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Just like with OpenGL, Vulkan is not like Vulkan.

Plenty of extensions to choose from.

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/listextensions.php
> Who is paying $60,000 to sell their house?

Allow me to introduce you to a place called California. In Santa Monica, where I live, median home price is over $1.5M. Yes, median. La Jolla is about the same. Irvine is just shy of $1M. In San Francisco it's over $1.2M median. San Jose is right around $1M. Mountain View is north of $1.7M. Etc. These places represent thousands of homes and average time on market is generally around a month. It's really that insane.
My response was to the assertion that there was a media blackout on the manifesto:

>>> ...there is some sort of media blackout on the 74-page manifesto...

Which there wasn't and isn't. It's just the media read it, found it was full of shit, and said as much.

>>> ...Someone shot 50 people, left a detailed explanation, and no one can find out why.

>> Some people want the source material to make their own decisions

People can find it, read it, and make their own decisions. But there wasn't a media black out on it, and the media isn't responsible for publishing in full anything a mass murderer writes just to make it easy for people to find.

Most people reading it seem to come away with conclusions that are driven more by their own ideologies than finding any real truth about "why" in there. Hence my point about how you see people debating the contents all coming to different conclusions and just arguing with each other that the problem is left wingers, or the problem is right wingers, or its Trumpism, or it's eco-warriorism, etc. Whatever they despise they seemingly can find and blame.
I'm still paying Union dues for a floor I don't come near.
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Thank you for bringing this up! Apparently, the JavaScript behind canvases gets disabled. I'll think something out.
As I recall the idea was to promote looking for a Pixelfed instance with a community that fits your needs and interests, which in turn makes the network stronger by distributing the userbase over a variety of servers.

Keeping registrations open on what is often perceived as an "official" instance can lead to that instance getting most of the new users of the network, since it's usually the one you'll find if you search for the corresponding software. mastodon.social (previously open, now invite only) is a good example of that, IMO. I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing, but I do feel it subverts the idea of a federated network if most users are on a handful of known instances.
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Because many modules don't use ES exports, especially the tiny annoying ones from people like sindresorhus that everything seems to rely on. ES modules are compatible with the browser, CommonJS modules are not.
All of which were, what, privileges bestowed upon workers by management in exchange for their not unionizing? Seems like they were pretty fragile, then.
I too find this to be a hostile action against the user. It's my computer.
> I love how every time there is a post about Rails, someone preaches the holy grail of Elixir/Phoenix.

I can understand how you might feel that way. I tried to make clear that I don't think it's the perfect answer to everything forever, but to specify ways in which I've personally seen it as an improvement. And given that the OP is about the continued merits of Rails, don't you expect some commenters to express disagreement?

> the main thing that execs care about is the bottom line and how fast we can push products to production

True. But that matters not just on day 1 but for years to come. Sandi Metz in the Ruby community teaches that point well.

I've seen Rails patterns like ActiveRecord callbacks lead to buggy, confusing code, greatly hindering progress on feature work and requiring significant debugging effort.

Certainly lots of businesses have succeeded with Rails, and I've worked for some of them. Lots of businesses have succeeded with Python, Java, .NET, PHP, and Node, too. That in itself doesn't argue for which one to pick when starting a new project.

After experiencing difficulties with my Ruby tech stack, I started looking around, and Elixir is where I landed. At this point I'm invested and biased, just as the OP is. But bouncing back and forth between the languages recently has confirmed for me that I prefer Elixir for the reasons I gave above.

> To any young devs out there, I strongly encourage you to not pick a framework by its hype but evaluate it based on your system needs / maturity.

I'd suggest young devs pick tools based at least partly on job postings, and on that measure, Rails will win by a landslide. But keep your ear to the ground. When I started as a developer, I was using PHP, but I kept hearing how Rails was better. Learning it and moving to work in it was a great career move for me.

Something will come after Rails. Something will come after Phoenix. There will always be a new something. Don't get too caught up in the hype, but don't get too attached to your current tools, either.
A cron job is running, and currently works as follows:

- Daily: update data from internet registries

- Daily: update ASN data

- Every four hours: update TOR data

- Every minute: traceroutes (in small batches)

- Every minute: update website data: hostname/ip records (in small batches)
Thank you for the Siri protip, that was one of my biggest frustrations with iOS (that + inability to take scrolling screenshots natively, similarly to how you can on Samsung Galaxy phones). For complete peace, I just wish there was a way to turn off all app suggestions in search at once, instead of flipping that switch in settings for every single app.
But I think they also cater how some big companies work. They have complex approval and compliance processes, asking there to get a service that costs 149,99$ might sound weird. Of course in that case the company might have a separate department for buying things and they might be more used to quotes.
Yeah, literally everyone was worked to death before the existence of unions.

/s
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Mastodon, however, has already picked up traction well beyond any of its predecessors, and continues to grow steadily.

https://the-federation.info/mastodon
You're right that distributed/remote teams present challenges to collective labor organizing.

You're mistaken in thinking that a walkout is the only, or even primary, method of direct action organized collectives can employ.

Here are 197 others: https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-no...
Corporations aren't people. They don't have "their own money". They have the money their employees generated. I spend 40 hours a week working for someone to create value greater than my salary. They then use this money for all sorts of things (shareholder payouts, acquisitions, political activities). T
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I'm a researcher trying to publish some papers but I can't continue without funding on GCP. I've had to stop all my clusters/engines since I don't have enough credits. I've applied to Google's research credits program and haven't heard back in a month. Is there any other way to get GCP credits? From my estimates I'm in need of around $5k in credits.
I'll try Stadia for sure when it gets to my country, probably in 2020 or 2021 since Google is not very fond of Mexico.
Which doesn't mean any of those changes will be contributed back to upstream, just like it happened with many of the PS 4 features in clang and AMD drivers, where only what wasn't business critical from Sony's point of view was contributed back.
https://www.workplacefairness.org/unions-right-to-work-laws

Kickstarter is in NY, which is not a right-to-work state. So you may as well join the union, because you have to pay dues.
They carry E&O insurance, so all the usual negligence and screwups are fair game.
Illegal physical things? illegal digital things?

What's next, illegal source code?

Maybe you should just start with illegal thoughts right off the bat?
> big companies can burn really big fires and individuals can light their candle with it.

Big companies start as individuals. I don't think your comment effectively communicates your intent...maybe something about wealth distribution or how corporations are immoral. I don't completely disagree with these concepts.
I imagine that governments would want to squeeze more taxable years out of people and bump the retirement age to 85 or higher.
I think this is more of a failure of the initial reporting than an existential crisis for YC.

Imagine if the article broke things down by industry and/or tech category and you could expend just the ones you're most interested in and see 3-5 companies in each group.
I think a lot of developers focus on learning newer technology stacks because they are hot and tend to pay more. But less popular doesn't mean it's not in demand.

I know 2 COBOL programmers who are being paid a ton of money because of critical banking systems running it and candidates are hard to find.
Name a unionized company where this kind of utopia exists i.e. company pays literally all of its profit as salaries.

Most of pro-union comments incorrectly assume that unions create some worker utopia.

Name unionized company that offers salary and perks comparable to Google.

Not to mention that pretty much all unions have very strong pro-seniority rules. Work harder than others? Produce more value than others? Doesn't matter, the guy that has been 5 years longer gets paid more, gets more vacation time etc. How is that fair?

In context of programming jobs, this is a case of "be careful what you wish for"
Huh? I never said that... Are you replying to the correct comment?
That's interesting. I remember now that I signed up for the beta. However I never received an invite :(
> We should buy housing to live in, not to extract rent from the suckers that were too late

This is a really biased view of what landlords do. A landlord takes on all the risk of maintaining the home, staying in the home long-term, fixing things when things break, etc. As a renter, being able to just tell my landlord when things break means that much more convenience for myself. Moreover, as a renter, having no incentive to be gentle on my appliances, my landlord actually does quite a bit of stuff (Or pays a lot to have someone else do my stuff, hence creating a job) to make my life pretty darn easy.
And what about the other 2 consoles? What are you contributing exactly with your boorish "Nope"?
What would tech unionizing realistically look like in the US? Lets say, at some FAANG company?
I wouldn't be surprised if this was actually the rationale for not having backups.

Tumblr is apparently fragile and tech-debt laden on engineering side, stagnant on users, and unprofitable. At a certain point, it's a coherent decision to just say "a few days of downtime would seal our fate, the business can only be saved if everything goes right", and not spend any money on mitigation.
"and they offer the Mac Pro for that use case"

Which was never popular with users, never good value for money, never sold very many, and hasn't been seriously updated since 2013.

"I would like to see the hard drive accessible like the memory is."

Allow hard drive and RAM upgrades for iMacs and Mac Book Pros, would instantly make all the performance sensitive customers much happier.
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This is true, but my personal support for collective organizing stems from a belief that there's a material constraint on the "quality" of managers, and we can effectively surpass that upper limit only through collective action.
At what imaginary time in history did owners and management consider themselves part of an "us" with workers? Maybe in some rare, contained instances. You can't take a step "down" from something that simply doesn't exist.
Back in the day I did a FSBO with a real-estate lawyer who charged a grand total of $250 for a sale of $100,000.

I'll take 0.25% overhead any day over 6%.
Fair != Good. Fair wages for a given position and circumstance can be anywhere on the spectrum of compensation.

I currently wish I had a union because I think I was unfairly evaluated in my current perf cycle, but there is no one to appeal my argument to which includes significant positive peer and managerial feedback. What I currently make has no impact on that.
I don't think you understand how unions work...

Closed-shop unions are illegal in the US, for starters, so you can't have a closed-shop industry-wide union.

The only industry-wide unions that exist set workplace protections and salary floors but no salary caps...and no indutry-wide union has ever embraced seniority-based pay because, being an industry-wide union, that regime wouldn't work across the very different economic environments of 50 states and their thousands of cities.
Having worked in a unionized industry before, I completely agree with this. I was so confused and annoyed when I learned that I wasn't allowed to work at this place unless I consented to giving money from every paycheck to a group of people that basically never did anything for me, were impossible to get a hold of, and just generally complacent.
Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction
I'd say the vast majority of PC gamers right now have maybe one or two special edition physical boxes and everything else is digital in their Steam/Origin/Epic accounts. As it is right now at any point those accounts can be closed down without oversight or warning, and you don't legally own the games in your steam account. I don't see game streaming fundamentally changing things at this point, the "own your games" ship sailed long ago. Also like many steam users I have a metric ton of games in my account that I will likely never play or use again in my lifetime. A monthly rental playing a catalog of old games and some new ones might honestly end up costing me less then having all those old useless games in my library that I played once for 2 hours and can't return that I'll never play again.

As for the subway thing, wifi networks are becoming more and more ubiquitous and advanced, I know my local subway has it's own inbuilt wifi, obviously it's not going to be amazing any time soon but between that and 5g and the hotswapping connections to keep uptime, idk it can work.
What makes it "fair", exactly? I don't think most people would see it as such.
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I think it's fair to say that Silicon Valley is dead. Cheap venture capital,
minimal startup cost, access to university researchers, and good inter
business communications fueled an engine which turned ideas into products.
You can now find venture capital elsewhere, with the discount rate being
what it is. The cost of housing and office space has spiraled out of
control, thanks to the environmentalists and Prop 13. The trade secrets
and intellectual property mania have pretty much destroyed open cooperation.
The universities remain, but aren't the driving force they used to be.

The place has a much different, more ossified feel to it than it did seven
years ago.

[Note: The words above aren't mine; they were written in 1993 by the co-founder of AltaVista.]
While true, for many creators it's also closer to where the content is actually created/hosted.
Why shouldn't he? The bigger valley companies got caught in a wage fixing scheme that by some estimates depressed wages by around 20% across the board, and all they did is send out a few checks for a few hundred to some of the employees.

He's almost certainly not getting a fair market wage.
I'm a freelancer working from home for the past 8 years. I have:

- Bipolar 1
- Severe eating disorder
- Moderate/severe GI issues
- Moderate/severe Anxiety
- Moderate/severe Agoraphobia
- Moderate Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

There isn't much to balance at this point. I have averaged 10-15 hours of work/week, which takes the form of a 1-2 months of working pretty hard followed by 1-2 months of being unable to work due to depression/anxiety leading to mental & physical paralysis. It's frustrating because I'm in a super momentum-driven sales role, with high volume and consistent work required to keep earning money. So I'm essentially shutting down the business and its inertia every couple of months...then restarting! I'm good at what I do and very fortunate that I can cover my bills and save on my meager workload, but it's frustrating because my inability to work has deprived me of at least $1 million over the course of my freelance career (based on my earnings rate, my missed hours have cost me $100K+ per year). It's the missed potential that is most frustrating. ...And don't get me started on the substantial portion of my net worth I've gambled in the markets and partied away during my periods of mania.

It has been a constant decline since a BP relapse and recovery in 2015, with the above physical problems especially accelerating since then. In late 2016, my GI problem escalated to a point where I couldn't make plans due to unexpected multi-hour flare-ups that occur at least twice/week. This boosted an already-serious eating problem (it's been my chosen method of self-medicating for 20 years now) to a full-on functional disorder. That has made the GI problem worse...and the cycle continues.

I haven't socialized, talked to a friend, or been on a date in 2+ years (neither in-person or text/online). I text with my sister occasionally - she lives 2 blocks from me, but I haven't seen her or her family in 3 months. I try to see my parents once every 2 weeks.

The Carpel Tunnel only started a few months ago and has made both work and reading extremely difficult. It's a pretty cruel one, having caused me to cut my reading from around 60 to 10 hours/week (reading is my life). And work-wise, I have this new physical obstacle to face - typing, scrolling, and clicking are super painful - when I finally get in the moods to work. Gah!

I'm finally forcing myself out of the house to the Orthopedist tomorrow, so fingers crossed (ouch, heh).

I'm not even sure I answered the question - feels like it devolved into a rant. But it has taken so long to type this (breaks needed in between!) that I'm just going to submit the comment anyways.
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> Now the power source of course... hard to manage that.

Well, for many of these plants they're actually built together with a big hydroelectric powerplant that can supply all the electricity needed.

EDIT: Their press release from 6h ago states "Hydro's power plants are running normally on isolated IT systems".
> That particular area happens to have had a history of earth quakes.

This is not an excuse. High rises that are well designed are perfectly safe in earthquakes (safer than single family homes often times). Other major cities in earthquake areas (like Tokyo) do not have this problem.
I'm no longer sure what your token product is.

Do I go down to my local store, and buy tokens from them, that they've purchased from the issuer? How is that very much different than a prepaid visa/mastercard/amex gift card that I can get today; maybe that it's easier to spend the money with people who can't get a credit card merchant account?

How much margin is the merchant going to add on top of what you're charging them?

How do you deal with anti-money laundering laws, etc?
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Google employs thousands of people.

And can afford special busses.

What is so special about teachers that they have an expectation of walking across the street to their place of work?

Nothing is special about teachers. Many things would be tons better if everyone could work where they live. I used to live in a community next to a university where lots of professors lived. My best friends lived upstairs from the shops we frequented. Some of them worked in those shops. It was a walkable community, the kind where your friend might call out to you on the sidewalk from their balcony to come up and have dinner. Such things weren't luxuries but were once the province of everyman and everywoman. There is something really gracious about that kind of living. Society is poorer for it going away. Granted, increasing density is likely to squash some of those things out. However, it might well create new opportunities for such communities to exist, especially if combined with better public transportation.

Instead of focusing on public transport to make commute painless

Public transport has a history of making cities more vibrant. No disagreement there.

This expectation of living next to where you work is exactly why we have a housing density problem.

You are misunderstanding my position. People don't absolutely need to live exactly where they work. They just need to be able to afford someplace to live with a modicum of dignity -- based on perceptions of relative status. A society that prices-out certain vital segments of itself entirely -- based on market distoring laws and regulations -- is doing something wrong. I mention the young teachers and young professors specifically, because it strikes me as a misguided way of ensuring one's youth are radicalized and ideologically disconnected from their own society.

we are stuffing people like sardines in a can

We in CA are deliberately a few steps removed from densities the market would naturally settle at.

crafted by housing activists who are mostly grant funded non profits and public agencies

Are there actually activists who want more housing density? Most of what I hear about are NIMBYs and people with misguided goals of "preserving the original character" of the neighborhood by just saying no. Perhaps you are aware of a different side of this than I am.
What is Facebook supposed to do? Constantly monitor literally every piece of media uploaded to their site? I'm pretty sure that's impossible purely from a logistical standpoint. As long as they deleted/filtered the video as soon as they became aware of it that's all we should ask of them.
The issue is that the priorities of the unionized union staff are not aligned with the priorities of the unionized workers.
>since Walmart's strictly-enforced corporate policy until about 2 years ago was that they would not pay above minimum wage

We both worked for Walmart as cashiers on and off between about 2008 and 2013, in Rapid City, Pierre, and Aberdeen, South Dakota, and the starting wages were consistently above minimum wage. I've never heard of this policy before, especially since different positions always had different starting wages and all were minimum wage or slightly higher.

Again though, even if our Walmart employments were minimum wage jobs:

min_wage * hrs_worked > -union_init_fee + (min_wage * hrs_worked) - (union_due * weeks_worked)
This isn't going to bring any new local games to Linux, rather it "solves" the gaming problem by simply making these streaming games playable on Linux with Chrome, same as on Windows, Mac, on your TV with ChromeCast, tablets, phones etc.

Much like web apps, YouTube, Netflix etc. today already work flawlessly on Linux, so will gaming too with this development. For most people, the browser is already the only "native" desktop application they use on their computers.

Web apps and web video finally made the Linux desktop viable, but also irrelevant in the bigger picture.
A long time ago now, a friend worked on a partial translation of "Where Women Have No Doctor" into Farsi with a grant from Hesperian -- and one of the dilemmas they had was whether including (they did in the end) the more graphic pictures would help or hinder their efforts in distributing it. I wonder how much of a challenge literacy is in a place where no doctor can be found. She talked about doing an audio cassette version, but again, the pictures are a challenge there as well.