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There was a series of Polish mineframes called Odra with 24bit integers which also died out in 80s essentially, but some of them were still used till 2010 in some specialized railway station software, and there was a short series of faster replacement processors for them made in late 80s-early 90s called SKOK.

Of course they weren't "widespread" for most meanings of that word :)
I remember the hype being so strong that people were (seriously) theorizing some kind of gravity-defying device.
> Illegal in the vast majority of the United States, where 2+ parking spaces per home are required by law

What does that mean? Do people need to build homes with at least 2 parking spaces per home, inside the area of their property? Does it generalize to apartments?
I think it shows up more frequently for certain mail providers. Maybe you use Exchange or Yahoo or Gmail and someone else uses one of the other ones? That changes quite a bit about how MobileMail works.
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I see lots of evidence that this is going to be an ongoing situation for the next several years. There are a few likely outcomes depending on the scientific outcome and the country:

1. We could invent a vaccine and discover that COVID mutates slowly enough that we get long term immunity. After mass vaccination in rich countries, the problem is basically solved after 1-2 years and life can go back to what it was in 2019. However, after 2 years of changed consumer habits and a set of companies and supply chains that will naturally adapt to the situation in the interim, the new normal might be significantly different than the old normal. Governments and international trade will have been changed. Investments in automation and telework will have been made. Some changes will be permanent. Like with WW2, 9/11 or the Great Recession, the ripples of causality will spread out for decades.

2. We could realize that the virus mutates fast enough that even with vaccines, we have a new endemic virus, possibly resembling the prevalence of the flu, but much more deadly. COVID will be one of the leading causes of death, up along with heart disease and cancer. People accept this increase in mortality and accept shortened lifespans. After several years of adjusting to the new reality, people start to just live with it. Some common activities completely lose their appeal due to the increased risk, such as theaters, concerts, travel, public transportation, and open offices.

3. We are unable to vaccinate against the virus, but continue aggressive measures to keep it from spreading a much as possible. We accept a new form of digital surveillance state that keeps us the goldilocks amount of isolated. We accept the new reality of algorithms determining our ability to live, work, and socialize. Life is increasingly lived digitally and in VR.

I think it's important to consider these possibilities because of the Normalcy Bias. The best way to overcome it to to seriously consider that tomorrow will not at all be like today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
The Oil shell fixes that, and it compiles back to the old syntax so it seamlessly works with 'grep', etc.

http://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/eggex.html

Point 2: Their syntax is vastly simpler because literal characters are quoted, and operators are not. For example, ^ no longer means three totally different things. See the critique at the end of this doc.

(In other words, it's similar to lex or re2c syntax)

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Another example:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/12/22.html

The Eggex syntax is independent of Oil, so you can implement as a library in another language. I'm interested in help too:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues?q=eggex+label%3Aeggex

One easy contribution is to to translate it back to PCRE syntax, because that's a very common syntax that people care about. Right now it translates to ERE, which works with egrep, awk, and GNU sed --regexp-extended.

It should be a trivial change to print the eggex AST in a hundred lines of code or so (really the hard part is testing).
Have you considered The European Union? University education is very affordable, and you can live off 100k USD for 2-3 years comfortably. I can recommend the Netherlands, good tech universities here. It would also be an experience that few of your generation can afford.
There's also the obvious compression use case. Assuming the rest of your code is sufficiently robust, you can shave off all the excess bits from your data storage. There may be a performance penalty, but you won't have to deal with low level ops or alignment issues. Most real world big data will exceed 32 bits (i.e., the identifiers will exceed 32 bits), but is nowhere close to 64 bits. The benefit is more meaningful if your data now fits in a cache/fast memory whereas it didn't before.
Purchases made with leveraged money that is all but disappearing. We are no longer in a 2016 scenario. Your link is to another article that is pushing for UBI using fear of automation that has no historical backing. Automation has been taking place since the dawn of man and people magically still have jobs even though the population has exploded. This is nonsense.
Perhaps this could be justified but at least tip off the fellow agents and law enforcement there that there's two men with machine guns approaching. Instead, the FBI agent watched them exit their vehicle, then he fled the scene, was pulled over and almost shot due to how he was dressed. They put a mask over his head and he disappeared. Luckily no one died.
In my experience, Elixir and Phoenix are both so straight forward you don't really need to rely on third-party libraries as much as you do in Rails. Some of the things you'd normally reach for a gem to accomplish is just built into Elixir itself (e.g., you don't need anything like Resque or Sidekiq because Elixir processes can do all of that and more for you).

The lack of magic is nice too. For example, it's easy to add a new custom Plug (that you wrote yourself) to your pipeline without resorting to third-party libraries to help you navigate all the magic and boilerplate you'd otherwise have to deal in other frameworks.
That's an argument. But it seems to me still a far cry from arguing that cheap capital leads to less innovation--in effect, that dumb money drives out the smart.
If it's any reassurance, I believe CS degrees do make us better programmers than those without them. At the least, we picked up concepts that "just programmers" would have had to learn on the side.

As for the whole school cost, that's a different story, but we landed in a lucrative field where we can pay off the debt, compared to a ton of others that have no hope to without a career pivot.
The integrity mode applies to the running kernel in RAM. You generally don't actually upgrade that, instead you replace the kernel image on disk (vmlinuz), which is still possible. On next boot, the new image will be loaded. But if you have trusted boot enabled, the new image will only be booted if it is appropriately signed.

Live patching still works if the updates are signed. The kernel can still do whatever - with integrity enabled it just refuses to do certain things, such as loading kernel modules or updates that aren't signed.
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Did they? They raised a billions of dollars to try to basically try to drag reality to this demo. It feels like a bigger version of a regular venture story.

"Gimme a ton of money to run this experiment. If I'm right you'll be rich"
> When I say perfect, I mean, there has been never once in my career where I hit a roadblock due to the language's limitation or complexity or flawed assumption. I faced this with other languages, but not Elixir.

This is pretty amazing praise! Are many of the other languages you've used strongly typed? That's the thing that gives me pause - I feel like I rely on the compiler a lot in languages where it can do a lot for me, and that I'd be really frustrated managing a large project without it.

I'm not sure what other languages you have a lot of experience with, but does anything in Elixir stand out to you as the reason dynamic typing works well there? I think dynamic typing is the main reason I nod along with "horrible programming languages like Javascript", for instance.
Static site generators output static HTML files instead of running a server that renders every request, it doesn't say anything about what language they consume. Gatsby is built around Javascript and React, not Markdown.
Perspective: 2.8% can get taken out of your credit card swipe too, and this is a heckuva lot harder than that.
The exact details depend on a country, but generally there are two kinds of problems:

Financial -- In some countries, the public schools are fully financed from taxes, but private schools only get a fraction of that money, and the rest needs to be paid by parents. So even a school that has the same expenses and does not try to generate profit, could still be too expensive for many parents.

Curricular -- In some countries, private school doesn't necessarily mean that you are allowed to teach things differently than the public schools. You may spend the extra money to have larger classrooms or larger playground, fewer kids in the classroom, pay the teachers higher salary (ha ha, never happens), buy fancy uniforms for the kids, or just put the money in your pocket as a profit. But you are still required to teach the curriculum dumbed down for the average kids. So, yes, the kids could get smarter peers, but they still couldn't leverage it into getting better education.

The thing is that most people would agree that all kids should get "equal service" for taxpayer money, and the rich kids should be allowed to pay for "extra service" if they want to. However, you have two different interpretation of what "equal service" means. It can either mean that each child gets education proportional to their abilities, or it can mean that each child gets education proportional to the average child's abilities.

It's not like teaching gifted kids more advanced curriculum is inherently more expensive. You could use the same building, have the same amount of kids in the classroom, pay teachers the same salary... the only difference would be progressing 10 pages of the textbook in time the average school progresses 5 pages. But some people still insist that it's not fair for gifted children to get more education on taxpayer dime, even if the costs are exactly the same.
The phrases "functional understanding" and "working knowledge" are gigantic sucking tarpits.

Before I got my current job, I felt confident in my knowledge of computer networking at the LAN level. I knew I wasn't going into the telecom world and I knew I didn't have the knowledge to debug BGP or ensure a CO was doing everything right, but LANs? Sure. No problem. I knew DHCP, Ethernet, TCP/IP, even stuff like PPP which is more niche now. Heck, I'd even passed a college course on the subject. OK... set up an ICMP server and make it useful. That's LAN, right? Certainly gonna be used on a LAN.

I'm not saying it was hard. I'm saying that I'd never touched ICMP before except for ping and didn't know what the more advanced stuff even was. Did I have a "working knowledge" of basic networking? Did I have a "functional understanding" of how to get a building full of computers to talk to each other?

It's always something. I thought I had a good, working knowledge of networking. Someone who'd actually done networking in a corporate setting would have disagreed, and pointed to a list of things I'd never touched because those things aren't useful in SoHo LANs and aren't theoretical enough for a classroom. Multiply that by a few dozen topic headings and watch people sink under the load.
In a top Russian university you simply would not have the time, and they would not hesitate to kick you out; graduating from university can be more difficult than getting into one.

Are you sure? I studied math in MSU in early 00's. Most of my coursemates drank a lot. I took some silly pride in drinking a lot and still learning enough to get good grades, but a lot of us just weren't bothered by getting worse grades. You had to be exceptionally and repeatedly bad at the exams to be kicked out.
Money can be created from nothing.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
The Stock Market vs. the Economy
And even if both companies theoretically have access to cheap loans, it would still have a negative effect on companies that focus more on execution and ideas rather than focus more on raising lots of money.
It doesn't have to be markdown files. Gatsby supports a wide range of data sources which is available to use in your templates via graphql. If your website is big and gets frequently updated with data from the backend triggering the builds, new content on the site can take few minutes to appear as the generator will need to build a static site (html/css/js files) which I assume is a problem for big publication sites.
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
> That's a good question but what's the point of all this if no one can use the app if they don't have a minimum of 8gb ram?

Even vscode, which has a gigantic memory footprint due to its plugin system, requires 1GB to run comfortably.

Nowadays you get computers with 4GB of RAM for 60€.

Let's not bother ourselves with irrelevant details.
>Agreed. Where do you want to be, in a hotel around a bunch of strangers?

Personally in a hotel because I at least know that the hotel is going to be cleaned.
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What a vacuous comment. Granted in the early days you could give the benefit of the doubt that sure Magic Leap are trying to build some revolutionary AR - you could construe my comment as ill-natured.

But go to Magic Leaps website now. Look at the promotional video that is being shown there. Now go and look at actual footage of the Magic Leap unit in action.

The company are being entirely misrepresentative of what their product actually is. They are using that amazing video footage to sell a product TODAY that is nothing close to the quality shown there. Look at what the unit is capable of and compare it to that.

Now sure, you can be given creative freedom to express the ideas of things that the Magic Leap lets you do. But then you remember the Whale video. They've been misrepresenting their product and trying to sell it using that misrepresentation for years at this point.

When TechCrunch first released video of the little floating robot game I remember people being astounded at how asinine it was. This is what VCs have been raving about and pouring money into?

So what are they trying to make work? Their promotional videos, ability to dupe VCs and probably their rock solid sales team - how long can should you give that benefit of the doubt for? They are 9 years old at this point!
looked at Jitsi and someone from our security team pointed out this authentication issue: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/5720

best alternative i've seen so far was a webrtc setup with okta authentication. https://github.com/rdegges/chatapp
To use startup lingo, they were a unicorn turning into a zombie because they never hired people who knew how to run their organizations as a cockroach. A lot of the people that I know who went there were basically fresh out of college or academia, because there was no one else in Florida and ML operated in stealth for way too long. That's not a bad thing (who among us hasn't been a fresh, doe eyed engineer at a startup?), but when you throw a couple billion dollars at them before they've learned how to build anything... might not work out.
> doctors are not working for free, why should bank employees?

Are rank-and-file bank employees getting a big chunk of those increased earnings? Seems like both doctors and bank employees are simply continuing to earn their regular paychecks, as they should. It's the banks' shareholders that are making way more money for basically zero risk. And execs, who get paid mostly in stock. That's the problem here.
Good thing.
To be clear, I was not trying to say his points were void of validity. I was trying to append some clarity to properly differentiating between a developers general knowledge base, a developers temporary knowledge base, and the actual day-to-day doings of the developer. They are not equivalent sets of things even if they intersect.

As a personal anecdote, I know I have learned many things on a project that really helped improve the code, that today I am not able to recall and would have to go back and re-learn with a minimum of a refresher. This happens a lot too. :)
Snappier in what way? opening new tab takes 1 second, closing one the same. UI in javascript is killing responsiveness.
The database/sql package isn’t very magical. The comment about magical library makes
me think it was some other package.
Since C++11, the ISO committee has been aiming for a new standard release every 3 years. So far, they've kept this cadence up. I don't recall if C++20 is actually out yet, but I know the feature set was finalized last year, if not out yet, it's probably just due to editorial issues (I've not been using C++ for work the last few years, so my knowledge might be a bit dated).
What do you mean? I don't understand what you're trying to say about the parent comment.
The same argument could be made to get rid of all numeric types except the largest. That's likely how it would compile down to on platforms without 23 bit types though just it would be handled automatically based on target. I think the point of such a feature is to abstract you from thinking about if the machine has a native 23 bit type the same way you don't think if the machine has a native 64 bit type or a hardware float type today. Also when you do this manually you're now responsible for tracking the actual type and such too. Beyond that you also want to do operations on these fields not just store them and ignore them, does the IP match this policy? Have I learned this MAC? Is this TOS in an allowed range or does it need to be bleached? Constantly pulling these out and putting them back in, the above work isn't a one time thing.

100 Gigabit networking eats more CPU than you think, especially if you're actually looking at headers. It's an enormous portion of cloud CPU usage and a big reason networking is still driven by what's easy to put in an ASIC vs running the easier thing in software.
Not asking for good sources for porn. There is plenty of porn online and most of us know it. Adult industry is a very big both wrt online transactions and as a business sector.

I consider it an essential sector. A good safe and valid adult entertainment industry will keep domestic violence, human trafficking, violent crimes, sex crimes and sexually transmitted diseases under check. It is one industry that is ready for disruption esp with robotics and AR/VR.

Societies that aren’t repressed and prudish towards sex are less violent..especially if it’s not a totalitarian govt running it.

I know at least two women in my farming community who had to leave home because of domestic violence and in both cases, it was sexual violence. With lower employment expected post covid and more men likely staying at home, this becomes an urgent industry to develop.

Other than the hedonistic aspect of porn. That’s always nice, but not necessarily essential sector.
Thanks a lot :) I'll be sure to check your book out.
In the UK households used to be able to get economy 7 electricity, which meant cheap electricity at night (I'd guess for 7 hours?).

I've wanted to have realtime pricing like that for a while, it seems to be becoming available again.

I honestly thought that was what the advanced electricity meter roll-out was going to do; but it seems not.

More direct energy cost to service price charged seems like a good thing in general.
It's a market cap of around 2 million per employee at the $30b valuation they've been at the past year. Of course, higher is 'better' as in more efficient.

Here's some context: https://craft.co/reports/s-p-500-market-value-per-employee-p...

To be fair, I do agree, it's higher than I think is right. It's absolutely not abnormal, IT companies are at 2.4m on average, and companies like Facebook (19m) or Netflix (11m), Apple (5.5m) or Microsoft (4m) are much higher.

But I also think we quickly get into apples/oranges comparisons, and it's hard to really make fair comparisons. For one, Airbnb has a very strong non-IT component, and 100% of its revenue comes from real-world transactions with very strong human behavioural elements of non-employees, i.e. complete strangers, that need to be managed. Selling a phone to a customer is pretty straightforward. Connecting a stranger to let another stranger into their home and treat it well, is a transaction with much more friction.

Second, it's not at all clear how employees are counted. Foxcon employs a million people and manufactures the majority of Apple's revenue. If Apple bought all its shares and let it operate independently, its valuation would not change radically (if it was purchased at market value), yet its market cap per employee would drop by huge amounts.

Employee figures alone don't say much. If anything they're a reflection of the company's (supply chain) structure. If Airbnb outsourced all its customer service, you'd see far fewer employees, but a far larger outsourcing bill. One or the other isn't necessarily better. Context matters, without it 14 thousand is a pretty meaningless number.

But again, on average, 2m is not a weird number, its very normal, quite average.
This is pretty darn awesome. I remember looking at LiveView a few months ago and being impressed. Elixir and Phoenix are still my favorite backend to use for personal projects, but now with LiveView I'm thinking I'm going to start using it fullstack.
I do mean economic value— the jobs literally don't pay very much, mostly because there's a sizable pool of people willing to do them because they lack alternatives.

In a UBI world where those people weren't working to avoid starvation and homelessness, it's likely that much of this bottom-tier work would start to look more like the kind of job a middle class teenager does while living with their parents— they're not there to survive, they're there to earn supplementary cash for a video game or prom dress. I'd expect then that:

- Employers would experience some frustration with the flakiness of non-desperate personnel, and would be willing to pay at least something of a premium for labour that sticks around.

- That premium and the promise of even greater reliability gains would lead to increased automation pressure at the bottom end.

- Poor people who used to work themselves to the bone just surviving (eg, Stephanie Land) actually have the time to take training programs and ready themselves for higher-value work.
Lets assume it was them. So they are a danger to society because they have a bad offering. Switch to another provider.

You seem to be saying there is none so they are a defacto monopoly. And they have a substandard offering so they should not be allowed to offer one.
Production is not going to come back to the United States when we have draconian labor laws. That is the reason it left in the first place. We are going to be more dependent on foreign cheap labor as time goes on. We cannot weaken our currency and tighten our labor laws and expect investment in manufacturing at the same time.
> At worst you are maintaining an old monolith trying to figure out someones logic from 15 years ago.

Can you imagine what it will be like 15 years from now, when we're trying to maintain someone's microservices with their logic smeared out across dozens of distributed API calls, storage backends, and code bases?
then the next question would be why in gods name have they so many employees. I just checked wikipedia and they have apparently twelve thousand workers? What do all these people do? I don't understand these sharing companies.