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Do you use pure svelte or with sapper? how is it compared to react?
Didn't realize this change in 3.8. Curious if anyone has noticed performance improvements upgrading to 3.8.
Maybe this article is missing some important details but I don't see how having a special university is going to help the problem of getting more technical talent into government work.

There are already tons of government scholarship programs with strings attached in the form of post graduation service requirements and other hiring funnels that bring in new graduates. The government's problem isn't hiring new grads it's keeping those people once they get a few years experience. The biggest drain is probably government contracting companies who often offer literally twice the salary for the same work. Combine that with the soul sucking aspects that you would find at any large company and you have the perfect recipe for not being able to recruit and retain qualified mid career people.

It's hard to imagine how any amount of indoctrination in the ideals of public service at a special school will overcome those things without something else changing.
Everytime I read your name, you subtile spread some negativity :)

Maybe Hickey just didn't prioritized "types" as high as some other ideas to spend his time on. And in my opinion he focused on the right things and achieved something really great.

As general advice stay positiv, focus on the things you like instead of telling everyone what you don't like, it's better for your mental health ;)
That is a very charitable reply. Thank you. Even in possible disagreement, I admire why we might disagree.

If you ever drive south a few hours, and would be up for meeting for dinner, coffee, a beer, whatever, let me know. It would be my honor to meet you offline too.

I would like to know your dreams, your wild speculations, and your gut feelings about what the post-scarcity world should look like and how it might come to be.
Links has a GUI mode, so it can show images, colours, etc. I don't really get the point, though; Firefox with uBlock Origin seems much more practical.
Am I reading this right, that even if it's an employer-provided plan, you can't do paycheck withholding? That seems like a big speed-bump.

I have a DAF myself, and really love the way it separates the tax event [donating appreciated stock] and the donations to specific charities. But if it was all just about cash from my checking account, I'm not sure I'd find it worth the bother--I'd just mail checks to the charities directly. Once you can do regular automatic deposits, whether from payroll or from a user's bank account, I think it becomes a much more compelling service. I do hope you get there soon.

I do see that the gift-matching part can make it a valuable service even so. I look forward to your taking on Benevity for the gift-matching part; I've found their service and customer support to be rather poor.
It sounds like he's saying that the banks should have a type system for money, maybe something like this:

datatype Money
= Deposit of int
| Reserves of int

(Or maybe a unit system) and we shouldn't think of these as comparable..
Completely agree.

I performed the steps in the article and reduced the output binary size from ~35 MB for raw go build to around 29 MB for go build with the ldflags all the way down to 8.3 MB for compressed with upx.

Really impressive results.
Eventually this bubble will burst and a lot of people will be out of their money.

How long until reality kicks in? This can't go in for ever.
That mentality is so funny to me. I felt the same regret with Steam Proton suddenly allowing me to procrastinate with games I hadn't been able to play before.
Yup, all depends on the plan, goals, expected counter-measures, how those are handled, etc. With a larger plan, would likely have to suppress other channels to get word out, preemptively spreading disinformation, exploiting time zone differences, etc...
If you were wondering, Bromhexine is an expectorant/mucolytic agent. Bromhexine is not available in the United States. ( source : https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/bromhexine )
Yes, if I couldn't even get up out of my seat, walk around, and go to the bathroom, I would consider that some form of insanity and/or torture.
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Locally running the software doesn't force any obligation upon you. Running a modified version of it that other end users interact with does. Before you engage in modifying the source code it behooves you to read the license to discover what you are allowed to do with it thus it needs to click through license at first run.
My guess is that most politicians don't come from STEM backgrounds, mostly law or public policy so they don't see the inherit value in it.
First motivating example:

"Here’s the pattern. A new player jumps into your game and starts bouncing around your carefully crafted tutorial level. The level funnels them to the key, which they collect, and then on to the corresponding locked door, which they successfully open. Then, somewhere down the road, they encounter a second locked door… and are completely stumped. They’ve solved this problem once before – why are they having such a hard time solving it again?"

The second and third one are from math education and functional programming.
Just like the Hindu-Arabic number system enabled great innovation in mathematics because it was so much easier to use than the Roman system, I wonder if the simplicity of characters in English, enabled the US to jump to such an early start in computer software.

English characters are pretty compact (26 symbols), no accent marks that can't be ignored, have 1:1 mapping between uppercase and lowercase, and are easy to break up by word. This enables even very simple algorithms in a very resource constrained computer to do some work that is mostly right.

For example, splitting a person's name by space, taking the last word, making it uppercase and sorting by ASCII value lexicographically, mostly works if you want to produce a phone book listing, especially in 1950s-1980's America. And you can code this with very simple integer operations without needing a lookup table or a bunch of special rules. Soundex is also pretty simple to implement and deals with a lot of homophones.

Of course, now that we have the computing resources and libraries, handling the vast diversity of human languages is doable, but in terms of bootstrapping a computer software industry, simplicity, I think played a role.
There is nothing different versus a regular Ryzen 3x00 CPU. If you want many drives and good performance you need to use add-in SATA or SAS controllers instead of the on-board SATA controller that is fairly slow; it is good for one disk at a time, but slow for multiple disk access like a raid-z3 array w. ZFS. In this case the limit is what controller you use (one can find sh LSI SAS controllers at good price and good compatibility; see the Freenas.org forums for more info) and how many.

For the "how many" part the number of available PCIe lanes depends mostly on the chipset, the CPUs have 24 in total - 4 to the chipset, 20 available to use. This is where the difference between B450 and X570, for example, can make a difference. The graphics part of the APU is not relevant for a NAS, but it can be if you also do transcoding or any GPU assisted work.
The US won't probably go as far as to enact sanctions against the EU but rather pressure its leaders to support US against Russia and China, like banning Huawei spyware or commonly applying sanctions. Which we should probably do anyway because its in our common interest.
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tesla never had 90sec battery replacement tech
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Yeah, I get your point - I'd like someone else to do the backups, though.
Reaper is a great application.

I don't bother to listen (much) to critiques of Ardour's GUI. Every week I get an email that tells me it is totally pile of crap and I should feel embarrassed to even consider it usable, and another telling me how smooth and intuitive it is, much better than any other DAW.

When people say things like "Ardour's workflow for doing <X> is a bit clunky - it takes 6 mouse clicks, but if you did it like <this> it would only take 3" ... I try to listen to that and incorporate these kinds of ideas.

Reaper does a bunch of things that Ardour doesn't. Ardour does a bunch of things that Reaper doesn't. Reaper does some things that we both do better than Ardour, and vice versa.

"300k+ LOC application should have moved to <other GUI toolkit a long time ago" suggests that you have never moved 175k lines of GUI code between toolkits, regardless of which application and which toolkit you're discussing.

Also, Reaper doesn't use Qt.
FRNs are not an illusion, just their intrinsic value. Originally, dollars were exchangeable for gold or silver. Now, we get the privilege of paying taxes and court fees with FRNs. Outside of those arbitrary fees, they have no value. Its current currency value is that everybody (in the US) takes them and most international markets are based on them. once the international markets switch to some other currency, the FRN will lose a rapid part of its value, and the real brunt of the inflationary principles the Fed has adopted will be felt. It will be quite painful.
But it's not like the IRS is having sales people cold call Americans and convince them to send more money. Even if you take the most charitable interpretation of what taxes are (ie. you think they are legitimate and necessary at their current level), it still makes most sense to automate as much of the IRS process as possible. Otherwise those IRS employees are eating up tax resources that could be applied to other things.
I don't see how these two are the same. No side effects at import time? Sure. But a program isn't meant to be imported, it's meant to be run, so there's no real expectation that a program should be importable without side effects.
> — How about the left angle bracket "<"? Is that at least a "bracket"?

> No.

> — Why not?

> Because it's a LESS-THAN SIGN.

It's petty, and there are bigger problems, but this is one of my main gripes against SGML and its successors.
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>Municipalities were trying to build out their own last mile infrastructure. Some of them wanted to add ISP functionality on to that, but not all. In other words, they were already trying to do exactly what a "1 wire rule" would have mandated.

Building out last-mile != becoming an ISP. The city builds roads that lead to my house, they don't sell me the car I drive down the road or the gas I fill it with.

>Yes, and funding was never an issue. Many municipalities were trying to build, or had already started building, last-mile 1-wire infrastructure with their own funding that would have required ISPs to compete for access at aggregation points, exactly as you describe. What stopped them, as I said, was regulations and lawsuits.

You're completely out of touch if you think funding isn't an issue. There's a reason the federal government has handed out hundreds of BILLIONS to expand internet coverage in the US.

>Regulatory capture and a broken US legal system that allows large corporations with deep pockets to make frivolous lawsuits against municipalities that they know can't afford to defend themselves. If we forced plaintiffs to pay all legal costs for the defendants if they lose their lawsuit, those frivolous lawsuits would go away.

Are you serious? Comcast makes billions of dollars a year, they can sue and lose repeatedly and it isn't a blip on their radar. A city with a budget measured in the hundreds of thousands per year would immediately cease and desist if they were faced with a multi-million dollar settlement should they lose the case. It would literally have the exact opposite effect of what you're claiming it would do. The city can provide a city lawyer to defend itself, but having to pay for Comcasts lawyers who will no doubt inflate their hours and wages a hundred fold? Good luck.

>Yes, indeed; see above. But why should we allow them to get away with frivolous lawsuits? Why not do the obvious thing to fix that particular problem, as described above?

Your "solution" fixes absolutely nothing. Comcast will still sue, only the city will immediately stop buildout - and small cities won't even bother trying to start if they know there's a possibility they'll be sued. Comcast won't even have to go to court, they just have to write a nastygram!

>Smart regulation that was targeted at obvious abuses, like the lawsuits mentioned above, would greatly improve the situation, without having to have the government try to impose one-size-fits-all policies on everyone

I love this saying as if it's a bad thing. I was just telling my neighbors the other day that 1-size-fits-all regulations like clean water and fiber internet are horrible and really need to be specialized. Some of us want arsenic and lead in our water and dial-up internet in 2020, the government overreach is unbearable!

Regulation has never been the issue in the US. EVERY SINGLE TIME regulation gets rolled back, the exact issue it was intended to fix comes right back. See the mortgage crisis for the latest example.
On the other hand, MacOS 7.6 to MacOS 8 was not much more than a rebadging and a few bundled widgets. 9->X was a once-in-a-lifetime architectural change and not historically typical of Mac system software major versions.
Based on my experience at two companies with thousands of hosts on Datadog, this is not true. You'll only be able to negotiate a small discount.

You'll also experience their habit of launching new features, waiting a while for customers to adopt them, then starting to charge extra for them.

Don't get me wrong, Datadog has great products. But they're also great at extracting money from their customers.
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We test on iPhone 6s and it seems to work for us. Perhaps file a support ticket and we can take look?
My question was a little different. FounderPool provides a lot of diversification (relative to shares in 1 company) and potentially, earlier liquidity. But if I’m able to sell shares into a funding round, don’t I get that anyway?

I’d get cash rather than shares in a fund (and later, cash), but for someone interested in doing this, getting cash seems like the goal and is still investable elsewhere.

So, why not take the shares I’d contribute to FounderPool and sell them into my B round? If I want outsized exposure to a small set of equities other than my own, I could invest that cash in 10 smaller public equities and still get high-variance outcomes - maybe I pick a future Shopify, probably I don’t - but for someone after liquidity anyway, that part doesn’t seem like a feature.
My 2007 Chevy Avalanche. And that's actual freeway miles in a car that actually exists.

I have no doubt, musk will get the new roadster out there. But I have no reason to believe he isn't overpromising on the mileage.
And I would mind having an SD slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

This is the beauty of the market, yes? Both of us can shop at different brands, and the products that sell more get to continue to try new and better things.

I don't ask that every company stop using 3.5mm headphone jacks. Instead, I buy Apple. Why do you ask for Apple to re-add them? Instead, just buy some other brand.
Have you looked at Flux? You can do some really incredible things with it, both inside of queries and also in tasks/alerts. Check out https://www.influxdata.com/blog/anomaly-detection-with-media... for an example
I recall at least one large previous thread about Elo but can't find it. Anyone?
>The capital gains tax rate was 28% in 1980, 0% today

True if you make <$40000
FORTRAN does not require one either, as you can see in this example:

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-fortran-77-264.ht...
I've used lynx for almost 30 years but it is simply no longer capable of rendering the modern web in a useable fashion. It is however highly useful as a file manager and for stripping and importing web text via -dump. Also the best available gopher browser...
I mean... this piece is literary nonfiction, largely about the legacy of Holbein, and only incidentally about the actual mystery. It's a good piece! It's not a news article or a Wikipedia entry and not intended to distribute facts as effciently as possible.

If you don't like literary nonfiction that is your prerogative (and I actually have a lot of sympathy). But I feel like you're being uncharitable and holding this author to the wrong standard. It's like reviewing a sonnet by saying "the rhyming is distracting."
You can't post like this here—the overwhelming majority of such accusations are completely bogus, and they're poison.

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That is, in fact, not what it said.

It didn't say that you absolutely needed tens of thousands of staff, but that tens of thousands of staff often made sense to hire.
This is the worst idea I've ever heard.

If I were a VC and I found out one of the founders in my portfolio had become involved with FounderPool I would immediately drop them and cut my losses.

Being a founder takes a huge amount of confidence: You have to believe, against all odds, that you will be successful. If you really do believe you'll be successful then it wouldn't make sense to trade your soon-to-be valuable equity for a blend of equity which is certain to contain soon-to-be-failed startups.

Being an investor takes an even larger leap of faith in many regards. Swapping your equity for what is essentially "startup insurance" sends the signal that you do not actually believe in your startup and that's a strong indicator of imminent failure.

Compounding the issue: Since founders who believe they will be successful will generally be likely to avoid the equity pool, we can surmise that FounderPool will actually contain a who's-who of failing startups.

It's a bad bet no matter how you slice it.
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Do you mind sharing the name or url to these MOOCs?
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Scientists are one step closer to delaying aging
This feels like a bizarre article that seems to be 'fixing' a confusion no one actually has. Also, if the premise of your article is that the 'dictionary is wrong because I feel otherwise and that's why everyone is confused', then you should consider the parsimonious explanation that no one is actually confused, that the dictionary is right, and that it is you has invented a confusion.
For debugging-in-REPL purposes it's often very convenient to have it both ways. I was taught as a beginner to treat it as idiomatic boilerplate for that reason--no harm in having it, and there when you need it. Then you can just import your script and ad hoc test your functions.

It's a good technique prior to introducing formal unit testing (and even then, supplemental ad hoc has advantages).
we just need an adversarial network to generate unit tests
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It is a language thing, even for native speakers :) That is why he went to a lot of trouble to define each term in the beginning, and kept referring back to his opening definitions throughout the talk:

Simple = One thing not 'mixed - linked - folded' with anything else. That's why he says it is objective - if you look at something and see it's mixed up with something else, it's not simple (in his terms, now it's complex - eg many things woven together)

Easy = Near to you. Near in as you know it already, or you have it already and so on.

His talk is for the dev pov, but even outside of dev, simple does not mean easy all the time.

For example, (and something I am struggling with right now) it is simple to lose weight - eat less calories than you burn each day. Simple.

But I can attest it is far from easy.
That is so funny, I didn't know this! hahaha
I would love to live in that world. Here’s hoping for human evolution.
Which blows away the reason a lot of people/teams/companies like SaaS. Because there is no negotiation, no sales requisitions, no long lead time while they come up with a quote. You see the price you pay the price you get the service, same as anyone else.
I find it a little disappointing how when any large company reduces staffing it always makes the news.

I'm not at all saying these people at LinkedIn deserve this, I bet they're smart people and I hope they find new employment very soon.

But speaking generally ... many of us have worked at or worked with big bloated companies. We all know that many of them could be improved by slimming down. But we report on it like its a sign of the downfall.
for those curious about the source:

this adherence to sexual continence is known as brahmacharya and is one of the five yamas in traditional yogic philosophy.
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Failing to mention the massive tariffs on many products.
> Who's supposed to fund this?

The government- Schmidt is making a recommendation to Congress.

> Is this to be a real college, with accreditation

Yes
Not Churchill, alas. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/06/28/drunk/
I also suspect that Chess is exponential because of the "one mistake and you die" nature when playing good players.

Ben Finegold (a Chess Grandmaster) talks about this all the time--"The reason why I'm higher rated than you is that I can play 100 moves without a major mistake and at some point you will hang a piece. The reason why Magnus Carlsson is rated higher than me is that he will play 100 moves that are slightly better than mine and I will lose."
The right decision may still be a complex mess.
So what are the best alternatives?
Aren't 409A valuations significantly lower than VC valuations for the same company? So wouldn't bootstrapped companies be at a disadvantage by having to use a lower 409A while VC companies get to use the higher VC valuation?

edit: I see, bootstrapped is their own pool so the two valuations never get compered against each other.
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TLDR ROP is common technique for making programs do bad things so this prevents a whole bunch of bad things from happening.
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I had a chat with someone working on a similar product in this space. The problem being solved here is the matching component of charitable giving (which you mentioned).

Turns out, running a matching program at a company is pretty annoying at a certain size. Much less monthly charity stipends, etc.

Withholding from the paycheck would certainly be a great addition in the future, but is not necessary in the MVP to have people pay for the product.