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It is quite amazing that different situations are different.
Tell it to the jailed childrens.
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Fun fact: Planes are efficient for long trips. According to “sustainable energy without the hot air”, you need three people in a gas car to beat the efficiency of flying on a long trip. It seems like driving to LA with one or two people in the car is less carbon efficient than flying. With an EV you’re probably good though.
The one I've seen missed most often in startups is directly implied by a lot of the other points and obvious to anyone with long experience: Take the time and put a lot of thought into how to break up your big transitions into smaller stages, each of which are functional. It's usually possible to at least narrow down the risky parts to a few finer grained steps and when something fails only rolling back one part to get to a good state is almost always faster and safer.

It's very easy to get absorbed into the awareness of the high level change you're making and miss the details of the process. Even just sitting down together and outlining what you think is actually going to go on (and then breaking those down into what they each are comprised of) can make it really clear that you don't have to run as many giant risks. I'm occasionally amazed how brilliant people (including some with big names in devops) can forget it's an option.

It's like taking small steps from stable to stable when you're going across a steep scree slope and only jumping when you have to - sometimes it feels riskier to take lots of small steps, but if you start to slide it can be a lot easier to recover from. Your chance of dying taking a big leap isn't the sum of the equivalent small steps. Perhaps complex computer systems have the equivalent of an Angle of Repose?
What about fame? A modern Youtuber can sometimes get close to the fame the early astronauts received. Sense of accomplishment and self-worth? Money in a lot of ways is a shorthand for all the other things people value. For instance a famous astronaut back then or youtuber today is going to have access to pools of acquaintances to seek out solid friendships that most people will never know.
Great idea. It might be more useful if it were compatible to and integrated with jupyter notebooks which has become widely used. See https://www.jupyter.org for more information.
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But the climate/energy crisis might very well lead us to World War III, still.
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It is awesome to see how CERN is supporting open source. They have been long time users of our open core GitLab with 12,000 users https://about.gitlab.com/customers/cern/
Maybe it's worth stating that I consider myself pro-China. I'm anti-communist. If anything I'm a bit of a Sinophile. IMO the Tao Te Ching is one of the greatest books in the world, for example.
I love it! In some ways these printers are only begining to exit the novelty phase (I mean the consumer versions) and already there's a minor explosion in exiting uses for them. An exciting time!
This.

Just because the US is run by jackwads, yeah, let's go ahead and let the next super power be run by jackwads too.

What kind of ridiculous thinking is that?
I too think that precompiling crates won't really solve the problem.

If you compare the compiled artifact (rlib) of a crate with the source code, you'll quickly see that the compiled artifact is much larger than the source code. libglutin-0c732c31a1d003fb.rlib has 8.1 MB while glutin-0.22.0-alpha1.crate has 53 KB.

Most people have shitty internet. And often it's nothing you can do about it because you have shitty ISPs. You can buy a computer with good CPUs and those are usually cheaper in comparison than good internet for a year, at least in many rural areas in the US. It's not just the US, some other countries have it even worse.

Now of course if you have good internet and a bad CPU it's a good deal, so there should definitely be an option to use it, maybe even with autodetection. But I think cargo has too much dependency on the internet, not too little. There should be no manual input required to turn off precompiled crates downloads if it is faster to compile the crates locally.
IIRC in the wake of Spectre, Google had a security blog that noted that even at Google with all the layers of software involved they felt that there really was no way to ensure that something in those layers isn't running something unexpected / doing something it shouldn't.

IIRC The general topic was speculative execution and such security, but I think it also made it clear that more generally all the chips, software involved ... you just can't know.

To be clear, I don't say that to dispute anything you're saying, quite the opposite.
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One of the best geek quotes ever.
Check out gwern's fantastic article about this: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
The Protestant Work Ethic says that's fine, you were working and that's what God cares about. Of course your labour is not producing anything, since God is omnipotent all the stuff you might think of as being produced by your labour is actually gifts from God anyway, your work is not valuable for what it produces since God could make everything effortlessly.

And indeed historically this was the actual rationale for a variety of punishments that really were carried out on huge numbers of convicts, including carrying heavy objects from one place to another and back or being forced to raise and lower weights that serve no purpose. "Arbeit Macht Frei" doesn't appear from nowhere as a unique evil idea.
Linus keynoted last month at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit Shanghai, if you want to compare his views after 20 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjR1Ht__9KE&list=PLj6h78yzYM...

(Those baby daughters on the stage in 1999 are in college now.)
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Pascal's wager (the original) has a flaw in it. One doesn't know and or can prove if God is evil. So I don't really know how else to respond to what you wrote.
The use of wood in building has some clear advantages, for sure, particularly as engineered timber improves.

At the same time, there are also issues of robustness to consider. If you're only building a house that might last for a few decades, you need to consider what happens to the building materials at the end of its useful life. More than that, depending on your environment, you need to consider risks that might cause either a premature end to that useful life or a degradation of performance over time.

For example, here in the UK, we don't get a lot of really bad storms of the kind that central America sees, but we do get storms strong enough to cause major structural damage from time to time, and the rate is expected to increase for a while due to the changing environmental conditions. The kinds of insulated panels used for a lot of timber frame construction today have many good points, but being about as robust as tissue paper in the face of fast-moving debris flying around outside your house in a bad storm is not one of them. There's not much point planning the environmental credentials of a new building over, say, a 50-60 year assumed lifetime if in reality the expected time before being seriously damaged in a bad storm is only half that.

You also have to consider the possibilities for timber elements changing shape over time, which in turn can reduce the overall thermal efficiency of a building, allow damaging pests to get in, increase sound transmission, or even in severe cases reduce fire containment or compromise structural integrity entirely. We have very changeable seasons here: as it happens, we're reaching all-time high temperatures of nearly 40C as I'm writing this, but we also have lows in the same areas that can push towards -10C or even -20C. That's a lot of expansion and contraction, and while again engineered timber has significant advantages over solid planks and the like, you do have to consider these kinds of issues as well.

Again, none of this is to say that using more timber in our construction doesn't have some big advantages. We just need to be a little cautious, because there might also be risks, and so far we have relatively little experience with some of these newer timber-based construction techniques to fully evaluate them.
Reminds me of Adapteva's Parallela, which I bought and was really excited about, but was obviously a commercial failure. I work on software that has an above-average (but far less than HPC) need for concurrency, but even our most demanding customers seem to be content with off-the-shelf Intel, either because they don't need THAT many cores, or because they value the more sophisticated instructions (like encryption acceleration, etc.) I'm curious to know what kind of use cases y'all work on that might crave something like this.
Money doesn't even figure in my opinion. When was the last time that astronauts were on TV? A major broadcast? When's the next planned mission that people care about? Astronaut is possibly the most elite and difficult to obtain profession in the world but most of that elite selected minority doesn't even make it into space. Over most of my life you couldn't even dream of being an astronaut because the position was full and they weren't holding candidate trials. They just aren't relevant in most kids lives except as a vague abstract concept on the periphery.
Gee, I wonder why the developers of a very complex, high performance browser and now also of a low level systems language with the following motto: "A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software." didn't think of that!

They probably just forgot to un-comment

// let compileSpeed = fast;

in src/compiler/main.rs

Their resources were limited and they chose to focus on more important things at the time. Now they're focusing on compilation speed. And those more important things Rust offers aren't really offered by any other mainstream language.
...are you actually trying to say that China is "morally superior" to the USA? Because, without bothering to delve into the tedium of enumerating all the reasons, that is definitely a losing argument.

To rebut your specific two points:

-more countries have battle scars from the USA than North Korea too. It more strongly indicates economic might than disregard for human life - wars cost money. Watch this space.

-Orange Baboon is in large part worrying because of the nonzero chance of making a grab for dictator-for-life. China already has one of those, who happily imprisons rivals and vanishes critics. I'd take Orange Baboon over God-emperor Xi any day.
> The open source movement focuses on practical advantages that you can get by having a community of users who can cooperate on interchanging and improving software. (Stallman)

...

> Freedom to cooperate with other people, freedom to have a community, is important for our quality of life, is important for having a good society that we can live in. And that is, in my view, more important than having powerful and reliable software. (Stallman)
It's honestly about time.

I've been sounding the alarm bells about ITAR, DFARS, EAR compliance for a while now! None of the software vendors I've talked to seem to understand that it is AGAINST THE LAW to upload customer supplied IP to their super-secure Cloud based product that they're trying to get me to switch too. "The lowest TCO, you'll get ROI in 6 months!"

Ya, but are you compliant with NIST 800-171 requirements?

"Ohhh, uhhh... I don't know. I'll ask the engineering team but I'm sure we're fine!"

Ya, ok.
More than money,Hollow fame is valued.
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But neither of those is necessarily sufficient for the sorts of situations I'm talking about here.
> I suspect they will discover over time that the fully loaded costs of switching are higher than the costs of the licenses

I suspect the switching costs will be higher in the short term for sure, but this also seems to be a strategic move.
The meme is definitely oversized - Breezewood is pretty small. If you feel this is somehow representative of America then you must have been asleep through the vast miles of farmland and wooded hills leading up to it and stretching forever beyond it.
A Japanese client of ours ran into some trouble with the Japanese government due to some financial irregularities, and there was a huge shakeup.. the entire top management was sacked by the owners of the company. Not saying Japan is perfect, there is a lot of crony capitalism there too, but I found it amusing to observe nonetheless. Maybe we need a bit more of that here..
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A static analyzer which requires correct code to be rewritten in a certain way to satisfy the analyzer does not deserve to be called amazing.
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It is different in that I-70 ends at a traffic light, then technically continues onto what's essentially a regular four lane road before you have to make a turn onto a (very) long onramp to join the PA Turnpike (and I-76).
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Cool story, but I don't see how your example has anything to do with anything previously mentioned. Obviously the entire point the prior statement is that we are applying rewards to "states" rather than actually applying it to any productivity metric.
Also, it seems like this would make relatively sensible financial services from tech companies harder to get. Apple Pay/Google Pay, for example. A smartphone company is a perfectly logical choice to push for smartphone-based payments. I don't think that's the kind of thing we'd want to regulate away.

Sometimes, vertical integration can be a good thing, because for some spaces the alternative requires so much coordination that it's awkward and clumsy. If you look at Tesla's supercharger network, for example. The very fact that there are no really serious competitors yet that are not tied to a specific brand of electric car demonstrates how lack of vertical integration can be a major impediment for chicken-and-egg-type problems. And while I'm sure there eventually will be, just having Tesla out there in the forefront is useful as a leading example.
> There are a lot more limitations and checks on what the US can do.

I don't care about the US promising they won't be bad. The fact that their companies can be forced to install surveillance mechanisms is already the worst case scenario for a hardware buyer. Beyond that, I don't care if it's the Americans, the Chinese or the fucking aliens doing the spying.
You are correct that private companies are adding cost due to the desire to make money. I think the issue with the “public employee $1 to do $1 worth of labor” is that you get a level of complacency with government employees that can be a huge black hole for project funding. It’s possible, though not always the case, to allow a private company to make a profit while still getting more for your money. If the private employee is more efficient, they may need less hours to accomplish the same task. So the hourly rate may be higher, but there could be less hours in the equation to make the overall cost the same or lower. In theory at least.
> but I think it's better to 'choose' to believe you can do better

I disagree, I theorize it's the same as when the majority of humanity wanted to believe the world is flat and or there is a God that judges us all. Society is the outcome of the majority consensus. So basically I assume many lives are being punished because the majority consensus doesn't understand cause & effect.
Prison population's lower when you just execute people and harvest their organs.
As a person who grew up in Washington DC with most of my family in Chicago, I have many, many, many memories of sitting in awful traffic going through Breezewood.

With that said I think the central premise of this article is mostly false. There are a lot of places in the US, typically at major interstate highway junctions, that look exactly like this.
As someone who's been working through the book for the last few months, thanks so much for sticking with it. Your prose is excellent and full of really properly funny stuff sometimes. Reading your book has been my weekly dose of programming I know I'll enjoy.
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While I think it is a meaningful question to ask, I had a really hard time to get very deep into the article. At any one point in time, at least 30% of the page is covered by an advertisement. Some of the time nearly 100% of the page is an advertisement. No doubt that the page layout and advertisement itself were decided upon by some form of automated thinking (in the case of layout css in the case of advertisement something closer to what we think about when we say AI).

The author raises a concern about automated thinking. But the article is displayed in a scenario that relies on a plethora of automated thinking. Let me guess he's only using good automated thinking while the other automated thinking that affects him is the bad kind?

Ultimately, humans use tools and we push really hard to develop better and better tools. Maybe the tools other people are using concern you (and maybe that's a good thing to be concerned ... after all shoe stores used to x-ray feet), but progress continues and those that don't adapt are left behind.

Maybe he's got a point, but I also don't see the new yorker abandoning its website and reverting to paper. How bad can the automated thinking really be.

Honestly, I'm not sure I have any major refutations or solutions concerning the article. It's just that I keep bumping into people making odd statements about how they're really worried about the computers or the internet and they're making these statements on facebook. Seeing someone concerned about AI on an ad supported website makes me wonder if they appreciate how much of their existence is already dependent on AI.
Don't all static analyzers do that? Or they're just ignored, which happened in almost every large project I've ever seen.
I suspect this is one of the things that Microsoft has more experience with, and we might be seeing their influence here.
Money beyond necessity means as much or as little as you individually value it to mean.

And there is not "a world where money means everything" vs a world where money means less, money is literally an abstract representation of your trade capability with other people. If you want to trade things directly without the usage of money, you're free to do so at the loss of a convenient abstraction. If you'd like to choose a different abstraction, like gold or real estate, you're free to do so. If you don't want to trade goods and services at all and do everything yourself, you're free to do so at the loss of convenience that comes from the division of labor. If you want to find a community of like-minded people that can pool available resources to grab a plot of land to collectively self-sustain, you're free to do so.

So no, this isn't some "we live in a society where..." situation where kids now want to be YouTubers because that's what society "values." The market barely values it, there are probably like 10000 successful YouTubers. Choosing that as a career path, given that they are primarily motivated by money, would be an idiotic decision. They're clearly motivated by other factors, like fame, peer adulation, flexible hours, and interest in the job itself. If money was the primary motivator, they'd choose almost any other profession.
Being around kids, I can tell you this has nothing to do with earnings. YouTube 'stars' are seen as celebrities for these children. It's not uncommon for a child to want to be a celebrity. That, coupled with the fact that society at large no longer idolizes astronauts - or even speak much about them, sadly.
If they do research with tropic aerosols, yes. But if you klick on it, page not found. So, ant say it for 100%. There was a NASA takes it to the MAX jetfuelresearch, started Jan. 2018 over germany. They did nothing else, then testing different fuels, with different effect on atmosphere. https://www.nasa.gov/aero/nasa-takes-international-aviation-... I dont like these things, because they can cause unpredictable consequences.
You'd probably hedge with insurance and I would take an option on propane heaters and polyvinyl! Also plant cold hardy variants (if they exist).
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Many schools in the USA are indistinguishable from minimum security prisons and detention centers. The only major physical feature that separates them is that schools tend to have larger parking lots and lack guard towers.

Whether you are talking about Xinjiang education centers or compulsory government schools in the USA the excuse for them is going to be along the lines of 'We need to ensure that these people become productive members of society'.

All in all they are compulsory miserable dehumanizing places that are designed to condition and manipulate people into what 'society' demands from them; as defined by the ruling authorities. In both cases anybody attempting to avoid conditioning and years in "detention" is guilty of a criminal act.

My point being that these things are not differences of types, but of degrees. And while it's easy to point fingers and laugh and pride yourself on the superiority of your own country, the take home lesson shouldn't be how much better America is then China, but to use them as a mirror to examine how and why things are better here and how to improve on them.
Or split into steam-the-platform-the-company and valve-the-games-company - and if that happens I predict half life 3 really will follow.
I dealt with this issue in my PhD research on data mining, and it motivated me to search for a new line of work. The benefits of data based products never justify the customers changing everything just to make life easier for the data nerd in the corner (in my case at least). What made them happiest was when i assembled some basic tools to mine their data on their own - "teaching a man to fish, ruining a business opportunity".

I think dirty data are like the refs in a football game. Nobody comes to see them, but they'll be part of the game until you have perfect players.
Am I supposed to believe your comment without criticism or scrutiny? Perhaps you'd like to elaborate, instead of just contradicting your parent?
It's same with a lot of the rural south too. Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas. I grew up driving past these types of towns all the time.