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Children have become more of a burden than a benefit in many ways. We once had much use for our children. When people were more independent and everyone pretty much had a small business, children were seen as the life blood of that business. Now, we are pretty much expected to fill a role at some large corporation -- which Japan is the greatest example of. Also, the family centered culture has changed to a work centered culture. It used to be a mark of shame not to have a large family -- you were seen as a "dead end."

I don't think these changes are natural, given how little control people have over their lives. This stuff is being pushed from the top.
Eliminate coal power and the "problem" is nowhere near as bad.
So what does this mean for people like me who are rural, but right next to a major city? Right now, I am 5 minutes from the city but have to rely on a slow 10mbps-ish (down, don't ask about up) 900mhz point to point wireless connection. If I end up with Starlink as an option am I going to be fighting with urban users for bandwidth?

In many ways those of us in this scenario get the worst of both world because infrastructure spending / subsidies for rural Internet improvement gets used in real remote places, while most people don't realize that if you drive one street over from the suburbs, out into the farmland, you're unlikely to even be able to get low quality DSL. It's simply not available to me. When the sprawl finally brings the bulldozers in to build McMansions around me, I guess that's when the fiber lines will come in...
> I already feel the earth is well beyond it’s ideal human population capacity.

You might enjoy Peter Russell's "The Global Brain" for another perspective on human population growth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1sr9x263LM .

> We are straining resources because of our bad policies and practices and politics.

It certainly seems that our carrying capacity could be much greater with sounder policies, practices, and politics.
Guess it's time to re-structure the economy away from "who can consume and produce most".
Couldn’t this also be construed as a good thing? One outcome might wealth will be available to take care of the remaining population.
I've been everything from making more money than I needed to homeless and borrowing couches and front porches in winter.

I've also refused to include Facebook in my life even though the majority of my extended family practically live there and rarely communicate outside of FB posts. My wife and I just get text messages on the rare occasions instead.

Yes, been employed and unemployed. And I'm under no illusions that FB login support will get dropped anytime soon. I can still lobby for the desirable alternative.
So... being a comment from that "guy" that made the original comment :-)

To reemphasize the problem with grpcurl.... it's _still_ static. You must download the artifact. It's like needing a different phone for every person you call (protobuf artifacts) instead of calling different people on the same phone (same artifact, different address and data in payload).
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> I am just trying to serve a couple of websites here!

Don't underestimate your responsibilities as an active participant online and operator of a globally reachable computing resource. Like driving a car, if you're not fully qualified and alert then you can endanger yourself and others. This is how PHP got such a bad rap.

The fact that the container deployment tool has helped you configure security elements (such as limited filesystem access) is nice, but those elements already existed, along with the tools to manage them. Containerized software deployment did not invent them, and if you're getting procedural benefits from containers, that's great for you, but that's all it is.
Its an American cultural norm- which often seems 'fake' or 'posing' to Europeans, S.Americans or Asians who are little more reserved and stingy expressing such levels of sentiment.

It was a shock to me when I started interviewing for jobs- and an American friend told me, its very important in the US, when interviewing to say "I'm really excited (more than you really are) about the opportunity to work at XYZ." The truth could be you hate the company or are ambivalent- but if you don't say you are absolutely excited- the assumption is you are not interested and therefore will be passed over for someone who is 'truly excited'.
Exactly, let it be our educated decision not starvation, senseless wars and poverty. And the more the human population rose it took into other populations, it led to numerous extinctions, etc

I hope the trend stays like this. It’s not like there are 1000 people left, there are still billions extra
In my view, you are echoing propaganda. Nothing says humans have to live in cities and burn massive amounts of fossil fuels. The way we are living may be stressful to the planet, but humans aren't the problem... it's the way we are forced to live that is.
Which relevant licenses are the NSA in a position to deny?
It is reasonable to assume that anybody writing code is using the US keyboard layout. That is the de facto standard and standards are important.

Anybody who deviates from that is doing so at their own risk. If you want to use Dvorak or Azerty instead of Qwerty then you can do that, it's just not advisable because things like Vim will no longer make sense.

If you try to write code using a layout that doesn't have all the ascii printable symbol characters in accessible locations then you're creating a special kind of hell for yourself. It takes like 30 seconds to change to US layout.
Agreed, but no one seems to know how we decouple the economy from growth without hurting or angering a lot of people. Maybe we just tear off that bandaid quickly.
Not when you realize that the economy is largely a huge ponzi scheme which requires a constant stream of new participants to prop up asset prices and generate economic activity.

The care issue is real, not so much because we need people to look after them, which potentially could be automated, but rather the new generations are the ones paying into the system and funding their pensions.
Actually, the [Gödel 1931] proof does not work as advertised for Principia Mathematica because the Gödel number of a proposition does not include the order of the proposition.

Consequently, the rules on orders of propositions mean that the [Gödel 1931] proposition I'mUnprovable does not exist in Principia Mathematica where

I'mUnprovable <=> ¬⊦I'mUnprovable

For details see the following: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
I started to read this waiting for the punchline to a Dad joke. Kids can still mow lawns for sure.

>This stuff is being pushed from the top.

Is this some kind of Sparta thing? Like you all go up to the top of the mountain and someone pushes Dad off? Because if you actually mean there's a "top" that is dictating human sexuality I am deeply, deeply interested in seeing a schematic diagram for how that system works.

>It used to be a mark of shame not to have a large family

When and where was this? As someone who grew up Catholic it feels like that cut both ways.

To be vaguely serious for longer than I want, my wife and I just had a long, unfun conversation about how hard it is to deal with her mom's dementia and I don't know that we could do anywhere near as well with dealing with it if we didn't have a kid of our own. It's a shitty Ponzi schema, but the alternative is being Shakers.
No mention of economic inequality or rising cost of living?
Why is immigration not the answer to this? Eventually developed countries are going to have to get over their bigotry and open the borders.
Unfortunately this is not the case. Many, many people use laptops, and getting laptops with non-local keyboard layouts is Really Quite Difficult. You usually have to go to the place where the layout is native to buy it.

External keyboards, sure. But many of us are laptop-only.

Sure, you can remap the keys, but also, not everyone is a touch typist.
They're at Cockroach according to their about page.
A friend briefly held a job keeping the books for a penis pill company. They offered a money back guarantee, didn't honor it, and then, when the credit card companies locked their accounts for chargebacks, used a series of social security numbers from borderline mentally disabled "employees" to continue opening financial accounts to perpetuate the fraud.

Her didn't blow the whistle because he "didn't want to be a snitch". Because of that, several additional innocent people had their credit ruined, and gullible consumers were taken for millions or perhaps tens of millions of dollars.

I would really encourage anyone thinking of coming forward to do so. And I'd also encourage everyone else to celebrate the people who have come forward as witnesses.
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This just means that the strategy of keeping most of the wealth with a tiny minority and expecting the middle class to bear the cost of supporting the old people in wholly separate existences and households paid for by the young isn't tenable.

Some degree of distribution of wealth and multi generational households would render it tenable again.
It’s also education and contraception that have a role. I’d also add the high cost of living too as well as rising inequality.
> My main mistake was putting too much in my 401k

Can you expand on this? I recently moved to the US and people keep telling me to get a 401k, but I haven't yet.
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A big part of that problem is that most nations have a pension system where the active work force pays for the pension of the elder instead of each person paying their own pension by saving/investing troughout their lives.
The people who aren't paying their taxes are lying, cheating, and stealing. If they get reported on, then they got their karma.

(I believe in a version of karma: crappy people are more likely to have crappy things happen to them because they put themselves in that position.)
Or intentionally show them the rough edges. "Oh, oops it can't handle that input yet, let me try with something that does work."
Would love to hear them.
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I dunno, looking at the fertility rates of rich countries vs. the performance of equities, it seems like increased productivity from computerization and automation is perfectly capable of offsetting much of the economic decline from a lower birthrate.
I really like that competition is coming, but hate that it is in area that again no one else can compete.

To bring competition all what's really needed is a legislation mandating that the last mile can be leased to any company (for a reasonable fee of course) and we would get back once again to times when we needed sites like dslreports.com to decide which ISP of so many in your area to use.
> how do core data structures like hash maps work without generics

blessed implementations inside the language, slices, maps and channels are built in generics.

sync.Map is what the standard library version looks like. It loses type safety.

https://golang.org/pkg/sync/#Map
I think you read him backwards. He was saying that threatening to kick them out was stupid.
In the minds of the people at the time Communism was such a great evil and afront to personal freedom, that "propping up dictators and terrorist" was seen as the lesser evil and preferable.

It's perhaps easy to forget now, but during the 30s, 40s, and 50s the face and "leader" of communism was Stalin – not exactly a friendly chap – and things like China's Great Leap Forward left over 20 million dead (mostly due to incompetence, not malice), and let's not forget Cambodia.

Details differ per care of course, but in quite a few cases all of this was done in the name of "freedom and democracy", which was perhaps not entirely unreasonable too. I'm not saying that it was the right thing to do (many other issues like national sovereignty etc. which come in to play), but I do think it's a bit more complex than your comment. I'm not sure if idly sitting by and doing nothing would have been that great of an option either.

There's a reason that communist symbolism and the like is considered taboo in many formerly communist Eastern European countries, somewhat akin to Nazi symbolism.
The thing is, for people who want generics, sum types, non-nullability etc, there are plenty of other languages to choose from. For those who specifically want a simple language, Go is (was?) one of very few options.
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It is one of the factors for sure, but also contraception, education, women emancipation (eg they are unwillig to make 10 kids unlike 100 years ago even in the western world)
or undeveloped countries become developed. - this is clearly an option.
> A decade is a long time in software engineering.

Is it?

Code I wrote literally 20 years ago is still running in production, and I get paid to work on an app with plenty of code around that was first committed in 2009.

If you build a system in k8s today, and it's a success, there's good reason to believe you'll be on k8s in 2030.
There's ways to solve that problem, for example: implementing the individualized pension system we have here in Chile.
> I think those count as "blue states with moderate Republican governors," in quadrifoliate's mind.

Yeah, that's dead on, clearly I have a lot to learn about US politics :) I didn't even think of checking, how does Massachusetts elect a Republican Governor?
Nobody wants to admit it but the only chance to “win” against climate change is to either drastically reduce the population or invent some magic technology that solves the problem for us.

Advancements in existing technology just aren’t going to be enough at the timeline we’re looking at. Political change is another non-starter because it just won’t happen on a global scale. Then there’s the fact that for the vast majority of people alive today, the Earth’s condition in 50 or 100 years is rightly not even on their radar.
Saving and investing is ineffective if everyone’s investment returns (assuming there’s any returns to be had with productivity slowing and economies stagflating, note the monetary policy in Japan and Europe) are chasing the same limited pool of healthcare and caregiver labor.

The only solutions are technology or rationing care.
This is the popular view, reinforced by lots of different bits of media and pop culture. It's also wrong.

Enough food is already produced right now to feed every person on Earth [1]. Most estimates furthermore put the Earth's carrying capacity at around 2 billion more people than we already have [2].

The problems that people think of when they think of "overpopulation" are the result of insufficient distribution systems, corruption, unconstrained capitalism, faulty human psychology, and poor education. They are problems caused by human beings screwing over their fellow human beings. Some of these problems get easier to solve when you have more people, not fewer, and in any case, nobody's yet figured out how to make things much better in a shrinking economy.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569_We_Alread...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity#Humans
Go cheats with some built-in generic types. So you can declare a hashtable as a map of any comparable type to any other type. But yes you typically have to implement things yourself for more complex cases so that does limit the sorts of libraries that are available and the way you write programs.
Only two days? I've spent two weeks on a single line bug fix before (although I wrote quite a few more lines of unit tests to make sure it continued to work).
It's almost like we've all been convinced to join some weird, global suicide cult. Except instead of killing ourselves we're throwing our genetic information away.

Almost everyone I know who is really well-off/rich is having several kids. Heck, Elon Musk, who is basically spending his life trying to solve these environmental problems as his multiple businesses, has six!

Why are their social norms and thoughts on this so different from the rest of us?
My wife’s theory is that there will be a lot of babies born in about 6 months (9 months after the quarantine started), but only for first time parents. Being quarantined with a child is the absolute best birth control.
Oh, I'm not by any means saying it's the most popular language. I'm just comparing strictly based on the comment, people who like go vs people who will never use it because of its lack of generics.
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This is a good move, which will make Go more consistent. Making custom generic and builtin generic consistent absolutely makes Go more easy to learn and read.
The longer you let a ponzi scheme run the worse it gets. So it seems better to take some pain now instead of more pain later.
The boomers will have to accept a haircut. This is a matter of time.
Most of the United States is unpopulated. We can easily double our population and be fine.
Yes. Pretty much everyone I talk to would happily go to their small town, or village close to their homes and families but they don't. They say they can't.
100% agree. If there’s one thing you can count on to come through in a tricky situation, it’s level heads and politicians.
Pushed from the top? What on earth? Guy, there's no conspiracy required to explain urbanization. It is a simple matter of better agriculture tech. We just don't need much labor on farms anymore.
"Elected official" is such a funny term, these days. It CAN mean a legitimate installation of a decision-maker based on decisions (votes) of their peers, but in the case of Saruman the Orange, it can also mean the (unfortunately) technically-legitimate theft of power by hostile forces.
It's obviously very difficult to predict, but there's also some expert speculation that affluence will spread widely enough to slow the birth rate down to be close to the death rate and we'll reach some sort of equilibrium.
I remember we learned in elementary school, about three hundred years ago when I was a kid, a correlation (or inverse of) between economic prosperity and demographic picture. It was so obvious it even had named phases for it (that we had to learn, which I forgot).. but from vague memory it was along the lines of expansion (when country is poor), stagnation (when well-fed) and immigration (when rich).
The very same reason that ethnic Chinese replacing Tibetans and Uygher does save Tibet or Xinjiang.
What does "progressive behavior" mean? What does "conservative behavior" mean? The sort of thing typically being discussed here (in relation to so-called "cancel culture") typically involve the action of a few thousand (or less) people working almost entirely online or within the context of a small social context (for example a college).

For me, what matters are policies enacted that have the power to affect thousands or millions of people. Whether or not I approve of or even believe in "cancel culture", it's a marginal affair whether it's affecting conservatives or progressives.

Progressive policy vs. conservative policy? There's no contest, no comparison between the two that does not differentiate heavily between them on the basis of inclusivity, tolerance, egalitarianism and so forth.

As Atrios notes (a lot; Eschaton) "oh noes, those crazy powerful college kids have gotten another conservative speaker to go away while meanwhile there's been another tax cut, another step toward voting disenfranchisement, another shift towards even greater wealth/income inequality etc. etc".

In short, given the scale of the impact actual policy, I'm not sure how much I care whether there actually is a "cancel culture" or not.
I feel like bemoaning sub-replacement rate fertility doesn't take into account the exponential growth of automation in post-industrialized economies and how little labor actually needs to be done to maintain the same productivity, let alone how less labor increases productivity in an organization (no numbers there - just an observation from my own work).

Extrapolated to society I'm not really afraid of an aging population of pensioners like Japan several years ago, because 10 years from now we'll be moving further from human controlled economic activity. But who knows if that is going to be a good thing.

I guess what I'm saying is we're going to hit Star Trek or the Matrix
Because the lambda papers were multiple submissions for a thesis (each one rejected(!)), sometimes comments slip in about certain things, and it's just generally fascinating to read.
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I just gave Starlink my address as per the email request they sent out today.

I'm currently on an 5Mb down 1Mb up LTE connection with a total data limit of 250Gb/Month for the low price of 100 bucks a month. I do have very low latency < 20ms, but last month my friends kid was over and managed to burn through 95 gigs playing and updating some game called PubG that ended up putting me over my limit and I got to pay an extra 50 bucks for the next tier of usage.

If I get the opportunity to try out Starlink I will be more than happy to do so as it's very frustrating being forced to use an ISP monopoly provider, especially when there is fiber available to properties less than 5 miles away from mine.
No one is saying we must increase the population.

Article points out that it is important to slow it down so decrease is not so rapid, otherwise it will be harsh.

It's easy to slow down the birthrate if country wants it. It's much harder to raise it.
Ive previously (aftermarket) added consumer GPUs to an hpe proliant server in a non-dc environment (using pcie riser card). Main issue was lack of appropriate supplemental power cabling, so I had to run a separate (consumer) power supply for supplemental power connection (but still from same ups/ground).

I guess it would be possible to add a graphics card of your choice to this workstation as well.
Huh, interesting. How would that work with dewar, though? The LN is constantly evaporating and pushing gas out of the container.

The garage thing seems like a good point, because, yeah, if there's one place in the world you don't accidentally want to collect liquid oxygen... (goes to move dewar).
I'd imagine a private detective who specialises in securities fraud could probably work this out in a few hours if not minutes?
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Haven’t read this one, adding to the list, thanks!

Oaks are pretty fire resistant, and support a lot of game — so those wide open spaces were actually oak savanna. Big prairies with one or two oaks per acre. In fact, Oregon — now known for its Douglas Fir — was wide open oak savanna, due to fire management practices of native Americans.
Yeah, Go being from Google is not necessarily a good thing. It means the language is under the control of a single company and, what's more, a company that is well-known for giving up on many of its projects.
Oh man. That's freaking terrible. I really don't like the idea of physical punishments for financial crimes. However, the people running that should be taken behind the shed.
I’d lay a bet I know of some 2.11BSD boxes still running critical production code at a former employer.
It's a pity you used "copilot", because that name is already used for Red Hat's admin product.
seems like you could just not use ',' as the separator character in type declarations. +-*^% I think have the same problems, but @#$ are available. weird syntax, but go already makes the tradeoff, do what's fast to parse.
While GoDaddy doesn't have the best support, they have fixed many account related issues for my clients in the past.
Following this logic (and ignoring the increase of suffering as a raw product of addition) it's totally possible there'd be less suffering if we stayed in loosely connected hunter-gatherer societies.
I also like this comment from the almost-empty /r/ProgrammerHumor/ submission linking to that thread:

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Native apps"