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There is no difference in smartness here. Or at least, now we get to see that marketers meant internet when they said "smart".
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All of them are very wealthy due to unusual circumstances (mostly oil).
Hundred year old infrastructure is not the most sturdy, obviously this structure was past the end of its design life (leading to its failure).

Maintaining a structure doesn't prevent the concrete from spalling (as the chemical bonds that bind the concrete age and degrade), nor does it necessarily pick up on failing earthen tunnels in hard to inspect areas.

Many bridges across the country are going on 100 years old, and have a ~50 year design life. Structurally they are deficient, often undersized for the modes of traffic using them, and structural failure (which is very possible) would likely kill people. US infrastructure needs heavy investment, rather than the neglect it has seen for decades.
The news is that their popularity is drastically increasing in some regions I guess?
> I bought mine without any subsidies

So you didn't deduce your mortgage interest on your taxes?
That's not arbitrary. The metric is always screen size.
Google has rejected our app because of READ_SMS permission, Why?
> my favorite is that we simply outbred them because of our sex appeal.

Then why didn't the smart and strong Neanderthal males mate with the sexy Sapiens females?
This book is on my reading list, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. However, I would like to share my experience, since I was in a similar position as you. At my previous company, I was a project engineer (similar to a TPM) and acts as the technical sidekick to the Program Manager. I provide engineering assessment and recommendation to the PM, and oversaw interdisciplinary engineering teams to ensure they are on track for the project. Most of the time the work was not intellectually stimulating, and there was not much room for innovation since the contract, scope, and waterfall schedule pretty much dictated the entire project flow.

What I did, was to seek projects outside of work. In my case, I self-studied python, algorithms, and data structures. I started to implement my own projects, inspired by 12 in 12 challenge by Mackenzie Child. Somehow, I was able to get an interview with Google through the Google Foobar challenge, and I am now working at Google as a SWE.

Like what I shared, I haven't read the book yet, but if I was to apply learnings in distributed systems, I would build one using virtual machines or single thread processes with message passing via TCP, UDP, or HTTP, each representing a system for a small scale prototype. After I am comfortable with the concepts and implementation, I’ll probably scale up using one of the cloud service providers (AWS, GCloud, Azure, Digital Ocean, etc).
> I do have subjective experience

I don't believe you. ;-)
> Unfortunately, I've found that almost all developers are incapable of objectively judging the quality of code until they actually have to start working with it and then after a few months they can start to appreciate or despise the code.

While I agree when evaluating a codebase by the broad architecture (which I often judge by cohesion and coupling), I feel evaluating details first requires learning to read code as well as prose. Then “bad” or “ugly” code is code that reads arcanely like olde English.
it may or it may not, in fact i may be motivated to downgrade. i really don't want my phone to be that all-encompassing device that takes over my life. the more limited its use the better. for me that is messaging and voice calls and maybe video calls. and playing audio. web on the phone is for looking up things on the go. likewise apps for work that needs to be done while outside (todo lists, maps)

i don't want to upgrade, and i expect that someone who does want that will be better served with a cheap laptop alongside that phone than a more expensive phone.

of course that makes me one of the nay-sayers who is rejecting the smartphone revolution. but i can dream, can't i?
It is, just get to the refactoring part ;)
They are feature phones.

>Feature phone is a term typically used to describe a class of mobile phones that are still technically otherwise smartphones, besides their lack of highly advanced hardware and capabilities of modern ones. Feature phones tend to use an embedded operating system or real-time operating system with graphical user interface which are small and simple, unlike large and complex general-purpose mobile operating systems like Android or iOS, they typically provide voice calling and text messaging functionality in addition to basic multimedia and Internet capabilities and other services offered by the user's wireless service provider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_phone
Because most people won't qualify to get the payout. It's just restitution for people who responded to the news of the breach by paying for credit-monitoring services. If you didn't do that, you don't get paid. You just get free credit-monitoring service.
It would however save many people a lot of time if they understood that logical reasoning cannot tell you facts about the world with are not already implied by the premises or definitions chosen.

You cannot prove the existence of gravity or the platypus purely by logic. Neither can you prove the existence of "God", unless you define "God" in such a vague way that it doesn't tell you anything about reality.
Along the same vein, I can't recommend The Bitcoin Standard (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36448501-the-bitcoin-sta...) enough. The first 60% of the book deals with the creation and characteristics of fiat money and its effect in the World's economy.
So does anyone know an actually good feature phone I could buy in UK right now?

4G capability and maps are a plus but neither essential.
Yup. I saw a lot of codebases with things like:

// EnqueueEvent ...

func (q *Queue)EnqueueEvent(event Event)
> So the cost savings have definitely been passed on to the customer, unless you can find figures to the contrary.

I think it's more up to the supermarkets to demonstrate that self-checkout is lowering prices. As a consumer I wouldn't 'definitely' believe any cost savings would be passed onto customers, and IMO it'd be foolish to do so.
For the NSA/CIA, I imagine there is still doubt, even if you've looked it up. "Does the NSA know something everyone else doesn't [about lie detecting]?" is not an easy question to answer.
I'm very excited about this idea and have even asked for an early access invite.

These days I don't care about being in full control of my back-end stack - I just want to build something and ship it with least hassle as possible. I don't want to deal with provisioning, infra as code, containers, orchestration, message queues, load balancing, autoscaling, build configs and sundry.

I just need a statically typed functional language in which I can do that, which Dark is - it seems to have an Elm/OCaml inspired language.

Being fully tied to their platform with no alternative to migrate away to is the least pleasant aspect of the product as it stands today. But the product isn't even public yet - it is a difficult problem space that is badly in need of innovation and simplification - and many things are yet to be figured out. I'd be charitable to that aspect and see what as an industry we can learn from what Dark is doing.
That's what made online shopping attractive, not Amazon specifically.
Then Capital One will find out immediately because banks hire firms to watch darknet markets. JP Morgan discovered a breach when they found data being sold on one of those forums and that was years ago.

This will just intensely increase the scrutiny of where the data came from and they'd likely be caught anyway, unless they did a very clean job security-wise. Which very few people seem to be able to do when the feds really want you.

Moving to Russia or another country without extradition treaties would probably be a good first step of that plan.
True. That. I've spent a fair amount of weekend time over the last couple months working on a non-standard COM API port to Rust, and the one thing that's stuck me the most is how batshit crazy relying on virtual base classes is for an extensible API. It only works when you want users to deal with your C++ SDK, not the API itself.
I'm not sure I follow.

We're not talking usefulness here we are talking about clean code.

Architecture is not only correlated but causal in this situation.

It's over architecture is the problem. It's nano functions are a positive side effect but don't change the indirection problems you face.
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It seems like they got the order wrong though.
Nitpick: cas is the spinlock primitive on some hw platforms, others use eg ll/sc.
I'd really like to be positive about it, because there's an interesting concept hiding inside, but... They neither let me play with it, not address the very basically questions I'd ask. It's purely marketing material for a product at this point.

They talk for example about all the great save-is-deploy things and first-class feature flags and I'm still waiting to know how do I not destroy the production database with one typo and how does staging isolation work in this environment. And how do you revert changes? Again, feature flips they talk about are not it.
So, this is junk obviously.

But the question is.... Were any tree's planted at all?

Is it 100% propaganda?

If they said 300 million but if it was 50 million, fair enough. Close enough. Equalling India a more developed, stable country 13 times the size would be amazing, unbelievable even, a point of change for Ethiopia, they should get the record.

But I think it'll be zero. Not 10 million, not 1 million, zero (~Less than 100,000).

[edit] I'll raise my estimate to 1 million, I was wrong on zero, there are some first hand reports of some structure and some people did actually planted some trees

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/cjfqu5/about_35...

[edit] hashtags of a few very chaotic scenes, at 10 million trees planted I'd expect one aerial view of around 10,000 trees planted somewhere -

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=PlantOurPrint

https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%A8%E1%8A%95%E1%8...

This is a know propaganda move from the government, what's in question is if they did it (They didn't) to divert the mood of the people, or mostly made it up.
I think the point here is that you're making a completely irrelevant comparison. Comparing an ER visit to a transatlantic flight isn't even apples and oranges, it's apples and the kuiper belt.
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And if you don't use the tools the way they are meant to, you are just wasting massive amounts of time.
It hasn't been called 'British Petroleum' for 18 years, since it merged with Amoco, an American company.
I liked some Objective-C codebases that adhered to the muffin-man principle:

- (BOOL) doYouKnowTheMuffinMan:(TheMuffinMan *)theMuffinMan;

Also, lots of the Objective-C runtime code was clear enough to explain concepts like ARC hacks well enough that I could learn about and give a talk on the Objective-C runtime with a month’s notice.
You are asking for both A&B and !(A&B)?
It's great to see this project coming to fruition. My main reservation about
owning a smartphone has always been the idea of a device that knows everything
about me under the control of God knows who. This phone partially addresses
that issue, but can anyone here who's knowledgeable about encryption comment
on that aspect? Without some form of encrypted storage it would
seem like game-over when a well resourced adversary gains physical possession.
I don't see why this has been downvoted so far. Inconvenient truth?

People hate whistleblowers. "Shoot the messenger. It's the easiest solution."
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If you're lucky you get people to take you to the beach, or other activities so you can live what little life you have left with joy, rather than sitting in the dark waiting to die.

https://twitter.com/Drmarkredmond/status/1155399943831597056...

https://twitter.com/Glos_CareNHS/status/1079757130431893504?...
International law definitely exists. In fact, Wikipedia has a whole long and interesting article about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_law

Another example: international law bans torture, enforceable under ”universal jurisdiction”. That might be one reason why Bush and Cheney haven’t been to Europe since their days in office.
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It is not the case. The fact that people tend to forget news nowadays is because there are so many of them. And there are so many of them, because more people are able to break stories like that.

The situation above is a major fuck up of the local authorities. A lot of journalists out there would make a career if they break a story like that and ride the hype wave for the next year or two. So if you want to make something public it is much more difficult to stop you nowadays rather then to publish anything.
The damage will be done by 2038. We need to stop pretending we have time to slowly wean off of fossil fuels. We're already facing feedback loops that are going to drastically change the climate. Just look at the graph on that page. Renewables have largely replaced nuclear... Which is largely a clean energy source while coal has barely changed and the use of gas has slightly increased. Except now we have nothing to cover baseload except for coal and we're still building new coal power plants.
How did they measure that, out of interest?

Theodolite to measure the surrounding hills?, how can you be sure those hills aren't subsiding? Compare to other hills?
I have one of these simpler feature phones and use it as my primary phone device.
It started as an experiment when my phone screen broke as a backup device and to get rid of smart phone addiction. Positive cutting down wasting time in phone apps. The phone forces me to call people more often as it is tedious to text on its interface which is a good thing. There is very few apps so time trap like that can be avoided.

It has quite good battery time days to weeks. The phone is very sturdy.

Drawbacks, cannot purchase train tickets online, cannot use online bank.

Drawback camera.

One needs to use the brain to navigate so one forces to know the way how to navigate. Its a bit hard if you get stuck in the middle of nowhere but then the phone has a navigation map app.

Smartphone zero.
I'm in favor of single payer, but single payer is not required for this. Requiring all prices to be published, and simply passing legislation to make discounted rates illegal, should do it. (Sure, there are probably ways to game that system, but ideally there are also ways to catch worst offenders and punish them with fines to the tune of several multiples of the discount.)
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you expect us web developers to cater to every different device out there? i am sorry, but the whole promise of the web is that i don't have to do that. it's impossible to test for all the different devices out there, so either the devices follow a common standard where the only difference for web is screen size and resolution, or they can expect to be ignored.
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4) sounds like a recipe for disaster if the product is large enough. Nobody can remember everything. Heck, I start writing a text document when something gets too big for myself.
It sounds like a business model not a feature. Middle-manning hosting to add a royalty for long term recurring revenue with maximum lock-in.
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The argument isn't that it is riskless cheap energy - but that it is far better than fossil fuels and necessary to complement other renewables in energy supply.

There is no question that there are risks and they are non trivial - but they are mostly manageable through proper regulation!
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I agree with everything and on the last part I would add " your employees are on the street where your competition has offices".
Because of their wrong KPI system. The owner of the repo previously said that their work will be evaluated by the number of stars.
The fiasco was not on Parse's end but it was ours for locking ourselves into their platform.

The sunset window was indeed fair and as you described they provided a clear migration path to self-hosted mongo and eventually the open source server.

The main problem was the vendor lock-in where our code base was completely tied to their platform and the migration which cost a lot of developer/ops time was forced upon us. Instead of improving our product we had to spend our time and money on the migration to the open source server that was still in its infancy.

After running the open source Parse server for a while which was not without its issues we decided to rewrite the product in Java/Spring/Postgres and now we are free from the lock-in. If AWS decides to quit we can move it over to Azure or GCP without too much problems.

My original comment was not a stab at Parse but a word of warning for choosing BaaS services. Parse allowed us to ship an MVP that turned into a V1 in very little time. But that productivity came with a hidden cost. A cost that nearly killed the company.

Currently there is very little known about the Dark platform and language. From what I see it looks a lot like a next-generation Parse or Firebase and I am very cautious about adopting something like that again.
Not sure how it panned out but the Nokia 8110 4G looked pretty interesting when it was announced: limited intrinsic capabilites (and long battery life) but IIRC able to act as a hotspot / WiFi AP bridging 4G to your non-cellular tablet or laptop.
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I have a team of 6 software engineers, mainly experienced in modern web, mobile and backend API development on AWS, available for 6 months. We want to keep them because we have good projects coming up in 6 months but it costs us around $300K. If you had this team, what would you develop in this timeframe? Any business or not-for-profit ideas worth doing? Any help you need that can end up as a product for others? Any product(s) on your wish list?
I'd be curious to see an example of code that looks bad but yet is easy to grasp mentally. I do think these 2 features that you describe "easy to run mentally" and "look good" are correlated.
How do they differentiate multiple parallel lines lines of mutations coming back together from a separate subspecies existing for much longer?
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Yeah. I was amazed to find out it was designed so flexibly to inject C++ backed JS objects (eg write a request function which added requests to a queue after certain lengths based on multi-tenant fairness). Clients couldn’t circumvent because system code wasn’t necessarily in JS user space.
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Even beyond that, there's an argument to be made that money (and debt) are at their core quantified and malleable representations of social relations.
> The phone forces me to call people more often as it is tedious to text on its interface which is a good thing

Most folks I know don't really use calling anymore. If one of my friends called me, I'd probably pick up because I assumed it was an emergency. If they just called to talk, I'd tell them to text me.

YMMV here but younger crowds seem to shun voice calling IMO.
It can be argued that regulation is almost completely broken in the United States.
I'm not fully on board with all of Roberts views but this point about a framework for frameworks sake is one I agree with.

https://youtu.be/o_TH-Y78tt4 starting at around 10:30 he gets into what I was getting at.

> Whereas I'd say Laravel and it's ecosystem are far more productive and time saving than simply using just PHP.

I'm not arguing a time thing.

I'm arguing that a framework that forces its architecture onto your domain model is fundamentally broken by design. My domain should drive architecture choices and the framework should let me augment that with well worn libraries and modular patterns.

Laravels architecture works for one thing: web sites. And for that, you're better off using WordPress.

Laravel is better than older frameworks, like say, code igniter but it still fights you every step of the way if you want to step outside the box.
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>"free" water

Maybe they (we) should be paying for the externalities of their 'free' water?
This isn't a problem with the syntax, you could just have macros consume and produce lists and avoid this entirely. In fact, there already exist reader macros that implement pretty much exactly this syntax but for Lisp: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sweet/index.html
They should have the entire window bank’s row of sill filled with countless usb ports. A fucking ford f150 has like 6.

A bart train car (an electric train) should have like 50 - in Silicon fucking Valley) - and/or a giant induction charger in the middle.

Dont give me crap about the homeless - give that to the city.

We are silicon freaking valley and if you hVe never been to any other country with public transport we look like freaking idiots.

Sweden, japan, Singapore, china, all have severely more advanced transport systems than we.

Bart is a pos embarrassment.
OK, so from that, they are smartphones, just low-end ones which probably isn't software-compatible with higher end smartphones.
I'm an avid skier, and I always wear gloves when I ski.

Neither the fingerprint sensor or face recognition work in this situation unfortunately. I have to use glove liners with touchscreen-compatible fingertips to enter my password.
Yes (or, where it's a screen capture, it's from a dev board or emulator).
I completely agree, and I myself use GH stars for those meaningful purposes. But it's completely naive to assume that entities won't continue to gamify or politicize GH stars. In fact we know that's happening, and because of this stars is already a completely untrustworthy indicator. There needs to be a better metric for quickly ascertaining "usefulness".
“Didn’t require” is a very precise way of stating a truth about the vulnerability that was exploited, while neither confirming nor denying whether her role at Amazon was in some way responsible for her discovering the vulnerability.

(If I could query all AWS permissions for publicly exploitable permissions, that would comply, for example.)
This article talks about a developing market made of first-time internet users that are buying cheap feature phones. It is interesting because this is taking place in New Delhi and because this cycle is exactly what the west went through in 2004.
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The 401k was originally created to supplement employer pensions.

The author was horrified when he found out that employers were then dropping their plans and moving employees to 401k-only.

That should tell you all you need to know.
I’ll do it for only 50 million dollars. Remove it with repeated regexes like s/^wec//g (remove all word prefixes for element counts). Of course, you’ll need another convention for all the collisions that Hungarian notation fixes like IFoo (Foo’s test fake-able interface) and CFoo (the concrete class)
> The VCs do everything they can to drive up the valuation, except make money. They then sell their shares to the public markets for an incredible profit...

The VCs are still locked in and haven't been able to sell afaik? The public markets have 6 months to figure out fair price before they get theirs