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In an effort to share knowledge by writing daily articles in our 12 different advent calendars at https://bekk.christmas I contributed with this article in https://thecloud.christmas. It's just a short introduction to Cloud Run, how it compares to alternatives such as FaaS and Kubernetes, and some info on how to build and deploy to Cloud Run. If you want to learn more about Cloud Run there are several links to both the Cloud Run announcement blog posts from Google and the official documentation. Hope it can inspire someone to check it out for their serverless journey. I have been using it for a while for smaller services that integrate with both Cloud Datastore and Cloud Pub/Sub, and I think it works really well :)
I think attitudes will change when owning a car becomes more of an inconvenience than a convenience.

Dense housing is the start of making it more inconvenient. Then, once owning a car is less convenient than other modes of transit, will we see alternatives that are better for those areas.
What about your private tutors?
What is the timeline for making wireguard viable for commerical VPNs?

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There's a few fundamental issues with wireguard that make it relatively unsuitable for commercial VPNs with many customers.

For a start, if you want to offer customers multiple concurrent devices, each device needs it's own key, and all keys for all customers' devices need to be loaded into kernel memory and cross checked against every packet received, which as you might imagine gets incredibly unwieldy and could savagely impact the performance of PIA servers.

When wireguard has the ability to hook a userspace daemon when it receives a valid-looking packet with unrecognised encryption, it'll be a lot closer to usable in commercial contexts, as the daemon could poke a database or cache to load the required keys on demand

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https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivateInternetAccess/comments/d1bl...
> For Linux distros, the primary responsibility for packaging is actually with the distro maintainers, since packaging is distro-specific.

No it is not. Although distros might pick and adopt some packages and include them in their official repository, it's obvious to anyone that as a distro maintainer you are not responsible for packaging each and every software package under the sun.

Moreso, linux distros such as Debian rely on volunteers to propose and adopt packages, which obviously also includes people affiliated with each software project.

Additionally, it's patently obvious that the responsibility of packaging and making a software available to the public lies on the people involved in developing the software project.

> That said, a well-written app should not present any difficulty for the package maintainer.

That is true, particularly as the primary package maintainers are in fact those actually developing the software project.
The Zig language doesn't need libc, but because it also includes a fully functional C compiler, it ships with musl source and glibc headers for better crossplatform support.
The Pudding Cup 2019
Oh the compound irony of a company LITERALLY NAMING THEMSELVES UNICORN coupled with someone actually being dumb enough to invest in said company, coupled with it failing.
You can get an associates in things like CNC machining or chemical process operator fairly cheap at a community college.
Positions in factories are changing. My friend works in robotic welding. The old job of welder, a skilled trade that you learned as an apprentice on the job, is being phased out. It's being replaced by more complicated and more technical jobs, such as my friend's.

To get his job, my friend completed a 3 year program at a local community college. He learned about welding, robotics (obviously), a bit of control theory, destructive and non-destructive testing, metallurgy, safety certifications, and more. The latter bits of training are critical, since his job involves setting up and monitoring the robots that weld together the pieces of truck frames.
You need to store state somehow - either Terraform or Cloudformation, you don’t have that many options. And CDK hides the Cloudformation layer from you.
And callers would start their "message" with "Pick up! Pick up!" as if that was going to convince the callee that the call was important enough to pick up.
Even still, the chances are vanishingly small. Substituting "millionaire" for "billionaire" brings it a bit closer to something to realistically strive for, I think (especially for us software/entrepreneur types).
Quebec hasn't become measurably more expensive than other Canadian cities in the last 25 years and is way more affordable than a comparable city like Toronto.
Only run Fb and Google Ads if you have a proven (not hypothetical CLV) positive business case. They deplete ressources so fast without building a lasting owned channel...
> Mirantis launches Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS)

How is this a key takeaway? There are dozens of Kubernetes as a service offerings, why is this one considered a key takeaway? This is a genuine question, not being sarcastic or cynical.
Sponsorblock developer here. The best part is that I made the database completely public, so someone else can do "phase 2" without me even having to be involved :)
Weird Physics of 'Tiger Stripes' on Icy Saturn Moon Enceladus Finally Explained
Why do you think a job can't legitimately require both?

For example an infantry officer needs to be able to carry heavy weights and typically an undergraduate degree.
This may be tinfoil hat territory but I'm convinced Facebook (as I can't see what someone else gets from fake clicks) produces fake clicks/likes.

I had a startup and ran very targeted ads (gender, city, occupation). We were running small dollar amounts ($200-300 campaigns) and would get likes on our ads. The use would have a modest profile set up, usually a visible minority (which wasn't out of the ordinary for our target) but often weren't in target city and would never respond to any communication. I would message them (usually very shortly after they clicked like) and would never hear anything back. Why 'like' a Saas product offering ad if you have no intention of engaging with the maker? I also couldn't understand why they were shown the ad in the first place.
> I'd be surprised if companies have a CS degree requirement for that job.

I wouldn't be as there are not a lot of 'technical support' degrees.

Someone once told me something to the effect of "the two people groups that understand a program the most are the developers and application support", which I interpreted to mean that just because you didn't write the program doesn't mean you don't gain close familiarity with its problem domain, inputs, outputs, behavior under adverse conditions etc.
Mmm, I would not expect big-tech Silicon Valley to be the place where the best technical support comes from, nor would I expect holders of "fancy" CS degrees to be particularly good at or motivated by that work. Not many people who want to be big shots someday are digging into what makes support tick. For better or worse.
The main reason handwritten SQL is error-prone is because there's a tendency to have security vulnerabilities, which ORMs automatically protect against. ORMs tend to have better IDE integration so its easier to refactor or errors may be flagged by the IDE. That said, there's no real difference in logical error rates between hand-written sql and an orm except that any developer may be more familiar with the syntax of one versus another.
You're not joking, I checked streetview and its one of the few places I've seen in the developed world where the streetview car didn't bother leaving main street and just GTFO.

Edit: hey sorry if I come across as offensive, I'm from a small city and like living in quiet places.
I added some background to make it more beautiful.
It seems to me like you want an offline cache. How can something local deal with searching the content of a possibly deleted page?
Cool fact: this was created by the creator of Express and Koa! https://github.com/tj
> Finally, the traits that keep me from having a dog are not necessarily virtues, most likely not traits that make a better person.

Honestly, I wish more people would speak up more about this topic, although not in an antagonizing way that ecoled_ame did. Precisely in order to fight a stereotype that not wanting dogs or children (well, I guess it's more prevalent for the children) makes you a worse person. But I also understand anyone who just doesn't want to announce it or discuss it.
Just because the town only has 14 residents doesn't mean there's nobody passing through or otherwise visiting.
> And the hour hand on a clock must spin around twice before it tells the same time again.

Err, not on any clock I've ever seen! But points for effort.
The French one has "La dictature" as one of the headers in the biography, and give examples of why he was a dictator.
> Fraud doesn’t imply malice.

Legally it does. The discussion was about using lawsuits to break Limited Liability. In that context malice is absolutely required to stand a shot at winning.

> They could have jumped the gun on announcing they were preparing to deliver, but doing so would still constitute fraud, especially if this drove an increase in orders.

There's a large problem with this argument, by the time that delivery "promise" had occurred the exchange of money had already happened. Fraud occurs when someone receives something, through deception, that they wouldn't have otherwise received. By the point of this claim the exchange had already taken place, and therefore the claim didn't indice anyone (i.e. they didn't gain additionally from it).

I think it boils down to people conflating "right and wrong" with "fraud." Nobody is saying this business was run well or they didn't do wrong by their consumers. What we're discussing is the legal definition of the term "fraud" and if a hypothetical lawsuit would be winnable.
I dislike them due to the deceptiveness in many modern ones (neglecting to mention that they are sponsored). It still is obvious to most viewers, but not to people not familiar.

- sponsorblock developer
Not my point at all.

Not everyone needs to go to Princeton but everyone who wants a degree and is willing to do the requisite learning should be given the opportunity at a solid degree.

Further, outside of some niche circumstances, most of the people who wouldn't "thrive" would be much more able if the earlier systems hadn't failed them so spectacularly.
I'm aware of several 10's of people that have re-built it from the ground up, some of them considerably better than the one posted here but most of those are just quietly making some money. Just showing that something can be done has value, it will convince others that their quest isn't hopeless.

It's a pity I don't have the time - or the funds - to really see this through but I have a pretty good understanding of what it would take to do this properly and to date nobody has done one that I would say is ready to be used by anybody but its creators. Once that does happen there will be a rush of follow-ons.
This is a fantastic articulation.

Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO - Lex Fridman [0]

[0] https://lexfridman.com/kevin-scott/
> Parent could find some simple side gigs

Highly unlikely! Maybe for a 4 year old there could be some time during the day. Let's say 1 hour. The type of gig where you can do an hour of work and be paid for it ... won't pay much. Let's say $20. It is hardly worth it. Now compare that to being at work.

> I think the real problem is people don't like taking care of kids, and would rather have a stranger do the job.

I don't think so. Taking care of your own kids is much more rewarding than going to work. If work is better it's because the job is great, not because the kids are annoying. Staying at home looking after kids is a lot easier. If you work you have a limited window to get them ready for care, it's a rush, then you have to commute to work, rush back to childcare after work, and then take them home and get them ready super quick for bed. It is not ideal, and not really a choice based on laziness.

> Understandable since kids are noisy, disobedient, stinky little things.

Ok..... That's one way to characterize them I guess. Seems a bit harsh.

> So, the real reason child care is so expensive is because we aren't willing to suck up and stick out with the imperfections of other human beings without a paycheck.

The real reason is it takes a lot of labour to look after the kids, administer the centre, cook, and also real estate and maintenance of property etc. And people pay for it because they need to work to afford to raise kids.
I mean, I'm doing cocaine to beat the Advent of Code leaderboard currently.
> something that "pays for itself" is not dependent on government subsidies.

I think you are ignoring the aggregate here. A govt program can "pay for itself" in ways private action cant because the govt can help smooth out risk among the participants.

Your point that this is ultimately funded by taxpayers is correct, but that doesnt mean the program cant generate more in new tax revenue than it costs. Like roads, education, and other areas, reliable and affordable child care can enable a lot.

(Note I have no actual knowledge of the specifics, so I'm arguing what is possible, not what is definitely happening)
>there is no such thing as an objective "universal good"

I guess here is where we part ways. I can understand it in the sense of objective morality not existing, but I don't think it makes sense to say there isn't a common good. I don't know what the word good means if it doesn't refer to something that happens between people.

I think it's a basic function of groups that they establish what is and isn't good - that forms customs, then law. Obviously, this is a flawed process, but I don't think it makes sense to go total nihilist about it, and just say because you can't prove positive and negative outcomes about given actions, you shouldn't try.

We're fully capable as a society of discussing outcomes of various actions and laws - and that's what we've been doing since the beginning of time. You're doing it yourself when you say 'actions that harm non-participants should be out of bounds'. You're just drawing arbitrary boundaries around the few rules anarcho-capitalists consider sacrosanct[1] and saying that these are obvious, while others are matters of personal opinion that are indeterminate.

I think the idea of 'voluntary trades' is also a bit strange. All trades have side-effects, and most trades are with an element of coercion, natural or otherwise - people need food and shelter, they can't simply not trade for them. So even if you freely trade to build a dogfood factory next to my house, I'm implicitly part of that trade, because I live next door (or if you push the argument along, we're all implicitly involved in basically every trade, because we live on the same planet - e.g. global warming).

[1] - by the by, but I'm pretty sure these rules wouldn't be enough. If you look at early modern history, you can see that a lot of state formation was driven by the needs of capitalism - as states respond to one crisis after another.
Git Extensions and Git Cola (possibly other GUI clients I haven't used) have the ability to view a diff and stage individual lines from it. Unfortunately they don't let me reorder lines in the diff.
> by how simple a job it was they were doing

There’s a world of difference between a college degree with no experience and no college degree also with no experience. There’s a significantly smaller difference between a college degree with ten years experience and no college degree with ten years experience.
Exactly. I made this only because I couldn't stand how deceptive many modern sponsors are. If that didn't happen, I wouldn't have wasted time making this.

- sponsorblock dev
As someone who moved out of the Midwest for higher-paying work, this comment is 100.01% accurate. I had to move to Chicago for my first real job--one which went away a little bit after after the early 2000s dot-com crash--and then eventually moved out of Madison, Wisconsin, when an east coast company bought my employer out and fired nearly everyone. That last time around, I was apparently making way more than the local median salary, and really needed to replace all of it and then some.

Every time I think about going back, I say "minimum $120k," and they say "ope, that's a bit much for us, dere" and never call me again. It saves time, I'm sure, but very disappointing nonetheless.

From Minneapolis-St.Paul to Pittsburgh is the Midwestern megacity, with zero serious geographical limits on densifying, or adding to suburban sprawl. And every company in it would happily offer $70k/year to someone with 20 years of experience, and still believe it to be "extremely generous".

At first, I thought they were all lowballing for the purposes of negotiation, but it turns out that they're all uniformly miserly.
Depends who you’re scamming. Quite a few powerful and rich people who I would classify as being “scammers”, but their victim is usually a group of people such as taxpayers.
Yea, I'm scared of it too now. I never expected growth this fast.
Perhaps their Unicorn Club (maintenance and repair program) was their selling feature?
GPT2-bot should autogenerate an essay like this once a month... it would be guaranteed to get attention each time.
You're correct n^2 is polynomial, not exponential. It was just an exaggerated figure of speech. BTW, O(n) and O(n log n) are also polynomial; it just doesn't have the punch to it.
I am probably missing something here - but,

- who is scraping together their life on one hand and buying $800 gifts?

- if you're really doing the above, why would you take a gamble instead of buying something currently available?

IOW as much as it is painful to read this, it seems pretty designed for an article rather than real world (am talking averages I guess). If it is real, that's the learning I'd take away more than someone defrauding their customers - which happens everyday :)
Honestly a tag suggestion feature is something I've been looking for a long time. I plan to try it out soon.
It would never go to a jury. The claims of fraud to penetrate limited liability would be thrown out by the judge for having no legal grounding, then they would be stuck suing a limited liability company with no money.
You sound like you may fall into the category of having a brood later in life (the 50yo+ untethered sugar daddy demographic).

IMO, unless you find a partner that's going the same direction, you're doing the right thing while you're young.

Its a nice perk that in modern times we can have children in our 50's and still live long enough to see them into adulthood (though maybe not see them raise a family if they follow in your footsteps).

I think the trifecta you're looking for is.. No Kids, No Alimony... And NO CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS during the best years of your life. If they call you selfish, ask them if they regret their freedom of choice. Theres a good chance they were never free.
It's all "dumb". Why should a manager or an engineer get a higher salary than a warehouse employee who works his ass off all day? Why should younger workers get lower salaries than older workers just because they have less seniority? One could argue that it should be the other way around, since the younger ones are not established yet and have a lot more expenses.

The logic is that you retire with a pension corresponding to the level you've reached as an employee. It's not more or less dumb than averaging.
What's ironic here is that in the adversarial setting the application is designed for, unexpected retention of user data (on end-user devices) is a sin.
The article is generally factually correct. Bitcoin is a commodity; in some ways investing in Bitcoin is no different from investing in Euros (if you live in the US).

I think what wiggle room there is is in this statement:

> These astronomical early Bitcoin gains can be treated as an anomaly arising from a price discovery process that will never be repeated.

I think there have been numerous price discovery phases in the Bitcoin price history, and that's reflective of the wild ramp-ups and following crashes, but it's by no means certain that we've passed the last of the price discovery phases. Looking only at performance over a cherry-picked timeframe is not a great way to evaluate the overall quality of a security.
The article actually says that the salaries are pretty terrible, but insurance, facilities, and regulations make it expensive to the parents.
Yes. This usually only works in an US household where one parent earns six-figures or more. Most people simply are too indentured to five-figure jobs (money and healthcare) to pull this off.

What also works with theis having a city "efficiency" (tiny) dwelling for the working parent and a cheaper house/homestead in a suburban/rural area to raise a family. Preferably, in the office area on weekdays/commuting home for weekends and 50% telecommuting/50% office for 1 or 2 weeks at a time. For these folks who don't make $300k+, living in a big city full time would be unwise. For almost everyone, Commuting long distances in an ICE solo-occupant vehicle is unwise.
What that means is that gravity, at the quantum level, must be conveyed by a spin-2 particle, known as a ‘graviton’. It has not been detected, and probably never will be (due to technical limitations). We can broadly pin down its properties, but we do not yet have a full theory of how it interacts.
That's basically what the DeathByCaptcha server is.
Amen. I avoid any container-based or blindly 'curl |sudo' install (the latter only after manual inspection of such a script).

Apps which only offer containers are untrustworthy black boxes. And it indicates devs who are too ignorant and/or lazy to make even basic efforts at distribution-neutral or portable code.

Gentoo and Funtoo keep devs honest to some extent, as packages must be built, not just slurped down in whatever alien form the project decided to use.
I'd caution that "narrative" and "story telling" can lead to fables. You should understand this as defining a clear vision, why it matters, how to get there, what it will look like on Monday morning once you've arrived and then ensure individuals and teams have clearly defined roles and own those roles. This is what Jobs' reality distortion field was built on.
I'd love is someone ported it to be a user script. It is definitely possible.

- sponsorblock dev
Google's Fitbit Acquisition Is All About Apple
I think I'd have the same question.

I have a friend who coached a club sport for high school students. They said that they saw, over their tenure, over 100 homeschooled kids come through their teams, and they can remember only a single one without significant social challenges.

There are probably a few jobs out there that do not require the ability to interact successfully with bosses and peers, but I'd imagine they are few and far between. Looking at "success" in a given job holistically, I would be inclined to argue that "soft" or social skills make up a nontrivial portion of the requisite skillset.
Asymptotically, that's true.

In reality, O(n) and O(2n) can be quite different for small n. As can O(n)+k0 and O(2n)+k1. Or worse, O(n^2)+k2 where sufficiently large k0 and k1 make the quadratic system better because it's k2 constant is so much smaller. Setup time matters.

Nowadays, you rarely have enough elements that the asymptotic behavior is the defining performance characteristic.
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
This is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVsdlHslfI&feature=youtu.be

Silicon valley Ponzi scheme
Surprised that there wasn't any mention of Baumol's cost disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease.
The one thing I don't like about Signal is that it's tied to a phone number. Sure, you can tie the account to a VoIP number but that's not the same as Wire which allows you to sign up with an email address and your account id based on a username, which cannot be SIM-attack hijacked.