it is bad. It looks like a load of politically motivated mumbo jumbo! Would you be able to summarise?
Thanks for the hints, I'll definitely check that out next time I visit.
There’s a famous quote about the nature of war that applies to EVE as well: “Vast stretches of tedium punctuated by moments of extreme terror.” --https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/07/23/hundreds-of-pilo...
You can google for two, no?

Seems like a good deal of my job as a software engineer.
And it's annoying almost everywhere.
One of the most authoritarian regimes history has ever seen has "no rule of law" it seems.
I don’t think there is any danger of hordes of people starting to live in vans. Try not to let such concerns stress you out too much.
Startup founders in India are feeling the pinch of this hit back. It's routine to hear employees just leaving without notice, or not even joining after they have signed up on an offer.
So there is this natural bias that employees are not reliable. What they don't understand is that they have done little or nothing to assuage the hidden 'fuck you' attitude that is emanating from employees. At least, you know you can be ghosted, what is the best you can do to stop that from happening. I haven't heard any discussion on that front, most of the discussions are 'oh yeah, this candidate turned out to be a scumbag, he just ghosted us, perhaps we should make a list of such candidates and circulate amongst ourselves'
To experiment in radio on certain frequencies (like the ones needed to talk to satellites, requires a license from your nation's government, as radio frequencies are a shared resource. Certain levels of licensing is for 'amateurs' and other licenses are for more industrial things, like TV and what is commonly referred to as FM or AM radio.

Communication with satellites in the US requires the highest level of amateur licensing called the Extra.

http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio
Releasing ReactPWA v2.2.3 and PawJSv2.3.0
As a Chartered Accountant who qualified at a Big Four firm in London, this is the first I've heard of any of these things.

Though it is possible to make more money as an accountant, there are far fewer directors and partners than there are senior devs.
You can use the "[private] tournament winner" selection process up to a certain point, but at some point far below Warren Buffett's current level, you come into the public eye.

If it were akin to flipping coins, we'd almost surely have seen 16+ proto-Buffetts emerge into public consciousness only to see 15 of them blow up. Sure, there have been hedge fund failures and you could argue that Madoff was a public eye super-investor who turned out to fail, but I don't think there are enough examples of "this guy is a genius based on his track record" turning into "that guy we thought was a genius turned out to just be a lucky idiot" to suggest that all of Buffett's returns are luck.
> Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago.

They seem to be forgetting it, lately.
I think you might have a too cynical view of these discoveries. Even a dinosaur fossil finding is a big deal depending on the context of the discovery. These are family chambers, not yet-another-noble-burial-thingy in Luxor. If Egypt (of which I've also seen and visited a lot) can claim such marketing exposure, good for them! I hope this kind of news bring them closer to being a more tourist-friendly place so they can make much more money across the whole country not just around the sphinx and main pyramids WHILE preserving history in a adequate manner giving their limitations.

Another language tip: halas is more productive when you want people to stop bothering you after you have tried a no thanks response, it is a bit aggressive version of "enough" & learning how to read eastern arabic numbers is pretty easy and useful to avoid scams.
Seriously. The community forum does not even have search.
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman. You realise that nothing makes sense anymore.
I'm almost 60. I trained as a s/w engineer / coder in the 1980s and then transitioned in the 90s into a customer-facing consultancy role with good domain knowledge. Here are some specific observations on cognitive / corporate skills and how mine have varied, YMMV

I definitely have more work 'wisdom' and can often spot problems that are not obvious to younger colleagues and even offer workable solutions, albeit not usually in the low level technologies.

I have massively improved self-confidence that sometimes gets me through situations where my own knowledge / competencies are lacking.

I can still learn, e.g. picking up C# and Visual Studio as a hobbyist to implement a Lisp interpreter [0] (I started six weeks ago and am on step 8 of 9 now, working on it in the evenings and rainy weekends). However, I think that it takes me longer to learn than it would have done once. I am definitely slower at navigating user interfaces, especially jumping immediately to a specific but not often used menu item. Younger me would have gone straight there.

Improved search tools / repositories of online information make up for poorer memory of language syntax and APIs. I don't now have access to the code I first wrote to check it's complexity.

Looking at documents I wrote several years ago, I don't think my vocabulary and writing skills have declined significantly.

I have to continually remind myself not to be too dogmatic, especially where my knowledge is potentially out of date, or where I realise that my improved self confidence is masking the fact that I am actually wrong.

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md
I lived in a van in the Bay Area for 8 months, then a totaled RV for 10. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise -- it's awesome. If you find decent parking spots (it's not hard, just use google maps) you'll find tons of areas that are quieter than those $2500/month apartments in San Jose with planes whizzing by. I got pretty good at sleeping with shooting range earmuffs. For a long time my routine was wake up whenever I wanted, bike to Starbucks or a library, read for a few hours, bike to the gym, work out, and read for the rest of the day. When I was in Pacifica I would get hours of sun, which you can't really do with a 9-5.

The problem is that it's incredibly socially isolating. Very few of my friends treated me any differently, but I still got progressively more lonely. More and more of my "reading" became surfing Youtube and chatting on IRC or 4chan with people I'd never be able to meet in person. I spent a lot of time being mad at police. I'd meet girls on Tinder with the thought in the back of my head that they wouldn't find my sketchy RV as funny as I do. I'd prefer it to paying $2k/month for a studio with no heat and stressing out about money all the time, but I wouldn't be able to keep that up, either.

It's not like you need a toilet to survive. We went without them for most of human history. You need a toilet to fit in.
I've been a ham radio operator in the US for a couple years now, and its a really interesting hobby that will put you on contact with very smart inviting people. Its a great way to learn more about electricity too.

http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio
Well, sure. But long distances are usually covered by Shinkansen, and shorter distances are often covered by one of the regional JRs. All of these are supported by JRS (https://www.jrs.co.jp/english/) which run IT and the railway information services. You only need to buy one ticket for a JR trip even though several companies may be operating the trains you use.

For more local service, there are also private railways and various metro systems. They sometimes have agreements to allow transfers between them, like the two Tokyo subways. So if you are going to use two different subway systems in Tokyo, you buy a transfer ticket and have to pass through a gate in the middle of your trip to transfer to the other system.
> I love me a good long road trip, but I'd never move into one as a substitute for a home.

My road trip has been going on 2429 days. Couldn't do it in a van, but a 25 foot Airstream is surprisingly comfortable.

http://live.watsonswander.com/
Buffet’s approach to life is interesting for the same reason an Olympic gymnast is interesting. He has specialized to an extreme and is taking advantage of the rewards of that specialization and natural talent in a unique way.

It’s easy for me to feel shame that I don’t read 8 hours per day, as Warren and Charlie do. Buffett is a phenomenal investor but by all accounts, rather odd. He eats like crap, doesn’t exercise, had a profoundly weird relationship with his wife, and seems addicted to his work at the expense of everything else.

My point is this: his practice of reading income statements and business reports 8 hours per day for 60 years doesn’t make him the kind of person I wish to emulate.

Don’t get me wrong, I respect his levelheadedness toward money, lack of polish wrt PR, and generous philanthropic efforts. There’s a lot of good. But it’s easy to idolize the guy.
Being respectful and maintaining relationships matters.

Unfortunately it looks like you are disproving your own point here.
security@company.com will usually get you a person that knows how to handle these reports.
It is not just US, also in Europe it seems like the hitchhiking is dead. 15 years ago when I was criss crossing Europe many times hitchhiking, sleeping in hostels but usually just in the ditch next to the road or field nearby. I used to meet tons of hitchhikers almost anywhere you go.

Today I am not hitchhiking anymore, but I am happy to give a ride to anybody flagging finger. For past three years that happens only once and even those two people were doing it just because of some hitchhiking competition.
I work at Cloudflare. We don't sell data of any form, and we don't keep anything which could map queries back to the individual who made them.

When we talk about aggregate data it's things like total number of queries made to 1.1.1.1, number made by AS, and geographic region. Its purpose is only to show us if people are using 1.1.1.1 and how that changes over time.
Typical Buzzfeed though--it is basically a story designed to continue legitimizing the pot biz. Instead of portraying the girl as a dumb stoner, which is really what she was, she is held up as some kind of brilliant hero. I've never met a single pothead who was actually brilliant except in their own minds and amongst their circle of (also high) friends.
Why is that? What’s dumber than UDP (from the network perspective)? From the network perspective it’s a lot dumber than TCP.
At some point a few years back they started to redirect some of the traffic to some dodgy ad sites, that's when I stopped using them.
He’s talking about value investing.

The markets are supposed to be efficient and you can’t beat them.
Finite and Infinite Games

https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquir...
does the YouVersion app continue all 10 lists for the full length of the plan? Each list has a different number of chapters and I haven't done the math, but it looks like they aren't going to evenly line back up after 1 or two cycles. Looks like an interesting plan to me, but based on my YouVersion experience it seems like they are probably non-ideal. Obviously you like it, so I'm curious how it works.
The new way to "google" something might become the next gig market.

"The next gig economy will be on-demand knowledge" (2019)

https://qz.com/work/1527544/the-next-gig-economy-will-be-on-...
There is a balance here.

Yes, I'm incredibly more productive in Python because I know the stdlib and most frameworks and tools API by heart.

But it took me 10 years of practice, and my daily rate is way more than it used to be. I'll also refuse a lot of gigs outright.

You want juniors to be able to work too, and you can't expect them to know the entire world. Yet they can be useful, worth the money, and a great addition to your team.

Besides, even I don't know all the answers. I can't. The field of IT moves too quickly. I have to select what to learn, and what I set aside as "something I can google". There is no other choice, because we are limited in time and space.

But beyond that, you may want to sacrifice efficiency in some (or many) areas to preserve your energy, divide it in several activities, or just keep it to do something else that is not learning related.
Server not found. Even Google cache is not working for me.
Nothing there in that review is inconsistent with the anti-Stalinist but revolutionary socialist views of the POUM militia he fought with in Spain.

Now, arguably "Emmanuel Goldstein" in 1984 is meant to be a kind of Trotsky figure (and his book within 1984), and the fact that Goldstein and his book are ultimately shown to be fake and created by the Party may be a kind of critique or renunciation of Trotskyism and similar currents. Hard to say.
The flip side is that Swift has copied some bad parts of C++ as well: ridiculous compile times, value-type performance traps, ever-increasing complexity, mediocre IDE support, no ABI (I know, coming soon).

Either way, to me Swift feels much closer to C++ than to Objective-C in spirit. I don't think it's a coincidence that there are at least two C++ committee veterans among its contributors :)
I work at Cloudflare. APNIC absolutely does not get individual DNS query logs. Their primary interest is in studying the other junk traffic which ends up hitting 1.1.1.1.

For the record, we don't build any sort of profile of DNS queryiers, map them back to any existing profile we have, or even keep the data you would need to have to do that.
> the Extra.

I'm now imagining the on-line radio amateur community poking fun at themselves when the recent slang interpretation of "extra" came along.
I strongly believe that compunding knowledge is also helping to create good software.

And I think software companies should give a team the opportunity to invest time to know more about the subject.

For example when you write WMS software you should go to a warehouse and see what is going on, talk to the people who work there and understand why things are the way they are.

Because there is a huge difference between knowing that 1+1=2 and knowing why 1+1=2.
It is a vegan-inspired/ anti-meat diet (similar to Canada's New Food Guide), backed by the processed food industry, but with plenty of issues which are neatly summarized by Georgia Ede here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...
I'm not sure if it's not rendered correctly in my browser, but I think the kerning could be improved.
I'm not conflating it - I'm fully aware that it isn't angular spin. It's still called 'spin' simply because it's hard to find a term that explains what it really is. But as far as I know it's still considered separate states, in the same way that two locations are considered separate. In the quantum world it's still possible to be in both states or places at once - and that's where the quantum weirdness is. Nobody would care or talk about it if being in two spin states at the same time wasn't more strange than wearing a shoe and a tie at the same time.
Indeed, they're supposed to be.
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The one that keeps coming up is how 'code' is rendered. Old reddit uses four leading spaces for a code block and IIRC new reddit uses triple-backtick. It's probably slightly different, not-quite-100% compatible markdown dialects.

Admittedly it's a problem more common on the more technical subreddits.
Yes, they would be. Amateur developer in this context can be interchangeable with open source developer for instance, programming as a hobby with others or just for yourself. It's just a title. You can be both a professional sw dev and an unpaid opensource dev at the same time. Likewise, you can be both an amateur HAM operator and a professional RF engineer at the same time, exclusive of each other.
I've been a nomad in the US for 6+ years. What has kept me on the road has been the friends I've met and community we've created.
I'm pretty much fully remote these days. But looking back to the long-term job in the computer industry I first had after school, I would not have liked or probably particularly flourished in being stuck in my apartment all day. (To be sure, I'd probably have moved into the city and found different patterns but it's still a bit hard for me to imagine.)

I'd also note that I've known lots of people who basically had jobs that didn't require a lot of in-person interactions but still preferred to come into the office. Of course, that can be largely solved by paying for rental office space for them.
Hungry for change: urban foragers take the law into their own hands (2018)
Well, true, but you can’t blame them. History tourism is one of their biggest generators of foreign currency, so in essence an “export”. Instead of selling balmy beaches, it’s steeping yourself in the history of one of humanities oldest civilizations.
WTF is JAMstack?
Or setup your own very lightweight filtering and caching DNS at home using Dnsmasq and https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/
(You are referring to the original title.)

Actually, no. Even if one does accept the premise that one should use these third-party non-contracted services, challenged elsewhere in this very discussion, there's no reason that one need have these things memorized. Written in a handy pocketbook, perhaps. But not necessarily memorized.
I interpret that after reaching peak absurdity, the reputation of the whole discipline was tarnished and its practice abandoned, even if (applied reasonably) it was really an useful discipline. I think there are many current examples of this.
It's mentioned that a cup holder melted. Sounds like an unsecured bottom button on a tube mechanical mod
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HackerNews with Turnitin/Copyscape would be far worse than what it is now like.
Really, there are just a few companies which can implement a "copyright" filter.

For text:

*Copyscape
*Turnitin

For the rest:

*Google+Amazon+Apple (ContentID)
*Microsoft+Facebook+Netflix ("Microsoft Rights", anyone?)
I've seen both things happen.

A well respected co-worker, just stopped coming in after a vacation, and played World of Warcraft instead. He had savings, so he just played. (He did it for years)

Another co-worker, got a great offer at an exciting new place, semi-large startup. Quit his job, trained a replacement, first day at the new job "Sorry.. it seems like we cant afford you, as our strategy has changed."
This model of recurring micro-payments wasn't always the norm from the outset. Patreon wasn't the first to do micro-payments nor subscriptions, but they became the de facto platform for audiences to support content creators. Banks and other financial institutions have been doing payments, micro-paymenst, and subscriptions for years via bill pay and autopay services.

It would make sense that someone like PayPal would add a monthly subscription option. They already have much of the infrastructure in place. You might not need Patreon for your subscribers to support you, but you probably wouldn't have subscribers under this model if Patreon hadn't established this as a norm.
>My neighbor is literally a construction worker.

Ditto. Which is very handy from time to time. :-)