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Yes, if you can get your expenses under 40K a year, you'll be good. I read a lot of financial independence / FIRE forums. Some people are much more conservative and think 4% is too high. They prefer the 3.5% or even 3% rule. For a very early, longer retirement, they are probably right. The 4% rule was based on a "normal" 30 year retirement.
The new design is terrible. If it actually made the website easier to use, then I would be all for it. Unfortunately this is an actual step backwards in functionality and information layout design.
>Erm, are you you talking about the Charleston rally in which a Neonazi ran over counter protestors? And if yes,are you saying it's a bad thing less people showed up to sing "Jews will not replace us" the year after?

My point is that there is not widespread public support for this tiny group of awful people. The fact that so few people showed up is evidence of that. These people went "too far right" and were abandoned, as they should be.

>If anyone directly sympathises with Stalin/Lenin and calling for dekulakhisation, I'd expect that to also remove them from polite conversation. It just seems to happen less ?

AOC tweeted Marx's Labor Theory of Value. Bernie Sanders, recently the most popular politician in the country is an open Socialist. Michael Moore can openly/publicly support and wish Happy Birthday to Marx. Can you actually name an instance where a person went so far left that they were canceled?
Yep. It sucks. Death sucks. The lie we tell ourselves is that these are preventable deaths. The only thing that would have prevented this would have been for China to detect it ASAP and eliminate the spread. Once it hit uncontrolled community spread we were fucked.

We can minimize it somewhat, but lots of people are going to die. If we locked down completely, lots of people would die of a litany of other things that would have normally been prevented in an open society. Fucked either way.

See my point?
From the pure language perspective (i.e. batteries aside), what do you miss in Rust from Haskell?
Seemingly everyone in the rust crowd feels the irresistible desire to tell everyone about the language on every possible occasion, why is this? Every other project on this earth the creator just tells about how awesome the product is, how insightful the journey was or how much fun he had with it, but then that one rust guy comes along with "Project x y (Built with rust!)".

I've got a running joke with a colleague that rust is like the arch linux of programming languages.
I think the real reason for the switch is the same as the switch away from PPC to Intel.

Higher performance per watt and less waste heat.

AMD going from an also-ran to highly competitive is certainly impressive. However, it's not "more than double the performance of the competition for less than half the power budget" level impressive.

>In the face-off against a Cortex-A55 implementation such as on the Snapdragon 855, the new Thunder cores represent a 2.5-3x performance lead while at the same time using less than half the energy.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

However, that's in the mobile space. Time will tell how well Apple does competing in the laptop/desktop arena.
Thanks Dan. A lot of theverge.com articles are thin wrappers around original sources like this.
Well fuck. I am an idiot. Thanks!
Side note, is "AV" to mean "autonomous vehicles" (assumed from context) a common usage? I've only ever heard it mean "audio/visual".
I've seen nothing to indicate that a vaccine will be ready in three months. We wouldn't even have completed a Phase 3 clinical trial by then. Fauci has said he's optimistic that we might get a vaccine by the New Year, but he wasn't clear on whether that was a good candidate being identified, or a vaccine being widely available.
You can plug in a USB dock into a lot of Android phones, and if you get a DisplayLink dock, you can add 2-3 monitors. Keyboard, mouse, sound, Ethernet all work with it too.
Really they spawned a huge industry of balance-operated electric scooter...things... The branding was much more accurate than I think even they hoped as they were a segue to more cost effective solutions.

I think it's a pretty good cautionary tale for those looking to follow the Tesla model. Don't target the ultra-high end unless you have enough of a technological and legal moat to fend off the vastly simplified and cost effective competitors.
Can someone with AI knowledge please clarify - does this mean we can build 'rules based systems' into AI to synthesise intelligence from both domains?

If so, this would be dramatic, no?

If you could teach a translation service 'grammar' and then also leverage the pattern matching, could this be a 'fundamental' new idea in AI application?

Or is this just something specific?
Italy was the first western country to be hit with COVID.

Italy is also not the richest country with the highest per capita ICU bed availability with a ridiculously expensive healthcare system which while terrible for general welfare was excellently places for an emergency like the pandemic.

And if California shut down too early, it was still not a bad decision because you did not know what a good decision was at the time.

The fundamental problem in the US has not been shutdowns. It’s been shutdowns which have involved absolutely no planning for the reopenings.

That’s the fundamental disaster in the US handling of the situation. The northeast could maybe be forgiven for not doing planning for reopening because they were actually dealing with a crisis during the shutdown. But the rest of the country had no excuse. And unlike the northeast they weren’t the first to be hit, so they had time to see and prepare.

Instead, they declared it a Northeast problem as if the virus could tell Jersey Shore residents from South beach residents, and decided to go on with their lives without any planning or preparation anyways.
But isn't it just a matter of time til the novelty of smart phones wear of, they stop being tres chic and the cheap ones becoming 'good enough'? It might have taken decades, but eventually Ford bought Cadillac, Fiat bought Ferrari, VW bought Porsche (and Bugatti and a few more).
With the high number of jobs being offshored and outsourced I would not be surprised if many Americans would gladly leave to increase their job prospects. It may be the case that people in the United States can no longer sustain a living here due to the high cost of living. Perhaps we will reach that point.
That's a rather extremistic view. Apple doesn't support vulkan because they tried to get OpenGL and OpenCL working. Nvidia didn't play ball and AMD wasn't in the picture back then. The result was that Apple had to come up with something else (Metal) and that has worked out great with them.

But unless you are writing a graphics engine (which almost no user does) that doesn't even matter.

Regarding your openness, you still haven't provided with a description as to what you describe as open or closed. Is Windows open? No. None of it is, except a few example apps and things like the calculator. You don't get kernel sources, you don't get library sources, and you can't run any custom versions. With macOS you can.

Same goes for DirectX if you want to stay with graphics stacks (Direct 3D to be more specific). That's about as closed as it gets: you can't remove it, you can't use it elsewhere, you can't get the sources and you can't modify it.

You can still run Vulkan on macOS if you want -- you are free to implement it, run it, make shims or layers if you wish etc, just not with Apple's support.

What you call open or closed isn't clear, but the fact that you use the word 'rotten' signals to me that you are emotional about it and probably not really looking for a discussion.
Sometime around 2012, my parents got me a segway tour in a city I was planning to visit one time. Kind of the dorkiest thing ever. My girlfriend and I grudgingly did it, and it ended up being awesome. Even though you look super dorky, those things are really fun, and they're a great way to get a tour of a lot of city in a short amount of time without a lot of exhaustion. Since you're in a group, you're with a bunch of other dorks and you all look like dorks together, but you're all having fun anyway so you don't care. I was really surprised how quickly they stop and how well they can turn.
exactly, and that's a good thing. scaling means basically exploiting of other people's labour.
So there will be no more cases in NYC going forward? Good for them!
the amount of switches, and the systemd being involved. I don’t use systemd
Trouble is, it's hard to get a class of 30 kids interested in the same problems at the same time for exactly as long as the mass-production curriculum allows.
The interference you mention applies to horizontal dither patterns, but the article talks about vertical gradients, it's totally different.
Sounds like there will be Intel Macs for at least a few years coming so it's likely you'll have some time before you have to worry about it. By the time Apple quits shipping Intel Macs it may be a non-issue.
The trips table takes 313GB. QuestDB is not an in-memory DB. The data sits on SSD EBS volumes.
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The Segway idea lives, it turned into the e-scooter and create an urban mobility revolution.
Here's a 2001 article on Segway's introduction (I wanted to find the Wired one but couldn't): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/dec/03/internetn...

Also http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...
Using nation-level data seems questionable. By late January, most cases in China were still in Wuhan, so why wouldn't they look at the incidence rate and flight data for just Wuhan or Hubei?
At least 17Mbp (vs. ~50Mbp in Eurasians)
I feel like all of this is avoiding the point. If there is such a place on the left that is "too far left" that you will be insta-canceled, what is it? Please provide an example of this happening to a public figure.
Too expensive and they got completely upstaged by cheap hoverboards using essentially the same technology.
It didn’t hit “uncontrolled community spread” in the US until at least 3 months after the first US case and until at least a month after it devastated Italy.

For the US to still cry about China is embarrassing.
I can understand why Canada and almost any other country would be upset about the huge rivers of money flowing out to a foreign tech company, but this tax looks like it’ll just make things more expensive for the Canadian consumer. I think a better way to protect Canadian interests would be to require that personal data, servers, and support staff serving Canadian consumers be located within the country.
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I always love these things that are really scripts in two (or more) languages. Common is something like this on Windows to make a command script a Perl script. It lets you run your Perl script without having to make sure you had .pl extensions associated. Though, you needed Perl installed, so I never quite got the point.

@rem = '--*--Perl-*--
@echo off
echo Hello from a command script
perl -x -S %0 %*
goto endofperl
@rem ';
#!perl
print "Hello from Perl!\n";
__END__
:endofperl

By far very less common is to stuff some Perl code in a C# source file. A dev that was way too clever for his own code did this to have a Perl script that would update a C# script file and be self contained. This is a simple example of what it looked like, minus the instant headache anyone got that had to look at the real version:

#if PerlScript
$csharp=<<WhyJustWhy;
#endif
using System;

namespace Example
{
public static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello from C#");
}
}
}

#if PerlScript
WhyJustWhy
print("Hello from Perl!")
__END__
#endif
So why should Goldman not protect itself from that risk?
Seattle locked down over what was happening in Italy. Seattle never had uncontrolled spread that risked its healthcare.

How many people died from other, preventable things, while we learned that masks work? Something we knew then, by the way. Just ask any country that dealt with SARS Ver. 1.0
Is there any way to revert the changes?
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Functional programming. Meaning solving large swathes of a problem with (->) alone. Sadly a lack of GC does have downsides in this respect.
People/books/movies/statues weren't "cancelled" before
because nobody had a problem before.

No, you didn't hear the problems before.

Plenty of people found these things lousy for decades, and in some cases centuries.

But not enough listened. So the voices became louder, and more unruly.

It's like when you try to tell your neighbor nicely that his dog's been pooping on your yard. And he does nothing about it for years. Then one day he wonders why you've left an enormous pile of dog poop on his doorstep.

Gross? Rude? Highly non-ideal? Sure. But he didn't listen to reasonable discourse.
I'm going to grant you every inch of that. Now please give me an example of a public person who went so far left that they were canceled and are no longer welcome in polite conversation.
Lightweight syntax and HKTs, for me.

edit: and automatic currying
I feel like I'm posting the same thing comment over and over again over the past few weeks. :)

I've been using Linux on Laptops since the last 90s, on a variety of Thinkpads. T42, T500, T440p, X1E gen2

Yes, 10 or 15 years ago you had to fiddle a lot, I mostly even compiled my own customized Kernels.

This was mostly due the hardware manufacturer not releasing specs for anything, so you had to fiddle around that.

At some point I stopped compiling my own Kernels, it wasn't needed anymore, but there was still a bunch of software I wanted and compiled from source. Then that too became less and less, since what I need is now typically shipped with the distributions (I've been using Fedora).

Then it required fiddling with the video drivers to support dual video cards (Intel and NVidia). No longer needed. Now you just add the rpmfusion repos and install the drivers.

Everything just works. (New network printers or other devices are detected, the right drivers found, etc, etc.)

Cutting edge hardware (perhaps laptops releases within the last 1/2 year or so) sometimes still gives problems.

With Lenovo actually shipping Linux with its new laptops even that will no longer be a problem - at least with these laptops.

In addition, if you want to, you can know what's going on if you use Linux.

In fact I find myself getting annoyed with both MacOS and Windows (when I look at problems on my friends' machines). Everything is so opaque.
I agree with you that we should focus on the doxxing, not his reasons for staying anonymous. As far as I'm concerned, people don't need a reason to want to be anonymous.

But I think cancel culture is still relevant because it very well may be why the NYT was threatening to dox him.
Seems you are responding to the wrong thread here. User the_af was asking me why I replace a machine and I answered with some reasons specific to me. This was a deeper dive in to the point that some people don't need to upgrade at all because they don't do anything different between day 1 of their usage or day 1780. And they don't need to because the laptops of the last decade don't fall apart as much as they used to and a Mac specifically tends to work well during its entire lifecycle. This is also why there aren't as much people interested in modifying their computers mid-lifecycle.

While I bet that there are a lot of people that do want to modify their systems, they are such a minority that it's not very logical for a large multinational to invest in that to the detriment of other goals. It might simply mean that you are not the target audience for their product(s).

Some other manufacturers/brands have the same, while others do a mixed portfolio to cater to smaller groups as well. We also have large manufacturers that cater to the classical enterprises which still run on the old idea that you need a fleet of identical machines and then swap out parts all day long, so machines that have facilities for that exist. Most notably Lenovo, HP and Dell do that.
This is dumb. NYC became NYC because it didn’t lock down when SF or Seattle did.

If it had, it would have had about half the deaths it eventually did.
I switched to Firefox in the end of 2019, and I don't think it's entirely clear cut, slowness-wise.

In my experience, Safari slows down to a crawl if I open more than 5 or 6 tabs at once, especially something sadness inducing (think new reddit); and it's very eager to.. dump things from memory? I am not sure what happens, but as I switch these gargantuan tabs, it seems to re-draw things a lot.

Firefox handles that kind of thing like a champ. Add uBlock origin, and I have my almost ultimate browsing experience: JavaScript off default, enabled as I see fit.

There is one nasty oddity where I often found myself having to slow down for Safari: when I edit URL query parameters. If I hit return before some indecipherable arbitrary time, which I guesstimate by the auto completions showing up, Safari will throw away my changes and merely reload the current page. I have unchecked and toggled all possible autofill or search checkboxes in Safari settings, and it still happens. This and the extension apocalypse are what drove me away from Safari. In contrast, I've got all the extensions I want, and never ever have to slow down for Firefox.

Well worth giving it a shot for a few weeks. Container tabs are also awesome.
> But, IMO, the thing that will actually move the needle more than anything else is if Amazon takes that 2B and actually goes out and builds out renewable sources and replaces their delivery vehicles with EVs.

Even better, they're doing that outside of the 2B fund.

Amazon is creating a futuristic fleet of 100,000 electric delivery vans
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-creating-fleet-of-ele...

AWS is committed to achieving 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
Spot on. It's like they are discovering capitalism again from first principles and trying to cover it up with brand new coat of paint / terminology.
Right, closing borders between states could be seen as an uneven application of a law and prevent interstate commerce. Especially if it were applied unevenly in the sense of "Oregon can have an open border with Idaho but not Washington" because Washington had more cases. Businesses that rely on the border between OR and WA would sue for relief in a hot minute.

I am probably wrong about the law used. IANAL.
Agreed.

Language color bar is one of the most iconic and useful design of GitHub IMO (not sure if GitHub invented it though, since GitLab has it too). It's a shame it gets moved.
I still feel like Segway needs a case study regarding how they were able to garner so much hype before it was announced. I remember the breathless "change the world" articles quite well (from nearly 20 years ago, yikes!). This sentence from the Wikipedia article is, well, humorous: "John Doerr speculated that it would be more important than the Internet".

Was really baffling to me at the time how they had such amazing PR.
He has fairly good reasons for caring about the distinction between “possible to discover” and “connected to the blog via the NYT”.

The story that does or doesn’t get published will tell us how central his identity is, I suppose!
His claim is he did it 15 years ago, and never had to touch anything else since. Definitely a stretch, but quite believable. Just a few days ago I had to figure out how to reinstall Nvidia driver after Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 upgrade. And the damn thing still shows my primary screen panned whenever I log off/log back on.

I was glad to return to Windows when the Linux-specific issue was solved.
JUST STOP CHANGING THE UI FOR NO REASON!

You wouldn't re-write a whole app without a very solid engineering reason.

But site after site re-does their UI without any stated reason.

For companies I've worked for we did new UI designs because they thought it would increase sales, even though it threw out all the sales optimizations we made in the last design. So, it was always a negative for sales.

It's just a big waste of money that upsets users. I understand tiny startups having CEOs that do it out of ignorance. But large organizations should know better.
Fair enough, but I don't see how that relates to the conversation. Is that intended to rebut the idea that it's useful to know about the performance of idiomatic software?
I’d love to learn more about this! Why would a top level of Releases be useful?
Loss of borders in the tables (source code file tree).
In the UK at least this kind of revenue is taxable and hmrc doesn't really care if it's called donation, sponsorship or subscription. It makes a difference when it's a charity of course but open source projects usually are not.
> Instead of Haskell we should be thinking of programming language research and how to get the best ideas into our mainstream languages.

I see a lot of this happening in Kotlin and Rust (not too mainstream, but clearly more mainstream than Haskell). Also FB putting it weight behind Reason/OCaml clearly shows the movement. To be fair: sdiehl did mention in the preso that copying these concept over to other languages takes 10-20 years.

> How do we make immutability easy and ergonomic and get rid of nulls in C#?

The problem here is: you dont. To some extend you have to get these things right from the start. The father of null, Tony Hoare, now considers it his $1B mistake. Why? Because this is hard to fix.

> Can we have guarantees in our program.

Sure you can. C# gives you some typing guarantees. Now pattern matching switch statements (with exhaustivity checking) combined with sum types are coming: this will help! But the guarantees that Haskell (and Idris/Elm/PureScript) bring are next level, and impossible to replicate in a language that does not encode purity in the type system nor has type classes.
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The pandemic and the government’s poor response caused the lockdowns, not white collar workers.
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I think a lot of countries do have clarity.

The USA definitely does not. I'm starting to wonder if "not knowing what we want" will be the root cause for the end of American hegemony.

We entered 2 wars without clarity on what it would mean to win. This was the #1 post-mortem on Iraq and Afghanistan from basically every general involved over 15 years: they never had mission clarity.

On the back of that tough lesson, we immediately entered a trade war with zero clarity on what it would mean to win.

And before we could learn the lesson a third time we're now up against a pandemic and apparently can't decide what it means for us to win.

I'm starting to wonder if "not knowing what you want" is even worse than wanting something dumb.
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The worst redesign yet. It looks even worse than an early version of Gogs I tried. Of course, if you're paying designers they ultimately have to design something even if it's crap. Ideal github design was maybe in 2012.

Unrelated to the redesign, but the documentation for things like Actions just scream "microsoft." It was really hard for me to find the important information; had to sift through pages of abstraction gunk where things aren't explained clearly or with code. Felt like IBM product pages. Very non-github. This clueless internet-explorer-type design trend will almost certainly continue IMO. They simply can't help theirselves.

Unfortunately I also don't like gitlab or bitbucket. Github circa 2012 was the gold standard for the design solution, while everything else was cluttered or pad-y or overreliant on side navigation. Now everything sucks.

What's sad? Actually, you can find the classic (good) github design alive and well in China: https://gitee.com/drinkjava2/frog