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This is pretty interesting, I'm thinking about how edge cases will be handled. Consider a product like Airtable: at present I think most people would classify it as a consumer productivity tool. Firebase on the other end would be a platform as a service. Airtable is adding features that make it more of a platform as a service. I wonder where the line will be drawn for the new BSL.
Hi Matthias, I really enjoy your videos. I hope you didn't take my comment as a criticism of your work - it was really aimed at the broader culture of woodworking. Your videos are experimental, interdisciplinary and in many ways orthogonal to that culture.

The Sellers approach is obviously far more time-consuming than what I might call the New Yankee Workshop approach, but it has tremendous merits for new woodworkers. It's very easy to be intimidated by the huge workshops full of expensive machinery that you see on YouTube or in the magazines, but Sellers makes it absolutely clear that you can do fine woodworking with a tiny amount of space and a handful of cheap second-hand tools.

Other YouTubers promote a similar message - Rex Krueger springs to mind - but I think that Sellers offers a uniquely clear vision of how traditional skills and tools can make woodworking a more accessible and enjoyable pastime. For many amateur woodworkers, getting it done is almost besides the point - it's about the quietness and concentration of skilled manual work, the smell of the shavings, the satisfaction of a sharp tool and a neat dovetail.
I think the general U.S. population is okay with monopolies that make their lives better. Apple will continue to push the envelope. Developers can fight back (does anyone remember the Apple vs Spotify thing?) but if Apple keeps putting out a consistent quality experience, the vast maturity of the population won't be sympathetic.
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The somewhat counterintuitive solution to this is to first figure out what interests you, learn a lot about it, and then go look for the organization out there that needs that particular skillset. Or as Venkatesh Rao put it [1]:

"First become a key, then go look for a lock."

Yes, there's risk in that, and no, there's no guarantee that whatever you specialize in will be useful to someone. But the advantage is that you're basically guaranteed to love your job, because you chose the job yourself and then just pitched a lot of corporations to see who was offering it. There's also a self-respect boost to being in the driver's seat and thinking of your career in terms of which organization gets to be lucky enough to have you work for them.

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/29/the-key-to-act-two/
I have so much respect for her. I tried to start an open hardware business and even with a big successful kickstarter I couldn’t do it. I always wanted to make great products and fun easy to follow tutorials, but I failed. Seeing her company dominate was at first discouraging but has become cathartic. Even though I never made those helpful products and tutorials, someone has. It helps me feel like my failure wasn’t that bad. I’m so glad Lady Ada and her team have been doing so well.
If it makes you feel better, Elon Musk flies around in his private jet while tweeting "why not go renewable now?" rather than taking a more nuanced stance.
Depends on your definition of PC display.

Apple Pro XDR is a really high end device.

Eizo, NEC and Dell UltraSharp are the usual suspects for high quality displays, including some exotic offerings like 1:1 aspect ratios, panels for radiology, air traffic control, etc.

For programming, I totally miss 16:10 2K displays (2560x1600), which allow splitting the screen in two windows that are ample enough for long text lines and have an aspect ratio that is close to an A4 paper (sqrt(2)).

Sadly, 16:10 are getting discontinued. I totally hate 16:9. Not even LG for Apple are 16:10, despite the ridiculous price.

But Apple Pro XDR is obviously not a display for programmers, so none of my comment is really a comparison to it.
Why do profit margins matter at all here? It's only a signal that there is a problem if margins are very high because there is no guarantee that an entrenched monopolistic company will be efficient or make a strong profit.

If you want to do a comparison compare consumer internet cost vs performance to places with a healthy and regulated market for internet service.

Also, by this logic Amazon could never be regulated. It doesn't make sense.
> ”If hard work pays off, show me a rich donkey."

What a weird analogy, as if spending all night pointlessly digging hole in your background correlates with wealth. Though I think if you did have the grit to do that you will find success in many endeavors.

It takes hard work to go from nothing to something. People doing the hard work are not confused about what’s meaningful.
For what? There's no utility for learning Japanese characters for most Americans. I can come up with a very long list of things people should know how to read before I get to foreign-language character sets.
Yeah thats another thing. It requires everyone to be more careful these days and do not get into such scams. However, Air Canada's ban is quite interesting there.
> Why can't I have fast, low instruction cost communication between any two CPUs, regardless of which core it's on? In other words, why do I have to do that bookkeeping to have super fast communication between threads/actors?

L1 cache is literally inside of the core of modern chips. You can't beat its speed because its physically the closest speed possible.

Moving cache further away (ex: L2 or L3) means more wires, more capacitance, and slower electricity. Electricity doesn't move instantly: it has to fight the capacitance of wires. The wider the wires, the more electrons you need to put onto the wire before its voltage changes. There's also inductance: the longer the wire is, the longer you need to hold a voltage before electrons actually decide to move.

Second: L1 caches do a LOT of book-keeping for you. All cores on modern systems (anything more modern than DEC Alpha from the 90s) will have cache coherence automatically.

That's downright huge, and modern multithreaded programming would be damn near impossible without the ordering guarantees of basic cache coherence. (yes: even ARM / MIPS and their "relaxed memory model" are more coherent than chips from earlier eras).

So first of all, be gracious about the level of memory ordering available to the modern programmer.

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So how are caches coherent? Most modern caches use some form of MESI to communicate with each other (invisibly: this is "below" assembly language and is happening at the hardware level).

When one cache claims "exclusive access" to the data, no other cache will write to it (although they may read stale versions of that data from their own cache). When that core / L1 cache is done, it will "invalidate" the data.

Modern cache coherence protocols can go faster: MESIF for Intel means that writes may be (F)orwarded to other caches automatically (which is slightly faster than (E)xclusive -> (I)nvalid -> (E)xclusive in the 2nd core).

Again, this is all done automatically, because programmers want to have their data look the same from all cores (for some definition of "looks the same").

This does NOT mean that the data is in the correct order however (!!). L1 caches can change the order of reads and writes before the data is shipped to other cores. Indeed, this is the very POINT of L1 cache. If one core is doing a while(true) iter++; loop, its more efficient to merge the writes together and "batch" them out slowly. Ex: Core#2 may see "1, 10, 33, 600" each time it reads the value of "iter".

Indeed, the most efficient implementation of this while(true) iter++; loop is to have "iter" be a register private to a core that has absolutely no communication to the outside world at all.
It intrigues me that murder, even pre-meditated murder, is more tolerable than hateful murder.

We only need to add the stiffener because we actually tolerate pre-meditated murder. But we draw the line at hateful murder.
Sorry I wasn't elaborate. What I was trying to say was SilentCircle had the money, the people, the pedigree, the vision and yet failed. Privacy is a hard sell and one of the reasons is that it is expensive and comes at a cost of inconvenience, unfortunately, given then way BigTech has shaped its offerings over the years.

puri.sm may yet execute well and take-off but privacy remains a seriously hard problem to tackle (due to govt, ad-net, big-tech) yet easily a problem to get passionate about.
My post was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek because I think the GP post is equally absurd. In what way is a current CEO supposed to alter their business practice to make amends for the "abuses of China's past" (presumably including Tiananmen)?
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Still, Apple did not make a blog post about sane defaults. Mozilla did. Apple is completely besides the discussion here.
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I think you may be misunderstanding what he's saying about Android. Here's what he wrote:

> Apple is going to leverage its monopoly position as app provider on the iPhone to force developers (who use 3rd party solutions) to use Sign In With Apple. Keep in mind, that also means building Sign In With Apple into related websites, and even Android apps, at least if you want users to be able to login anywhere other than their iPhones.

The developer will be required to support "Sign in with Apple" on the iPhone - otherwise Apple will reject your app.

Once a user creates an account with "Sign in with Apple", the developer has a choice. They can either:

1. Exclusively support iOS, or

2. Add "Sign in with Apple" across all platforms they support.

Both of these advantage Apple.
Nurseries are for human children; creches are for ineffable alien offspring-rearing purposes.
"previous major release is more enterprise friendly ..."

Previous major release would not have the latest features but it would have the latest bug-fixes. That would be enterprise friendly.
Well, I can tell you right now about the state of linuxulator:

- binaries from ubuntu 16.04 (or even 16.10 IIRC) work fine, the more modern glibc distros don't;
- Steam can't connect to the network.
unfortunate (but necessary) move, considering part of the reason it failed is because Google yanked support (and later certification of Microsoft's implementations of) Google services like YouTube.

It wasn't only the lack of Google apps mind you, but they do have a certain degree of kingmaking ability with whether they put apps on your platform or not.
Not available to the public, so not really in the same category, right?
The protesters were also beset by factionalism. One issue the government had was that it didn't have a reliable partner in negotiations: different student groups had a diverse range of goals, from anti-corruption measures, to more socialism, to more capitalism, to freedom of speech, to democracy, to better housing standards, to lower tuition. And there was a constant tension between moderate and hardline student groups.

Imagine if Occupy Wall Street was 100,000 strong and had occupied Times Square, and the city of New York was trying to negotiate with them to meet their demands.
Don't worry. I know how to do it the proper way an don't do it anyway.

I've once gotten 2 grams of pure crystals rather than pills, done a lot of research (the "limitless" movie inspires to invest in such a research first, reddit and quora are great places to start), experimented a lot (with practices and supplements to take to protect the body from the bad things it does and mitigate tolerance growth) and came to the point when I could marathon for a week without sleeping without even having hangover once I stop. The feelable negative results were (after I've found a proper way) almost none but over-concentration (narrowed mental view), disregulated blood sugar and butt ache caused by 22x7 concentrated working sitting on a chair. Nevertheless I stopped and don't use it and my actual working dose I used on some occasions (but the experiments) to concentrate for hours was almost homeopathic - 3 minuscule sand-like specks a day. I've even helped some addicts to quit gracefully.

As for weed (which isn't legal at my location either yet quite easy to get with little or no risk of prosecution - people use to smoke in the streets and cops walking by don't care) I've tried smoking it (in tiny doses, my body is very sensitive to all the substances) regularly for some time but didn't really like it and now I don't even know where to get it (as well as any other illegal substances, the dealers I knew have vanished over time as I was an extremely infrequent buyer and I don't bother to look for new). It made my mind a way less sharp, some strains made me sleepy, some strains made me crazy, the only thing the weed actually was great with for me was sex.

If you happen to know particularly good strain names I'd love to know too, however. I once met a guy who offered 9 different strains and I haven't bought any just because I didn't knew which I could like.

BTW the only thing other than meth that used to help was 1/4 pill of xanax (especially stacked with sunifiram). But it's almost impossible to get. I was lucky to get 4 pills once so I could take it 12 times and leave a pill for for a rainy day. I've also tried bromozepam but it doesn't do the job for me.
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100% concur to your opinion.

Anecdata, but from couple stories from people who worked/interviewed at VPN providers - I believe that in couple years we'll start see same horror stories of private data issues, like we are having with social network and internet ad businesses today.

EDIT: apparently my anecdata is not anecdotal [0]. When it's race to the bottom for consumer pricing - your bandwith is resold (or at least there's capability to do that) for botnet purposes.

[0] https://restoreprivacy.com/lawsuit-names-nordvpn-tesonet/
Is that really a generalist, though?

In my mind a generalist is someone who e.g. knows quant finance up to hedge fund snuff and knows how to configure wsgi/asgi servers with nginx; can read and rebate legal documentation and use an SMT solver. I don't feel that anyone who hasn't eg watched the recent Jordan Peterson/Slavoj Zizek debate and has a working understanding of Ripser and UMAP can call himself a generalist.
If Apple cared about privacy they would have left China instead of giving up it's iCloud key.

They are focusing on it because of business sense. To upsell people who are able to buy those expensive devices otherwise all devices are now more or less can do the work.

Apple can easily lower their price to match android. They do have insane profits. But I don't see they care about lower class people.
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What if the numbers are based on opt-ins only, and extrapolated?
The common theme with this and some of the other answers is that they're actually adding value, and in a way that's directly related to cryptocurrency, rather than just providing a "greater fool" securities offering.
Technically, ad-tracking is not an invasion to privacy per sé, and does not identify a person. It is always connected to a client, and it is illegal to connect the client browsing data to a real person.

So from that perspective, how is ad-tech a problem for privacy?
>But the key thing was that city officials promised to get out of the media giant's way. They didn't dangle tax breaks, but they did deliver access to public rights of way, expedite the permiting process, offer space in city facilities and provide assistance with marketing and public relations.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/08/04/how-ka...

Provo sold them their fiber network for $1 as another example. Every city that got Google Fiber gave up concessions and promised to help Google expedite construction.
I think it's true as long as they're not pricing as a monopolist would. One could argue that Standard Oil and AT&T (pre-1980s Bell System, that is) made people's lives better, but the prices they exacted from their customers were too high.

On the other hand, the increasing importance of intellectual property to the American economy (vs. the manufacturing economy) -- and the Constitutionally-sanctioned monopolies that come with it -- suggest that perhaps even monopolistic pricing is no longer the concern it once was.
But is is ai taking me to ai.com? Why is firefox making that choice?
Ethereum is currently being used for decentralized finance. It's not vaporware at all: https://defipulse.com/
> it's a NATO statute

And Germany is also in the NATO, so the same rules are still there too.
And that is why af447 went down. Pilot didn't feel copilot pulling up, and computer averaged the inputs... Yeah, that works really well
Under the current regime (post-Reagan is what I mean), there are government bodies that still receive lots of money, and those, as you say, that are getting hollowed. The main thing that I can point to that says that it is corrupt is the fact that white collar crime is largely ignored in the interest of much smaller fish.

There are government agencies that I'd like to see gutted, though, like the prison system, the support of the weapons manufacturing industry by our military which I calculate as grotesquely unecessary, etc. There are others that disagree with me strongly on this issue. I'm not right, just opinionated.
macOS already ships with zsh, and has done so for years, it’s just not the default shell. Unless you want to always have the very latest version of zsh, you don’t need to install it with homebrew.
This is more validation of the threat that cloud providers (mainly AWS) are to businesses built around open source products. Yes, AWS and others are legally permitted by existing open source licenses to create SaaS versions of these open source products, but with cloud computing becoming an increasingly winner-take-all market, it leaves little room for the software's authors to generate revenue via hosted offerings of their software. If you think that the Cockroach Labs, Redis Labs, Mongos, Elastics, etc., of the world provide a net benefit to the software world, I think you have to contend with the fact that there is going to be fewer such companies in the future if AWS keeps eating their lunch.
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In that fecal analogy, Mozilla is a fresh cup of coffee from squirrel-digested coffee beans, while Chrome is a neck deep swim in human sewage.

The privacy points you raise are significant but at no point discredit the very real privacy efforts made by Mozilla and in no way make it comparable to Google.
iPhones can be backed up to iTunes or iCloud or both.
Maybe a good time to change the name as well? Funny names are cute and all but if you want to gain mainstream acceptance for your database product CockroachDB is not the one I would have picked.

Downvoters: if you think names for products do not matter you are mistaken.
I've been working my way through gutenberg books on the kindle - and included a few HG Wells. You forget how good "War of the Worlds" actually is as a novel

Id also recommend PG Wodehouses books on Kindle like Jeeves and Wooster
Just use OpenJDK

https://adoptopenjdk.net/

https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview/
Now is the time to do it.
The desired effect is net-zero carbon emissions. Which means all fossil fuel vehicle emissions must be offset. That'd make it cheaper to switch away from fossil fuel for the vast majority, but there will always be use cases for fossil fuels.
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From my own experience, being a generalist gives you more job mobility. I've gone from web frontend, to server side, to Android and iOS frontend, to mobile infra, now to ML. And keeping things varied keeps me from burning out.

However, specialization will move you further in your lob ladder at a faster pace. The risk is if you specialize in the wrong area, and then that area becomes stale. You'll have a harder time switching to something else.
> New sites would simply need to workaround the lack of 3rd party cookies and accept that user tracking is technically illegal.

Or they would just not support Firefox.

Sadly, I think the moment has passed for Mozilla to make moves like this. They don't have enough marketshare.
Square, Flexport, Uber, Instacart... in that order. The reasons are myriad, but they include a combination of long-term viability, visibility within the market, stability in (or of) their industry, executive team (including the "gossip" surrounding it), and the social cachet a job at each place would look to a future employer, among other reasons.

Good luck out there!
"Maybe Kik could take up the privacy flag?"

I feel like most services that aim to replace another one ... just want that information for their own purposes, not the customer's benefit.
> Moving to e.g. shared scratchpad memory would be a major paradigm shift

Shared scratchpad memory is (slowly) happening in the GPGPU world, at least in very limited circumstances.

But yeah, I think that's why GPGPU programmers are managing to get better scaling than classical CPUs, because GPGPUs are more willing to toy with the memory model, and GPGPU programmers are willing to use those highly-specialized communication features.
Recently discussed with somebody at a major cloud provider and IIRC their response was in essence “I think we’re doing them a favor: ask Neo4j about our release of [hosted graph database service]. We’ve taken a share of their business, but the overall market is much bigger, and they’re doing great. Our hosted products are not even the most polished in the market, and companies like Elastic can easily be compete with us.”

Thoughts?
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What's your Firefox version? I just checked and "browser.urlbar.suggest.searches" still defaults to false on mine, and it doesn't show search suggestions.
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Every iOS device gets cracked relatively quickly, there's nothing stopping security researchers from doing their work.

For the vast majority of users this isn't a concern or even a good idea.
Is the F-1 5 years these days? In my day (~10 years ago) it was 4 years plus a 12 months work permit. If you had a paid summer internship inside of the 4 years, those months worked got deducted from your post-graduation work permit. I had 2 summer internships and a little less than 6 months on my work permit when I graduated.
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