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Can someone explain how with web monetization we won't have microtransactions on the Internet as we do with games? i.e. I don't want to pay per article read, as that would take away from the unlimited nature of the internet, where for a flat fee to my ISP, I can read/watch/listen to whatever I want.
I think you are partly right here. The problem I see is the use of the word "they". It's a big company, and different people have different goals.

IME (I worked there for a long time, but no longer), individual (and small groups of) engineers with a passion for OSS drive publishing/sharing.

Execs with the interests you outline approve/agree to the sharing.

The motivations are not monolithic, and a corporation is not a person, it's a group of people.
I'm a strongly DIY sort of person, but I do think we'll inevitably go that direction. Think of cars. Once, repairing your own car was a very valuable skill because they broke all the time. Now, they still break, but it's so rare and so complicated that it's not worth developing that skillset for most.

You could look at it from a different angle- a certain degree of reliability is a core feature for most products. We tolerate poor reliability when a new product category completely outmodes another (cars vs horses, computers vs typewriters) but as the new product matures, consumers as a group quickly shift to preferring reliability over bleeding edge performance.
It's bears eating cub scouts, rather than the other way around - what's not to get?
> "even if just for performance reasons"

I don't think it matters for performance because it's cached in the browser anyway...
So the purpose of the extension is privacy.
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the MUC is not good. this is true. there is MIX, XEP-0369, that has a way better under-the-hood approach that re-uses a lot of the existing XEPs (whereas MUC was early & kind of it's own thing).

alas MIX adoption is very low. ejabberd got MIX support in 2016 but it's stayed at 0.1.0. and, more pressingly, i don't think any clients support it. this has to change for XMPP to pass MVP muster. https://www.reddit.com/r/xmpp/comments/arpruf/what_clients_s...
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Fair enough - I think it's a subjective thing and also depends on your current financial circumstances. I'm a starving startup founder, so the hope represents a real escape from my current financial circumstances.

If I were poorer, I suspect the happiness I gained from the lottery ticket purchases would be even greater.

If I already owned a home, on the other hand, I would value the lottery ticket hopes much lower.
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People use these apps because they're in some manner more convenient. The perplexing part is that anyone complains about such convenience to the point that government uses its heavy hand.
I suspect this is the real answer.

It probably takes at least twice as long as an equivalent uber ride. The delivery person needs to find somewhere to park twice and spend time waiting in line.
Disclaimer: I'm a Red Hat consultant but this is entirely my own opinion

Comparing consulting bills to IaaS bills is apples/oranges. Consultants are really just Humans as a Service (HaaS). A lot of the work we do is to bring in expertise in something that would otherwise be difficult and expensive to hire for and augment a team for a short period. We actually help customers with cloud-stuff (like AWS and Azure) all the time.

A lot of the work I've been doing lately is stuff that would have to be done if you were using K8s on cloud instead of OpenShift. I'm currently helping to migrate services from older platforms (like BlueMix) to OpenShift. You can look for that "feature" all day long in the cloud console, but you won't find it :-)
From TFA:

> According to my tests, profile views do not count as repo views, and I hope, in the future, we will be able to see traffic stats in the repository that hosts the README file.
Huh? I don't understand what you're saying at all.

This is a cap on the commission charged. The article doesn't say anything about total price or about misrepresenting prices. Where are you getting that? Why are you saying people aren't reading the article?

And the fraudulent number thing is a separate issue, totally unrelated to level of competition. It's scummy but irrelevant to this particular issue.

Competition exists because there are multiple mainstream food delivery services and restaurants have been delivering food on their own for decades.
No, comparisons with Norway are just a pet peeve of mine.

It doesn't really matter anyway, I already admitted that countries like Germany and Netherlands did have fewer deaths with modest lockdowns. These are samples in favor of a lockdown.

However, there are also countries like France, Spain and UK that had the strictest lockdown, yet they had higher death rates. Those hint at strict lockdowns being no more effective than modest lockdowns when compared against Germany, or even being completely inneffective when compared against Sweden.

There is no clear correlation between having a lockdown and having fewer deaths, so you can't claim that Sweden would've had a far different result with a lockdown. That's just an unknown, there are many more factors at play.

Also, the costs aren't just economic. Lockdowns are a severe restriction of civil rights. There's a great deal of suffering caused by lockdowns. They can destroy livelihoods. They limit medical care. There's more domestic violence, more suicides, more depression.
I wonder if containment is the only solution.

The vaccines on trial and in research, may not work.

Containment does work. Isolate the sick. Lock down for 4 weeks. Face masks everywhere. Keep socially distant. Avoid indoor settings.

Get groceries delivered, or have an employee inside do the shopping and packaging, and you pick up the order outside.

These are hard choices, but it can effectively kill this virus in 4 weeks. It’s not rocket science anymore.
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Completely retired in 1995. Fascinating. Would love to know what he's been doing since but Wikipedia doesn't give many clues!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson
Both sets of numbers are meaningful, for understanding different parts of the problem. The spread of an infectious disease like Covid-19 is not a virus moving through a relatively homogeneous population, but rather the overlay of a lot of small outbreaks. Early on, when the total number of cases is small, absolute numbers are most meaningful as a basis for comparison. [1] is a thread from Mar 29 (from the brilliant visualization expert John Burn-Murdoch) arguing that absolute numbers are more predictive of "death toll one week after 10th death" and that normalizing by population only makes smaller countries look worse.

But as the spread continues (a process which takes time), per-capita numbers make sense. Mr. Burn-Murdoch revised his position (see [2] for a podcast with transcript where he talks about his thinking), and now the FT graphs have a normalized option (though their focus has moved on to other metrics such as excess mortality).

Carl Bergstrom also has a great thread [3] where he talks about the choice, concluding that both are valid as long as you're careful about context.

HTH

[1]: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1244380095164420101

[2]: https://voices.media/transcript-john-burn-murdoch-senior-dat...

[3]: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1249930293928030209
How much is health insurance and how to pick the best one?
I've tried TypeScript and I didn't really like it. Plus you can ignore the strict type if you'd like to which is a slippery-slope if you are in a hurry to get something to market.
a serious question, what "work" did you do?

I am curious to know what kind of profession has the option to be a digital nomad. They only one I figured is being a journalist or a writer.

What types of business do you do being a nomad?
Totally different take .
Nobody cares about your github or has time to click that url.

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If no-one left the house, there would be no food, water, or electricity. Your argument breaks down at this point.

You are, apparently, a reasonably intelligent person capable of highly-structured thoughts. Survival in the world is not guaranteed, and it is your responsibility to work around hardships you encounter. Please refrain from the "victim" word, as this is just the hand of cards you were dealt. We all have a hand of cards that we have to play. Nobody's life is perfect.

(Just saw your profile. Let me know if you need me to drop off anything, we are allowed by Abbott to go out -- he's in a wheelchair and still makes it happen.)
It's just gone live in the last day or so. The designer talked about it here a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/pifafu/status/1265773172520914944

Personally I don't see much reason for this to be implemented via a git repository (rather than a text field in a database, like the existing Bio text), other than "we're GitHub, everything's a git repository, so why not".

At the moment, it's a single-file repository. Perhaps they have some ideas for other things that could be served from there too.

Weirdly at the moment it's required to be a public repository. This seems counterproductive: if it's my personal information blurb I don't much want other people looking at its history and I certainly don't want them forking it. (Are there any non-malicious reasons for doing that?)
Very true - I think it's important to be careful we don't generalize our own experience to others.

If people ARE paying 25%, (i.e. 60% of US consumers order at least once a week [1]) then the service is valuable enough to them (for whatever reason) to pay that much.

[1] https://upserve.com/restaurant-insider/online-ordering-stati...
You can only avoid this effect by not using urban stations, claiming the effect is small doesn't solve the problem.

I am specifically claiming that there is no known global temperature dataset that is frequently used in such alarming studies and contains no stations affected by the UHI effect. Since the linked article contains no references or links to sources, I cannot be more specific.
Pretty cool now that he doesn't have to do any of it for us in order to eat - or meet deadlines.
> There's a very easy solution that doesn't infringe upon liberties: everyone makes his own choice according to the level of risk with which he's comfortable.

This plainly doesn't work. Social problems can't be fixed by individualist solutions. The vast number of people who are in the huge risk class (probably a quarter of Americans) can't be forced to stay in house arrest to avoid death, when much easier solutions could prevent the disease from even existing, as seen in Vietnam.

A few weeks of highly localized, tight quanatine are nothing compared to what is going to happen and be required to prevent millions from dying in the US alone. Unfortunately that ship has long sailed away..
The Grubhub UX makes a specific claim, though: "Restaurant X charges $10 for a burger, and we will deliver it for $5".

When they're marking the item price up, that claim is false. Given these apps' SEO juice and ubiquity, users are left with the false impression that Restaurant X sells a pretty expensive burger.
I totally agree with your refactoring. The code you wrote is simpler, less surprising, reusable, easily testable, and so on.

Unfortunately I think that the article only shows that the OP made poor design choices, (which he probably wouldn't have if he had used TDD, ironically).

Even if the article is well written, the code shown in the three first blocks kind of invalidate the whole argumentation :/
The Office apps are better but everything else is significantly worse. All the systems are glommed together. The administration of everything is a nightmare. Try to setup things like OneDrive is a travesty. My girlfriend has O365 for her small business. She has the original account. She was trying to do something relatively simple with Teams the other day and it wouldn't let her. It said she wasn't an admin and she should contact hers. There is no one else, she IS the admin. So she signed up for a different service instead. I have nothing but trouble using the broad MS online ecosystem. But so many people are locked into and only know Windows and Office that switching cost is too much for most people.
If you can only afford 2 then I decided against RAID/ZFS. The issue is that "raid is not backup" and I fear user error as much as hardware error so instant mirroring would be just as bad.

For my home bulk storage, I just have two normal 14TB drives and a nightly cron to rsync archive (new files only) from the primary to the backup. This gives me enough of a backup for both user error and hardware failure. It doesn't protect against a house-fire but that is ok.

I should maybe have considered BackBlaze but I can't believe they are going to last long if they continue offer flat-rates for multi-TB attached NAS.
I can imagine: they think they paid their car 100 times more than our bicycles (actually maybe only 10), they know they could go 10 times as fast as a bicycle (maybe only 5) and yet they are stuck in the traffic, go as slow as us and won't be at home much earlier (or much later.)

When it happens to me to be a car driver I think that at least I'm enjoying heating or air conditioning but I'd like to be on my bicycle at least until I get out of the city.
I hope it will be funny enough to draw the ire of the cancel-community.
Yes, but that doesn't mean quite the same thing. With the constraint on the type (data Ord x => TC x = DC x) you can be sure that `x` implements `Ord` for any type `TC x`. In your GADT, however, the constraint only applies to the DC constructor, so `x` is only guaranteed to implement `Ord` when you actually have a value inside a `DC` constructor. If you don't match on the constructor then there might not be an `Ord` instance:

-- `Ord x` exists when matching on DC constructor
ex1 :: TC x -> x -> x -> Ordering
ex1 (DC _) a b = compare a b

-- Without constructor match, no Ord instance
ex2 :: TC x -> x -> x -> Ordering
ex2 _ a b = compare a b -- ERROR!

-- This is why the above ex2 definition is an error
badUser :: x -> x -> Ordering
badUser a b = ex2 undefined a b

-- No `TC x` value also means no Ord instance even
-- though no arguments are ignored or undefined
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ex2 :: Proxy (TC x) -> x -> x -> Ordering
ex2 Proxy a b = compare a b -- ERROR!
You're right, according to the last question in their FAQ [0]. Updated my original comment.

[0] https://redis.io/topics/faq
I was running it on Arch Linux. I may just lack the font.
This sort of ridiculous time pressure on a question that's basically of almost no importance seems unnecessary. It makes me think the culture around this is completely broken. It's also notable that they dropped everything, panicked, and triaged for 48 hours (which I presume is his way of saying that he has no respect for any of his teams' personal lives) for something which has no urgency other than who is asking the question. Then having completely interrupted everyone's jobs for 48 hours, they then go on to completely refocus the team for 2 weeks looking at why Barnes & Noble must be cheating.

And how does it all resolve? Oh right, the B&N App is pretty good, and they ask their users for reviews. Which the Kindle team would know if any of them had bothered to pay attention to what their competition is doing in the first place. Notice how the original point was that the B&N App had more better reviews? And how the solution was not to build a better Kindle App - it was to juice the metrics.
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> Modules in Redis can bring their own data types and algorithms and don't need to resort to the same kind of hack you mentioned.

To emphasize this:

One thing people might misunderstand about Redis is that Redis extension developers aren't expected to fit their data structures to the needs of a storage-engine. It's not like Cassandra, where your data structures must 'boil down' to key-value pairs; nor is it like an RDBMS, where your data structures must 'boil down' to tuple-sets; nor like a graph DBMS, where your data structures must 'boil down' to EAV triples. Redis data structures aren't "implemented in terms of" any other simpler 'canonical' data structure.

Instead, when you look at something like Redis Streams or the Redis Graph module, the whole complex data structure for each stream/graph is a big opaque in-memory thing dangling off a single key. It doesn't need to be broken down into parts "legible" to Redis. It can just be what it is. "Objects" in the Redis keyspace (the things keys are holding) can't hold pointers to one-another, so the core Redis commands can blindly manipulate them (e.g. deallocate them.) For everything else, you go through the module's commands, which walk the internals of the data-structure as what it is: a plain-old in-memory C struct, defined in your module's header files.

The canonical representation of a data structure in the Redis AOF (WAL log) is just the sequence of commands used to build it; not the data-structure itself. So, as a module developer, to get AOF persistence of your module's types, you don't need to do a thing, other than ensuring that your module's commands are deterministic.

You do need to do a bit of work to get your module's types to serialize into Redis RDB snapshots. But it's completely up to you how to define your types' serializations. Redis just provides an API for writing and reading scalar types from the RDB file stream. How your module uses them to save/load a value of a type is up to you. (And you can just skip this if you like; RDB persistence is used far less often than AOF persistence, so support for RDB persistence it's not even a highly-demanded feature for modules. If you don't bother, then loading your module just disables RDB persistence.)
This is true and it could just be some rough first steps to some new awesome comics. But total creative freedom doesn't necessarily give the best results...just look at the star wars prequels.
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Fantastic idea! If a restaurant offers delivery themselves, it's a no brainer to order directly from them. Usually it's cheaper and faster than ordering through an app. Hope this gains traction.
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Here are the negatives:

- unusual amplifier requirement

- poor performance under 200Hz (mid-bass to sub-bass)

- good volume for a headphone driver, terrible volume for an open air speaker driver

It might go into your next AirPod, it won't go into your next MacBook.
I had some great fun learning how to program with Flash and Actionscript in college. There was a book about physics simulation and it was very easy to make a game or interesting graphics!

I believe the book was called "Foundation in Actionscript Animation"

Now I think the best alternative may be Processing.
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There have been a few Lisp processors made with FPGAs:

http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/

https://opencores.org/projects/igor
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I think speed could change over time because our generation uses computer and common shortcuts from childhood. People who participated in the study could have been much less experienced users at that time and the shortcuts might have been less established and more varying from platform to platform
Got to believe, this is like heroin. Its a win until it isn't. Then where will AI researchers be? No progress for 20 (50?) years because the temptation to not understand but to just build performant engineering solutions, was so strong.

In fact, is the researcher supposed to be building the most performant solution? This article seems alarmingly misinformed. To understand 'artificial intelligence' isn't a race to VC money.
And this presents a unique opportunity to make a dent in the emissions. The US military also runs a large number of high performance nuclear reactors. They are the organization with the most nuclear know-how on this planet (both bombs and electricity). The US Navy reactors never had a single incident (and this includes leaks and disposal) in their 70 year history.

If the Congress mandates them to become net zero emitters, they can build some more reactors and generate all the energy they need.

Let's do a bit of back-of-envelope math. I'm using this US Navy study about the feasibility of producing jet fuel out of seawater [1]

- capital cost of A4W nuclear reactor [2] = $1200 per kw (page 9, table 5)

- power needed for synthesis of 100k gallons fuel / day = 246 MW (page 5, table 2)

- for 270 k barrels of fuel per day (entire US military consumption) you need 28 GW of power

- at $1.2 BN/ GW that comes at $33 BN

- the nuclear reactor is only about 20% of the total cost to synthetically produce the fuel, so we end up with about $150 BN total

- in terms of number of reactors, that would be about 100 A4W reactors; by the way these reactors power the Nimitz class aircraft carriers, of which there are 10 active, with 2 reactors each. So there are 20 such reactors active as of now. Making 100 new ones is not impossible

- if we spread the total cost of $150 BN over 10 years we end up with $15 BN/year, or about 2% of the US defense budget.

[1] https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a539765.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4W_reactor
This is why they have, no joke, inflatable pants [0] more commonly known as "Military Anti Shock Trousers(MAST)".

I am not a dr (IANAD?) but the idea is that you inflate the pants around a patient's legs which helps both push and keep blood out of the lower limbs and closer to the hear and brain. In principle, you could do the same by tying a tourniquet around each leg but the MASTs probably cause less tissue damage and are more adjustable.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_anti-shock_trousers
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It is by far the best mobile Keepass-compatible app I've used. Minikeepass was good for a while but seems abandoned.
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