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The Island of Doctor Moreau

THERE IS BUT ONE LAW. ... ... ... THERE IS ... ... NO LAW!

TAKE MOREAU TO THE HOUSE OF PAIN!

KNIVES!!!

SHARP THINGS!!! !!! !!!

... ... ...

And after leaving Moreau's island, the greatest horror of them all is I can no longer tell what is beast, and what is human.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Hello foolish child. I really have to say this now because you are stupid. Just so so stupid.

Killing people is bad. I know. I know. But you've been killing people and things your entire life. You have caused so much awful carnage in your wake only to cover it up with adolescent idealism. Welcome to the adult world where things die including the entire world if you are careless little wild flower.

--- --- ---

Dante

Not the validation of the Aristotelian Universe through the advancement of the human mind. Or the celebration of humanity as it is. Not even snitching out medieval Florence with a catalog of evil.

The realization of paradise's simplicity as the absence of ambition, murderer, and betrayal at the very bottom of hell.
could this be related to the new round of QE, the $1.5T influx to coporations and possible negative interest rates? Not an economist here, but wondering if holding debt could be bad in the near future, if there is some other kind of shell game/buck-passing going on here? this just doesn't smell right.
I'm using puppet for everything, including nearly immutable infrastructure ( if you can't mount your disks read only and run that way you dont have immutable infrastructure )

Puppet maintains the base image with the core system.

Special systems are recreated by applying system specific classes to a base image.

Application software is installed via packages with git commit-ids being versions.

Nothing is upgraded, rather a new instances are rolled out and the old instances are destroyed.

This also ensures that we always know that we can recreate our entire infrastructure because we do that for rapidly changing systems several times a day and for all systems at least monthly.

This makes our operational workflow match the disaster recovery, which is god sent.
It occurs to me that git support and Github integration would be a really nice feature for Godot's project manager...
Beijing Self-Driving Vehicle Road Tests Topped One Million Km in 2019
Yeah, in a decent architecture the only place state is located is in the datastore layer.

The goal is to make servers disposable, able to be destroyed and created at will, so configuration management becomes kind of a legacy technology at that point.
It's not irrational any more, enough people were/are acting irrationally to cause real shortages, so much so that at this point the rational thing to do is to make sure you're prepared and stocked up with basic essentials.
Having enjoyed visiting gold rush historic sites in California and the area around Sitka Alaska, I think these cartoons give a very different view.

In the Lincoln Museum in Springfield Illinois, there is an entire exhibit of political cartoons of the day. Really crass stuff, makes it seem like our modern society is almost civil.
A guy in the grocery store 2 days ago was pontificating on the phone about the "dumb liberals" panicking. This was in Bergen Co. NJ. The dog whistle messaging has convinced the idiocracy that they don't have to do anything to prepare.
Actually seems like a pretty rational thing to do.
People will stay home more, cook more frequently, and obviously need more toilet paper than usual (especially when the entire family starts staying home more).
Most importantly, people probably prefer to go shopping less frequently so you naturally end up buying more each time.
As mentioned, it's unfortunate everyone's doing it at the same time.
Core-JS Fork?
It looks like something happened to the only core-js maintainer (it hasn't been updated since Jan 13). With 25 mil weekly downloads, what will happen if there's nobody to take over?
While I haven't read the book, the corresponding multi-part documentary "The Ascent of Money" is a really good introduction to what money is and how it evolved over the past centuries. It's also free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAbVltqySrA
Salt the company's marketing is atrocious, Salt the software is great.
There is no quick fix, indeed.

International finance is secondary to what the OP is requesting though. I think a history of banking, and the events that led to the current regulatory framework, would be suitable. Can’t think of a good book though (except the Bankers’ New Clothes I recommended below).
But it's not.

A `Maybe<char>` has exactly one `None` variant. While an `int` has many, many negative values.

Also, just calling it `None` (or similar) makes clear what is meant, while `-1` is some magic value.
ASPLOS 2020 Proceedings: Architectural Support for Programming Languages & OSes
There's a 2 pass comparison in the article. The graph comes from their comparison site which uses 2 pass encoding for both SVT-AV1 and libaom:

https://videocodectracker.dev/
America killed one of their national heroes. This put them in the position if retaliating and risking a war or appearing weak and open to another incursion.

They proceeded with a symbolic attack that left no one dead and declared that thats the end of that as long as the US does not escalate.

Sounds pretty damn rational to me...
> I am very much against it since it’s a very illogical thing to do.

And that’s why the shelves are empty now and you have this problem. Panic is good. EARLY “panic” is the best. It leads to preparedness and less panic later when things are tough and it would cause more problems. When I was telling people five weeks ago to start preparing now by building up their supplies because this is the real deal I was laughed at by a few and told to “stop panicking”. A few others listened and they’re not panicked now. If everyone had listened and done the responsible thing of building up their supplies over those few weeks you wouldn’t see this problem.

Now is a better time than never to start preparing up in case you have to spend some time stuck inside.

The supply chains are still working fine for super markets so you’ll see the stock on shelves continue to build back up.
Agreed that Money Stuff generally technically accurate. The only gripe I have about it is that it has a bias in the direction of "everything is so messed up / comical". This is an irreducible bias as it's the job of the journalist to make a topic seem engaging and interesting.

However, if you take the theme of Levine's articles too literally/thematically, you'll think that finance is filled with quirky rules that produces comically inefficient outcomes most of the time. You'll think that there are easy system changes that any layperson can see that would make the system run much better. You might even think that finance is clear swamp ready to be drained -- this plays into the confirmation bias of readers who come in already with the thesis that "the system is totally broken".

In fact, against this theme, 90% of the time the story is incredibly dry and uninteresting because the system works exactly as intended. 90%+ of the time, stock A + B bundled is worth exactly the sum of it's parts. 90%+ of the time, the regulations do protect investors, are cheap to check off, and causes no weird behavior. 90%+ of IPOs are textbook win-wins and not Adam Neumann playing Softbank or a sell-side banker eating grandma.

To be constructive though, what's the solution? Start with skimming over the most classical textbooks (Mankiw or the recommended non-heterodox textbooks from the relevant classes by your local colleges). This is the classical theory of both how things are supposed to work, and how 90% the value generation actually occurs in 90% of the cases.
Wage theft is also seldom enforced. That doesn't make wage theft right. That is, I don't see what that has to do with anything.

Anti-gouging laws are applied (it seems) after every major hurricane. I hear the news talk about how to report gouging incidents, for example.

Prosecutions occur often enough that I'm surprised to hear you say they don't have a constitutional basis. Surely that would have been tested by now (and from what I can tell, it has, and not found to be unconstitutional).

Yes, there are limits on what the state can do with regards to interstate trade. But most anti-gouging laws are state laws, and not really subject to direct US Federal Constitution limits.

So, could you explain more about how they are dubious?
> What I prefer to do is use Terraform to create immutable infrastructure from code.

Can you mount all your volumes read-only and run all of your stack? If you cannot, then you do not have immutable infrastructure. You simply happen to agree that no one write anything useful, which with time will absolutely fail because someone, somewhere is going to start storing state on a stateless system giving you "a cow #378 called 'Betsy'"
I think there is a small subset of users where open source is actually a buying decision
The average european is smaller than the average american, so there is that :)
You are talking as though the world is going to end for 2 weeks. It’s not
It's only "panic buying" for the people that aren't prepared.
Wouldn’t AMD chips be far more powerful for this?
We have yet to see most of the impact of supply chain disruption from China. That alone is going to impact most businesses. If in addition to that a lot of people in your own country are going to be sick or quarantined, I don't think we can assume things are going to work out the same as before.
There is panic buying and there is being prepared.
We started buying more of the usual stuff we use about 4(?) weeks ago. We agreed, that the situation looked dangerous in january and considered triggers for different actions.
So we now can decide to go shopping, still go to the market, but de don’t have to go to closed, crowded places.
We were able to do this because we followed “real news” and have a background in science and we didn’t let our friends tell us “it’s not going to be bad!” without having a point.
Is is a calm and rational process of risk assessment and mitigation.

If you see people stocking up on water in my area, _that’s_ panic buying. Scenarios for extended failure of the grid or water supply is implausible. The risk of running out of food for extended periods of time is low in my area.
These people realize that they slacked and now they are still uninformed. The only thing that helps against panic buyng is education and information.
You can also easily make bread if you have an oven. This recipe requires flour, salt, yeast, and water, almost no work, and time.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread

I've been baking more in the past week than in the past five years. Being cooped up at home goes better with fresh bread every day.
> For various reasons "last looked at" is as likely to be wrong as right if you have more than a couple of devices.

Agreed. Even with just a computer and a phone it would not work in my case. I am sitting in front of my computer and that is my main focus, but I pick up my phone all of the time to do things like check on some messages or add the currently playing song to my favorites. If my phone decided that every time I interacted with it that was somehow an indicator that the phone was now my main focus... I think I would probably grow frustrated with that within a very short amount of time.
Depends where you are, here in the UK even wholesalers which supply smaller grocery stores are rationing things like toilet paper, pasta, flour etc.
Teams or Slack for communication. If you’re using Office 365, Teams is a absolute no-brainer. Teams has the added benefit of being a viable video conferencing tool too.
Thank you for correcting me! Can you also answer my other question? What should I imagine in case a experimental fusion reactor gets blown up ?
So long as there are no major supply disruptions (which we have little reason to believe there will be), you’ll see full shelves of fresh produce while the frozen and canned sections are bare. Eat fresh food and buy some cans when you see them. I doubt anyone will go hungry because of this.
Why and how to make and use homemade masks with references (first comment)
"Airpods (when connected to iPhones or iPads) have very low latency, not detectable by humans. " "Linux bluetooth is hahahahaha sorry I forgot what I was going to say."

Makes me seriously doubt any other latency measurement done by him.

The AirPods (even when connected to an iPhone) are said to have a latency of around 250ms [1] with the Pros having around half of that, 120ms. This makes both of them terrible as far as wireless headsets go. Even within Bluetooth headsets, the original AirPods are absolutely terrible, with the Pro now being in a much better position, but still nowhere near "low latency".

No surprises, since AAC is nowhere near a low-latency codec (this is not AAC-LD, it is plain old AAC-LC). The latency actually _improves_ when connected to BlueZ [my experience], likely because SBC is actually a much better codec when properly configured, something that few Bluetooth stacks do [2].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/22/airpods-latency-test/

[2] https://habr.com/en/post/456182/ https://habr.com/en/post/456476/

On another topic 150-200ms of latency is definitely human noticeable, even for me, that I don't have very good hearing nor reflexes. Still I would say most likely not noticeable in a meeting room environment, except for one-person videoconference.
Great write up - sad to hear of the Regium scam. Does anyone know who’s actually behind it?
I might be fanboy of the type safety and having a quick feedback loop, but I cannot imagine a better configuration management system than just straight configuration as code e.g. in Go: https://github.com/bwplotka/mimic

I really don't see why so many weird, unreadable languages like jsonnet or CUE were created, if there is already a type safe, script-like (Go compiles in miliseconds and there is even go run command), with full pledged IDE autocompletion support, abstractions and templating capabilities, mature dependency management and many many more.. Please tell me why we are inventing thousands weird things if we have ready tools that helps with configuration as well! (:
What does your cost estimate show? Have you measured how much electricity your home rig takes? What else changes between office life and WFH life?
Agreed, which is why I do not want futures contracts, or any options with a set time horizon. I consider the current price to be a fluke, I am willing to make a significant bet that the prices will recover, but I do not know whether it will take 3 months or 5 years; I am willing to wait it out.

I understand that this will effectively mean paying a "storage premium", but I am looking to minimize such costs by pooling money with a large fund that does this for a living and has tools and agreements that I do not have.

On a basket of oil majors as a proxy: sorry, this sounds suspicious. I think there are a lot of factors beyond oil prices in play which should make those pretty well decorrelated from short term oil price movements. Is this really true? Honest question.
Iran being a theocracy is being disputed by none. In the context above it means they can't be trusted to behave as a rational actor in case of a MAD scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
As they might just say inshallah!
How much food is actually imported from China into your country?
... wider than ...
The stories of the ST (AMY chip http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/XL/ASG/Chips/AMY/), STE botched launch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oarR61SeY8E), Falcon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBTXGgb__y4), Lynx (https://www.mentalfloss.com/uk/games/36270/atari-lynx-the-wo...) and Jaguar (see other comments in this thread) all make great stories!

Some of the stuff that were done on the machines is jaw dropping - realtime raytracing on the Falcon for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKRZ8QgH5o

Doom on the Atari ST (not Wolfenstein, more sophisticated with heightmaps, lighting, 64 colours etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCvx2O5M69E

Complex texturemapping on Atari ST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwUchzEG8k

Polygon landscapes on the Lynx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPexnRsNJDs
I wouldn't seriously doubt it. It will be fast enough to do it in software anyway. Netflix has rolled out AV1 to Android and you can opt-in if you want:

https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-now-streaming-av1-on-and...
I posted directly via the contact form on the blog, not sure if it made it through.

I'm way out of my lane even commenting on this, but maybe you can dramatically simplify the air delivery side of this design, if you're willing to under-engineer. A single air chamber with an inlet (blower in) and two outlets (patient out and return out). Low rpm motor slow rotating a sealed disc with holes in it balancing outflow between feed-to-patient and return. Put a blowoff mechanism inline around the flow meter. If the capacity is there and there's such a thing as a common or global delivery 'frequency', maybe it could support more than one person.

Again, I might as well be from another planet in terms of knowledge in this domain. I'm just confused at the apparent complexity around the servo, linkage, and waste-gating. I DO get that delivery can be tailored nearly entirely in software with this design. That's cool.
This will be overlooked but this is actually the answer to your question - buy some stock. Any stock. Just one stock if you are low on cash. Just buy it. Now. Not tomorrow, today. It will force you to learn about the business you bought, how it is conducting its business but also how the stock market works. Then how the global economy works and how things are interlaced and connected. In few months you will understand more than any school or book could teach you.
Likely won’t happen. Historically, these bailouts are given to big business, and the small businesses are subject to free market rules (adapt or die)
I have worked "from home" extensively. The short answer is I "pay" if you want to call it that. Suggesting that somehow the burden of extra electrical use should be compensated for seems petty to me though.

You can try to deduct it as an "uncompensated business expense" but when you find out what the actual threshold is for that being a real thing you will be disappointed. Either that or you use astronomically more electricity that I do.

I have 2 large desktops, 2 laptops and 4 monitors in my home office. They run all the time as I never turn them off (though some of them do sleep). I can assure you that my hot tub uses far more electricity than they do.

You walk to work now which is great. For me, there was tank of gas a week savings as I drove and 10k miles less wear on my car.

Just as significant I think is that making my own coffee and lunch every day saves me in two weeks what the electricity costs me to run my office for a year. Before working from home, coffee and lunch would easily cost me $20 a day. Two weeks of that is more than my entire electrical bill a month.

Finally, for me anyways, the ability to see my kids when they get off the bus everyday and help them with homework and get them motivated to practice the activities and hobbies they enjoy is priceless.
Or just right into the toaster directly from the freezer, works great
Funny how your last paragraph makes all of the above sounds irrelevant. That's the exact same rational - emotional chain "panic buyers" went through.
Yes, but created from what? This can be called config mgmt too.
It would be good but not sure that radiologists are the dominant cost. Radiological equipment is heavily regulated because it can cause significant harm to people if the equipment malfunctions.
Because Amazon banned all sellers from listing hand sanitizer, wipes, and masks, regardless of the price.

It's mentioned in the article.
> Find me one system in current use (2020) that isn't 2's complement.

Fortunately, C2x will stop with the meme assumption that two's complement hasn't taken over the world (see draft N2479). It will not, however, specify signed integer overflow, which remains UB. :^)
There are other investment vehicles than cash and toilet paper. One's that are actually productive.
I’d keep in mind that both Mankiw and Cowen are on the right, politically. Cowen in particular, Neo-Classical/libertarian, while Mankiw is often considered Neo-Keynesian, but still conservative. So, balance this with Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, Robert Reich, or so.
Silicon Valley Was First to Send Workers Home. It’s Been Messy.
Covidnearme.org
https://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb.web

I remember reading about this some time ago, like almost 10 years ago. So you have to wonder if there are businesses out there using Gambas web apps without knowing it. :-) Some of the developers who use Gambas are very experienced.
Since this thing isn’t going away in the next 2 weeks, seems illogical to buy too much. The advice is to buy 2 weeks of supplies in case you’re infected and can’t leave the house.
People would need 6+ months worth of supplies, and even then would get infected once they came out of hibernation. The smart thing is for people to start thinking longer term for now.
As for the solution, try buy slightly more than you usually would, until the panic buying is over. Try smaller shops and chat to owners about when they will have stock?
At some point you may wish to not go to the grocery store for 2-3 weeks, either because you get sick, or because too much of the population may be contagious, which could be right now depending on where you are and whether you are high risk.

So it makes sense to have a few weeks of supplies even if normally you just get what you need as you need it on a much shorter timeframe.

If we want to kill this virus, or flatten the curve, we can do a lot by simply going out less. That means fewer trips to the store, which means bigger purchases each trip.

This is a good idea right now even if there are no confirmed cases in your area yet. Stock up, let grocery stores restock for people who waited, get ready, get the right habits now that let you stay out of public, and reduce the potential spread now.

Buying a gorillion bottles of hand sanitizer is of course not helping and selfish. But stocking up on things you will use and reducing time in public is a good idea.
the bulk is concentrated at the capital Reykjavík

That's the point, isn't it? You'd think that Reykjavik as the capital has resources and money that are not available in Aberdeen, SD or Americus, GA. In the US, the countryside has been systematically hollowed out.
Yeah, I would make a distinction between learning about the financial system for investment purposes- which as a non-professional in that space I think is pointless- vs learning about to understand what's happening in the world.

Whatever domain you're in, whatever interests you have- having something of a model of the financial machinery that basically underlies all human activity, both in the small and in the large, I would argue is super valuable.

The space is ENORMOUS and incredibly complex and so one has to have a plan and some kind of motivation for carving a path through it, to be sure.

Hard to engage with more specifics without more context, happy to continue the conversation.
Sometimes you have to work with what you're given in a brownfield env and a config managment tool is useful in that case, but it's possible that you are working with a less than ideal architecture with less than ideal time/money to make changes.

State is always the enemy in technology.

I can't even imagine managing hundreds of servers whose state is unpredictable at any moment and they can't be terminated and replaced with a fresh instance for fear of losing something.
Couldn't this be because doctors in hospitals only see patients who require hospitalization? That gives them a bias.
You can amortize that cost over all of the problems in the language's domain, not just getchar.