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> Why use AWS at all if you’re not using their managed services?

Is this a serious question? I can value the infrastructure the AWS provides, such as regions and availability zones, while not wanting to get tied into their other services including the managed services for reasons such as business requirements for cloud agnosticism, which is for example one reason I tend to use HAproxy instead of ELB even on stuff on AWS. With CI/CD pipelines applied to infrastructure and a move towards no-ops, the maintenance costs of self-managed infra is reducing more and more.

I understand for some shops with a lack of personnel or knowledge to accomplish that self management may want to buy into a holisitic solution, but I think it's awfully intellectually disingenuous to not recognize the potential value of not buying into a holistic solution in certain situations.

Also, common, 'cloud specific'? So if I want to spin up my stack on Google or some other platform, I just have to rewrite a few lines of some .tf files. If I want to do that and I'm tied to CloudFormation.... I'm sol...
Definitely. I'd be asking about product and algorithms if I thought I'd get a good answer here but alas those I have to do myself.
I don't consider your view extreme. I think it is quite rational and probably what many people believe but are afraid to express in the face of the uncompromising exuberance of those who have children.

>I can't think of a time after childhood where I've had longer than 20 consecutive days without a job to be done.

This resonated with me in particular. I can't imagine placing another unwitting individual onto this ceaseless treadmill.
It sounds like this guy has some sort of axe to grind, but he's wrong. His argument rests on the claim that "most open source code is poor or unusable."

When most people refer to Open Source Software, they're referring to serious projects like the Linux kernel, Apache, PostreSQL, Firefox, etc. They're not referring to random crap on Github.

The serious projects are actually better than their closed-source counterparts, both in quality, and in their ability to be extended and customized. Customization is not going to be cheap or easy, but it will at least be possible.

The fact that I wrote a toy renderer in Rust five years ago and haven't touched it since then doesn't change this. The fact that there are 100 or 1000 times as many toy projects as there are serious projects doesn't change this either.
If he turns into a jock, then he can continue all the work you never quite got around to ;)
You think people two thousand years ago, or for that matter two hundred years ago, didn't 80-100 hours at the office every week of the year?
New England cars rust due to age. CA, AZ cars have rubber parts (mounts/seals/bushings) decaying due to heat. The latter is way less fatal to the car, but still incredibly annoying to chase down and fix (unless you just ignore them).
And everyone (especially parents) feels like they need an SUV, because everyone else has one, and they believe being in an SUV in a crash will make it more survivable (especially if the opposing vehicle is an SUV). It's a vehicular arms race, and everyone is defecting instead of cooperating.
I'm a self-taught knitter and I also code (though I'm a dude so I can't speak for the female experience).

I wouldn't describe knitting as a flow state in the same way. I frequently listen to podcasts, watch movies, listen to music, etc, when I knit. Knitting is... I dunno... rhythmic?

Now granted that depends. If I'm working cables or some sort of motif or whatever, it can require a bit of focus. But it's definitely not the same as coding. And if the fabric is simple stockinette or something, I don't even need to look at my hands.

It's also not at all solitary unless you want it to be. Knitting circles are a very common thing and I personally love hanging out with my other friends while we each work on projects.

In short: my guess is your confusion is mainly borne of a misunderstanding of the hobby.

My suggestion? Give it a shot! YouTube has made it easier than ever to learn, and a pair of sticks and a ball of yarn will cost you less than ten bucks. You never know, you might love it!
ok but the California Zephyr covers 4000 km - that's like going from Madrid to Moscow - I doubt any train or set of trains over that distance ever arrives on time.
I read that there are multiple Youtube channels by people who buy these pallets and resell the individual items
> Is this from a Brisbane dialect or something?

It's just a general Australian thing of abbreviating anything with too many syllables by chopping as much as possible off the end and adding an "o"

Smoke break => smoko, Bottle shop => Bottle-o, garbage man => garbo

It's even more popular to do it with a "y" (football =>footy, present => prezzie, tantrum => tanty)

In this case it gets confusing because we call a gas/petrol station a "service station" which of course inevitably became the servo, I guess because servy sounded a bit too weird, even for us.

The online version of the most popular Australian dictionary, the Macquarie, is behind a login but my hardcopy version doesn't list servo anyway (although it does list other Oz colloquialisms like bludger). You can find references to it in the Collins[1] and also slang sites like KoalaNet[2]

[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/servo
[2] http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html
>...I decided that I would not do so unless I achieved financial independence.

This, right here, encapsulates what is so wrong with this present iteration of society. Having kids is now something that you do if you're wealthy and can afford it, or if you're extremely poor and cannot afford birth control (or just don't know about it ... before the downvotes come, yes I know there are a lot of factors that influence high birth rates among poorer demographics).

This isn't a sustainable situation, at all. We need a complete realigning of what society - and indeed Civilization - is supposed to be about. Family formation is used as an economic marker today, for a ton of policy proposals. More families means more purchases of stuff. Fewer families means less buying of stuff, and leads to policies that might be tuned to address the economic "problem" but don't really address the societal one.
> The only thing that would make this hard is the thing that makes it hard for a human player which is knowing you’re on the diamond level without using the xyz debugging info.

Something else that makes this much harder than it is for a human: there's no sound! You can't hear the nearby lava or water when digging down.

Check out the information in the observation space-- nothing about sound in here.

http://minerl.io/docs/environments/index.html#minerlobtaindi...

But maybe a computer could do a better job than a human at looking at the clouds before digging, estimating how high they are, then keeping track of how many levels down we've dug. I'm pretty sure the clouds are at a fixed altitude.
I see Germans taking best lessons from English counterparts... Reached last destination my ass...
From what I have read, they have really simplified moving to Linux for those who don't want to spend time tinkering, e.g., they make installing Nvidia drivers for games very easy.

You are right about office - they bundle Libre Office with Zorin. If there was a Linux distro with seamless support of Office 365, I would gladly pay for it.
Google assistant runs on the phone, even if the processing doesn't.
so I think what I'm describing here is different from the link - my employer deducts post-tax money from my paycheck into the 401k, then rolls that over into something that will roll over into a roth IRA when I leave the company. As far as I can tell, that's what OP was speaking of (See the "Daily roth in-plan conversion" portion of the paycheck deduction screenshot.)
Thanks, you are correct :) I chose the spectral reflectance distributions by tuning the values manually until it looked correct. And yes, I didn't do gamma correction (I deliberately ignored photometry related conversions) so that could explain why my tuning resulted in odd values.
I believe the level of work and childcare you had to do some 8000 years ago to be quite a bit less than what it is now, since basically everything was communual.

Of course, you didn’t really have the same things to study either, so it might still work out positive.
Freaking supes. They treat SF like their little political science experiment and nothing of note ever gets done. Just let them build.

Do something about the car break-ins and package thefts. You know, govern the damn city.
Both of those are fantastic, data intensive in particular I think is the best book I have ever read from O'Reilly. Glad to hear this one is as good.
With education and life experience our 'prices' can change for the better. And with collective action we can make the world better than it was before us. Consider that simply being an informed, relatively independent voter is a collective action too.
Recipe: LusseSemla – The perfect mix between a Lussebulle and a Semla?
Would be very easy to fix using the above numbers and adding proper encoding, even a naive gamma 2.2 would help :)

Here is a Gist for the spectral computations: https://gist.github.com/KelSolaar/fb1e09b56b54d37d90e1886aef...

(It uses Colour: https://github.com/colour-science/colour)
Hmmm. We could use this same reasoning to prove that the market has spoken in favor of gasoline instead of electricity... Not really a relevant measure when technologies are in transition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
I just toured Alcatraz recently, and during the audio tour I learned that one of the male inmates there taught other male inmates how to knit, and knitting became a very popular pastime among the all-male prison population of Alcatraz.

There are likely lots of historical, social, and cultural reasons why knitting happens to be more popular among women than men -- reasons that might go back to our hunter-gatherer days, when the stronger, more physically capable men were the ones going out to hunt while women stayed home and took care of, among other things, the creation of clothing.
Why Virtual Reality Is Gaining Popularity in Construction
While I agree with you on the planning part, it still doesn't chsnge the fact thst a train can't reach all the stations on time, despite having a predefined schedule,almost no traffic and etc.
I don't see efficiency as nearly problematic as most seem to make it out to be (as far as the physics goes).

Estimates online roughly estimate that the amount of power from the sun that strikes the Earth in an hour is more than the entire world consumes in an year. Capturing just 0.0001% of that power would cover our needs. And I don't the worse efficiency of hydrogen being problematic in that regards.. but I can understand arguments regarding the economics.
Being insane does not mean you're wrong.

If we're going to say that X is wrong because Y said it, well Stallman is an albatross around the neck of everyone who talks about free software.
See also: http://marktarver.com/free-as-in-do-as-your-told.html
You can use a yubikey to do it. It can work in challenge/response mode, so the yubikey is required to unlock the device. That's good for laptops.

You can also use a private gpg key and an gpg-encrypted keyfile. Yubikey can store gpg keys (with attestation if you want), and you can enable both yubikey access and gpg in initramfs. That's good for servers if you pair it with initramfs sshd.

TPM is kind of broken, as I understand it, so I didn't even bother looking into it. There's really no reason I can't carry my keys on my physical keychain, so I don't see a need for TPM. I can also put a USB stick on my keychain and use that to boot.

That way even if an attacker has physical access to the hardware, it would be require some really advanced firmware/microcode hackery to compromise the machine.
Often on HN people talk about the need to re-integrate convicted criminals into society upon release from prison, giving them opportunities to find employment and housing.

Someone who posted evil things on Iron March may have reformed. We don't know what they currently want to do. For how long should someone who posted on Iron March banned from Airbnb? If Airbnb is doing the right thing, should all hotels have similar blacklists?
By the way, I'm curious, how did the company you work(ed?) for in Missoula, MT, get started? I'm always interested when I come across software companies in non-megalopolises.
I had a coworker once who was a pickup artist. Talking to him was a LOT more annoying than talking to the parents I worked with.
In English, though, the distribution of meaning of the word “football” is more like:

340 million: Grid Iron

60 million: soccer

15 million: Aussie Rules (proper footy)

10 million: Rugby League

5 million: Rugby Union

Probably some Gaelic Football in there too for good measure.
Pretty outdated concept of science you try to club with there, it's perfectly possible to do exploratory studies you know.

In any case, how about this hypothesis: there exists no systematic sex differences in replies to standardised p-type questionaries?
Ruhr area is not very far from here. I will be on the lookout for self-registers next time I'm in Essen!

As for mobile networks, I think all of them are frequently unusable in rural areas. Between Aachen and Cologne (I most frequently travel there), which is not a quiet route, I think at least half the time there is 2G or nothing at all. I should measure that some time. My work phone (Telekom) doesn't have better reception than mine (Dutch network using O2). Without measuring, I would actually estimate that O2 is the better deal around here.
Thank you for your patient and civil answer.

It's getting past my bed time and your comment deserves a more thorough
answer that I'll try to write tomorrow, but for the time being this is what
strikes me the most about your reply:

>> Also, strangely enough, it turns out that people who are callous and
aggressive don't really care about that, especially on online questionnaires,
because they are callous and aggressive.

How do you know that someone who looks callous and aggressive on online
questionnaires is actually callous and aggressive? The obvious answer seems to
be that you know because you've given them another questionnaire separately.
Is that the case?

I'm not trying to catch you out, so I'll spell it out: if that is the case
then I don't see how you can ever know that someone is callous and aggressive
in any objective sense of the way. Like I say in another comment, that would
be "questionnaires all the way down". This is a really strong signal that I
get from discussions like this and it makes me very suspicious of assurances
that it's all been studied and it's all based on solid evidence.

I mean, I'm sorry, I don't want to sound like a square but "how [people]
perceive themselves" is exactly the opposite of what I'd think of as an
objective measure of how they really are. For example- I perceive myself as
pretty (I like myself, that is) but I am not always perceived as pretty by
others. What value is there in asking me how pretty I am?

Edit: I get that some of your comment addresses this. But it still seems to me like the solution is to try to double-guess the participant. That also doesn't sound like it should make for objective observations.
I’m confused about what sort of person (a) refers to soccer as “real football” but (b) doesn’t know what Premier League means.
Microcosmos is also an amazing nature film where a crew follows around insects in a pasture for a while, free of narration. One of the most remarkable films I've ever seen.
Is it not possible to BYO keyboard? This must be a productivity drag on a lot of people in similar situations
There are no five tastes. There are foods that activate special nerves on the tongue that are none of the five in many non-European cuisines.
That statement in the article actually turned me off quite a bit. Loneliness is not the opposite of having kids. Having kids is sort of an "easy mode" for filling your time[0]. So sure, if you don't have kids, and don't have a romantic partner, and and don't have friends, and attempt to go through life expecting that you and only you are necessary for entertaining yourself, yeah, you'll be lonely.

Earlier in life I often considered loneliness to be my biggest fear, but I eventually realized that loneliness isn't something that just happens to you. It's a choice. If you don't want that choice, then you have to put in effort to find and maintain friendships[1], find a hopefully-lifelong romantic partner, etc.

Beyond that, though, there are plenty of elderly people who are profoundly lonely because their children have families and lives of their own and rarely see them. Perhaps if they tried harder to maintain relationships outside their nuclear family, they'd be better off. Not saying all that is easy (especially with kids in the mix), but I certainly think it's worthwhile in the end.

[0] "Easy" in that your time will always be filled, with no searching needed on your part; I'm not suggesting that raising kids is easy.

[1] Being friends with parents (when you are not one) is hard, but it's worthwhile to make the time, and be flexible with your time since theirs often isn't.
Hey, at least they got to choose!
A great example I love showing people is Alpha Zero's infamous "Immortal Zugzwang Game" against Stockfish [0]. Stockfish gets utterly annihilated in a trap that seemingly springs out of nowhere, though of course the reality is that Alpha Zero was actually really in control the entire time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXJWPhDsSY
I'm unaware that the goal of evolution is to have one lion win the lion competition and eat all other lions.

Maybe we should stop using bad metaphors? Writing software is not a Darwinian process, neither is competition on the market place. Unless you got your OS by randomly twiddling bits in the binary file, in which case why are we even talking about open source?
You’re rather cavalier about the impact of biology on creatures. Choose can do some things... but there are limits.
I guess I finally figured out what value people see in weightlifting. They’re just making comfortably sure this never happens to them.
Exactly, this phenomenon is also known as unconscious bias.
That's a matter of opinion, one which I personally disagree with, though I am not a fan of some of the philosophy and psychology of the 20th Century.

Furthermore, philosophy extends back thousands of years and spans across many societies and cultures. To dismiss all of it in a handwavy way from a position of ignorance, as Feynman did, speaks of nothing but narrow-minded bigotry.
Both my grandparents had 7 kids, and I recall a conversation when I was maybe 7 or 8, when my mom had stopped at 3, where my grandmother made the same point you're making - that you should keep going. She did stop, and regrets it now.
I’m saying nothing for or against the rest of the article, but this one sentence does not describe software as I know it: “But above all this is the sheer waste of human effort in terms of the production of rotting software in repositories.”

The act of writing code changes the programmer. I have written many things that didn’t turn into successful open source, nor did they act as resume-ware. But the act of writing them taught me something.

There is no waste of human effort involved when you practice your craft. This is like telling me that if I climb a cliff and then lower myself back to the ground, I haven’t gone anywhere.

Right now I’m working on implementing a subset of regular expressions that compile to finite-state recognizers. There is a zero-percent chance that my working code will be used in production.

So what? I am learning something about pattern-matching, and perhaps it will grow into a little language like SNOBOL.

http://raganwald.com/2019/09/21/regular-expressions.html

If that is a waste, then most of my most enjoyable moments programming were also a waste.
It's interesting to have all these startups improving efficiency and all, but then have a government doing exact opposite.
I've read Germania and it is an absolute belter. I'm a British Army brat and lived for around 10 years in what was West Germany. The old Saxons are a decent lot in my opinion. That book - Germania opened my eyes to just how complicated the history of the European continent is. "Anglo Saxons" reminds us of just how much these islands are intertwined with the continent.

"Germania" showed me how much I didn't know about my own sodding history. I knew a Roman geezer was nicknamed Germanicus but nothing about say Mercian kings or Kentish kings or the subtle interplay in the north with the Picts and the Scotii, the Welsh and the west welsh (Cornwall) and other Britons. What we call today Ireland - North Ireland and Eire - and the interplay with what we now call Scotland is another very complicated set of circumstances. We are all aware here in England of King Alfred the Great - Wessex - and might know of King Cnut (Danish) and may be dimly aware of other Kings from the time post Roman (~400AD) until 1066. It's a bit involved.

Could I also tender "1000 years of annoying the French" by Stephen Clarke. I've just searched him and it turns out he has quite an oevre. I just picked up that particular book because of the title and a quick read of a few pages. It's a great romp through European history from the perspective of a historian who happens to be British and living in France - his love of both France and Britain is quite apparent and his sense of humour is British. The main focus is France and England but the scope is European.

I've also bought "The King in the North" by Max Adams which is about Oswald "Whiteblade" in Northumbria (the region north of the river Humber) in the mid fifth century.
Amtrak doesn't fare much better when you evaluate it on smaller sections of the routes. Not owning the rails tends to put them at the mercy of freight trains. I've seen some of the longer routes on https://asm.transitdocs.com/map have 1-2 day delays marked at times. I arrived eight hours late the last time I went from Rochester to NYC (~500 km).

Look at https://asm.transitdocs.com/train/2019/12/13/19 and you'll see it's been losing substantial time at almost every stop along the way.

Ride some Swiss or German trains and then try out Amtrak and the difference will be difficult to deny.
Just want to say - the prices I've seen for that hired help in California is more along the lines of $25 per hour to start. And that's just to watch the kid - additional housework will cost more.
And that also doesn't include paying for their vacation time.
FWIW, it's documented in the API reference:

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#functional-upd...
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Except he says that he did: "I took a lot of steps to protect my freedom..."
There are a few videos from the same channel with exactly that, and they do worse. But we can easily argue why Carlsen should excel at this -- he played WC matches against Anand, and he would have studied all of this as prep.
I am not really responding to the article, but to the general concept of the Cathedral and the Bazarr.

The main problem is this: in sufficiently complex programs, roughly associated with LOC, there becomes a point where there are no longer enough eyes on enough pieces of code.

Therefore, I propose that the future of FOSS in the Bazarr style is to focus on reducing code complexity and increase readability as much as possible.

“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” - Bruce Lee
Alexa and Google Home have them too.