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And I know, bad Aussie man. Scary bad man doesn't want our form of Internet anonymous money. You seem to think that it matters all that get funding because you run round saying that I'm nasty and mean and I hurt your feelings. I'm sorry to tell you but none of that actually matters. I'm sorry to tell you that bitcoin is not anonymous and cannot be made such. It is a concept known as traceable pseudonymous transactions. If you look you will find a number of papers dating to around 1994 on this concept.

And whether you like the fact that I created bitcoin are not or whether you believe me is irrelevant. You see, when I file a patent it is independently verified and passed and granted without reference to who I may have been and what I've done in the past. I know that's a difficult concept to some of you, but every time I create something it is tested based on the merits of what I've created that time and not the laurels that I wear.

You seem to think that I'm creating another shit coin. No, I'm just freeing up bitcoin do what was meant to do. The way designed it. Not so that you can speculate, so that businesses will be able to use low fee transactions that are fast and cheap. See, in the next five years we will have transactions that process for under 1/10000 of a cent. And yes that is the correct number of zeros. It's not about a political circle jerk that comes from this fallacy of code is law (which was discredited in 2001 by Prof Timothy Wu). It is about the technology. In this is the point, while you guys circle jerk talking about how you're going to change the world with anonymous money that helps drug dealers and terrorists...

We are building something that will actually help the world.

And no, your liking me, your wanting to be aligned with me, your care as to what I'm doing matters to less extent than you could imagine.
Sure, in the same way that trying to build a ladder to the moon might eventually lead to inventing rocketry.
I'm usually not in favour of posting YouTube links in Hackernews threads, but I don't think there's been a more appropriate time to link to this [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBzetVsiQM
> It's not propaganda to say "yes, he probably deserved it".

I'm not quite sure I buy this. When you say that he probably deserved it, you're accomplishing only one thing: furthering the ideological point that the US was justified in their assassination. You're furthering a political idea that the US is doling out justice by getting this "bad man" who "was genocidal and to blame for tens of thousands of Iraqi ... killings," all while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian murders at the Americans hands. How is it not propaganda for you to be intentionally muddying the waters through selective criticism?
You're not considering AMD Epyc chips here, and Supermicro already have dual socket boards out that will take 2TB of RAM.
> Physics is littered with mathematical formulations predicting new phenomenon (forces and particles).

Sorry, I should have clarified: I mean I would spend all my days doubting the mathematics, rather than doubting the physical universe. If that makes sense? Of course all of mathematics can be argued to have a physical sort of root.
Well, actually there are infinite ways of modifying the equations and still have them compatible with current observations. Check out for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F(R)_gravity but there are many more examples with additional fields.
Unfortunately, electric universe can't explain anything, as it is not a mathematical model, and it doesn't account for the vast majority of observations successfully predicted by relativity - especially gravitational le sing and time dilation.
Is that 800g with a battery in it?! What laptop is this?
I was confused by this: "I've had to put off buying ... all laptops (mac/pc) because it appears Intel's newest CPUs are still vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre. ... A highend 13" AMD based Linux friendly laptop would be utterly amazeballs."
You are absolutely right (1) and I have no idea why people down vote you, even if they think its irrelevant.

We, here at our office desks, are quick to demand that this store or that service is open 24/7.

The guy needed a day off. Go somewhere else and get your chocolate bar.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven
I've always found it to be a rewarding challenge. Jargon is the lazy way out; anyone can invent complex and smart-sounding labels for a concept[0]. But what's the point? It's much more fun to communicate something accurately, precisely (there is a difference!), and in the way the audience can understand.

(I've found this often requires constructing a sequence of explanation - almost a kind of a narrative, that starts with an answer to the question "what are we trying to do and why do we care about it?", and is followed by introducing constraints, until it becomes obvious what the concept is, what its moving parts are, and why we actually care about it. But then again, a good analogy can cut through all that. In the article, "just like TV", that was perfect.)

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[0] - I mean, an average human is an adequate stochastic generator of surjections from words to concepts, under adequacy criterion defined as the capacity of ingroup/outgroup border delineation.
US corp, legal reasons.
I understand that r^2 is in many ways already the best thing to do. What I mean is that I would always scratch myself in doubt (sometimes literally) with something as simple as the area of a flat surface. I just mean that physics and mathematics are sometimes in spirit different.
I get spam near daily. I actually just got spam from a "new" cogent salesperson _as I was reading the ARIN pdf_. I've told them "don't contact me again" and it's a different person the next week.

It's absurd and I'm glad at least something is starting to be done.
I'm using a 13" hp envy x360 like that.
It's really good for the price although would have fanspin issues until after some bios issues. Also yeah Intel has probably tried to bribe laptop manufacturers to not provide an AMD option as another comment showed.
TCP wasn't build on IP because it wasn't scalable. It was build on it because it was.
But that aside, calling Lightning on BTC a second-layer is a bit misleading: Lightning data is not encapsulated in BTC data, more like the other way around; so Lightning is more like layer 0 and BTC layer 1 in that model. (That's also not entirely correct either but much closer)
> way better tools

I work with a group of people who all know enough git that we're productive, and a few of us know enough git to solve complicated problem.

I've not seriously considered fossil or mercurial -- what are the top three tangible benefits I'd get from them getting our team to switch?
The point is that it draws attention to Maryland, which is gerrymandered by the Dems - contrary to your claims that they'd ignore that. Why is it supposed to be "pro-Republican"?

(Nor is it the only story NPR has on gerrymandering in Maryland, by the way - merely the most recent one.)
I have a 3970X with ECC RAM and got error correction notifications in my Linux logs when I tweaked RAM timings too tight. Note that memtest86 doesn't know about ECC on Ryzen, so you may get unnotified error corrections happening if you use that.
Depends in the definition of success. Most people I know consider themselves successful when they have a nice (upward) career, nice healthy and happy family, close friends, 36 hr workweeks, vacation(s), car & house and early retirement. For instance, for programmers in, let’s say the Netherlands starting out now (today) fresh from uni, there is no worries achieving that kind of success without working like a beaten horse, ignoring your friends and family, running around an office trying to make everyone happy etc. You won’t get rich but you’ll retire comfortably and will be the envy of most (which should be incredibly unimportant to anyone, but I guess people who think ‘am I successful?’ often need some kind of measurement tool).

Advantage of this view of success depends far less on luck besides where you are born (or able to immigrate to).
That is the entire purpose of the product though. Burger patties that cater to vegetarians have been around for a long time and taste nothing like meat.
Overclocking is something I never cared about, the prospect of being forced to buy new hardware was never appealing to me.
> Microsoft's long-term stalwarts Windows and Office are dying

Judged on what metric? Office's paying monthly active users and revenues have consistently grown, measured both quarter on quarter, and year on year
> I'm scanning my memory banks and Stackoverflow is the only "earned privilege" community that comes to mind

As far as "positive earned privilege examples", some come to mind:

* HN, where downvoting requires a certain amount of karma (although there's plenty of human moderation too)

* MetaFilter [1], which has a reputation of good content due to their one-time $5 charge for signing up.

* The /r/AskHistorians subreddit, where you only get to answer once you have in-depth knowledge of a specific topic.

[1] https://www.metafilter.com/
Is there nothing you believe in that you believe so strongly about that you'd like it if everyone else has the same belief?

Nothing? Or as simple as "I loved watching X tv program, you should check it out too"? Surely there is something you promote in your life? If so, same thing. Why should you impose your tv watching habits on other people?
> Government figures show overwork was blamed for 246 claims related to hospitalization or death in 2018. The retail industry was one of the biggest sources, officials show. Another 568 workers took their own lives over job-related exhaustion.

I find it mind blowing, and pretty damning of the culture of shame in Japan that the number of work related suicides is more than double the amount of work related hospitalizations. How doesn't this get more attention?
A high resolution display is useful for more than just seeing additional things on the screen at once.
The image is crisper to me, than for a regular non-scaled display.
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I think you could write it as the ability to a diff on a binary ast without fussing too much about what the ast represents. Then you merely need to write a parser/serialiser combo for your language to the ast as a repo plugin.

Otherwise it won't just be new languages which suffer, but users of supported languages will suffer when there's an upgrade.
There are non English computer users benefit greatly from high DPI displays, especially oriental characters; and there are a lot of us.
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I think mine is a 9570.

Agreed on the switchable graphics issue. I think mine was compounded by a nouveau issue with this particular nvidia part. One fix I'd have been happy with would've been to have intel graphics always on. That matches what I do better anyway. But I could not find a stable way to do that.
Care to summarize the link for those of us who cannot open YouTube currently?
Over time you realize there are no transient states. You cannot neglect, for example, complex install just because it "happens once". Nothing ever happens just once. You will always have to reinstall, probably multiple times. So when people say the same thing about installation complexity, they are being naive.

In the same way, learning is not a transient state either. You will always have to relearn. Those impossible barriers that you eventually got through will reduce to speedbumps - but they will always be there, slowing you down. And if you don't use it enough, you'll have to relearn.

Also, be aware that once you've climbed a learning curve, at least unconsciously you are no longer incentivized to simplify it for those who come after. Why reduce the barrier-to-entry for others, after all? You got through it, so why can't they? And this is why generations of kids learn bad music theory, and generations of physicists learn bad particle names. It's important to be aware of this effect so you can counter-act it.
Before sbmm matches had a wider range of results for me. Last I played, with sbmm, matches were consistently average.

In other words. I love the idea, and the feel of overwatch which uses sbmm. However the game stacks teams to make matches frustrating.

Some games I'll be the highest rated player on the team and have an amazing game. Despite playing better than my average I will still lose skill rank points if my team loses. Conversely, I can spin in spawn for an entire match, get carried to a win and gain points. By naively averaging team vs team the fun is taken out of the game because too many factors are ignored when averaging leading to exploitable metrics. Exploitable metrics left unchecked causes a games community to splinter, shrink, and grow toxic as more players get frustrated and quit leaving behind a less savory group.
The T490's successor is going to be called T14, the T590's is the T15, and the X390's the X13, and so on. They'll probably go the "n-th generation (202X)" route for model years, as they've been doing with the X1 series. We'll see what they're going to call the AMD versions. Source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T14-X13-T490-X...
To do good engineering, you need good engineers and you need a culture of good engineering. You need an organisation and incentives that encourage doing things well.

Looking at it through a software lens - even if you do have the best people, if your project structure squeezes development time, rather than producing solid code and catching all the bugs early, you'll produce flaky code that will produce surprises down the line.

Then on top of that, such will lose some of its best engineers (because they get frustrated) and probably won't attract new good ones because they don't value them sufficiently to pay them enough.
> Mongodb also did not use fsync and was ridiculed for it, yet no one mentions this about clickhouse.

MongoDB claimed to be a replacement for RDBMS-es (which includes OLTP). ClickHouse is explicit about being OLAP-only. MongoDB also hid the fact that they weren't doing fsync, especially when showing off "benchmarks" against OLTP RDBMS-es, while ClickHouse has not tried to show themselves as a replacement for OLTP RDBMS-es.

> Clickhouse can easily add fsync, they just choose not to do it.

For good reason. It's not a simple matter of choosing one of two options. The choice has consequences: performance.
This makes me wonder whether we would be able to tell the difference between the universe getting larger and matter in the universe getting smaller.
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SIMD intrinsics are unsafe, because reaching a SIMD intrinsic not supported by the host CPU is undefined behavior (in practice usually SIGILL).
In my experience, code doesn't stay well factored unless there are technical hurdles that keep it so. That of course doesn't have to be a repo boundary, but in can be.
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That's right. The Git CLI is the default Git UI.

A better Git UI is possible, like Gitless. A GUI that just has the functionality of the Git CLI doesn't solve the problems I care about, like the staging area being unnecessary and complex.
> (...) the security of the BTC chain will plummet.

Nitpick here, but what will happen is that the cost of mining blocks will outweigh the revenue of selling its fees. This means that miners will at some point decide to stop mining bitcoin. If this happens abruptly, that would cripple the network for a while, since the difficulty adjustment function would not be able to adjust the difficulty in time. If the move is not sudden, but a progression over months/years/decades, that wouldn't cripple bitcoin.

If miners stop mining bitcoin, that doesn't immediately make bitcoin less secure. The hardware might be used to mine other chains, or could just be binned. If a single entity wanted to perform a 51% attack, she/he would need to buy up a lot of discarded hardware without notice.

A reduction of global hash power isn't a security issue per se; it is a multi-variable problem.
Comment from a tractor-owning friend:

That's a very good piece capturing a lot of the issues (esp GPS retrofitting which is easy and make a huge difference).

The one thing it doesn't quite draw out is that the market has segmented. If you are a small to mid farmer you have fairly low demands for horsepower and can tolerate small breakdowns you can fix in the field. So buying an older machine makes sense.

If you are a big farmer or a contractor (person with a big tractor/combine/machine who hires out) you need high horsepower and 18 hour a day operation without breakdowns. as in fleet purchasing for trucks they have rolling finance for high capital value kit to replace it every couple of years having run up high hours.

The modern electronic high power kit is quite amazing, it's not gratuitous use of electronics. Electronics also important for meeting modern emissions regs.

Tractors, as the piece points out have to be ultra rugged for field work and that means that the older stuff does last well and 100hp or over will get you a long way.
Dutch subsidies for EVs have changed and are now being reduced year by year starting this year. There was an increase in EV purchases last year to get the maximum subsidy.
Well, according to the FTC and Google, adding the video to YouTube Kids means never getting your video recommended or added to playlists, no comments or subscriptions, and no ad revenue. Who would want that?
This is an amateur project of my friend, and we're appreciate that you have provided so much useful opinions and thoughts of this project. We will take care and consider your delightful view carefully.

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I can't say I experience any preaching by vegetarians/vegans. Perhaps I see the odd advert on a website or TV, or occasional news articles but the vegan/vegetarian friends/associates I have, never have them preaching at me.

Where is everyone hanging out that vegans and vegetarians are constantly pestering them? And, if you're being honest to yourself, is it really an issue in your life?
Most of these points are fair, but:

> Now that goroutine needs to be closed, then you end up with an additional close channel

Goroutines that just map values or similar will usually share a context with some other goroutine and can therefore reuse that context's close channel.
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Oh, pmail <3

My personal anecdote: In 1994, I was a junior PC/Novell sysadmin in the Israeli Airforce headquarters in Tel-Aviv (as part of my mandatory military service). Generally speaking, security was kind of a big deal, but somehow there was a copy of pmail running around, and it became the de-facto standard internal email communication tool across the entire airforce headquarters (and probably beyond?). I remember later even plugging it via SMTP into one of the mainframe systems, so we could send and receive messages from pmail to the mainframe.

I doubt the author got paid for all those copies, but he definitely deserved to be paid generously for it. pmail was simple and just worked. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember the joy of using it even now.
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It doesn't nearly go all the way there though. Why do people need to use a command line and a gui tool (usually) for git? Because it's fundamentally not written to be used with a GUI. That I think is one of its biggest flaws. Using a GUI with git always feels like you are missing vital information and just trying to poke a cli underneath to do what you want.

Some design decisions also shine through like "no branch is more important than any other branch" which is completely mental considering how people actually use git.
> Because our customers have come to rely on our stores to meet their needs and their schedules, all 7‑Eleven stores operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, where allowed by law.

That is straight from the FAQ on their franchise site, so they do think it is part of the brand - despite the history of their name, which I'll admit I didn't know - and thank you for the TIL moment.

https://franchise.7-eleven.com/franchise/faq
Google Search Appliance was used by thousands and thousands of big corporations - so to say it didn't get much traction is not correct. For many years it was the defacto solution for enterprise search solutions.
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Does it mean people buy Mac Pros because MacOs cannot run inder vm?
I'd say that scaling up is exactly the benefit of a HiDPI display; if you don't you keep the same crappy low resulution rendering, only in smaller size!
What if you need to version them? Git imposes a very specific versioning model: version is a property of the entire repository. Thus, not including some file in the repo implies that it's not versioned in the same manner. It's not just a function of binary vs source.
Preventing bugs with soundness is not necessarily the best, and certainly not the only, way to reduce bugs. You can reduce bugs by making code easier to read (code review has been empirically shown, time and again, to be the most effective, in terms of cost/benefit, bug reduction technique), and by making code faster to write and to compile, thus leaving more time for tests and other verification techniques.

If sound elimination of bugs were the best way to write programs, we'd all be writing in Isabelle, Coq or Idris, except even those of us who do -- in fact, especially those of us who do -- know that it's not the best way to write programs.
Not to be snarky, but do you know what a 'franchise' is? I mean it seems from your comments in this thread that that would take away a lot of the confusion. This man is not an 'employee'.
Those graphs looks like confirmation bias. First of all pay as you go model is not a simple equation. Most of the time you will cross multiple boundaries and cost will raise in exponentially way (multiple stories how 30$ changed to 3k$). Secondly there is another bias when CTO has totally different point of view here are the pain points are. Thirdly, business guy loves to buy product of the shell to optimize development time where most of software development methodologies present this period as 20% cost of whole project (most of cost is located in maintenance (bugfix, alternations, new features). So after quick release this off shell product most of the times it will limit further grow by some limitation/cost of usage or missing feature.
Given how little most managers actually care about creating a great workplace, I'm not surprised things like "you can't make them care" are assumed to be true.

In a great workplace, people start to care. They feel pride over their workmanship and social responsibility with other employees. (In general. As always, there are outliers that need to be handled differently, but they're a small minority.)
e.g. -- fossil.

This is exactly the issue with it: its author(s) lament that git has not all of these things integrated, but they are ignoring that this is exactly why fossil cannot gain a wider adoption.

It has opinions about how the team and the project should be run / managed / documented. This is not for the tool dev to have these opinions