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All good points, it's good to have alternatives and balance of power. I've been using macOS exclusively since Feb 2014, I like the OS, I like the convenience, but recently I bought a PC to go along with it.

Because the price of my convenience is:

- Want 16GB more of DDR3 2166 RAM in your laptop? $400 please. Paid $320 for 64GB of DDR4 3200 for my PC. Want an iMac with 64GB of DDR4 2666? Pay $1000 to upgrade from the standard 8GB.

- Can't have an NVIDIA GPU (at least not out of the box and even with an eGPU the support isn't first class)

- Can't have an AMD CPU

- Want 1TB SSD? Pay $300 more to upgrade from a hybrid HDD. Want a 2TB SSD? Get a volume discount and pay $700 more! Oh...

- No HDMI port

- honestly... hardly any ports and they "forgot" to include the dongles

- touchbar

- keyboard

- AppleCare - you better buy it because everything is soldered, your warranty is 1 year, and you really don't want to know the price of repair.

I'm reevaluating Linux as a viable choice every year or so too, it's getting better each time, but so do other platforms, so it's always playing catch-up. This year it was GPU drivers again (yes, NVIDIA). I problem solve for a living, but if I spend half my weekend and still can't figure out what's wrong, something is seriously wrong.

So, whatever you choose, you pay.
Just a symptom of late stage Capitalism.
No problem. We can call this We The We We.
As an immigrant in the US, I think your perception of the issue is driven more by your (probably pre-existing) existing attitudes on "liberals" than by the media in the US.
I’m relatively new to meditation. About 5 months, most days but not all.

The thing is, you don’t notice that those voices aren’t you until someone points it out. And you see it most clearly through meditation. Because when you think your mind is empty, it’s not, you’re telling yourself tales constantly. At least I am. But I never thought I was until I sat back and observed how my mind was working.

It’s like those drawing that ask if you see a cat or a woman and you see a cat. But then someone points out the woman and you just can’t unsee the woman. That’s the best analogy I can find at least.

As I said, I am early in experimenting with meditation, but it really feels like a game changer.

I’ve tried to read a variety on the topic. Being that I’m of the more secular bend, I’ve really enjoyed the Sam Harris book and app, Waking Up. If you want an intro, start with either. If you’re of a more spiritual bend, I’m sure there good other options.
People aren't all or always working on products or serving customers.
Speech legislation, including the US constitution, was constructed as a result of deliberation and political horse trading. That’s particularly true of the amendments.

On free speech particularly, what constitutes free speech and what speech is controlled or banned is constantly under review. Free speech advocates exist precisely because of this. If there was no issue around free speech there would be no need for advocates.

Laws around voter fraud are constantly under review. Cancelling all voting is not the only way to address electoral problems. Similarly banning all guns doesn’t have to be the only way to prevent frequent mass shootings.

Or is it? I really don’t know. You tell me. Just as electoral reformers are constantly addressing issues of democracy. As free speech advocates are constantly fighting for open discourse, why shouldn’t gun owners have to argue for and justify their privileges?

So what solution to mass killings and gun deaths do you propose? Just like anyone else exercising a right, you can legitimately be expected to justify it. Please do so.
You misspelt "Environment" once and "Imperius" twice.
Why pick a language that has a feature you need to immediately turn off? Some people probably want to, but ... why?
It's pretty easy reading, close to a book? (Closer than 'computer white' anyway, obviously paper varies.)
Climate change has been a thing for longer than 44 years.
> I don't see all lives as equal

?!
Cathay Pacific Airways uncovers more empty oxygen bottles
Why? You seem to imply that there is a progress or goal to meditation, or that there is one desirable, expected, outcome. I am not sure I agree to such a thing.
Meditation is a different to different people. I am happy what meditation is to me, and I see no reason—nor do I want to—change it.
It would be interesting to see a how was this made.

There is an interesting comment about something at 3:35. Is it a mini moon or only an artifact?
FEMA lets you rebuild at most once. After that you are SOL.
Local time as determined by your browser settings.
> My personal opinion is that the average person is struggling not to die of obesity or become diabetic, not be massively in debt, take reasonably good care of their kids, attain a reasonable level of education, etc. So from this perspective nobody really cares about a computer programmer getting to do an interesting project for a year.

This is so poetically stated.
> The reality is you still have to free resources, so it's not like the garbage collector is doing work that doesn't need to be done.

The garbage collector also needs to track resources, which is an additional cost over just freeing them. You have little control over how the memory is allocated, which is an additional cost over a design that intelligently uses different allocation strategies for different types of resources. Then, even if you can control when the garbage collector is invoked, you have little control over what actually gets freed. What good are those 200µs if the stuff eating up memory isn't actually getting freed fast enough?

Maybe people often overestimate their performance needs. A garbage collector may be fast enough for more purposes than anticipated. Even then, managing memory intelligently may seem like a small price to pay compared to the prospect of eventually fighting a garbage collector to get out of a memory bottleneck.
That's not the point. The point is, if you do network I/O, you are processing untrusted packets from the internet. If a carefully crafted set of such packets can trigger, say, a buffer overflow, you're toast.

A first line of defence is authentication. Make sure the packets come from a trusted source (you can MAC each packet for this), so only those trusted sources could possibly trigger the vulnerability.

If the only trusted source is an authoritative server, you might be able to hide that buffer overflow. If your network code is peer to peer however, you have to trust the other players not to run a cheat that takes over your machine… but at least that's not the whole internet.
Do they even need (or can obtain) any sort of top talent engineers? It just doesn't seem like there's much opportunity in the way of interesting tech problems being solved there. Nothing that bog standard middle-of-the road talent can't handle with plenty of time to also go retro with some local LAN Doom thrown in. Actually, getting the original running and wiring up the office through some old T-10 hubs (full duplex!) might be more challenging.
Java 13 Features: Switch Enhancements and Text Blocks
I even heard it here that that’s it, recession is a sure thing. This or that indicator flipped and it’s all over. Heard people talk about it around town. I debated moving my retirement investments around even. But a voice in the back of my head was telling to not bother, since there is always someone saying the big crash is going to happen next week. And eventually it will happen, but probably not next week...
"Our ancestors died because as Germany built towards genocide, companies like IBM powered & profited from their persecution

https://twitter.com/NeverAgainActn/status/116974370768966860...
U.S. to deploy military forces to Saudi Arabia
I always wonder about ham handed union activities.

Cases like this are just sickening: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/news/seiu-fights-to-force-hom...

Several of my family members have been in unions, and all I can say is no thanks. I cannot imagine working in such an adversarial us vs them environment, where its all about assigning blame and working to rule. I cannot imagine being told I'm not allowed to work when I want to, just because the union boss wants to make a point.
We are overpaying for everything because healthcare should not be a for profit venture the government needs to step in and set a max profit of say 5%. Also we're paying for a lot of bad habits like overeating and not exercising. Lots of preventable diseases go into that mix, I dare say it's the majority of expenditures. There is virtually no governmental or social efforts being put into stopping those preventable diseases.
I do gamedev in Unity and avoiding garbage creation feels easy enough to me for the most part.
China: Domestic cooling down while external heat rises further
If you want to make that clearer you could perhaps create a gif of a generic location and put it at the start of the demonstration?

Or even just a screenshot.

(you probably could not do it with a streetview photo, because of their terms, but a generic photo would totally do)
The smartest people in the most productive professions are above average earners. How is taxing them into the ground going to attract them?
>evolved into a group think belief that management could function as fungible & completely replaceable units of work

That is just an element of consistency. Since the 1980s management 'wisdom' has been centered around the idea that all workers should be fungible, replaceable units of work. Ideas like 'if you are irreplaceable, you are expendable' and the notion that your degree of importance to the functioning of a company is also a measure of how much of a liability you are, etc. They're ideas rooted in the notion that a business should prefer to close its doors rather than do anything which could raise the cost of labor in the market. If an individual becomes important in the functioning of a business, they should be eliminated as swiftly as possible because otherwise they will remain and eventually ask for more money. Since you can never, ever, consider granting that request, you will have to fire them at that point and the damage would be even harder to repair than if you had disposed of them when you first realized their importance. So better to eject them when you first realize it and clean up whatever damage that causes when it is more containable. Perhaps that viewpoint might have had some relevance in industries centered around commodity repetitive physical labor, but I would argue that it is overall destructive in knowledge-based industries. It has been phenomenally successful at suppressing the cost of labor (between 1950 and 1980, the median wage of workers rose 75%, between 1980 and 2010 it rose by only 1%) but it's caused a widespread host of much larger problems that threaten the very foundation of the economy.
I sort of shocked contractors at Google want a union. Typically contractors make more in total comp than full time employees. I suspect this is not the case there, but in general it’s true.
To sit as long as long as I feel like is not very informative as I don’t know what I am looking for when meditating.

On another note, I have spent a good deal self-reflecting more or less alone in the dark with me and my thoughts. From what I understand on some parts of the web, this pretty much equates to ”meditation”. While others describe it differently.

I guess I could download HeadSpace and be more explicit about it, but I do anyway think I have derived some mental benefits from the above behavior. Like, being more comfortable with myself. But I don’t think I am doing meditation since I don’t get all benefits as actual meditators.

Just as a reference to the OP of this thread, about being able to distinguish oneself from the voices in one’s head... I think there are more benefits in meditation.
It seems quite likely that we live within a hierarchy of simulations. That means the physics we observe don’t need to be ultimate; they might be whatever the simulators wished them to be.

Maybe some outer layer of simulation involves no technological civilization with intentionality but is just some massive computational process in a dynamic substrate that we can’t imagine.

If time is a feature specific to our simulation then maybe causality itself is kind of like a Kantian category and not a property of the real base universe. So maybe “why” questions only apply locally.

It does seem sensible to assume metaphysically that our observed world of causality somehow supervenes on some structure or energy that transcends causality, some kind of God or higher reality, even if it is a “god of the gaps.” We would be a part of this God’s “creative exploration” or something.
Sure it is in Yankeetown on the gulf coast of Florida, Paramount shot Follow That Dream staring Elvis on our property. We have a plaque from paramount with pictures of Elvis and the rest of the cast thanking my family for the use of the homestead. These pictures have never been released to the public. In one of the pictures there is a blond boy standing on the porch and Elvis is sitting on the porch swing. That boy was a yet to be Famous Tom Petty. His uncle worked as one of the set crew.

My great grandfather was a hunting guide and met Elvis years before they shot the film one time when he took him and his friends hunting. Elvis and my great grandfather hit it off, and he would come and hunt every year. They became lifelong friends.

Anyways, my family where Corsican merchants, they where attacked in Tampa bay when the pirates laid siege to the city of Tampa. They lost their boat, and when you loose your boat in the new world unless you are rich, your pretty much a citizen of the new world.

Some of my family headed east to the fort in Saint Augustine and then settled down the east coast and eventually married into another old Florida family called the Summerlins also known as the Summerals and the Summerlands (hence the name of the island I live on). One of my distant (some kind of great great) uncles was the first child born after the purchase of Florida by the US, thus making him the first natural born US citizen from Florida. His name was Jacob Summerlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Summerlin

He went on to be a cattle Barron and donate most of what is now downtown Orlando to the city or Orlando. Summerlin boulevard in Orlando is named after him.

Anyways, my relatives on the east coast went as far as south as Ft. Pierce until Henry Flaglar came and started building the railroad. Some of them joined it and worked it to Key West (my immediate family was not part of that first group, my dad was a treasure diver for Mel Fisher and that is how I ended up down here). That is how some of us spread down here. But most of the family that ended up in Ft. Pierce, took up commercial fishing and branched towards the Bahamas and started setting up camps in Bimini, Spanish Wells, and Andros. Some liked it over there and began to make it their base of operation and the family spread to the Bahamas.

It's pretty cool, I have a lot of family in Florida and the Bahamas when the reality is almost everyone that lives in Florida is not from Florida and it really gives you perspective, the old Florida was nothing like the Florida Man articles you read about Florida today.
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If I took my money out of the market and braced for a recession every time the media reported economists were forecasting an imminent recession, I'd have missed out on tens of thousands of dollars in gains.

Eventually, the other shoe will drop, I'm sure, but hell, the Dow is floating around 27k. A little couple hundred point dip is just an opportunity to buy in at a discount.
> So you're saying that you never have anything going on in your head that you didn't choose? No uncomfortable thoughts that you have to push away? No egos lashing out at other people or telling you you're not good enough?

Thanks for putting it this way. I definitely remember my brain used to do stuff like that, when I was a teenager, but it is not a state I can deeply relate to decades later. I recall making a conscious decision, around the time I was 19, to not get hung up on that stuff because it was not pragmatically useful to my physical life. So perhaps I have put some effort into "getting there" and it was just so long ago I've forgotten what it was like.
Tony Heller is a sham.

https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/hosted-by-former-aus...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClimateOffensive/comments/cm9l2q/to...
As long as it was disclosed to the buyer then they take the risk with hopefully flood insurance. If it wasn’t disclosed then they may have recourse against the property developer and their agent.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I don't think that's a strong example. Charging for utilization is the most obvious way to price a service, and http requests are the most obvious way to track utilization of an API gateway (or any load balancer).
That isn't why the government intercedes in stuff like this. It intercedes because if it says "Welp. Not My Problem." and these folks say "Fuck it. Not Mine Either." and just walk away from their properties, declare bankruptcy, whatever, and become basically refugees within their own country, you have worse problems.

My sister had a break-in at her home one year. She told me something like "Well, the benefits for Katrina survivors ran out last week. That's probably not coincidental."

If you have people who, through no fault of their own, cannot make their lives work and the entire rest of the world takes the attitude "Well, too bad, so fucking sad, chump. Not Our Problem." then people have a tendency to say "Welp. The system doesn't work for me, so why should I care about little details like you expecting me to respect your property rights? It's not like you care about my inability to eat through no damn fault of my own."

When stuff like that happens on a broad scale, it leads to serious problems. Entire industries/cities/regions can be negatively impacted if enough people walk away from their problems and just go elsewhere.
Yes, a recession will happen. So will the post-recession recovery period. It’s going to hurt. 98 out of 100 stocks during the 2008 Great Recession lost people money. At the same time recessions don’t last long [1], and it’s a great opportunity to buy, whether it’s stocks or homes.

I was just looking into the last recession, and I found that the market was wrong, and overreacted about a lot of stocks during that time [2]. Even AIG, the villain that caused the crash and was bailed out by the government, was one of the top performers during the recovery.

Try to have a balanced approach - cash + defensive assets (like gold and household staple stocks) + not selling all your stock.

[1] 2008 Great Recession: 1.5 years; 2000 dot com bubble: 8 months; early 1990s recession: 8 months

[2] https://shan.io/writing/learnings-from-the-2008-great-recess...
There's more than one program paying for things. Flood insurance can pay out repeatedly, for example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-house-22-floods-repeated-cl...
He also has 'fuck you' money so he doesn't care. It's not like the 60 year old woman quoted in the article who might become homeless.
It's relevant in that Airbus management is not being raked over the coals for that disaster, which has many similarities.
Thanks. Fixed it. We wasted a lot of time on landing page while building our last product. This time we decided we will built it quickly made the landing page in under an hour. I knew we messed up somewhere. Also we are super sleepy at this point :)
It's important to enjoy your work, which is - among other causes - about having right tools. Also, some of us actually get to have some influence over what language we write our projects in.
Did you read the article? If you know of Numba works, you know it can't just pick up different functions from sklearn and scipy and do interprocedural optimization (IPO). For Numba to do that, it'd need all functions involved to be written in Numba @jit style, whereas Weld would work directly on the pre-existing functions.

Rust is just a IPO driver of sorts here.

I'm not critizing Numba btw, I use it regularly, but your comment seems a little off here, considering that Weld has different goal in mind.
>you can turn off the gc in Go and run it manually

And if you run the GC manually, you really don't know how long it will take - read: determinism.

> you can also write cache-aligned arrays of structs in Go if you want to

Wasn't this thread about why people don't use GC, not about go? I don't remember.

If you're using an object pool, you're dodging garbage collection, as you don't need to deallocate from that pool, you could just maintain a free-list.

> you can allocate a slab and pull from it if you want to. the existence of a GC doesn't preclude these possibilities

To take it further, you could just allocate one large chunk of memory from a garbage collected allocator and use a custom allocator - you can do this with any language. But you're not using the GC then.
I guess the "head voices" mentioned in this context are simply thoughts, judgements, and different ideas that pop as if "automatically" into people's minds.

I'm somehow similar to how you describe yourself but I still practice meditation. I think that you might discover some subtle feelings or some tensions in your body if you do, even if you are naturally quite calm and focused.

You might try meditating just once, as an experiment, and see if you find it helpful or not. To do it you simply have to watch what appears in your consciousness, without doing anything about it. You see an emotion, you let it be there without trying to analyze it, hold it, or reject it. You see thoughts and you do the same. And the same about physical sensations. If you notice that you got caught following a certain chain of thoughts, you notice it and go back to the watching. You might start practicing for 20 or 30 minutes.
"Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not". I keep seeing this quote, but not attribution. Oldest I can find of it, -http://www.talkleft.com/story/2009/9/26/144122/317/hillarycl...
Ontario has made nuclear work. But it's hard to do.

There are three types of energy production, as I see it: those that have little control of their production (wind, solar); those that have control of their production but are hard to change (nuclear); and those that can rapidly change their production (fossil fuels, hydro-electric).

Demand, on the other hand, fluctuates based on all the wants and needs of humans. You need a mix of all three.

http://www.ieso.ca/power-data (the supply graph over the last week is the most interesting).

Ontario has made nuclear work by demanding from it what it is absolutely best at: an unchanging, fixed supply of a large amount of electricity. 10.3-10.6 GW at all times for the last week (and probably a lot longer). Wind and solar help, but their inputs are so variable that they can't suffice. Gas and hydro make up the rest because it's easy for them to adjust their production.

Nuclear can work and be profitable, but only as a piece of the puzzle.
Quote:

> The experiment described in the paper sampled randomly generated numbers produced through a specialized scenario involving quantum phenomena.

Why even write that sentence? It literally means nothing. From a tech perspective, it makes me completely doubt both the authors competency and googles supposed claim. It sounds alot like modern snake-oil salesmanship.