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The efficient use of money by the government is an important, but separate point. I am in support in improving the way the government uses every cent of our taxes.

The thing about someone else robbing my money is that companies that hide money due in taxes are effectively taking what is not theirs by law, and hiding in a foreign country where we'll never see it. If the government is misusing the money, at least some of it may be recovered, and even the most inefficient use is made inside our country, thus contributing to the local economy.
Graal's Python and Ruby don't have GILs, that's correct.
Three cheers to this!

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Echoing what a few other people have said, but a few things I've noticed Netlify does really well:
- Their builds on popular front end frameworks that use say webpack are really good out of the box, but can be tweaked and configured as well. I have run into odd bugs going from CRA to a production build on my VPS that for some reason just deploys seemlessly on Netlify. Not that I couldn't have fixed the VPS with a little effort, but it just works™
- The CDN also works on your static assets out of the box and serves so much faster than some of my VPS boxes that have a decent number of xeon cores running nginx.
- While I haven't used it, apparently they put a veneer layer on Lambdas and MSFT Functions that make it less of a pain in the ass to deploy, ie abstracting away all the security groups, scaling etc details
- It's free for everything I've thrown at it. It worries me slightly that if I ever outgrow their free tier the pricing will be really steep since you are enabling all the free tier infrastructure, but for now it's been amazing for JAMstack type apps.
Tesla's Full Self-Driving Computer doesn't have triple-mode redundancy
Clojure did it again. Most paid language.
"You are billed only for the CPU and memory allocated while a request is active on a container instance, rounded up to the nearest 100 milliseconds."

https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing

You can configure the amount allocated: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/memory-limits
> Eventually I got the hint.

The hint wasn't that you're a bad culture fit, the hint was that there are no benefits.

You don't have to be over 40 to need benefits.
No, you are not. You are blaming Trump for a policy that was started when Obama was President. This isn't a "whataboutism" situation. When called on it, you tried to blame Republican Senators, even though they were in the minority when this policy was started.
Psychoanalytic philosopher Slavoj Žižek says that beyond these three categories there is a fourth, the unknown known, that which we intentionally refuse to acknowledge that we know: "If Rumsfeld thinks that the main dangers in the confrontation with Iraq were the 'unknown unknowns', that is, the threats from Saddam whose nature we cannot even suspect, then the Abu Ghraib scandal shows that the main dangers lie in the "unknown knowns"—the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we pretend not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values."
> like to see more security around the data that is used for fingerprinting, such as user agent

I think this is already available, just not enabled by default. In about:config one need to set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true. (be aware however that this setting causes problems with google captcha - the number of challenges that you will need to solve will drastically increase)
What are you using now? I'd like to move off of them but have no exit strategy.
That nothing matters at all in a grand scale frees you from the burden of having to matter. No legacy, no contribution, will ever be capable of cementing you into the permanent fabric of the universe. The most powerful human and all that he has done, is as meaningless as the most helpless and shortest lived; when the last historian dies even Caesar's name shall be dust. Your life effectively has no lasting consequences, so try and do what you actually wish.

I don't personally subscribe to such a worldview but lots of people will find freedom or comfort in that.
The good news is even if you see limited value in "liberal arts" the total value in the system will be higher, as automation retains or increases the existing value, and the displaced/retrained workers produce yet more value even if I accept the premise that it's limited.

>> If all jobs could be automated more cheaply than humans, don't you think they would have done it?

Not everything that's possible has become economical yet. This is kind of the definition of progress :) If all cancer could be cured, don't you think they would have done it by now?
In more developed (read less politically captured) countries banking tasks are automated, ubiquitous, quick, and free. Take New Zealand for example. Sending 25 cents immediately to a friend to cover the cost of a cookie takes a few taps. Salary and rent is paid automatically directly to bank accounts every week. Bills, utilities, govt all on same system.

Here in CA one birthplace of the internet, I have to print a paper check for the landlord like it's the 70s.
Pretty much right on the nose. As I mentioned elsewhere, testing is not required where I work. As such, there's no guarantee that upgrades to JDK won't break something behind the scenes now only to blow up later in production.
The suggestion that a man may pretend to be a woman to gain a competitive edge in sports remains arrant nonsense without any hope of redemption, no matter how you try to dress it.

What I don't understand is what all this has to do with transgendered athletes.
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I haven't launched it, so I'm not sure about performance. My main concerns are cold starts and concurrency. It's my understanding that Cloud Run has higher concurrency per container instance, so my guess would be that Cloud Run would give me fewer cold starts than Cloud Functions. However, since Cloud Run is a generic runtime, I'd imagine that cold starts there would be on the scale of seconds compared to milliseconds for Cloud Functions.
> If the previous generation already had a decent quality-of-life, there's less reason to assume that the next generation will have it even better.

I do agree that the rate of improvement may be lower for already highly developed countries. And that the difficulties solved in developing countries may have a much larger positive impact then small steps in more developed countries.

But there's no artificial upper limit to quality-of-life. You wont hit a barrier and be forced to stagnate and go down: there's so many issues in today's societies that need solving.
Yes, I would say ipfs is an important component of web3. Ethereum has it's own competitor to ipfs called swarm which provides the static content hosting to pair with decentralised database (Ethereum blockchain), and decentralised messaging (whisper), to provide a fully decentralised application platform.
I think this article touches on something important. The psychological barriers that must be crossed as part of switching from one thing to an alternative.

We frequently test by bringing users into a lab and as part of on-site trainings for our products where we ask people to use our product on one of our test platforms such as a tablet or laptop with additional tracking enabled such as eye and hand movement.

It is not uncommon for these users to be unable to create a test account as without their home computer or phone they cannot read and respond to email confirmation requests. Of course this might be highlighting a shortcoming of our registration protocol but that aside, this barrier is real (at least for some of our users).

If users can't switch browsers because their "account information" is tied up in them, switching to a new OS is going to be completely beyond their ability.
Is there any evidence that latency is an issue?
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Lol I walked into that, I admit it.

But Dropbox is something for laymen and casual consumers, it had a massive convenience quotient — Dokku and Netlify (and surge.sh and Heroku, etc) are for developers specifically, and git pushing to website generator is more or less the same experience with all of those services. There isn’t a gulf of difference between using Netlify and creating a Dokku droplet on DigitalOcean...

Edit: comment below helped me too, CDN, SSL, pretty URLs. All good value with Netlify. Thanks.
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Without a doubt, but it makes me incredibly sceptical of flight times now.
I think "the entire time this thing has existed" is plenty long.
Yeah, what I'm saying is that it is a minority of women who pursue that strategy. The vast majority of women are seeking a monogamous and exclusive relationship.
...As opposed to actually publishing AI software... I’m so ashamed being a european working in tech those past few years...
Well, without their free tier they probably wouldn't be as big as they are today. It's the same model as freemium apps: get big, then start charging.
I work for a FTSE 100 company and we recently completed a POC on GCP.

The sales guy was/is pushy but tbh the tech is very prescriptive on how things are done, it's the Google way or it doesn't work. That is not how enterprise works, you need to adapt to each customer.

We have lots of AWS and plan on using it more, we might be doing it sub optimally but it works.
For reference you need to use Cloudfront to back S3 static sites (kinda sucky) to get SSL - We do that on prod but we also use netlify for dev (we could for both, but AWS existed before in out estate, accounting etc)
Interesting. In Atlanta, a large number of "mixed-use" developments over the last 10 or so years are all anchored by one or more big box stores or at least a grocery store.
So is Google deciding to use Greek names for all their cloud services now?
Its an accounting interface that is replacing Oracle ERP, and its what the business folks know...
AFAIK he also invented the quick time event in that game -- the scourge of 'interactive movie' games ever since.
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That assumes we have (any) tests, or benchmarks to refer to. Plus, we have a decent amount of legacy java apps (java 6 - 7) and we'd be going straight to 11. On the project I'm on now, it's not a smooth transition.
Ok, this is a HIGHLY abbreviated overview that I'm sure other LGBTQ+ folks would say doesn't get it exactly right:

If we decouple the idea of gender (societal expectations for men/women -- e.g. boys like blue, girls like pink. Boys wear shorts, girls wear skirts.) from the idea of sexual/genetic characteristics, then we can start to discuss what it means to be a man vs what it means to be male.

Manliness and femininity are both spectrums -- you can imagine folks who are real tough manly men and folks who are not. We call these two spectrums the gender binary -- people typically fall into the manly spectrum somewhere, or in the feminine spectrum somewhere.

Nonbinary folks feel excluded by those spectrums for one reason or another. Nonbinary is an umbrella term that can include people who are agender (e.g. I don't identify with any gender), genderfluid (e.g. sometimes I feel masculine, sometimes feminine), genderqueer (e.g. I'm going to take the elements from each spectrum I like and make my own thing), etc.

For a more concrete example, people like David Bowie are often held as icons for the nonbinary community (again, not everyone agrees with me here). Eddie Izzard also famously played with gender. Ruby Rose and Tilda Swinton identify as genderfluid. There's a lot of different people under the broad umbrella of nonbinary.

> Can you share some experiences?

I've been told, "Your pronouns don't matter". I've had my bathroom use policed (I often feel uncomfortable in mens/womens restrooms and strongly prefer gender neutral spaces). I've had coworkers ask, "So does that mean you fuck men?" in a way that is clearly a set up to a joke.

Every day I make a conscious choice on my presentation (clothes, hair style, etc.). I typically choose to present in a masculine way because it makes my life easier, even though it's a presentation I am less happy with. There's a surprising amount of cognitive load for me for something that's relatively mindless for most people. Do I dress in a way that makes me happier, but results in a lot more sideways glances (and possibly violence?) or do I dress in a way that keeps me safer but less happy?

I understand that they/them pronoun use is not common, and I'm never upset when I correct people, but some people have told me, point blank, "Your pronouns are wrong and gross" or "I will use they/them, but you should know I'm lying to your face when I do so."

These sorts of experiences are distractions from what I really want to do, which is build awesome engineering teams and solve hard technical problems. But they're unfortunately a reality of (at least) the software world in the US and most likely in the broader workplace.
Yeah, Canadian grade school history textbooks are a joke. Be a good parent, don't let your kids get all of their historical education from your school district's standard textbook. :- )
The operative word here is managed runtime. Jvm wants to completely own your program, heart and soul. You can also write freestanding code in c (and rust, d, zig I assume although I don't know enough about it). I believe there is a dialect of c# that allows you to write freestanding code, but it's not really c# so much as c#-flavoured c with some extra features, so it's inferior to other c alternatives.

As for type safe system languages, ada?
Somehow I always thought the U-2 is like a gliding plane, quiet and slow. But then I saw one at an airshow last year and I was pretty impressed how loud and powerful the plane sounded. It also climbed extremely steeply which kind of makes sense considering that it has get up to 30 km altitude within a reasonable time.
> if we have mass immigration and no borders - the rich differences between us will dissolve

(US centric:) The US had mass migration from Europe around 1900, did the differences between the US and Europe dissolve? Did the Irish Catholics dissolve the differences between Christian sects in the US? Does the proximity to Mexico make Texas less distinct from the rest of the US? Did the introduction of pasta eliminate the desirability of visiting Rome?

Culture isn't a conserved resource. New generations invent new culture with the people they know around them. Despite the open borders inside the US, we didn't stop being distinct regions. Did New Yorkers stop being New Yorkers when kids invented Rap?
It doesn't look like misunderstanding. There was more than enough information about how bad this bill is. I'd blame corruption here.
Where do unicorns come from? It's still mostly a few elite schools
My understanding is that in the US there are even companies which can be hired by hospitals and other care centers to "optimize" the codes before the final submission to the insurance. I take this to mean that they can ensure that you're using the right codes and also probably try to maximize the payout.
Disclaimer: This is personal observation.

Fetishization of low-level languages by primarily Javascript developers, plus it has the same socially liberal online community that Javascript has, due to Mozilla.

I hope this comment doesn't portray any bias.
There is some karma here at least, as those 20 year olds who establish a culture of age discrimination will themselves become old and be discriminated against.
"A necropsy revealed a ruptured abscess in her intestinal tract."

Makes you wonder if she ate some of those metal fragments.
And more here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2013/04/29/cute-cats-to-t...
It happened to some friends of mine, who were normal mid-low tier middle aged tech workers and who actually were born in the area. They made a few bad choices and ended up on the streets in their 40s. One of them killed herself.

There seems to be lots of people as you say, but I'm sure if rent was cheap, that would help out a lot. I dunno if you've ever been to the SF Bay Area, but rent is REALLY high. The only reason I stayed as long as I did was I had rent control.

The problems listed by this guy are real: the nimbyism of property owners is insane, and the city bureaucracy (pretty much everywhere in the area -Berkeley was particularly lol) is completely bonkers. I'd also point out that civic groups that should help things, like various homeless advocates, generally seem to make things worse. At one point there was an actual $1000+/month subsidy which paid people to remain homeless. You'd lose it if you got housing! I'm pretty sure Newsom got rid of it (to much howling), but it really stuck with me.
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i understand the point -- that SF is ludicrously expensive. however that point is muddled when you see the budget breakdown. show me a reasonable budget where youre not spending 6K a year on CLOTHES and then i'll be better suited to argue the original point of the article
Maven, Hibernate, Jersey, Jettison/Jackson. All developed on Java 7 I believe, so the jump is rather large.
Thanks for the response, sorry if I was being too nosy. The value of permanence, or the lack of it, seems worth consideration in this context.
> this setting causes problems with google captcha - the number of challenges that you will need to solve will drastically increase

No kidding. I'm talking about ~30-40 clicks (1 click per task in the captcha grid)
I've had six ferrets at a time. Whoever coined "barrel of monkeys" never met a business of ferrets: a swirling ball of play, character, and mischief looking for trouble. They'll steal anything not tied down and hide it under the couch usually. Their favorite toy is a length of dryer exhaust hose: they spend hours running through and ambushing whoever comes out the end.
Talking to various inhabitants of the city was like 80% of the magic, for me. In fact, I usually made it a point to try to exhaust the population's dialogue options before the next "stage" of the game, which would cause their dialogue to change.
> Not to forget Buddha of Bamiyan, Afghanistan.

That was the taliban.
Hackers keep North Korea's weapons program running
why would so many hate Kotaku? I never found anything wrong with it. Maybe even the liberal aspect should make it more appealing.
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I'd very much appreciate the write-up... I've not been able to find a very coherent (and current) best-practice document. Where can we find it when it's up?
So, if I'm understanding this right, it's in Germany and Sweden's own political interests to significantly increase their populations?
Are you implying that leveraging that notion isn’t a business strategy?
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One thing I am finding really nuts is that, in spite of what we now know about climate change, North American drivers are currently thirsting for larger and larger, less fuel efficient, very expensive trucks and sport utility vehicles. Auto manufacturers are currently tripping over themselves to design and produce larger vehicles to satisfy that demand.

Given that, I have a really hard time reconciling the "we just can't do anything, sorry, it'll hurt our freedoms" attitude with the "I don't care about my CO2 output" attitude that is evident in the consumption behaviours of most people I see. It's as if they consider outputting tonne after tonne of carbon into the atmosphere as a point of pride or immutable entitlement.
Okay, but considering that it could save you a huge amount of time overall, next time you're looking for a job consider searching harder for one that has paid overtime opportunities. (But not enough to enable workaholism.)
I think it has nothing to do with the company thriving. They have to do this now that more and more states are moving fast food order takers to $15/hour. There has to be some upside to work for BoA instead. Raising minimum wage will definitely force low end wages up but my worry is will it also raise prices by the same percentage (within some small timeframe) such that the employees buying power remains the same. The question is always "What can you buy with the money you have left?". I also worry that this devalues people who went to trade schools for low wage jobs, things like an EMT. They may only be making $22/hour and they invested a lot of time and money to do better than fast food. I don't know if there is enough money to give these people a percentage raise even to maintain their buying power. These economic systems are super complex and interesting (even though I barely understand them).
Ah the popular "the US is too large and too diverse to function" excuse. Not that long ago the size and diversity was seen as a unique strength of the US. When did "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" become "societies only work when they are homogeneous"?
Sales, support, history of stability in terms of business and pricing, existing relationships, general accessibility and transparency in terms of plans for the future.

They lack absolutely everything that makes a successful enterprise company.
Posting here as well in case folks aren't reading the other thread: https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/sf/sessions?session=SVR209
It also doesn't necessarily sit well with me. Yes, inflation can cause wages to rise, but the real issues are the disparities between the pay of the top employees and the lowest employees. If this lowers the (percentage) gap by a significant fraction then it is a net positive IMO.
There are many places in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and probably most of Africa where a Chinese national can easily get a business visa to set up shop there.

Heck, given the amount of money invested, a visa for a first world country might be possible too.
Even without subsidies solar is cheaper than coal - but its only cheaper while it is producing.

In terms of a stable supply noting beats natural gas right now, as solar or wind plus batteries is too expensive. In time that will change. Basically no one is making new coal fired plants any more and many are shutting down as they are too costly up against cheap natural gas.

Subsidy free new plants: https://www.carbonbrief.org/what-does-subsidy-free-renewable...

I can't wait until stored renewable is cheaper though. Bring on the clean air/low green house gas future.
Opera has a chrome-based engine since 2013 more-less. I guess their old engine were called Trident, and its gone. Also i think they are now owned by a Chinese company.

Edit: oops, Trident was the Microsoft browser engine.. i guess i meant 'Presto' as the name of the old ditched Opera web engine.
There's a whole section on "Enabling portability with Knative" and even though I only skimmed the page, I got the message that this is an open standard just like Kubernetes.

As for running regular Docker/OCI containers, I would put more emphasis on how awesome this is for developers:

It's just regular HTTP in Docker containers. You can debug and develop this locally without mocking anything, and it's the same code that runs in production!

And it's all open source. No need to install a Lambda emulator that is almost, but not quite, like the real thing.

I never even considered using AWS Lambda due to the lock in and how annoying it is to work with, but this is something I'll evaluate (by trying it on my local k8s cluster).