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This hasn't been my experience. I've asked questions that in retrospect were fairly stupid and I've only been treated with respect.
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Honestly having a collection of photos on this site that backlogs this far back would be incredible. Not just saying that because I built it (but I also because I built it)
I like how this news was posted on Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend.
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Unlikely, I'm pretty sure he's dead since a while back.

You need money to survive. There are ways of getting rich, but few have anything to do with how much value you provide. If anything, the wrinkly ass hats who are ruining this world for profit are net negative. Being rich is easiest of course, that's how it mostly happens.

The giant pyramid scheme known as Capitalism is going Dodo one way or other, that much is obvious to me.
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"Taxes. Taxes. Taxes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaen3b44XY
I mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, but since you'll see the reply here; look into Vert.X if you haven't already.

It already does most of what you want and has support for native epoll transport.

I'm not sure what led Vert.X to be discarded, maybe not a Java shop? But we've used it extremely successfully for high performance REST and I know of several high profile tech companies that swear by it.

There's nothing I know of that compares with Vert.X in performance, stability, and popular adoption
All of those are more than just brokerages. They all have consumer banks (in the case of TD Ameritrade, a decent-sized one). Schwab manages their own mutual funds. Fidelity is one of the top providers of 401k services in the US (and also manages their own mutual funds).

Each of these companies is far more diverse than Robinhood, and their valuations are not comparable.
Almost everything we do is technically artificial happiness, it just matters how personally satisfied you are with what you do for entertainment.

I don't think it really has anything to do with recognizing something as being artificial happiness. It just has to do with change. There are speedrunners who code for a living, come home and compete for the fastest times on any number of games, spend their time attending things like AGDQ or contributing to the various micro communities within the scene.

I think people tend to fall into either passive or proactive mindsets for their hobbies. And it's a sort of spectrum over time influenced by the communities you belong to. If you're part of a community for your hobby, then you get more out of it due to community momentum. Sort of like the person who plays games to relax after work, versus the person participating in a speedrunning community for a specific game.
He was a bully. He really was.

Was.

People change in 20 or 30 years. I sure don't want to be judged by some of the things I did 30 years ago, when I was a hypercompetitive jerk (also socially clueless, and a few other things).

And I don't think that the "vast majority" of Gates' profits came from patents in the Global South. It came from copyrights, and primarily in the First World.
My layman's interpretation:

Taking the author's argument that a/b = the number x, for which x * b = a, it's easy to draw this out to it's logical conclusion:

For numerators (that is: a) other than 0, you get impossible equations. That is: 1 / 0 = "the number which, when multiplied by 0 is 1." In equation form: x * 0 = 1 Well no such number exists. Therefore x can be said to be "no number."

But for the case where a and b are both zero, the equation becomes: x * 0 = 0. And in this case, the answer is any number, since any number multiplied by zero = 0.

So we can think of 0 / 0 as "any number" and non-0 / 0 as "no number".

That means assigning each instance of 0/0 to a variable is a very good solution. Because we use a letter to represent an unknown number in basic algebra, but in linear algebra we also use a letter to represent a value which could be any number. As in the equation for a line: y=mx+b, where x and y can both take on any value.
"Public employees, Public employees, Public employees"
This is untrue. French innovators figured out how to solve this equation already back in 1784.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine

If issues are not addresses properly they will be addressed improperly.
I don't think you nor the other person that responded to me give nearly enough credit to building on top of something compared to coming together to build something from scratch.

For example, open the original DotA in the scenario editor and look how simple it is. Some of the hardest things in game development are already done for them. The DotA creator could basically churn on their idea trivially at that level of abstraction.

Of course, coming up and implementing a fun game is the "other 90%" of game development, but the WC3 kit also heavily constrains you the same way RPG Maker 2000 does.

I just don't think this has much relation to the original claim that bazaar-style development would help this game along. Scenario editors are just worlds different. Consider how much work Miegakure's creator would have to do to arrive at the sort of custom game concept or Half-Life mod we're even talking about. WC3 and HL both already existed, for example.

Anyways, my guess is that Miegakure was a cute tech demo, but the developer has trouble lifting it into an actual game. For example, they also created http://4dtoys.com/, and it looks really interesting, but it's also hard to see how to advance from that concept to a more polished game. As opposed to, say, a tech demo based on portals.
Gates would agree
On reflection I do agree on the ethics of it - if the authors have a defensible reason for using it, they should make full disclosure on first run. I've submitted a github issue to that effect.

The pragmatics are still in favour of it for me - I haven't found another Windows terminal that does everything I want as effectively. Of course I switched off the analytics (scanning settings is always the first thing I do on installing anything). I do tend to try new terminals I come across because electron does seem daft for a terminal, but for now Terminus really does a fine job.
Vim with plugins. At this point I am the only one at my company who does not use VSCode, it would be nice to be able to share new tricks with someone...
> Collier says we’re experiencing three big rifts: 1) a spatial divide between booming cities and struggling small towns ...

Strange then that in the US the "booming cities" are voting for more restrictions on capitalism than the "struggling small towns". Yet this is his primary explanation for a crisis in capitalism?

Does he mean that the crisis in capitalism is caused by its success? There may be something to that. The most vocal protesters against capitalism tend to come from more economically privileged classes, judging by, say, college students versus blue collar workers. The Australian elections and Brexit referendum echoed that pattern. It's as if protesting capitalism is a luxury good.
One thing I've kind of decided on is minimal use of hjkl keys in vim in favor of UHK's MOD +

I
J K L

The biggest thing I use vimstyle for is 'U' for undo and line jumping with <line> SHIFT+G.
Two kinds of people in this system. One of them thinks if you work hard you can climb your way out of poverty through your own self determination and hard work.
That's an insane evaluation for 2m customers, most of which are probably playing with small "if-this-goes-im-too-scared-and-no-longer-a-customer" amounts of money.

Robinhood are also hilariously inept; See the box-spread fiasco and the checkings and savings account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/ah2x2t/what_i...
I'd imagine Robin Hood will sell insurance, their own funds, mortgages through a broker i.e. everything that those people need and would get anywhere else.

'RobinHood' is just a portal for sales to a generation.

Also, FYI, this name 'RobinHood' i.e. a brand created to make people think somehow they are 'good' (and all of their 'occupy wallstreet we wanted to do somethiong' BS) is laughable rubbish and kind of stain on a generation. Robin Hood is the same as anything else in a different config. Nike is not somehow 'moral' because they take some arbitrary stand on their billboards. They still pay people pennies to make shoes. It's a sad statement to think any of this marketing actually works. It's fine to 'want to do good' but if people can't understand that it's only 'talk' ... well, very naive.
> [Capitalism] is incompatible with the continuing existence of a living planet.

This seems like a pretty extreme viewpoint. Can you explain your reasoning?
Also allows me to do some musical profiling. This identifies them as probably a GenXer or so. Because you would've had to be between about 15 and 25 to like the Spice Girls in 1997, let's say up to 30 y.o. to keep their MP3 ironically and/or nostalgically. And I'm claiming there's no way in hell you would've "discovered" them later, so that's a 15-year age range, birth years bounded 1967-1982, current ages 37-52.

Stevie Wonder and Cat Stevens tend to push it more toward the older end of that range.

AC/DC correlates with that entire cohort, so doesn't provide any additional or contradictory information. Unless we knew whether it was Bon Scott era or Brian Johnson, heh heh.

Expected age 46 ± 5.
IMO, and likely in many others' opinions there are simply too many oligopolies in the world. Too much concentration of wealth in too few hands.

People see that the benefit the large majority of the wealthiest people / organizations bring to society is far from optimal compared to their capacity to do so.

I think it's not necessarily that there is an enormous divide between the wealthiest and the poorest. I think the important point is it requires close to an act of God, as a poor person (or just not wealthy), to make the kind of dent most of us want to make in the universe.
You could assume the pessimistic vision in which we never start "living peacefully and within its means" (and barring large-scale changes in our biological makeup and/or totalitarian governments you can't imagine, it seems likely simply from game-theoretical considerations). But even in that pessimistic vision, we should colonize space. Why? Because in that vision, we're going to shit our bed anyway, and there's a whole universe of wooden planks and feathers waiting to be turned into more beds.

Seriously, it's not like there's some intrinsic worth in all these rocks spinning around fusion reactors. To the best that we can tell, there aren't any other sapient beings around who could claim we're infringing on their sense of beauty. It's just us, the only ones possessing the spark of giving meaning to things, and a lot of dead rocks waiting to be used.

Personally, I don't think we'll stop fighting and doing stupid things, but I feel it's entirely possible that - assuming we survive the next few decades as a technological civilization - we will fix up this planet. And space habitation could be very helpful in this in multiple ways - beamed energy, geoengineering, moving some kinds of manufacturing to orbit, experience in managing ecosystems gained on running closed-loop habitats, etc.
Oh, don’t get me wrong: I love better codecs and I want them to happen. I’m just with the person upthread who was saying H.264 will stick around: Netflix and YouTube can upgrade rapidly because they control the clients and have robust transcoding pipelines: if it saves 10% on bandwidth costs they’ll recoup the work quickly. It’s upgrading everyone else that’ll take awhile, especially since so much video is natively produced as H.264.
+1 RedHat 7 and 8.
Having grown up in Sweden, I'd say that's mostly history by now.

It used to work a lot better, but they've been privatizing and monetizing non-stop during my life so far and it's mostly same ice cream/different flavor these days from what I can see.
You won't get to facts via appealing to authority.

WHO has been wrong for example in regards to meat and cancer: http://www.diagnosisdiet.com/meat-and-cancer/

When you get right down to it, the only plausible
evidence to suggest that red meat might be risky to human
colon health is contained in two, that’s TWO, human
studies, both of which were very small and poorly
designed, and therefore unable to give us useful
information about the effects of red meat on cancer risk.
These studies are inconclusive at best, and worthless at
worst.
Problems usually tend to grow stronger as you look away and even if your escapism works, there will always be this looming black cloud in the back of your head.

The problem is, that over time you can grow so acustomed to this black cloud that you forget about it’s existance and your feel bad and worse and when everything becomes to much you face it. And only then you will realize how much you really suffered.

Life is short. Too short to fill it with distractions.

If your problems seem big, do it like a mountaineer: one step at a time. If you want to reach that summit in one step you will not even start the journey. Break your problem into managable pieces and try to change habits in away that helps you to take these steps.

Find help and talk to people about it, promise a good friend to come back to them after a month and tell them how you did (even if you fucked up).
China is communist. They're arguably worse. Not fully embracing nuclear power when we still had time to avoid global catastrophe will probably be the thing that's really done us in.
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Capitalism by definition is a paperclip maximizer - it will run untill it convert entire planet into a profit.
Well, in javascript 0/0 == NaN while 1/0 == Infinity.

An interesting thing is they have the value -0 so you can set a=-0 and 1/a returns -Infinity.
So? There's more than one party negotiating that rate of pay.

Think it's unfair for one person to negotiate against a company? Maybe, but that's where unions become useful.

There's ill will against them, and they're not widely used (at least in tech), but maybe that's the problem. If so it's not a problem worth tearing down the whole system.
This is some incredible level of compatibility. Cudos to MS stance on that subject.
For JS and TypeScript, I use VSCode cos of all the extensions and the ecosystem.

I used to use Sublime with a lot of configuration and some custom plugins but I gave up its performance to VSCode convenience.

I use VIM for other stuff and VIM key bindings on both VSCode and Sublime.

I sometimes miss the experience with Sublime but just too lazy to set it up properly for JS and TypeScript.
Consider this has to not only compete with itself but other ways of generating profit. Narrow mindedly: what if you invested the same dollar amount in middle management instead? More broadly: how much does $232 million in R&D generate?

Once you consider other portions of the business are actually capable of generating revenue as well the original question of "how much value can the CEO actually generate" still stands.
I, on the other hand, see these threads and wonder how arrogant and fraudulent our industry is when programmers have to pat eachother on the back and say the problem is git.

Git is a tool for creating and navigating a directed acyclic graph of revisions. It’s fine to chuckle and make fun about how esoteric that sounds, but at the same time I expect people that work on my team to rise to the challenge of proving that they occasionally attended data structures and algorithms class.

I understand not taking a day to learn git, I really do. It’s hard to find the time to learn everything that comes your way at work, and you’re not exposed to the practical challenges that augment documentation as part of learning if you try to crush it out all at once. But, if someone can’t learn git, I don’t know what to do with them. We’re not cranking out websites in an agile, typewriter-pool style open-office, sweatshop. I need people that can learn things at least as complicated as git, because they’re gonna have to keep up.
The difficulty in making retro style (programming) hardware is that any technique you use to use to make it nowadays could be trivially be boosted to be much more powerful, sufficiently powerful in fact you could probably just run a software emulator for the thing.

I'm going the route of others with making a fantasy console, and will be content to run it on mobile platforms in an emulator, which is what happens with the pico8.

That said, I do have a half baked idea in my head to make something from a AtMega and an ESP32. If the higher clockspeed of the esp32 is enough to make it pretend to be a valid xram interface for the AtMega. Then output s-video out the DACs.
Agreed, also in the article he advocates for higher taxes on the wealthiest people.
I don't see how a billionaire who holds this position can be anything but genuine.
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Not really. To go on with the story, there were 20 stadiums across the country with the whole setup (remote control PCs, SGI Octanes, etc) so every day we worked hard to either correct bugs or implement required features (because we were so late), then I proceeded to push the new program to the central server.

Usually every day, before the match the guy in charge of the setup at the stadium would call me to ask if there was any changes to the setup, programs, etc. One day in Lyon there was to be the first match that could end with extra time. We implemented the required functionality in the remote program during the previous night, so I was home a few minutes before the match was about to begin when I realized that Carlos (the guy in charge) hadn't called me. Uh oh... So while the broadcast began, I called him
"hey Carlos, you didn't call!
-Yeah, no worry, I know how tired you are I didn't want to bother you, I can manage it...
- Sure, but did you install the new version, the one that support extended time?
-Uh, no...
-Well, let's pray..."

You should know that the program was several tens of megabytes large, and had to be downloaded through an ISDN line (64k). The very same line had to stay free during the match to transmit statistics data to the central server, so it was absolutely necessary to download the installer at least a full hour before the match...

What do you think happened? I watched the match in anguish. Half-time, still 0-0. 89 minutes, 0-0. God hates us... End of regular time, 0-0, extra time!

Carlos calls back:
"- what should I do now?
- just reset the counter and run the extra time like a regular new match."

The problem was that the program didn't manage the final score display, with the scores for the two half-times and two extra time periods...

So when the match ended, I told Carlos:
"-OK, so you have to run the final score card manually. As the program can't send the correct data to fill in the screen, you must enter the data manually"

Fortunately I had sweated long nights on these screens, I knew precisely how many fields there were ... So I said:
"-go to the Octane keyboard. On the keypad, press 1001 + enter. Press Tab 4 times. Press 0. Press tab twice. Press 0. Press Tab 3 times. Press 2. Press Tab twice. Press 1. Press ctrl + "+" on the Keypad. Press Ctrl+Enter. Say "On air!" to the director through the intercom".

I was watching my TV, like 1 billion other people. The score card appeared, with the correct values. I can't overstate how relieved I was.

So during the finals, for the very first time, the program was complete. Nothing was missing. Everything went on perfectly smoothly. So sitting next to the Octanes, I spent the whole match playing Unreal on a spare PC. I didn't watch a single second of the finals. I was done with football once and for all. I've never watch a single match ever since.
What tools have you been using to scan NPM/Python/Ruby/Go packages for malicious dependencies? How do I know if one of the dependencies in my package is not going to steal my NPM credentials, for example?
>Just in terms of definitions, a crisis of capitalism would be the possibility of some sort of collapse, say financial, from too much QE, stock buy-backs and so-forth, or environmental, from climate change, say.

I think you can make a reasonable case that all these crises exist. Schumpeter argued that at the heart of capitalism is its ability to diverge from equilibrium and to innovate through the process of creative destruction.

And I don't think much of this is in sight, hell it even has people like Thiel worried who aren't exactly known for being anti-capitalist. You have financial crises that are only barely kept in check, you have the rise of the 'cognitive class' that Bill Gates points to in this article and that will create new widespread divide, you have ecological destruction and you have political inability to cope.

And as can also be seen in this thread, the first response is always to argue that there is no alternative. But that doesn't mean that the system isn't screwed up, it just means as the late Mark Fisher put it, that we have completely abolished our capacity to imagine alternative futures.
To be extra pedantic, it's 32k code units, so some characters take up two.
>When f(0)≠0, we can state decisively that there is no such Q

This is false. This relies on an assumption not stated - that f is continuous.

For a simple counterexample:

f(x) = 1, x=0

f(x) = x, x!=0

g(x) = x

Limit of the ratio as x approaches 0 is 1.
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Well, the Wi-Fi Alliance kicked them out, so maybe the USB-IF, based in Oregon, is a possibility. It's kind of scary how fast everything under the American sun has been weaponized.
I made two separate, unrelated statements. In any case, libvpx isn't the best VP9 encoder for quality. EVE is.

The point is that you can select the VP9 encoder that makes the most sense for your use case. You can choose from EVE, libvpx, Intel SVT-VP9, Intel Quick Sync, NGCodec, mobile device encoders, etc.
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> OK, let's just be super conservative and say only 50% of Robinhood's accounts are funded

I mean, we're all just guessing here but 50% seems _super generous_ to me. It's really easy to sign up for a Robinhood account. I'd love to know what the real numbers are :)
Not everybody worships wealth. Not everybody buys into the myth of the tech genius/entrepreneurial wizard. Some folks, myself included, don't feel that it's even remotely possible to amass billions in personal capital without doing some truly dirty, nasty, awful things to many other people along the way.

So, frankly, I don't really care that Bill Gates is now a soft sweater-wearing sexagenerian who likes to talk about solving global problems with his ill-gotten gains, instead of a cutthroat corporate executive crushing his competitors and perverting the market in the process. The fact is that one led to the other.

I want to hear less from delusional, egotistical billionaires who think that they themselves can solve the problems we face as a society, and more from our actual, you know, political leaders. I didn't vote for Bill Gates, thank you.
"Exponential" is often colloquial short-hand for EXPTIME, which is closed under some useful operations (because there's an "any polynomial" in the exponent.)

For one thing, it's robust to reasonable changes of model, for "No true Scotsman" definitions of "reasonable".
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Seems this tends to go exactly the way Scrum and Agile did. If done correctly by the whole company it works well. But in most cases it will probably be a mandate by top management and the rest has to come up with some nonsense metrics and objectives and just play a game.

I think more and more any methodology will work if followed honestly and adapted to real world problems. In the end it's always the disconnect between what an organization claims to do vs what it really does. If that disconnect is small things are good, but in a lot of cases the disconnect is big.