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In my experience in France, all of the genius-level developers I know come from a prestigious school.

Not surprising as the prestigious schools pretty much exclusively take in the top ~2000 students of the country every year.
Let's add this to a list of things that would never happen in urban America.
Well, if the 74 in my username doesn’t give it away, quite awhile. But just to give you a hint, my first professional contract in college was writing a Gopher site. My first hobby projects involved writing 65C02 assembly in the mid 80s.

As far as IBM, if someone had chosen to get “locked-in” to IBM in the 70s, they could still buy new hardware that could run their old software unmodified. Isn’t that an argument for using AWS?

In the scale of decades, most of the time you will be performing heavy rewrites anyway, are you really trying to optimize now just in case in 20 years you might want to move to something else?

Are you using the same language and frameworks you were using 20 years ago? When I first started developing I was writing C programs on DEC VAX, Stratus VOS mainframes.

If you are just using AWS to host a bunch of EC2 instances and as an overpriced colo, sure you could find much cheaper options now.

No matter what you do, more than likely you will have to migrate. Just changing infrastructure if all you’re doing is moving to VMs on another provider, reconfiguring your network if you are using a hybrid, etc is going to be a heavy lift no matter how much you try to avoid lock in and you’re spending money now for an amorphous future where you may want to change vendors instead of using your vendor of choices features that can save you money and/or time.

I would make the same argument if we were talking about Azure or God forbid Oracle.
Yes, I still use it, mainly to speak to friends, I also IRCOp on irc.nfnet.org and I hang out mostly in #sonicstadium on irc.surrealchat.net. I also use my IRC Client to connect to Twitch's chat. IRC is also good on any Internet speed and it very low on data usage. I use HexChat and IRCCloud as my main two clients. You can also use any client out there (pretty much) to connect to any network.
Per the flag at the top of the Wikipedia page, somebody agrees with you:

> The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. (July 2018)

As a relative outsider to the editing process who nonetheless reads a lot of Wikipedia, "notability" seems to be unevenly judged across domains.
You're not suggesting some grand conspiracy of smart TV and computer/console manufacturers, I hope? As far as I know, PC GPUs don't support this anyway.
That means the PC, console, etc would have to voluntarily act as a network gateway for the TV. I've never heard of a device configured that way by default. Even if I wanted to do that, I don't know how I'd begin to enable it on anything other than a Linux box.
Or perhaps to help build vaccines, should one be opposed on personal preferences to vaccinations.

See the slippery slope there?
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That would be nice... all the TVs with nicer displays seem to have the integrated internet crap.
Ah, yes, you mean pinning a specific set, you're right. Unfortunately I've found that the way the daemon does pinning currently doesn't lend itself to that use case (a single unavailable file will stall the pin for hours).
> Membership-only content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs :)
Corporations take loans, issue bonds, take on debt and then use that capital to give corporate officers multi-million dollar payouts, golden parachutes and to buy back stock (which they hold) which makes the corporate officers and stockholders fabulously wealthy while the debt burden of the corporation grows. Eventually the debt burden grows higher and higher and becomes more and more of a drag on the company until the company goes bankrupt, employees laid off, pension funds insolvent and the remaining assets of the company are sold off in bankruptcy proceedings. But by then corporate officers who extracted millions and those who cashed out during the stock buy backs fueled by this debt walk away incredibly wealthy, free to repeat this same cycle of behavior at yet another company. And the Toys R Us worker (or worker at any of the thousands of other corporations where the same thing takes place) who made $35,000 a year finds himself out of a job and without the pension he thought he had coming.
From the article:

>Where herbs are often chosen to complement and flatter the ingredients they adorn, spices call attention to themselves, transforming and sometimes even usurping a dish, so it becomes a mere vehicle and excuse for spice itself.
The pricing sort of makes sense for hardware:

* 3x m5.12xlarge (192GB RAM) = $6.90 / hr

* Kendra Enterprise 150GB "documents" = $7 / hr

But for the AWS offering, you get less than one mean query per second (capped per day). I would think ElasticSearch on the same hardware would offer a couple orders of magnitude more throughput.

The AWS pages talk about "document scanning," so perhaps this product is poised more towards replacing an office full of humans and filing cabinets, which most definitely costs more than $7/hr. This is the gateway product to wanting ElasticSearch.
It which countries do you think a VPN provider can ignore a court issued warrant?
Let's not forget Steve Ballmer as head of Virtucon Industries, with Bill Gates as an honorary Austin Powers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI_xuFA18m4
True, the payment processing fee for micro-transactions is pretty high. PayPal and Stripe charge a flat $0.30 + 2.9%.

We designed the 'pay what you want' model on Buy Me A Coffee to tackle this problem.
> I'm asking if you have any proof that what Google says is untrue since you say that it is

To be clear, I believe that everything Google has actually stated is factual. You're just drawing wrong conclusions from partial information. So in one sense, no, because Google hasn't lied. I don't have any proof that I could share. But yes, I have strong reasons to believe the things I'm stating.

As an aside, are you a native English speaker? There's some very interesting cultural aspects when assigning blame. In American English, its the norm to assign blame directly "John leaked the documents.", whereas in other cultures/languages, a passive structure is more common "John had the documents. The documents were leaked." This would be a common and correct way of blaming John for leaking something in some cultures, but in English it isn't.

Presumably Google and its lawyers are primarily English speakers.
It's a big hassle when you first upgrade or if you find yourself having to reinstall MacOS and are installing a lot of programs at once. In normal use day to day with the occasional security prompt when installing an application, it's less egregious.
Given that they're rebranding Mullvad's service, I wonder if they'll still accept anonymous payments.
On the other hand, a machine will not get tired or bored where a human most definitely will if the diff is anywhere near that 500 lines
Flattr did exactly this.
Yes the article touches on this. But goes on to also say that this could be really bad in a crisis or this could be no so bad in a crisis depending on who you talk to and why.
yeah agreed. I prefer to not have to use an app if I don't have too. Or unless there's some great benefit that the app has that the mobile site doesn't
I've never heard sexist used to just indicate a distinction by sex.

Google tells me sexist means:

> characterized by or showing prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex

That sounds negative to me.
Assume, that the universe is finite. Assume further, that there is a finite way for matter and X number of forces to interact. Assume that there is a quantifiable range over which uncertainties of electron positions (and other matter) can be, when down to the quantum level. Given these assumptions, the only thing that stops us (all of our brains) from modeling the universe and all within it, is the span of our lifetime(s).
> however as someone who majored in CS it's undeniable that we have far less women and minorities going through these programs.

Why should there be predetermined amount of women or "minorities" in these programs? Who says that's how it should be?

Is this true for all jobs in the world, or just in "these" programs? If so, who chose these particular programs to be "special"?

If not, where is the "fight" for all the other jobs like plumbing, oil drilling, special forces in combat, working on top of 35+ story buildings? Why is nobody counting in those fields?

Those are the things I like to think about whenever I hear something that makes no sense.
This reminds me of the ethanol rush in the early aughts by farmers who rushed to pull the crops they were growing to switch over to corn in hopes ethanol and E85 craze would take off.

A decade later and the debate still rages whether ethanol and E85 was even it worth it now with electric vehicles and hybrids are way more common and many stations who had E85 pumps are all but gone now.
> Bootcamp grads are nearly useless in a professional environment without enormous amounts of senior / staff eng time.

To be fair, this is also true for standard undergrads.

The difference between a cooperative engineering student and a standard undergrad is quite staggering--9-12 months of working experience causes a vast differential.
They imply it. Perhaps they can show that the crawled data matches exactly the leak, but they can't find the smoking gun among these 4 - the twin robbers paradox.
I have never seen a bootcamp that prioritizes teaching collaborative remote workflows. This is a learned skill that many experienced software engineers still have no experience with.

I Love the idea of incorporating collaboration and remote-flow into a educational model. It makes for stronger long term engineers

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I taught at several bootcamps, I was discouraged from teaching with ticketing or including asynchronous communication. Rarely do they cover strategies for success across time zones.
I had that problem with a stupid alarm clock. I wanted to change it to winter time and accidentally pressed the wrong button for a view seconds and voila now it wants to setup all it's IoT features and constantly blinks... Disconnecting power and removing internally battery didn't help. I guess I need a new alarm clock with "sunrise feature" (Or maybe build it myself).
You are correct, the end user experience has improved tremendously, I tried the desktop bundle the other day and it was indeed very easy to get started with.

> pinning services like Infura, Temporal, and Pinata have helped abstract some of those challenges

I wonder if you omitted Eternum on purpose :P

(For context, I created and run Eternum, and that experience is mostly where my opinion of IPFS comes from.)
I was also wondering this. I use Ideavim for IntelliJ as my primary editor. It is awesome, it will read your vimrc and allows you to set up mappings for any editor action.
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(That web page has data from 2014)
Of course, if doing more things that involve spatial reasoning makes you better at spatial reasoning (which seems like a very likely assumption), this becomes a circular argument. (Did you read the Gender Differences section of that Wikipedia article?)
Interesting to see more players joining the market. You can't walk into a large Enterprise and start your search conversation with "Your developers just build ____". Otherwise customer will want to build it themselves.

The killer feature I haven't seen with many of these solutions is easy, out of the box integration with internal systems (Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, Remedy, SharePoint, FileSystem, Intranet). When you have a SaaS search engine it's difficult to export that data... Even worse to secure it. Ironically, Plumtree Software (bought by BEA -> Oracle) had all of this in their product in 2001. What's old is new again... Those features are prime for a comeback.

I think this is a space where Elastic can do well with an on-prem or managed cloud offering that is "behind the firewall", integrated with customer's environment. Add in term vector search support, ML for document/query understanding, and integration with customer's security model (Active Directory) and it would be compelling.
I think that both having guns makes it marginally less likely that either shoots. That applies at both the micro and macro scale.
You can't say it's too high or too low without having an idea of the right answer to compare it with. What should the spread be? 1%? 10%? Is 1.4% appropriate, optimistic, or pessimistic?
For everyone who likes vimium, give surfingkeys a try:

https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys (available for both Firefox and Chrome).

The defaults are a bit different, but it's quite similar, and much more powerful. Almost like vimperator/pentadactyl were, before WebExtensions.
When ~15% of CS graduates in a nation are women, it's going to be nary impossible for most companies to get too far beyond that.

If companies are hiring commensurate with that level, then that's good on them, it gets very impossible to much beyond that at scale without serious distortions.

'The Pipeline Problem' shouldn't be used as an all out excuse - but - it's a fundamental reality, like gravity.

It's shameful that someone would get sidelined for pointing out the blatantly obvious fact that 'the pipeline' is the problem.

Of course the pipeline is the problem, on what planet do the laws of gravity not apply?

There's always room for discussion, but avoiding the Elephant in the Room is smacks me as a lot of koolaid.

There's a few things that can done beyond that surely, particularly highlighting women and minorities in certain fields so as they don't lack encouragement/role models etc. - but no single company, not even Google is going to move any needle in a short period of time.

Finally, consider this: "The 'problem' may never be solved". There is evidence that as societies evolve, that gender disparity in fields doesn't necessarily increase or decrease. (The classical progressive thinking would have us believe that as we gain more rights etc. gender difference goes away, but this doesn't seem to be the case) We may have to try to create the most 'fair world we can' given that genderism may be an innate feature of human culture, at least for a very long time.

So a) the Pipeline is the primary thing b) we can help make sure people are encouraged and not systematically pushed out c) no one group will change anything d) there may always be differences between genders.
Collective madness is largely reached at this point: the writer is complaining about a totally self-made issue. If I was trying to recruit men for nurse jobs, or people of color in Korea I would ran in a similar pipeline problem. The real issue is that "diversity" had became a metrics to reach for its own sake by companies instead of simply recruiting people that fit the job. Moreover, you can’t complain about so-called systemic sexism or racism when your policy is to not recruit white, asian or men that could fulfill the job precisely because of their race/sex.
This is a common view these days. But as a technical founder, I disagree with this view. Once you launch the bare minimum first version, there are different customer segments who pull you in different directions. Often you chase one path and find that the customer segment is not lucrative enough and chase the next. Till you find a compelling usecase with money making potential, you will end up with various set of features used by different customer segments.

This might still be less wasteful when compared to building an entire product and finding no customers. But, it is taxing on the technical founder! Lean washing shouldn't set a wrong expectation for the technical founder involved in startups that follow the rapid prototyping approach.
Unless you found a loophole that allows the federal government to even form an opinion on this matter before it reaches federal courts, a non-profit selling its asset is a matter of state law first, and transgressions or questionable ethics are a matter of state investigation, not federal.

As insane as that might seem for something as far-reaching as "the ownership of the .org top level domain".
I can support increasingly expensive taxes on vacant and underutilized property. Piles of corporate cash in safe investments should also be taxed to force economic movement. I also support profit, compensation, ownership, and stake value limits that force sell offs early and often in successful companies. I'd also support minimum wages that reflect the cost of living. If a company can't pay a livable wage it should be taxpayer funded or cease to exist. If the costs of living are to high then progressively harsher measures should be taken to rapidly fill demand or shift demand to other cities.

These measures should feel more painful the wealthier one is to spur action, capital utilization, and change for the betterment of all, not for ones vanity or expensive habits.
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This is definitely true for tech.

A lot of startup founders, including myself, fall in love with the idea of building technology -- but quickly learn founders are usually required to be great salespeople more than great technologists.
Tldr;

* He used his power to try and influence his re-election in 2020

* He abused powers and position to undermine the impeachment process

Quotes:

As this report details, the impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents
within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the
interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit
his reelection.

Statements of Fact in the document:

A. refusing to produce to the impeachment inquiry’s
investigating Committees information and records in the
possession of the White House, in defiance of a lawful
subpoena;
B. directing Executive Branch agencies to defy lawful
subpoenas and withhold the production of all documents and
records from the investigating Committees;
C. directing current and former Executive Branch officials
not to cooperate with the Committees, including in
defiance of lawful subpoenas for testimony; and
D. intimidating, threatening, and tampering with
prospective and actual witnesses in
the impeachment inquiry in an effort to prevent, delay, or
influence the testimony of those witnesses.

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes as these are direct quotes from the document.
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I think millipede memory[0] could have managed that, too bad the technology got shelved.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede_memory
>Also, if you decommoditize things you can't trade them for other things.

The idea is that this trade-off would be better in some way than the current situation. Commoditization necessarily optimizes for exchange-value over use-value. Therefore it can be included in the circuit of capital (M-C-M') and the incentive for its trade is no higher goal than augmenting money-capital. Now you need to summon the invisible hand to say that somehow, in a roundabout way, being a commodity is actually better.
In my experience, making an interview less biased is not about color of skin. It's about comfort and acknowledging how these anxieties creep up. At big companies I've worked at, we coached interviewers to do at least 5 minutes of small talk and resume review, to smile, to always leave time for questions at the end, to show some amount of enthusiasm for the work the interviewee is doing.

It's not about an interview format for a different race but interviews that take into account how being the odd person out may make it harder than it needs to be. In my ideal process, that helps everyone have a better interview.
By the way, for anyone wanting just a plain dumbtv/monitor, there are options. Mostly more expensive and/or better than a lot of TV options, depending on your needs.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/shop/big-screen-monitors
> Does 30% come from something?

No, I just added a bit on top to get an estimate for the entire power conversion system, assuming your estimate of 20% for the nuclear parts were in the right ballpark.

> Not sure how shaft power is what we are considering here as this would be converted to purely electricity generation

The power to turn the prop shaft would roughly be what's available for turning the generator if the thing is used to produce electricity rather than propulsion.

Sure, there's the "hotel load" to run the rest of the sub, but then again a generator isn't 100% efficient either so I think roughly 30 MW electrical output is about right.

Details are classified, but from publicly available sources my understanding is that naval reactors tend to work at lower pressure and temperature than civilian land based PWR's, so efficiency takes a (substantial) hit. So I do think my estimate of 30 MWe is closer to the mark than your 70.

> doesn’t need refueling for 20 years

So it's a life of ship core which is supposedly 33 years. But, that's 33 years of average use. AFAIU subs spend most of their time creeping along pretty slowly in order to stay silent, so on average they'll be using a small fraction of max power. Civilian power reactors otoh want to run at full power as much as possible to amortize capital costs.

Not to mention that HEU just won't fly for civilian use, as I tried to explain my previous message.

As for economics, yes I think that decarbonizing the electric grid with series produced reactors would, in the end, be pretty cheap. France did that some decades ago, for about $1500/kW in today's money. AFAICT that would require the government to handle it (like in France), both to decide on one reactor model (to get on the learning curve by series producing it) and to have access to cheap capital.

If one wanted to do it with SMR's rather than large reactors like France, I suggest e.g. Nuscale would be a better starting point than submarine reactors.
at which point you'd stop paying for it I would imagine?
“Time to hire some code golfers, we’ll put the whole app into one line of code.”
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I'm a civil servant, so I look at these questions with a different mindset. I consider adopting a proprietary service to be a decision that entails a fair amount of risk, as I would have no easy recourse should the service become completely unavailable for reasons beyond my organization's control. This could happen for a number of reasons, including the vendor going out of business or raising prices beyond my authority to pay.

I might find that risk acceptable in some cases (e.g., most people who work at my agency use Windows on their workstations, some critical services are still running on z/OS, we use tools like Splunk and New Relic for monitoring), but it might not be worth it in other cases. This would get weighed against other forms of risk (such as the risk that a hand-rolled Cassandra cluster would have less availability than DynamoDB or the risk that you might spend more money than necessary using RDS instead of on-demand DynamoDB).
>Limiting the supply of doctors by limiting enrolment is an example of a gate the increases prices.

It also has an effects on quality of instruction. Limiting the number of students tends to increase the quality of instruction, something I believe is extremely important in medicine.

I'm not saying that there are abuses. But you made the claim that the only effect it has is to raise prices, and that is completely wrong.