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> if they're not hiring then I can only imagine they're starved for funding

The overall context is a government that has been openly antagonistic to the NHS for at least a decade, pushed for disastrously expensive "privatisation by stealth" efforts [0][1][2], and is now effectively trying to outsource the digital side of NHS operations to private companies [3]. Strategically starving certain departments is par for the course.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/04/gp-local-nhs...

[1] https://the-probe.co.uk/blog/2019/12/hancock-urged-to-halt-n...

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1322

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Health#Matthew_Hancock

(and many, many more sources if you really need them...)
Faith is a personal construct to help people cope with the vast desolation of life in the universe. Nabokov's "the cradle rocks above an abyss" and all that.

Religion is an exploit of faith to allow power to beget more power, just like any other "isms" like capitalism, fascism, socialism, etc etc.
The layers are fun, but without some form of linking between elements and layers, it becomes hard to figure out what relationship there is between them.

I'd also enjoy a slightly easier way to link things. Having to drag an arrow from the sidebar to the field, then manually link the two points is quite slow. Normally these systems have a sort of handle when you've selected something that allows you to make a new arrow to another item.
This is false. I'm friends with many people across many companies, and we all openly share salary information, including RSUs. The numbers are fairly close, there's no way it's off by half. The biggest difference is Netflix, I would have expected them to be higher. Their biggest difference is they pay cash, and the culture is either you fit in and are extremely happy, or you're terrified of getting fired and you are within less than 6 months.

This is the biggest difference between now and 15-20 years ago. Before it used to be a secret but now everyone shares the data.
There are definitely lessons for software makers. Slack had this. Great custom emoji support. Just enough Markdown support. Many other little things that just work. Their recent “rich editor” changes are universally reviled at my company. Even our non technical staff hate it. It took them like 5 minutes to learn old way and they used it fine. This would be analogous to something like adding a feature to gas pumps that slows everyone down or leaves you feeling vaguely annoyed because you made me go through too many screens at the pump.
Fair enough, if replacing that complex of a stack with Python/Makefile/cron is even possible, then it's over-complicated and you can refactor the complexity away. Unless of course you will soon need to implement a feature that requires bringing back in that whole stack. But I suppose this is why hindsight is a valuable asset when you get a project in maintenance mode, as you can see where the peak complexity of the project actually ended up being.
Getting rid of our lawn and growing other stuff has been amazingly fulfilling. I have fresh produce most of the year, I've got honeybees and bumblebees and mason bees coming around. I have to do a lot less maintenance, and when I do it's more varied and interesting.

Everything from fruit trees to berries, flowers to vegetables, herbs to herbal teas like chamomile.

Strongly recommend looking at what will grow in your area and start replacing your lawn. Chunk out a four by four foot section and grow some sugar peas and tell me it wasn't a thousand times more rewarding than a lawn.
In Dercuano there is a simple program compared in C, assembly, Python 2, and ANS Forth, in the note “Forth assembling”, p. 3326 of the PDF. Is that what you're looking for?

Myself, I'd probably try writing a recursive-descent parser before anything else in that case. For generating CSV I might have a word quote? which tells me if a string will need quoting, a word quoted which emits a quoted field, a word unquoted which emits an unquoted one, a word comma which emits a comma, and a word record which emits a CRLF.

But I'm not a competent Forth programmer, and I think neither is anybody else commenting here.

I'm willing to try the exercise if you want to give me a text format.
Yeah, that was a bit nuts but TBH most weekends at the time were pretty darn busy. I'm talking the whole store being mall promenade busy. It was all very energized and felt like the place to be if you were interested in tech hardware.
You have to ask yourself: Do people join FAANG companies because they feel those are the places where they'll get most challenged, and where they're able to develop their craft to the fullest extent

OR

Is it because they know the experience is worth its weight in gold on a resume, for any future endeavors - very much like how going to HYPS schools will open up doors which remain locked up for others.

In any case, I think you will get a bunch of both. Some talented devs that think too highly of said companies, some type-A go-getters that just want to put in their 2-3 years, etc.

I know its entirely possible to end up at the "best" companies in the world, and still get disillusioned. Hell, a lot of people don't even hold the same interests after 5-10 years. Things change, and being trapped in some place due to inactiveness can slowly eat you away. Doesn't help that you may fall victim to sunk-cost fallacy after a couple of years, where you feel too invested to leave, but too indifferent to take charge.
I wish Kotlin wasn't effectively a single IDE language. I tried the eclipse plugin but it was only barely usable. For this reason I currently prefer Scala and Groovy but both of those have their own drawbacks. I do probably like the language syntax of Kotlin most of all (though lacking array and map literals is a huge pain). I wish someone would rewrite Groovy with static typing / type checking being the default and the Kotlin syntax for expressing nullable / non-nullable type declarations.
... and is quite a funny statement. If "our" engineers dont "complain", then someone is not listening. Or you have really bad company culture / recruiting / engineering. The DUTY of engineer is to complain to bussiness decisions as they are quite frequent orthagonal to what does make sense to do and in which order.

Make sockets as first priority and then write tcp stack as "unneeded"/postponed is quite frequent from a bussiness standpoint. Not complaining about situations like this is just hurting the bussiness.
I would say you could get it, but loading up a Lisp image doesn’t give you it for free. Folks (like yourself!) need to build actual applications in CLIM, or better yet, an operating system whose UI is driven by something like CLIM.
Furthermore they are a pesticide that often targets food sources like dandelions and clover.
If that's "reasoning" then the Emperor's New Clothes are a three-piece suit made entirely out of buttonholes.
I agree with all of this except the last sentence, which I entirely disagree with.

The gap between elites and non-elites is growing, and as a result, the value of breaking into the social circles of the wealthy and "legacy" students who dominate elite schools is also growing.

Meanwhile, high-quality educational content is becoming more widely available - often published for free by those same elite schools - so the value of the education itself is approaching zero. (For some programs, notably elite MBA programs, the value of the education is basically zero already and has been for some time.)

If a course is taught by a TA or adjunct who barely speaks the language in which it's conducted, rather than by the distinguished professors whose names are on the department website, that's an annoyance, but all it costs you is some time on Khan Academy or Coursera to learn the material on your own. Your well-connected classmate who introduces you to a hiring manager or angel investor will have a much larger impact on your life.
Why do lawns even factor into the equation when the reality is that industry, farms, etc. own the majority of all water usage? I live in a desert area and hate seeing lawns watered in the middle of the summer but its impact seems trivial.

Agriculture is a major user of ground and surface water in the United States, accounting for approximately 80 percent of the Nation's consumptive water use and over 90 percent in many Western States.[0]

Households only make up a small percentage of the total water consumption worldwide[1].

Recommendations to cut foods that require an inordinate amount of water per calorie are probably better served(if you care about freshwater consumption) and it appears the simplest way to reduce this would be to cut out bovine meat.[2]

[0] - https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/ir...

[1] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/water-in-water-ou...

[2] - https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/product-water-...
Yosef Kreinin is a smart guy and a good writer but probably not a reliable authority on Forth.
I'm willing to relocate for better pay so that I can afford nice things.

I want to have a place where I have room for a chicken coop (30 chickens) and a 1-acre fish pond. I'm willing to commute by car for a maximum of 15 minutes. A slightly longer commute might be OK if I can afford to commute by horse and the employer doesn't mind.

Which tech hub should I move to?
All of those you list as doing something meaningful can multiply their efforts if only there's a good software developer upstream from them.

Software developers invent the tools and environments that enable other people to do more efficient work. Sometimes it enables entire classes of meaning work that weren't possible before. How can that not be meaningful?

For better or worse, everything is driven by software these days. All work is, directly or indirectly, powered by software. Being in software is like the most meaningful thing you can do.
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Can you provide any evidence that diabetes precedes dietary changes?

My understanding is that there’s a pretty clear well-understood progression from obesity to pre-diabetes (which is measurable in terms of resting blood glucose, but usually not symptomatic) to diabetes. Insulin resistance is also reversible to some extent via dietary changes.

So I am having difficulty understanding how it could be that diabetes would proceed dietary changes in this scenario.
Or just open task manager and see if it's using all the free memory?
The way I configure Firefox is, I have two files in Firefox's installation directory: (1) /pref/local-settings.js, which tells Firefox to load (2) /firefox.cfg, where all my actual settings are.

Is this what they're thinking of removing, or something else? I'll be pretty pissed off if they remove that. It's the only way I was able to switch the Firefox—the browser has far too much cruft by default, I need a very easy way to take it all out on any new machine.
There are, in various stages of experimentation.

Haskerl, a subset of Haskell for the BEAM VM.

Alpaca, a version of ML.

A Purescript BEAM back end.

An Idris BEAM backend.

See https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages/blob/master/README...
There is Gleam.
Or finding the right team within!
PostScript is really a lot more like Lisp or Smalltalk than Forth. It has GC, blocks for control flow, local variable binding, symbols, mandatory bounds-checking, type-safety, and exception handling. Forth conscientiously abjures such things, and uses compile-time metaprogramming instead in some cases, which is possible in PostScript (and used routinely for raster image data) but less flexible.

However, PostScript not only passes arguments on the stack, it exposes things like the compiler machinery in ways that are more typical of Forth than of the high-level languages it draws so much from. So I feel like it has some Forth inspiration, in the same way Python is influenced by SNOBOL or BASIC.

Nowadays I've mostly given up PostScript in favor of SVG and Reportlab, sad to say.
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Bash and Python are effectively the same age. Python is 30 years old and Bash is 31.
i've seen some really good ones in my neighborhood.

it does require maintenance but choosing the right plants can do wonders
Sounds like somebody hasn't read Koopman yet.
Which city is this? I've only ever heard of rules like this coming from HOAs.

Are you claiming that you're not allowed to plant trees or a native ground cover?
> You could retire at 35 and not have to work for the rest of your life.

Why does everyone on this site want to “retire by 35”? I don’t know anyone who retired (or plans to retire) at 35. Besides, hand-waving about “basic financial literacy” aside, doing so would require living like a broke college student from age 22 to 35, and then moving to an RV in Nebraska to live out the rest of your natural life in “retirement”. What the fuck is the point?
I am not sure how to answer your question because different things work for different people.

For myself, I like eBooks because it is easy to occasionally hilight especially useful or inspiring bits of text, then months or years later, I can review a book by just looking at the stuff I hilighted and this triggers my memory.

Also, some books really have inspired me (e.g., reading Bertram Raphael’s Mind Inside of Matter changed the whole course of my career) and it just makes me feel good to have the really important books on my book shelf.

Also, don’t forget to use your local library for both physical books and you can check out eBooks.
That is a consequence, not the intention.

I don’t see how you can avoid street canyons otherwise.
If it’s something highly technical it may matter, but if it’s a book it might not. I remember very few of the details of the books I’ve read but tbey’ve certainly shapes and refined my thinking. Each book is like a coat of primer and every once in awhile some idea will crystallize.
They're not edited often because they're hard to edit. Many times webpack issues just get deferred or ignored because no one has the time to investigate them.
Women find men with more money to be more attractive. It isn't the only factor, but it is a significant factor like for example height.

> "A man can move himself two points higher on the attractiveness scale we used if his salary increases by a factor of 10," study author John Speakman told The Times.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/01/women-are-more-...
Yes - sorry you are technically correct (the best kind of correct!), but you can fully opt out of having your spoken commands recorded and reviewed. That was the point I was making.

I don’t know if that’s possible with the other players. None of them have showered themselves in glory but Apple’s track record has been generally positive.
Holism has become something of an abomination.

When Jan Smuts coined the term [1], he was unfortunately at a too immature scientific stage to pave the way for a careful and thorough academic field of study. Moreover, due to his political full time occupation he never got to the stage of forming a precise idea of what he wanted his book to be about. I personally think that his book should have been a fine ecological assessment rather that a somewhat philosophical treatise.

But to answer your question, I think absolutely they are able to provide such advice, with the limitation that it would be holistic in a small and specific context. For example, recently a scientist commented to me that wildebeests being replaced by cattle (wildebeests are not endangered) does actually not negatively affect the microbial biodiversity. But the comment was about specific biomes in a specific area. When you move from grasslands to bushveld, then cattle have a side effect of stimulating the growth of sekelbos [2].

The way I take it, Holism and Evolution was Smuts's response to Darwin's work and in a more ideal world, Smuts's work could have been a nice addition to On the Origin of Species. Smuts's main observation was that the whole is often "greater than the sums of parts". I lament the lost opportunity, but this kind of idea even occurs in pure mathematics. That is why you take transitive closure when you take the union of two or more equivalence relations.

In the ecological context, what he essentially meant is that two species in isolation from each other, as a whole, has a smaller ecological impact than those same two species living interactively.

I have not read his book, but I understand it to be (in the scientific formulation sense) unfinished.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism, first sentence
[2] https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekelbos
What do you think the largest crop in the US is?

Hint: Turf grass.

Figure all the land used to grow lawns plus all the land used to grow grass seed plus all the land to grow sod... It's absolutely staggering amount of land, whole integer multiples of the land we use for corn or any other irrigated crop.
Basically the network query is done before the computing tasks, the network remark is very true.
I don't know cpp, only java php and js but I know I need to learn a new one for this task, I'm just wondering which one.
> Software engineering just isn't that hard.

That doesn't even make sense. Software engineering is using software to solve problems. How hard software engineering is depends entirely on the problem you are trying to solve.
It doesn’t sound like the suggestion was made on the basis of water usage. Full quote FTA:

> “Get rid of your lawns,” she said. “Lawns are total biological deserts. It’s just grass with pesticides. The way it’s grown does not support a lot of biodiversity.”
With no or self-sustaining offspring, you can retire on $US2M in savings just about anywhere in the world; not silicon valley and a handful of similar locations. Most of the world, including many places you would consider holiday resorts and amazing places to live, is quite achievable if you stay away from boats, fast cars and gambling. Its how people doing the same job in other cities get by earning half as much.
Or it is a consequence of things that come with burnout like anxiety.
Bits and bobs run on top of pure azure, and some infra is definitely shared, but anything cloudy that came up around the same time as or before azure (like Bing and o365) used and for the most part still uses their own data centers and deployment tech.
I have a hard time resisting the temptation of ROT >R myself at times, and it's true that I never pass arguments to the wrong function in C, while in Forth I do. Even assembly is less bug-prone in my experience. But I think there's probably a there there that I don't fully understand, and I want to.

Sometimes I wonder if Forth would be better off with no stack manipulation words. If you really need to swap, after all, you can X ! Y ! X @ Y @. Chuck left SWAP out of the x18 in the end.
This looks cool. What’s the extension/language/customization mechanism?
If you're after golang-style concurrency in python, I suggest looking at gevent.

It uses "greenlets" - lightweight threads implemented in userspace - and monkey patches the standard library to do cooperative multitasking. For example, when you call socket.recv(), under the hood it will register with the event loop to be woken up when that socket is readable, then yield to allow other greenlets to run while it waits.

(note this is slightly different to golang's concurrency, which works similarly but runs multiple OS threads so multiple goroutines can run at the same time)

The equivalent to "go fn(1, 2, 3)" in gevent is "gevent.spawn(fn, 1, 2, 3)". Any callable can be spawned this way, you don't need to pre-register functions as "startable" like in OP's library.
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Creators need to figure out how to get paid before their works are created. Perhaps patronage via services like Patreon is the way to go.

If we keep relying on copyright, we'll eventually lose everything that makes computers great. Copyright infringement is trivial because we own our machines and have full control over the software that runs on them. Governments and the copyright industry are growing increasingly hostile to the idea that citizens should be able to run whatever software they want. Therefore, maintaining the illusion that information is scarce is fundamentally incompatible with the freedoms envisioned by Stallman's licenses, especially the latest versions.

This API copyright issue also threatens competing free software implementations of proprietary APIs. Projects like Wine should be directly affected by the court's decision.
you are the minority.
Neither is South Africa. Their standard of living (in the right areas) is probably comparable.
From the Ars Technica Article:

Did Oracle infringe Amazon's copyright here? Ars Technica contacted Oracle to ask them if they had a license to copy Amazon's S3 API. An Oracle spokeswoman said that the S3 API was licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. She pointed us to the Amazon SDK for Java, which does indeed come with an Apache 2.0 license.

I only brought up the Apache licence, because the article we are talking about, brings up the Apache licence.
I’m working on both those things right now. Thank you for the feedback!

In general I wanted to see if people were receptive to this format of diagram before sinking more time into features, because there’s just no stopping point to diagramming features. Now that the concept has gotten some validation, the diagramming tool itself is going to be getting a lot better real soon. I’ll post updates here: https://twitter.com/terrastruct
phone it in while starting other businesses. Work on developing enough passive/semipassive income streams to replace your full time job.

Follow your passions.
For those interested, there is a nice Vim plugin for R called Nvim-R.
Telecommunications engineers produce the worst naming schemes and acronyms of anyone, anywhere.

Any cellular document is a mishmash of alphabet soup: UTRAN, UMTS, PS-CN, SGSN, RNC, RNS, eNodeB, EPC, MME, S-GW, X2-AP, S1, GTP-U, HSDPA, HSUPA, RRC, PDCP, RLC, OFDM, MU-MIMO, and on and on ad infinitum.

You'd think the marketing people would at least get the public-facing stuff right, but they've likely been tainted by association with the engineers.
The post they are replying to says "I don't understand oracles position here" and the comment explains it succinctly and factually - how does it not add to the conversation?
> What's sad is dandelions are neither ugly

as lawn owner, i like the flowers, and abhor the dense wad of ugly they leave behind after seeding, which in my experience actively displaces the grass that was trying to grow there.
> Knuth thinks machine learners are not geeks

I don't like games of telephone. Do you have a particular point in the video where Knuth says this? It will help to hear what Knuth says with his argument before I make a counterpoint (or maybe even agree with him).
Somehow I don't think that truck is "trapped".
Incidentally this frustration with Kaldi is exactly why we made the Persephone ASR project in Python: https://github.com/persephone-tools
> I wonder if scamming is actually a symptom of a successful marketplace.

For new marketplaces the risk and reward are pretty low. For mature marketplaces the reward is much higher and the risks probably vary based on your home country.

The ideal for a scammer is probably a site with good enough security to remove most scammers but not good enough to remove you.