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I noticed the shelves at the Phoenix Fry's starting to get bare a year ago. In November an employee said they were "renegotiating" with their suppliers. This article explains "the shelves are empty because it has shifted to a consignment model, meaning that suppliers get paid for goods only after a store has sold them."

Fry's was the only store I visited on "Black Friday". Some of the other customers were looking at the bare shelves, like "what happened"? I bought a few items I thought would be useful, but I was not in the market for any big-ticket items.

On that day I overheard one of the employees say the "trade war" was the cause of the company's problems. Partially, I'm sure, but not totally. I'd read about an employee at the Fry's corporate office who was caught lining his own pocket with company money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14906339

I think Fry's has a chance because it owns most of its buildings, and it's presumably not being looted by vulture capitalists (as happened to Sears). The stores have been well-staffed for months in spite of their having little to sell.

I still shop at Fry's because I don't always know what I'm looking for, and it's nice to be able to browse.
FedEx, UPS, Amazon, and private couriers are all active in the letter and package delivery business. The USPS doesn't have a monopoly, at least not in the strict text-book sense of the word.

USPS just delivers letter mail at much lower rates than the others. And does so at a fixed rate to any address within the US, whether that's a neighbor across the street or a family member in a tiny town in the mountains.
Don't get it twisted - the Tesla should be your personal haven - don't let anyone encroach on that :)
This is irrelevant all-or-nothing thinking.

Of course all things change -- that doesn't mean something changing for the worse is therefore inevitable or less shameful
It's one thing if an employer kicks $250 my way for joining the wellness program. It's entirely different when half of my compensation or even my job itself depends on it.
You must be doing something wrong if reinstalling your OS causes you to lose anything important. For starters it helps making your /home directory a separate partition.
The question is who's going to foot the bill for the 55 year old coal miner that's job gets eliminated. Or the 55 year old Cobol programmer. or name your favorite current programming paradigm in a few years. Most people are paid basically enough to survive may be support a family. Also, a lot of people don't want office jobs. And just about everyone advocating for "free markets" don't want to invest in people, just assets.
Agree that you should stay away from Celery in most cases, but it does integrate well with Django, and pre-4.x is stable enough.

It's just a fairly higher amount of boilerplate and setup compared to most of the alternatives either way.
Pedestrians existed before carriages, too
According to this Bloomberg survey: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-tesla-model-3-survey..., 79.8% of Model 3 buyers strongly agree with "I will never buy another gasoline-powered car" (and 13.4% agree)
The best code is no code.
It's just another standard option. Do libraries that are compiled with std=c++14 work with application code compiled with std=c++11? What about the other direction? (I don't actually know because I do build everything from source.) You would basically just be adding a new `std=good` option.
You are absolutely right about the middlemen/women. But don't forget to mention the doctors, nurses and PAs as well (more on doctors). They have skin in the game and most of the US doctors that I've talked to aren't that keen on single-payer system. The only excuse they have is that it'll flood the system with a lot more patients (I'm sure it can be solved the same way it is solved in Canada et al.) and that the quality of care will be reduced (can't see that rationale).

About the long wait time - I waited from 11pm until 8:30am (discharge) in the morning in ER of Strong Memorial hospital one day for falling and bleeding from my nose (I thought I broke my nose, but luckily, I didn't). I should have answered my pain level was 10 instead of being truthful about it and responding 3. This is not to mention that I got charged $250 from deductibles despite having the insurance.

My sister, who lives in Rochester, NY, is waiting until May 2020 to get an appointment for yearly physical checkup. There's a significant shortage of doctors in rural areas (Rochester isn't even that rural to be honest). And yet, AMA is happily restricting the supply of new doctors by putting up multiple hurdles including exam fees (not to mention the amount of money they charge for each USMLE exam is ridiculous) and requirement to go through 8 years of education when that could have been easily reduced to just 4 for any IM (internal medicine) physician.
Slightly OT, but is getting your kids a traditional Linux laptop an option?
https://www.frys.com/ac/storeinfo/fountain_valley-location-f...
You could create some kind of news blog and include the "latest" from 10 years ago, so we can also think which ones got traction...
> That is, in a reliable control pipeline, the upper bounds on the errors of data sources are known a priori.

Now we have natural neural networks in the control loop for some reason despite their unknown error bounds. To give another example: is there a sensor for vehicle placement relative to road edges with known upper error bound, which is less than width of the road? No, we have GPS, radar, lidar, camera data that we need to interpret somehow.

A car that reliably avoids collisions (Can it, though? It needs to predict road situation to do it reliably), but can occasionally veer off the road, doesn't strike me as particularly safe.

> to be overridden by reliable control pipelines when required.

Those reliable pipelines needs to be mostly reactive. And there's a limit on what they can do. You can't avoid a collision when a car emerges from around a corner with 0.1 seconds to react. You need complex processing of those "simple" data sources to detect zones that can't be observed right now and to assess a probability of the said situation.

All in all, we already have unreliable human part in the control loop of a vehicle. A control system that is provably robust in all real world situations will be the ultimate achievement and not a prerequirement for wide use of self-driving cars.
The point isn't "just start coding". The point is to focus on the product(customer development and all) and not the tools/technologies to build the product. I have seen many more focused on the latest and greatest stack instead of using the tools they are already good at.
Microcenter is doing great, at least from the point of view of a frequent customer.

The Fry's in Plano is in a similar state to what parent comment is describing. It's an incredibly weird feeling walking thru. They've stopped restocking, so anything I remotely could use or need isn't there. What's left are things that nobody really wants. I have lots of memories growing up in that store, sad to see it like this. I definitely recommend hitting it up before the inevitable shutdown, it's quite the vibe to take in.
>> Chromebook growth has been phenomenal, full stop. There is still plenty of headroom, because the price point continues to beat phones and laptop competitors. Note also the growing success of premium Chromebooks. Classic bottom-up innovation/disruption story.

I completely agree. Both my mother-in-law and cousins (that are college age) have switched to chromebooks because of the price point to accomplish what are basic needs for most laptop users.
I had to setup a task queue in an old, resource constrained environment once. I ended up forking the client process into a worker when the queue wasn't already running. Any time we need an expensive method call to be throttled asynchronously we just have to add a decorator to it.

https://github.com/deckar01/low_queue
Right and this is true for all the other mega-mergers. It doesn't improve quality or lower costs or any of the other lies the companies promise the SEC. It does increase shareholder value and cut jobs.
The counterpoint to this argument is that there are many users who want a super-lightweight OS that is not bloated, but very high performance with long batter life. I use my Samsung Chromebook 3 for gsuite, gcloud management through the web console, linux (beta) shell based development, gcloud cloud shell, putty type chrome terminal and fairly hardcore web app testing (webgl 2.0 compute, magenta, tensorflowjs). It works phenomenally well. And I've definitely noticed a lot of Google employees using the Pixelbook as their work laptop.

Looking ahead and making predictions for ChomreOS in the 2020s. I could even see a Stadia style pipeline for more processor intensive apps. Run Creative Cloud / Maya type tools on dedicated cloud gpus. And just send the video frames to the client browser tab. I've been thinking a lot about how 5G adoption really can be leveraged to offload computation from the device and will introduce whole new classes of interactive media.
You completely dodged the question.

I'll rephrase in case I've been unclear.

How, or have, you considered that if everyone gets an extra $1k/mo that a huge swath of Americans will just spend it every month? When they spend that money it does not disappear. Some goes to taxes and gets redistributed there. Some gets taken by the service providers (grocery stores, gas stations, cable/cell companies, etc) some gets vacuumed up into the murky world of private equity, some flows into the black market, etc, etc, etc. That money keeps flowing and keeps generating tax revenue. This is economic velocity.

The question I have is how have you examined this effect and found it to be unlikely to spur an increase in quality of life for tens of millions of Americans?
Well, it doesn't have the runtime to support laziness properly.
I've been working this way for thirty years. In fact, I can't remember ever working on something that wasn't designed to ship.

Even my test harnesses are fully-qualified applications.

I remember a manager once saying "The number one feature of this product is 'SHIP.'"

Because of the nature of the companies in which I've worked, we always worked backwards from "SHIP."
How many more lines do you need if you want to capture the natural “roughness”, but you also want to guarantee some plateaus, such a for building on in a simulation game?

Or, to put that another way: what does the code in Sim City 2000’s terrain generator look like? Because it’s almost just doing this, but then it has that one extra thing...
Correct. `let` = constant binding, `var` = variable binding, and except for top-level (global) declarations they are always block scoped.

BUT, there is a gotcha: this “constantness” only applies to the name-value binding, not to the value itself. Thus you can still mutate the content of a let-bound value when that value is a class or class instance. Which kinda defeats the point of having the let/var distinction in the first place. C’s `const` may have its priorities backwards, but least it does what it says on the tin.

(And let’s not mention what a PITA Swift gets when you want to work with the contents of complex nested struct-based collections in a language that doesn’t have native pointers/references. Again, it makes C look good.)
I don’t think one can say that python is faster than ruby: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

I think the perception is there because of python’s scientific and ML libraries that have a lot of c bindings, perhaps?

Both are drastically faster than they were a decade ago, so 2010-era python or ruby are still the high-water mark.
Man, that movie is great, and yeah, it's entirely because it's about the people more than the shark.
That opinion is unpopular for good reason. A financial barier to prevent crime implies lack of petty money is the cause of the crime. You can make 10x what you said with the simplest scam targeting a few million valid recipients within a week.

Even if your solution would solve the problem, it would destroy the purpose of the system. Throwing the proverbial baby with the bath water.

If I want a phone line it costs me $10 to get a sim card from walmart. Most reputable TLDa cost a ton more.

I mean what is it with this lazy way of solving real problems. What's next, tax domain registrations? Require a government ID? How ridiculous, this is what happens when humans give up their basic freedoms to goverenments and ruling classes. By what authority are you even regulating my free speech here? If I put up a website, I am not engaging in commerce unless I sell or buy something using that site. It is the equivalent of me calling myself a name and making a speech in public and you want to charge me £1000 for the right to call myself a name or to label the soap box I stand on a name so others can distiguish me. The fact that scammers also stand in soap boxes and make false claims for profit does not magically give you, your ruling class or the goverenmen t authority to regulate soap box labels and tax speech.

Even if this has popular support, free speech is a natural right. You can police harmful/false speech retroactively but you can't inhibit speech proactively to deter a possible crime unless you can guarantee your measure affects only law breakers.
not op, but i think nurses will be able to subsitute doctors in many cases where the diagnosis comes from a fully-automated AI system. E.g. a CT scanner or blood test that prints out full diagnosis, prescription and procedure etc at the press of a button.
I spent more time doing the Snake logic than adding the soup of weird things around it to make it small.

I had the weird things lying around from when I did an EFI boot application in C# last year: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp/tree/master/ef...

I won't lie - being one of the architects of the CoreRT ahead of time compiler helped too :)
That is a good point. I was lucky to get through the recession without being laid off, but so many others were certainly not as fortunate.
Beef is BY FAR one of the least sustainable sources of food we eat. Lamb, to my knowledge, is the only thing worse, and the two are so much worse than everything else, nothing is even close.

Coconuts would be literally 100 times better than beef. Not to mention, coconut oil makes up less than 8% of the total burger. So, even if it was hypothetically worse (which it's not even close) the other 92% being exponentially better would far outweigh it.
Terragen is still going strong but it's been about 15 years since I played with it.

I remember it taking about an hour per 800x600 frame, and then we got a new computer and it only took 3-4 minutes per frame.
I agree with the underlying principle, however force on force is always a dangerous proposition, especially when it's not planned. Even without weapons it can seriously hurt a bystander (you run into a weak or child, he falls down on concrete...), and all bets are off if a gun is drawn (especially in a crowded area).
or a presidential candidacy
Right.

I plan to run my Model S into the ground, at which point I imagine the traditional manufacturers will have pulled their fingers out and I can start cycling through second hand electric Honda Civic equivalents like I did with ICE cars.
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What are blind deals?

Collusion seems unlikely between two parties. It's simply unnecessary. Adding a third competitor seems like it would resolve things.
As others have pointed out, this doesn’t work so well when you have a back seat full of noisy kids.
I'm less worried about scattering off air, than I'm worried about scattering off the thing it hits. I'd like the energy to be deposited only to the material at the focus of the device (and whatever it then convects to).

Beyond obvious military application, imagine this as an alternative to laser engravers and cutters that would need no light-absorbing enclosure and light-absorbing glasses.
Yes and there’s an analogy here between car commuters and car racers. We don’t expect “normal” car drivers to wear helmets. But professional racers absolutely wear helmets. Even in the case of commuters, a helmet could save your life in an accident. For any drivers who thinks bike commuters need helmets, I would encourage you to also get car helmets for you and your loved ones: https://www.amazon.com/RaceQuip-253116-X-Large-Helmet-SA-201...
Next Decade

1. Reinforcement learning starts working. Though the techniques required to make it work stretch today's definition of RL.

2. Mobile robotics in warehouses and big-box retail matures and reaches a tipping point where for some it is now boring and the majority of the industry has a roll-out plan.

"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented," so I'll stop there.
I'm really interested in what's considered "a bit behind the curve" as I'm pretty skeptical that slow monoliths like traditional banking, education, healthcare, and hard engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical, etc) spaces will move towards containerization ever.

If we're looking at laggards in the software delivery space around small to midsized, bootstrapped companies I would agree; but in general the spaces where serverless or containerization make sense are already doing it or are moving in that direction.

Unless you count IoT devises as a 'container' approach to hardware/firmware, then I guess some hard engineering spaces may adopt a version of it.

#2 in less certain predictions is just odd; but if it happens it would also lead to a destabilization of the housing market, essentially through attempts at price fixing on land value.

#4 in less certain predictions just seems like self-agrandizing drivel... "The smart people will leave major SNs, but most people are dumb; I'm not dumb because I am are predicting this." Reminds me of the old cartoon "I am Weasel."
>Remember that a nation works best when there is a shared culture and a shared language - these things being inseparable - which encourage unity and community.

Which nations are these? Looking at the current major world economies:

- US: Federal. Many immigrant communities. English and Spanish.

- China: Two major languages, two SARs, each with another official language. "Chinese Tapei" with Hokkien. Regional cultures I'm not familiar with.

- EU: 24 languages, made up of multiple countries many of which have multiple official or minority languages.

- Japan: Shared culture and language, stagnant economy.

- India: Barely half of the country speak the most common language.
I wonder what that means for the American Institute of Mathematics (https://aimath.org/). It is partially sponsored by John Fry.
I used to live near the Fry's in Tempe, Arizona. Even 5-10 years ago, I didn't really like going there that much. Their prices weren't that great any more, and returning merchandise was a bad experience. It was clear their best days were behind them. Amazon has been a better experience for a long time now. It was cool how you could find a lot of odd electronics items there (components, soldering equipment, wire, etc.), but you could still get all that stuff much cheaper online usually.
This is the hard truth that people leave out.

Just build the product - the purest most minimal version you can. I mean be judicious with the knife, and slice like it's going out of style. Accept it - you're throwing out 100% of the code eventually - be fine with it; it's not ideal, but you'll ship and be live. Add the analytics you need - test hypotheses. Reach out to people who drop in and drop off, they're more valuable than features.

Don't agonize over "this isn't done", "this isn't perfect" or "it needs X to be useful". Get it out, charge for users, and you'll build a sustainable business, or it will fail quickly. Sure, this may not be VC sexy - but you know what, you can build product quickly, validate or toss and idea and move along or improve, based on feedback.

This ships. It ships repeatedly. It's not perfect, it's not awesome, but it works, always.
Even given the inevitability of disagreements about which are the "good parts", I'm pretty sure this would be my "standard version" of choice if it was available.
I see used Tesla's around but I think the used market is still very small around them.

Does Tesla sell the used lease trade ins? What are people even trading in a 3 year old Model 3 for? Another Model 3?
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Once I became aware of Newegg and other online retailers, and trusted shopping form them, it was the end of Fry's for me. The Fry's close to me always had terrible products - off brand motherboards, orange stickered components, etc. For a period Fry's was my place to pick up emergency Cat 5 and other random components, but Home Depot/Lowe's sells quality product at far more convenient locations. I last visited the Renton store a few years back, hoping to find some unnecessary necessity and left disappointed. The store was under stocked and in disrepair. The general quality and quantity of goods had diminished remarkably. I was near the San Diego location a few months back with time to kill and decided it wasn't even worth it to wander around in the air conditioning for a few minutes.

Thinking back, Fry's was a perfect place to spend my teenage years - I had little money, and not enough technical knowledge to be a discerning consumer. As an adult it no longer serves its purpose - I can afford to buy higher quality goods, and have the time and knowledge to find them.
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They’re using some header-only libraries, presumably. Which, after all, is one of the only unique benefits of C++ that would lead you to choose it for a green-field project over, say, Rust. Header-only template libs + link-time WPO = inlining of template-instantiated monomorphized methods to their type-strict callers. This is the feature that leads e.g. LLVM to be written in C++.