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With the current regulation regime, bringing your own modem on spectrum has meant that you give up the ability to get the highest performing tiers. This despite the fact that the modems on the open market were actually better/more capable than the spectrum only modem (aka not available publicly) they were giving people for the gigabit access. (this BTW just recently changed).

Even more fun, is that they regularly refuse to provision a modem at its full capability despite your service tier. AKA you have a modem that does X, and a tier that does X, but they will only provision it for 1/2X (and not bother to tell you that). A few years ago I fought a long protracted battle with their support/escalation/etc over a few months to get my modem qualified at the higher tiers and in the end the best excuse they gave was that it was a business decision.

AKA, making me upgrade my modem for no technical reason played into their ploy for renting me one.
Apart from UTF-8, the piece of software he designed I used most was the sam text editor. An opinionated and rather quirky design, with some internals that made quite enthralling reading for me at the time: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/
It is baffling to me as well. I had to write some automation for network devices that only accepted password authentication over ssh, and ended up just doing it in Go instead of using the OpenSSH binary. It worked extremely well. (I think you can make OpenSSH read the password from another fd, so you don't have to write a client just to supply a password from a script. But ultimately I found parsing the output of SSH to handle errors to be too painful; errors being out-of-band makes everything better.)
No college is going to advocate for taking future income from students over government backed loans or a traditional loan. The former translates to less immediate income. Colleges had little reason to raise tuition since 2000 except for money, I don't see them suddenly moving to forward-thinking strategies.
> Should college be a trade school or should it stick to it's roots of broadening one's horizons?

The term "liberal arts" means "free arts". The root of this term is that Athenian society was composed of a small class of free families and everyone else was a slave owned by those families. The free families were wealthy enough to afford a liberal education for their free sons.

Everyone else had to work.

Those are the roots of the liberal arts.
My school was 30,000 a year, and my wife’s state school was definitely less than 10k a year. There’s a really wide variance.
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UIUC is 25k a year just tuition and fees. Expensive college town room & board plus opportunity cost of education instead of working easily gets you to 30k a year.
Its 4.5 years to the end of 2024. Not a crazy deadline, but not easy either.

Maybe with this, SpaceX will focus more on development of their actual Starship+SuperHeavy, rather than mostly focusing on mass production set-up.

Anyway, this it really exciting news.
One thing that is clear in many countries. The need for basic internet access and ability to make phone calls.

That has in this crisis become clear in how society works and is the direction it has been spasmodically moving been more comminications driven than ever, with the internet becoming the new towns notice board. The basic access to essential online services does seem to be in need of addressing as so many are left out and it is those that are the ones who will be more inclined to be pushed into crisis. Though many will be in crisis already, just that they don't see that as that is all they know.

After all, anything is only as good as its weakest link, a lesson in so many walks of life. If you raise the standards, everybody gains.
> I set a very low belief in sequestration methods because they're thermodynamically crazy..

A solar farm plugged into a machine building plastic may sound crazy to you because oil is so cheap, but keep in mind that the theoretical bottom for the price of that solar farm is basically limited by the labor required to place it there.

There isn't even much of a reason for the generic "plastic" created by such a project not to be PV panels by itself.
> Let's get the users last name.

SELECT json_content ##> {person, last_name} FROM mytable;

> The #> or #> is the JSON path navigator with the difference being #> returns JSON and the ##> returns the JSON text value.

That should be #>> (two ">"), not ##> (two "#").

The official docs are really good and they include a number of inline examples showing the difference between the operators: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-json.html

The bottom example is missing a colon on the cast as well:

> SELECT json_content FROM mytable WHERE json_content @> '{"status": "Awesome"}':jsonb;

Should be two colons ("::") for an explicit cast: '{"status": "Awesome"}'::jsonb
Basically Harvard, and maybe Columbia and that's it. UIUC, Wisconsin-Madison, Berkeley, Michigan-Ann Arbor are orders better schools in the sciences than Dartmouth or Brown.
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why would anyone pay 5-10 netflix subscriptions for a spreadsheet editor?
Blue Origin's stuff is intended to optionally launch on Vulcan, which probably means it could also launch on FH.
It's not unjust if that garbageman went to university too, or at least had the same opportunity. Society is better off with better educated citizens. It's why we have free public schooling up through the age of 18; many other countries simply carry that farther.

On the poetry point specifically, I really think writing degrees in general would be more successful if they were granted by trade schools (i.e. a focus on doing the thing, not a focus on academic scholarship about the thing).
I want one. It would be really nice if they had a monochrome model for metrology purposes but for $50 I won't complain.
I have a crappy old Celeron 847 laptop, and my browsing experience is very much okay, not that different from even i3-8100. Yeah, I do sometimes hit very heavy sites, like bloomberg.com, but overall, experience is very much satisfactory.
If you press your hand to the bottom of a heat sink and warm it up, then turn the water pump on, it feels like water just washed over your hand, the metal cools down as soon as the water passes over it.

Some people seem to think air can be better because at idle, heat pipes can end up a few degrees cooler. Ultimately what you want though is heat dissapation, ideally without super powerful fans and water cooling is far better.
I want real change, I just don't believe this is the change that makes sense.

Changing the way colleges are paid for would make sense. Capping tuition would make sense. Making you pay a portion of your income back to the college for the rest of your life (or maybe just 20 years) would make sense.

But allowing student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy would do more harm than good without other systemic changes.
I haven't really. But keep in mind that a manuscript is just the world as seen through the author's eyes and mind, not the world. So I'm not saying that the writing style hasn't changed in 2 millennia, rather that the people themselves are the same once you drill beneath the thin layer of change from education and society.

I find texts written by my conationals a century or 2 ago already hard to relate to, also modern ones written by people from cultures very different from mine.
Vault and Keycloak serve entirely separate use cases. Vault is for storing secrets (passwords, API keys, keypairs and the like).

If you can use public cloud, have you considered Azure Active Directory? We're a Linux shop using it very successfully for on-prem and cloud systems.
Developed countries, but it's spreading worldwide. Japan hit their baby bust in the 90s, and then Western Europe in the last 10 years, and now it applies to the U.S. as a whole. China and India have also seen remarkable drops since 1980.

The only continent that still has fertility rates above replacement is Africa:

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publicatio...
The skills I learned as a civil servant - policy development, communications, staff/resource management ... all the way down to document control and filing - have been super-useful and transferrable to both my professional and personal lives.

The skills I developed as I fought, on a daily basis, with the AWS console - the sooner I lose those skills the happier I shall forever be.
They're not. Young people are just as prone to believing stupid things as older people are.

Facebook is bad for everyone.
Fasting depletes glutathione, which looks like it might matter for COVID-19. Do your reading.

(Also relevant for acetaminophen.)
k8s and borg are similar in the same way as gRPC and stubby: very similar in conceptual architecture, quite different in objective outcomes. Read the linked article to see that Borg cells have over ten thousand machines each, then note that k8s falls apart with 5000 machines. k8s supports up to 100 pods per node, and you query this trace data to see how that compares to borg. k8s in my experience can schedule about 5 pods per second, and this paper gives much higher figures for borg.
I start to understand the Windows team desire for this WinRT. You can flow through time with these language bindings without being locked into a programming language. .NET, JS, C++ and now Rust. That is seriously cool.
I get where you're coming from, but honestly I would actually prefer the opposite.

Sometimes, when I'm looking and interviewing for a new job, I really wish we had some sort of standardized, recognized certification that companies could see on my resume and think "OK, this guy knows how to code, we don't need to put him through the BS of a take home, or whiteboarding exercise or whatever". After 15 years in the industry, I'm less and less patient with having to prove myself by explaining how I would find duplicates in 2 arrays or how I would process "very large files" or whatever.

That being said, now we kind of get the worst of both worlds where you need the degree for HR to forward your resume, and you need to dance the "coding interview" anyway.
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Frequency is still very much a good proxy for speed, especially in the context of a chip which has the same deep pipelines and sophisticated scheduling that made "frequency is no longer a good proxy for speed" a popular retort. The benefits of improved IPC are dwarfed by the frequency gains as compared to those older chips.
Hi Andres... I think I did back then ;)

Though to be fair, yes the PostgreSQL has never officially said it's a full document database to my knowledge.
Ask yourself, would you use and pay for it?
There's certainly no hard and fast rule here. Much is left to the opinions of the author.

I'd argue that the analogy is necessary--it adds force to the argument, as you note. Assuming the point of his statement is to convince the reader of something.

Side note: solid use of the semicolon there.
Dennō Coil[1] is a wonderful and innocent take on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
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If the US treated education as a public good, then the US taxpayers would pay for education.
Still, it would be useful to have an indicator like [paywall], so that it's easy to avoid paywalled articles.
And traffic in freeways when you build them in/near urban centers.
Yeah; A real "Hello world" quantum program is randomly printing 0 or 1 without any pseudo-random generator. At the most fundamental level, the quantum-bit can be in many states, but when measured will "jump" to either 0 or 1.

In that website's playground (https://quantumjavascript.app/playground.html), just write:

H

And you'll get 50% 0 and 50% 1.

Now, /why/ does it jump when measured? We don't know, but physicists have many cool theories.

One of which is that it doesn't really jump, but just that there are many universes created and one shows a 0 and another one shows a 1 (Called the Many-worlds interpretation). As weird as it sounds, it seems like the most promising explanation. There are other theories but they all need to add hacks to make the maths work.
This proposal doesn't involve launching humans on New Glenn.
> garbage collection made any systems language a nonstarter

There are a significant number of systems that demonstrate otherwise: LISP machines, SmallTalk, Oberon.
Well.. the problem is how can lenders "be careful" when loaning to an 18 year old, which we can call an adult all we want but an 18 year old on their way to college is basically a grown child with no money.

So how can a lender protect themselves? Make a parent with enough money co-sign? Then you are essentially systematically not giving loans to poor people.. and only giving "loans" to kids with parents who have money.

Anyway I do think it's a complicated problem.. we want to be able to give loans to basically anyone so they can go to school; but if they are loaning to people who by definition have no assets how can a lender protect itself without essentially discriminating against the poor?
Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason. Amazon is famous for stealing whatever data they can get to promote their own business over their customers.

Some might consider Zoom giving Google, Amazon, or Microsoft insights into their business as the crazy decision.
While it's undeniable the majority of things to come out of Rust are mostly superfluous rewrites of already solid projects (to your point about "now in Rust!" being the selling point) I think it's clear the author in this particular case was just looking into BEAM internals and started a fun project, so I don't think it applies here.

In general, though, I think people ought to consider that if they are putting the language they wrote their project in in the marketing blurb for it (given a more serious project), maybe that indicates that the project itself is of little value to other people. "* Written in Rust" isn't a value proposition, it's just an implementation detail. Make real claims about zero crashes, zero leaks, something actually concrete and it can be scrutinized for real.
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Thanks! Several good points.

> In the docs it seems MPMC queues should start with /queue, but it turns out that anything that's not /pubsub or /req,/res just works, so is it really needed

/req/res was developed after the initial launch, since I had the idea later. It represents the most general form of the entire concept, since you can tunnel essentially any HTTP traffic through it. The plan is to change the default protocol to /req, which is why I changed the examples to /queue, to make the transition smoother. Lately I've been going back and forth on whether it's a good idea to make the switch, since most of the time /queue is what I want, and using /req/res involves complexity that isn't really in the spirit of patchbay. But just today I decided another project I'm working on will need the full HTTP capabilities, so I think I'm going to pull the trigger on it in the next couple weeks. There are several independent implementations of the /queue-style approach, so I think it's ok for patchbay.pub to take a slightly more feature-full approach.

Thoughts?
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It's not stable at all. In the 24-hour period between April 28 and April 29, an additional ~27,000 people have tested positive and ~2,700 have died.
Your way of writing code is an inspiration to new developers like me. Thanks!
While I do not want to be rude, statistically speaking, those with tertiary education still do better on average than those without. It's true that there's outliers and that underemployment is a persistent problem (especially in our over-educated society), but getting tertiary education might still be a better choice than a trade school, depending on your situation.

Nothing is without risk and you should inform yourself about your job prospects beforehand though. Not every major will pay and some will only pay to a select few. One should put much thought into major choice (or whether they should go to university at all) - it's one of the more impactful choices in people's lives.
But then how do you share pics of food, kids, and vacations?
Ah, but you just provided a measurement :)
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Turns out this has been tested, and the results are clear: Running a single core 9900k is pretty bad in comparison to 8 heavily downclocked cores on the same CPU. While single threaded tasks are obviously slower, frame rates are much more stable, windows is more usable with 8 cores. Several games simply didn't work with a single core, or took ages to load. Reference: https://youtu.be/feO54CBUJCk
No, the model predicted a completely different load even with intervention(in the chart). That's the point of the tweet.
If you don't mind me asking, what panels did you go with? What is your set-up? And did you install, or did you pay to install (and who if you paid)?
Program Manager here — really excited for the year ahead. I'll watch this space in case anyone has questions!
I think you shouldn't - it's like wishing you could drive an 18-wheeler to do grocery. Most people don't need that kind of firepower ever, and that's a good thing - where are you going to park your 18-wheeler, for starters?
It's very hard to express all the nuances of real music and tonality in MIDI -- so generating raw audio side-steps all the limitations of a MIDI intermediary, and IMO, the results are absolutely phenomenal!

(BTW, there are lots of AI music generators that generate MIDI, so it's less interesting either way.)
Well said. Never thought of it put this way but makes sense!

That said, people are not helpless.

They can just think things through and come to this exact conclusion.
Holy shit it's that expensive now?? Graduated from there about 15 years ago and it was maybe 8-10k a year..
I think this is a very limited view of what college, and being a great employee, is all about. Yes, I agree that education should not a priori be a dealbreaker. However you're shortchanging here the value of a) accomplishing something over a number of years, which a decent number of people with all 3 of the dimensions you specified, couldn't necessarily do; and b) the Gen Ed side of technical degrees. Strong communication skills and a general intellectual background are both valuable assets in an employee, and aren't captured by programming skills|interpersonal skills|culture fit, but are hinted at by, e.g., the ability to write a 10 page research paper which is a degree requirement for the top-line university certifications.

Yes, all of these skills can be gained and evinced without the traditional 4-yr college route, but I understand why generic Big Corp middle management uses it as a proxy for establishing a baseline in what I, and you've, mentioned.
The CycleGAN datasets [1] all have less than 10k images. The two largest have 10,345 images and 5,129 images, the rest (like the famous horses2zebras) have less than 3k.

[1] https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN#datasets
Remember that the SLS is what will be used to launch the Artemis missions. Starship & Superheavy are not in the picture at all for this work, even though they would be able to do the job and at a much lower price.

Additionally, I doubt that Starship or SuperHeavy will be ready by 2024; flying, maybe, but reliable enough for manned missions? I don't think so.
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Oil is at Zero and Oil companies are hurting and have no place to store it. I'd still buy electric and solar.
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> In those days, in Silicon Valley, we didn’t keep secrets.

That's how Silicon Valley was created from the 1950s through the 1980s, and still to a significant extent through the 1990s: knowledge was not treated as property, but rather as a commons. This is the foundation of the professions: judges and lawyers do not keep their reasoning secret, nor do priests, nor do professors, nor do medical doctors — to the extent that the knowledge they create belongs to anyone, it belongs to the profession, not to the individual professional or their client. When Silicon Valley started abandoning that principle in the 1990s and especially after 2000, the epicenter of innovation shifted to Shenzhen, where that principle was still practiced. And today with the covid pandemic we see the fallout: the US has been left far behind technologically and is completely unable to deploy the measures needed to stop the pandemic.

That isn't the only factor, of course, but it's a big one. The profession of engineering computing machinery has been subordinated to the quarterly goals of business, which can be more effectively promoted if information flow is controlled by management and money, not by engineers and sharing. But the innovation that remains vital in Silicon Valley today is underpinned by open-source software, which is based on the same kind of promiscuous openness that got Steve Wozniak debugging Atari machines for free on the late shift. Too bad free software can't tell if you've got a fever.
I hope you've at least read the first page. It doesn't sound "like" Jira at all.
Unlike software developers, doctors, in my experience(friends and docs I have gone to), don't seem to have the same open mind about things in their field. At least the one's I know. It might seem foreign to us because a lot of our job is to keep an open mind and constantly question the status quo. Doctors tend to dismiss things immediately and unless you push you won't even get them try something that is harmless. I started going to a primary care physician a decade ago that actually listened, didn't rush me and kept an open mind. He was much younger though. Safe to say though I still go to him. Other doctors young and old that I've been to have not been the same.
>The last 20 years of PC gaming has been one of theft and grand larceny by steam, valve, EA and co. We used to get dedicated servers and level editors in games.

We used to have to deposit a quarter every time our character died, and with zero save points.
There was nothing that the OP said that would imply the person wasn't a citizen, much less that they had troubles because of their citizenship.
Where I went there was a very strong fear that the students might socialize with people in the town and get influenced by them. The university had a bunch of rules in place to prevent this, they knew who they were selling to.
Maybe a concise way to describe it is that in databases NULL represents the absence of a value. Since NULL is not a value, operators like == and != don't really make sense on NULL, and also produce NULL as an output.
> sans the distributed bits for now

I thought the very point of Erlang was the distributed nature of BEAM? Failure is normal etc?
Do not compare on list prices for large companies like that. Comparing on list prices is a huge mistake from developers (and young folks new to running a company), because developers hate sales and negotiating and talking to people. Everything above some volume has to be negotiated with suppliers.

In a video company doing 1 000 000 TB of transfer per month, you gotta negotiate with every provider for bandwidth, that's just the way it is.

Just like if you were working for a plane company, you wouldn't be buying fuel from the station down the street.
Doctors declaring bankruptcy to get out of medical school debt sounds like anecdata. If student loans were dischargeable, that would change nothing for MDs because they're still going to make enough money to service the debt after residency/fellowship.
Very cool. What resources did you use to learn how to write the compiler? The "turn code into ASM" step has always mystified me, and I'd like to learn more about how that part of the process works.