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maybe this will help: you see a man rushing along and he notices a twenty dollar bill. He starts moving toward it but looks at his watch and rushes off.

You pick the bill up, and it is indeed $20.

Why didn't the man pick it up? It's free money.

It's true that it's free money. However, the man might have something that he's rushing to that in that instance, he's decided is worth more than $20. Perhaps it's a very important job interview, for example.

So while it is a free $20, it also costs him a job. that's why he can't afford to pick it up.

You don't have the same opportunity cost. For you the $20 didn't potentially cost a job. So you pick it up.

Developers are perhaps in a similar situation.

Let's say there is a bug that is so horrendous, every month 5% of your userbase leaves saying "We are leaving because you don't do x." Another 5% of your userbase is on forums desperately asking for x, saying they will start paying you the moment you do it.

Why don't you pick up all these customers? All you have to do is x!

Perhaps the reason you're not picking up these customers is because you have another feature that increases your reach by a factor of 5. So, although you could retain 5% of your users who are leaving, and pick up 5% of users who would join, you have another 500% of your users who you are buying by investing your time in doing y instead of x.

You can't "afford" to do x, because then you wouldn't be doing y.

In essence, you are rushing to an interview instead of picking up the bills your customers and potential customers are waving in front of you hoping you'll take it.

Is your analysis of the opportunity cost rational and correct? Maybe not.

But this mentality does explain why a whole lot of software is extremely buggy and has forums full of people asking for simple bug fixes and features, all of which are ignored while the company pursues new customers. The company feels they "can't afford" to incur the opportunity cost of fixing their bugs, because they'd be losing out on the new customers they could be getting by focusing on new features instead.

This is also why making a big scene in the news gets a bug fixed very fast. Now you're not just "paying" with your dollars, which the company would ordinarily snub. you're paying with the dollars of all the new customers who are reading about their response in the press; and the company cares a lot more about those new customers than it does about you. so it fixes your bug, because now it can't afford not to.
That's a common tactic in the business world. Tell your salesmen "if you don't drive a nice car, your customers won't think that you're any good" and boom.
Even without the prospect of seizure, it's not free to maintain a stockpile, or maintain a short. So you're also making a bet that it will happen sooner rather than later- if it takes 100 years, your equipment will be rusted or obsolete and you'll probably be dead by then. And you'll have paid every year to maintain it, money you could have put into a slightly less risky and more liquid investment that would have long since paid out.

All the day-to-day costs and risks can just totally swamp the potential upside, even before the regulatory risk of seizure or being forced to sell your stockpile at pre-crisis prices. Price-gouging laws are already on the books, so it's not like it would be that much of a surprise.
These days, trying to stay put - been here about eight months and have no particular plans to move on.

As to how we choose - we do a lot of overland travel, and see a lot of places as a result. We’ll get to know a local in some forsaken spot who’ll be like “that cottage is for sale for cheap, it needs a lot of work”, or “the goatherd’s daughter has gone to university and he’s going to struggle this winter” or “there’s an old mill down by the river that only an idiot would buy”, and we just kinda do it. That’s all been in the three and a bit years since I stopped giving a damn and just decided to do whatever - I’m lucky in having a spouse who was willing to trust me when I suggested we both quit our jobs, stop being director of this and manager of that and just go be humans of earth. Before work got silly, we, and before that I, used to go wandering periodically - usually somewhere where people would stop and stare at the outsider - had a great time in the ‘stans, both times, and Siberia - and did a tour of all the bits of Latin America nobody visits - love the interior of Uruguay. Nearly settled down there, but only stayed two months, as I can see economic and environmental doom just around the corner for them.

Anyway. I digress. I’ve always had itchy feet, and I probably should have been an anthropologist or something.
I would say the key is not relying on global installs. By default all NPM dependencies are installed locally alongside the manifest. You use more disk space, but disk space is cheap these days.
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If the lowest tier of job is relatively easily replaced, one assumes the next tier is as well meaning the people who are often making these rules are not well trained veteran managers but people who may be first time people managers or not be cut out to be a manager.

I had an early crappy hourly gig as a kid (as most do) at a major chain and in the span of my two years there we had one manager get caught doing crystal meth, another get caught flagrante delicto and a third who was just a jerk.
Open plan offices started for cost reasons in areas with very high land cost, largely NYC and SF. However it was never stated as a cost cutting measure, instead it was dressed up as a “collaboration” tool. Of course since SF and NYC sets trends, tons of other companies have been cargo culting this layout, since that’s how google does it.

Also, most managers don’t actually know what their facility space costs. I don’t.
I sure did. Harder than I worked at some better paying jobs, for sure. Wage itself does not seem to be the determining factor in motivation.

I'd say it's more about barriers to entry and the work environment itself.
Depends on how difficult it is to integrate Common Lisp into Emacs. Or would you just be rewriting Emacs in Common Lisp?
that was my experience as well before returning xps and getting a new macbook.

on any intensive work it would get so hot that i could not rest my hands on it.
$1800 if you want more than 2 ports (one of which is for charging). Between this and the Touch Bar, I’ll probably get an MBA instead to replace my 2017 Pro.
This is what a lot of people don't know. If you pay for premium support from Dell, it is significantly better than the support experience with Apple.

No having to check for appointment slots each day, hoping to get one two weeks out. No having to arrive at the store at the start of the day, get in the same-day queue, and hope to get seen for a 15 min checkup within 4 hours, and then lose your machine for days, if not weeks, while the repairs are done off site.

Dell premium consumer (consumer, not talking about their business support options here) support gets you next day engineer to your home, with replacement parts on hand to repair your fault in your home. Three unsuccessful repairs on the same component results in a total replacement, usually with an upgrade.
Where I have to use Linux, I just boot up a headless VM and ssh into it from my Mac. Saves me a lot of headache trying to run a real Linux machine and deal with x and all its BS.
Now that's just unreasonable. Please don't lump all McD workers together and assume they lack integrity as a whole...
Cool robot!

For dealing with layers not supported by TensorRT, you might want to try to export to onnx instead and then use tvm[1] to compile your model for the hardware.
I have not used it on nvidia boards yet, but I had good experience on other less powerful ARM boards, and as tvm docs show some examples running on jetson tx I imagine the AGX Xavier is likely fine too.

[1] https://tvm.apache.org/
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But with services this big people don’t look at the percentages, they look at the hard numbers. It doesn’t matter if 1M people are <0.1% of Google’s user base - if they lose their data people will start migrating off, because that’s a scary number, and the media will report “1 MILLION people lost their accounts!”, not “0.1% of people lost their accounts.”
And this is why the bank says you can only create a password with alphanumeric characters. Despite the huge advances of UTF-8 adoption there are still large numbers of systems out there where you can't reliably use anything other than A-Z and 0-9 as input.
I started blogging recently as a way to get things I find interesting written down somewhere, like how we process "goodbyes" as people and why they're a good thing. Mostly me just venting things I think are interesting.

I also started journaling recently (which I keep private) and it is a great way to vent, especially while in quarantine. It also help me clarify problems to myself by writing them down. It will also be pretty cool to be able to do a grep on my journal and be able to find my thoughts on the day of an actual event in the future.

All in all, I think it's great to write, and I think it's something that more people should try.
My time is worth way more than dealing with ripping DVDs, to be honest.

Yes, streaming platforms are convenient, but no, I don't want to be limited to whatever Disney+ or Apple Arcade wants me or my kid to watch/play. I choose what shows/games are worth, not the other way around. I will pay to watch a show in streaming, but I don't pay streaming to have something to watch. If that makes sense...
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> in terms of person-years lost

"Potential" person years lost, I guess. If you used "person years" the same way you use "Our firm has a combined 125 years of experience" then it's the other way round.

(Grim discussion, I guess, but I'm just not certain I agree with the unspoken assumption that seems to be in that statement, that the younger the death, the more tragic/more effect on society.)
My state of 3M had 100,000 deer harvested last year.

And what about rabbits, squirrels, turkeys, ducks, quail, bison, elk, feral hogs, etc., etc? There's more game out there than just deer.
Time certainly is valuable.

Six years ago I was cut to part-time but a year before that I got a raise. The raise wasn't a fortune just double minimum wage in my region. But after my hours were cut I was making essentially minimum wage with a few benefits (my country has socialized medical system).

There I was not really financially bad I had a lot of savings and a job. But going from 20 hour days, shift work, sometimes overnight, to four hour week days it felt like retirement.

I was loyal because I was at the company since day one. I ran network cable, set up equipment when the building still didn't have power or heat yet. But I didn't see the company was Theseus it was the same company but its bones were replaced many times over.

Anyway time for yourself is great intuitively people know it. But until you get to experience it you don't understand how much you're missing.
Feel like that has the opposite effect on me. If I interact with a salesmen who has lots of flashy items I just think about how much mark up/reverse incentives they have on the sale.
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There are videos on both sides of each of these topics on YouTube right now, so I'm not sure I understand your point.
> The virus is everywhere, in every city and state, but we’re flattening....

I wouldn't bet my money on that statement
Since of those I will only buy a few items I can tell you the prices here, in NYC in a non-ethnic but non expensive supermarkets:

* Cherry tomatoes when available: $1.00/pt

* Tomatoes: $0.99-$1.50/lb, right now up to $1.69lb

* Onions: $0.59/lb

* Honey crisps: $4.99/bag ( 5lb per bag )

* Baby spinach: $2.49/lb

So the mass consumed vegetables are are about 2x the price of a local super market and they have $250 min. Try meats and fish and you see the similar level of markup.

I think their business model is to provide single point logistics services covering ingredients to companies that take those raw ingredients and do value add ( restaurants ) and selling on credit. That model does not work if there are no buyers for the logistics service.

I think should they be delivering to consumers, their competitor is instacart where the basked ends up being 20-80% higher than the same basked would be should it be filled directly in a supermarket. ( counting all the fees )
Responded to the comment directly above (?) As a supplement to a family's food supply, hunting and foraging are totally insufficient. Not if everybody was doing it. The numbers aren't there.

Fewer steps in the seafood supply chain, doesn't offset the fact that in America anyway, it currently provides a whopping total of 1 meal a week per. That's gotta be dropping too. So still the numbers don't support any idea of supplementing food supplies to any great degree.

The OP was just a puff piece about an uptick in hunting. That was fun and interesting. I just posted to provide the insight that, this isn't going to ever matter to our situation in any significant way. We have to support/restart our commercial food chain, or its going to get very bad. No alternatives are reasonable.
If anyone is interested in checking out a compelling Kojima Title from the Gameboy Advance Era, look no further than Boktai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boktai:_The_Sun_Is_in_Your_Han...

The game uses a solar senor on the cartridge to charge your weapons and abilities. Very innovative
And eventually the marks don't wipe off, they remove whatever coating is on the screen. I've had this happen on pretty much every MBP I've ever owned.
I had that on an 09 Pro/Unibody. It was kinda brilliant (ha). Imagine such dual type port on a phone...
Age affects everything. The diamond princess cohort is much older than the population average. Older people are more likely to die from the disease, suffer symptoms from the disease, and catch the disease, all things being held equal.

The concept of death rates, symptomatic rates, and even transmission rates as a generic term is meaningless because it depends entirely on the age demographics of the population (and behavior, and other things, etc.).

The idea the most people who catch it are asymptomatic is true if our antibody tests aren't throwing out massive false positive rates. For something closer to the general population, the USS Theodore Roosevelt is probably a better guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_USS_Theod...

Looks like 90% of them had the disease on April 11. By April 20, 60% were asymptomatic. The last update seems to have been on April 22, with about 50% asymptomatic. That's probably a good bet for an actual figure in my opinion.
It probably actually costs them money, when all is done, to take that machine and get rid of it in a reasonably responsible way.
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Unfortunately that's incredibly hard to scale. I've seen many construction companies hit the growth wall thinking that they could grow using that model instead of building process.
Don't mean to be overly critical, but really the number one factor is always customers. Do you have any?

This is 100% true and 10,000% annoying. Effectively it blocks anyone who has an idea for an idea for a business that needs seed capital from competing unless they're already wealthy (directly or able to raise funds from within their own network of friends and family). 15 years ago seed capital was exactly that - money that was available to fund a startup based on little more than an idea and a persuasive team. It was massively high risk but that was kind of the point. The taste for risk that VCs once had is gone. Today what people call seed rounds are really Series A. You need to have already done the high risk proof of concept work and actually have something on the market before VCs will take your call.

That's entirely up to VCs of course. If they want to do that they can. And no doubt they'll still make a lot of money. But society as a whole is faced with dull ideas thought up by middle class kids who want "innovative" ways to pay someone to do their chores because of it, and that pisses me off a lot.

End Rant.
This is one of the reasons I run podman instead where I can and don't just give users access to the docker service. You can also run buildkit in rootless mode
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Consumable's main products are high quality ad units. What you'd be working on is the ad exchange sitting behind those units, which currently serves about 40k incoming requests/second and does around 300k outgoing requests per second. Any ad tech or large scale web server experience a plus. Should have some experience working on production systems, but not necessarily senior level.

Our ad exchange is written in Rust and deployed to Digital Ocean. Interest or experience in dev ops is also a plus.

Contact me at justin@consumable.com if you're interested in learning more.
I would rather extremists have to go to some other website to get their content, than for it to end up in tens of thousands 12 year olds' recommendations lists on YouTube.
Most shortages are caused by logistics, not supply.
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There are unfortunately some devices that are nominally USB C but don't actually support the spec properly, like the Nintendo Switch. So some caution is required still.
Maybe I misread. But the fact remains, hunting and foraging are fun for some (a vanishingly small fraction) Americans. But not gonna feed the teeming masses.
Or you could do both.
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How much of Harvard and MIT's catalogs are actually online in their entirety? (incl. textual resources, coursework, answers, etc.) IIRC it was more like a few handfuls of introductory courses.
Sounds like a good business opportunity. What's stopping me from buying them all up at the Apple store and selling them to overseas customers?
> That is, I am opposed to the argument that private corporations are not bound by the first amendment

There is no right conferred by the constitution that guarantees you a public platform in a private forum, it is simply an exemption from persecution by the government for statements made on any platform. That does not mean that the private owner of a forum must provide a platform of statements it does not endorse or condone for content that would be contrary to the forum owner or administrator's intended audience. That would be like forcing a restaurant that has been vandalized with graffiti from washing the exterior because the vandal has the right to have his work displayed regardless of the content, audience, or message.

> COVID-19 has added the additional element of this new concept of "disinformation".

This is not in any way a new concept. Furthermore this kind of disinformation can destroy the lives on innocent bystanders. Don't believe me? Ask all the people that have been effected by Sandy Hook truthers, Pizza Gate, and if you want to go back to the 80s, the daycare satanic moral panics.
You mean like...

https://www.enterprisedb.com/enterprise-postgres/database-co...

It's been around for years. Earlier on PostgreSQL did make some efforts of being recognizable to Oracle users... look at Oracle PL/SQL and PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL... very similar and I recall that similarity being intentional.

Also, there is the SQL standard. Rather than supporting all vendors' syntax and features, which can change on the whim of some competitor that probably doesn't have your best interests at heart, it's better to adhere to the standard if you want the broadest applicability. PostgreSQL does exactly that with few deviations from the standard, relative to the industry as a whole. At the end of the day it's really about goals and not every RDBMS has the same goals; with PostgreSQL standards compliance is a goal.
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Puzzle level 1) ini file:

you mean, "add -x to the invocation, get back a few screenful of text, wade through that looking for "export" lines and copy them to your terminal, find "start-stop-daemon" line, copy the part of the line and remove irrelevant parameters, and paste into your terminal as well?

I would not call this "easy" or "solved". Possible, yes. Pleasant, no.

Puzzle level 2) inherited env -- I think you made copy-paste error? You just copied the same paragraph again.

Puzzle level 3)

Surprise! Neither dmesg or /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg usually contain startup problems! Sometimes the nice daemon might log stuff there, but it is no way universal or required.

The sysvinit recommended way is to call things like "log_failure_msg" and "log_warning_msg", and those only print to stdout, which is the console. That's it. Gentoo's OpenRC does claim to have boot console logger, but it was broken every time I tried to use it.

Are you running any servers? If so, you might want to connect to the monitor, reboot and see if any service has error messages. Or you can use console scrollback after the server is booted, but you might need to recompile your kernel to increase is size, it is pretty small. Or just install systemd, it has full boot logging fully integrated with primary logging. And even a special command which lists all daemons which failed to start.
>Certainly, no mask no service should be a thing.

Now that's something that would help both people and the economy. Business in no need of mask would include stuff like hospitals, police stations, prisons.
That seems a spectacular claim that will require spectacular evidence to support it. I realize it's a very trendy statement, but it does not appear supported by the data[^1].

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...
Two reasons.

> It can't be that much work

You're right, IF you so overly simplify the translation that it also doesn't work with the majority of Oracle applications.

Second: Have you heard of the Android/Java/API lawsuit?
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& more's coming. PG13 has improved hash aggregation[0] & List (which is used throughout) has been updated from being a linked list to being an array

0: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/507ac540ec7c20136364b5...
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Seriously great move by Tim. He has power and celebrity (of a sort), so he's likely insulated from any real blowback here, but it definitely makes Amazon looks very, very shitty.

Well, shittier.

Anyway, this is what a principled tech leader looks like.
And thousands in the Middle East died from Bush's presidency. And millions died during Reagan's because he bungled AIDS. You can whataboutism all day but it helps no-one.
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They have an even more vanishingly small contribution, total poundage, to the food supply.

I don't mean to be a scrooge - go hunting if it pleases you! But its not gonna feed America, not even a percent or two of us. The numbers don't support it.
As many have said, the bulk of the value of going to college is in the signaling they're able to provide. You're paying (overpaying in my opinion) for the infrastructure they've put in place to adequately assess your abilities in a way that employers can trust.

Say you pay someone to do an inspection of your home that the gov is requiring before you can sell. Has that inspector taught you anything or made any tangible improvements to your home? No. What they've done is signal to the gov and buyers that your home passes inspections.
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