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Building huge compute clusters definitely provide an economies of scale, and can certainly reduce the cost of CPU, but it's a one-time fix. After a certain size, doubling the size of your datacenter doesn't have much if any reduction in cost.

Large modern data-centers have certainly added a few years to Moore's law as far as perceived performance, but they will also run up against a wall. In fact, the very emergence of large data-centers (as well as the rise in popularity of ASICs) are likely a response to the slowing down of Moore's law.
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Wrong question. You should be asking, what groups have been granted large productivity gains due to information systems and now run substantially leaner.

E.g. secretaries, call center employees, accountants, etc.
Dense seating in economy, is the sole reason. The airlines decided to ignore the Premium trend, and made economy basic as densely packed as they can, and provide limited premium economy to guarantee it had high margin and was full. So, business and premium on a 787 is great, but economy is really really tragically bad, as a long-haul experience.

787 for shorthaul, nobody cares. Ask anyone who sits in the cheap class about 787 for >10hrs, compared to the 747 economy, or the 380 economy experience.

The lower effective air cabin flight height (higher pressure, moister air) and the new lighting, and bigger windows are very good for everyone, But the shrinking seat, shrinking legroom, lack of aisle access, the shrinking toilet? very bad.

I fly premium and business. I am empathising what I am told, not what I live. I've flown 15h+ flights up front in a 787 and it was fantastic. Some of the best flights I've had over trans polar landscapes. Amazing. Sucks to be poor.
The A380 is in a particularly difficult position because of its width. It requires an upgraded (expensive) terminal. This limits the airports it can service, further marginalizing it.
For knot fans - there's also a code golf problem on Stack Exchange that only has one solution so far - Knot or Not? https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/30292
I have slightly long arms and I ended up with similar solutions. Now instead of a tray I just lower my desk to almost touch my legs. These days I don't use armrests although at IBM they gave me an ergonomic chair and I pivoted the armrests outward and lowered them so that only my elbows rested on them; this looked strange but it was comfortable.
You can even make it inside of yourself, potentially by accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome
Not really.

I pay $50 for 1GB in Canada.
Does something like Pihole work with Spotify?
Jack Bogle would warn against "fighting the last war".

This means past results have no bearing on future results.
Nice alternative to https://octopart.com
Maybe a decade ago. It's down below $50/month now from a major exchange point. Even less if you deal in larger quantities as ISPs would.
It is an interesting question: how do you plan for the unforeseen?

We as humans are very good at coming up with solutions to ambiguous/messy real world scenarios... robots less so. By definition, the current set of robots are programmed for specific situations.

As we automate more and more, I suspect we will have more and more “one off” catastrophic events. Yes, once we experience them, we can “test” against them. However it almost seems to argue for one amount of human in the loop no matter what, if only to give an occasional “that seems weird” check.

Am I missing something? Yes we can make an argument for machine learning to learn “nominal” and report off nominal... but that only works if you gave the right sensors being inputted in the first place.
Short history:

- Oct 2015: LogMeIn buys LastPass for $125mil
- Aug 2017: LastPass raises prices 100% ($12/yr -> $24/yr)
- Feb 2019: LastPass raises prices 50% ($24/yr -> $36/yr)

1Password also charges $36/yr, and no new features were announced with the price hike, so the reason appears to be "because we can"
Right swipe and left swipe remove the item from the feed. Gives me i-taught-google-news-wrongly anxiety. News hell for the romfl!
How do the economics of small towns work anyway, in relation to the larger national and international economy?
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See the Supreme Court ruling on this matter, elsewhere in this thread.
I’ve looked at Apple News, and while its sources can be customized to some extent, the app is not yet available in all regions (though it’s been around for more than a couple of years). IIRC, it’s coming to Canada shortly. It also doesn’t allow one to follow sites that Apple doesn’t know about or care about, and if you change the region setting on the device, you’re no longer allowed to follow certain channels (even those that are not region specific or are smaller/individual sites).

Apple is excruciatingly slow on this and a few other things, whereas Google News, for all its faults, is available in many countries and regions.

This is where, and why, RSS becomes a better option.
Findchips is amazing. They visited our company last year and pitched their software. I gathered a small audience and we learned about what they have to offer. We subscribed and it became immediately apparent their service is essential. In a market with so much allocation, finding stock on parts is made easy with their channel analysis. This is one of the few subscriptions I've ever really felt was fully justified.
> It's the parents.

The parents' DNA, in particular.
And thank you for the feedback!
I was going to make the same commment: I enjoyed custom pages and I also enjoyed seeing many links for one story, letting me quickly find what news services in many countries were saying about a story that interests me.

Sort of simple, but I like NPR all text site https://text.npr.org/t.php?tid=1001

For CNN fans, they also have a text only site http://lite.cnn.io/en
As I point out sidethread, the same behavior is a felony in Washington, and it seems pretty likely off the top of my head that a Washington court could exercise jurisdiction over a national tabloid committing a Washington state felony against a resident of Washington.
Writing YAML is easily the part I hate most about writing/deploying software. It's unstructured, feedback cycles tend to be slow (e.g. when deploying k8s configs into prod), and you can't possibly write something useful without documentation pulled up. It's definitely easier to implement than purpose built DSLs, but it's not a good experience.
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> I remember reading articles like this years ago.

>... Except that they were lamenting the rise of GUI operating systems and how those eliminated the easy on-ramps that command line OSes had where you could write a simple BASIC program that felt like something real.

Are you implying, that they were wrong?

"The rise of GUI operating systems" haven't killed off the existing programming paradigm. It still exist, — it is called "back-end". And I can testify, that back-end programming is order of magnitude simpler, faster and leaner than modern front-end or Android development.
It's called having a discussion. You felt like participating, why isn't the person you are replying to given the same courtesy?
>> Its lovely to be able to buy anything.

Yea, that's why people do it. This is what consumers want and they voted with their wallets. If it wasn't Bezos then it would've been someone else. I'm sure you know Walmart? It has half a trillion in revenues and has been wiping out small stores before Amazon even existed.
Up about 350+% over all over the past 5 years even with some losers in there. I’m just picking stocks for fun and never put any more money than my initial stake. I recognize that there’s luck and risk involved. I’m just saying that if you think carefully and have access to information that’s not widely distributed, you can make money.

I think one thing you have to get over is assuming that because everyone in your professional circle knows something, that everyone knows it. It can take years before disruptive change gets noticed, even while you’re working on it every day.
Indeed, it's almost as if the laws were designed to defend liberty and hinder authoritarianism. As if even when authoritarianism sounds like a good idea, it is not...
Blimps were large overall, but pretty sure the actual passenger area was still tiny.
A few successful waitresses I've known earned 2-4x minimum wage with tips and fought hard against proposed local laws that would cancel that "tips count towards minimum wage" concept on the grounds that restaurants couldn't afford it.
Can a Journalist as Important as Jill Abramson Be a Plagiarist?
News used to have a feature to customize your news sections, but it was dropped in a "UI refresh". Now all you can do is play whackamole to block the 99% of publishers that are crap, including the biggest news sites in the world, because even if they also carry quality news, the articles that make it onto Google News are the clickbait sensationalist opinion gossip trash pieces about how Twitter users responded to a Senator's comment about Trump's tweet.
> That's verbatim what happened!

I call BS. Money is fungible, so "of the $10 we gave the driver, $5 was from you and $5 was from us" doesn't mean anything outside of the stories we tell. All that happened in terms of bank transactions was that you gave Amazon $5, and Amazon gave the driver $10.

That said, there is a good way to tell whether they're getting your tip or not. Ask how much more money the specific driver you tipped received than if you hadn't tipped. That's right, $0.

(On the other hand, I bet if you tipped more than the base pay, the driver would get that much. So big enough tips probably make a difference.)

Though what really matters is what the courts say :-).
The problem in Java is checked exceptions, which can be frustrating -- either leading to try {} catch{ /* ignored */} or bubbling up the exception (probably preferable, but more work).

IDE support makes this nicer, and Java's tooling is certainly first-rate in my experience.
libdill and co implement stackful coroutines. Each coroutine has a native call stack which gets swapped out by a userspace scheduler. Rusts proposed coroutines and async functions are stackless. They are implemented as pure Compiler Transformations, and don’t allow to yield at arbitrary points.

Rust actually had stackless coroutines in the past (libgreen), but moved from it due to the overhead it brought for code that didn’t require it.
The Supreme Court has made bad rulings - we're certainly lucky Dred Scott v. Sandford doesn't still apply - and a 6-3 split indicates some significant disagreement even among the foremost legal minds in the country.

From a common-sense standpoint, I don't see how a DUI checkpoint isn't fundamentally similar to a traffic stop, regardless of the SCOTUS decision that permits them.
No, this stuff takes hard work to build. But the design choices are made by people with questionablle judgment who want to make their mark.
Have you talked to a cardiologist? If not, you should. You might end up doing a stress test or an echocardiogram, and ruling out or confirming various possibilities. You might end up getting prescriptions for medications that you can use when you're feeling that sort of pain.

Also, while I hesitate to recommend calling EMS out unnecessarily, you may refuse transport to the hospital even if you've called 911 for a possible emergency, in the U.S. Paramedics can do an EKG, and while hospitals can additionally use bloodwork to rule out tissue death, you could make the choice to refuse further medical treatment once the paramedics have seen no signs of a heart attack.
I have known plenty of smart, capable people who worked hard in the service industry and, frankly, deserve it.

I don't like the idea of people working for my benefit earning starvation wages.
I used to own a boat, a USCG documented vessel. Every year I'd get an official looking letter to renew my documentation. They used a logo that looked somewhat like the Coast Guard logo, and nowhere in the letter or website did they make it clear this was not official. For a $75 charge, they would renew your $25 documentation (above the fee, of course). When I notified the Coast Guard, they replied that there is nothing wrong with companies providing this sort of "service". I realized it for what it was, but I wonder how many people get taken by this borderline scam.
I have been using ksonnet but that is now officially dead. Working with jsonnet seemed unnecessarily painful when coming from coding typescript. This information is quite timely and welcome, I'll look further at the ts example.
This probably may be true for some ISPs, but is not true everywhere. I still see sites blocked when visiting the http version, while they go through fine when visiting the https version. That means they’re not doing SNI inspection, right?
You sound like you've made up your mind to make negative assumptions about others. You might be able to draw on statistics, even, in support of that. But the idea that 75% of the pool isn't eligible as far as you're concerned doesn't make the situation exceptional. Two overweight people could still cheer each other on. Or an overweight person and a non-overweight person could cheer each other on to different goals.

Your biases seem to be driving your views more than your supposed rationality, at least on this issue.
Nobody is perfect, but when the person's "main thing" is objectionable then it seems pretty normal to be critical of that person! It's the difference between "My teacher committed adultry" and "this loan shark's entire reason to exist is to scam people out of their money"

You see Blue Origin as "moving towards a spacefaring civilization", I see it as "rich person plays with money gotten by aggressively underpaying everyone involved in his enterprise"

It's like Bill Gates giving to charity. Sure, it's better for him to give than not to. But we can also just take the money and improve society no matter what the whims of a single person. Why do we give billionaires the choice to hoard away their money at all? What purpose does it serve?

For every Gates there's a hundred Elisions, who decide that the money should go towards buying Hawaii and mega yachts instead of curing malaria.
Capitalism isn't perfect but I'll take this over the other options that I've seen.

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/our-pledge-to...

That's a subjective opinion. Amazon started out as a book store and I love books, so I naturally stuck with them from the late 90's til now. It's an incredible story to go from next to dead to where they are today. Only bigger 'comeback' is probably Apple, another company you probably hate. Right?

Facebook is the next AOL or Yahoo, just a matter of time now. People are loyal until they aren't, then they'll leave in droves. The reverse 'early adopter' stage is already happening...
As a happy pulumi user, I have to say I am very impressed with the experience. An order of magnitude improvement on maintainability over our old terraform code base. Highly recommended.
As you can see, your first $6 / hour of tips do nothing but reduce your base pay. Whatever you get tipped above that amount is yours to keep.

You had it right the first time, but the first $6/hour of tips do not reduce your base pay, and are not considered garnishments since you are guaranteed a minimum no matter what. (And "garnish" does have a legal meaning in this context so that's definitely the wrong word to use here.)

It should be contextualized another way: the first $6/hour of tips offset the make-good wages the restaurant would have to pay if you hadn't earned those tips.
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He seems to be driving his point home in how, when including the email from Dylan Howard, the mobile (cell) number in the text is redacted, but the signature image (containing said number) is left unmodified.
I always found it strange how datasheets are distributed over random websites and ftp servers usually covered in watermarks and could go offline at any time. Is there any effort at archiving and distributing these pdfs?
> You are not entitled to use public space, especially public transportation infrastructure built by the government, in a way you see fit.

You are, though. The police can stop you if they've got reasonable suspicion you're committing a crime. They can search and arrest you if they've got probable cause. Outside of that, though, we are entitled to use public spaces.

Westboro Baptist gets to protest outside of funerals. Nazis get to have parades. Street preachers get to shout at passers-by.
Look at what is on Google News now. Almost all opinion pieces from Fox News and Waahington Post and Washington Examiner and The Hill.
Defence launches crackdown on Australian crypto research
I don't buy this: It's easy to verify a news site as legitimate by checking the content history - posting complex articles regularly for multiple years is a massive barrier against gaming the system, and requiring a certain update frequency on every category biases towards spam/misinformation sites, not against them.
Well, I have already agreed FP jobs aren't plenty :-) Business executives mostly prefer to stick to beaten paths, and it's understandable. I just don't see a tragedy here. OCaml was born in 1996, if I'm not mistaken, so it's a decade older than Clojure. Despite never reaching the industry mainstream, it never stopped being developed, it is used in real projects, so I guess we can agree it's very much alive. Clojure in my very subjective opinion is doing a bit better than that due to ability to augment software written in Java. So while I don't believe it will conquer the world anytime soon, I also believe it's not going to disappear anytime soon.
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Wouldn't the same thing occur if it wasn't there at all?
The new android mobile news app is missing features I cared about in ways that are hostile to the user:

1. The ability to have any search term be a topic. I used to be able to have my own searches appear as a topic heading and auto populated, now the best I can do is have them be under saved searches which is itself two screens down on the favorites menu.
2. The ability to open links in a browser of my choice when clicked (I now have to click the menu for the story, select share, scroll over to my preferred browser (firefox focus) and click that.
3. The use of the Android share menu that you can customize... instead they force you to use their product specific share menu which I can't edit. This wouldn't be a big issue if it wasn't for 2

If someone made a better google news client for android, I'd pay for it but I haven't found anything like that.
I understand why the kitchen staff deserves tips, they're the ones doing all the real work. I can't understand why the server who spends at most 2-3 minutes an hour taking the order and carrying it from the kitchen to the table deserves 20% of the bill.

(In my area servers and kitchen staff now make the same standard minimum wage before tips, so it's especially obscene to demand 20% on top of the $12-$15/hour the server is already making for almost no work.)
You don't have a problem receiving your news from a comedian versus a trained journalist?
> The one big political issue that would put a stop to this is that this would cause all zones to be world readable. Many people treat zones as something private and to them exposing the zone file is the same as exposing their network. My view is that if it has a publically routable IP then it is already exposed, but not everyone shares my view.

I really don’t get this view either. There may be more cases supporting zone files being world readable than not (I can’t think of any cases for the latter except for censorship and control).
> what we were doing was actually quite unsophisticated, yet we dressed it up like the most complicated thing ever to clients.

Doesn't this describe nearly all of the financial industry? Do you happen to know of any exceptions?
The syntactic mistake of XSLT was writing it in XML, XPath was a redeeming feature. Imagine if XPath was also written in XML...

jq occupies the same role as XSLT, but for JSON. It can be used for templating but it's not quite as declarative as XSLT (you must pipe things through).
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This is interesting, actually, I had noticed the same thing. I've been downvoting particular topics from their 'briefing' section and it seems to cause... well, nothing to happen. I asked, and they said it learns over time, but no matter how much you downvote something, it seems to do it anyway. Sigh.
Does Amazon do more good for society or bad? Serious question. I wonder this a lot. Can they be blamed for wanting to create something better than Wal-Mart? Can they be blamed for the fact that shareholders expect growth and customers expect lower prices all the time? Is this not a bigger problem than just blaming the billionaires for all of society's woes? Aren't all of us complicit for buying and supporting Big Tech in our day-to-day lives?

Fair points. I don't have the answers. I'm curious to find out like the rest of us though.

What are people expecting? The billionaires give up their money, redistribute it into the 'common good' and all our problems will go away? Yeah, I'm sorry but I think this situation is more complicated than that.
Of course you're a local. It's ridiculous to judge a person's involvement with their community by how much money they can afford to waste at specialist shops.

Wow. what a strawman. Its not specialist shops, its the garage, the baker, the newsagent, the food store. Its not wasting money, its deciding to economise personally, so widespread that everyone does, and suddenly half the town is shuttered.

I was not talking about hipster coffee moments, I was talking about what I see in small towns here in Australia: people stop using the local established main-street businesses, and the entire town heart dies, with people driving to least cost warehouse category killers with cheap petrol and free nescafe on the edge of town.

People who don't have the luxury to be loose with money include the former garage owner. He's on meth for a reason dude.
The harm DUI stops try to reduce are far more imminent than regular traffic stops. Drunk driving is far more dangerous than a broken tail light. That difference matters.
Plenty of blogs are in Google News too, so I'd love to hear the logic there. But, also, that's fine if it's not allowed! Google just needs to make the rules far less opaque. Why are some op-ed blogs allowed in, and not others? How does the rejection process work? Why does nobody at the company want to put their name to this process?
Yes, but this isn't an accurate description of gawker's case either. This wasn't a case of accidentally falling on the wrong side of the legal line and only realizing when it's too late. They repeatedly ignored direct court orders, eg to take down the video.
What do you mean "the first time"? The amount of money you get is the same. The two scenarios are worded differently without being different.

Except for the joy of financial engineering, there is no difference between "you make $8 / hour, and the first $6 / hour of your tips go to me instead of you" and "you make $8 / hour, and whatever tips you get are yours to keep, but the first $6 / hour of your tips lower your base wage by an equal amount".

But you must conceive of it as either garnishing tips or eating into the base pay, because if you work one hour and get tipped $20, you only earn $22. If your tips weren't being garnished and also didn't reduce your base pay, you'd earn $28.
Oh please. Don't bring race to a knife fight on town economics.