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If you're standing on a beach at mean tide...

What's "mean tide"? Wouldn't it be different around the world depending on the position of the moon (and the Sun..) relative to your location? The lowest tide (neap tide) is when the effect of the Sun and the moon partially cancel one another out, and the highest tide (spring tide) is when the Sun and Moon line up and add their effects on the tidal range.

Sea level sucks as a baseline.
You got point in your scenario it is just convinient (it still prevents fingerprinting) In mine it mixes 5 people search, is using proxy that goes over vpn to shared ip on other side of europe. And it agregates results, sorts them by results on multiple search engines not just one.
My impression was that the article is about intermediate rounding between calculation steps, rather than about printing a number to the screen.
I didn't know about that, thanks
Why is nearly 100% of all articles from techcrunch ? feels like some concerted effort to generate ad revenue
I'm quite familiar with the process and I believe it's entirely possible.

You will need to run foundry DRC decks, but the company you're taping out through will do this for you (I presume that you're not big enough to deal with TSMC directly). This is because a design that fails DRC could actually break other people's chips if you're sharing a wafer.

Of course if you really want to know that it'll work you need to also run foundry LVS and stimulate corners with foundry spice models and foundry PEX. But if you're gutsy you could skip this, if you believe you've put enough margin into your PDK corners.

Certainly there is zero need to redraw your transistors. Transistors are transistors, a few layers (od, poly, contact, implant, ...), there's no magic, no magic sauce. The foundry wants an SVG with overlapping rectangles (of some minimum size), nothing more.
The problem with this argument is that big tech companies make ridiculous margins that are not necessary for their businesses to be sustainable.

People can afford to fund good online services at the level of google search (for example), but they can’t afford to make google wildly profitable.

That’s fine with me, it’s just VC culture and SV that has a problem with it.
I don't get math expressions example at all. One thread modifies one value, so there is no (mutability) problem to solve.

You have customers' orders to buy items. One last item remains at your store. You accept one order and update HEAD. You accept another order in parallel and follow to merge. "Merge" here means that you need to return money to the customer and send out an apology e-mail.

More cumbersome than locking, isn't it? But possible, yes.
If you are in EU you can send them GDPR request, for who are they sharing with and request for deletion. For states, i doubt you have any choice.
Depending on what `a` is, it certainly could mean something. Those are two expressions, where `f` by itself does nothing and, if `a` is a function, it will be applied to `b`. If `a` is a macro it will be transformed, and then depends on what it will be transformed into. If `a` is neither, then it's an error.
BASIC, then C and C++ with some ASM (embedded systems), then Java (android apps), then Python, then node & PHP & js/html/css, as proficiencies. Smattering of other things as "have useds", inc. clojure, R.

Interestly, it's the contrary to what you've inferred. Last time I talked about this topic in person, one of the typical mid level language snobs loudly and obnoxiously declared "PHP is a shit language, a really shit language", with the typical arrogant dismissive tone.

But as all experienced devs know, you program _into_ the language, not with the language. The more opinionated the language, e.g. Java and it's traditionally zealous adhesion to OOP and obstruction of other paradigms like functional, the harder it is to do that.

Hence the reason I like PHP is because it's the opposite of the weak minded (who make up their mind of "the one true way", based on little, and stick to it come hell or high water), and instead it leaves it up to you, to program _into_ as is fit for the project.

Plus the fact that it's interpreted, which acts as a good barrier to the premature optimizers. And the fact it's been around so long that it dominates the internet so there's no shortage of work in it.
I agree, but a reminder to not allow evil companies like Facebook to take away our optimism. Just because they didn’t make the world a better place does not mean a better world cannot be made. What it does mean is their funding and business model probably isn’t the right way to go if you’re still an optimist.
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Hey, author here, thanks for the feedback! :)

Re the AMI - yes you could use a data block, but that would immediately apply the latest version of an AMI when executing terraform, leading to unreproducible builds. Zeitgeist instead would just notify you that a new image is available, but let you control when you choose to deploy it, for example once you’ve confirmed that the new image passes all your tests in a dev environment.

(And if the AMI is for an individual EC2 instance instance rather than an ASG, you’ll have to plan downtime while the machine reboots with the new AMI, so a data block can be pretty dangerous there)

Re Terraform itself; where you’re running it is irrelevant - it needs to be kept up to date somehow. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, some of these updates (like 0.11 -> 0.12) need to be carefully planned and managed... and how would you do that if you don’t know updates are available :)
Perhaps one reason is competitive differentiation. When everyone is carrying the same generic items, price becomes the main factor. Liquor stores generally fight in that space. For neighborhood grocery stores, eye-catching and better quality produce and meats can be a draw for customers.
Its only the main timeline that has these "features", so if use lists, you get a feed free of "suggestions"

Its also a great way to organise your timeline by subject.
There weren’t reading drills - it was just a constant activity. Any time we were out, they’d be pointing at signs and nudging me through sounding them out. I think the first word that I got the hang of reading was “garage” - it fascinated me that both g and a had two totally different sounds in a short word, and I probably saw it dozens of times a day around HK. At home I’d sit under the stairs painstakingly decrypting large print picture books. I’ve since applied the same technique to the Cyrillic, Arabic, and Japanese (Kanji+Kana) alphabets, and while I can speak nothing in any of those scripts well, being able to read them is unbelievably useful - and it was purely reading signs, menus, any simple printed information, and repeating until I was reading and pronouncing, if not understanding, confidently, if not well. To be honest, large print picture books probably would have helped. The other drawback of this approach to language is that one ends up with a somewhat archaic lexicon, and some stunning mispronunciations. I am in my mid 30s and still occasionally realise that I have been saying a common word incorrectly for my entire life - “origin” is the most recent example that springs to mind.

Hyperlexia - the term first crossed my path around eight or so, and struck and strikes me yet me as odd, insofar as it doesn’t define any special characteristic other than early and persistent reading. “Curious” is perhaps a better, if broader, moniker - and I guess if there’s one thing that underpins my parents’ entire pedagogical approach it was the imbuement of wonder into the world - everything was a mystery to be solved. They usually couldn’t give me answers, as they were young and unworldly, but they would answer my questions with a Socratic “what do you think?”, which would usually prompt me into going and reading something that might shed some light, or reasoning out the answer using my extant precepts.

So... while their focus might have been almost myopically on reading, it might not have worked had I been such a willing participant, and exposed to many, many things that made my infantile mind whirl.

Don’t get me wrong, I had crappy parents, like most people - but they got something really right in my early engagement with the printed word, whether advertently or serendipitously. It even meant that when my kid sister came along, while I was seven, that they were off the hook, as I wanted to read to her, and share this incredible world of words with my sibling - and she too was devouring books at an early age, stealing dog-eared Victorian adventure novels from my shelves - and yet her early years were far less experiential than mine, growing up in sheltered British suburbia rather than the neon-lit sweat-drenched riot of crass commercialism and swineherds, both literal and figurative, that was Hong Kong. She likewise was ahead at school, is knowledgeable about the world, has forged a path less trodden - so perhaps the early reading bit remains more important than the direct environment - after all, a good book is as good as a time machine and teleporter, and can take you anywhere.
How does "infringed on the Tetris Company's copyrights by replicating elements such as the playfield dimensions and the shapes of the blocks" fall under protecting the brand?
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Thread on new coronavirus reproductive rate from Harvard epidemiologist
Nothing like this is going to happen. Google Search is leaps and bounds ahead beyond anything else. And Google Assistant on top of this makes it even more effective. This was a mistake by Google and they heard the feedback and corrected it.

MySpace analogy doesn't make sense since there is no Facebook, which was a competent social network, here. Search is a massive investment and you don't just have random companies suddenly rising taking over the users. Duckduckgo itself uses Bing Search as its backend.
Wut...? Vscode is “eating” the cheapest end of the market, where they were present (with the Community editions) but not seriously competing.

They are fine. Their financials are sound and they are plenty profitable. Their real threat is Github and similar services, who try to persuade users that they don’t need an IDE at all. Hence why they’ve come up with a collab alternative that they presented with great fanfare. Imho they should just buy gitlab and integrate with it a bit better.
> As if they didn’t know users would hate it.

i'm going to admit: not only do i love favicons in search, i've sent countless emails and replied to various tweets with the need, even requirement, to add favicons in search.

it helps me find what i'm looking for much much faster.
Why search wikipedia through DDG? Use address bar search shortcuts. In firefox any website search bar can be assigned a shortcut by right-clicking it. These shortcuts for wikipedia, HN, maps, powerthesaurus, reddit and others makes for ~80% of my searches.
I always use this approach for my E2E tests. This way I test the backend as well as the frontend. Harder to setup properly though.
Would love to hear comments or questions on this.

We've just launched and would welcome early users for feedback - shoot an email to: hello@cogsquared.com and we'll get you started.
Criticism thread here:
https://twitter.com/MCBazacoPhD/status/1220954874080305153
> L7 repeated downloads of high-file-size content to consume your budget rapidly.

How an one protect against this type of attack?
> I would argue that financial math by definition needs to be accurate to the penny. Where is "pretty close" financial calculations considered acceptable?

Computing tips, from the standpoint of a customer paying the tip.

Saying "pay 20%" isn't precise to begin with, in that you will not use fractional cents to make it precise, so having a tipping granularity a bit larger than a penny is also acceptable, particularly in jurisdictions where there is no one-cent coin (or equivalent) in any event.
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This worth reading - a serious and interesting write up.

I'm concerned by the language around how the economy works here "that suggests that the market expects..." The market doesn't expect a thing - the market is made of a herd that flocks from shiny thing to shiny thing. It's not a rational system and modelling it as such is surely completely debunked at this point?

Also the section on regulation is narrow; the responses cited - putting managers in, licensing a regulator to check outcomes - are weak and old fashioned. Two fundamentals are not mentioned; first an investigative and proselytizing enforcement agency as per areospace that can identify specific routes to failure and then communicate them to the professional and business actors. Secondly professions in the sense of proper engineers who are personally liable and insured and required for the use of the technology (brew what you like in your room, but if you use it on people then prison beckons). Third process and infrasturture that is required for use and that no professional would contemplate life without (like design drawings and stress analysis in engineering).

The section on the political economy of AI is interesting, it put me in mind of the latest William Gibson book "Agency" in there there is a quote - something along the lines of "at the boundary of unauthorized military research and the most reckless kind of commercial use" describing the origination of an AI. The framing and narrative of the book is much more plagent and potent than the literature of economic analysis; the data and logic of the economists so far are not as convincing as fiction and polemic. If I was an economist I would be concerned by that.
Boredom for me is to be in a place where nothing can be changed, everything has its place.
We allow a lot of customization both at work and home and I find that extremely satisfying to keep my mind "free". I mean you could be bored because you don't have any possibilites and be bored because you're tired of being creative where the first is bad and the second good.

Time moves past me and I don't have control so I tend to have a lot of discussion or random thoughts about stuff that I see, which annoy the living soul out of some other people. I think that if we let control over time go a bit more we would also gain a bit more control over the relationship with time. Your milage might vary.
Linode's origin is as a VPS provider. OVH's is as a dedicated server provider. OVH's top server is twice the cost of Linode's and their cheapest is 5x the price (10 vs ~50).
Spring tides have both the highest and lowest tides. Neap tide is where the difference between high and low tide is the smallest.
You can, but you shouldn't. Use of fixed-point numbers is way more reliable, often faster as it's implemented with integer numbers, you can easily detect overflow, you can increase/decrease precision if you need, etc.
Nice post. Ricky da man too!
> I would argue that financial math by definition needs to be accurate to the penny. Where is "pretty close" financial calculations considered acceptable?

There is a difference between analysis and accounting. There are many financial models (e.g. Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing) that are analytic in nature and use transcendental functions, so the idea of getting an exact, arbitrary-precision answer is hopeless. Using a decimal type for this kind of computation would be an exercise in slowing down processing by a few orders of magnitude.
I disagree about search result quality. I switched to DDG over a year ago and only need to use !g bangs when I search either for some specific local stuff or when I search for news that have happened in the last day or two. Actually, in some cases DDG gives more relevant search results than Google, especially for programming stuff.
From the summary:
"if you are doing some financial math that does not need to be accurate to the penny"...

Of course, if you can accept rounding errors, it is fine. But in many monetary applications, that is not OK. The article is quite pointless.

Edit. For example, when doing budget forecasts, the result will never be accurate to the penny. It is then OK. But when doing accounting, you need to account for every penny. Not OK.
People say "You Get What You Pay For".

One of these days, they'll realize that isn't always a good thing.
> Duckduckgo itself uses Bing Search as its backend.

Can you provide a source for this? I couldn’t find it myself, but I was searching with DDG.

“DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.“
> The relation between the controller and the controlled is reciprocal. The scientist in the laboratory, studying the behavior of a pigeon, designs contingencies and observes their effects. His apparatus exerts a conspicuous control on the pigeon, but we must not overlook the control exerted by the pigeon. The behavior of the pigeon has determined the design of the apparatus and the procedures in which it is used. Some such reciprocal control is characteristic of all science. As Francis Bacon put it, nature to be commanded must be obeyed. The scientist who designs a cyclotron is under the control of the particles he is studying. The behavior with which a parent controls his child, either aversively or through positive reinforcement, is shaped and maintained by the child's responses. A psychotherapist changes the behavior of his patient in ways which have been shaped and maintained by his success in changing that behavior. A government or religion prescribes and imposes sanctions selected by their effectiveness in controlling citizen or communicant. An employer induces his employees to work industriously and carefully with wage systems determined by their effects on behavior. The classroom practices of the teacher are shaped and maintained by the effects on his students. In a very real sense, then, the slave controls the slave driver, the child the parent, the patient the therapist, the citizen the government, the communicant the priest, the employee the employer, and the student the teacher.

-- B F Skinner
Can you also tell Google to fix the image search page? The new design is stupid. I prefer the previous design.

The new design splits the page vertically, when you click on a picture. And its purpose, which is quite confusing, is to follow a second track of searches related to that picture.

But that just makes the usage confusing. I want to click on the picture in order to see it in magnification mode, to have it fill the browser window. This was the prior design. It worked perfectly, and allowed me to quickly see the picture I want, in a magnified mode.

But instead, with the new design, it opens the picture on the 2nd split screen, but the picture is practically the same size.

And to make matters worse, some of the pictures, like if they are portrait mode, does not magnify, so it makes it very difficult to see the details of the picture. I’d have to open up the source picture in another tab.

Someone must’ve thought this was a good idea, but to be honest, it sucks.

And also, the split screens with dual scrolling behaviors, is incredibly frustrating to use. Half the time, I’m scrolling on the wrong half of the page.

The image search is now such a frustrating experience, that I try to use other search engines for a better experience.
>1. I hate the idea of paying for the thing I write code in.

Do you hate the idea of being paid for the code you write? Or it's only other people's software that should be free?

>2. IDEs tend to be optimized for the write path, when it’s the read path that really matters.

Actually it's the exact opposite. Plain editors like vim are optimized for the write path -- they have all kinds of text manipulation options built in, and they're 99% about text manipulation. IDEs have code navigation options, source control integration, refactoring tools, even collaboration options in some cases, all of which are about the read path.

>3. Most of the people I admire at work and in open source don’t use an IDE.

Some of them use an Emacs so loaded that it's just a Greenspun-10th-rule-style re-implementation of an IDE. And tons of great developers use IDEs, from Notch to John Carmack, to Ken Beck. If you constrict the "people you admire" to old school UNIX neckbeards, then sure.

>4. Not being able to use my text editor I’m a terminal is just a nonstarter for me. It’s immensely convenience, and some workplaces can’t even handle local development because of monorepos.

Monorepos have nothing to do with local development or not. You can export a specific project out and work on it. Googlers use all kinds of IDEs, despite the monorepo.

Not being able to run in a terminal being a non-starter, is dubious, as 99% of the time a programmer doesn't need to work in a remote shell session, exception if they're a sys admin.

>5. IDEs rob you of the knowledge of the underlying tools, locking you into an ecosystem that you can’t take with you all the time.

Take with you were? You aren't going anywhere. You can always use an IDE whatever the circumstances. People use IDEs in games, data science, application programming, embedded development, aviation, web programming, etc. Not sure which realm would prohibit the use of an IDE.

>6. I’ve worked in plenty of places that didn’t have JB stuff available. Never worked at a place you couldn’t use vim or emacs.

There are tons of companies that mandate a specific corporate-decided development environment for all programmers, where you can't just "have vim or emacs".
Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong this whole time
likewise there is nothing wrong with my "no phonecalls" policy and yet people still insist on me using it, ill often contact people or companies about things and get the response "just give me a call" why? theres no reason they cant simply reply using the method i contacted them with but thats not all

first up phone calls tend to go "off the rails" no one simply answers the question and says goodbye and hangs up so you waste a lot of time, not only that but theres the fact that phone calls arent very private, not only is the person youre talking to hearing you but anyone within earshot and the person on the other end of the phone is usually oblivious or ignorant to your location and who may be around you, if they ask something which you may consider sensitive you then have to avoid the question (and potentially reply by a more private means of communication after, wasting more time)

youre also put on the spot, theres no time to consider your response to something youve been asked you have to respond pretty much instantly which can go wrong in many ways, its why salespeople like to use the phone, its much easier to get someone to agree to something they otherwise wouldnt if they had more time to consider what theyd been asked

sadly the bottom line is we are all at some point usually forced to use a method of communication we arent comfortable with, the best you can do is try to minimise it
Nope what? I described that same thing on The Verge.