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The Moccamaster is ubiquitous in Denmark. When I moved here from the UK (where the average household gets their coffee from a jar of Nescafe) it was a curious sight.

We picked up our Moccamaster second hand for 300 DKK (about 45 USD). This thing is absolutely solid and to my palette makes great daily coffee non-stop without complaint.
>High inflation does not imply that real wages shrink on average.

Certainly not! Inflation is great for the privileged, because it forces the hoi polloi into investment schemes to protect their assets from inflation, which disproportionately help finance the business adventures of the privileged (e.g. stocks, bonds).

Thus the average real wage will get higher as a few select individuals get huge astronomical wages.
Sure. Is there any data that shows that modern art is primarily bought by lonely people?
> I don't want to sound snarky, but these people are a dime a dozen.

Maybe this is influenced by geolocation or other factors, but IME actually competent "soft stuff" people are rarer than competent engineers.
The Next-Generation University?
There is signal in the noise, even if it is difficult to see or parse.
Addressing the underlying problem is orders of magnitude more difficult. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try (and we already are trying), but saying "just fix the root cause" isn't actually a helpful suggestion.
At least part of this is because we devalued the high school diploma. We were concerned that many people weren't getting that high school diploma which made it difficult for them to get jobs. Now we lowered the standards and shoved everyone through to the point that 20% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate. Now a high school diploma is no longer a useful signal to potential employers.
> If you can't write good code, not much else matters.

Can't stress this enough and I frankly don't understand all these articles claiming otherwise, when even the most minimal reflection would clear things up in a jiffy:

Take a skilled trapeze artist who has great attention to detail (I hope) and is patient (I hope) but cannot code.

Alternatively take a brilliant software developer who is slightly sloppy and not very patient.

Which one do you want writing your software?

Of course, that's accepting that these are important skills/attributes. I don't actually agree they are. See

https://medium.com/@petecam/why-laziness-impatience-and-hubr...
Yes, sorry!
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Exempt from taxation? Isn't it subject to capital gains?
I do cold brew in the summer too. If you hand grind it's not less time consuming since it uses more beans. If you have an electric grinder it's faster.
I'm not denying that some states got lucky on natural resources or geography, I'm saying that some states have also invested local resources in developing their economy. They do this by levying taxes on the state and local level and building infrastructure.

SALT deductions incentivize states and localities to do this. They're still incentivizing this, since the deductions were only capped and not eliminated. Do you think states were over-incentivized to invest in their own infrastructure previously?
Opiates have a withdrawal problem with proper usage (as a long term user of prescribed opiates, I am frequently warned of this).
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Expense is relative. I use a $2 plastic cone that does pretty much the same thing. It was the cheapest option in the store and I was a poor grad student when I bought it ten years ago.
Except... In IDEs you can have code side by side, and then a tool running in a third pane (let's say a debugger, or tests), and you have quick and convenient shortcuts to switch between these panes, and hidden panes, and other windows on desktop.

Phones have none of that. And they really can't really provide them because of limited screen estate and touch being the only way to interact with it.
Piers Manzoni canning his own feces is an even more pointed criticism of the scam modern art has become.
Not every development language requires compilation. E.g. python
Am I missing something:

>A study just published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that on average, Australia pays $7,352 (U.S.) per course of treatment. It has been able to treat seven times as many patients as it would without the agreements.

I guess the reason we don't treat medicine like Netflix is because most people don't want to spend $7352 for a course of penicillin....?
Can you provide documentation for these supposed tax benefits? (I'm genuinely curious) AFAIK there are no tax benefits at the point of buying the art, and cap gains benefits are no different than stocks, real estate, etc.
Unfortunately, many universities are also missing this point (or feel that the market forces them to miss it). My alma mater, though in the process of renaming itself from a "college" to a "university", recently gutted many humanities departments (music, theater, history). Their official line was that those departments didn't have enough majors to justify their staffing levels; but (IMHO) they've failed to acknowledge the enrichment—even in recruiting!—offered by those departments to the entire college community. I sang in choir with people that were majoring in business, engineering, CS, etc., as well as music majors. Those people were clearly enriched by the (now gutted) music department, even if they didn't appear on lists of official music majors. This is a school that proudly proclaims itself to have a liberal arts philosophy, BTW.
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The browser will start displaying the contents of a response before it has entirely downloaded. So in this case the browser sees it as a really slow server (you can see the loading icon is still there in the demo) that sends a bit of content every so often
I guess it's like saying the most important traits of a golfer are patience and focus. Sure, if you're missing those, you'll toxically spiral when you don't perform, but are those the "most important skills" in golf? Nope, I'd say those would be the technical skills that let you make the shot.
>> Believe it or not, not everybody does self-review

That's not hard to believe given the stream of shit that comes out of a feed, any feed.

But I'm appalled by y'all's assumption that #3 is a given. Why do you all believe that?

To me, including a test suite in your code base is a code smell.
Concentration camps aren't a step "backwards": they've been used in pretty much all modern societies. They did not exist before the modern era (say, 1800), and are a thoroughly modern phenomenon.
Teaching people to manage money used to be the purpose of classes like "home economics" in US public schools. Over the past 40ish years, home ec (and civics) have been systematically pared down and removed from public school curricula across the country.

When I took the classes in the late 90s, it was basically "learn how to bake this one thing and hand sew a ripped cloth." A few years later when my sister was in high school, home ec wasn't even a class anymore. I'm not sure if the class still exists in any US public school system. However, my parents remember being taking it in the 60s and being taught to make a household budget and balance a checkbook, in addition to cooking and basic mending/repair.

Point is, the education piece teaching people to manage money used to be there, and has been purposefully removed.
World War 1 (and 2) was a short sharp shock that was pretty highly localised geographically and represented no permanent change in global parameters. Global climate change is a total change in the rules.
If and when the Grand Formula(s) is found, we'll know.
> What will happen in five years ?

According to the article, Australia is on track to have hep C eradicated by 2026.
I'm not entirely sure I want to sit through a 10 minute linting process every time I do a quick `git add -A && git commit -m WIP` locally. Why does it need to be a pre-commit hook instead of a simple PR check? PR checks obviously need to be done anyway.
it’s a sign that it’s a dark roast, which many mass produced coffees are. The third wave has tried to instill a culture of “nothing darker than a city roast” which I think has been harmful, as it marginalizes all dark roasts as cheap roasts, which isn’t the case.

That said, I think dark roasts age much less gracefully than a medium roast due to the oxygen exposure of oils, but I really love a full city roast for espresso.
The better groceries in my area (Whole Foods, Harris Teater, Publix) carry locally roasted beans with their roast dates on them.
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A lot of those folks see compilation success meaning program task is now complete. Some slip through the cracks and graduate.
Load/store vs. register–memory can still be relevant. Moreover, x86 still generally allows sloppier code to perform better, which practically means that a lot of non-x86 relative performance depends on the compiler. The rise of better compilers has changed the calculus here substantially.
I'm confused. Does this mean that the "real plumber" was an artist; or the art museum didn't have WC before putting a urinal art piece.
> Fast forward almost 30 years to 2019. A typical commercial cloud VM “core” is a hyperthread of a 2.5Ghz to 3.5Ghz (turbo) physical processor core with 2GB-14GB RAM per core and effectively infinite storage via cloud storage, though local disk might be limited to 64TB or less. Using the same CPU-to-disk ratio as 1990, that 3.5Ghz turbo hyperthread would be paired to 6.6GB of disk (actually, 3.3GB of disk, taking into account the fact that a hyperthread is really only half of a physical core).

The author "controls" for the increase in cores, though.

This really is a pretty simple point. A modern x86-64 CPU is not just a 386SX running at a higher clock speed. You cannot compare CPUs across decades only on clock speeds. Nothing works like that.
People going into college don't even get an expansive view of how debt works, and that's what they end college with the most of.

I don't think that view is missing, I think people do not value college like they claim they do if that premise (getting an expansive view of human knowledge) is the goal. Of course that's a great goal, but its also something that should have been happening all the way to adulthood (16-18 years of age), not something that happens in between the keggers and the classes you don't skip.

If you could make that the median college experience, or college graduation contingent upon it, that would be nice. We cannot even make high school graduation in the USA contingent on being able to read.
I've always found it challenging to give programming projets to someone who is only here for a few hours and days a week.

Where with clerical tasks you can just have them get back to that pile of paper tomrorrow
More content will be produced. A lot more.
cf. engineering. ;)
Whoever OKs a code review can be called upon at any moment to explain the logic of the change in front of the team. If you OKed it, you must understand it, right?

If no one is willing to accept a PR with that provision, the author needs to make their code clearer.

In my experience, people doing a code review don't want to bruise their egos by saying "I don't understand this.". So they superficially check the code and OK it.
"Because as the First Law of Success reminds us, the harder it is to measure performance, the less performance matters."

Performance, nonetheless, exists as a variable.
I'm a successful college dropout, and I completely disagree. One of the strongest motivators for me leaving school after 1 year was the realization that virtually all of my classes gave me no more benefit than if I had just purchased the textbook and read it myself. As for every other classroom benefit, there are brilliant mentors all over the internet I can discuss what i'm learning with whenever I choose, without having to pay tuition.
This is precisely why I really like react and redux. There are times I track the window size and use different components to render. The state logic stays the same.
For a team that has low code quality - here's how I like to start my code review process. not everyone will like it, but I find it effective at growing people's skills: https://www.5whys.com/articles/step-4-start-doing-code-revie...
Yeah, it doesn’t make sense. If he wants the new new stuff why not run 18.10, wait a month until 19.04 arrives, or switch to a rolling release distro?
The exciting part of this to me is not the ability to run the same software on two devices, but the potential to run two 'kinds' of software on one single device.

This unlocks what is for me the most appealing computing fantasy: I have exactly one device to compute with. At home or work, I plug it into my dock, where it pairs to an eGPU/monitor, external storage, keyboard, and mouse, and is my desktop computer. There, I can access the 'pro' level apps we're discussing below.

On the couch or on the go, maybe I slide it into a bigger touchscreen with some extra dumb batteries, and it's now a tablet. Throw in a keyboard case, and now it's a laptop.

And if I'm sitting on the bus or walking to work, it's my phone, and I can edit today's lecture right there, or access all my files. Maybe I'm not firing up emacs or MATLAB, but it's still there if I needed to.

This, to me, is the fantasy of convergence. And considering we're now currently paying $4000+ for the trio of a laptop, tablet, and smartphone, I suspect one could create something pretty compelling and high-end and still feel like a bargain to many.
What a terrible analysis. Pretty sure that number is just the "Selling, marketing and administrative expenses" line from the 10-K, which lumps all expenses outside of COGs, R&D and a few others.

That's not just marketing as people know it. It's all the other costs of running a company too.
If you look at the benchmarks for x32 (ILP32) you see an improvement of up to 10% over x86-64. Granted this most benefits pointer heavy code, but is still doesn't make up for the lions share of performance.
No one is developing new CISC architectures. The ones that are out there are extant mainly because of inertia.

I think it's safe.to say that RISC architecture has already changed everything.
Here's a great podcast on it: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/09/584555705/epis...
hah! didn't expect to see a reference to Demolition Ranch here :D
He seems to have a perspective that his 'legacy' is under attack and that the derivatives of his work are ruining his reputation. To me it comes across as very naive to think that you can control your 'legacy' by making demands to people who use work that was placed in the public domain.

The mobile devs were fully willing to make the changes he wanted (even going as far as to offer him money, which he refused), but when the changes didn't actually make a difference and a mistake was made (their release in China was missing the changes and he was still being asked by fans about the mobile port) he doubled-down on the claims of fraud and eventually submitted take-down requests through Apple and Google.

I don't think there is a path towards his satisfaction until he understands the implications of placing work in the public domain.
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As to the tab management, older version of Opera had tab stacking, which I've found pretty good for tab management. You could stack tabs into themselves to create a cluster of tabs that could then be rolled, so that just one of the tabs was visible, and later unrolled for using those tabs. I think Vivaldi copied the feature as well.
> However there are ways to bring that into "the system" and regulate and monitor it just like other payroll functions.

Sure, but it's not free to the employer (aside from making cash flow timing less predictable, regulating and monitoring are not free) and the contribution to the bottom line is dubious (it may even be negative: the employees for whom such a benefit would be most attractive may not be the employees a business most wants), so the business case for doing it rather than leaving employees to existing credit mechanisms is weak.

OTOH, there seems an obvious social benefit to having either this or same-day pay (which is also not free compared to status quo alternatives) as a norm, so that's maybe a role for government rules (either mandates or incentives.)
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>For insurance to work, US doctors must follow national guidelines laid out by a scientific body (ie NICE in the UK) any deviation without justification would/should lead to fines and censure.

I don't think that's necessary for insurance to work - I think it's necessary for medicine to get cheaper. If I want a specialist to treat me as an individual and potentially prescribe something outside the norm, I should be able to pay a premium for that, and the doctor should be allowed to do it if it is going to work without threat of fines or censure because they didn't choose the cheaper option.
> Of course right now that’s a path that’s not accessible to many people...

Not trying to be too argumentative here, but if the implication you're making is that university is the best way "to get an expansive view of human knowledge", I disagree. You are correct that it is not "accessible" to many people, but an expansive view of human knowledge is, IMO, more accessible than ever in history.

An internet connection costs a lot less than university. The biggest problem with this is: how does a person figure out what to self-learn? To me it might be obvious to just start going through math problems and reading 'the classics', but I guess a person could just as easily start learning conspiracy theories or celebrity trivia.
What's stopping the producer from marking up the price if there isn't a flat-rate price?
>> Are you really just disagreeing with the proposition that nobody cares about Cisco's problems?

Yes, thats what I am disagreeing with... Nothing more nothing less. No word of Huawei, since they are considered a liability by default and I don't know people that work with telephony/cell-network infrastructure.
Out of curiosity, how many people have to die or be maimed in a preventable situation -- due to an industry determining it's more cost effective to do so rather than properly protect people -- before it's appropriate to craft a regulatory response? Just ballpark it for me, maybe round to the nearest order of magnitude.
Can you name a country where the latest technology is developed by the gov't? Even in the highly socialist systems of Europe they rely on private companies to develop products.
I think the perspective of this is assuming that the technical skill is there. You're totally right that the difference between a prime Tiger Woods and the field is definitely talent related.

But when there's a lot bigger population who all have a similar level of technical skill and that's not the limiter, I can agree these things are some of the important differentiators.
If students are coming out of 12 years of general education needing more general education, that is a failure of the public school system. We should fix that instead of pushing people into more school. After 12 years of general education, how do you justify more?

In my opinion, we should be pushing specialized education at a younger age. When students exit high school, they should have skills that they can expand or fallback on. They can then use that fallback as a safety net to explore other options without extreme risk or debt.
These are not givens. They're things that have to be drilled into newer devs.
Not really. The lottery (unless cheating) should provide real randomness. ie: A president has the same chance as the next guy.

If both a former president and the next guy do an art piece, I'm pretty certain the president will fetch a higher price for his art work. That's the network effect.
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I am not scarecrowbob, nor the mages og game of thrones ,

who can see with the eyes of crows and Condors, but...

in my eXperience of leaving life around 30 days ago the facts that affected my mental health , yaeh...

but you know the movie Blue Immensity , like my previously private known as immerseintheimmensity,

the guy was immerse in the Only One Ocean, the One...

that connects all seven Seas and five Oceans, As For they are One, freaking All Only One Onipresent Ocean...As the Skyes and the One Sky

the guy did not die Nor it was The End of the Movie...

when he goes swimming with the Dolphins or dancing with the wolves...

nor had the deer died, the deer is as alive as fire, in the mouths of people in the names of children that birth right now in this very second, like poetry

like the legacy of The Spirit of The Forest of Princess Mononoke and the legacy of Hentaro Miyazaki and his drawings of light and paintings of brightness

like Wu Ze Tian , previously known as Wu Zhao currently known as The Brightness and The Light
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Light to medium roasts won't extract oils to the surface and IMO have a much nicer flavor, especially when using good beans.

To me a dark roast Ethiopian tastes the same as a dark roast Costa Rican. They taste very different with a lighter roast. You lose the bean's uniqueness when you go darker which is one of the reasons cheap coffee tends to be dark.