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> The benefit is continuous zoom, but the pitfall is more server side computation and hence cost.

I haven't tested this with dynamic tiles served from PostGIS, but with static tiles served from S3 it's quite the opposite! There's an initial cost to generating tiles, but once they're generated, you can host them on S3 with zero server cost.
While I would be personally enthralled to be operating a $35k/mo business, I can only wonder if having software engineering candidates optimize for solving leetcode style problems is a meaningful differentiator for employers, or a good enough proxy for identifying candidates who will succeed in a new role. Tech jobs are too lucrative for our criteria to simply be an open corpus of ~700 memorizable problem/solution pairs. It's going to eventually become ineffective. People will memorize and then flunk on the job.

What the industry is missing is a focus on the human element, which is woefully under-assessed for. Being a good teammate and knowing how to communicate with non-immediate team stakeholders (Product Folks / UX / Quality / Management etc) is crucial.
yeah encyclopedias don't provide any guidance.

Wikipedia actually does a pretty good job of this. They have a section on the side bar for "Influences" (who influenced this philosopher and "Influenced" (who this philosopher influenced.)

Aristotle has this epic entry:

Influences: Plato

Influenced: Virtually all subsequent Western philosophy, Christian philosophy and pre-Enlightenment science (see List of writers influenced by Aristotle)

When I was in my first Philosophy seminar, our professor started off by saying, "all of western philosophy is a footnote to Aristotle."

He was a real one.

You could also google for philosophy course syllabi, but it's not always easy to know _why_ one philosopher influenced another or the significance in political theory, ethics, etc.
Yup, and the malfeasance that is Fire Rescue Victoria, with so many problems in its implementation that acts of parliament were required, and then the politicians pushed through an amended version that had had no consultation with either the Country Fire Authority or Metro Fire Brigade.

> But, according to our glorious leader, we should not worry, stay calm and watch the cricket.

Ironic, in that last I heard, several big matches were being canceled due to the weather...
You’d think that, but we pedants managed to rescue the word “ironic” at one point.
That article is utter balderdash. Yes, it's obvious that you can fit more transistors on a "chip" if you make the chip be much, much larger than what we ordinarily think of as a chip. No, it does not mean that Moore's Law has been invalidated or some new "AI Moore’s Law" (quoting from the post) has come into being.
The one that drives me bloody insane on HSBC is the text from the bank's 'security department' telling you to call them on a number that is unlisted on any web page.

I've tried to explain to them several times that they are training their customers to fall or scams, but they seem to be unable to comprehend.
> If you don't discuss the morality in class, students are likely to be strongly influenced by that morality - good or bad.

Discussing morality in school is not the same as dictating morality in school. If the governments position is these are the morals that the school system must instill in children then I have a problem with it - if not - great - have at it.

> And obviously, courses on economics or political science can't even begin to be taught without assuming certain moral or philosophical positions.

I don't see how any course in economics or political science requires the pupils to adopt any specific morals.
Real time Reddit?
Not everyone is motivated by profits. There are some very sick people out there who get their jollies from actions like this, and worse.
Ok, so you're arguing that userspace should use mutexes and not spinlocks.

Which I agree with, most of the time userspace spinlocks don't fit well.

But TFA is clearly comparing the two, and observing a variety of spinlock implementations with sched_yield() demonstrating an interesting positive effect on the spinlocks as tested.
One or two people won't make a difference. The entire policy of taxation in the US needs to change.

That's why we have government because otherwise we can't have nice things (note: in many cases that even doesn't work either but that's the imperfect system we have and need to improve - the alternatives like "self regulation" have been proven throughout history to not be scalable).
I finally saw a gas station with a chip and pin reader at the Bucees in South Texas, and my spirits were uplifted considerably. Gas stations seem to be both the ideal place to install a skimmer and the companies most dragging their feet upgrading to the tech that will eventually make card skimmers obsolete. It's frustrating how behind we are on this.
In Firefox, Wasm still uses a tiered JIT. Like JS, there is a single-pass JIT and a JIT that does more aggressive optimizations (mostly: good regalloc).

However the compilers are much simpler than the equivalent JS compilers, because wasm doesn't need on-stack-invalidation.
No. The forces on stars from galactic magnetic fields are insignificantly small.
25% of Seattle has no sidewalks, including many residential areas...

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You don't understand how agile development actually works and appear to be confused about terminology. There is no difference between a sprint and an iteration; they are two words for the same thing. A sprint is a planning cycle, not a deadline. Many other tools such as Jira or Rally work as well or better than PT. Recommend you broaden your experience.
It doesn't matter what they use. We are talking about engines themselves here, like Godot. And they shouldn't be wasting time and resources working around lock-in stupidity. Offering Vulkan for developers is the right thing to do for every platform.

I.e. targeting Switch for them aligns well with their current Vulkan work. Targeting PS or Xbox - not really, they'll need to rely on translation (like gfx-rs), if one even exists. I'm not sure if anyone implemented Vulkan → GNM translation yet.
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In most cases the cooling capacity is in fact the actual limit you are running up against. Getting more power into a rack is a simple matter of running more cable. Getting more power _out_ of the rack is a much more complicated issue to resolve.
I pick gas stations based on whether they support contactless payments.
On Mac, alowing OS Updates doesn't actually enable the download of major releases, only point releases that don;t tend to involve UI changes.
Not questioning your judgement but interested to know about the factors moving you away from Kinesis.
This isn't _necessarily_ true, doing data analysis on vector tiles allow for high parallelization. See TileReduce [0]

[0]: https://github.com/mapbox/tile-reduce
I have one of the ad supported kindles, which is perpetually in airplane mode to stop the ads.
Python is significantly more popular than Ruby. It doesn't mean that it's a better programming language, but a library for X or an example of how to do X are significantly more likely to exist for Python than for Ruby, and there are other popularity advantages like more implementations.
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Thanks for this, great article hope to see more of your work in the future.
> The old-timers on Usenet and IRC at the time thought that me and my classmates were idiots.

FWIW, my view at the time was a bit different - the normal cycle was that fresh students et al would join each year and they would either take time to learn the community conventions or they would leave. All of us were new once (indeed, I wasn't "new", but neither was I an old timer), so the issue wasn't the newcomers being idiots. The issue is that the community worked because of the conventions. We'd say "lurk for a while. Read the FAQ that I'd regularly posted. Learn how to quote and trim so many people can have manage an in-depth conversation that is spread over time and space".

Some considered this elitist snobbery and left. Others learned and stayed (and newcomers DID bring change - the conventions werent static).

But this sort of community cant survive the fast paced ephemeral connections that the eternal September brought.

What exists now is different. Better or worse? Too complex to answer. But definitely the kinds of conversations that were had then do not exist in the replacement media. They cant, anymore than the reverse could.

I'm not aware of any culture that survives integration with a larger one if that larger one has no regard for the smaller one.
Nice work flagging the answer HN.
Cista ( C++ Serialization and Reflection without macros)
That's a nice system you got in place for you there. Those worksheets of yours may be useful to someone out there. I'd consider bundling them together and selling them at a low price. Or just offer some for free to see if there's some interest, just like I shared this one.

Of course I imagine yours to be quite more elaborate and thought out probably; this one was put together in just a few minutes for a very specific and narrow purpose.

PS: ONE Thing is a great book.
Yes, which is a different threat than what was under discussion. Don't argue that we don't need seatbelts because they don't help when the driver is a kidnapper.
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I need a VoIP service that changes my voice to a grandma/pa.

They always catch on too fast with me when I pull these stunts :(
That article is hogwash. Sure, the Cerebras "chip" is impressive. But the idea that it will accelerate Moore's law and usher in the singularity is just nonsense. Nobody has even made serious efforts to use deep learning for physical design, and its scope for improving designs is limited at best even in theory.

If this was trying to aim at solid state physics and materials research, then maybe one could be carefully optimistic about a genuine breakthrough via something like room temperature, standard pressure super-conducting. As it stands, I call blind hype.
Show HN: Serverless console running on Commandeer GUI Desktop App (Animated GIF)
Whoa, there's governments that require browser extensions to work? That's terrifying (but enlightening, thanks).
an ipad goes a LONG way towards reducing problems.

Get a Logitech external keyboard for it.

I'm not just talking tech scammers. It's just harder to "mess up" the ipad for anyone.
That number probably is for entire US
The first computer language in history was bytecode language for a VM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Code_(computer_language)
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It was mostly stuff he has said in previous blog articles, so you are not missing too much.
D-Bus is not part of the problem... it is just the common bus for communication between user processes. It is in fact a very straightforwards and well implemented specification.
I use the tools at hand and if those tools are electronic I have no compunction about using them.

My ex pronounced that by day 3 of an international trip I'd be crawling up the walls wanting to check my email. Turned out I wasn't the one crawling up the walls on day 3... I abstained day 4 just to prove the point, and caved in the middle of day 5. And honestly, it wasn't that satisfying.
If that was going to be a problem, people would already be generating fake numerical data like material properties, physical constants, statistics, or whatever that's also subtly wrong. You don't need machine learning to do that.

This fear of fake information from ML misleading everyone is ridiculous and kind of arrogant. It assumes that the world is full of "other people" who are too stupid to make decisions for themselves and usually concludes that "us smart people" have to somehow control what they see to protect them from themselves. We've had fake information since forever and we've developed systems to deal with it. Citing sources, trustworthy organizations, multiple sources agreeing with each other, people pointing out mistakes, Google favoring popular sites, confirming it yourself, etc. Some fake information still gets through and it is a problem but it already happens and the world keeps turning. For casual internet searchers who don't care how reliable their information is, let them believe whatever nonsense satisfies them. They aren't trying to be right, they're just entertaining themselves.
I vouched it now, so it’s visible.
We had 10 free chargers to choose from every time we stopped, but I obviously can't say anything about the state of Tesla's charging network in your location.

Non-Tesla chargers are usually over capacity in Norway though. No manufacturers or companies have the guts to actually exploit the market dynamics here, by charging enough to get the free capacity right and building out more total capacity if a location is very profitable.

I do see your point wrt. national school holidays and other ("a few times a year") peak times, but I'm not sure this would be enough of a disadvantage to negate the positives of EVs (economically speaking) in the long term. A typical Model 3 stop will be 15-20 minutes (not 30) if you're able to stop at the right time, and some sort of peak rate could limit the demand at annual peak times if necessary. Roadside charging is only used for road trips when travelling longer than your vehicle's range, and proper EVs have a >400km range in the first place.
>If you believe that instead of giving to charity or something that the best use of your money is taxes, why would it matter if there was an official change to the tax code or not?

They're talking about solving problems on a scale of a country the size of the US. A few extra bucks from some small number of wealthy people is meaningless.
> The difference is the right has never gain power in the media

I think the koch brothers might disagree with that...

What's different is that tech has allowed a level of control never seen before, and the mob reigns supreme as a result.

It's a lot more difficult for a single entity like the koch brothers to affect the message because people now get their information from channels they can't possibly control.

But you know who can?

the tech giants. And those tech giants were founded by liberals because that's the nature of what liberals do (explore, vs conservatives who simply run things).

so what you have is tech now allows for unprecedented control and that tech was created by liberals, so you're seeing these astounding levels.

But when it sways back to the side of the conservatives, and it will, you'll watch them have the same level of control.