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I’ve been drinking tonight, so I apologize if I fail, but I’m going to do my best.

Is quality purely subjective? Everyone has their own version? No. There are levels of quality that we can all agree on, even if we don’t always understand why. Art. Writing. Photography. You know quality when you see it, but it defies a true definition. First instinct says it’s subjective, but universally pleasing forms and displays say otherwise.

They suggest there is such a thing as objective beauty (quality). Faces that are perfectly symmetrical are objectively more appealing. They are quality. They invoke a feeling of being drawn in. Accepting. Gravity.

Conversely, there are things that are objectively off-putting. Everyone hates them. They (almost) universally disgust us. Push us away. Anti-gravity.

Plenty of people will argue I’m wrong and anything Landing in either category is still subjective. There are people who enjoy having human feces in their mouth. Seems like that might be right.

Pirsig’s point is that the quality judgement, the thing that makes it possible for a thing to like or dislike (going all the way to electrons, neutrons, and protons “liking” and ”disliking” each other) another thing it’s engaged with is what makes it possible for the thing to begin to define subjects and objects, period.

What differentiates a subject from an object, if not some deep notion of “I like this, give me more of this” and “this hurts me, get it away”. That’s what he calls quality, and what he posits is at the basis of all that matters.

—-alright. I’ve had 3 Pliny’s tonight and I tried. If this is all nonsense, I’m eager to hear why so I can learn a thing or two and know more than I do now—-
You can also get a 10x accessibility increase for viewing your site, by not doing shit like this:

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This is another one of these pages that shouldn't require JS, but deliberately hides the content and then uses JS to un-hide it. WTF!? I know this is a little off-topic but I found it ironic that a post about optimising performance would be presented so outrageously inefficiently and inaccessibly. (I just turned off the CSS to read it.)
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Algolia hosts a HN search site
Of course SMT makes sense. Why would it not be? Article says that thats because ppl only count the threads in their "cpuinfo" output and get the wrong impression? Intel vulnerabilities are not SMT vulnerabilities per-se, they are side channel attacks on a specific SMT implementation.
Bad idea, because unregulated dumping would still be far too easy to get away with.
I can sympathize. We have a Twisted database abstraction layer that was built in house. You call http endpoints that perform database operations. It has routing logic so applications only need to call someEndpoint.json and not worry if we've sharded the backend recently, scaled read replicas, migrated a write master, etc. It has caching, query piggy-backing, connection pooling, and other bells and whistles.

While we have been able to scale it out for volume of requests, it did not scale well for multiple teams and multiple services. It became a single point of failure whereby the access patterns of one team to their own databases could affect other teams abilities to access their own databases.

We've since moved to a new model whereby team's own their datastores and access methods, speeding up development and reducing negative impact teams can have on each other's data layer. Legacy access continues to be migrated off endpoint by endpoint, database by database. I look forward to the day of never having to look at Twisted code ever again. The framework is aptly named.

If you are looking for a similar solution for MySQL, I currently recommend ProxySQL. It allows for a topography whereby teams can control their own proxy layer and still have most of the benefits outlined above.
> All I'm saying is you can build a pretty successful business even with a bad engineering team.

I liked your comment.

I would say "bad engineering". Look at all the banking stuff (disclosure: finance/banking lead) and you will immediately recognize this as a reality.

Why? Because there are no KPIs that relate to speed, sustainability, maintenance. There is a distinction between input, output and outcome.

Also a lot of architecture is done using power point. Drawing a line in PP is easy, connecting the services in reality is often times anything else than trivial.
_All I'm saying is you can build a pretty successful business even with a bad engineering team._

I completely agree. The most important lesson I’ve learned in the past decade of software development is:

Good product/UX design can save bad engineering, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
Go is faster to iterate on is absolutely false. Where do you get this idea from?
This is a great question because there should be a more cost effective way. The current payment rails have a number of counterparties all taking a cut. I assume Stripes process is something like; stripe take a fee, stripes sponsoring bank takes a fee, the card network takes a fee, the other parties bank takes a fee. Card networks are more expensive than bank to bank payment networks (e.g. ACH in the USA, Bacs Direct Debit in the UK, SEPA for Eurozone). While there are the same number of parties taking a cut, the costs are cheaper. Plus payment companies get better rates based on bigger volumes. The disruption could be eliminating these middle men one by one, at the end of the day, money doesn't really change hands, it's just data being exchanged. And the banks accounts are settled at a net basis at the Central Bank.
I have never heard of anybody using the Schroedinger equation to analyze either a neural net or psychology. Where do you get the idea they involve the same mathematics?
Hey, I posted as honestly as possible.

But yes, it'd be very hard to avoid buying from China.

So what's possible? Political action?

That seems unlikely too. It'd be hard even as a country to boycott China. The US economy would collapse if it tried, I bet.
I guess you're agreeing with me sarcastically? Very funny.
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Phones are merely one of the common and accurate ways to track people. We clearly need legislation for everything related to this, but phones provide a good and visceral example of the dangers.
I actually think this is where good software design and bounded contexts come in. You can perfectly well run a monolith with hundreds of developers if each of the sections is very well contained. There is no need to add network partitions everywhere to enforce this!
You implied he was premature, a perpetual victim, and asked loaded questions implying he can't get laid. By trying to belittle and demean him, you ended up strengthening his point.

I can't fathom what you tried to accomplish by looking up his age. No matter what number you find, you'd dismiss him with either "you're only N years old, too young to realize that..." or "by N I was old enough to understand that..."
It is really not a lens issue. The world needs telecom infrastructure, and the dominant player in the next gen telecom infrastructure is actually a sockpuppet of an oppressive totalitarian nation with a worldwide imperialist agenda.

How hard is it to miss the huge red flag?
Have big tech really been making enough of an effort to build more housing? Apple's $2.5 billion pledge was made only months ago, and not specific to San Francisco. Certainly there's an overlap between YIMBY and tech workers, but it doesn't seem to be one to one. We aren't seeing high-profile Engineers For Affordable Housing groups come to the forefront. Do they even exist?
I thought that Einstein showed why "it happened long ago" and "it happens when we see it" are wrong? If the light strikes somewhere else and the effect of that changes the interaction between us and it then we have to admit that both places perceived the event relative to themselves - the origin and or perspective are not privileged... So if Jupiter is peterbed and earth is peterbed by the same event to make the sums for the future interacton of earth and Jupiter work we have to consider the events relative to both Jupiter and earth's frame of reference?
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I'm trying to imagine that ( real or imagined) benefit outweighting solving distributed transactions.
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Well, now we in a need for experts who fix AWS billing for a living.
I think I would join in resistance - it's just, in my thinking, the non-liberal character of the BJP is not the problem. I don't think a liberal resistance centered around classic enlightenment values (secularism, etc) would work - and if it did work, I don't think it would have an enduring effect.

I'm not really sure of how you would go about fighting back - but I just feel like liberalism is really flawed when it comes to divided societies. The whole secularism/universalism idea really quickly becomes a cover for the dominant group to pretend that their values are secular, and their beliefs are universal. Which is why you get crucifixes in Bavarian classrooms, but it's impossible to get planning permission to build a mosque.
Ha, yes, true. But I was also specifically responding to the OP who was excited that with a longer life we would be able to "die on our own terms". I would say, first, that our lives are already plenty long enough to "die on our own terms" for any of the reasons you listed (and, sadly, many people do). And second, I would be a little surprised if any of those reasons match what OP was thinking of when he/she expressed a longing to "die on our own terms."
On a recent trip to the US (San Francisco), I was surprised by how much ATMs charge. The ATM in my hotel was the lowest I found, charging only $4. Compare this to Europe where in most countries ATMs do not have a fee (small convenience stores are often the exception), and you can use the ATM of a competitor bank without incurring extra fees.
Snowden shared a chilling video today of smartphone surveillance at play in China. Its a real wake up call- what happens when there is no privacy from the state. Please share.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1208469511051075585
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That is for the purpose of "measuring the quality of the generated code when both compilers are presented with what amounts to the same program." But Go also allows pointers to fields and array elements and by design reduces pointer indirections and allocations in general, which those comparisons don't capture.
> I don’t believe that’s even possible - it was not in the system I worked on.

The article says: "As the years passed, Northrop Grumman continued to make improvements to the system. That meant that controls on one ship might not look exactly like controls on another. It was like hopping from the driver’s seat of a Ford truck into a Mercedes-Benz roadster. Sailors could adjust. But it took a while to get a feel for the different controls — and on a fully armed warship, no less."
Yeah from there and Hong Kong there's a lot of more western friendly content (see: translated). But I'm interested in mainland Chinese content that day-to-day people watch there. Like I want to know what their very of "Friends" or even serious stuff like "The Wire" would look like, even if the industry hasn't yet fully matured creatively.

Most of the most popular Chinese sitcoms I've read about seem to be a strange bunch as an outsider. Very much about boy-meeting girl following standard Chinese traditional get a job -> married + boy supporting girl and families. Which I find interesting from a cultural perspective of a maturing middle class economy. That plus a hundred awful period pieces about ancient China, which seems like 50% of their output, especially movie-wise - an easy way to ignore the tough realities of modern China.

But I don't know Chinese and only have a superficial grasp of what they are really like. So I've been interested in learning mandarin.
> Remember how Beats headphones used to add weights to feel more substantial?

Beats didn’t do this. Cheap counterfeit headphone manufacturers did.
You can always use the 'cluster' module or worker threads.
Mission accomplished, I say. No reason why this site should collect my personal information and eventually leak it to hackers.
Given the mismatch between memory latency and how fast a cpu can actually run when it does have data, SMT still does make sense, sometimes, for some kinds of system. bigger better caches make it less useful and security... well. "Ownership" of ones computational environment is a metaphysical debate now, this is just one more bullet point on the list.
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I really like to minimize distractions while reading (I love FF reader view). Reading a "long form" post on twitter is like trying to listen to someone tell you a story in a room full of people shouting at each other.
Hmmm maybe it's more of a Roddenberry era trek vs later trek kind of thing. That was an early episode of TNG from when he was still alive. Star trek kind of changed direction after that. I liked the later series, but they did lack something the original series and early TNG had.

>(TBH I don't love where Star Trek is right now, but they've got a long way to go before they run out.)

I just wish they'd continue the story after Voyager instead of going further and further back in time. It seems pointless to me. We already know what's going to happen. I never was a big fan of prequels in general, but it just seems worse with star trek.
Humanities adaptability is on par with that of the cockroaches. Give us 30 years of prep time and we can cope with nearly anything climate change is predicted to throw at us.

The difficult assumption isn't that we have a stable ecosystem - we survive in a very broad range of ecosystems. The one that risks killing modern societies is the assumption that cheap and abundant energy is available. Sufficient energy could overcome any challenge.
YNAB (https://www.youneedabudget.com) for budgeting and tracking spending. It forces you to pre-allocate your funds which ensures that you don't overspend unconsciously via credit cards. I've been very successful with it.

> Anything that follows the "don't make me think" philosophy?

I don't think that exists. YNAB requires pretty diligent tracking, but the payout (heh) is huge.
Most of life will adapt. Thousands of species will go extinct, probably not including us, but including the other apes. Likely, billions will die, only a few million by nuclear incineration. Most will starve.

The stragglers, probably mostly primitives plus a bunch of rich bastards, will repopulate the Earth and pick up in what is left.
Nice to see that Siscog continues to be a Lisp shop.

If any Lisp hackers feel like moving to Porto or Lisbon, give it a shot.
I have;

1. One account for salary and bills

2. One credit card for large purchases and spending online which I pay off each month

3. One pre-paid card which I top up weekly to use for daily spending and when travelling (as it has multiple currency accounts)

4. One savings account

(All of the above accounts are available to me on one App, due to the Open Banking regulations in Europe)

(Would be a good idea to set up auto sweeps to move funds between accounts, so that it's automated. I don't do this as I like to view the accounts regularly to stay on top of things)

Rules I try to follow are;

- Maximize income
- Minimize expenditure
- Save or invest the remainder
- Don't use credit/debt but save up to buy what you want

I don't have a go to investment platform, but my preference would be to use a broker and value invest for medium to long term. I can't compete with pro traders and algorithms.
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I genuinely hope Tesla get a 2020 Roadster to lap the Nurburgring on autopiliot with nobody inside. If it lives up to promises, it will easily set the all time lap record as the fastest vehicle ever.

It will be an interesting time when a $200k production car can whip the pants of a multi-million dollar F1 racecar.
Totally agree that many comments here indicate a deep misreading of the article. The article examined two viewpoints, one that scapegoats the tech industry and one that scapegoats the NIMBYs. They say no progress has been made in a decade as these two viewpoints are in a stalemate. Ironically the author seems to see hope and a way forward in initiatives by the technology industry itself. Maybe everyone here only read the passages that presented the point of view that was critical of the tech industry and not the parts that were critical of the NIMBYs, or the parts that praised the YIMBYs and the tech industry getting involved in a solution.
F1 could go faster. They’re limited by the regulations. Literally “formula” cars.
Some of them happen to be shared across all CPU vendors.
I really like Beancount with Fava for analyzing my spendings: https://github.com/beancount/fava/blob/master/README.rst
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I can easily ask the vice versa of such a bland question. Answer that first if you want a real answer instead of trying to flame.
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Dynamic patterns require escaping, resulting in unnecessary complexity and overhead.
Voting is such a weak control system, that it is obviously not enough. Regular elections pack together so many decision points into so few options that it's barely worth participating.

If we really want to influence politics, we need to get rid of this idea that voting is all that democracy means, and try to get people more organized, try to get many more people to participate directly in politics, get them to talk to their representatives regularly, get them to organize and pool resources together for important causes and so on.

If you can convince 2 people to vote your way in an election, you've had a more meaningful impact on the election than if you voted yourself. If you can convince an elected representative to change their stance on some issue, you've had probably a hundred or a thousand times more impact on policy than your vote alone has.

Until we recognize these things, the people who already do (mostly, but not exclusively, lobbyists and industry groups; and some religious organizations) will continue to effectively control policy.

Would anyone ever imagine that, if say Mark Zuckerberg wanted a particular policy, he would do nothing until the next elections, and then would go to the polling station and vote for the candidate who seems to promise that policy?
> What these climate scientists have done to predict this would’ve been witchcraft a hundred years ago

You may be on to something there: if cause and effect are too far related that an ordinary person without any training in the matter will be able to say 'Aha!' then trying to argue that scientists have proven it is a losing battle.

The reason for that is that decades of being oversold by advertising and guys in white lab coats have conditioned people to disbelieve scientists over the words of other lay people that they feel they have a closer connection with. See also: vaccination, various 'truthers' and so on.

Add in another healthy factor based on the fact that people will have to give up some luxuries and you have the stage set for a perfect disaster.
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> All employees are free to leave...

You're literally saying "This job is a necessary part of our society, and while you personally might not want to tolerate the {harassment/low pay/terrible conditions}, someone else has to."
I guess the difference is that GDPR is new and had a bunch of of reporting about it recently. Few people stop to consult a lawyer before starting a side-project, probably because they wouldn't start a project that would violate any laws they're aware of. Of course there can always be laws you aren't aware of, but those only become scary once you realize you may have violated them.
Trying to find returns in a low interest environment. Maybe also control and influence in the large companies of the future.
Also want to add that to say "don't use SMT because it's insecure" is the same as saying "don't use a cache because it's insecure" or "don't use speculative execution". As a short-term fix, I would 100% agree that disabling SMT e.g. OpenBSD's approach is awesome and shows their security-consciousness. But to preach "disable SMT because it's too challenging" feels very lazy.

Additionally, as you've said, it's still uArch dependent. For example-- the Fallout vulnerability (one of the MDS attacks) only worked on Intel machines, but not AMD+ARM, most likely due to the differences in how the two designs handled store-to-load forwarding on the store queues/buffers.

The author seems to also value security over performance. I do as well. But the balance between performance and security is a fickle one, and I feel that "SMT is nonsensical" is a bit too much
You've drank way to much American Kool-aid.

Many European countries are more democratic than the US with its first-past-the-post discarding votes, precise gerrymandering ensuring that the right party wins, the Electoral College system creating a ridiculous focus on just a few "swing" states and making people president despite getting less votes than the other candidate, basically unrestricted corruption through campaign donations, elegantly called "lobbying", etc.
That article says that 99% of waste is recycled in Sweden, but also points out that a large part of that is incinerated. I don't really understand how incineration can be called recycling. The cycle literally ends at that point.

That's not to say it's better than many alternatives (the article claims it's better than most landfills), but let's call it what it is.
I disagree that this makes their decision the right one. If we can come up with so many "valid" versions of this, all with their own flaws, then this is the wrong API to build. This function should not exist in its current form at all. APIs should be intuitive, preferably without reading the documentation (although I agree that this is a utopian way of seeing it).
The best is when I start reading an article, make it to the second page, and then it starts autoplaying. Now I have to scroll back to the top to shut it off.
I don’t agree with all of the conclusions of the article. I just think it’s patently false that the article is one sided and vilifies technology workers.
The article. What is he arguing about?

Phones can be tracked? So can anything if the interested party is rich enough, powerful enough or dedicated enough.

It has never been this easy to Protest.

There are apps on phone with full encryption, there are mesh app that require no setup. There are custom roms for android with 100% focus security and privacy.

Also is tracking bad? If we ignore the privacy fanatics, all the good that location tracking has given us far outways all the bad stuff.

Also everyone seems to love the idea giving people a voice but does a 360 when they realize other people can have completely opposite radical ideas too.
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Sufficient energy could over come many challenges, but an abundance of energy also allows the creation of new issues.

Case in point: the age of cheap oil. Without that abundance in energy there would have been no crisis now, and we'd be looking at a much lower number of people on the planet.

If you want to change 'sufficient energy' to 'sufficient clean energy' then the needle will shift, but maybe not as far as you'd like: even then there is a limit as to how much energy we can get rid off once it has been used and turned into heat.