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Big houses in the burbs is not what life is like for everyone getting worried about age discrimination now.

Imagine this:

You took your university education a bit too seriously, entering the workforce after completing a PhD at age, say, 25, immediately after the 2008-crash.

That means you're too young to have been around in the 80s, inventing the world's first online banking or whatever. You were never part of the dot-com bonanza of the 90s. Your parents are probably still alive and you never got any inheritance. You command a medium-level income with your mediocre career, but having had to move to a tech hub (or a major city at least) has meant that you never got much of a chance for your income to turn into savings, due to not having had a chance to get on the real estate ladder and your income going to the landlord and taxman.

You're now 36 and starting to get worried if you'll be able to find another job in this industry if you should lose the one you have now.

Lucky you.
I'm a python guy myself and I love the APL languages. In my mind I put python and APL in the same category of: I spend more of my time thinking about what to write and less time actually banging out text in the editor.
What you're mentioning is all just a side effect of something being extremely accessible. Webdev is very easy to start and get into, but on the deep end, it's just as deep and difficult as coding a backend of your application in Java or Go.

You don't have to search the internet for web dev any more than you have to do so for any other dev job.
See, that's a startup idea, wanna join me to build this together?
-1 it's on Medium
Couldn't agree more.

All that and emojii's sprinkled everywhere like cat vomit.
You need to give Brave a chance. I switched to Brave from Chrome and Firefox months ago. No regret.

https://brave.com/
The story is behind the paywall but I think from my experience that the VB had been an inferior version of smalltalk.
The problem is there is too much noise in Google. Its highly unlikely you can google your way to being a competent software designer

I think relying on Google, at least in the initial days of development is bad. I rather developers struggle their way through relevant documentation than google.
Privilege and race. Of the 235 homicides so far this year in Chicago, just 10 of the victims were white: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-homi....

Likewise, a lot of the health issues are the result of poor nutrition, lead paint, and lead in the tap water. Middle class people live in more recently renovated houses, have more grocery stores nearby, and can afford water filters or bottled water.
I'd say that's essentially what suspend-to-ram means. Booting means throwing that state away and rebuilding it.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a conscious move to put the protesters in a bad light: when military historians look at a battle or war, they make very little distinction between casualties from direct enemy action and casualties from bad environmental and supply conditions (e.g. La Grande Armée vs Russia, the famous infographic). You should not do that, apply military metrics to civilian unrest, but I guess it happens. That being said, there are definitely elements in and around German police forces that will jump at every opportunity to put protesters in a bad light.
I launch my browser with profiles instead of using containers. I have three at the moment:

firefox --no-remote --profile "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/firefox/home" --class="browser-home"

firefox --no-remote --profile "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/firefox/work" --class="browser-work"

firefox --no-remote --profile "$(mktemp -d)"
10 to 20 seconds? What monitor do you have? All decent monitors have a maximum of 5 seconds.
Besides the number of ips what are the advantages?

ipv6 vs ipv4
Which one is better for privacy?

Which one is better for security?

Which one is better for speed?

Which is easier to configure?

Which is better for end user?

Which is better for advanced user / net admin?

Which is better for companies?
Why would the ISP's network deliver a packet to the customer despite that packet having an IP address that doesn't match the IP address the customer leased?

Does this require an adversary who is or who compromises the ISP, possibly by tapping into the coax/fiber/etc in the last mile or by pwning the related nodes?
Also imagine meeting your wife because you did a search query. Since we're in a purely hypothetical plane, both of these are equally plausible.
We generated a few PDFs at work last week which break in Firefox default viewwe, but that we can't reproduce anywhere else =/
> Do white people also fall into crime because of “lack of expectations” as well?

Why not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory is quite race independent FWIW.
Yes, but do you have an idea why that is, why is it so much more reliable to initalize every time than to generate an initialized configuration and reuse that?

Developer errors? Not enough testing?
Splitting up the market more won't do us any good, better support Firefox (even if you somehow prefer Brave) so there can be true competition, if there's just Chrome and 10 tiny others, there will only be Chrome.
I can venture a guess.

The point of a company is to do things that one person can't do by themselves. If you reject most of the coordinating activities, you've rejected the company.

(And according to Coase, the other function of a company is to reduce the friction of making deals: if you need to negotiate a contract every time you want to get a programmer to do their job, you decrease the value of the programmer by the cost of the negotiation.)
For all the people who replied to this supporting the "social need" view - there are enough unGoogleable questions you can draw a conversation around.
That was 1991, OS/2 1.x was the current version, with version 2.0 being previewed in magazines.

The 500 euro difference was for an IBM PC with MCA architecture with OS/2 instead of MS-DOS/Windows 3.0.

PC prices were still incredible high during the 90's, everyone was buying them on credit.

2002 was the first time I managed to buy a PC without credit, thanks to a very nice startup salary during the .com wave.
The reason I walked away from Chrome a couple of years ago is because of the amount of information it sends to Google.

I'm curious to know where Safari stands in that regard: how much and how often does it "call home"?

Oh, and also : how much of it is Open Source? In my experience, Apple is particularly good at OpenSourcing lots of pieces while keeping the juicy bits proprietary. Can Safari be 100% rebuilt from source?
Unfortunately we need to do both. It's much "cheaper" (in money and thermodynamics) to release carbon than to capture it, so we need to stop pumping it into the atmosphere in order for it to make any sense whatsoever to spend money removing it.
The list you provide is missing some man made sources of CO2 and methane. It's just CO2 emissions from fuel combustion.

Meat production is almost as much as transportation, roughly 17%.
"Oh cool, a new natural resource! Let's exploit it!"
Mostly from shenanigans related to all the heavy equipment they have exposure to, not chemical poisoning.
I'm projecting my experience with other users onto the broader population. The views and experiences of other people I know might not be representative, but it's not just my projection.
Somewhat related: There's now an Open Source toolchain[0] for FPGAs.

[0] https://symbiflow.github.io/
Planting trees in order to specifically harvest them for construction would actually count as a form of carbon sequestration, and although I doubt that even comes close to offsetting the carbon emitted by the rest of the construction process it might still make wood-frame construction one of the most relatively green ways to build a house. Log cabins actually have fantastic insulation properties, since the wood has enough thermal mass that it partially warms the house during the night and cools it during the day. Of course most wood-frame houses are nowhere close to using as much wood as an actual log cabin, but modern insulation techniques (especially regarding windows) are far from "terrible"; when I think bad insulation in the US, I think of the houses that were built in the 40s and 50s.
Illegal, no. Economically inefficient pain in the butt, yes.
It takes whole regions of the playingfield out of the great game. Nobody shoves North korea around anymore.

America has proven to all countries out there - be they democratic or under a dictatorship, that it will interfere whenever its interests are not fullfilled. In addition, the US demonstrated itself as a unreliable partner to several of its closest allies- lets not forget that obama created a food-shortage for biofuels - creating the arab spring. Or Lybia, a country which gave up a just started uranium enrichment program only to be invaded.

So the actual question is - why do only so few countries go for nukes? Mexico, Venezuela, Syria and Taiwan for example could use them too. Obvious nobody is save from the bullies on the school yard, except if he/she carries a gun.

So the actual
Right, or even just something like suspend-to-disk (or other storage) but for the pre-OS part of the boot (so that constant power isn't required).

Why can this not work?
What do people who have experience of getting into the details of time series analysis themselves think of http://facebook.github.io/prophet/?
Yes the idea is to make easy for those who want to post jobs. Just a link to your job page is enough, but bear in mind your jobs descriptions not use words like tech-native, ninja, etc

At the momwnt we can do manually but yes, in the long run we need to automate those job posts
We need to focus extensively on tree plantation and rainwater harvesting.

I don't understand why governments don't focus on this
> Software is not so complicated

What kind of software do you write? Software is one of the most unnecessary complex things humanity has invented.
Well, not limited to Chennai but to entire India

1) save rain water, harvest them properly
2) ration water , basic needs are free, like x litres per family but over use is charged
3) link rivers

On top of all this , make people aware that water is not something you can waste just like that ..

Ignorance is not bliss
1. Package managers need not be complicated. I think a simple sandboxing app mgmt is possible.

2. about web: too bad that design-addict webdev community bloated it. But wish someone make a simpler, faster & straightforward web as portable app platform with few nice commercial qualities...

3. About OS: OS need not be bloated if it isn't running behind popularity by satisfying everyone's remote needs. ( source: plan9, suckless, busybox )...
Just the idea that there are people who spend months underwater just in case they need to help facilitate the end of the world gives me chills.
So in short, you are backing out from your claim that Israeli intelligence provided us with evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that helped push a war? Good, so there’s no argument.
Massive indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288
That is a benefit, true. However I don't feel that it is comparable to the drawbacks.

I'm not suggesting that anyone suggest devices being reachable. Them having a unique identifier is bad enough.
> It is everyone's assumption that if you need more than a few tens of liters per day per person for things like showers that's completely on you

Maybe they’re right? If there’s not enough water for everyone to use it like it falls from the sky then maybe we need to rethink how we use water?
Fair enough, but do be careful of founder revisionist history. Independent research is usually better at digging up company origins than the "tales from the inside" that founders tout. (Though I'm not disputing the revenue split advantage)
You have plan9 for OS...

And check suckless.org, especially dwm
uBlock with Firefox gives me no paywalls on medium.
The racism is in the suggestion that the violence is due to race rather than to the stressful conditions in which poverty places people and to institutional problems (ex: underfunded educational systems, the unjust justice system). If the conditions were improved, it is almost certain that the violence would decline. The way that race matters here is that because of race, those neighborhoods are not given the same levels of institutional support and suffer from institutional bias (ex: the Chicago police).
> Meat production is almost as much as transportation, roughly 17%.

That 17% includes all transportation related to meat production. If meat was replaced by plant-based foods, not all of that transportation could be eliminated.
Every time the Firefox v Chrome debate comes up I feel a little crazy when speed gets discussed.

They're the same speed, right?

Web pages on the other hand... 2 seconds to bring in the bulk of the content. Another second spent firing ajax requests to all the trackers. 2 seconds for me to click through all the Cookie notifications, GDPR violations, and bald-faced lies that the site values my privacy. What's a ballpark figure for the actual render bit? 10-50 ms?

What sites are you guys using which are fast enough to notice slowdown in the browser?
That's a hack that doesn't protect anything for ongoing sessions. Slight improvement but hardly enough.
And the radioactive waste that coal plants spew directly into the atmosphere during normal operation somehow gets a free pass...
So would it be impossible/expensive to provide storage for those registers/memory etc. that can survive power-off, and then copy the state from there upon power-on?

How much time would something like that take compared to initialization?
Water cooling electronics is pretty tough. I agree in principle with you. My instincts say it’s not been done because it requires lots of custom manufacturing.

Having said that, I wish EV charging stations also hooked up to a battery coolant system. Circulate the coolant with a bigger apparatus to really cool the unit during charge. I had a “fever dream” one time about using such stations to evaporate sea water. Ie have the network of gas/charging stations serve as a way to pull in sea water inland.
Yes, it applies to a wide range. My usual go-to analogy it plumbing. You never see it, never think about it, until something goes wrong. From the user perspective, most technology is "plumbing".

I think where Apple excels is both in "getting out of the way" but also making the limited contact with plumbing that's necessary be a generally aesthetically pleasing experience. I still prefer Android and windows though.
That’s pretty obvious no?
> by making it difficult to manually extract passwords

Not true for Firefox. Just go the privacy settings, forms, saved logins.
I don't know, if moderate wind turbulence can cause a multi-ton airliner to bounce the altimeter by 10s of feet, than I can imagine it also moving a ten pound balloon enough to be characterized as performing erratic flight maneuvers
I believe there are many great developers who refuse other positions and still code in their 50s, but an average developer in his 30s could be better than an average developer in his 50s, because many successful developers might transition into higher paid leadership roles or start their own companies when they hit 40s. For instance, Joel Spolsky was still writing software in his mid-30s.
Man pages rarely are enough in my experience. When I encounter an issue with grub-install not writing to my EFI system partition, good luck finding much about it in its very short man page. You’ll have better luck using the ArchWiki, which is like a much better man page, but a simple Google search (or another search engine) will show a forum post with an easy solution as the very first result.

Piping six man pages through grep to find what I’m looking for is simply not as fast as Googling an error message.

I think there’s also a sort of cultural difference between languages and tools frequented by newer and older programmers: more experienced people look for documentation and then get working on their project, whereas less experienced programmers look for tutorials and very specific “soft” documentation.

Transitioning from modifying tutorials (the type-in-the-code-in-the-magazine of the 21st century) to glancing at the documentation is probably the surest sign of maturity. Still, you can get a ton done by copypasta.

This might have to do with learning to code with or without the Internet, I’m not sure. I’m personally very envious of people who can take a look at the docs and just get chopping without the assistance of the GIF-covered Medium posts.
Yes. Start with this, osdev.org, and gcc -S.
I think you've proven my point about the inability to confront reality and blame shifting that's allowed violence to spiral out of control. That you call me racist in between all that gobbleygook couldn't be more cliche.

The lack of expectations is simply an observation and alternative way to say that no one actually cares. And since no one cares, the behavior is allowed to continue unabated. We can debate why no one cares and why it's tolerated (I would argue liberal ethos but to each his own) but the fact is that no one cares and that creates some extraordinarily bad incentives over time.
You're basically saying that Science (the business) should do whatever makes the most money, always, and anyone who criticizes them for doing that is "dishonest".

Science (the business) is being dishonest by pretending to publish science (the method for obtaining facts). It's not okay just because it makes them money, and it's not dishonest to upbraid them for their harmful behavior.
Do you personally have recs for how to parse manpages? In my experience, I've found them far more difficult to grok than e.g. the MDN JavaScript docs. Particularly if I'm trying to look up a tool that I don't already have familiarity with, as opposed to e.g. just trying to look up the correct syntax for a flag.
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I'm not sure about the amount of gas, however it is quite common to make the ground floor of concrete here in Norway.

However it's not solid, it has a core of Styrofoam to insulate so it. The rest of the houses are usually of wood/glass that is heavily insulated. It would be interesting to see if you could make the foundations out of wood or something like that instead.

All new buildings has to adhere to very strict codes of how to be constructed [1].

We also have the worlds tallest wooden building [2] here so maybe this is the future instead of concrete/steel skyscrapers.

[1] https://dibk.no/byggereglene/byggteknisk-forskrift-tek17/

[2] https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/19/mjostarne-worlds-tallest-t...
The reason they were willing to unify on Android was because it was free - not because it was open source. As you can see with all of the crapware that PC OEMs put on Windows computers, it being open source had nothing to do with it - at least outside of China.

What makes Android,Android to most users is all of the closed source Google Services.
AMP for email is bad
CO2 is pollution.
CO2 is a subset of pollution.
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That essay is incredibly self serving. I think it should be taken with a pinch of salt. At very least any counter point to it shouldn't be immediately shut down with a link back to the essay. It's text book circular logic.
We are in the comment section of a niche tech forum though. Our views and those of the people we associate with will be far more critical of technology than the public, so I wouldn't make such grand statements as Windows == bluescreens and ransomware. Sure it has them, but it's far more associated with computers in general, which people need to do their work and daily activities.
Unfortunately I have to agree with this precisely for the reasons outlined by Casey in the parent's linked video. The shift from standardized ABIs to driver-abstracted hardware has ballooned the code required to work on "a PC" geometrically. It's basically impossible to catch up to established OSs now.

An alternative would be targeting a single set of hardware that's likely to be around a really long time. I'd be ok with that and something like a Raspberry Pi, but only if all the hardware was open. Of course, then you're in more of a 68k Mac space where hardware choices are extremely limited.
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And yet they have less than PC Makers profit margins. Besides Samsung, they are mostly losing money or barely above break even.
One caveat though. One way to avoid maintenance is to do full rewrites. This happens quite a lot in some domains and industries. As long as they can keep doing it and change company, they can avoid a lot of maintenance.
Fundamentally, there is very little you can change on an individual basis that will make a real difference. By all means, lead by example, but we have to support systemic changes at all levels of government to actually make any head way here.
Anyone wanting to relive the glory of VB but on a modern system can use Gambas:

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html
>Is the only reason to create a startup to experience exponential growth and get really rich and have your own stock symbol?

No. But it is a huge motivator for almost every founder - and all who say otherwise are lying. It isn't hypocritical to be motivated by wealth AND by doing good.

When you start getting investment, then ... yes. The expectation is that your investors will make a 10x on their cash. You don't have to be VC-funded, and bootstrapping is certainly reasonable.

>Or maybe could someone create a startup that makes the world a better place without concern for getting oneself crazy rich?

Usually people with that attitude end up doing non-profits. Having said that, there is nothing quite like the burnout and disillusionment you experience after working for a nonprofit for a few years. I actively discourage working for or starting nonprofits because I've talked to enough people. Competition for funding (government or otherwise) is horrendous amongsts nonprofits, and pay is almost universally lower than market rate or downright abysmal. Typically the social good you're doing is not scalable and a band-aid over an existing social problem.

I live in a university town with a big startup culture and over the last few years I've seen many more recent grads enamoured with nonprofits than with traditional startups.
The first money I made using a computer was writing simple business automation apps in VB, first 5 and for a short while 6. I also dabbled in Access Basic and then VBA when all the office apps standardized on it instead of each having their own flavor.

VB was great like you said until you needed to do something difficult. I remember Bruce McKinny’s Hardcore Visual Basic book being my best friend for a little while. It thought me I could do the hard stuff in C, make a DLL and drop that into my VB project.

Bruce had a saying, VB makes 95% of the job easy and the other 5% impossible.
Sure, so who is non-nuancedly expecting German-Americans along with others to have "white guilt"?
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How does an RBMK reactor explode? It doesn't. You worry to much.
Yikes. I'm not that old... right? Right?
It's always more expensive than not if you never need it.
I’d honestly love to know what people are comparing to javascript when they complain about rate of change / having to learn, unless it’s just a mental bias on learning something new vs something they’re comfortable with. I’m in a new position working on python and spring APIs and it’s effectively the same deal — researching means filtering through bitrotted methods and advice over a 4-5 year period, new methods & libraries or api usage patterns, etc.

Anyone could divine some reasons for why javascript / “web dev” is so different but I’m seeing shades of the same thing mixed with personal biases towards trade offs and design decisions.