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Looking at my records, around February 1994 was when I hit $100k, and I'm really a medicore engineer.

This formulaic post is just sad. It's almost as bad as reading Oleg's posts on LinkedIN. I hired a FELON!
Many kinds of products. One of our log aggregation products in AWS currently sits at 20TB ingress from over 500k connections. This is where slight optimizations start to have an enormous financial impact.
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The last human on the moon was almost 50 years ago. Shuttle flights (barring obvious exceptions) were pretty routine; definitely not the most inspiring missions. But humans back on the Moon, or on Mars, in the 21st century and setting up colonies? That's completely different proposition.
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There was a time when they did put lead in petrol (i.e. gasoline) and that was then burnt by cars, which meant lead did end up in the atmosphere.
Or a nom de plume.
The only company where I was tasked with "maintaining and fixing" the code of others, parts of the codebase where 90s' blackboxes nobody would touch with a 10 ft stick, and simply setting up the proper environnement to reproduce a bug could take up to two days.

Then some weird error relating to some obscure fax sending module reconverted into an email templating service would creep up somehow and have to be fixed before I could go back to debugging.

So, yeah. I churned, and went on to build new things.
ppl said the same thing about google in 2005. Same thing about Microsoft in the 80's and 90's. Both companies are doing better than ever. IBM is still around and is still huge.
If nobody pays for journalism will it still exist in a form that considers the reader the customer and not the product?

NYT doesn’t paywall until you’ve read multiple articles in a month. Since you already like it perhaps you should subscribe. Or clear your cookies.
Not that I'm aware of.

(And it's at position 135 now).
I didn't ignore capital, it just circles back round to "Money is deferred human labor".

If I work for you for an hour and get paid, I can either use that to pay for something else, or save it. If I save it, that's capital. I can use that capital to pay someone to build a machine, that machine multiplies my productivity, lowering costs for you, whilst I still get higher pay.

You seem to implicitly accept this
"We buy tractors for our farms and in fact look for ways to reduce the labour costs of making this!"

Now, as a model, it becomes less useful as you become more and more divorced from that original labour, so I'm not surprised that economists and central banks are moving away from it, but in the context of whether to buy an Atari emulator, or build one, it's more than adequate.
That cheapest COTS block also has the advantage of being battle tested by the big customer base.

Since you presumably have pretty good contacts into IBM: ever asked if they'd consider pooling resources with other vendors around their interconnects in an open forum?

Not sure if DDR4 (or USB, or even PCIe 4.0) silicon is a huge differentiator for them, and those protocols all thrive on interoperability: no need for IBM (or Marvell, for example) to figure out all the issues with real world peripherals on their own.
The risk may be lower but the forgone income is a lot greater. The median admit to a CS Ph.D. programme, even the worst ones in the US, can probably get a job at Google and can definitely get a job programming for a living if they have the right to live in the US. If they’re from a less developed country a Ph.D. stipend and the possibility of staying afterwards probably looks pretty great.
This was also one of the first algorithms I had to implement in university. It's really great to teach about dynamic programming / recursion and how different approaches to a problem can have vastly different outcomes. And the result is great and visual.. unlike most of the early algorithms you learn like sorting algs.
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In Germany healthcare is mandatory by law and affordable - for most employees except ultra-high-income, it's a countrywide fixed percentage of income.
Opinions derived from what? Personal experience? The media? History books?
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This is a side I hadn't thought of. But, given how China appears to treat its citizens do you think they really care?
>The question is: Conspiracy or incompetence?

Or both. As is often the case with industry leaders and regulators, the tail wags the dog. Meaning usually the regulator is totally incompetent and defers to the very people they are supposed to be regulating. Its not a conspiracy per say, its how the system works, but people don't generally know that or like to hear that, so they say that kind of talk is a conspiracy.

Just as an example if you point to Goldman Sachs top executives bouncing back and for from Federal Government positions back to Goldman Sachs...the record speaks for itself, but people will say thats how its supposed to work and suggestions there is a problem with that is a conspiracy.
I charge my iPhone 8 with a USB-C to Lightining cable connected to the MacBook's power adapter

Sure, you have 1 more cable to throw in your bag but it's not a big deal.
We did send color cameras to the moon. Earthrise being a rather famous example:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...

As are those color photos of the lunar flag:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Flag_Assembly#targetText...
Organized is not the same thing as Unified.

It does rather sound like a value judgement when you bring it up the way you have.
His memory and experience don't match her memory and experience, and her experience wasn't nearly as positive.

Neither is "invalid", but we should remember the difference between "great" and "great (for the small set of people that enjoyed it)"
> a lack of goal problem.

that is an organization problem, but anyway I disagree with;

> Sending people up is vastly more expensive than unmanned probes and as technology improves there's not a whole lot a human can do that can't be achieved remotely with those probes.

It's not incorrect, but the Apollo astronauts would have covered the entire curiosity rover distance in 7 years in about an hour.

The rate at which humans on site would accomplish things is not to be scoffed at. Whether it's worth the other costs getting them there is still up for debate. But robots are not hands down better.
Very true. and although i'm in the midwest you can still find forest preserves, hiking trails, lakes, rivers etc. Get out, find some big wide open space, no other people around. You get to zone in, decompress a little bit. personally i like fishing so i can stand around in silence for hours casting a little bait around trying to bag a fish.
In Dutch, I think the billberry is called "bosbes" ("forest berry"). The blueberry is simply called "blauwe bes" ("blue berry"). They're often confused, and the blueberry seems to be treated as a cheaper substitute for the "bosbes".
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Yes, In Germany, health insurance is proportional to your pay ( as long as you do not go private). There are laws called "Mutterschutz" to protect mothers. The mothers are eligible for 65% of their pay for 1 year (parental leave) or 300€/m if they are not working. The child gets about 200€/m from the Govt. The education is free. If you are on a contract that might end when your child is younger than x years, then the contract will be extended etc.
Why is this specific to AWS ?
But I would argue that because of the political nature of the prize (and the deliberate political nature of it) the Peace Prize is unlike the other Prizes and should maybe be awarded differently, i.e. while being less certain about whether the choice is a good one.

But I can also see and understand your point of view. It’s just a different (and also valid) idea of what the Prize is supposed to be.
To be fair USB chargers weren't universal, either. I have a JBL Bluetooth speaker that I can't charge with any charger except the one that came with it
> I have to clean the USB-C port on my Android phone every couple of months otherwise it won't charge ... this never happened to me with micro USB or lightning ports.

You're lucky. I just did a quick poll of the 12 iPhone users near me, and 8 of us have cleaned out our lightning ports in the last 3 months. 2 just cleaned out now as they realised this is what was causing their charging problems.
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, has died
I agree with you in a sense.

FP has its pitfalls, it is almost too easy to decompose, compose and build abstractions in the FP idiom. We often only praise the power and expressiveness of that property and act as if most of us are capable of making the right decisions all the time, which is quite obviously not the case.

(This is especially true if we add stuff like macros and homoiconicity to the language. The Lisp Curse has been discussed to death.)

I think the best approach here is a disciplined/pragmatic focus on readability as you are implying, without neglecting advanced FP techniques in the places where they actually solve a problem well.

Currying is in a sense one way of doing dependency injection in the FP paradigm. But more often than not, when I'm looking at a function that can/should be curried there is something wrong with the data/data-structures and not with the function.

And instead of bending the function(s) in an 'advanced' (read: complicated/complected) way, we can often transform or even re-model the data itself to make our code clearer and more robust.

The toy examples in the blog post can't be used to illustrate this well, which is fine, because the author just showcases the technique basics.
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During Apollo, color cameras were sent to the moon (both photographic and video cameras). But the "disease" you're pointing at rings a bell in my mind: the JunoCam.

If it had been for the science team, Juno would've gone without it. It was added as a late-time PR addition, based on hardware from a previous mission (the descent imager of the Curiosity rover). And yet, it has given some of the most astounding images from Jupiter we've ever seen.
Seam Carving is available in GIMP with the "Liquid Rescale" plugin.

$ apt install gimp-plugin-registry

GIMP->Layer->Liquid Rescale
That's a cheap patent. Especially given the timescale. Look at it this way. Can you find a lawyer to help shepherd a patent for 5 years and his/her fee is less then 10.000 dollars per year?
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> Their online store does not offer particularly good value apart from fast shipping for commodity items.

Here are some of the main reason why I look for things on amazon first:

* Fast shipping

* Reliable

* Huge variety of goods

* I've already set things up. I don't want to register and add payment details to hundreds of web shops. If one already sells everything I need, I'm using that one.

* Very buyer friendly

* All invoices online, in digital form, in one place. Saves a lot of headache when it's tax time.
I've been working on a UX/Conversion Optimization blog post and was doing some research on web design across different verticals and business types. As you start to look around, you'll see specific details emerge to meet the needs of different verticals and business models.

With every UX project, same applies to anything in sales and marketing, a little bit of audience research and understanding will go a long way to defining the best path forward for your design. Ask target users in 1:1 sessions to share the kinds of evaluation questions they want to ask of the product and their expectations. Listen for the hierarchy of the information, what's prioritized, and the specific language they're using. For an FS client project this research helped us define a simple decision tree to build into the site UX that led visitors down different paths based on their specific challenges/wants. It delivered 125% of target annual performance in the first six months.

I also recommend looking at several sites across categories to get a feel for how brands build experiences for different business models and audiences. The focus for that business model will come through loud and clear. Here are some examples to look at side by side:

CPG vs DTC: checkout traditional CPG sites like Church and Dwight or CLR and their associate brand pages vs DTC or more digital native brands like Trumans or Method Home. You see that the older CPG sites are more informational and drive to retail with the "where to buy" prompts. And the more digital native w/ or pure DTC brands put purchase paths front and center.

eComm vs Retail Clothing: another great example is ASOS vs Gap. ASOS, as a more digital native and eComm brand shows a much cleaner and focused UX to smooth the path to digital purchase. Gap however just feels more like a traditional retailer with the plastered coupons front and center, along with a general feeling that digital purchases are secondary to the retail channel.

Consumer Banking: take a look at N26 vs Chase or Wells Fargo too. You'll see a completely different UX from N26 as the digital native. mobile focused brand that's ACQ focused since they just launched here in the US. And the older traditional banks like Chase and Wells definitely have that more cluttered UX that's indicative of an internal tension for old vs new tech, products, customers, etc.

Software: this is one vertical where I think most people are up to speed with decent best practices across the board. I haven't found any glaring instances of horrible UX yet. Look at your top of mind software companies and you'll likely see very clear UX patterns emerge. This is especially true with homepages for new visitors and brands focused on heavy user ACQ. Personally, I like Webflow and Trello as consistent examples of good UX.

As for bad examples, agencies and restaurants have historically been consistent offenders with the worst UX out there. TBWA and Ogilvy are keeping the streak alive today.

Hope this helps. And feel free to ping me if you have other questions or want to talk through some ideas.
Chrome Incognito has a Gmail account saved in it (try it yourself)
Step1: Open Chrome Incognito

Step2: Google "gmail login" without the quotes

Step3: Click on "Sign in...". See screenshot here: https://imgur.com/gvLCCGa

Step4: Whose email is this auto-populated and why? https://imgur.com/EiMRV5s
Yes, so I agree with you on the human right topic but I think for the Rwanda argument to make sense you should restrict to the last five years or so. I feel pretty wary of Kigama, but maybe they will have a smooth transition to the next guy? Of course, in five years from now it is possible that SA again looks better in their rate of immediate progress than Rwanda.
It's slow. Transfering videos from my iPhone to my MacBook happens very fast, sending a video from a friends Android phone to my Thinkpad takes forever.
I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm also very puzzled: why would people take the sea route to Australia? I can understand crossing the Mediterranean sea by boat, but sailing to Australia is far more risky.
This might have been a case of parallel invention. When I was using Michigan Terminal System in 1981, and it wasn't new then, I remember SERCOM/MSINK being distinct from SCARDS/SOURCE and SPRINT/SINK. Yes, that's cards as in punch cards. My impression is that similar concepts and terminology have also existed in the IBM world since $forever. I doubt that the MTS folks and the Bell Labs folks were aware of each others' identical inventions, but if there was a relationship I'd bet on the MTS folks having been first.
Right, and youay ne thinking, let's play the odds. But there is only once chance, so what do odds mean anyway in that scenario? Will you wall away a failure and still take solace in the fact that by the odds you were supposed to be correct?

But if there is only one chance, how can you know what the odds of anything? You have the past, and you have the future and you may prescribe a certain significance to that past for what reason you don't really know. How could you, it just feels right, doesn't it? Your memory, regard8this as truth, it just feels right. But consider.. one point in time and space, in however many dimensions there may be, and the only reason you believe in a certain outcome is feeling that your so called memory is representitive of reality..Wnat evidence do.you have it.is.right? I.claime none.at all. None.ag.all.none.sfall
No, the expected outcome is PG&E hiring enough staff to properly maintain their lines and equipment to operate safely in high danger condition.
Building a colony on Mars or Luna, beyond the celebratory beginning, is brickie work in a spacesuit. The inspiration will pale rapidly.
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Not quite the same thing, but Windows has the concept of multiple named streams in the same NTFS file - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/file-s...

So you could write a log file with separate streams for different verbosity levels.
> The median admit to a CS Ph.D. programme, even the worst ones in the US, can probably get a job at Google

Hah I think the hiring bar for Google is higher than the bar for a PhD viva!
Multiply the per-capita numbers by the sizes of the country and you see that in terms of total emissions China is the most critical player. Worse, per-capita emissions are strongly correlated with consumer buying power so the more China's economy grows the more it's per-capita and total emissions are likely to grow.

It's important to reduce emissions everywhere, but China is the key player to watch.
The analysis in this post is only on two rather small hashtags (a very small percentage of the whole of Twitter).

It also involves a lot of "eyeballing", particularly the part where the author looks at the graph and notices a weird pattern. That's very hard to do automatically.
I can agree that it may be an over-cited piece of work, but the analysis in this article is very surface level. Not worth a read imo
If the military has developed several breakthrough technologies, why in the world would they patent them, thereby making them public? Given a revolutionary new tech, no foreign government would respect a U.S. patent, nor would it be enforceable in the first place.

It's amazing to me that the ET/UFO cranks would take the publication of these patents at face value.

As others have posited, likely another explanation is warranted: 1) luring foreign militaries down blind alley's of expensive research, 2) putting out these patents to only later debunk them and thereby possibly muddying the waters for some legitimate revelations, 3) a simple prank, etc. etc.

Is it possible to verify that the filer is legitimately the U.S. Navy, or could anyone just file a patent and list the Navy as the assignee?
It does but Google has a very very strict policy about not greasing wheels. People have been fired over it and not reimbursed for the out of pocket expense. It made building infrastructure in India take exponentially longer than competitors who were willing to play according to the unspoken rules. Google can't be trusted but not everything they do or every way they operate is bad.
Care to explain what you are talking about?

I'm going on a limb here to be charitable despite the anti-credibility marker in your last sentence.
Note also that the blueberry test group (WBB) had a higher score in the practice test already (cf. Table 1). In other words: they were probably better before the consumption of the blueberry juice and stayed better afterwards.
Robotic missions have all the mental skills of humans, the decision making in a robotic mission is on-par if not even superior because of time constraints being virtually absent.

What robots lack as of yet are the motor skills.

Edit: I'm talking of course about non-autonomous missions.
And yet the system is set up for a time when every Ph.D. who wanted a job as a professor would get one. That ended in the 70s. Now you have people doing three post docs before giving up to go into industry as they could have straight after the Ph.D. which many would never have done if they’d known where they’d end up. And you have humanities Ph.D.s doing jobs that in no way require the training and social science Ph.D.s doing jobs they could have ended up in if they’d never gone to graduate school though it’s not quite as bad because at least they often end up getting jobs that require the six or so years of experience they spent in grad school, earning a lot less money.
I assume you're looking at overall CO2 emissions rather than per-capita emissions.

I’m looking at the page I linked. Per-capita is basically irrelevant, the issue is the total emissions under the control of any one government. Or should China not act until they match the US per-capita but with 3-4x the population?

Further the US and European trends are already downwards. China’s is dramatically upwards.
Would be about as pointless her receiving it as when they handed it to Obama
With the caveat up front that I'm a huge idealist about space: I think humanity would greatly benefit from building large populations in space. Once the systems are in place then any power generation, industry, or agriculture done in space means less pollution here on earth. Solar energy is "free", asteroids are "free".

The setup isn't trivial, but in the long run I think it is best for everyone.
I dont see a problem with that. Too many people in research - market needs correction.
What about city activity with pollution?

more activity -> more pollution -> more crime

more activity -> more crime
AA seems to trust the recert process. http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2019/The-Latest-Informa...

That would make one of us.
Lawful Intercept has no such flaw. It does not let you of the hook just because you think you are clever and say "Oopsy,
I can't".

If your service can't comply with regulation when requested or inspected, then your service will be disallowed until you can.
I think the idea is to dispel the myth that you can’t get that kind of performance on a cloud instance.
I fail to see anything in your link to back up your claim.

Here's what the EFF does say about the CPB doing exactly what I described.

> The evidence includes ICE and CBP policies and practices that authorize border officers to conduct warrantless and suspicionless device searches for purposes beyond the enforcement of immigration and customs laws. Officials can search devices for general law enforcement purposes, such as enforcing bankruptcy, environmental, and consumer protection laws, and for intelligence gathering or to advance pre-existing investigations. Officers also consider requests from other government agencies to search devices. In addition, the agencies assert the authority to search electronic devices when the subject of interest is someone other than the traveler—such as when the traveler is a journalist or scholar with foreign sources who are of interest to the U.S. government, or even when the traveler is the business partner of someone under investigation. Both agencies further allow officers to retain information from travelers’ electronic devices and share it with other government entities, including state, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies.

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-documents-reveal-dhs-...
Microsoft has experimented/is experimenting with lowering a datacenter right into the ocean, at least in part for the ease of cooling it.

> In fact, Naval Group adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines to the underwater datacenter. The system pipes seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12 server racks and back out into the ocean. Findings from phase 1 of Project Natick indicate water from the datacenter rapidly mixes and dissipates in the surrounding currents.

https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-...