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One could argue the cloud services companies aren't really pure software as alluded to in the article, but a software veneer over a gig economy for the underlying hardware. This perspective would allow for a bit deeper of a comparison between what's working and what's not.
> Tor [is] slower than dialup.

That was true years ago, but nowadays I rarely percieve any speed difference at all when comparing browsing using Tor and non-Tor.

> Pushing all traffic through a VPN only moves the problem. Now I have to trust some unknown entity in some other country to respect my privacy.

But, and here’s the crucial difference: with VPNs you have a choice. A wide variety of choice. With ISPs, especially in the US, not so much.

> All useful traffic runs over HTTPS already, but metadata is still valuable. My ISP could snag SNI headers and know sites,

That’s due to be fixed with ESNI. Just wait for a technical fix.

> but I don't think they're actively sniffing 100% of the traffic that goes across the wire. No, I think they want to be Verisign/Comcast/OpenDNS and redirect NXDOMAIN responses to ad pages or inject false responses to "unauthorized" queries.

That is true today, but when DoH and/or DoT happens, the ISPs will certainly switch to doing whatever still works. They are merely sniffing and proxying DNS traffic today because it still works, but the second it no longer works, they will switch to whatever does work. You can’t just work around the current mechanisms, you have to look a few more moves ahead.
> So now we are going to charge higher taxes to subsidize software developers.

What's wrong with "subsidizing", aka paying, software developers?

> Are we also going to have a centralized “5 Year Plan” for the economy? How has this worked for China and Russia. They realized decades ago that this didn’t work.

The lack of creativity on a website supposedly populated by engineers keeps astounding me. Hell, you don't even need creativity to be aware that public broadcasters exist.

Or to recognize that computing and communication technology has somewhat improved in the past 30 years. Considering that the planners of the eastern block had to greatly simplify their plans and still weren't able to finish their calculations within 5 years, the state capitalist economy worked remarkably well.
This is because we don’t have any decent rich formatting options available for code in a plain text file. You could totally find those errors in an excel spreadsheet, and excel doesn’t default to using fixed-width typewriter fonts.
For once, a JS issue that works in my favor :p
Tangentially - I can’t recommend Ken White’s first amendment related Make No Law podcast highly enough - and his podcast on the often mis-interpreted but oft quoted “fire in a crowded theatre” is great.

Episode is: https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/make-no-law/2018/06/fi...
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In my opinion, customer acquisition cost should be baked into your effective margin calculations. If you're selling things "for a profit", but it costs you more than the entire profit on the sale to make the sale, your business model still sucks and is being subsidized by something, debt or otherwise. This is a common trap online sellers fall into - gross margins are kind of useless if your selling costs are through the roof.
It sounds like you've not really looked at the site.

It's a collection of articles about Go, with an emphasis on the bad points.

eg the "insults" are links to full articles

Sure, the format is lousy, but the info is somewhat relevant.
This advice is is all well and good but to me it seems to optimise for someone with an already successful career. Those of us with multiple long streaks if unemployment can't really pick and choose when it comes to the next contract. Nor can we really negotiate because we can't walk away from an offer.
I bought a Zenbook a year ago but the trackpad was pretty much unusable. Though Ubuntu 16.04 worked with minor tweaks.
What happened to the other disposable plastic bags you took home? Presumably your garbage output was less than your grocery input?

And yes, having to buy a new reusable bag if you forgot yours is frustrating. Which makes it memorable, and less likely to happen again - though that may be more of a personal thing.

If you have a lot of extra reusable plastic bags, perhaps you could push your local grocery store to put in a "take a bag/leave a bag" box? To ensure they get put to good use
More and more I think the word programmer has come to mean nothing and will continue to lose meaning. More and more people need to program for their work and would not call themselves “programmers” (Scientists, Marketers/DevRel, other Engineering fields, Support, Ops, etc).

BTW, there are people who definitely “Engineer” software they are rare, but they exist, especially at the FAANGs. There are lots of people who have the word “Engineer” in their title that shouldn’t, a fine alternative is “Developer”.

What’s the difference? A developer is implementing a known solution in a specific domain. An engineer is dealing with a significantly unique problem space that has only been addressed by theory, if that. Engineers spend a lot less time programming than Developers do, because their primary occupation is solving tough problems with their colleagues through documentation, RFCs, etc. They often are not the ones who even implement their own ideas. Wait, isn’t that a Software Architect? No. Software Architects plan and documents in known solution space, they aren’t solving unknown problems.

Most people that I’ve worked with in Software have never worked with a Software Engineer before.
You are right, Chrome doesn't need the DNS encryption to screw me.

But I think what they need is screw all of us, in a way which we won't resist much because it's for our own good.
And that's why you're not an open source company CEO.
> but to avoid killing drivers, crew, and spectators regularly.

That's the leaf FIA uses to impose their restrictions but it's unlikely e.g. limiting the KERS budget, and increasing it significantly just as you're restricting engines, is not a safety thing.
Serving less code is more important than serving lots of code from a CDN. All that javascript needs to be parsed too after downloading, and that's probably taking the bulk of the time on mobile devices.
> The only thing I can think of is that I can't use a different window manager

There are some third-party macOS window managers out there. Personally I use Amethyst. I'm sure they're not as powerful as Linux WMs can be, but it suits my tiling needs when I have an external monitor plugged in.
I am not sure that I have made every implication of my position clear to you, as the arguments in the paragraph beginning "now we get to the critical part", and even more so in the update following it, imply that if there is some calculation where one can just plug in the numbers without explicitly or implicitly taking a position on UEIS/UEOS, it will not yield a result that resolves the issue (unless it merely duplicates a set of measurements that could just as well have been made locally, in which case the excercise would have been pointless.)

I think the best thing we can do at this point is to agree to disagree, especially as we are disagreeing over a hypothetical set of measurements and a calculation that neither of us can specify.
Not in countries with partially or fully-socialized healthcare.

If drinking litres of cola causes diseases that the public purse has to support, then pay more for the cola.
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Swiss here: Our health insurance providers might be privatized, but they're strongly regulated and every Swiss citizen must have healthcare. They do function, but not because of their free market incentives (my opinion), but because of strong regulations. Also, if there was a vote to go from public -> private insurers again (historically, they were public once), I think they'd stay public, because we're not really seeing the benefits of their privatization, only the downsides (tons of ads, calls, arcane coverage rules etc.)
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For those interested in hacking in this:

The Pano G2 FPGA is a monster, but prices on eBay have gone up a lot. My cheapest buy was 25 of them for $85 (including shipping!). They now go for around 1 for $30 if you’re lucky... or $200+ for many.

The Pano G1 (with VGA instead of DVI) is cheaper but has a much smaller FPGA, though still large by hobby standards.

The benefit of the G1 is that all interfaces are working now, including DRAM, USB, Ethernet.

Last week, Skip Hansen got a full CP/M system running on one: https://github.com/skiphansen/pano_z80

USB on the G2 is hard. A bunch of people have tried and failed.
I would suggest a Lenovo T490. It has the build quality you've come to expect from IBM, usb-A ports, Thunderbolt 3, standard nvme storage, 32GB ram available and a low-power 1080p option that allows for over 10 hours of browsing.
From the article:

>a bottle bill or container deposit law, which requires beverage companies to tack a charge onto the price of their drink to be refunded after it’s returned

So, yeah, it'd make their product more expensive at the time of purchase.

But "soda companies oppose recycling" is more sensational than "soda companies oppose adding a fee to the cost of their products".
Isn't an app that requires my "smart"phone smarter than it would be with a silly little remote?

Ironically smarter => stupider
Q to Tobi Lütke: If you were starting Shopify today, what tech would you use?
If you liked that, then you may get a kick out of Comic Code, a fixed width variation of Comic Sans designed for coding:

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/tabular-type-foundry/comic-cod...

I've been using it for a few months and really enjoy it!
I don’t understand this argument at all; it seems to be only buzzwords.

What is the relation of the gig economy to a cloud hosting service, other than most gig economy apps are built on cloud servers? Also, how does looking at the problem this way enlighten us?
On the other hand I have come across people who describe themselves as "react programmers" etc... And would seriously not touch a different framework or just plain JavaScript.

And I don't understand it
tldr; "Free software/speech isn't good if the wrong people should happen to use it!." We need a power structure to ensure that only the right people have access to it. Otherwise we get kids in cages.
Well UG388 claims that it does have a hard memory controller block.
I think that a relevant example here would be categorizing "red" and " green" to a colour blind person.
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You can actually go all the way to 48GB. 16GB soldered + 32GB dimm.
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> Loose types, pass by reference, near-limitless mutability

This sounds like almost every programming language which is not a functional one actually (it even fits C!).
I don't know of any such reason. But I look at this from another angle.

This could have been DNS over TLS, or any other form of encryption. But it is DNS over HTTPS. This makes sense only for a browser, because they have the https stack already. But if we are talking about libc, it's very different story, there is no Http, let alone HTTPS there.
> I'm not sure that that's a reasonable analysis. The restrictions aren't there to keep humans important. They're there to keep humans alive.

Nah, that's an excuse FIA uses because it realised that's how it could put restrictions in place.

If it were solely about safety, FIA would restrict the capabilities of the machines, not their design details.

> I read an article once in which an F1 team's lead engineer claimed that a car with no limitations would average 300 hundred miles per hour around a track that's identical to a current track but turned so all the curves were banked 90 degrees to the outside.

So F1s could average 300mph on an identical track if it were nothing like the existing track. Gotcha.

> Restrictions seem to be tightened in direct response to severe accidents that increase in frequency as engineering advances.

That's really not true. FIA does regularly impose safety features or restrictions (e.g. halo, or wheel tethers) but most of the restrictions have nothing to do with safety.

> It turns out that letting cars get any faster than they are right now doesn't make human skill irrelevant, it just gets people killed.

So… don't do that? If your goal is the safety of the pilot you put limits on the performance characteristics of the car (top speed, acceleration, …). You don't mandate the materials the turbo can be built out of.

> Higher-performance planes would result in victory going to the pilot most willing to die. Which is precisely what we see in air racing: The Red Bull Air Race rules instantly disqualify racers that pull 10g for more than half a second or 12g ever [4].

Right, so for safety reasons RBAR restricts the performance characteristics of competing planes.

FIA does not do that, it restricts the design details of the cars.

I'm not saying it's bad, mind, just that F1 / the FIA has a very limited and restrictive embrace of tech.
Tried to switch from an MBP to a XPS13. XPS13 (maxed out CPU, memory, screen) was the worst notebook I ever had, two power supplies broke, battery broke, fan broke and BIOS made a fire-alarm-level alarm every time it booted, service was abysmal, although I had a business level all-care next-day package they wanted to jump me through many loops, install firmware updates etc. before they did anything - in the end they would not come and fix the laptop.

Never again.
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I mean, the actual solution here is... don't buy devices that refuse to do what you tell them. Don't use closed-source, auto-updating software. You can live without a Chromecast and a Amazon Echo and your cloud-based smart lighting system. There's alternatives to all these things anyway, which do what you tell them to.
I have less frequent and less severe onsets in the last few years. I am having good results with Xizal. It's over the counter, twenty-four hour and non-daily. I take it when I start experiencing mild symptoms and sometimes for a few days prophylacticly when I think prophylactic use is prudent, e.g. hard travel.

But I'm also managing my diet to avoid the non-acute allergens I'd been ignoring since junior high. Mainly potatoes and tomatoes. They're pervasive and avoiding them without diet drama in ordinary communal eating is impractical. Pizza is one of the four food groups of American social dining. Fries are another. Xizal handles my occasional consumption.

For many people, significant dietary modification is impractical because it dictates menu and grocery autonomy. "Just change your diet" is an it works on my machine. And the social implications of dietary restrictions are there whether it's veganism or a shellfish allergy.

Anyway, my non-expert belief diet modification has ended several continuous non-acute allergic reactions. My less mild allergies seem to mask milder food allergies. After avoiding tomatoes for a while, the effects (and non-effects) of other foods were above a new lower noise floor.

Not that I think it's all food and pills. Environment also plays a role. There's mold in the south. Pollen in the spring. Dander on the pets. A sigmoid with multiple inputs might be a good model for the perniciousness of allergies. The cost of changing the inputs may not be worth the benefits. Even if "a vegan lifestyle in the New Mexico high desert" might have a high probability of success, it's reasonable and rational and emotionally sound to decide the tradeoffs would be too much.
Just deny care to those who drink soda or do other unhealthy things.
You'd need a few machine shop tools to make your own generator, as well as access to magnets and other specific materials (iron laminations, etc), as well as a good understanding of magnetics. I think you underestimate what 'world's least effecient generator' means - if energy suddenly became scarce, I wouldn't spend my time to make something that would probably make a few watts at best.

Your best bet, if you really want electrical power in this scenario, is to reuse a motor or car alternator. Now the biggest issue is a source of power - unless you have access to a flowing river, you're pretty much stuck with wind. And here, you'll be limited by your ability to make efficient blades. In fact, your best power source might be you, using a bike-mounted generator. I've though about makig one for fun, but it's a lot of effort to go through, to make a device that would probably make 150W.

Realistically, IMHO in this scenario I would abandon electronic devices and stick to hand tools.
Thinkpads.
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I had a problem with not charging booting mi notebook pro and managed to fix it by unplugging battery for few minutes. It happened to me twice in 1.5 years of usage.

I still recommend this device. Currently I'm forced to use macbook pro 15 with touchbar and it's ergonomy is really awful.
>We removed everything that doesn't add to a simple experience; making it ultra-slim, pure and compatible with your other gadgets.

>The menu and remote has been replaced with the Iron Cast App, where your can create profiles and settings for any mood and atmosphere. You can choose between our carefully constructed profiles or simply create your own.

These two things seem at odds, the first thing everyone does is shovel in their own app.

It's also hard to consider dumb when it requires a smartphone to even use.
Maybe, but also consider that there were very few voices with a platform speaking out. One possibility is that people were more confident of their wrong opinions in the past and now it is obvious when people are fabricating. I'd bet there were great journalists of the past who would simply look like imaginative liars today because we can very easily fact check them. The world is huge, complicated and scary. Any perception that there is a team of people out there understanding it for us is a comforting illusion but ultimately not much more than that.

30 years ago I would probably have struggled to compare media reporting of what a politician said to what a transcript but today that is no trouble at all. This newfound capability has trashed my trust in any political journalist.
Except that obsessing over aesthetics is a key part of the iPhone's history (and Apple's history overall). The iPhone's history is one filled with "function follows form" (or, sometimes, does not follow at all), so an article that points out some of the more glaring aesthetic flaws of the newer iPhones is more than appropriate for this specific device.

I agree with the author that the iPhone is "ugly." Rather, I think that the iPhone's aesthetic solutions for its technical challenges are inelegant. In particular, the notch is so big it may as well function as a thick bezel and the square camera arrangement and placement seems like it was dictated by a specific technical solution without any influence from the design team.

In the past, I feel like Apple would have argued that their elegant solutions were "better" and thus commanded a premium for it. Now they are happy to compromise their aesthetics for technical capabilities. I cannot think of a product released during the second coming of Jobs that made that compromise so obviously. Still, Apple commands the same premium, so that leads people to obsess over the aesthetics.
Depends on the definition of success. Yeah, by most measures I guess more money, prestige, and recognition is success. But I can’t take that hot house flower on a weekend backpacking trip. I mean, you’re right; I guess maybe I’m justifying my own lack of “success”. :-)
Except for the half of humanity who bleed regularly without any violence to look out for.
Yes programmers program but the point was that programming new software should be the last option in solving a problem and only done as a last recourse.
Or they’d go out of business entirely. But that’s like asking Facebook to care about privacy: if they did, they’d cease to exist. Where’s the corporate death penalty when you need it?
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I can't stand track/touchpads - I just turn them off. Give me a good trackpoint any day.
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If it helps you, great. I’m happy enough with plain JS, thanks. ;)
so much for propaganda, then!
I have a gen 3 carbon x1 that is four years old and I still use it every day. Never replaced the battery and I still get 4-5 hours. It’s not powerful enough for dev work but perfect for web stuff and office.
A great article I read before every time I interview or change jobs.
Wordpress definitely is great for some cases, but SSGs absolutely handle SEO, they’re by definition bettyer at caching, they’re immensely more secure, and absolutely capable of building complex sites. At Forestry, we’ve seen a lot of teams have success.

But you’re right, Static site generators have been awesome for developers and less-so for non-developers...Tina is here to change that. The dev experience with Tina is still even better, and it provides the power to make the content editing experience that non-Devs love. Keep an eye out! we’ve been talking to some people and Wordpress support may be in the works soon
One, perhaps unpopular, opinion is there is nothing wrong about staying and employee and not trying to build your own company.

Ask yourself why you want to pursue entrepreneurship. Perhaps you can meet those desires while still wearing an employee hat (ie a side project FOR FUN, or lead a new product development project under the umbrella of your employer).
ThinkPads have a good reputation in that regard.

Beyond that there are rugged PCs like Toughbooks. You can literally throw them through the window and they won't mind (we actually tested that). You probably don't need that though. These things are heavy, expensive, and generally underspecced.
> “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.”

Stereotypes. So it's all about titles and appearances? Who cares about such things? Don't you think people should learn how to code instead of pretending they don't like code because they hate math or something?

Your company builds software or it doesn't. Ultimately being able to use a computer should not be limited to using word and an internet browser, people should be able to learn how to code some python or other scripting languages.
Neat but I think they went too minimal and a little too modern. More HDMI and no heavy metal back and I'd be interested. I know that creates an input switching problem but if they can make an auto switching HDMI hub, they could put it in the TV. (I've had mixed results here though.)
Leon is a 32-bit, SPARC V8 ISA implementation. It's also one of the rare radiation-hardened designs (for use in space equipment where cosmic radiation has a significant influence on correctness of operation).

An OpenSPARC T2 is a SPARC V9b+VIS ISA. All UltraSPARC processors with a SPARC V9 ISA are 64-bit.
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