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Considering your other comments, I think that you don't know which book/author I am talking about. A song of Ice and Fire is not a single, individual novel.

It is an epic saga which is broken across eight books.

This is not like 'not a penny more, not a penny less' which was a standalone book by Jeffrey Archer or 11.22.63, another standalone book by Stephen King.

I am not holding my breath out for 11.22.64 demanding that King write a sequel to it. No sir.

Why everyone is holding their breath for GoT is that it is an unfinished book which was announced as a 8part series.

> People in general dont evaluate that when reading or recommending a book.

LOL go talk to GoT fans. We've been waiting 11yrs for a sequel which was promised 8+yrs ago. Ask them what I said. 'Would you have read GoT if you knew that GRRM would rather write a prequel than finish the current series.'

I am pretty sure everyone will say NO.
If you're going to be the one that explains to shareholders why their dividend is dropping each year but will only asymptotically approach zero so they should not fire you, by all means try. Somehow I don't think you'd be successful.
This is neat! I had some thoughts recently about creating something similar as well.

For a simple but still practical instruction set, you can probably sanely get away with about two dozen or so different instructions, but at the expense of having larger programs (by number of instructions) to accomplish the same tasks compared to a more featureful instruction set.

Here's a fairly simple set that might be a reasonable place to start...

ALU: and, or, xor, complement, shift left/right, rotate left/right, add, subtract, multiply, divide, compare (or just use subtract and set flags for this one)

Memory: move (copy between registers), load and store (between memory and a register), maybe also push and pop for sanity if you want to provide explicit stack instructions.

Control flow: jump, branch (maybe depending on flags from ALU), call/return

It might also be helpful to look at the 8-bit AVR instruction set (quite popular for small microcontrollers, including what you might find on many Arduino boards). It contains about a hundred or so instructions, with all of the above list present in one form or another (although many are just aliases for some other instruction with the same opcode but otherwise fixed parameters). In the case of AVR, where code size is often the limiting constraint, having a larger vocabulary of instructions is useful for expressing a program in the smallest amount of space possible, but it certainly isn't necessary to have all of them just for completeness.
I wonder if they sell a Danbo costume?
I think that there is a line to be drawn, but not with respect to the degree of the effect, but to the semantic concepts that the white = good, black = bad apply to.

For example, I have black eyes and hair, but I never once felt I was less a person because of this abstract generalization. I don't recall ever having made such a connection until when I started thinking about arguing against the reasoning behind banning blacklist.

Similarly, obsidian and black granite are typically considered beautiful. When I choose the color of my phone or display or car, I don't think white = good or black = bad. When there is context, this abstract association does not come to mind; rather, for example, I think that white can distract from the screen of a phone, or that it wears its stains easily. Or when I choose a dark theme for my editor and apps for ease of viewing in low light. Or with clothes; I don't think (black = bad) when I wear my black clothing.

So this is why I disagree with this; we associate ourselves with black things and make color judgments all the time, but rarely does the value judgment of white = good, black = bad figure in these judgments (modulo actual reasons in particular contexts, e.g. stains easily, vs. hard to see in low light). An argument that this "psycholinguistic effect" actually happens also needs to address the many other categories in which we make color judgments in our lives. (Question: does a strongly racist person significantly and subconsciously disassociate themselves with black products more than the average person? Beyond conscious decision on color to symbolize their attitude, and the subconscious generalization from this symbolic desire.)

With respect to blacklist, it seems to me that this is the most unfortunate product about the whole discussion. I believe that hardly anyone has associated the word "blacklist" with derogatory attitudes against blacks, but now someone has made "blacklist" and black of race so tightly bound semantically that we can't help but think of race when we now see the word blacklist --- even when nothing close is ever being intended by the people who use the word.

I think that my model that there are many semantic categories of blackness for which the value judgment (white = good, black = bad) doesn't figure at all as a "psycholinguistic effect" is more accurate. If this is indeed the case, then ironically the whole discussion over "blacklist" has caused more harm than good, since it is enlarging the collection of meanings that remind people of derogatory attitudes against blacks.
Also noteworthy: for me it feels like any time a "side project" turns into a "side hustle" -- the ideas usually fizzle out very quickly.

Sometimes it's worth remembering that side projects can be "just for fun", and it's okay if you're going to spend a few dollars on it. The value can come from the learning process, and creative input/output generated.
We (humans) often cooperate because it allows us to do things we can't do alone. So perhaps we evolved cooperation so we could hunt and defend ourselves. If we look at this reduction alone, it looks like a positive sum because all of the humans benefit in this case. If we look at the system holistically, now that we can defend ourselves, some wild animal may struggle to find food and starve. All and all, zero sum.

This is all well and good for humans so long as the group size doesn't get to a point where theyre now competing for some finite resource.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. and you are absurdly and patently wrong.

He himself has said that the last two books were actually one very-large-book. Truth be told, this is a series, so it more-or-less looks like one BIG story told over 8books.

That is why I said that you're absurdly and patently wrong.
only in a cash account
Wookey hole doesn't compare to many other caves really. It's a bit hokey.

That said, there are caves that you can explore with speleologists.

Also, Cheddar gorge itself is really short. The geography is interesting though. Water from mendips result in a perpetual spring in the middle of Wells. (hence the name)

And the spring in Glastonbury Tor. Probably.

PS. Area is great for good cheap cider aka scrumpy.
Over billions of years, sure. But no appreciably over a single lifetime.
Furniture rentals (aka FaaS) sounds like it'd suit this client more. :)
Does the kernel ever remove support for devices or does this stuff just bloat up the codebase for eternity?
The trouble is that we are subsidizing the shipment of items from China. It’s sickening when I have to pay $5 to send something within the US, yet the same item would cost $.50 from China. You could buy something for $1 from dx.com- shipping included! Crazy.

So while I agree with you that we don’t necessarily need a profit motive at the usps, at the same time the taxpayers don’t need to subsidize cheap crap from China.
I was with you until you took a shot at Dutch cheese :) What's your problem with it? I find the Netherlands (for a tiny country of 16 million) has an excellent diversity of cheeses of high quality. In every town in the country you can find supermarkets with a fantastic assortment of cheese, and in cities specialty shops with great variety. Plenty of cheese shops make their own cheeses, and it's all extremely local - a few times I've bought cheese where you can see the cows that produced it from the window!

Also, I've found myself (for the duration of the coronavirus) not too far from Vermont. Is there anywhere else you'd recommend visiting in the area aside from Jasper Hill Cellars? Thanks for the recommendation of Jasper Hill, I'll have to visit :)
Your time horizon is too short.

PayPal succeeded because they rode the eBay wave. Millions of people hit the site in its "online garage sale" phase, PayPal had three or four things that went for them:
* As a seller, you could provide an experience less terrible than mailing a postal order with a basically instant and free onboarding process (compared with a real gateway)
* As a buyer, it was typically easier and faster than postal orders, and they developed a reputation of being pushovers for fraud, which was important when dealing with "garage sale" tier merchants.
* They were very aggressive with signup bonuses to acquire market share. $5 for new account + $5 for referral.
* A lot of handwaving about the eventual revenue model. I recall wne it was "we'll survive on the float of customer balances, nobody will ever pay a credit card fee" and then a series of market shocks where they changed course-- all of which took place long after they had a critical market base.

This got them a major market presence-- to the point where I can recall Citibank being curbstomped with a similar product (c2it) despite even richer recruitment bonuses.

Eventually, they merged and sailed under eBay's flag and it was the default payment method there until quite recently. This created an :installed base" nobody else could compete with.

They then pushed their marketing towards "you don't have to give the merchant a card number" playing off security fears, but I suspect major secondary factors are "it's basically LastPass for payment methids" convenience (from before browsers offered to save card info) and that some people keep a PayPal balance as an "off the family books" way of financing their hobbies and such without the wife seeing your purchases on the statement.
The launch model PS3 is a beautiful thing. Four USB ports, lots of card slots, hardware PS2 compatibility, plays Blu-Ray/DVD/CD/SACD... and that cool Spider-Man 3 typeface.
Don't worry about it too much. If your workflow works for you, go nuts with it.

But should you one day find yourself needing an informational omnitool that can be adapted to the task at hand while you work with it, you will find that there is simply no substitute for Emacs. And that's the difference between an extensible text editor and Emacs. A few lines of Emacs Lisp and some Unix plumbing can get you very far -- and you can debug it in production, dynamically updating the Lisp code as you use it.
I have the same, and they're brilliant. Put them on and it feels like I'm instantly transported to different (quiet) place.
I'll have to visit the Northeast Kingdom Tasting Center, thank you! Any other recommendations for foods to try (or things to visit) in that area?
>Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and all of them are hiring (using the H1B) for roles that could in 99% of cases be filled by Americans

I have a hard time believing that statement. The salaries these companies pay is really competitive. Their interview process is pretty clear cut. They have a pretty steady stream of applicants. I doubt they need to game the system.

I understand your statement in the general sense though. The system is gamed. But it will still be gamed. If roles are "remote" and not needed on site, they will be filled in Canada where getting a work visa I believe is a whole lot easier. What you're asking for is a law that says you can't hire non-US contractors for any job that can be done in the US. I doubt that's happening anytime soon.

The zeroing in on h1-b abuse is probably 15 years too late at this point. Large corporations needing something like it have moved to fill those roles in Canada or opened centers in Canada. This freeze is doing nothing more than pandering to the base.
If the job market (and economy) was zero-sum then why is population growth generally considered good for the economy? Wouldn't young people, as they age into the job market, push out all older workers? This happens in anecdotal cases but overall the vast majority of older Americans have jobs despite being outnumbered by younger generations.

We realize that new generations not only take up jobs but they also add value to the economy, growing it and making it possible for everybody to have jobs. Except in isolated cases immigrants do the same thing. If this wasn't true then America--being largely a nation of immigrants--would be one of the most poor countries in the world instead of one of the richest.
That is very helpful, thank you!
There’s basically no older people, no women, and very few black and Latino engineers. It’s not positive sum
Zero-sum thinking on business and wealth-creation has already made America (and many countries in the West) poorer - an entire generation has been brainwashed into believing that business, profit-seeking, and earning money is an ignoble pursuit.
Publishing a story by a reporter, even best one with all the Pulitzer’s isn’t at all comparable to statements of president elected by tens millions of votes, who controls the most powerful military force in the world.

The same press will report on those racist tweets, run stories whole week where they dissect that, opinions, angry letters, etc. Should press stop running stories about racist behavior of the president? How is running story about what president said, different in terms of impact on spreading those views? Would Trump be where he’s right now if press wouldn’t pay attention to his crazy tweets before and fuel his popularity?
173,000 terawatts of solar energy hit the earth continuously. We don't even extract 1/100000th of that. And if we throw in other forms of energy for which we have no feasible extraction methods (such as fusion), we could multiply that potential several fold.

Yes, resource constraints exist...but the idea that we're anywhere near them is the one lacking imagination. There isn't a single practical resource constraint affecting our lives that isn't fundamentally a knowledge problem.
I respectfully disagree that “learning curve” is a reason not to go with a well established console editor like VIM.

There is a learning curve for everything, including the code and configurations being edited.

I think taking the time to learn tools, like editors, that are available on many platforms saves time in the long run and helps to manage diverse systems more effectively.
I'm not sure it's so straightforward. Under the anti-doxxing restrictions you laid out, journalists could have been muzzled for identifying the unmarked law enforcement officers in DC a few weeks ago [1].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/washington-dc-protests-unidenti...
>This group is the last of the good paying jobs in America.

coronavirus is already making remote work a first class citizen and removes the main advantage of a local workforce - physical presence (similar to how the global financial and shipping infrastructure removed the physical presence advantage of the local blue collar workforce back then), and the immigration ban is just a push for companies to fill more of those jobs with the foreigners in foreign lands where they are much cheaper. Yet the lessons of history seem to be ignored as usually.
I was thinking the same thing. Is this actually “good” for Linux? This strikes more like a technical bar trick than an important part of the kernel, and another surface which can be attacked.
Whenever there's an Emacs thread on HN, I want to post the following quote from Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line":

"It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish."
As a gag gift, I've bought a phone case from Aliexpress for a friend. The total, including shipping, was $0.46. The case itself did fit the phone and was technically usable.

I've bought a bunch of small trinkets from Aliexpress. For the most part, they're the same exact things you can buy off of Amazon for ~$5-15, except they take 2ish months to be delivered. For some things, it actually does make sense to just wait that long (e.g. a Google Home Mini wall mount) in exchange for the savings (>= 50% is normal).
For geeks yes, but majority of the world doesn't care about specs. A Nokia or HTC phone has the same quality hardware as an iPhone. Heck HTC even licensed their unibody design to Apple which they are still using till date on the new iPhone SE. And Windows worked amazingly smooth on low end hardware like 510 too, so majority wouldn't have noticed any difference between a Snapdragon or A-series chips.
Back in the early 2000s I did not have much money and but was able to get my hands on all sorts of slightly exotic and out of date computers for free. People just gave them away. I really enjoyed running Linux on old SGI or Apple computers. Over time however the novelty wore off and I realized that even old x86 hardware was cheaper and faster. Any people running Linux on some rare old hardware care to share why?

It can be a great learning experience though.
Exactly my thoughts on this as well. The brain and skill drain has reached levels of completely unethical. If someone did the same to America during the great depression 1920-1930, the U.S. would be a shithole country today.
Agreed. Until the pandemic is over, no one can confidently talk about a “peak.”
As a general rule, I avoid native apps for most social media platforms, just to avoid over-using them.
I started a lot of side projects like many and didn't finish most. For me the secret of finishing a side project was to start a small one, something that I can finish within a weekend or even less, a few hours.

My completed side projects have been the one that took me less than a week. Some of them was less than 100 lines of code.
This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you.
That is literally zero sum and probably negative sum action.
USPS is self funded, so it's important to at least not lose money.
LAN hosted games are the golden area. Online game servers are a really interesting example of brittle software.

When the server is shut down, the game breaks and the software _is_ unusable.

This often happens because of the misaligned incentives of the business to not release the server code. This disappoints both the original developers and the consumers.

I'd argue that this is not only a software problem, but mostly an problem of copyright distorting the incentives of publishers.

One could imagine a client hosted game or alternative architecture that removes the central dependency on the company could be the way to build software that is built to last to last longer.

In the online game I'm developing - I make sure that every client can also run as a game server. This way if my servers are shut down players can play without depending on me.

My decision to remove myself as a dependency directly goes against the incentives I have as a publisher. I slightly narrow the possible monetization options for the game.

Mostly I'm trying to explain why developers/publishers decide to make brittle software, even if I don't agree personally.
You can either maximize nutrition or minimize cost, but not both at the same time :)
I agree, but I also think that billionaires need to start sharing productivity gains with their workers because most workers haven't seen a raise in decades. Millions of Americans have been left behind.
>Resources and energy and the ability to meet basic human needs are, in fact, almost entirely NOT zero sum.

This is absolutely not true. Earth has a carrying capacity and we don't have technology currently to leave Earth for any reasonable time. Estimates vary as to the carrying capacity for humans but an upper estimate is around 16 billion. It could be significantly higher but there's definitely a limit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity
Wait, what's the problem with Wensleydale? I've been eating it for a while now and I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it seems that as long as it's labeled Yorkshire Wensleydale you're getting the real stuff. Or am I eating a modern bastardization?
Haha well tbh I just didn't feel the need for more deps in such libraries. It's a tougher choice in application code!
I especially liked the blurb from one post that links to ft.com:

> Then $67.00 per month.New customers onlyCancel anytime during your trial

Certainly saved me a click!
Glad you enjoy them! I certainly plan to continue writing.
Mammalian Diving Reflex
Behold, the anti-immigrant sentiment prevalent here. For those who consider software engineer unions, consider that those with anti-immigrant sentiment there will be just as numerous as here.

Expats, permit the union power, and you permit these people united strength. Support them at your own peril for they will push you out at the first opportunity.
A Slice of the Eggplant
Sounds like you know a bit about this, have you tried using the remote-ssh extension for VSCode? If so, how does it compare?
Companies are owned by shareholders, and it's the shareholders who lose in bankruptcy. Suppose a company that is owned by group A is worth $X and finds itself in $X worth of debt it can't pay to group B. Then the company declares bankruptcy and goes to bankruptcy court, and after all of the facts are worked out (It really is owned by group A, it really is worth $X, etc) ownership of the company would be awarded to group B.

It's often a more messy process than this, but there's no reason a company going through bankruptcy would necessarily be impacted in any way aside from an ownership change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bankruptcy_court
It’s literally dark.
just checked taobao.com, the cheapest phone case was 5 RMB or $0.7 USD including shipping. so it is actually cheaper to buy the same stuff from the US and get it shipped half of the world.
I agree the distinction can get a little fuzzy at the edges, i.e. for technologies that, while not dependent on frontier physics, would only have been developed in the pursuit of (say) building a larger collider.

But I think there is a real difference in expectations between technology that operates on known physical principles and that which involves wholly new ones. Historically the latter has been associated with dramatic shifts in what is possible, for example our understanding of electromagnetism and quantum mechanics enables much of the modern world.

So I think presenting the study of particle physics in that light could mislead the public on just what is being done and what kind of outcomes it might precipitate.
Stephen Colbert did a surprisingly interesting segment on USPS and this very question last month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL8g0W9gAQ
The USPS loses billions every year.
If you think The Spanish Inquisition is targeting “normal everyday views” I’m concerned about what sort of views you think those are. Do you think that not acknowledging God as our one true saviour and creator and those jewish/muslim/eastern-orthodox/atheist organizations hold “everyday normal views”? That’s what the Spanish Inquisition targets?
> 2. early birds may have been baby dinosaurs that stopped developing, yet could produce off spring, according to another recent DNA study I can't locate at the moment.

And early humans may have been baby ~chimpanzees that stopped developing, yet could produce offspring :)