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> We’re all very sure we’re right

I'm not. But I'm not sure why is anyone advocating for a particular God. I think he should speak for himself. If you are advocating for religion as a way to structure and control society, I can see sense in that.
This is about macOS not iOS. Electron and Chromium on iOS is not a thing.
> The thing is it's almost exclusively Republicans and outright neo-Nazis who regularly and intentionally cross the lines between speech and harassment.

Do you really believe that? You could watch videos for hours on YouTube with leftists screaming the most outrageous and ridiculous things. Then you have the endless fake incidents such as Jussie Smollett's tall tale in Chicago.

I don't know how you answer the question of who is doing it the most but the claim that members of the left aren't engaging in harassment is absurd.
Not convinced there is no such thing as morality, which can expressed be as right vs. wrong, good vs. evil, altruism vs. selfishness, etc.

You just have to let go of religious distortions of the concept. Take a step back and look at it more from an evolutionary biology perspective.

To me it has to do with aligning your goals with the goals of others. It is a very important concept for a social animal, especially one with high degree of cognitive sophistication such as humans, to have.
Related Kurzgesagt video: optimistic nihilism https://youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14
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It makes the job-fetching more atomic, as the article points out properly. If you take >1, you have to sort the situation where 1 or more jobs fail, which adds an unreasonable amount of complexity.

On my first go I was taking batches, on the reasoning that it optimized for query performance. It was a complete disaster and I quickly realized that I was engaging in premature optimization.

Batching is out, stream-processing is in. If you design your job table correctly, PG will perform very well as an advanced stream processor.
I believe parent comment meant that if all humans were to somehow stop existing at once, there would be no humans suffering.
James Damore in shambles.
But that clearly must be a joke. Isn't it?
War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery— and Witch-hunting is Tolerance.
For the US grid that is very true. There are nations which has reached closer to peak renewable and a good example is Denmark. At peak time wind production is almost 100% and if I remember right they export a lot when that happen, but then we have times like right now (when this comment is posted) and wind production is less than 10% of total usage and both natural gas and coal produce sits above 10% to compensate, in combination with imports from Germany which is also right now mostly produced from coal. (https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem...)

Hydro as a natural resource is not a perfect fit to use in case like this as natural lakes can only take so much changes in water levels, and in many cases you have chains of hydro plants and lakes which mean dumping a lot of water in one place means you have to dump a lot of it further down without causing flooding. Hydro plants must also manage how much water they have available. Swedish power prices is notorious effected by how much water winter/fall periods produce.
Then you have an implicit rule that is enforced by a hope and a prayer that some junior dev never makes a mistake, your senior engineers are clairvoyant and understand every single aspect of your systems 100% with zero off-days, your code review process catches every single possible edge case (especially the edge cases that you never knew existed), your QA process is 100% and never makes mistakes, your servers never crash in ways that leave things in an inconsistent state, etc.

Or you could, you know, simply add a foreign key constraint and never, ever, ever have corrupt table relations.

Why people fight their tools is beyond me. There is almost zero reason to defend not using foreign keys.
My current employer maintains a list of banned countries. While there's nothing stopping me from going to any of them, I am not allowed to bring my laptop into the country, and accounts will generally be locked during the duration of travel.

I'm honestly not seeing what the problem is with this policy. Gitlab's reaction to the outrage has been incredibly poor, but the policy itself seems sane based on IP laws and data protection laws in certain countries.
That's the purpose of science, to determine as objectively as possible what and who is right and wrong. If you think that there is anything at all objective anywhere in the universe, then science is a good strategy for figuring that out.
A small retreat with just a few leaders of a publicly traded company is pretty standard. 3-4 times a year is kind of excessive from a cost perspective and is probably very taxing for some members of the team.

Overall, I'm not sure if you are organizing it, but if you are, you should be very sure that all those offsites are not too taxing on your team. I'd personally be very frustrated, and I know coworkers at other publicly traded companies I have worked for complain about offsites, but not to their managers.

i.e. you think they are helpful but secretly your team or coworkers are very unhappy.
>This is just flexing words to confuse your brain and assert his idea about God. I don't know the author, but anyone advocating for a God or a religion is a person 1. with an agenda and 2. can has no scientific basis for his thesis.

Yes, most of us have been atheist 15 year olds, we know the arguments...

>God, the one in Quran or Bible, doesn't exist. It's as simple as that. The same with morality; as dark as that thought is. We are just too weak to face the truth.

So, do you act morally when you're sure you're not gonna get caught? Do you try to do the right thing for others? For your kids? Why, since "morality doesn't exist"?

The truth is that we've built morality and so it exists. The universe might not care, but we do.
> That function can do whatever it wants, including any number of reads, writes, and arbitrary logic based on the reads. But critically, it can't talk back to the calling client, except for to send the final result.

If that function can still do everything the client did and the client still has to wait for a transaction - you are only eliminating interactive communications overhead, not actually improving or simplifying anything fundamentally. There is still consensus, coordination happening during that waiting and all of this is still fundamentally incompatible with computers spread across the globe communicating over unreliable links.

What would actually be a big improvement is eliminating waiting for coordination, but would require some change in programming model [1].

> The Calvin way is so much easier, it seems like there must be some very good reason that it's not what CockroachDB does.

It's just not "so much easier", that's the reason.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01930.pdf
It's on a circular closed track. How daft are you?

How about you show me the Taycan driving for 24hrs in open roads like normal people do. Go ahead I'll wait.
#2, you can walk into a Target and by prepaid SIM cards for about $15/each. You can also signup Google Fi for free, but they will need an address to ship the card to.
If you're not averse to working for startups there are a lot of opportunities out there. I actually got rejected by gitlab and then got an offer from a startup for more money than I would have gotten at gitlab. There's quite a few remote first places out there too like Duck Duck Go, Mattermost, Zapier, Auth0, Automattic, Stripe just added a remote division but not remote first, Invision, just off the top of my head. I get changing jobs is full of uncertainty but don't sell yourself short either, the market has changed quite a bit probably since you were last actively looking.
My experience has been the opposite. Also, Amazon's deliveries have become extremely fast. I ordered an item at 6pm yesterday. Amazon's guaranteed delivery time was 8am this morning... and it was actually delivered at around 6am. I was blown away. The item arrived in around 12 hours, and the delivery was free since I am a Prime member. This is miles ahead of competitors!
That's the problem with interpreting the Bible literally. God represents something of psychological reality.
I thought all you needed for the macOS app notarizing was a free AppleID and free developer account?
yeah same. i will use the best tool for the job -- for me, using rabbitmq for a queue system is the best tool for the job. simple to put up, scales really well, out of the box library for all major languages, and it's absurdly reliable.

hell, even its clustering system got a lot better!
This reminds me of a quote from Dostoyevsky : "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
The market is easily distorted by government.

Want nuclear to win? Interest free loans.
Want wind/solar to win? Subsidies.

Put a thumb on the scale and make it say whatever you want.
> If you want to practice, you have to buy digital copies of those decks too (either buying singles in mtgo or a ton of boosters on arena)

Am I spoiled by having a local LGS franchise that mostly, from open to close, has players ready to play? Sure we have FNM, but there are always people there. I can't make FNM tonight, but I know if I drop in at 1:30 tomorrow, there will be endless games to be had. I personally stay far far away from digital -- for me this is not why I play the game.
What specific problem are they fixing here?
If you want to operate assuming your data is always corrupt because your engineers don't understand how to use the tools provided by their database.... Seems like an awful lot of work to re-invent a wheel that your DB server can solve for you. I guess that is on you though....
What would be nice is if software were distributed in such a way that you could always pick up the security fixes, performance improvements, and other good stuff, and skip the UI re-designs, killed features, chat functions, and other awful stuff that always seem to come with updates.

Lots of software used to do maintenance releases but sadly this practice seems to have gone out of fashion. Software upgrades are almost always now "take it all or leave it".
What is the proper interpretation of “capitalism is racist?” My first inclination, as a brown person, is that this notion is incredibly problematic. (See: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alyssaayres/2014/10/28/banglade...). Capitalism is the great equalizer. It’s why former colonies like Singapore are now richer than their former colonizers.

The great crime of America is excluding African Americans from the benefits of capitalism by systematically eliminating their ability to build and protect capital, businesses, etc.

What am I missing?
This is a theory at least as old as Pascal (and probably much older): "tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais déjà trouvé" (you would not be looking for me if you hadn't already found me), but it has many holes.

For one, it assumes that "God" should, by necessity, be on the side of "good". That's groundless. The world could certainly just as much have been created by a mean being, as a way to entertain himself, like a lonely kid would raise ants for the pleasure of crushing them.

More importantly, it's a tautology. It's based on the premise that what one considers just IS just. But why? Morals is only an opinion that varies with time and place. There used to be many justifications of people oppressing people, just as there are today many justifications of people oppressing animals. The idea of right and wrong is historic. It changes.

And finally, the big problem with trying to demonstrate the necessity of God is that it makes revelation unnecessary. God announced himself to creation because creation cannot infer his existence from the observable evidence, or by thinking about it. If God can be proved then he doesn't need to speak, which then results in a contradiction (since he (supposedly) did).
> I think the opposite thing is true, and that most Americans generally assume that any major motion picture or television show is copyrighted no matter when it was produced.

You're probably right for everything produced since the second World War, but I doubt people think that e.g. Triumph of the Will is under copyright. I think people have a vague notion of "historical" vs. "contemporary" that starts right around the end of WWII.
Storing energy is not at all trivial. You want hard numbers? Here are the hard numbers. California's largest energy storage facility, still under construction, is set to have 300MWh of capacity. By comparison, the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant generates 300MWh of electricity every ten minutes. The largest energy storage facility in the world, still under construction in Utah, is set to store between 1-2 GWh of energy. This is still less than what the plant generates every hour.

Electricity to gas conversion has terrible efficiency. 30-40% for the electrolysis and Sabatier process, and then ~50% efficient for the gas combustion engine. Net efficiency is in the 20-25% range. Hydroelectric storage is geographically dependent. Most of the US is in flat terrain.

California said they would do solar and wind plus storage. Then they realized storage was not possible, and they used fossil fuels instead. Similarly, Germany closed down their nuclear plants, saying they'll build intermittent renewables plus storage. And then they ended up building fossil fuel plants when they realized storage could not fulfill the base load they lost from closing nuclear plants.
>I don't know the author

C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, the second() most famous fantasy literature ever written in English as well as a number of other famous books. He is as much a classic as Dickens and a damn sight more accessible than Bill Shakespeare.

I'm an athiest and don't agree with his assertions but he's definitely worth reading if you haven't already.

()Okay, perhaps Beowulf gets this spot.
Okay, then don't do ON DELETE CASCADE. If you really want to allow the user to be deleted entirely, then ON DELETE SET NULL (or ON DELETE SET DEFAULT pointing to the ID of some "null" user) should do the trick. Otherwise, if you want to retain the customer info (which if you're saving the invoices you almost certainly do), then ON DELETE RESTRICT is what you want. This is all defined in the context of the invoice's schema, mind you, so you'd have to make a conscious effort to cascadedly delete your invoices on user deletion when defining that foreign key constraint.

Use the database to do your bidding. Easier to stay sane that way :)
That's right, nothing matters. So you should give me all your money because it's meaningless anyway.
DOJ issues warning to big tech: Data and privacy could be competition concerns
Yeah sure technically correct. But both ship with macOS and both are built by the same trillion dollar company who owns the whole ecosystem.
Exactly. Journalists in particular need to have more guides like this
>Has there ever been an instance of a CoC being used in an unreasonable way against an actually reasonable person?

Said instance is the only reason this thread exists, no?
Not everything ever posted online is right. The author of the OP also made this up and he too believes that he is right. Doesn't mean that he is. If there is an objective reality with absolute truths, rights and wrongs then it follows that somethings are right and somethings are wrong.

Science is a systematic, evidence/reasoning based method of discovering the truths and eliminating the wrongs.

It boils down to whether or not you believe in an objective reality.
>That's the purpose of science, to determine as objectively as possible what and who is right and wrong.

And yet, that's not logically possible, as it's circular reasoning.

You basically take a principle of faith (e.g. regarding induction), and you combine it with an empirical method.
The Commander's Quarters. Got my wife into edh so we have 4 players at home. 25-50 bucks per deck. And when I take them to the lgs, they are scary good (I've had to grab a weaker deck on occasion for the playgroup since I didn't want to be a bummer).
True, there are gotchas in the basic data structures and pointer usage.
Atheism doesn't say the universe has no meaning or is senseless, it says there is no reason to think that any of these stories about gods are real.

Meaning is still here.
In a world of click-bait "invisible to AI" is the same as defeating two models most of the time.
As nice as VS Code is, it feels sluggish to me. I find it interesting how complacent we've become with slow software. I guess ease of development trumps performance in many cases.
If you glanced upon my other comment in this thread, construction sticker shock got me too. My 2200 sf brownstone is now on the market because I couldn't afford renovation. Not building up or out (which I absolutely can add 1500 sf), but interior renovations would cost about 350K including permits, architect, etc. and so forth.

It's simply not worth it, but it would be if I had family, friends or better, staff, to handle doing a renovation more cheaply.

I feel terrible about selling but it's the best medium term business and quality of life decision. To respond to your comment, it's a mix of

construction boom (NYC)

min wage increase (good but should be mentioned)

Trump tarrifs on steel and timber

stricter oversight by current administration due to high profile accidents

complicated bureaucracy
> I can't really see a way for AI cameras to get around properly applied facepaint,

In video people move, and 3D information can be recovered unless their faces are painted with something like Black 2.0. At which point why not just wear a mask?
Exactly, CQRS gets such a bad rep because of all the pieces that (typically) surround it. But really as just a way of organizing code, it's so handy.

The freedom and flexibility to create your read models and write models the way they are needed just completely sidesteps a lot of design issues that creep up. Plus, it makes the code so easy to follow when everything follows the pattern; picking out where state changes happen becomes trivial for example.
I suppose that addresses the grandparent’s concerns about ease of use, but it makes the problem of running opaque proprietary software controlled by the platform operator even worse.
I think this must be a consequence of where you live. I live in Santa Monica, and literally 100% of my Amazon packages have arrived on the day Amazon originally said they would. I order probably 1 item from Amazon a week on average and have lived in Santa Monica for 4 years. Thus around 200 items and I literally can't think of a time when the package arrived later than advertised at checkout except one Christmas.
Justice can be meaningless on a cosmic scale, but appropriate and sensible at a local, tribal level. This is how most people think.

The universe as a whole is probably meaningless / a simulation that doesn't care. We can still find meaning in a local level.

The fact that these localized ideas do not generalize as we would like does not sound like an argument in favor of God, just that the societies that have evolved are by definition the stronger, more enduring ones. These societies have ideas about meaning and justice that are propagated by inhabitants of the society. Justice looks vastly different in different cultures.
> To me it has to do with aligning your goals with the goals of others.

That is fine but you have already put it relative to what you think. If everybody does that, then morality will differ from a person to another; and thus it becomes meaningless.
Java, Jersey & Hibernate
Suffering exists so that you don't get burned twice. Remove suffering, die in a fire.
It's quite simple: mass market content is made for the lowest common denominator. See also, Jack of all trades, master of none.

It's not a phenomena unique to movies, or the modern international economy, it's a pattern that pops up all over the place. Look at multi-tool pocket knives: capable of doing many things, but mediocre at everything.
Your "counterargument" is certainly versatile and efficient; it can be used at any time without even needing to read the other person's argument!
what do you mean does not exist? do you mean right now in the various forms he has been described in the books, or has never existed? if you care to elaborate...
I have some light experience with this. If you have the PostgreSQL hammer you sometimes think - I really should be using something else, but this hammer works with a lot of nails - and the use cases that postgresql works well enough on keep increasing.
Wildly Popular Japanese Manga Storms U.S., with Wine in Tow
Trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variation. If grid energy storage was a simple problem it would have been done decades ago.

For example, one estimate is that for Germany to rely on solar and wind would require about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is 183 times their current capacity:

>...Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to buffer wind or solar energy alone. The storage requirement of over 6,000 pumped storage plants, which is 183 times Germany’s current capacity, would nevertheless be huge.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144985/1/cesifo1_wp5...
> And yet, China is dominated by coal, and not building much much new nuclear capacity, really.

Reportedly they haven't broken ground on a new plant since 2016.
Yeah, Java botched generics by not adding exception sum types. stream.map(f).collect(…) should throw whatever f can throw, but instead f has to wrap any checked exception, which makes them nearly unusable in practice.

But the drudgery of explicitly passing every error up the stack over and over is not a good use of human beings' time. We can generate that if we must, but not actually read it.
I feel like the rise of digital illustration/art has lost something special about the old cards.
Geat post!! At Rudder (open-source segment), we used Postgres as our streaming layer in a similar fashion. It has been super stable in production, very easy to setup and we easily get to > 10K events/sec insertion performance.

The code is open-sourced here in case anyone wants to re-use

https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server/blob/master/jobs...

We had to built additional logic to clean-up old jobs (similar to Level merges in similar queing systems)
>So, do you act morally when you're sure you're not gonna get caught? Do you try to do the right thing for others? For your kids? Why, since "morality doesn't exist"?

For fun basically. The game of life seems really easy to cheat at and so I self-impose some rules to make the game more interesting, just like I avoid using cheat codes in video games.

Also, slightly more seriously, no one is a perfect actor and to not act morally in private will absolutely spill out into one's public persona.
From an interdependent worldview, the question that nihilism poses loses any meaning, because we accept that all things are meaningful in relation to some things, and all things are meaningless in relation to other things. Nothing stands on its own. Nothing is meaningless or meaningful. All things are perceived in relation to others. I believe a great number of people are ready to leave the dualistic worldview that dominates the world today. Interdependent worldviews will inspire many solutions to some of the major problems the world currently faces.