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Now I am curious, who runs production customer facing apps on Azure? I'm assuming many people do given that Azure is second after AWS in market share or is that really just mostly corporate IT servers?
Using a single ephemeral instance with request/response mechanics as a kind of load balancer for messages. Publishers have persistency so it is not needed in the queue. 120Mb of memory usage and <2% of one core handling 10000 messages/s (as per nats-top) and it's been up for 2 years without and increase in memory size or failed messages.

The real allure was the guarantee that only one subscriber would get a request much like a traditional load balancer. The performance was an added benefit.

When we put it together a few years ago the cloistering wasn't very mature and the streaming version with persistence wasn't completed. Would look into this over kafka if only for the simplicity in management and track record of go for performance and reliability.
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They are using EOS machines https://www.eos.info/systems_solutions/metal
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Nice! How about the other end?
I stopped reading at Nelson Mandela. A white-washed caricature, a media construct of certain Western power structures, that entirely collapses the moment one pays even a little bit of attention at his deeds and the people he freely associated with (such as his notorious wife Winnie).

Aeon having been on my shitlist for similar drivel in the past, I think I'll go ahead and completely excise it from my life.
Not weird, but a 'conductive' hearing loss.

In this case the sound that arrives at the eardrum does not conduct through the middle ear bones to the cochlea.

Wax will only cause a slight drop in hearing thresholds.

This can be determined with a standard hearing exam.
Hey, throwanem. I think it's basically for everyone who are mentally unusual in a problematik way but I think I must be more descriptive here of course
What I don't understand is the sentiment that if the people of Hong Kong's rights are suppressed, they should just protest in a way that's tidy, quiet and convenient for the government. That's not how Sun Yat Sen rolled, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_Revolution
My eyes are hurting from seeing these articles whining about their misery while collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.

Multiple easily findable sources suggest that the median tech salary at Google is well below $150k -- probably more like around $130k.

I get your point about the "whining" -- but while the average Google definitely does better than someone with a non-tech salary -- it most cases they aren't bulge-bracket either, or anywhere near it.
Many do, including Kitze, the writer of the article. check out indiehackers for inspiration.
> that it's not possible someone could have a miserable experience at Google?

I think that. Google employees are at the top of the pyramid, so if the article was true, they would have left for an almost identical salary nearby. The fact that they don't means that either google pays way above its direct competitors (it doesnt) or these people are outright lying, and their actions speak louder than 12k words
You sure about that [0]?

[0]: https://www.levels.fyi/salary/Google/
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You may not perceive the average for such large intervals, but there are cases in music where you typically will, for example during vibrato.
It's not that terrifying, there are many drugs approved that are not even more effective than cheaper, older drugs on the market. It takes a wild-scale deployment with 1000's of patients to find rare side effects and to measure the true population-level effectiveness of a drug. This is contrary to the clinical-trial level "efficacy" of a drug, which is with a more limited in terms of N= and in terms of diversity, population.

Really, the whole drug approval process is filled with uncertainty. Partly it's how the sausage is made in biotech, but also pharma companies love this method as it allows them to put forward non-inferior drugs with higher margins. We can reform the process, and should, but there will still be statistical uncertainty for 100's of new candidates, until they reach the post-market study phase.
We have safe potable water for now. As public investment continues to lag we will see more Flints in the US.
I believe part of the problem is that current hybrid transmissions don't handle towing well.
To these employees: GROW UP. Your "misery" is better than 99.9% of humanity has ever lived in.
If they had taken $1M of that saved $5M and distributed it to all of the families inconvenienced by this change I wonder if that would have affected their opinion.
Part of this is Verizon's poor practices, and part of it is Verizon is a major transit provider; if a routing leak affects a large amount of the internet, it's almost certainly because a major transit provider accepted the announcement and propagated it.
I can't remember the name of the phenomenon, but there's a theory that technological progress happens in cycles.

The first half of each cycle contains large spurts of innovation and change which result in big shifts to how the world works (internet, vaccines, the automobile, jets, nuclear power/weapons).

The second half contains incremental improvements on those big innovations and focus more on convenience/leisure (social media connecting the world, uber, netflix, airbnb, etc).

We're currently in the second incremental half, but things like Space X (mars colonization, cheap rockets), CRISPR (gene therapy curing numerous ailments), and the like, tell me that we're not far away from the beginning of another paradigm shift innovation phase.
While many European cities were substantially rebuilt after WW2, the existing layout was usually retained.
95% of small tech startups won't pay anywhere near what Google would offer.
Maybe your offer at Google isn't the reality of all offers.
These people at Elsevier and their ilk are simple thugs who have leveraged their oligopolistic power into a web of extortion and coercion.
They force the people who create their content to give them the copyright, even though they created nothing but the bars of the jail they imprison the content therein.
Firstly, a coercice agreement is not enforceable no matter how they embellish it with soft language. It is like a robber who asks you if you like his gun? Look how pretty it is, and how lethal it is and how badly it could hurt anyone shot by it, so you do not want to get in the way of any bullets do you? By the way, I see you are carrying a heavy burden of valuables, would you let us assist to to carry that burden - good. We will watch over the valuable and test their ability to be spent on good works for the needy (us)

So they are simple thugs to be dealt with by police and the law by exposing and cancelling their coercive and forced copyright assignment agreements and placing those copyrights into a copyleft or similar position. This applies to all prior work and all new work going forward. The cost of running this process will be less than 1% of the monster eye breaking gougery that the colleges now bear.

It has to come, they have to go.
And recall the way they have kept the poor contries down by denial of access - that has kept the third worlders with first world brains, locked in an unethical cubbyhole.
In the mead time, get a few dozen seed boxes online with the last 20+ years of research data indexed and downloadable for free or very low fees. All well hid by technical means for anonymity.
I wish I could do more, but do this much damage to those evil thugs is already a good days work,
When folks say Azure is just behind AWS what does that mean? I don't see nearly that many Azure large scale workloads or is something else counting as Azure I'm not aware of?
The signal to noise ratio of the article is very low.
Article title is misleading. It's not "3D map", like city map with 3D buildings or something like that, it's just a DEM, digital elevation model. It's not a map at all.

It's useful for addition information to build a map, but it's not a map.
What is your point ? you seem to be objecting that some googlers have politics (which would be considered mainstream in many countries and companies) which disagrees with yours.
Try it with a USB-C. They all have chips in them as part of the spec. Identifying a rogue chip will be a bit harder.
Keeping track of employees isn't an issue. Everybody has some number they use or are small enough not to have run into issues with just using a name.

It's when you're talking about something that sticks with a person for their entire life. A prime example is credit scores. That's something that stays with you no matter how many times you change jobs, change names, change addresses, get married, etc... Federal taxes are another area where it's important to match the name with the correct record every single time.
Hardly a day goes by that I don't use svgomg. If you need a one-off SVG minified, this is the tool for you.
In another 10 to 20 years that won't matter with Moore's law slowing down. Globally competitive foundaries are one of the CCP's goals, and the same slow down that let TSMC surpase Intel will let some Chinese foundary surpass or equal TSMC. Their competitive edge is going to erode away to commodification (albeit for those who can stomach.the huge capital investment).
...but a large part of the reason to ditch M:N was the overhead it added to 1:1-style IO in a language quickly moving toward the C++ space.

They didn't decide to move off of M:N when it was exclusively M:N.
I suppose it could do some keyboard and mouse actions to extract your current wifi network’s password, copy to a file and spin up a tiny flash drive emulator to copy it onto.
lesson learned: large companies can afford to be wasteful.

google can afford to fight all these ideological battles and employee spats because of their large revenue. If they weren't raking in so much dough, I doubt they would be willing to humor employees complaints on the scale cited in Wired (an entire social network for employees and supported by the company?). I'm sure similar incidents occur at other large corporations. They definitely happen at mid-sized companies, albeit with lower intensity. working in HR for google must be quite the safari
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Everybody, this is a dangerous time. APCs are massing in Shenzhen (see other thread).

Now is the time to email your local Chinese embassy. Carrie Lam, the top HK politician. Michael Tien and Ronnie Wong, leading pro-establishment politicians.
Let them know dialogue & political solutions are needed, violence is not acceptable, and that PEOPLE ARE WATCHING AND CARE.

Mention any connections to China you have. Your voice can make a difference to the political calculus. But time is very short. Act now.
I would argue the FET transistor has been such a revolutionary technology in the applications it has allowed that we are still mining the offshoots of this technology. The fact that there is still so much money in computing means that vein has not been exhausted. And yes, I also believe that this has redirected talent from other fields into computing.

Robert Gordon's examples of new technology are almost all physical. It may be true that 1970 was the end of a century long "mechanical age". Now we are in the information age, and innovations are virtual/mental rather than physical.

As such I would place the breakdown of cultural barriers as a result of information technology as a major breakthrough. Gordon is using how long it takes to clean your house as a metric of innovation. He's not using the fact that the current inhabitant of that house may be from another part of the world, and yet still feel comfortable because shared culture is more accessible.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle ?
An exploratory MRI has inherit risk (even if minuscule) to your life, and thus their livelyhood. A very big difference from asking for an x-ray of a cable.
I’m in Canada. Our ISPs would never provide such a service in a million years.
> Don’t worry, we’re not sharing any of your private information with anyboby and not asking for it except for your Email address.

Typos and bad grammar?
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it's also nice to see there's other hacker psychonauts who enjoy writing rhymes, making music and understand same things about reality :)
Of course people with minimum wage jobs have it worse. That doesn't negate problems experienced by people at FAANG-level companies. It's especially interesting to hear about problems at these companies, as they're usually considered paradise, when in actuality they have problems like everywhere else, usually just different ones.

The average tenure at these companies is ~2yrs, so clearly the money isn't worth it for most people. It's interesting to hear why that is without dismissing any possible problem out of hand.
31 is too few? Its remarkable that top scientists are among them , but i doubt busy PIs like her review stuff regularly.
No i am not saying this. I am saying that: "I can't judge for the product in question "..
At that point, just pre-load the cable with a flash drive and copy the malware onboard.
I was suspicious of the same when calling out the parent, although the account is quite old and has posted about other things.

It's possible it has been compromised or was constructed from the beginning to seem legitimate and recently "activated" to pre-empt and soften something horrible that may be about to happen.

My comment is now greyed out even though I tried to be as respectful as possible when asking them about their recent posting habits. However their hostile reaction to my inquiry further adds to their suspicion.
That is a niche movement, especially the one publicly espoused by "economics". The public face of economics, and therefore the one used to justify policy enaction is highly skewed by think tanks, endowed chairs, consultancies, and restricted hiring into the fed and other economics policy seats.

Economics can only produce costs on what it can measure and accurately estimate.

Economics can't even produce accurate estimations on the restricted space of human economic activity.

How can it POSSIBLY produce accurate estimations for the multiple orders of magnitude more complicated biological and natural worlds?

In fact all that does is provide fear, uncertainty, and doubt to the regressive economists and the polluters, and allow them plenty of denial room as they externalize costs of pollution and dumping and destruction on society as a whole.

This is a "science" where the mere mention of any regulation is still considered fundamentally wrong to a powerful, well-funded, and very public sizable portion of the intellectuals. And since that aligns with the rich and privileged of the world, it will continue to be the most public and pronounced aspect of the "science".
> There isn't any framework where this would be seen as illegal or illegitimate.

Doing it just to effectively end "One China, two systems" would absolutely be breaking a teaty. Which is illegal.
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We still got our 140 characters! (280 now!!)

BTW what technical advances did you expect to have by now? For me, simple things:

- Robotic cooking machine or some sort of ubiquitous and super cheap automated food system

- Self-cleaning house

- All gene-related diseases cured
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The big one missing is mobile telecommunication/computing. Basically the last most transformative tech since your list is the lithium battery I guess ?

And this transformative effect keeps on giving, with the transition to renewables and "electrified everything" (such as cars, but not only).
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Nope, what I'm thinking of is a much more macro/long timeline focused phenomenon that looks at how innovation progresses over hundred year spans.
Sounds as if they plan to use agisoft photoscan to process all satellite images they can find.
All Windows servers on Azure already have to have "Software assurance". The license T&C for the last few years have been fairly clear you need to pay for software assurance to cloud host.

Are they not simply closing the loophole where direct customers are paying more?
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Do you know about the other "von neumann" architecture, his patent on harmonic computing?

Maybe they had all the best ideas and we need to mine some of them better.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US2815488A/en
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I think their problems with internet-y stuff in particular started before they became the new IBM. Outlook was still pretty awful in the 90s, say.
So what do we do if we want to oppose monocultures on principle? Clearly we can't just bury our heads in the sand and deny the truth you've presented here. Maybe the key is to make it easier to develop secure software, so one doesn't need a security team the size of Microsoft's, Apple's, or Google's. So I'm glad Mozilla is introducing more and more Rust into Firefox.
> calculation that can't be subdivided into parts -- e.g. weather

I'm not sure how weather simulation work but I always wondered why they aren't performed cellular automaton style. Bottom up rather than top-down. At each time step a given cell state is computed based on the state of its neighbors at t-1. This should be parallelizable. I feel it's also how it works in the real world anyway.
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I regularly order fruit from these guys and can attest that it's all very good quality. The banana sampler in particular is one of the few ways I can actually get a good variety of bananas outside of being on holiday.
Totally agreed CAs dropped the ball on research too. It's not an either/or thing: browsers makers need to ensure their security UX helps people understand what they're connecting to and CAs need to do the same and additionally ensure their verification processes are robust.
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> An exploratory MRI has inherit risk (even if minuscule) to your life

As far as I've ever heard, an MRI without contrast has no risk itself, and any risk comes from acting on the data.
If that was your vector, you wouldn’t bother with wifi at all.

I think the real value of this attack is against air-gapped computers... that people charge their wireless devices with? That would be stupid.
Well this article doesn't seem very good. Not least because the author seems perfectly willing to not actually explain the detail, and then jump to conclusions.

Having read the actual detailed article what seems to be happening is that some customers buy "on-premises licenses" without mobility rights, and MSFT used to let them use those licenses on outsourced hardware. But people were using those licenses to just put their deployments on general cloud services- which is not what the license was intended for. The license was intended for fixed, outsourced bare metal hardware.

Basically, MSFT is just catching up to the fact cloud services exist and you're going to need a specific license if you want to run the software on the cloud. Now, apparently this author finds this surprising, but given that the license he's complaining about is an "on premises" license it sounds more like MSFT were being generous by letting customers use the licenses on outsourced hardware, and never intended it to be carte blanche for running your "on premises" license in the cloud - which is very obviously not on your premises.

What it sounds like is happening at the moment is Amazon is running a shit tonne of MSFT software without any MSFT licenses. Which sounds pretty cheeky to me.
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That's super interesting! Are you saying 99% of retail grocer transactions contained either bananas or milk? Or BOTH?
I never said that 'good' was an objective measure. Quite the opposite, in fact. I quite explicitly said that rationality is about acting toward achieving what is 'good' for oneself.
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> I can't. I've tried suppressing the urge to create, but I just can't do it. Ideas, challenges, problems, unmet potential, are everywhere, and I can't unsee them.

This is exactly how I am, too. I maintain a list of ideas of useful applications that I could build, particularly in the education space. I cannot stop coming up with f/oss ideas and I will not have the time to finish most of them.
I agree that people need experience to become good at anything, but I actually see this as a sort of shortcoming which is attributable to education. i.e. the system will give you the building blocks of success without context and you can fumble around with them once you enter the workforce - learn on the job.

I believe that we should be focusing much more on pragmatic application of knowledge through apprenticeship in the later years of school.

The goal being to alleviate the feeling that you need to immediately train someone who just got done with 4+ years of training.
Modern hearing aids work pretty well at least for moderate loss. I tried previous ones and they were not helpful. Have had Oticon OPN and now OPN S for the last 4 years and it's been transformative.

Still, it's software which you can't manage yourself. Any Oticon people on here, handling of the release of S w/ feedback shield issues with high pitched voices was done quite poorly.

There are some large and fairly extensive genetic panels that can be run within months now for a few thousand if insurance doesn't cover. Unfortunately they don't have the variants causing my loss. Looking at full exome sequencing at Stanford but insurance is balking and it's 10k.
I agree that credit is due to the wonderfully creative game designer, Mr. Pajitnov. I don't see this as contradictory to my point.

> So no, it's not an "abstract game with endless possibilities". Tetris is Tetris, a concrete game

While protecting their IP in a court of law, The Tetris Company successfully argued that it does not exhibit scènes à faire because it is a purely abstract game.

> Moreover, Xio does not dispute that Tetris is a purely fanciful game, meaning it has no
grounding in the real world, unlike a video game simulating a karate match or a golf
game. Therefore, the analyses in Data East and Incredible Technologies are largely
inapplicable; the scènes à faire doctrine has little weight in instances such as this
because there are no expressive elements “standard, stock, or common” to a unique puzzle game that is divorced from any real world representation.

> https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-jer...
I think this makes a lot of sense in large organizations, particularly because these different units you speak of are not incentivized to work together, but to compete with each other. They fight each other for the budget so their leaders can advance their careers instead of working together to make the company more efficient overall.
I think it's just an accident of timing and history.

The old 30-pin connector (inherited from the iPod) had various issues so I think Apple was eager to replace it. The lightning connector was their solution. It predates USB-C by a few years, so that wasn't an option at the time (I guess it might have been on Apple's radar by the time the lightning cable was introduced, but if so, they must have made the call not to wait.)

Since USB-C has made its way to some iPads, my guess is Apple is in the process of phasing out lightning connectors entirely.
Plenty of absolute crap is absurdly popular, that is not much of an argument.
Can we say the same of the soldiers the US sent to Iraq?