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Problems like that are fairly common when you're developing hardware products. Even if you're using products / modules someone else made.

> On a related note - is it just me or did Intel have a lot of trouble with their power-management implementation a few years back?

Everyone seems to have troubles with their power management stuff! Power state transitions are tricky in hardware, firmware and software. There are a ton of corner cases and assumptions. For example, you have to be careful (in software!) that you don't cause voltage dips by switching on chips and their peripherals too quickly. See [0].

CPUs, chipsets and peripherals have pages and pages of errata that BIOS, microcode/firmware updates and operating systems work around.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inrush_current
I wrote (well, expanded) a similar tool for compressing Java Class files. I had a theory that suffix sorting would work slightly better because of the separators between fields, and it turned out to be worth another 1% final size versus prefix sorting.
Absolutely. I've had one similar to these for about 5 years and used it for almost every shopping trip, including hanging down from my bikes handlebar where they sometimes got into the spokes but still were fine after some cleaning. After those 5 years I lend it to my grandma and she lost the smaller bag you wrap it in and the handle got a bit lose so it needed some sewing. It may not last for 7000 times as others have claimed in this thread but 500 is easily doable. Anyways, absolutely recommended.
Most project managers are amateurs.
The question is what the all-in costs are. Specifically, manufacture is not the. full lifecycle, and plastic persists in the environment for decades, if not millennia.

Alternatives which balance modest production costs, greater ruse, and biodegrade more quickly, can come out on top.
> various tradeoffs(fast compile? fast runtime? binary size? Pick 1 or 2)

Interfaces are boxed already, so you've paid the price without having type safety. Simply treat a polymorphic function as if it accepted interface{}.
Newton was a paid scholar, so he was as much as possible what we would call a professionas scientist now. Francis Bacon was a heir. He did many things that could be considered full-time activities related to his social status, but they were not directly tied to his money.
I believe we can find an equilibrium that works too, and that it starts with rolling back almost all advertising "innovation" of the last 100 years.

You'll note the game-theoretical mechanics at play here. If your competitors use garbage advertising, you can't not use it and hope to compete (much like if your competitor is dumping toxic waste to a river, they have advantage over you who tries to safely dispose of it). If one of your competitors invents even more garbagy way of advertising and gains a temporary advantage, everyone will follow suit and the advantage will be cancelled out.

This suggests that simply making it not possible (technically or legally) to engage in garbage advertising won't hurt companies much, and might even be beneficial - companies will still engage in the same competition, but at a cheaper and less invasive level.

There's an anecdote about tobacco companies that I still need to find a proper citation for, but it goes like this: tobacco companies were apparently happy about legal restrictions on advertising, because it was applied to everyone equally, so no one ended up relatively worse off, but now they didn't have to spend so much on advertising anymore.
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Same - else meat juices will slowly soak the paper and leak out. My fishmonger does the same.
If they are making a choice of having a longer commute when a shorter one is available then it's hard for me to feel bad for them when their commute becomes even longer. Mixed use zoning makes commute shorter for most people, if someone chooses to live far away and gets punished for it then that's fair game.
Although 100ms would be a decent loading speed compared to todays standards, 100ms is not the edge of human perception. Tm100ms equals 2.5 frames in 25 fps and even a 1 frame blank image (40ms) is noticeable at that speed.

In my experience the edge of visual perception is somewhere below 10ms
I don't know. Atom is too slow for me as well. I generally use VS Code or just VIM.
They’re going to need round the clock security, as the protests won’t stop once it’s built.

I'm a bit skeptical of this particular claim as the existing telescopes haven't needed round the clock security. Generally speaking, I never felt the telescopes were as controversial as is made out. Rather, the opposition is a small, but very vocal minority. That said, I can see why TMT is particularly contentious as any new construction is an obvious point of resistance, and TMT is so much larger than the existing telescopes.
The US government did spend millions of dollars in psychedelic research before the 70s, I would hope they’ve developed protocols for safe usage at some point. Research from that time certainly could serve as groundwork for valid health treatments if done in an ethical and transparent manner.
> These are all advertisements, just a different type.

Yes. That difference of type is what makes them ethical and not annoying.
The main problem here is one of incentive. Of course the researchers, university departments, contractors, etc want to build it. But who benefits? A very small number of people. All the locals get is: more traffic, more pollution, more waste, all of which are a direct result of the construction itself plus the increase in visitors. Plus, the locals feel this is imposing on their scared grounds. Again, without ANY benefit to them.

I talked to one person at the protests, who said "The researchers don't want light pollution. We don't want telescope pollution."
That's insane. In the UK the NHS doesn't supply it yet, and GPs won't officially recommend it. But you'll find the NHS clinics quite often recommending prep purchase through international websites and referring you to HIV charities.

It costs about £30 pm in that case which is about $40

Often they'll be running studies at the same time to assess the feasibility of Prep on the NHS.
This headline is misleading because it refers to single use plastic bags. In London none of the shops I go to even sell these bags. However, they do sell multiuse bags which I mostly use similar to how I would use a single use bag.
I'm an outsider to these kind of processes: how is a 3rd party marketing tool added to a site at a BigCo?

I'm still fairly certain it involves developers, who, in theory, should have pre- and post- number on performance, visits, etc. Or am I delusional?
How do any of your examples 'trick' the consumer?
If you live in a city and are doing your shopping close to your house, you can[] just carry stuff with your hands? Or throw it into the backpack you're already using to carry other stuff if you shop coming home from school/work.

[] there are definitely people where this is less feasible. I think the bulk of the waste is from people where it _is_ feasible.
No, I am not engaging in whataboutism, it is just that alleging that Elon Musk is the single worst person in the world is ludicrous. Please reread this sentence of yours:

>could be easily rolled out by any of Tesla's competitors if not for the fact that they have at least some scruples about beta testing their software on public roads.
Since New Zealand started cracking down on single use plastic bags - your habits change massively. Go to the beer store and pick up a couple of cans of craft brew? 1 year ago I would get them in a bag. Now? Just hold onto them you lazy bugger between the counter, the car, and when you get home. Various forms of other bags constantly reused.
Ageism in our industry should be a concern to everyone, regardless of the amount of grey hair they have.

We all get old, after all. And
more importantly, even if we didn't all get old, it's still wrong to discriminate (we don't all become black over time, but it's still wrong to discriminate in the basis of race).
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Thanks, that clears up a lot. According to that tweet thread, the number for climate impact is 52x. That's just one year of weekly use, which is a pretty realistic number.
You seem to be saying the same thing as the line you quoted: both of you are pointing out that distributed PCs can achieve comparable reliability.
Related:

The butcher's shop down the street here allows to bring own boxes to avoid wrappings and the bakery puts bread and rolls into cloth bags if you provide them. (Too bad that I have no image of our fancy Baguette bag)

There are even normal supermarkets (not discounters) in Germany now that offer to sell fresh meat and cheese products into customer provided boxes to avoid wrapping and garbage.
It works by bringing your own clean and sealable containers and put them on a tray; the person at the counter only handles the tray and puts things directly into the boxes, and adds a label with the contents and price for the cashier.

Works well, imo.
Another example: amateur investors can beat professionals quite easily. Sometimes by doing nothing at all.
Albert Einstein is an amateur physicist, a professional patent office clerk.
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Good point! In a normal market situation you would expect the bond yields to increase when they become less attractive, but this is currently not the case.

Here is a hint why this happening: not all government bonds have such low yields: only some European countries and Japan have, the USA bond yield for instance is quite a bit higher.

The reason is that there is currently a huge buyer for European government bonds: the ECB. The ECB's "quantitative easening" that has been going on for the last years is artificially keeping the yields low.
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Well, the US could still work on its cumulative emissions, which would not be cheap.
Read about plant physiology
Yeah, you're right, it's too early in the morning for comments. I'll leave my comment up so that others can make fun of it :-p
Not really. Academy back then was not really that diversified, and it was rare for people in the academy not to get involved in multiple philosophies.

Newton would better be qualifies as a professional academic with interests in natural philosophy and mathematics.
Turns out, because the 7100x number is based on a misunderstanding of the study it's from, and the actual number for climate impact is 52x: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20581751
Probably not less memory. zlib is based on a design that dates back to an era where you might only have 250-350 kilobytes (not a typo) of RAM to work with, and it was never really extended beyond that. It has a window it keeps in memory and if your file is longer than that window, you hit peak memory and stay there (you might actually hit that window immediately. I've forgotten how that part works, but some chunks of memory are pre-allocated).
Many multiple use bags are thick plastick or have thick plastic inner lining. They have less plastic than 7000 "single use" plastic bags but they don't have 0.

I hope we won't let most of our trash to persist in the environment for millenia.
I think you are generalising. But variance is specifically important for library developers where you have different uses for your code
> disintegrate or some seams come apart

Don’t throw them away when this happens. Sew them back together.
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Don't you find that fs.blog is increasingly clickbaity? I mean, this article is just a listicle that could have appeared in Business Insider or HuffPost or the likes. Does someone agree?

By the way wasn't Einstein an amateur physicist?
For me, repeatability and ease of management - I used to be really demotivated by having to start from scratch with a Raspbian install whenever I built a project but all the prebuilt base images for different languages/OS and configuration as code due to Docker make the Pi so much nicer to use for stuff like this.
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(from 2016)

There was a good article a couple of months ago about some of these Japanese-style listening bars opening in America: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/dining/vinyl-records-list...
Here's an alternative. All escape rooms need a steady stream of new visitors, so they have a good incentive to cross-promote. Hang a "if you've liked this room, you might enjoy" board by the exit, filled with flyers for other escape rooms in the area, and ask those other escape rooms to put your flyers on their "escape-room-ring" boards.
The point you are making is great in regard that using a newly made cotton bag is obviously quite wasteful if you could just sew close the neck and arm holes in a larger old t-shirt you no longer use, add some handles and be done. I have gotten quite a number of cotton bags as goody bag from conferences (over the last 2 years some have even started handing out simple backpacks) and those are obviously bad but a proper cotton bag that you buy and use intentionally easily lasts 500 times.
Won't even remotely work in the U.S. where it just adds more liability to the stores. All it takes is for a customer to bring a contaminated container and go "The meat you sold me made me sick! I am suing you".
> It is much easier to explain Lisp if we begin from a blank slate.

More so than any other language I know of, Lisp's reputation precedes it. Everyone seems to know all about Lisp. It's remarkably rare to find people who genuinely want to explore Lisp the way they do other (newer) languages, with no preconceptions and biases.

It also seems people do things less and less out of sheer (scholarly) curiosity these days.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/hubble-memorable-moment...
You're merely whitesplaining how Japanese people should live. Japan will weigh the importance of various problems and solve them however they want at their own pace. They don't need your "help" and they never asked for it.
Perhaps if we could have discussions without being downvoted to hell immediately people would not need to create such accounts.
Your story really resonated with me, because of how similar it is to my own. I also graduated from Canada with a subpar gpa, and struggled a lot finding employment. In the end doing grad school in the US is what opened many doors into the tech industry for me, but I wish I hadn't wasted so many years looking for jobs between undergrad and grad school. I think your startup will do a lot of good in the world. Best of luck!
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Hello,

I used to work in a big company which had tens of thousands of apps running on their own autoscaling infrastructure and I was wondering if there is anything similar that just works out of the box.

Cocaine seemed to deliver that promise which I understood as an autoscaling, resilient swarm of apps which talk the same protocol (RPC) despite being written in different technologies.

I see the project went inactive, are there any alternatives?
It's a bit complicated; there are sacred sites all around the summit, but nothing on the summit, itself. The claim is that the summit was so sacred that they didn't even build temples there. My, admittedly cynical, take is that there is nothing on the summit because it is cold and barren and there isn't enough air to breathe. However, it is clear that Mauna Kea, in general, was an important place in Hawaiian religion and spirituality.
Creating somewhere close doesn't mean that all the ingredients will be created locally too. And then you suddently have a situation where ingredients needs to be shipped around the world.

It might as well be that creating everything one place and shipping it globally is actually better.

Also weight of cloth bags are higher and it's not certain that they will be used as many times as you might think before you buy a new one, loose it, forget it etc.

In other words, it's not a good as you might think and it's certainly much more complex than just buying a tote bag vs. plastic.

Much of this looks more like a fools errand to me. We are much better of using what we want to use.

Cleaning our oceans from plastic is certainly a priority but the number one way to prevent that from happening is to make countries richer so they start caring and are able to deal with their plastic waste.
Wow, I was waiting for a global ledger/consensus system based on DAGs/non-blockchains forever...
Blockchains have an inevitable scaling problem. I was only aware of iota & Radixdlt but I’m pleasantly surprised that there’s lf now! Kudos for the great work!
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> remove redundant or unnecessary words

Made me chuckle.
This is a great 99% Invisible episode about how credit cards came about, and what it was like beforehand, where you would be interviewed at length by a store before being given credit to buy, for example, a piece of furniture. Credit cards were designed to outsource checking of credit-worthiness, stop intrusive interviews with stores and avoid embarrassment of being rejected in-store. Lax digital storage of information and consolidation in the credit rating industry seems to be the problem here, not credit ratings per se.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-fresno-drop/

Everyone seems to like the idea of friendly local stores these days, but I also remember reading an interview with someone who was around when large chain supermarkets were starting. They loved the fact that they were relatively anonymous so people weren't able to gossip about you buying, for example, condoms.

There's clearly a balance to be struck here, and it's well away from a sensible middle ground at the moment.
I did a 6 month internship in IBM 2 years ago and I'm glad I didn't get an offer at the end of it. The culture, the politics and the fear was too much for me.

Every week there would be some sort of a "commotion" or "going away" party as people were let go. It mostly DBA's and Unix Support guys that were clearly over 40 years old.

My manager was straight up implying "if you don't get the work done, you won't get a good reference for me and you'll be on the next list". I'm in my 20s and that was the first time someone in a professional setting threatened me in such manner.

I needed a reference after I left, but from my team the manager was let go, 3 out 5 team members were let go and the others and the remaining 2 left. The manager of the manager was forced to a sabbatical and just like that poof, my old team was gone.

I will never go back to IBM, no matter how cool and hip they make it for my generation.
Because I dont engage in this kind of smalltalk with men, and the ones I’m around don’t talk about astrology and don't subscribe to having an external locus of control

Talking about an obscure astrological concept is a decent pickup line or opener, with women if you are interested in women and you’ll need to do a different study to figure out if men care.

You’ll get a stronger reaction from people that are interested in astrology, and the ones that don't believe will laugh quizzically and not think more of it. In both circumstances you switch to deeper topics. In mixed company stick with being an astrology shaman because the one that is into it will have a stronger positive reaction, no use undermining that just to maintain consensus.
Even with your edit this is worth replying to:

Why waste your money on a single rack-mounted PC when you can buy 40 cheap cellphones running Android and network them together. That'll probably provide greater reliability.

The obvious answer is the same as why some use mainframes over PCs. You can't easily convert all workloads running on a rack-mounted PC to a network of cellphones. Similarly, you can't easily convert all programs running on mainframes to running on PCs.

Which is what I was alluding to with the last paragraph in my upthread comment. There are mainframe use-cases that are genuinely entwined with those hardware platforms. A mainframe isn't just a fridge-sized PC.
I recall reading something about Sonic may be including the landline so they can collect some government subsidy.
>The unity gain is 18Mhz which wouldn't be able to even keep up with a modern AVR clock(16-20Mhz).

I am not sure what this implies; would you be able to build an equivalent, digital circuit (with presumably a ADC and a DAC stage) with an average AVR then? Or what's the clock comparison for?
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It was a response to an immense drought in Ethiopia (largely the result of deforestation). They had years with almost no rain. It really wasn't misleading with respect to the situation at the time.
I just left IBM recently myself. I was involved in a lot of recruiting work and I know exactly what you mean. I too found the whole process completely cringeworthy. Suitable for the FellowKids subreddit:-)
Amateurs write clickbaity listicles to bolster their own fragile self-importance.
I don't think anybody's claiming that canvas bags are the answer. As you said, they contain a lot of plastic. The comment you replied to was about cotton bags, not canvas.
Looking at Collins dictionary, I think the author is using the third definition of amateur: “a person unskilled in or having only a superficial knowledge of a subject”

And the second definition of professional “a personal who engages in an activity with great competence”

These are implied by the question that begins the article:
“Why is it that some people seem to be hugely successful and do so much, while the vast majority of us struggle to tread water?”

The author could have chosen better words, but I feel you’re missing most of the article by focusing exclusively on them.
Do you refer to tools like noise cancelling earphones? Or something similar for the eyes? Because when it comes to unwanted contact to people, in reality there is a duplex channel: You can talk to annoying peoples, make them stop talking. Or dont you want to look at ads in public space?

This question is really context based. In NYC one might have different problems then on the countryside. I never suffered from ads in the public space because I just ignore them. AdBlock included in the brain...
I got to know Marvin a little. I used to use magic to teach critical thinking in classrooms and talk to him about this. Marvin loved the idea of kids learning how to fool adults so they’d not be afraid to question authority.
They didn't bother with _any_ details ...
It seems to me that whoever wrote that article thinks in absolutes...
one do it for love and curiosity, the others for money?
Wow, you should try working somewhere where project managers actually get paid.
Transistors at 7 & 5 are nowhere close to having serious “quantum” issues—that regime is thousands of times smaller than current gate design. Remember that the “size” is a marketing term that really relates most closely to “effective” wire pitch & gate density with respect to processes in the hundreds-of-nanometer scale. The absolute smallest functioning design I’ve read about is IBM’s 7-atom gate. That gate is something like 100thousand times smaller (volumetrically) than current production.

Also, current HW design is really inefficient. Think about all the crud between some front-end developer and the server powering the webpage on the backend, vs a ‘native’ app. That’s a good analogy to current HW design and real total-badass low level HW design.
Oh, if that's what you were talking about then I don't understand your comment at all.

The start menu doesn't occupy space during normal use. (That's why I though you meant the start button.)

You were talking about getting rid of something that occupied space, but they didn't get rid of the start menu. In fact they made it bigger when activated.

And the changes they made had nothing to do with whether the user can control their device.

So I don't think any argument based on the windows 8 start menu is suitable for saying that an extra bar is a good idea.

Oh well, thanks for clarifying.