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> But it irks me when rust blogs misrepresent C to show that Rust is better

I don't believe my article explicitly states that Rust is better. It marvels often at what is possible and what isn't in both languages, and then leaves the reader to draw their own conclusions.

I am being cavalier with the C code on purpose, because /this is how a lot of real world code is written/.

Have you taken a look at the CVE search linked in the article? Those aren't just mistakes you find in hobby projects. Search for "ICU", "Chromium", or "ffmpeg" for entertaining morning reads.

These problems keep happening because C prevents developers from modeling problems correctly, and does not prevent many error classes /which we know now can be checked for at compile-time/.

> Also you can have const memory in C that will crash if you cast it to non-const and write to it. You can call out to the OS to mark a chunk of memory it as read only

Well... you can use mprotect (or equivalent) to change the protection of one or more memory pages, not any chunk you want.

And it has no relation to const whatsoever. const still remains an opt-in annotation, too easily sidestepped (on purpose or otherwise).

> The reason it's not as built into C as it is for Rust is that C was in part designed for and currently runs on hardware where there isn't read-only-memory outside of a physical ROM chip

I'm not sure I follow. Rust certainly doesn't change page protection to enforce immutability. It's all compile-time checks, just much stricter and more accurate ones (because of the borrow rules, lifetime information etc.)

Everything about those checks disappears at runtime though, so it's definitely not a feature that gets in the way of Rust embedded.

> Something about this sentence screams Rust programmer but I can't put my finger on why

I can assure your there's a fair amount of Rust developers who also take themselves entirely too seriously, so it's not really a unique trait.

In all seriousness, I'd recommend that you keep learning about Rust, if only so you can dislike it based on more accurate information. And if you read so much you end up liking it, well, those things happen.

(For alternative responses to a similar line or skepticism, see this thread: https://lobste.rs/s/d8llrf/working_with_strings_rust#c_pkdug... )
I'm sure locals and many others know far more about this than I. I'm very happy with Germany's 2050 renewable plan which is way more than my country would ever think about doing.
> Said another way, none of us need to buy mattresses often enough that we are mattress-buying-experts, so we're chumps easily taken advantage of.

But there are people who do buy them often enough - hotels! I like to find a Marriott/Hilton/Hyatt/IHG standard mattress and it should be good enough. Ask a hotel manager to hook you up, should only be $250 to $500 at most for a King.
The article says people's bodies vary greatly in their ability to handle alcohol without harm. And it also says that harm to the liver often shows no symptoms until so much damage has been done that it's too late.

So does that mean the rational course is to just not consume alcohol at all, or at least stay at very low levels, like a single drink a week?
I was homeschooled so I missed out on a lot of public school stuff, but talking to adults my age and younger I’m continually shocked and horrified about what we’re putting kids through; it’s unacceptable.
Sam’s Club or Costco will sell a good mattress for about 60% less than whatever mattress stores charge.

Limited choice, lower margin.
Relatedly, I learned about Universal Credit, an attempt by the UK to merge all their social benefits into one coherent system, and it seems like the cliff problem here is worse. From the BBC description:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41487126

>Under the old system many faced a "cliff edge", where people on a low income would lose a big chunk of their benefits in one go as soon as they started working more than 16 hours.

>In the new system, benefit payments are reduced at a consistent rate as income and earnings increase - for every extra £1 you earn after tax, you will lose 63p in benefits.

In other words, after fixing the cliffs of the system, you would "only" face a 63% effective tax rate for working more. So whatever system they have no is even more discouraging. (That understates it because it's phrased post-tax; including a positive income tax, the total effective tax is even more!)
... unless you choose two day shipping. Or so I've read.

(Two day often involves air freight instead of trucks)
Even in conventional aircraft a parabolic flight plan (the vertical path) is optimally efficient, all other things being equal.

In practice it'd be a nightmare to separate traffic. Additionally it'd increase the pilot workload significantly considering the cruise phase of flight is typically the "ahh, I'll order some coffee from back" time as the primary duties then are (a) monitoring aircraft state (i.e., scanning the gages) and, (b) changing the radio frequency each time the flight moves into a new sector and checking in with ATC.

[me: aircraft dispatcher for a US carrier in a previous life]
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Daycare and siblings with drastically different schedules are huge issues.
How is that weird? #2 gets killed, new #2 takes his/her place, #2 gets killed.
Speaking of children, that’s who’s gonna starve if you decide to let them suffer the consequences of their parents’ poor choices. I would have personally starved to death dozens of times over if not for food stamps.
> not about protecting the individuals "express[ing] themselves online."

Who in their right mind would host content created by individuals online? GeoCities, blogs and personal sites wouldn't exist as they did or do today.
I've been a Javascript user and fan for a long time. I've used it since it was in beta at Netscape. But one of the disadvantages that needs mention about Javascript is productivity. I have been hands-down more productive in Clojure than I ever was in Javascript.
There are many places that refurb mattresses. My dad used to run housing projects, and people would dumpster dive to sell mattresses when they cleaned out apartments.
I guess like the artical mentions she could have bought put options.
Do you have any opinions on off-gassing?
> no ecosystem

Aside from the entire Java ecosystem? I know using a Java library from Clojure isn't exactly plug-and-play, but that's a bit dismissive. Java has way more code written in it than JavaScript for most things.
The corporate entity can't speak, but it can defame.
It's a series of images, so if you're sporting uMatrix or similar, just allow images from brightspotcdn.
Would they use it to sleep? Or would they squander it on an extra hour of entertainment?
Said more times than I care to count: "My brain is not fully on until 10:00 am. Do you want me writing 1 hour of code in that state, or 2 hours of code?"

(A couple jobs, showing up regularly at 9:45 was tolerated, if not exactly appreciated. Those were glorious times.)
EDN is a brilliant literal for data, and since it offers more types than JSON, I would love to see it catch on in the places that now use JSON, especially in APIs. JavaScript has a complicated early history and even though one can use objects as a key value map, it’s not quite a map, in JavaScript. EDN does have the advantage of being a clean implementation of its idea.

On a different topic, I’ve read that almost 50% of computer programming work is just building database views and providing GUIs so non-technical people can interact with databases. Making this work easy used to be a major goal of multiple corporate products. One reason VisualBasic had such a devoted following is that it made it so damn easy for novices to build a GUI for a database.

In recent years the industry has moved towards HTML as the default way to build an interface for anything on a network, but HTML continues to lag when it comes to forms. You have to use a mountain of JavaScript to get the form functionality of VisualBasic. We’ve actually gone backwards on ease of creating database GUIs. Yes, in theory you can use something like React to build forms, but the dev using VisualBasic would be done with the project while you’re still waiting for npm to finish downloading your dependencies. And React requires more skill. VisualBasic had a wonderfully gentle learning curve. Likewise, Ruby On Rails (and other frameworks including Symfony and Django) have scaffolding that allows the fast construction of HTML forms, but, again, HTML is a limited method of building forms.

I’d love to see Clojure succeed in this space, building corporate GUIs for databases. How to do that? Is a new GUI technology needed? Towards that end I’d love to see EDN used as a config language to define a scaffold for forms. There are elements of Swing that worked well and could be rescued from the larger wreckage of Java GUIs. And JavaFX represents a huge “road not taken” for the whole industry.

The tech industry has had eras when it focused on opening the door to beginners. Those eras gave us HyperCard and Flash and VisualBasic. Right now the industry seems to be undergoing an episode of gatekeeping. We are requiring beginners to learn React, which is a big eco-system, and also stuff like Docker, which is tough for beginners. The point of making so much tech mandatory for even simple projects inevitably keeps some people from discovering the joy of programming.

Clojure is the most fun language that I ever worked with, and it’s conceptually simple and it has EDN as a data literal language, all of which is a kindness for beginners. If it also had a simple method for building GUIs I believe it could help lead the industry into the next era when we again focus on making programming accessible for beginners.
Some people say that their organization have 100+ people using clojure? Where?
Or maybe the more structured environment of the military enforces early bedtimes vs. lax family life where parents zone out on smartphones while their kids are left to their own devices (pun intended) to enforce their own bedtimes.
Nubank in Brazil has 500+ Clojure developers.
Nubank, brazilian fintech.
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/85/1047/CS-TR-8...
Climate change is starting to influence Wall Street
There was something that was said about an old language that I've always enjoyed, REBOL, which in effect is that new programmers adapt to it very quickly but seasoned programmers often have trouble unlearning how they did things in languages they're more familiar with (usually descendants of C). I feel the same applies to Clojure and Lisps in general.

So one reason why the respondents haven't increased much is because its not attracting enough new developers and seasoned developers are giving up too early. Which is too bad because, sure, getting over that initial hump can be frustrating at times but, boy is it worth it! Spending only a few months with Clojure has already made me a much better programmer in the other languages I use.
If it becomes popular, won't every water distributor just copy them?
Does the strangler have to be a separate server? Couldn't you wrap the existing code within the same binary?
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I don't really like the idea of a retry loop. Why doesn't sqlite have an API to just block until the DB is available?
I'm pretty sure it sees a fair amount of use at Walmart labs.
Whatever physical or social friction stands in the way between me, an upper-mid-level manager, getting mad because (?? someone cut me off in traffic? indigestion?) and being able to express it by summoning a giant fist and crushing one of my neo-slaves to death with a comical "splat" noise. They're not genuinely interested in anything that doesn't relate to their own prestige or comfort or ability to discharge discomfort.
Your right on those disadvantages instead in the js world you just have to deal with a codebase that was largely developed using the SOCP methodology (StackOverflow Copy Paste) from every "full stack developer" that had a really nice certificate from a 6 week bootcamp.
I got a Zinus mattress (cool gel version) and it is absolutely amazing. Cost me like $220 for a queen size and I couldn't be happier
One of google's experiments presents a very cool visualization of a map of our stellar neighbors. See:

http://stars.chromeexperiments.com/
I'd say it wouldn't help much. You're building one small scene that's designed to be viewed from a relatively small area or path. I highly doubt they're building anything that doesn't appear on screen. If you were to walk about that scene in Unreal... I'd imagine it's the digital equivalent of a fake old west town.
While the Maine law applies to ISPs, there can be little doubt that the underlying issue is the data.
>The other is that the demographics of the students at the second school shift between the 2 years

Not really. The first class had 21 Asian students, the second had 20. The small sample limits the use of this study, but it's not the only one out there.
5 AWS services that are easy to use in the wrong context
Huawei HMS will be a group of wolves born under the U.S. ban, analyst says
There are still MANY old style ISPs playing in the DO-like space. Hosting is HUGE. Plenty of room for many DO like players at .1-1% marketshare.

Google and AWS are NOT going to become simpler, to the contrary, that would defeat their entire proposition. To eliminate the traditional enterprise data center entirely, build sufficient lock-in moats, and then continue to innovate around costs and value requires tons of bespoke capabilities and complexities.
I do love the simplicity, but I think the big thing that is missing is private networking. I'd love to be able to build my own network that connects droplets together and assign them IPs, and that would let me setup VPNs between datacenter.

Also, adding at least another US datacenter would be great.
Whether or not you liked the story is utterly irrelevant to the article.
> This leaves the question: why does work start so early? If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults.

If you work 7-15h (3pm american), you still have some daylight time left at home, after work so you can do other, non-work stuff that requires daylight. If you sleep until 9 and work 10-18h, you get zero off-work daylight for most of the year.
Post says in the first sentence
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One of the big takeaways I had was that no matter how you use it, Postgres will work completely fine as long as you have <5GB of data.
"

Surely you meant "5TB", not "5GB"?
Actually economically speaking — what reason is there to think that the total supportable size of an economy which operates with grid instability is smaller than one with perfect or nearly perfect grid predictability?

Maximizing value in a world with “power production weather” would be a valuable task from which rewards that aren’t necessarily obvious could be mined if the pursuit becomes incentivized on a larger scale.
When I was a kid, our club soccer travel team of 4th graders beat an intramural team of 6th graders by 3 goals. Our coach lost $100, because he'd bet we'd win by at least 4. I think soccer and basketball much moreso involve a coordination and fitness component than size. In youth soccer, you have to outrun the other kids and handle the ball well. Messi is 5'7". In basketball, of course, height does help a lot there, but amongst local kids, better to be able to make shots, dribble, and get around the court.

Football was the only sport that segregated by size in my school system's leagues, in middle school. Well, besides wrestling, of course. They're contact sports.
The cynic in me wouldn't be surprised if these new plans were offered by subsidiaries of Kaiser or Premera. I certainly hope that isn't the case.

(edit: deleted parent quotation)
37% rule in algorithms to live by book's
> AWS and google are going to become simpler as the time passes

Really? I see them becoming more complex as they add more services.
This is testable, and also very difficult to falsify without testing it. I'd say there is more value in doing or sponsoring the research to investigate it and I wouldn't cast aspersions on the vendors. They are better than passwords for the majority of consumer and corporate use cases.

The most basic attack and test is to verify and/or reduce the entropy of secret symmetrical (AES) keys in the SE after personalization.

The challenge with hardware security modules is verifying outputs from the same keys but on different devices, because the key is derived/instantiated in the secure tamper proof environment. The whole point is the key doesn't exist anywhere else.

If your threat model includes the intelligence agencies of super powers, your main problem is more diplomatic than technical.
1. http://www.oilshell.org/blog/
2. http://fragmentedpodcast.com/
3. https://blog.stylingandroid.com/

I have more than 30 blogs on feedly.

btw, I blog on https://www.codevscolor.com
> One viable path I see is for DO to ramp up their enterprise appeal by offering services on par with AWS, while cutting down the operational complexity of managing AWS services (using AWS = incredibly high overhead with configuration and everything else).

Absolutely. Getting into AWS, etc can be overwhelming. Getting into DO is incredibly easy.
I enjoy this blog, but I wish it had an RSS feed.
There are two key questions. To start, a secretive private company decided to spend 1.14 billion dollars to buy the .org domain.

The first question is what is it going to do with .org that the company thinks could pay off its investment and make a good profit.

The second question is what effect would all the profit-making activity have on the internet, in particular on organizations that reasonably want to own a .org url?

What I would like to know is if the Internet Society even considered these questions.
Assisted suicide is illegal throughout most of the USA so it's not even an option. Also, many people just aren't in a rush to die. Whatever your beliefs, one thing for certain is that it's a permanent and irreversible transition of some kind. It's unsettling, at least on primal levels.
So the rich can burn all the carbon they can afford?
Snowden is the source. And screw your "conspiracy alert" BS.

WTF sort of BS are you implying??

That I am anti-semetic because it is a known, published, leaked, sourced from Snowden that Israel has all your data?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...

Why dont you explain how your "conspiracy theory detector" wouldn't have been triggered had the leak stated the info was shared with Ireland or Iran?

Jeasus.

Your conspiracy theory detector should be going of for literally SO many other things regarding Israel and technology.

What do Stuxnet and/or DUQU say to your sensors?

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EDIT: I am calling 'shill' on this account; @whearyou -- registered in 2015 with one comment, then only another start of comments a few months back, karma of 8, and then an immediate "i feel a conspiraycy" BS comment when the term "israel" is used.

Yeah - Shill.

You idiots do realize that people who have been on sites for more than a decade can fucking see your lame attemps at narration steering?

Fuck off.
I have firsthand experience of the frustration that these sort of discontinuities can cause. I lost all financial aid and nearly all "scholarship" money my senior year of undergrad after my 6 month coop at Intel put me over some income limits (probably around $33k per year). All told, I was probably ~$5k ahead compared to where I would have been with the scholarships and without the income.

Still, it would have been nice to do something more productive than spend six months at Intel for ~5k after taxes.
There's definitely a middle to the furniture market... it's just expensive enough most people assume it's the high end.
You are assuming they do not do the same stuff other humans do in the 5.5 hours.
Plus Mark Weiser did SDI, one of my favorite SunView games. :)
Why do remote meetings suck so much? (2018)
Established VCs turn to super angels to grow their network
That explains a lot to me. The actors need those visual cues, and it shows through in the final product. It was a great result. I look forward to improved acting as this tech makes its way into other works.
Depending on how long you’ve been here, you may have been living under a Reagan-esque conservative regime the whole time. Over my entire life I’ve seen only actual republican policies, or policies of weak-minded Democrats easily baited into acting like Republicans. There hasn’t been a sincere and effective advocate for the poor in America since LBJ.
> I feel like more people should consider euthanasia. If caring for you is a huge physical and financial burden, and you're basically waiting to die anyway, why not just get it over with?

Most of the elderly (about 6 people) with whom I've spoken are disgusted at even mentioning something like this (70-85 year old men and women from western Europe). This sentiment may change as new cohorts age out.
> Where did people unearth this "platforms" vs. "publishers" argument from?

It's a red herring.
Jack Ryan, the CIA, and Venezuela
Lol. Mitt Romney, John McCain, Paul Ryan, Bill Kristol, both president Bushes and Jeb, Colin Powell, Condeleeza Rice, James Comey, Robert Gates, Schwarzenegger, and literally dozens of Republican Congressmen all prove you wrong.

When exactly did you realize you were living in a Fake News echo chamber where obvious facts don’t matter to you?
I found a link with 2016 data: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr122-508.pdf

Over 60's are about 1" shorter. Hispanics are a lot shorter.

I am pointing out that the sampling biases are important when looking for cause and effect when comparing against a population average.
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