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I get that. But again it's an endless stair of complexity and tool-building. So you can't write your game because first you need to improve your game engine! But your game engine needs improved graphics drivers, so you need to work on that! But graphics drivers only work well on a decent compositor, so you need to work on that! But a decent compositor needs a kernel architecture that actually does what it says on the tin, so you need to work on that!

At what point do you say "enough!" and start writing the game not the tool? I say that for a kid starting out, that point is right at the start.

IF they get good at games coding, THEN by all means get them interested in Godot and helping to write a new games engine. By then they'll have the understanding to be able to contribute.
Remote Access Tools have lots of legitimate use cases: I'm ssh'd into 3 servers as type this..
I live in California. I don't like the fact that house prices have risen so much faster than wages.
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From far down in the post:

> I have described moxie a few times as "what if a React in Rust but built out of context and hooks?"
People complain about the lack of cheap new cars too. They also ignore the fact that a nicer used vehicle is a better value than a new cheap one.

Houses are the same way. A nice house built in the 80s is going to be way better than a cheap house built today. Outdated looking quality construction > modern looking cheap crap.
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I have worked remotely everyday for the past three years. It has been a horrible experience for me. I am horribly depressed and feel stuck in my current position. I moved to a town with no tech work but I cannot leave because of my spouse's job and I don't want to move my kids yet again. I miss my 45 minute commute and my cubicle.
> from being strictly growth focused to being more margin focus

And hilariously, the margin gains are not in COGS (e.g. computing) but in reductions/efficiencies in S&M and R&D. Most modern SaaS companies are 80% gross margins.

> it seems likely that more will consider buying machines instead of always renting them

And the companies buying physical hardware will want to know if the vendor supplying the hardware is going to be around to support the hardware in 5 years when they need to be refreshed.

It seems like they are building a product that is anti-trend. Seems odd.

EDIT:

> Cloud is cheaper. A lot cheaper, especially if using managed services

This is not universally true.
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If you're talking about roads and bridges, that's all we need to hear. You're constructing a strawman.
> Building new luxury housing raises the price for all preexisting nearby housing

If this was true, you could create infinite wealth by just building more and more "luxury" housing.

You will not find any economist agreeing with this "folk wisdom".
> Is growing pie sustainable?

Humans are encountering the limits of connection and communication. This means that even if the pie grows in the aggregate, we're going to fracture.
Union rules part of some union collective bargaining agreements are that everyone who works there has to be part of the union. Many states that do have right to work laws still force companies to apply union agreements to even those who are not part of the union.
I think the amount of trust depends on the team and what they are supposed to deliver. For example, I think that VS Code and Power BI teams can be trusted to have monthly updates that improve the product. But on the other hand, I am never able to trust MS on shipping any language features, as I got burnt so hard by .NET Core 1.0 and F# tooling in VS2017.
The video explains more:

- Need to keep old insecure code around, too much money to rewrite the world from scratch in Rust, C#, or whatever safe language makes your day

- They are just starting the project, so far only interpreter and runtime model

- It is based on CHERI CPU research (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/), which has memory tagging

- They are planning to open source the existing work in a couple of months

- Looking for collaboration
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Only on wages for employees classified as R&D.
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This argument always confuses me because you can still spend a year in prison for a misdemeanor in CA. Isn't that enough of a reason to follow up?
This looks nice, but when you're combining a bunch of tweets it just helps you notice how choppy and disjointed the writing is— it still feels like a bunch of tweets stuck together.
It's called a Tweetstorm, and @pmarca is generally held to have innovated the medium.

He hasn't posted on Twitter for some years now, so it's a stretch to call the format new...
Your ssh client supports binary re-packing to evade antiviruses, hidden monero mining, and webcam and microphone capture to hidden file with "methods to disable the camera LED"?
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> It's nice to see that the traditional desktop GUI programmers finally realize that the way the Web people do GUIs is right and the way they did it until now (QT/GTK/WPF/...) is wrong.

Can you provide any detail to corroborate your assertion? Because the Qt way of developing GUIs is based on a combination of a DOM, events and state machines to update the state of each subtree in the DOM.
Leak of papers before UK election raises 'spectre of foreign influence'
People have been calling trojan horses "administration software" since at least Back Orifice in 1998 - probably before.

This is "administration software" in the same way the cannabis-leaf-engraved glass smoking pipes sold in your local weed shop are "for tobacco use only"
in semiconductors, it's a natural result of hard physical limits driving up costs for innovation. In the economy overall it's institutional neglect for deep innovation, basic R&D and instead allocation of capital to eCommerce, finance, retail or the gig economy, with ironically companies like facebook contributing to the misery by keeping engineering talent occupied with fiinding better ways to get people to click on ads.
I think that it is more accurate to say that people don't realize that they can tell the computer to do something.

My boss had a time consuming task to do weekly. I looked at the steps, which were very basic and repetitive. It is the type of thing that a small program could easily handle. So I automated it. The problem is that most people see the tasks that they perform as a job that must be done. They may think about delegating it to other people, but they rarely think that it can be delegated to the machine. Which is ironic when the machine is involved in the process.

I suspect that there are many reasons why people don't think about writing a program. One reason is that software developers rarely make such possibilities clear to the end user. Another reason is that there is an aura of wizardry around programming. In a sense there is: programming languages rarely allow users to express a task in the terms process that they would use while performing it in an application. (Another irony, since the user is essentially telling the program what code to execute.)
Idk about Singapore specifically, and I'm not commenting on the us setup specifically either.

Health costs, across advanced economies, are on the rise for several decades. The UK system, and others are constantly busting their budgets.

The underlying cost base has grown, due to more types of medical things people are getting.

That doesn't exclude inefficiency of a particular system. The US system is expensive, and a lot of that is probably due to the US system accelarating the trend to more and more expensive procedures.
It's kind of funny. The post thinks wistfully about the "real" hackers that wanted everyone to have access to computers. But that already happened. So is it any wonder that no one really cares about that ideology any more?

> [they are] completely uninterested in the ideology of software licenses and contracts.

Sure, but who cares exactly? Isn't an interest in legal nuances of contracts rather orthagonal to "hacking"?

>Linux didn't change the desktop, nor the way software is made.

Here, I'll just flat out disagree. I think saying this is rather blind to history.
You have to prioritize your problems and solve the ones that give you the most bang for your buck. I'm sure there are magnitudes more shark attacks in USA than in EU, but that doesn't instantly mean we should prioritize reducing shark attacks - the cost-to-value ratio of solving that problem is terrible.

America has a lot of problems. I would say school shootings are not terribly high on the list. Same with mass shootings. Gun violence is a very touchy subject in America, as outright bans violate the 2A of the constitution which many believe was inspired to protect against formation of tyranny. Personally, I see the value in citizens being able to own rifles; not so much with handguns (which seem to only be used for murder and suicide).

But imagine if Hong Kong had 2A rights. Protests would be much more violent, yes, but the violence would be up-front instead of postponed until the next revolution (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...). Beijing would be forced to either back off or straight up invade. Instead, I predict HK's rights will be slowly eroded in a war of attrition until they are all trapped under the tyranny of the CCP for generations to come (which is arguably worse than up-front violence).
Next year is not literally next year.

Over last decade and a half it's been: Ruby -> Node.js -> Go - > Rust and something new will come along. But just like others on the list, they will all live and evolve together.
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He means technically practically what is the difference?
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> Need to keep old insecure code around

That's what process boundaries are for. (As a bonus, you get protection from any Spectre-like issues arising in the old code.)
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You really need to watch the video.

Basically a new language for system software and containers that allow to tame existing software, due to the expenses of rewriting everything into safe languages.

It is based on the CHERI tagged architecture.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

Just starting now, they have done the ground work, will open source it and are looking for collaborators.
I'll start with one example. The rising suicide rate. Since 2010 there has been a large increase in teen girl suicide rate. A significant cause of this is social media and smart phones. This has to do with bullying, comparisons, and other things. [3]

Now take a place like Texas where the homeless population has decreased [2] in the same window the suicide rate has gone up [1]. This is just an example.

I know there is a lot of political talk on some of this. I would suggest taking some time to read the data which is prevalent. You can easily find it with search engines.

> I see a pretty direct line through an unpayable medical expense, inability to afford housing, and declining mental health from all of the associated stress. Add in the unpredictable nature of health scares and that seems like a terrible mixture for mental health.

Can you point me to some research on this? Data researchers have observed? I've not seen this.

[1] https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/default/files/news/assets/Sui...
[2] https://www.thn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2016-Infograp...
[3] http://www.jeantwenge.com/research/
> London being the only city in the top 10 for surveillance outside of China

Only if you ignore Atlanta, GA at #10.
It seems that you are redefining the word "trust" here. I would agree that transparency in a VPN is very important, but surely you have to realize that any time a consumer such as myself is utilizing the services of any third party company, whether it's a traditional software provider, a commercial VPN, a SaaS vendor, etc., etc., there is a trust dynamic taking place. No matter how transparent PIA is about their no logging policy, for example, I have to trust that the PIA team is holding firm to that policy. Yes, that policy has been tested in the courtroom; but all that does is tell me that as of 2018 or whenever you were served you didn't log; it doesn't tell me anything about whether you logged my traffic last month. For that, I need to trust you, based on a multiplicity of factors, that you didn't. Prior court cases form part of that trust, and your outspoken no-logging policy, but your corporate structure is also factors in to whether I trust PIA.

It is also worth meditating on the fact that, unlike this very boring (from a legal and political perspective) user, undoubtedly there is a segment of your user base who are dissidents and journalists, for whom the privacy of their online activities truly is a matter of life and death.

Trust is like respect; it should be earned, not given freely. PIA had my trust. You have since eroded it. Not completely, but enough that I am shopping for another VPN. If you want me to sign up again, you must re-earn that trust.
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You call it prejudice I call it trying to understand the lens through which people who's upbringing and life experience is different than mine see the world.

The need for heuristics that allow people to make decisions about other people with an incomplete amount of directly pertinent information is not going anywhere. If you know what someone's upbringing was that's much better information than no information.
Like dedoimedo.com, I'm very disappointed in Firefox after version 57 and I no longer use it. It would take me pages to document all the many issues that were there before WebExtensions as well as those that came afterwards.

To my mind, enhancing pre-57 Firefox to bigger and better things would have been a much more preferable option. There's no doubt that Mozilla's move to WebExtensions has contributed to Firefox's decline. Unfortunately, it's left many of us with few other options.

I now use Pale Moon browser and an ancient version of Thunderbird for this reason.
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And my addition: while not an aviation museum, the Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim in Germany is great, too.

Not just because there are many aircraft on display, but mostly, because there are a Concorde and a Concordski (Tu-144) on display! Next to each other! Standing tall, angled towards the sky! And you can go inside!

https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/assets/uploads/images/26/...
>Yes, to bring freedom thru privacy to people

Ok, but you're a VPN provider. When I use a VPN service I am simply moving my trust from the ISP to you. This decision (as well as hiring Karpelès, convicted for fraud) lowers my trust in you.

I am on a year sub with you guys. I don't buy the marketing speak you're spewing here and I doubt I'll be renewing.
It's not him/her being defensive, it's basic economics that shouldn't have to be explained...
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> The Center of the American Experiment (CAE) is a right-wing pressure group based in Minnesota. It is a member of the State Policy Network (SPN), a web of state pressure groups that denote themselves as "think tanks" and drive a right-wing agenda in statehouses nationwide. On the homepage of its website, CAE lists its issue areas as: Minnesota economy, healthcare, families, governance, education and employee freedom.

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sometimes manipulative people install it on their partner's machines because they're paranoid and have a poisonous attitude to relationships.
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I think they were critical fixes.
Flickr beginning as "game never ending".. Slack beginning as the game "glitch", both magical failures of Stewart Butterfield.
I don't live in SF so I've only been on the BART in downtown. I didn't realize it ran out to so many suburban areas. Definitely seems like a no brainier to up-zone in at least a mile radius around every one of those stations.
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Is it? I don't think anyone but the city council and BBC use the hyphen.
That leaves you with very simple and bland animations, and very little flexibility.
I'm assuming these people were offering product and service as opposed to code.

Here's the old scrap of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20191012003358/https://imminentm...

Bung some code whereever but make profit and market it and you've crossed a line.
Yeah, every time I have tried to get a Go project set up or built from source I end up throwing in the towel 15 minutes later in frustration. Never had that kind of experience with any other language
Gave them a try for a month. Very easy to set up with WireGuard.

One thing I liked about PIA’s app is the kill switch function that prevents internet connection if you’re not on the vpn. Does that happen by default when I have wireguard enabled?

I use this in a place I don’t trust and need to make sure it doesn’t accidentally connect “raw”.

Another nice PIA feature is the ability to check server speed. Any way to know which of mullvad’s servers is the best bet?
Off the top of my head:

* Overtly lying, in black and white, on a performance review.

* Me: "So you said [at a meeting] that you 'know that X [what another team is working on] won't scale.' Can you explain how it works and why it won't scale?" They: mutter incoherently for a half a minute, then find an excuse to bolt the scene

* Finding out later that this person was promoted to "senior" management

* Reporting that so-and-so left "for health reasons" when everyone in direct contact with the person knows it was due to a lack of trust and confidence in the very person saying that. And the non-stop bullshit that day-to-day life seems to run on in that environment, generally.

* "There's no bullshit here", said by the same person (one of the co-founders).

Really, they're all my favorites. But it's not about any particular incident. It's just the way a lot of these people are.
That's not completely accurate. Hardware & OSes have not been designed for heavy multi-tenancy, leading to (among other issues) cache interference. At Netflix [1], we have to do quite a bit of work to undo that. Bigger orgs like Google have spent more than a decade improving the Linux scheduler in their own fork for similar reasons.

[1] https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/predictive-cpu-isolation...