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I have experience with a few of these. For those, the comments seem kind of "duh" quality.

So you say Kinesis is bad for message streams where each message should be handled by only one machine? Well duh, that's how it works. Kinesis is meant for every listener to be assured to get the entire stream. It was never designed for that, and I expect you'll have a bad time if you try to use it that way. SQS is obviously what you want if you're interested in guarantees that each message is handled once and only once.

One Lambda per route in a decently-sized restful webapp is ugly and unmanageable? Well duh. Don't do that. Do pretty much anything else instead. Seriously, anything else at all.

This sounds more like, if you want to deploy services on AWS, do either pay somebody who knows what they're doing, or spend some time checking out the services to make sure they are designed for what you want. Don't just pick a random AWS service and usage pattern from a Google search and start building around it without ever checking if it matches what you're trying to do.
You say "lashing out in the face of cold realities" yet all you've mentioned are hypotheticals you think might be likely, while Elon Musk is talking about the apparent fact that none of his employees have died.
I mean that last bit is a big jump. I don’t think any amount of charisma would help a candidate in the debrief if they did poorly on the technical segments. Where it can help is for more junior folks who have gaps, and what you’re trying to sniff out is how hard the person is going to work and how teachable they’ll be. Or, depending on the job, it may be a minor factor for someone applying to be a manager or work in HR, since the people skills are actually one of the important points of that job.

But if the most charismatic person out there interviews for an engineering job and can’t code, that debrief would take two seconds, and sound like, “Man, X sure was nice, too bad they can’t do the job.”
In what way is World of Warcraft a "walled garden"? It's a single game. If anything, it's one of the most extensible online games made by a major studio. Do you just mean "walled garden" as "not FOSS"?

It's a game as a service, sure, but that doesn't make it a scam. That's like saying that renting an apartment is a scam because you don't own it. You can question if it's a good financial decision, but that doesn't make it not a fair exchange of money for a product.
We’ve also made the same migration, working with cljsjs and lein-npm was horrible previously and Shadow is indeed nicer. We also use re-frame, and I have no real complaints with it, beyond Om having had a superior GraphQL like approach to querying but we managed to swerve that bullet because Om never looked finished or really intuitive. Many others did commit to it though.

Are you on the now largely deprecated clojure.java.jdbc or next.jdbc? Fun to rewrite all those serialisers to and from complex Postgres types. Also Instaparse is nice but dog slow compared to clj-antlr and I’ve had to write projects with both. There is no end to my safari park of pet peeves.

Anyway, I love Clojure and you’re obviously allowed to be happy with your tools. I wish you a long and productive career without grumpy folks like me sniping. But please don’t tell me my experience of this ecosystem is wrong or an outlier, because it’s really not. It is a core part of a culture based on granting power and flexibility to the smartest programmers. That comes at the cost of stability and productivity for other classes of programmer. You can’t optimise for everything.
Which is the best? I don't know.

Which should you use? The same as most other people, so we can get some actual work done. Right now thats gnome.

Having a crazy efficient setup that only you in the office understand isn't good for collaboration.
If that's the case, then why not just use googler [0] since it only appears to send IP address, user-agent (which is set to Google Chrome) and search term to Google [1]

Edit: Forgot to add, also supports proxies.

0: https://github.com/jarun/googler

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/gayf4i/googler_v41_i...
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That's a great use case for lambda. Small self contained scripts/jobs that don't charge you all day to be available once.
Of course they do because their jobs depend on it. And nothing in this field has ever been done in a time-frame of a few years.

It is a simple matter of voltage gradient. The higher the frequency, the steeper the gradient.
There's not really a million [1] lawyers because all million have a passion for corporate law, its also because it pays well

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/m...
But China has also effectively limited or stopped the spread. I know it's not a popular idea given the US rhetoric, but there truly is no evidence that they haven't. So in light of that, it shouldn't be too hard to reopen things like factories.

That said, I do believe that with sufficient protections it should be possible to operate a mostly robotic factory safely. So I do sympathize with him on that front.
I guess the real facts will only be known in the years after the crisis. Currently everyone is very much in propaganda&blame mode. I wouldn't trust any such comparison. For example two weeks ago the RKI "accidentially" reported a 30% rise in testing. Later they admitted no rise and a clerical error... Truth is, Germany currently has around 50% of its testing capacity unused because the bureaucracy still behaves as if tests were precious or just doesn't get around to issuing testing papers fast enough. And they still don't work in the weekends...
If the countries you are referring to are South Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand, it may be that the rest of us have very little chance to follow suit. We are too interconnected and too diverse to counteract the exponential nature of the threat.

At some point we have to make peace with ourselves.
Mars has more than enough atmosphere for aerobraking on arrival (see all mars landers). After that, for subsequent orbit lowering, the density of the atmosphere doesn't matter as you only ever use the upper wisps anyway.
> Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t.

For some reason, I believed this when I was a kid without anyone ever telling me. That is why I never cursed as a kid and never discussed cursing with my parents.
Only midlly related - for the past couple of years (since the crash of early 2018) following the crypto markets has been incredibly boring because of how highly correlated all the coins have been. Just have a look at coinmarketcap - the line charts are nearly identical.
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Those are some quite creative conclusions, if this guy wrote fiction I'd probably read it!
A car salesman managing to convince people that they are doing the environment a favor by driving around his cars certainly makes him a perfect candidate for office.
You don’t work all your waking hours, and if someone does, they usually make that much or more.
Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
I have been wondering for a while what the legal mechanism for shutting down businesses in the US actually is. I'm not being snarky, I just literally don't understand the legal mechanism.

Prior to this crisis I would not have thought shutting down businesses at large scale would be possible without legislation. But I haven't heard of much legislative proceedings.

Have governor's and local officials always had very broad powers over people and businesses, they just never used it at scale until the pandemic? I understand if there is a disaster and you can't convene the legislature fast enough to respond, and you need 72 hours of time to let the legislature come together (for example an earthquake or terrorist event). But there has been plenty of time now for our normal legislative process to resume. Does this have to do with an emergency declaration? Is there a limit to how long an emergency can be declared (like 60 days of a year)?
A good company absolutely tests the friction and experience of their hiring process. At my company we have an entire “candidate experience” team that works hard on measuring and evaluating it, and we take that feedback seriously. Occasionally we decide take people off the interview pool for a while and have them do more interview training if they want back on.
The lying of the group is well established in her book. Thanks to Hossenfelder we now know mainstream physics establishment is a front for thinksheparding humanity into confusion.
I legitimately could not figure out which one was real for several of these shots. Well done to the FS team and all related teams (my understanding is this game brings together a lot of tech). Couldn't be more excited to try this out.
To the author's point, fragmentation is a threat if there is no architectural guide.
1) Yes the OP was about Finland, which is their business, but I was specifically commenting about the concept wrt the US Fed Gov.

2) Disregarding "true believers" on either side of this one who would not be convinced regardless, I think Soviets, Mao, Venezuela, others in Asia, and even France are convincing enough to enough people that there is reasonable hope the USA will not go too far in that direction. If we do, we have serious problems of understanding, education, and communication, and whatever underlies those, IMO. Others are free to disagree of course.

3) Anyone who wants to find why I say I know what I know, can also investigate for themselves. :)

4) Re comcast: so they say, yes. Glad I have not been forced to use them so far, and for your tip on the FTC website in case I ever do have to.

Thanks for reading my comments, and your thoughtful replies. All the best to you.
Apparently many Terrans would be happy to see him gone.
Just proves the point that you're taking think a bit too seriously.
Matrix is a new, open communication protocol that supports bridging with many other services. https://riot.im is the reference client, but others are starting to crop up. It’s federated, like email, so you can get an account on any homeserver and if that homeserver federates (i.e. doesn’t block communication with other homeservers), you can talk to people on other homeservers, like email.

Anyway, the largest homeserver, matrix.org, bridges all of Freenode as well as OFTC and Gimpnet, so joining IRC rooms is just as easy as joining matrix rooms. A Freenode example would be #freenode_#nixos:matrix.org.
Googling for 'swearing in second language' gives lots of articles about how it feels less intense. Eg

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Mag/Language/Swearing-in-a-s...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/mar/27/bad-lan...
That’s why registration has traditionally been in cash and a “spot the fed” competition held.
I wonder how big the difference is between current logic gate performance vs. what we have available when the 6502 was 'new'.
Taking an SICP-like class in Racket and playing with recursive constructs for the first time was one of the highlights of my CS education. This language gave more unalloyed joy than anything else I've done as a programmer, though I've yet to build anything practically useful in it.
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Not bad. I just clocked this doing 300Krps (on localhost, on an old i7).
But... when I buy a gun in one game, I'd like to be able to use it in another.
You can make great points without saying everyone else on the site is "levels of stupid". That's unnecessary, unhelpful, and just escalates the debate immediately. OP is the one who brought an incensed and polemical tone to this thread - asking everyone else to only react to the substance just gives them a free pass on what is innately anti-social behavior that detracts from a civil discussion.
> we still have no idea how unconventional superconductors work. Of course, they're completely described by plain old quantum mechanics without even using field theory

News to me - I thought that study of non-conventional superconductors relied heavily on effective field theories.

Also, I think this is a bit of a strawman - there's a ton of money and effort going into condensed matter physics right now.
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Lol what is this? Who made this and what is its purpose?
Ok, how do these people who can't code get in to jobs requiring coding then? If charisma doesn't do it what does?

on edit: assuming the people are not mythical, although I certainly have known people who could not code well enough to have it be worthwhile having them code, which is I guess a slightly different thing.
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I've heard this argument before (and I tend to agree with it), but here's a counter-point I heard recently and appreciated:

Eloquence and good vocabulary are important, but there is a time and place for something vulgar and basic.

Just like there's a time and place for a rapier and there's also a time and place for a folding chair or a pool cue.
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What I learned from studying Racket is that I can now only reluctantly forego functional programming languages in all contexts personal and professional.
I guess there are two parts: being angry, and using offensive words.

I suspect avoiding the former helped much more than avoiding the latter?
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I'm Russian, though I moved to the US at age 5 so English is my 'native' language, even though it's technically not.

I see this on both sides. I find American curse words harsher than Russian ones, but my parents are the opposite. I can drop a "fuck" and no one really minds, drop a "suka" (roughly equates to "bitch" in Russian), my parents will loose their minds.
But will they run crysis? You will know only after opening them...
The new sim looks simply spectacular.

12 years ago I built my first new PC just to play Crysis, with money that I had saved up over some time. Fast forward to today, I just have a Macbook Pro from work, as I almost stopped gaming entirely.

As an erstwhile FSX addict think it's time for me to build a new rig again just for MS Flight & hopefully one that works well with an Oculus (Quest) too!
South Korea started early with a massive amount of testing. Asian countries in general have had a high rate of mask wearing and good compliance with social distancing measures. We could do this sort of thing in the U.S. If our challenges are more difficult, that's not a good reason to do less.
They retired and since no millennial wants to work for an Oracle degree no new ones came in to the field /s
> I can't imagine providing a feature-rich web application in Lambda without this kind of abstraction.

This reminded me of a caveat about using some of these abstractions – which is that they are still subject to the limits and restrictions of the underlying platform.

We discovered this the hard way once when an automatically generated function name or something was over the limit in prod (this issue [1] describes a similar problem). We did not catch this in dev because "dev" is one character under "prod" and our autogenerated name in dev hadn't put us over the limit. That was an interesting exercise in leaky abstractions.

[1] https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues/2856
> compile time validation

Oh! I forgot about that mess. Yeah, it takes minutes of deploy time while real resources are spun up to catch some really basic mistakes.

Terraform plan catches a lot of issues, but I've seen cases where it misses something.
It has to be supported, there's a list here: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/docs/supp...
Quixotic CS professors probably were too fixated on Mothers' Day to remember their other anniversary. A cause for celebration!
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A bit older, but this[1] Freakonomics episode was also great.

[1]https://freakonomics.com/podcast/kenneth-feinberg/
Did Musk apologize to that man when he was done having a bad day?
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I find Dia easier to use than Inkscape and both do vector graphics, but Inkscape might be better to learn how to use in the long run because it can do more things.
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Honestly I would jam a paperclip under that key to disable it out of spite
Oh, that's right. I wasn't really placing the electron ion collider (EIC) under the energy frontier umbrella, because they're moving in a different direction. I'm actually sort of involved with them too, but from a distance. I'm pretty sure it will happen, it's just a question of which of two proposals will succeed (more of a political question to be honest).

My own interest isn't in colliders at all, but in building atomic probes like x-ray light sources and fast electron diffraction apparatus, but at a scale accessible to universities instead of large facilities.
i’m skeptical because that was the promise of the LHC.
That's pretty much the same question we've been asking for two and a half thousand years (at least) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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I hypothesize that the "swearing => stunted vocabulary" argument is just a post hoc rationalization to give some justification for not liking bad words.
They will spread virus for 2 additional days instead of 7, so R0 will drop massively.

Does anybody know an opensource epidemic simulator to test the idea?
China bashing is not an intelligent COVID19 response.
It will only encourage China to close up more.
Mistakes happen. I kinda hoped I got the email as I reckon DO would give a couple of free months or some type of discount anyway.
As cases of coronavirus grow, what about cases of Corona beer?
It is simply incredible that you've reduced the argument for lifting lockdowns to "getting a mocha latte grande whatever." I have never seen an argument made in such bad faith before.

The US has just suffered its largest job losses in history. The people who lost these jobs skew heavily toward lower income brackets and little or no savings. The losses are still growing.

How can you say something like this with a straight face?
Consequently, Doom and Quake are banned from your household in favor of Animal Crossing?
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It isn't that we wouldn't have transistors but that we wouldn't understand them. We wouldn't have the good transistors necessary for modern technology.

There is a similar debate around Newtonian physics. How far might the industrial revolution have gone without a perfect understanding of how things move? You don't need newton to build complex machines. Look at any early windmill or waterwheel. You need newton to understand machines well enough to build and run them efficiently. You don't always need theory before practical, but theory always makes practical better.
Wait, edging is edgy now? Or that's just sticking another f-word in there?
I've asked this question several times, and this is the best answer I've seen yet.
I love that there are grammatical rules in how you can and can't infix expletives.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dt22yWYX64w
> With Elasticache I doubled the size of the instance in place from my phone so I could go back to sleep.

Did you so that using the AWS console in your mobile web browser? Pretty nifty way to quickly get back to sleep.
> I’ve seen this comment a few times and don’t see the mystery.

Well, its not clear to me what "people who are staying indoors" means. I am exclusively inside my apt for last 8 weeks and have groceries delivered and workout on my bike trainer/zwift indoors.

I feel like there should be some distinction between, 1. mostly staying indoors 2. exclusively staying indoors.

If second group of people are getting it, then yea its mysterious.
Support doesn't officially support third-party products, and support engineers may or may not know Terraform. Engineers definitely aren't trained on Terraform, and your mileage will vary a lot depending on the specific engineer and their background. It really depends on whether they've run across it in other jobs, personal projects, etc.

Customer obsession is a big deal for support engineers. So if they can, they'll try to help solve a Terraform issue. But it'll be on a personal, best-effort basis.

For such a mud-slinging article, I'm surprised the author didn't complain about the most pressing issue (IMO) with CloudFormation: There have been a few instances where thing in AWS changed and Terraform was updated more quickly than CloudFormation was. Happens less and less now though.
The financial incentives are seriously so misaligned. Likewise as a physics undergrad who considered going into academia and is now doing tech.
It seems functional programmers are alone in being able to take a joke. Long live Racket!
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I found a Physics Stackexchange thread addressing this.[1] The science of quantum mechanics was not necessary for its invention. I’m still uncertain of its direct application other than “at <32nm QM effects are dominant”.

[1]https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/112615/why-is-it...
At some point, elementary particle physics will actually die as a field and the people who persist in building particle accelerators as if there is some new electroweak theory right around the corner will have to find something else to do. Of course, they'll probably continue with their pyramid building for decades after the subject has actually died.
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Elon is becoming more and more of a conspiracy right wing nut.
Your perspective, i. e. "flatten the curve", is outdated. It's entirely obvious now that R can be pushed below 1.0. The data from Germany, for example, implies their (medium) level of lockdown came out to about 0.5. China, with harsher measures, did even better.

Germany is now trying to feel its way to a best possible compromise of somewhat lesser/better targeted restrictions that still keep R<1.0 and, thus, the virus on track for elimination.
Athena is actively worse than hosting your own Hive on EC2. It'll timeout queries and give you no results beyond charging you. Given the variable performance of S3, that's terrible.
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I was with you until MMO Scam. The people behind Mazewar, Ultima Online, MUDs, etc. were not trying to scam you out of money and ownership. They were innovating heavily on what games could look like in a networked platform. It was revolutionary at the time.

Not everyone in the industry is on one side here, and if you want to fight this war efficiently and intelligently, you need to know precisely who your enemies are.