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It is an unfortunate conflict that homes cannot be both stay affordable and be a good investment. Houses accumulated wealth in the 20:th century because they increased in value quickly, but that means they are no longer affordable to many people. We should allow building more homes so people can buy them. But then they won't go up as much in value as when the supply is restricted.
This article casually throws around definitions of 'memory safety' that are massively different.

Rust's 'memory safety' guarantee is different from Go's 'memory safety'. Rust includes protection from things like modifying memory from 2 different spots at the same time, among other things.

AFAIK that's perfectly fine to do in Go, you can pass around pointers between threads as much as you like. This sort of behaviour wouldn't be allowed in safe Rust.

edit: I just really don't understand the criticism against Rust here for having 'unsafe' given much of what is covered in those unsafe blocks is allowed in many other languages, including a language mentioned in the article as being 'safe'
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RSUs are different right? Since you can sell them right away. Although they might lose value during your vesting schedule.

Writing this, I now realize that a company doesn't necessarily have to be public to give you RSUs.
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That's true. But if you want to colonize Mars then it makes a hell of a lot of sense to practice first in some place like the Nevada desert.
Maybe your friends are better off than mine, but I've had a hell of a time recommending Eero for performance, security and stability when a single base station is $280, and my friends can get a model off Amazon that "just works" for $30.
The radius of cockpit windows doesn't look that different than the radius on the Comet's square windows.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Boeing_7...

http://www.c-and-e-museum.org/marville/photos/planes/comet-6...
Valuation has little to do with income; and in fact it means they have to live up to that valuation by getting more revenue and answer to more outside investors. I’m not sure how you thought this was a counterpoint?
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The B-52 program is slated to have a 95 year operational time span. Partly as an experiment in maintaining old aircraft.
GCE and Azure is missing or did I miss that?

And a info on the provider AS or a link to the PeeringDB/looking glass would be nice to have. Other than that a super helpful site, thanks.
Fine but please don’t hang new methods off the Object prototype (or other built ins). We used to do that and it made a terrible mess.
It's an interesting question whether fuzzing or replacing is the better way to go. Newer Rust libraries can have other (unknown) problems, that's why I was interested in which is the statistically better solution for improving the code base.

But from what you wrote, it sounds more like what's simpler to implement for the team gets done.
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If we want to meet the 2 degrees goal by any means then given current trends we'll have to start removing net amounts of CO2 from the athmosphere. Of course, it makes most sense to do that once we are already carbon neutral, but once we are there, we should have the technology available for deployment and therefore investing in research right now is a good idea.
Why not create another account and publish the app again?

They may have a decompiler somethign thingy and block the new account too, as associated with another account that terminated LOL :)
I know how it's done.

Find a problem, solve it, charge for the solution.

All you have to do is fill in the blanks :)

It's not really tongue-in-cheek either, there are LOADS of books about this, but in the end it's all about finding a problem, providing a solution, and charging for it somehow (Time, licenses, platforms, whatever)

The best way to get there is to talk to people, don't ask them to think of products, just ask them how they go about their jobs and find out what the pain points are.

Where are they spending time on things that could be automated, or made simpler, or just eliminated by changing methodologies.
Hopefully this is a more palatable solution for skeptics than a big carbon tax or even doing nothing. There is an obvious connection between cars and airplanes spewing gunk into the air, you don't need to make a case with global warming models - just be responsible for your own mess and nothing more. Everyone understands pollution and being responsible for their direct actions.
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No, not really.

Social democracy is about solidarity. It does not conflict with a free market which needs regulation to stay free, it does not encourage protectionism, rather it seeks solidarity with others.

I should know I live in one :)
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> Maybe they should highlight people like my daughter who intentionally chose a local state school rather than an expensive out-of-state or private school and selected a pragmatic STEM degree.

Did your daughter pay for her schooling all by herself? And which letter in the acronym? I'd argue that the S and M might not be guaranteed to get you a job either. It's really just "TE" jobs at best.
You use a sarcasm tag, but your statement is essentially true. Ultimately it is most important to a business that it actually, you know, be able to do stuff, and if those 'cyber security' academics had their way then nobody would ever do anything because there'd be far too much friction involved. They forget that security is not an ends in itself, but exists in the broader context of doing things.
To make stuff like this work in all scenarios, you have to have to implement your comparator function in your class, but also all members in that class need to have that comparator defined as well. Then, when you call your comparator in the object you want to compare, the comparator will also call the comparators in the members, and these in their own members recursively until you get all the way to the end.

In addition, the containers need to have these same comparators, so all your data structures will need to be wrapped or redefined (arrays, hashmaps, etc).

It's much harder than it appears on the surface. You may get cases of infinite recursion in cases of mutual references. For a quick and dirty comparison, you can convert both objects to JSON and compare those strings. In fact the JSON string, if made to be deterministic, can exactly fulfill this function of this "hash" which is used to compare two objects.
Agreed. Let’s not forget another externality - the environment. Whether it’s climate change due to massive pollution or the destruction of the insect base or plastic in everything, there needs to be a more holistic context.
> I suspect it happens a lot less than in North America, because there is a mandatory payment of 600 Euro per passenger if you get to the departure gate but are denied boarding to the plane

Is there anything that keeps the fine increasing alongside inflation?
What is differentiable programming?
The past decade has seen an explosion in software being put and used everywhere. With that comes an explosion of bugs that are exploited. Literally hundreds of millions of people have had all their shit stolen from numerous services that have a laissez-faire approach to application security. It's like getting into an automobile accident; you're basically guaranteed to get into at least one in your lifetime. If you've used the Internet, private data of yours is virtually guaranteed to be leaked by at least one service you use.

I'm not a fan at all of excessive government overreach, but the private tech sector is utterly incompetent of policing itself because a) they don't give a shit, and b) no one is holding them accountable enough (you could argue shareholder should, but there's rarely an impact to bottom lines when security breaches happen). The only thing that will make them care is if an impartial 3rd party that can force them to care.
But if you're pulling the CO2 from the air anyway, why not just use the extracted carbon as fuel rather than pull it out of the ground?
Can this get a 2018 label?
Enterprise gear for home use if you don't have time/skill doesn't really work unless you also have money to pay an enterprise professional to configure your home network.
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"This machine is a ? Do not POWER it down!!"

What does it say there?
This article is rife with questionable and incorrect statements and is missing any convincing data.
I agree. A policy is in place just to make sure that the company does not get into trouble. To encourage employees do do open source work does not really require a policy.
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Webview seems interesting. Go/C++ to do native stuff and use the systems web view to render the interface. Seems like the best of both worlds.
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You're presenting that as an exclusive choice when the correct answer is both. Microsoft absolutely was trying to subvert the web — they correctly perceived Netscape as a huge threat to Windows’ platform dominance — and they made numerous decisions to accomplish that, and then had roughly a decade where they were able to single-handedly stymie progress. Had the iPhone not been a hit, it probably would have worked, too — I supported web standards and Mozilla through that period but it really took executives having Mobile Safari in their pockets to get support for prioritizing compatibility with anything other than IE.
Actually Rust _is_ a silver bullet, that's why it's so exciting.

System level programming memory safety was a dream for a long time.

Go is not capable of this at all, so it's out of question for replacing low level libraries.
According to Wikipedia:

> The accident report's use of the word "window" when referring to the Automatic Direction Finding (ADF) aerial cutout panel[121] has led to a common belief that the Comet 1's accidents were the result of its having square passenger windows. In fact, Comet 1's cabin windows were very similar in shape, with similar corner radii, to those of the Boeing 377 and Douglas DC-7[122], both of which were pressurised aircraft. The windows in Northwest Airlines' B-377 were in fact larger and notably more rectangular[123] than those of the Comet 1. While stresses in the area of the passenger windows were significantly higher than de Havilland had calculated, nowhere in the accident report is it claimed that the fatigue failure of the Comet fuselage occurred was a result of the shape of the passenger windows, but instead from excessively high localised stress at bolt and rivet holes, for which insufficient reinforcing (and therefore structural load distribution) existed.
No matter how badly we fuck up Earth with pollution/climate change/nuclear war/etc. it is still going to be a far more habitable place than Mars.
I was responsible for a software bug that forced the entire United States Coast Guard to revert to using paper records to track all of their Aviation Logistics for an entire month. The bug was in an aircraft maintenance dashboard that had over a dozen filters on it. It passed a thorough round of QAing, but once in production it was found that a specific selection of filters would create an infinite loop in the report that would crash the system. With hundreds of mechanics using the dashboard, someone was triggering that selection of filters every two to three days.

It was a very rough month for me. When an emergency patch failed to solve the issue, management decided to take the whole system down (it was too big a release and had been in production too long to revert). User satisfaction surveys bottomed-out. There was discussion in upper-management about firing me, but my immediate supervisor defended me and pointed out that this required failure at many levels. When we got the system back online, they had to hire dozens of contractors to manually enter all the paper records into the system.

I continued to code for the Coast Guard for five more years, got a big promotion to Senior Developer at one point, and left the organization with much respect. Every once in a awhile someone would present a graph of user satisfaction surveys over the years and there would be that awful month where the graph bottomed out, but I could eventually smile about what that junior developer did.
"in a world that’s as fabulously rich as ours, obscene"

???

Wealth is mostly a function of intelligent social organization.

Why are we so much more vastly wealthy than we were 100 years go? Just because we pump more gas? No - we're smarter.

Wealth is what a country generates, not what it has.

It's not like a 'pile of gold' that we have that magically turns into iPhones.

Most places that have extreme poverty are rife with systematic problems. Total lack of social organization on most levels, corruption, missing or 'never existed' institutions (education, justice, civic etc.). Lack of literacy, education. An absent, stupid or corrupt elite. Etc. etc.

Swedes don't have any real natural resources, not particularly fertile land. They are 'rich' because they are organized.

It's a very hard thing to 'pass on' to other places.
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Are you saying you don't see the difference between video games, and an app that is meant to harm/control actual living human beings?
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> It will always be cheaper to prevent creation of CO2 (burning fossil fuels) than to catch CO2 back from the atmosphere.

Maybe. But the politics could be totally different. Scrubbing would not be perceived as suppressing the activities of an existing industry. Hopefully, therefore, huge sectors of the existing economy would not mobilize against it the way they have against proposals to suppress CO2 output.
Yup. The proposed cures are significantly worse than the problems. Once you bring in the government you have violence involved. There's no need for the use of force here.
That makes sense! Unfortunately, it'll be hard to obtain benchmarks for every plan with every provider, and it'll be even harder to get enough benchmarks with each provider to paint an accurate picture.

Even with the same provider, there can be massive differences between VPSs, it just depends whether you end up on an idle host node with no noisy neighbors or one where everyone is busy mining their favorite cryptocurrency.

Regardless, we do understand the need for accurate performance numbers, so this is something we will explore further in the near future.

If you have any ideas, please let me know. :)
Back then, we just had individual communities under their own web domains. That meant that you needed to have lurked on the site for a bit, understood the culture, and then make the decision to make an account and join the discussion.

Forums also had a unique look and feel, even if they were just different color themes selected from the admin panel.

With Reddit, you have individual communities, but one account gets you access to them all. So you will get people who joined a 'foreveralone' group and can now frictionlessly post on relationship subs about how women don't want nice guys like him, they want bad boys who'll abuse them.
I don't understand the army argument - is that assumption that the entire college going class needs to be enlisted in order to have success? To have an education you need to gamble with your life? That's ridiculous and barbaric.

I'd argue that we need psychologists, counselors, and MBA's. If everyone was as painfully pragmatic as a lot of these comments suggest there'd be no art in this world, no one taking care of our sick or our poor, and no one remembering our past.
Here's the thing: there's this thing called conservation of mass and energy.

The carbon reaction goes like this: Carbon + Oxygen = CO2 + energy.

You can reverse it, like you can with any chemical reaction, like this: CO2 + energy = Carbon + Oxygen

This is all high school chemistry stuff. But the long and short is: To sequester carbon from the atmosphere requires at least as much energy as you got by burning the carbon in the first place.

That's why no scheme to unburn the carbon can ever work.
I wish the implementation was more extensible/customizable though. I understand why it's not. But I have extensions I need to implement, early data I need to append to ClientHello, some parts I want to reuse for DTLS, etc. Even if it were in /x/cryto/tls and all opened up, that would be great. As it is now everyone has to copy it out and hack it up.
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Does Taiwan want to be recognized as an independent, sovereign nation? As far as I'm aware their claim is that they are the legitimate Chinese government.
I don't think it's rose colored glasses, but neither do I think gaming industry is becoming more and more focused around ROI. AAA titles developed by large companies certainly in most cases are like that, but the gaming industry is much bigger than a few corporations releasing titles with the speed of machine gun.

There are hundreds of indie developers and I believe this is where most of the innovation can be found. In that regard it is the same as in the "good old days", before the arrival of AAA corporations.
Capitalism is not the problem. The excesses of capitalism are.

For example: we've known this since biblical times. Money is not the root of all evil, the love of money is.

Money is not evil in and of itself. Money is a tool. Like a hammer, money can be wielded in bad ways or good. You can build a house or bash someone's skull in. Because you can bash someone's head in with a hammer does that make hammers bad?

Private property and private property rights protect what people have worked for but if someone or some entity accumulates too much wealth and assets and capital at the expense of others then that's a very real problem.

Making a profit is not evil in and of itself; lowering your worker's wages or keeping them low (as inflation inflates away their earning power) to increase your bottom line is evil.

Now, some could argue that this is essential to capitalism, that it'll always be abused. But, one could say that of any system. I think people are coming to realise that capitalism must be strictly regulated in order for it to function well and that is not the same as criticizing capitalism itself. For these reasons those who rail against capitalism itself I have no time for.
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I know the NYTimes thinks its charming, but this plaque embodies the arrogance and greed of wealthy landowners in NY who have opposed the construction of mass transit for over a hundred years.
Look at France and how much the Yellow Vest protests and their precursors achieved. The French have managed to keep government from enacting a lot of neoliberal crap.
I believe it says "server".
Failure 1: Worked for a friend's company. As employee #1. I was to have all kinds of freedoms and responsibilities. Sounded really awesome.

Failure 2: Was too conflict-shy to draw firm boundaries, and likewise was he.

This friendship of 20 years is no more.

(While working for said friend) Failure 3: Offered a hair-raisingly badly thought-out fixed-price bid. Both my friends's mistake and mine. We probably sunk about 5x what we stood to make from it, and then abandoned the project, embarrassing a relative in the process.

There's plenty more of course, but these bother me.
"server". It's a recreation of the note placed on the first webserver.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
It sounds to me like both sides are picking metrics that make their point the strongest. And the reality is, both can be right. The proportion of the world in extreme poverty (<$.190/day) can be going down while overall number of people in poverty (<$7.50/day) can be increasing. These aren't contradictory.

And reducing both metrics are good goals!

The problem, as I see it, is that both of these sides seem to be exploiting the problem of poverty to support political agendas that are perhaps unrelated to poverty. Pinker perhaps moreso than Hickel (but that may be because we literally just read Hickel's very well-written thoughts on it).

The correct way forward, in my view, is to have both sides agree to a combined, single metric or a set of metrics that best capture the essence of the problem. When we agree on how to measure success, we can best see what works to improve it. I mean, presuming both sides actually care about reducing poverty and not just promoting their favorite political system, then coming together to come up with a better overall goal should be something everyone wants to do.
The SR-71 would like a word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird
At security-conscious organizations they will report unapproved binaries or block execution of anything which isn't on a whitelist.
I'm not sure its reasonable to require such a massive upheaval as a precaution. Remember those 'X causes cancer' articles, should we phase out everything implicated, as a precaution?

I agree we should have moved earlier, and we should be moving faster though.
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"it costs the firm between $500 and $600 to remove a metric ton of CO₂ from the air"

Ricke et alia center their cost-of-carbon estimates at $417: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0282-y . Climeworks is already very close.
About 5 years ago we had 4 browsers with significant share - IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari. Even 10 years ago Firefox had a decent impact over over 25% and IE was being brought down into the "managable" area of 50%ish.
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Are the British government known for their violence?
What's an example of a business that would want to do this, and why? It looks interesting, but I fear the landing page is too geared towards saying what it does, but not telling a potential user why they'd want to do it.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, though. In the case of token compensation, it's only liquid if you can easily find another buyer, and the main thing that would be driving the ease of finding a buyer for tokens right now is that there are so many people who are eager to buy literally anything that smells like crypto. So, yeah, it may be easier to dump in the short term, but in return you end up with an additional way for the cash value of your compensation to be driven to zero. Actually, make that three, because thinking about how future SEC activity could impact this sort of thing is the stuff that headaches are made of.

That might not be a consideration at all if the company's chances of long term success isn't a part of your thesis for taking a job there. But why would you take a job at a company that you don't expect to be successful?
I suspect large groups would organize to prevent spending 100+ Billion per year. Which would still make an insignificant change assuming we continue to produce CO2.

The scale of CO2 emissions are hard to conceive. You see human heath effects in areas with poor ventilation from high CO2 levels, but as CO2 rises what constitutes poor ventilation changes. At current rates even ignoring climate changes old buildings will start to cause headaches from high CO2 levels. Buildings built at 275ppm are generally still fine at 400ppm, but that changes as you keep going.