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The original comment in this chain implied that it's a consequence of ditching their experienced workers (where they have to provide decent work conditions and pay) in favour of new workers.

I don't work for boeing and haven't looked enough into this to confirm if that is the case or not.
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A hyper-corporation like Boeing must make billions merely to operate. They will not be allowed to fail. They will therefore make billions, one way or another.
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The point is that the developer license isn't enough, you have to buy a Mac to develop iOS apps
What is the useful meaning it's supposed to have?
To echo what others have contributed, I see this as well in the aerospace industry. Project managers are often willing to accept software as a black box component but wouldn’t dare accept hardware without a high level of quality pedigree. I think some of it is the tangible nature of hardware but also because systems engineers on these large projects almost never come from a software background.

I often wonder if the cavalier attitude towards treating software as an engineered product is because the software industry is relatively young. I imagine a lot of the cowboy attitudes we see in software were also prevalent in, say, pressure vessel design 130 years ago before adoption of strict design standards became common practice. I’ve heard it said that software is very much in the cave drawing days by comparison.
The last couple years I've become interested in gut bacteria, especially as it relates to health. Long to short, I'd like to offer this theory:

People who are optimistic have more friends. People with more friends have more robust and more diverse gut bacteria. That (i.e., gut bacteria) help the optimistic live longer.
Well there certainly won't be so many non-ethnic / non-Japanese kids in local Japanese schools with that attitude.
That's hilarious!

What's sad in this little sub-thread is to watch people down-voting and taking this too seriously. These are healthy jokes, just good fun. Nobody is saying Macs are bad or inferior in any way. Heck, I own a bunch of them, PC's as well. Lighten-up people!

...and then there was this time when I spent a full hour with an x-acto knife above the dropped ceiling carefully, silently, carving a hole right behind one of my co-workers to drop a firecracker right behind him. Yeah, that's how we rolled.

I have a feeling that today's workplace has become far more rigid and intolerant of, well, being human. People would get fired for probably every single thing we did back then...like wiring-up a fire extinguisher to discharge into someone's crotch (male coworker, 'cause someone is likely to assume the worst) when they sat at their desk. Or how about jumping out of the bushes with two water hoses to hose down someone when they got to work? There's more...we had lots of fun and worked 14 to 16 hour days. That was twenty years ago, we are still good friends.

Oh, I have to mention one more. I bought a new car and proudly showed it off to everyone in the team at the time. One of the other engineers rented a crashed version of exactly the same car from a junk yard. He had the tow truck swap my car for the utterly destroyed car in the parking lot. He also swapped the license plates. My car was towed and parked around the corner. Imagine my reaction when I came out of the office to get lunch and my car looked like Optimus Prime stomped on it! It was absolutely hilarious beyond description.
It's hard to realise how bloody old the 737 is, this thing dates back to the 60s, back when computers were a roomfull of people and assemblers were considered high-level programming languages.

Not that the A320 is any spring chicken (dates back to the 80s), however that's still a quantum leap in technology (e.g. universal fly-by-wire) and I'm guessing more modular as it was intended as a family of planes sharing a type (from the 318 to the 321, though the 318 was dropped for neo).
And yet working from the outside, the NYT can figure out this shit even faster.
glad they got their priorities straight.

wtf.
What are the "moral checks and balances and pressure from the voters" in the west?

As a voter in the west I don't recall ever hearing candidates talk about Africa (although I haven't necessarily been looking out for it and may be a bit too young depending on when it happened).
Sure, they are ferociously xenophobic, but if everybody is Japanese, and they are racist against non-Japanese, then it's not exactly a significant problem for Japanese students.

I'm somewhat reminded of the little podunk Maine town I grew up in; people were racist as all hell, but there was nobody to be racist to, because the entire county was white-trash WASPs and French-Canadians, and those two groups were so mixed together that nobody could sling a slur without hitting themselves with it.
The agro-industrial complex in general convinced Americans to buy trademark branded products instead of real food
I grew up lower middle class in a poor country and could never access Something Awful because the fee was literally a week's worth of groceries.
Nuclear power plants can be used as weapons. The explosion of Chernobyl could have taken out half of Europe with radioactivity had it not been dealt with.

If we elect another Kim jong/Stalin, or a neighbouring country does, they could blow up their own reactors to achieve destructive means. Solar and wind don't have that problem. The nuclear accidents are bad enough. Imagine the fallout from a plant in mexico takes out half of Texas, is that an acceptable risk in the pursuit of cheap electricity? Do you want to place the future of international political stability on the ability to regulate and police an industry? Both america and japan, two trustworthy and competent nations have had problems with nukes. Trading one bad scenario for another is not going to help.

Space based solar is a safer bet than nukes.
Still the purpose of a board is to have oversight, which is mostly about signing of company structures and signing of processes for large processes the process for creating and approving a major new product line.

And well, if they'd pick some lower manager the critique would be the same. And if they pick an outsider the critique would be about them not understanding the business ... critique is always the easy part.
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What a weird hair to split, pharmacology is a part of medicine.

The "medical" definition is incomplete.
Sure, some of it might be. But so are many other habits that we have. Marketing is a part of our culture know, and is inevitably influencing us, for better or worse. Charles Duhigg talks a bit about this in his "The Power of Habit".
Sex robots 'indistinguishable from humans in five years'
He's talking about the price of the mac, not the license
The beauty of a credit card is that none of the things you're afraid of are your problem.

Just check your statement before paying the bill, and if you lose your card, freeze it. Also, most credit cards will inform you of purchases somehow, so maybe you need to get a new card.
> Why does Japan stand out? Because they are industrialized?

Sure. They should be compared to countries with similar levels of wealth per capita, since that wealth, in theory, should enable them to rise above what you describe in Nigeria.

But that said, what you quoted the Fulani man saying is frequently expressed in Europe or the Anglosphere today, but with the target being a non-Christian religion.
Monday parents are not capable od seeing up parental controls, and I don't think we will see that change in the next 10 years even if we direct quite a lot of effort to the matter
I was an exchange student in high school to Japan and I have never seen groups of people more dedicated to both studying and hobbies, especially at the grade-school age.

There are private companies that offer study rooms that HS students rent every weekend. Kendo, soccer, baseball and basketball clubs were really huge at the school I was visiting.
I think you must mean dz/dx in the last term.
Through that article I looked into an organization Ram Dass was involved in called Social Venture Network which seems to have rebranded as Social Venture Circle.

The article seems to mistakenly say Ram Dass founded it (he's not mentioned in their wikipedia article at all) and a post on his blog seems to just say he "started to hang out with them" but it still seems like an interesting organization. Does anybody have any experience or thoughts on it or their initiatives?

I believe this is the current website: https://www.svcimpact.org/
Yes, 2 months ago.
It's common in many styles to italicize non-English words
Yes, unless it's useless infrastructure, like the Mattala International Airport in Sri Lanka. And to be clear, roads don't generally fall into that category. And also, China owns major roads in Indiana, and I'm not necessarily opposed to that happening anywhere. I'm just saying that there are reasons to temper the rhetoric that claims China is doing such an amazing job "helping" third world nations.

And as for starting a war, China doesn't need to threaten to start a war with a country in order to have the threat of such playing into Ethiopia's leadership decisions. You don't want to piss off China any more than you want to piss off the USA.
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Many style guides say you should italicize foreign words that haven't been adopted as loanwords. https://style.mla.org/styling-foreign-terms/
So something I saw with shortening now (to include Crisco) is that it now is mainly palm oil, which has been fairly controversial due to deforestation:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/palm-oil-health-imp...

I have actually gone to using lard/ghee now for myself instead of shortening. It also seemed to be cheaper as well, to my surprise.

I'm curious what other's think?

EDIT: I meant lard is cheaper, not Ghee. Upon a brief search, there are brands of vegetable shoterning that claim to be environmentally sustainable.
Richard Wolf’s Global Economic Update from November 2019 changed how I perceive the US tax system, US political candidates and their proposals on how to fund various solutions. He also speaks about political parties and their purpose in the context of capitalism, and separately, libertarianism.

Lastly, covers the US/China “trade war”.

Fascinating and very well structured talk, revealing the hidden (to me) forces behind economic structures and decisions.

https://youtu.be/THwqz5dTzkA
> We're back to googling and peer support.

Googling and peer support is much more acceptable for advanced actions than simple actions.

If I need to Google how to disable labels in the dock, that's probably ok. If I need to Google how to turn down the brightness of the iPad...that's not great.
Disclosure: I work for Apple but not on anything related. I think there are reasons to believe there is some dark purpose behind this, but I think there are also reasons to believe its just Apple continuing its privacy push and not wanting to see even more data go unnecessarily to the data hoarders. I'm personally super happy I can decide to not hand over my email address, I think that's a huge improvement.
> People write high-performance software in Haskell, and it's their tool of choice.

I've heard of those but have never managed to see one. Do you have some examples ? (to give you my "baseline" - handling >500k messages/second on a desktop cpu for instance as this is something quite easily achievable in C++)
Fun fact: poppies spread their seeds by literally exploding.
> Redis's creator is a person who doesn't deserve our support.

There are valid criticisms of Redis but this is shitty and vindictive. You should be ashamed.
I think it's plain to many that they are not in fact worried about "our children" - it's a lazy argument that's easily seen through, yet appeals to outraged tabloid readers.

It also makes it easy to retort to those who would oppose it: "then you don't care about our children, you must be a monster!"

In reality, anyone who truly cared about our children, and indeed future generations, would see the dangers of mass surveillance and strongly oppose it on those grounds.
Unfortunately, projects with very long term benefits that require political will to maintain are not sustainable in Democracies.
> Redis is written in C. That's a bad idea for a networked application.

That’s a heafty claim. It is certainly more complicated to write a network complication in C vs a higher level language like Go, but by no means a bad idea in terms of outcome.

A bigger issue may be the QPS that a cache generates, as you tend to check large quantities of values against it. So the network round trip to Redis isn’t ideal, and you may get into a situation where it’s single threaded nature becomes a bottleneck if your values are large (tho generally Redis is memory or network bounded, not CPU).
shrug COL adjustments between countries is a different problem.
They announced it back in 2014 at least, aiming for 2030: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-ceo-737/boeing-pla...
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It is amazing, but if your Tall, or Wide, or have any kind of handicap, its miserable too..
I’ll jump here to say that Bazel 1 was awesome, and I’m looking forward to trying out Bazel 2.

I was wondering how to make sure Bazel doesn’t rebuild something it has built previously? (Caching)
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Jon Blow's (developer of "The Witness") Jai is worth mentioning in that context (not released, though).
Right. Like I said, the only parties interested in taking all that effort and that have enough money are probably Apple, Google or maybe Samsung. Independent companies won't go down that hole.
It is common for the young, remember? It is also why you should vote for the young and idealistic; not cynical old farts like ourselves.
I expect to be able to sit in my seat without having my knees crushed? How about that for a start?
>Till the point when computers will create thousands of proofs a man will have trouble to understand.

I'm skeptical this will ever happen. If we create a computer X that comes up with such proofs, and we create X in such a way that we fully trust X's truthfulness, then we can trivially understand every theorem X asserts: the explanation for every such theorem is, "The theorem is asserted by X."

To put it another way, suppose I have an algorithm A which I know churns out true theorems with proofs. Suppose I run A for awhile and it churns out a theorem with a gigantic proof. The fact that the proof is gigantic is totally irrelevant. I can completely ignore said proof and accept the theorem because I know that A outputs true theorems. That knowledge itself obsoletes the very proofs A churns out.

This line of reasoning can be made quite formal and rigorous. See the following slides for a deeper step into it, with a link to a paper if you want to go deeper still: https://semitrivial.github.io/MeasuringIntelligence2019.pdf
Unlikely you can fix that when even the processor gets overloaded by patches.
Hydrogenation itself creates trans fats, original Crisco sounds pretty unhealthy
I think there are real improvements made by the tech industry. For example cellular and smart phones are brand new and overall have improved quality of life and productivity.

But on the whole I think most of the "gains" made through big tech are marginal. Marginal specifically because either:

A.) New tech companies create products primarily to make the tech industry more productive at building/maintaining/deploying systems

B.) New tech companies provide a small amount of value over a preexisting industry and transfer the industry into the tech sector (e.g. Uber/Lyft) through "disruption"

As a result, the industry has provided less overall growth and improvement to society than its raw potential, and at the same time has consolidated wealth as much as it has created it.

Uber was originally supposed to be a commute-sharing app that reduced heavy reliance on vehicles, making a dramatically more efficient use of resources and time. When it came around to executing on this, the real value-making proposition was to transfer and capture an existing market (ride-hailing/taxi services).

My prescription for a fix would be to emphasize computer literacy in the school system, encouraging the entire 12K public school system to introduce the idea of self-automation as a problem solving pattern for the general population.

In two generations, every sector of the economy will apply automation within their own ranks to eek out efficiency, rather than relying on software developers in California to understand their day-to-day and make an app to "disrupt" their industry.
The book is not for everyone. By that I mean that there are people in the world that think everything they do will fail. That obsess on every interaction with friends and significant others trying to look for signs that they don’t like them anymore. People that are riddled with anxiety on a daily basis because they always expect bad things to happen. That catastrophize every minor negative thing that happens in their lives.

Those people will have their lives changed significantly for the better by following the program in the book.

I am not troubled that reading a book will give you Narcissist Personality Disorder or as you said turn you into an insurance salesman.
That's certainly entirely possible. Everyone's neurochemistry is different. I'm not sure that "a few days" is enough to truly assess the situation, but it's a good start. Perhaps a slightly different dosing regimen may still benefit such a person. As well, it's entirely possible that abstinence is best for that person. No way to know that going in, though.

And yes, I do. I also believe that approximate threshold doses (enough to feel a mild "elevated" state, but not to the level of warping one's perception of reality) have benefit as well. The big trips do too, but a threshold dose or less can allow one to still be able to function in a normal way, just with an increased sharpness of mind and an ability to focus easier.

I'm speaking from personal experience here, of course. The thing about psychedelics is that YMMV, which is why being mindful of what we do know about psychedelics is so important.
You mean star trek smartphones? We're almost there already.
Not true. The language optimizes for the way it is intended to be used, and changes remain sensitive to those optimizations.

"Pythonic" means intended usage, and "unPythonic" is shorthand for "you found another way to do it that kinda does what you want but (is ten times as slow/takes up ten times as much memory/doesn't work for edge-cases/has more unintentional side-effects) because it wasn't the intended usage, which is fine for your own personal projects, but please don't bring that into my code base, and pretty please don't teach other people to do it that way..."
Firebase Auth has it. Let Google pay that $100 for you

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2019/11/sign-in-with-apple-a...
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Why not? Do you have something to hide? Why have a door at all? It would stop the toilets being used for all kinds of illicit activities!
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Apple does care about market share in some sense. When they announced apple sign-in, they said any iOS that features any third-party sign-in, they MUST add apple-sign. This is shoehorning their way into "relevant OAuth providers". Not that I complain, it's their platform, and they can make developers dance to their beat.
Yes, identity verification is certainly the hard part of setup for any secure communications system. But in modern systems the cute thing is that this only really matters at the moment it happens. It's a big problem if there is an active adversary attacking you when you try to communicate, but a moment later it doesn't matter at all.

Many governments are reluctant to just attack their own citizens 24/7. It's a bit too blatant. So they're obliged to try to attack most communications retrospectively.

Suppose I am an intelligence analyst and I just figured out that murderous terrorist Jenny Smith sent instructions for planting a bomb to another member of her cell on Saturday at 11:42:05 precisely using let's say Signal. I have a copy of the IP packets sending the instructions. I have essentially unlimited resources to dedicate to the task. And Jenny didn't even have a reliable way to assure herself she was sending the instructions to the right person. Surely I can do something? Right? Nope. I'm screwed. Since I wasn't actively attacking Jenny back when it happened, she got the right keys, and I can no more decrypt these IP packets now than I could travel back in time and stop her sending them.
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rome?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin

Or Zainichi Koreans, who are born and raised in Japan (there are a LOT).
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I guess the real question is whether this is cheaper than to just license these services.

And a second question: how much power do others have over you? I'd your agricultural output or tax system becomes dependent on a certain provider/country they have a lot of leeway over you. Same reason Europe and Russia and China built their own satellite-based positioning system: can't trust the US to keep GPS accessible.

On the other hand any satellite built for you might have the same issue through some hidden software-based off switches.
If you were following the articles then you'd know that various people did those on criteria set by management, independently in a non-communicating and problem oppressing organization structure created by the management.

So in short: all of those were caused by the accountants....
Innovation comes from experimentation. It's useful to have hypotheses and quantitative/qualitative data to back the assumptions up or disprove them.
I'm sure it's slightly more complicated, but is the MAX not essentially a 737 airframe with larger engines mounter further forward? Seems like there's a lot to work with there. A new type certification, at this point, sounds pretty good. Otherwise, there ought to be a lot of salvageable product there.

I doubt that doing a new type cert is tantamount to engineering an entirely new airframe. I think the thing that makes it less appealing to airlines now is the lack of faith in the integrity of Boeing engineering in general.
Each satellite is launched into an orbit that has it fly over certain areas more than others. Most satellites are stationed over the richest countries, so there is very little satellite image coverage of many parts of Africa. These images help monitor everything from weather to crop health. Just like building a road, buying a satellite for your country provides critical infrastructure which can boost an economy.
I'm neither vindictive nor ashamed that I am pointing out Antirez argued passionately and publicly for the right to say "master and slave is a term of art and I will keep using it."

I'm also not ashamed of pointing out that Redis as a project is famous for hand waving away redis problems.
It seems like college students can design, build, & launch a microsat for $50k-$1M. Why jump straight to $200M+ for those learnings? It shouldn't take $Billions to start getting your feet wet.