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SNES didn't have online capabilities, it had satellite capabilities with specialized and expensive hardware (assuming you're referring to SatellaView).

Anything that requires specialized hardware to access the internet isn't ready for general consumption.

PSOepIII (episode III, not PSO III. It was actually PSO II) was an MMORPG; MMORPGs are aimed at a far different demographic than the group that the Wii was targeted at. Also, weren't PSO ep. I and ep. II released on the GameCube? Pretty sure they were.

"There were multiple companies in the 60s that had mainframes that didn't even work very well; are you telling me that your average family wouldn't be ready for computing back then?"

Focusing on internet connectivity on the Wii would have harmed the Wii, yes. The Wii had Wii Shop and a few titles that could interact online. Making it the core feature in many of them would harm the console, because not only would many people have difficulty setting it up, there were also significant portions of even the United States that were almost entirely decrepit of even moderately decent internet connections.
Seems public infrastructure in the US is run like health care. Very expensive, lots of hidden middlemen, not so great results.
> You do realize that no version of Ubuntu was ever released with that feature?

Not sure that is true - I seem to remember that it was enabled by default in a couple of releases (I think somewhere around 12.04?).

> you had to opt in
> It's easy to get upset about stuff people have made up

I raised this issue early in the Lens development phase. The response from the mailing list was (paraphrasing) "well, people can always uninstall the package if they don't want the feature" (at which point I then opted out entirely).

Opt-in came much, _much_ later.
Mythical Man Month
The moon is a Harsh Mistress
I don't know if its the same one but Vice/Motherboard made this mini doc in 2017 and researcher dude does this in connecticut:
https://youtu.be/aVTOr7Nq2SM?t=462
I can only speak from my personal experience with burnout, but I found that one of the hardest parts of recovering was the fact that it simply takes time. I quit my job and tried to make immediate, drastic lifestyle changes expecting immediate, drastic improvements, but burnout takes a while to develop and a while to recover from.

For me, the best thing was to find some stability (spending more time with my SO and exercising—albeit extremely simply, literally just going for a quick run each day) was key.
It might be democratic for domestic government use, but what they're talking about is foreign intervention.

So false flag, etc. interference.
This does not address a larger question: how much does a mile of road cost to keep? This is the installed base question.

Consider the amount of road that has been built out in the US relative to the populations that road is serving. Maintenance and expansion is paid out mainly from state and local taxes. That's an enormous civilizational overhead the US contends with, not to mention the economic cost of a large portion of household capital being tied up in rapidly depreciating assets: cars.

I'm looking at you, suburbia.
> In what way is the global namespace being "polluted"?

There was a time you could name your hosts server1.dev and server1.prod. These days, what am I supposed to use for internal server communication, lest it some day resolve to something on the internet or a trusted CA creates a valid certificate for it?

Domain names were organized in a relatively stable hierarchy, with a set of registries. The way TLD registrations are going, all organizations will want their TLD and we will end up with a single centralized tree of unnumerable registries.

You use to know what were the locally relevant domains. Now, is it <company>.co.ccTLD, <company>.ccTLD, or is it <company>.dev, or <company>.<company> or is it <company>.uno, ..gmbh, ..kaufen, ..kinder, or maybe <company>.wazoo, because why not? You get a link to or email from <your-ISP>.talk - is it legit, or a fake in a spamhaus registrar?

If you have a .bank, a .cafe, maybe a .shop, but you also do .trade, and .trading, and of course everyone wants to be .top ... of the hundreds of TLDs, are you supposed to register all that could apply and pay large sums for it, because people are going to type <company>.<whatever-i-think-it-is>?

If we create dozens(?) of new TLDs per year, noone will remember the difference between TLDs run by nigerian scammers and those run by respectable businesses.
I am very interested in seeing the research about teaching Turkeys English, time keeping and American colonial history.
In my experience, btrfs is very fragile in power loss or kernel crash/panic scenarios. It very consistently causes soft lockups on file read/writes after power loss until you run a `brtfs check --repair` on it. My experience is mostly on Arch, so it's not a case where it's out of date and missing patches.
I wonder what the numbers are like in west EU as a comparison.
My small town resurfaced (grinding and re-paving) 5/12ths of a mile for about $100,000. That's about $240,000 per mile. Or actually $120,000 per "lane-mile".

However, we could only afford it because we got a grant from the state. Our annual town budget could not afford the road maintenance.
I was a heavy user of Excel for my personal life, finances, tracking, todo, everything for about 6 years because it was installed on my work computer. My timekeeping work was also 99% Excel sheets. My personal sheets were always on a USB Disk.

Now I moved to US & do not have dedicated desk, & strictly not allowed to plug anything in work pc, fireable offense. So I am back to use Google Sheets because I can access those at my phone, & Sheets is not the same. Maybe 50%, but many simple things in Excel are difficult in Sheets. The most being Calculate Formula button in Excel.
Again, you're just describing Wifi plus unspecified VR magic. Why do you need 5G for this at home VR thing?
You're not missing something: they can't afford it, which is why roads are increasingly in poor condition.

The trick is, communities can usually get outside subsidy (state and federal) for _expansion_ projects. So when the road breaks down and they don't have local money to fix it, one of the strategies is to go to the higher level government for an "economic development" project to get outside money to pay for the road to be widened / expanded. This is true even when the added capacity isn't needed.
Shit, I've been calling myself a "cyborg artist" for like a decade; no need for artificial intelligence when I can just learn how to tell Adobe Illustrator how to do the repetitive parts of my work and concentrate on the fun parts.
Then to be honest it's a bit difficult to explain this to you in one post. Assuming you are even willing to consider any other perspective than you own egoistical current short-term position, then if you want you should read up on how this industry operates, on politics in it, on how processors and architectures are contracted and licensed, on what lobbying and political tools do big manufacturers like Intel use in order to get their advantage, about the history of the different architecture in general, on cybersecurity of the aspects of open/closed silicon, etc. etc.

In short, yes RISC-V is a huge deal and if you care anything about software, hardware or computing in general you should be very happy and optimistic because of its existence. The team behind it is doing a tremendous monumental job of creating a free architecture, and they are still in the beginning of it.
Sure, in a sense, the difference being whether the form of the reporting is aimed at helping team-members coordinate or helping a project manager move a marker on a chart or otherwise send reports upward. Who's it for is the key concern and makes the difference in what your standups are like, and who directly benefits from them.

Strongly agree that with certain teams you don't need a regular standup. That's part of why I think the decision to do a standup should be left to the team themselves, absent some clear dysfunction bad enough to require outside intervention. Otherwise you're probably just wasting everyone's time with 15+ minutes of boring crap that could just as well be a 2-minutes-to-write daily status update message or email to the project manager, assuming they can't get the status info they need out of Jira or git commits and skip the side-channel status updates altogether.

I guess another major tell aside from "multiple unrelated teams are in the same standup" might be whether, if every single non-manager/PM quickly checks in with the rest and they all conclude a formal standup's not needed that day (or the entire week, or whatever), a standup either still happens or else someone (a PM or a manager, probably) gets really bent out of shape if it doesn't. If so, you're likely dealing with a regular ol' daily status meeting. And again, that's what a majority of "standups" I've seen have actually been. They're not for the team, and however they manage to occasionally serve the team members' needs is accidental—they're just micromanagement and "agile" box-ticking.
Yes, that's essentially Whorfianism [1].

The easiest argument against it being: have you even struggled to put a feeling into words? The answer, of course, being yes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Not exactly. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in MediaWiki (and others), you need to click the link, (optionally) type some text, and hit "Save" or the page doesn't actually exist yet.

With Roam, the page is automatically just there when it's mentioned. A subtle difference but I'm finding it quite useful.
Not these days, although that was true 8-9 years ago.

The preferred pattern now is to use factory functions that can return either a fully-initialized object or an error.
There I aren’t many options for displaying a list of things with various filters on that list. Both of these go for that design, as does Gmail.

Many have pointed out that the product GitHub have apparently copied takes inspiration from Gmail, but it also uses iconography from GitHub itself as well.

While I think it would be nice for those who have inspired designs/features/etc to be thanked, doing so publicly or as part of the product is likely going to detract from the user experience for most users who won’t know about the original. A quick thanks by email from team to team may be a better approach, but we don’t appear to have a culture of doing that.

And that’s only if designs were inspired. I’m this case I think it’s entirely possible that these were developed in isolation.
Ha I just looked up duck tape on wikipedia and it says "not to be confused with duck typing"!
Would it be wrong to say that the language which the spreadsheet software is implemented in is also doing computing related to business?
The Pitfalls and the Potential of the New Minimalism
Sorry, but this doesn't seem related to quantum - I don't think you get credit yet.
It's not that the contrast is low (which is another problem on its own, I agree). It's the other extreme - too high of a contrast [1] by using a fully saturated yellow and black. The same reason you don't use #fff on #000.

[1] https://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-use-pure...
> How do small towns afford to maintain their roads??

Often, they don't. Examples:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2010/1/11/the-cost-of-de...

https://www.sdnewswatch.org/stories/small-s-d-towns-struggle...

https://www.wpr.org/small-wisconsin-towns-paved-roads-return...

Many places in the US spent and borrowed to build infrastructure without budgeting for long-term maintenance; they also encouraged development patterns (e.g. suburban sprawl) that are cheap to build, but quite expensive when you take into account the long-term maintenance requirements.

This is a problem even in more urban areas, which is why lots of urbanists (including Strong Towns) advocate cutting back on new road construction, and taking into account the local tax base before building out infrastructure.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/1/22/paved-with-goo...

https://www.strongtowns.org/nonewroads
> I don't believe that even a complete comparch-101 in-order, non-pipelined, architecture without branch prediction, and register renaming can be made safe enough.

Disagree. You do have to put a lot of work into the process. Formal spec as well as a formal method/simulation. There are certainly a lot of fun things to consider in that, but I don't think it's completely unfeasible.

As an aside, one of the things that intrigues me about RISC-V is things such as a formal instruction set spec being openly published [1]. You could apply all sorts of tooling to that before actually creating silicon.

> But yes, the industry made an extremely risky bet a decade ago with both virtualisation, and running unsafe Javascript with JIT.

Focusing so much on Jitting JS was as bad idea then just like it was now. The entire world of the web is artificially propped up and will probably die the way it should have died when it started: with people frustrated by constant security vulnerabilities enabled by a group of ad companies who don't care about anything but money.

> It will take many billions for the industry to do a U-turn, and switch back to dedicated servers as a golden standard, and putting a leash on ambitions of browser makers.

WRT Dedicated servers, if anything the industry needs that push now anyway. I've yet to see a 'Real' cost projection on a SaaS 'rewrite'; i.e. if the current thing has been in use 5 years longer than it should have, your cost models should go out 5 years longer than you intend your new solution to exist.

Which would be ironic; my pain is in the beancounting side (usually what an org really cares about) yet security will be the more likely scenario.

I think the cat is out of the bag for the browser market though. Users have on the whole gotten 're-enclosed' thanks to modern laptops tending towards small eMMC or SSD sizes.

But FFS, this sort of thing is the reason WASM scares the daylights out of me.

[1] https://github.com/mrLSD/riscv-fs
Article suggests the intermediary animal is unknown, but the early consensus seems to be that it's snakes.

https://gizmodo.com/deadly-wuhan-virus-in-china-may-have-com...
Thanks! I'm currently working on the 'knowledge transfer', the aim is to build an almost-real-time controller for the robot - I'll probably start with a web app. Any contribution is welcomed!! :)
Could you elaborate a bit on what this bio-emotive framework is? I checked out Dr. Douglas J. Tataryn's website but there's some paid content.
You shouldn't need promise chains nowadays since async/await is available. Also, I'd be interested to see 200 lines of idiomatic JS being written in 10 lines of idiomatic Python, PHP or Ruby if you have an example.
From the article:

1. Stop hiring Data Scientists when you need an analyst.

2. Stop hiring Data Scientists when you need an engineer.
Actually I just looked it up and it's "duck" because it was made from "cotton duck", a type of fabric.
Competition for ISPs is definitely welcome (even if it's from the darn big telcos). I'm open to this idea even though it'll probably be worse latency.
Do you know of https://hn.algolia.com (change dropdown to search comments not stories). Way better than a Google search. Although it helps that I knew "if it was my comment about faster file reading, I know what was probably in it" to search for "powershell ${C:\" and there it was.
Totally agree. Unless you have a lot of money already, having no income adds a new level of stress. The only way I could see this work is to go to a cheap place where money lasts longer. I once did this by staying at a yoga ashram. I could enjoy the time there because I had no expenses
It's important to keep in mind that the cost of living in certain cities is massively higher than others, in some cases more than 4 times higher.

It's also important to keep in mind that there are CEO's that make 275 times their average worker, some exceeding 50k per hour.

When I see a highly paid engineer salary, I consider a form of societal progress that a skilled worker can make a good living. Something that used to be reserved only for upper management.

It is an acknowledgement from society that work we do is meaningful and valuable.
So, first it depends if the area ever experiences freezing temperatures.

Living in a small town, our roads are in poor shape.

Additionally, we have a US highway that cuts through the center of town.

The state administers the maintenance of that particular road, so we have had incidents where the state will hire contractors to modify the sidewalks along the highway, to make them ADA compliant, but not coordinate w the city.

So, the city winds up ripping up the sidewalks, because of an infrastructure upgrade for the water system.

So, short answer, we don’t maintain our roads.

Unless you have a really good tax base, the money just is not there.
This all sounds great, except what do I do with my wife and kids during this time?

Vacation is not vacation for those of us with a young family - it's actually more work than being at work is, sometimes. Good work, rewarding, but also severely draining sometimes.
Avast also portscans your local network. I kept getting alarms on my Symantec laptop and couldn't figure out why. Took running TCPNetView on the two avast machines full time and waiting for the alarm to fire to figure it out.
I'm not sure I agree with this. If OP is able to catch up on the personal responsibilities they mention, and has the funds to be able to float for a while (admittedly a big one), taking a break might help them quite a bit. Could even boost up their personal brand a bit or make an LLC and do some consulting here and there to not have a resume gap and create their own hours.

Quitting something you don't like can be totally liberating and the time off can have a positive impact on mental health if used wisely.
You'd have to know where the aliens are for that to matter!
This reminds me of a blog post about the unsustainability of suburbs — https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2017/03/20/the-fiscal-unsust...

Even if this $1.5m figure is wildly inflated, calculate how few people live on a given mile in the suburbs, a conservative estimate on how much it costs to maintain a road, and the numbers just don't add up.

The suburbs were a ponzi scheme and the bottom is about to fall out.
What a lot of people think of as "Jason Scott" is the result of hundreds of people working at/with the Internet Archive, hundreds more volunteering effort and resources at Archive Team, and dozens of great contributors to the stacks/collections of TEXTFILES.COM.

I am a very pretty and flamboyant figure standing at the front of a literal army of real contributors to taking online history seriously and making it both available and accessible to future generations.
I recently fell in love with clubhouse.io. It has more features than Trello but way less complicated than Jira. The biggest things I like about it is that it sort of strongly suggests to you how you should define an epic and a story. Tasks are relegated to checkboxes. This does a few things:

1) Since the definitions are predetermined, drastically removes the room for pedantic circlejerking by problem employees.

2) Bad devs can't pad their stats by making a bunch of bullshit tasks with bullshit time estimates to make them look more productive. Whether a story takes you 10 tasks of 5 minutes each or 1 task at one hour, at the end of the day, a story is a deliverable. The measurable then becomes how many deliverables did you deliver, not how many stupid tickets did you close.
Major urbanized is incredibly expensive. Tens of millions...

I read somewhere that China spends $30 million per mile of high-speed rail. 22,000 miles and counting.

The US is going to bankrupt itself trying to modernize its aging infrastructure.
I was thinking more about generating resolution independent UIs (buttons, text, etc) not so much importing SVG assets.
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My project is an interpreted query language that compiles to SQL (with support for several backends).

It is more capable than ORMs, and provides a layer of abstraction that SQL direly needs but lacks, as well as a shorter syntax, that is in-line with other popular languages.

Here is a very early version of it: https://github.com/erezsh/preql

I've kept working on it, but privately, and I'm trying to make it into a product.

I will probably release it as open-source when it's ready. I still need to figure out the right license, financial model, etc.
What is your town’s population size?

Do you experience freezing temperatures?
As Adam Curry looks on with sad puppy dog eyes
But for context, the previous sentence on that page is:
“You can also import any available system modules, such as Darwin on macOS and Glibc on Linux”

The random number examples aren’t saying that’s the right way to generate random numbers in a platform-independent way, it is specifically demonstrating how to import system libraries on your local platform.
Efficient, reusable components for 3D computer vision research with PyTorch
The biggest thing that fixed my burnout was actually getting laid off during the recession (09). And being unemployed for a few months. Fortunately this was in the summer, and I spend many days up at the camper (we had an already paid for seasonal spot about an hour away). I found myself sleeping so hard during the afternoons that I slept through several recruiters calling me back. Then when I finally landed a new job I hit the ground running so hard, that I was an instant hit.

Problem is, after more than a decade I find myself constantly tired and unmotivated for anything. I fear that burnout is starting again, but can't afford another break in employment (and this job is actually really good -- very intense, but I don't have that feeling of dread going into work every day [like I used to experience with high school], just exhausted).
That would be an interesting question. My experience is that there's a lot more chip seal on smaller roads as a refurbishment (tar + a thin layer of gravel) rather than hot asphalt paving. It's a lot cheaper, but doesn't last as long.

Motorways in France and Germany seem to be repaved more often, and billiard table smooth in a lot of cases.
No: https://hackernoon.com/dijkstra-is-wrong-and-so-am-i-f36e2fb...
Since rural roads get significantly less traffic, they require less maintenance (Though get similar amounts of frost heave damage). Maintenance is often just filling in potholes and cracks, with occasional resurfacing.

Of course, there are a ton of non-local funding that gets drawn from:

- federal and state gas taxes

- state vehicle registration fees (varying by type and weight of vehicle)

- state, county and municipal specific property, income and / or sales taxes

As for highways, there is the federal highway trust, and grants and loans can be taken out to pay for them, but that typically does not fall on the town's shoulders alone (if at all).
This is a great idea, interesting that haven't generated much interest in here. However, I am looking forward to read the paper.

Btw, have you heard about OCaml's Irmin? It's something like a git based database. I am interested in how these two compare as git based DBs.
Rails is less "easy" than it used to be due to the integration of Webpack (via the Webpacker gem) and thus the entire world of frontend JS development…yet that move in many ways "saved" Rails as a serious tool for modern web professionals.

So while I'm not sure Rails is easiest to pick up for a complete newbie, I am sure that there is still no framework that can touch Rails when it comes to fast/easy to build an entire web application from scratch that is truly broadly deployable and maintainable for years to come and won't cause you to tear your hair out every other day. :)