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Independent restaurants in their current form I think are interesting, it's always interesting to see what other people think.

I think it's mostly people who are artistic and creators and have a work ethic, working massive hours for below minimum wage.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, to create is a reward in itself. And at a societal level, we all benefit.

But it doesn't change, they are fucked.

Just asking people in the up and coming Depression to eat out more or pay more money won't work.

C19 has destroyed the restaurants, they won't come back for years, that's all there is to it. C19 has destroyed a large part of our wealth. Holding hands together and singing won't help.

There are ways to catch up, they are the same as 40 years ago. Like reducing environmental restrictions, reduce employee safety. C19 will continue to kill for decades, even if we get a vaccine or treatment.
> I agree with your sentiments. The USA still leads the world in research and were the best positioned to respond to this threat. So much of the rest of the world's biology/medical research relies on tools that are supplied by the NHS/NCBI/CDC in the USA.

It's not like that reputation and research has all gone to waste. The US has developed a lot of antiviral drugs. Some notable examples include many of the antiretrovirals that have been used to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the influenza antiviral drug Tamiflu which multiple countries have proactively stockpiled in case of an influenza pandemic, and remdesivir, which was originally invented as an Ebola antiviral but might actually be effective against SARS-CoV-2.
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Maybe that person is you?

What do you think about wasm?
Thanks for the tip. The XPS 15 that I've tested this most on has a 1050.

I'm using the proprietary Nvidia driver.

My XPS 13 is using Intel from an 8th gen i7.
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> not sure why they even bothered trying.

Because not everyone is willing/able to negotiate and even if this tactic only works on 10% of people that buy a car, that's still a nice commission for the sales guy.
Other than borrowing what costs do landlords have to bear? Certainly in the UK they seem to do nothing other than cream off any profitability you have generated at the next rent review.
The delivery part is where all the overhead occurs. Developers think these services are trivial and making a killing on the markup because they can imagine writing the app and backend themselves. That’s not the hard part!

The hard part is recruiting, training, and managing the drivers. This requires you to hire lots of employees to communicate with the drivers and support them in real time during peak periods (around supper time and weekend evenings).

You can’t automate this stuff away because the drivers are dealing with all kinds of complex, real-world problems. Stuff like addresses of houses that don’t exist, drivers getting lost trying to find apartment suites or even restaurants within a complicated building, aggressive dogs or angry/drunk people, people denying they ordered anything and their contact numbers pointing to a different city...

The Google model of seeing customer support as a problem and automating it into nonexistence doesn’t work here. You’re dealing with hot food that’s cooling fast and hungry people who can’t wait very long and drivers who need to complete a bunch of deliveries in a night in order to make it worth their time.
I guess they also knew about 4 months of 0 to low business thanks to a global pandemic?

You know it doesn't cost much to be a bit nice to other humans...
Yeah. At least shit is reuseable.
> I'm starting to think commercial landlords need some competition from local governments.

> There is too much NIMBYism

If you could get rid of the NIMBYism, then the commercial landlords would compete with each other.
Buffet for me means one of these restaurants where you pay a fixed price and then eat as much as you like. That's not the kind of restaurant that is common in Central/Eastern Europe(in fact those all-you-can eat restaurants have never caught on here)
Even if they have a nice, modern website, there's still credit card handling. Many customers will be put off by having to enter their CC details into yet another website. Things like Stripe alleviate this to some degree, but it's still a hurdle.

And unfortunately people trust mobile apps more than they do websites, so unless you expect every local pizza shop to have its own mobile app (and expect customers to have enough brand loyalty to install it), that's not going to change.
There were no problems in 2017 or before, we were doing the same exactly the same during Firefox times (we went through security and privacy audits). Data collection is and always was safe wrt to privacy.

Why the ruckus then? Because some assume that is data is sent, privacy is compromised, period. They do not know how to do it, and they assume it's impossible. Instead of checking the claims for themselves (code is public, data can be inspected, documentation, etc.) they prefer to stick to their belief system, which is more comfortable and does not imply hard work. The press release that FF -- written by one of these people with a lot of biases and published without review -- did not help as it was misleading.

We did a big mistake back then. Instead of rebutting it, we chose to ignore the FUD assuming that facts would prevail. They did not.

Sadly the community is "scared", we have been congratulated and lauded by anyone who checked our systems. But never endorsed in public, there is little to gain and a lot to lose (you are getting a sneak preview right now).

Sad story, extremely frustrating too, but there is nothing we can do now.
While Apple Arcade was a nice idea, its clear now that is has been out a while they they are still not taking gaming seriously. New game releases are slow and the games are very shallow. There are very few games in the Arcade that you would play for more than a day or two.
Cycles (path tracers) do render caustics but because rays are traced from the camera to light sources the probability that caustics are rendered is very low. This results in noise and fire flies (thats why the glossy filter is set to high in Cycles).

The solution is bi-directional path tracing but this is very hard to implement in Cycles because of the way it is built (according to the developers).
That part seemed strange to me. According to people I know that have worked in food/beverage industry, the most expensive part of a cup of Coke at a movie theater or fast food restaurant is the actual cup itself. The liquid inside the cup costs pennies.
The syntax works exactly like it's supposed to. "is" is an alias for "==". This kind of chained comparison makes code much more readable. This contrived example which I never encountered as a practical issue not withstanding.
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No, the OS updates provide apis that apps that you voluntarily install can use. They don’t work on their own.
Just program in assembler then.

Honestly, Python's way is the only sane way to parse this. This is how a human who never programmed before with some knowledge of math would understand it.

Everyone's else mind is just corrupted by broken legacy languages.
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I read it as using these service providers will make them loss less money comparing to solely relying on phone orders. If the restaurant has enough cash, they might accept a temporary loss to ride out the pendamic.
There's bat colonies and wet markets all over China. The odds that SARS-CoV-2 naturally began in one of the very few places with labs that study it seems exceedingly remote.
Funny enough, I currently use a Fujitsu laptop, although from 2012...

Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't know they were still making laptops.

In fact searching the largest online retailer in Romania, eMAG, they don't have any Fujitsu laptop on sale... And it seems that neither do other large retailers.

Perhaps it is popular only in certain countries?

(This "availability" could be a major issue, as if I encounter any hardware problems, the support will be quite difficult...)
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Not nearly as much. If at all.

This is what killed retail in the UK. Amazon certainly made a difference, but given a choice, some people actually enjoy mall shopping and eating.

But between huge hikes in business rates (commercial operating taxes) and rent increases, retail simply isn't as profitable as it was in the 90s.

The rent increases are pure greed and predatory extraction. There certainly hasn't been any correspondingly huge explosion of costs for landlords.
> Dealers have financing costs in keeping inventory

The industry term for that is "floorplan loan."
True, and even if the meal is not "Tate modern", even a workday lunch can make me feel that someone actually cared and reinvigorate my soul in the middle of work. Most of the time I will choose to pay a premium in time or money instead of cheapest/convenient-est.
The link doesn't load for me, but that seems pretty unreadable. I'd probably sort, merge, and print duplicates:

sort -m <(sort -u file1) <(sort -u file2) | uniq -d
If you are not able to recruit then that pretty much proves you are underpaying, right? If you pay market price for devs you would not have trouble recruiting, well, devs.
Then they may have well just written "Smoking Bad".

If the motivation is to educate people on the dangers of smoking (which they already overestimate due to the fear based anti-smoking campaigns) they should probably tell us why.
The article claims that 20 years ago, restaurant margins were 3x higher than today's 3-9% (e.g. 10-25%). I can't find evidence that restaurant margins were ever that massive. In fact the first few Google search results e.g. [1] confirms what I suspected: margins were low single digits even 10+ years back.

Therefore, this makes it less likely that there is a paradise lost of high restaurant margins we can return to, and more likely that some fundamental parameters that make the economic equilibrium of restaurant margins really low.

A guess for these parameters include:

- High competition: there are dozens if not hundreds of different restaurants I could walk to in 10 minutes (living in a US city).

- Low barriers to entry: a good minority of the population can learn how to operate an okay restaurant.

- A lot of owners get "passion utility" out of running a restaurant -- this means they are willing to be paid less in cash.

- Lastly but maybe most importantly, incredibly price sensitive customers. Just like the retailing industry, individuals are incredibly brutal about price. We can exhort day and night about the bad practices of Amazon, Walmart, boycott country X, but at the end of the day price wins. The author here is making a "boycott low margins" appeal which doesn't seem practical.

Restaurants will re-equilibriate. Likely a bunch will go out of business sadly. If social distancing requires there to be fewer customers, and customers are more cautious and eat out less, the bright side of the thin margins is that the restaurants will just pass this cost onto the customers since the ones that don't will be out of business.

Since all restaurants will automatically cost more resources (square foot per customer, overhead) to operate, they will have a common force uniting their upward push in prices too.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sageworks/2014/06/22/us-restaur...
This is a backend web framework. Better comparison would be with Clojure+whatever they use for webservers over there.
Commercial rents are still insanely low in Berlin. Low fixed costs and high turnover make a low-margin business viable, hence the proliferation of food trucks in Tier 1 US cities.
“==“ is not an alias of “is”, they behave quite differently.
The link you give links to http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6020558

"Radioactivity of Tobacco Leaves and Radiation Dose Induced from Smoking"

The gist:

> In estimating the radiation dose induced from smoking, it was concluded that the annual effective dose to lungs due to inhalation for adults (smokers) averaged to 80 μSv for 226Ra, 67 μSv for 228Ra and 105 μSv for 210Pb, that is 252 μSv in total. The annual effective dose due to 137Cs of Chernobyl origin averaged to about 200 nSv, that is three orders of magnitude lower than that of the naturally occurring radionuclides. The effective dose of 252 μSv per year must be compared with the average worldwide exposure to natural radiation sources due to inhalation 1.26 mSv y−1.

(although the source for the radioactivity is not only fertilizer, but a combination of fertilizer, natural radioactivity, and to a tiny amount Chernobyl fallout. The plants were sampled all over Greece.)
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Super cool! If all the components of this metric are models, thoughtful versioning and documenting it will be important. What are your thoughts on this ?
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I think you need to brush up on Python...

>>> x = 25 * 37

>>> y = 25 * 37

>>> x is y

False

>>> x == y

True

From my understanding, '==' checks for equality and 'is' checks that the variables reference the same address.
> Yes. Let's just kill all community space. Great idea. I too enjoy being a pod person.

The problem is that a heck of a lot of people are ok with that. I'm one of them. When I went to university, the delivery apps arrived in the middle of my time there. I think I went to a restaurant a 5-6 times in the remaining two years after UberEats and SkipTheDishes arrived.

I lived in the centre of downtown my final year and I didn't go to a restaurant downtown once.

I'm an extreme case of wanting to be at my computer to be sure, but it only takes a small percent opting out to make slim margins go to zero.

A lot of the demand for community type space was under a certain logistical duress. I either had to go to a restaurant, choose from a limited selection of delivered foods, or order takeout (and I may as well just eat it there if I have to make the journey anyway). That no longer exists and instead of paying for the overhead of the restaurant, my money goes to UberEats.
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It can also be seen in porn where porn prices are always falling because so many people passionately create free porn.
Very nice little article. While my kind might not be the target audience would you mind adding a short ELI'mNotAnEconomist explanation?
This is actually something we struggled with, and why we released everything this way. There is something to say about why BLEU and ROUGE have stood the test of time, they are extremely simple to use and static. Hopefully we can bridge this gap.
Yes, seems obvious, right. But every time I tell HR that we have to pay more or we won't find candidates it's always the same - "that's the standard industry pay, there's nothing wrong with it, we've done our research and programmers in comparable positions are paid this much or less"
Have you tried the Quest? It's a gamechanger in my opinion for ease-of-use. Hardware isn't top of the line, but it's good enough for a great experience, and they are doing all sorts of fancy things with the existing headset via software that is wringing more mileage out of it (Oculus Link, Virtual Desktop, Hand Tracking, pass-through, etc).

Quite bullish that the next generation will be absolutely incredible. I bought an upgraded dev machine to try out VR dev because of the Quest -- it seems like it will be the next mass-computing interface.
We are talking about Roman era urban setting. A kitchen was a luxury for most common folks in urban eras. Most poor people would go to a local shop, and eat cooked millet/grains or rarely meat (usually chicken, as beef was a luxury), and lots of local fruit/veggies.

In the country-side, yes, there were kitchens/places to cook home, or often outside the main home. (barn style of a place, dedicated to cooking).
nice, I finally took the time to read the man pages for awk. And whipped out a script to count the number of errors occurred for a particular day for a postgres log file.

cat logfile | awk '/ERROR:/ {counts[$1] = counts[$1] + 1}; END { for (day in counts) print day " : " counts[day]}' | sort

I just needed to know how awk programs are structured, the rest is just simple programming!

EDIT: I'm not sure if it's actually correct however...
> No one is making money off gaming hardware.

Where does this nonesense come from? There's a whole market segment just catering to PC non-console games with companies manufacturing RGB lighted RAM, specialized motherboards and plenty of gaming periphelias. Even gaming laptop market is booming.

And that's even ignoring "tiny" companies like nVidia.
"either you differentiate, or is is unskilled labor"

I don't think this assertion holds up, especially if you look at other industries.

A car mechanic doesn't have much room for differentiation beyond "I can service more car brands" and "I'm cheaper" or "I'm faster". Anyone can match your offering as long as they can balance the trade-offs involved (sufficient resources, etc). That doesn't make being a car mechanic unskilled labor - doing car repairs properly and efficiently requires a lot of practice and training.

Similarly, if I'm a bank there's only so much differentiation I can offer. Different financial services and interest rates or stuff like that, sure, but at the end of the day I just store people's money in accounts and provide loans. That's basically all I do, and any other bank can do it. A bigger bank has the ability to do it better (due to their resources and regulatory capture) no matter how much I differentiate myself, and since it comes down to policy in many cases another player can just come in and copy all of my policies. None of this means that working in banking is "unskilled labor".

The tendency to call people like chefs or line cooks "unskilled labor" is disgusting. Being a line cook or a chef in a high-pressure restaurant environment is REALLY HARD and takes tons of practice and training.
And in a city hundreds of tons of manure to pick up off of the streets.
I feel that having a specialism is more a more marketable headline early on in your career (e.g. I am a React Developer). As you become more senior the expectation is for you to take on additional roles such as hiring, coaching and mentoring. This is very hard if you have focused to much on one area and not taken a more general view.

But this is all about what you want from your career. Some people strive for leadership roles (CTO/Tech Lead) and some people prefer to write code (Senior Developer). Both careers are valid options.
> Why not just FORTH?

Joy comes from a totally different background, and has a very unique set of features. The fact that a purely functional point-free programming language finished looked quite similar to Forth in some aspects was just an accident (a happy accident, imo).
Those GPUs are horribly underpowered for the screen they're driving. They would be fine on a 1920x1080 display, but on a Mac display the GPU barely squeezes stable 30fps on modern games... even in lowest settings.
Ada is just another Foogol, and is missing a lot of features from other branches of the language development world.
Gabrielle Hamilton had a good op-ed about this topic as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/magazine/closing-prune-re...

As Hamilton notes, even before coronavirus restaurants were facing increasingly tough financial situations. I agree in principle that restaurants should raise their prices. There's really no other option. But it's a tough pill to swallow. Especially with the stagnation of wages. People aren't making more money and yet everything is getting more expensive. Of course if we raise minimum wage, this also hurts restaurants because they rely on cheap labor to keep their already thin margins.

Unfortunately it appears that delivery is part of the solution. Restaurants can do more volume with fewer staff and smaller spaces with a proper delivery presence. But the prospect of turning a full fledged restaurant experience into eating another meal from a plastic container just makes me sad. It's not the same.
>> You can collect data from users and still do not compromise their privacy

> This is definitionally false. The very collection of data compromises one's privacy, by nature of it having been collected.

That's not definitionally false, if it sounds false to you is because you have an implicit assumption that does not apply.

Data from users does not imply user sessions on the collector side (session as a set of multiple data points belonging to the same user).

If sessions are collected, then, privacy is impossible to guarantee. We are well aware of that, having worked on this problems for almost 20 years. But that's precisely what Cliqz never did. All messages from our users are record-unlinkable for us, meaning that we have no way to reconstruct any session.

If you are interested, check the HumanWeb posts on https://0x65.dev/ or the papers https://0x65.dev/pages/dissemination-cliqz.html
I love using awk. It was fairly easy to pick up, and it slides into my command line workflow pretty well.

That said, there's an amazing amount you can do with it, if you really try. Someone once joked that I should try building an IRC bot in AWK, so I did:
https://github.com/Marcus316/rufus

There's no pactical reason for it, but it was fun to play with the idea.
Then why not run macOS?
You forgot to mention Erlang, MongoDB, Rebol, zsh, PostgreSQL, Haskell, Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.9, DB2, Ansible, NetBSD and an elastic scalable automated deployment and analysis stack based on virtualized Visual Basic 6.

Any company needs that, and more! I'm glad Red Hat consultants are here to help us make sense of all those technologies.
What do you think are the best strategies to win that fight?
Can you name an OS kernel being rewritten in Go?