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Many people argue systemd is an example of code that’s easy to delete being replaced with code that’s hard to delete.

They’ve deleted init, the dns client, dhcpd, the whole xdm family, various small open desktop protocols, kernel-level file permissions enforcement on certain device files, rsyslog, countless shell scripts for running background tasks via ssh, and I’m sure hundreds, if not thousands, of other well-modularized programs. None of the collateral damage is in subsystems related to init. Instead, it is subsystems that worked well, but that were easy to delete.

One the other side of the coin, look at all the effort people are spending to rip systemd out. Multiple Linux distributions exist solely to contain the damage it’s doing.

It’s unclear if gnome will even survive the war if systemd loses.

It’s also wasting the time of end users, so the damage can greatly exceed the total resources put into building Linux distributions.

A few days ago, I ran an “apt-get fullupgade” on my headless Raspberry Pi, and some systemd subsystem wedged during the upgrade. Now networking is broken. I want to use this raspberry pi in an embedded I2C application that run for last decades. So, I need to find an operating system that:

(a) doesn’t use systemd - fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, well this is well past the second time.

(b) runs on raspberry pi

(c) has userspace tools to work with the i2c bus on the pi

(d) has a working upgrade path.

This is a huge pain, and it’s all to delete one software package that I don’t even care about, and that is irrelevant to the use case for this machine.

/rant
I believe PromQL [1] and MetricsQL [2] are much better suited for typical queries over time series data than SQL, Flux or InfluxQL.

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9a...

[2] https://victoriametrics.github.io/MetricsQL.html
yeah a lot people can't do that. Specifically anyone caring for someone, so like 50% of adult population. A huge proportion of adults are caring for a parent or child.

Its also impossible if you have any health problems, or need to save for retirement or have student loan debt.

Its really only possible if you're young and healthy, so this would filter out probably 80% of adult population
I'd think strategically about a gap year. If you're a great student with excellent college prospects a gap year might make sense, admissions are going to be very competitive for 21/22. If you're not the best student it might make sense to try and get accepted for 20/21 due to smaller field of applicants.
We don't know. If there is no vaccine ever, and no long term immunity from getting it, then it doesn't matter what you do every country will eventually be infected and have the same death rate. Sweden just happens to be there first but everyone will get there.

Of course my assumptions are big. If there is a vaccine then it is personally worth a lock down to not get it. If there is herd immunity I want everyone else to get it while I personally lock down.
I agreed with everything you said until the last four words. What would make you think that Krebs is motivated by a "reckless pursuit of clout?"
So here's a fun thought experiment: If that proposition ("The average person isn’t capable enough to judge information for themselves") were true, what would be the correct way to structure a society to maximize the quality-of-life for people in that society?
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> Where goes the energy of the orthogonal component of the field? Absorbed by the polarizer, reflected, ... ?

It depends on the type of polariser.

The type used in LCD displays and 3D cinema glasses absorbs, that's why everything looks darker through them but they don't look like mirrors.

A polarising beam splitter reflects one mode and passes the other. It looks like a half-mirror.
>I suggest checking out thread.com

Thanks. I just check it out and Really like the idea. Somehow those recommendation dont work for me. But at last it gave me a few useful tips to further look into.
Trying to dunk on Krebs in his area of expertise just makes you look like an idiot.

He’s a brand at this point, and a well respected one.
A good example of that is adding boost to your code base. Once you've added boost to implement one simple feature, eventually someone will use boost to do preprocessor magic or other meta-programming. Then there is no going back, because there is (almost) no way you will be able to reverse that decision.
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I mean I lived in both ca and ny and the tax rate is pretty close to European ones. When I lived in Switzerland just the federal rate was higher than my Swiss tax rate.

The big difference in total compensation after tax between Western Europe and USA is in the compensation part for people that are considered highly skilled. For example for me I get at least 2x here in CA compared to what I would get in Norway and Switzerland. In the UK and Germany the difference is even larger.

For people that are not highly skilled it is the other way round, they would earn significantly more in Europe. Another difference there is that life in Europe is much nicer for the average middle class, but personally I think it’s nicer in the US for upper middle class, the top 10%.
* how should AWS know when its customers want the permissions they choose and when they don't?

* the cost of auditing would be spread across all customers equally, punishing competent customers and benefitting incompetent ones..
That's a bit misleading. Amazon has up until now used their own Chime app for internal chat. Only last month was the Amazon/Slack partnership announced.
True however I am curious if professional ethics have an opinion on what kinds of publications are appropriate to share anonymized patient stories
Completely agree with the OP of the twitter thread.

pg once coined the phrase .. ramen profitable.

I deeply agree with that concept. Cover bills but all those frills and cushy "living wage" nonense needs to go while the startup is finding its feet.
> i find it very hard to believe that Krebs would just randomly blame some person without credible evidence

I do not find this hard to believe. He could have simply made a mistake. He could have evidently credible evidence which ends up being flawed. This defense of Krebs is baffling to me, because it doesn't even defend his actions on their merits and his claims on the evidence he provided. The argument in Krebs's favor is that you trust Krebs, which is a fine enough point but unlikely to convince people who don't trust Krebs.

Even if he is right about this person, publicly revealing them instead of just contacting the police seems like a highly questionable decision to me.
If informal descriptions confuse you, skip them and read actual definitions instead.

I actually like informal definitions a lot. I think they serve two different purposes:

1. For beginners they usually soften the blow of a fully rigorous definition, letting them get an idea of the concept before getting it exactly.

2. For experts they can often suggest what the exact definition is faster than it would be to read a precise definition!

But if you don't get anything out of them, you can skip 'em. Definitions are more important: informal descriptions are there to help you grasp the definition faster and to help you develop an intuition for the concept being defined. If you can do those things faster from just a rigorous definition, you don't need an informal description. (But as I said, I feel informal descriptions benefit both beginners and experts, so I'd also suggest practicing reading them more to get a feeling for what kind of details people tend to omit or emphasize.)
If transmission is from cough and sneeze droplets this would make sense, as it spreads fastest when transmitter has covid and they have a cold or the onset of the flu.
> Adding features to a spec'd standard is a horribly slow process

It doesn't have to be. The Web evolves relatively rapidly these days, and Matrix does too (although it could be faster, for sure). It's important to support freedom as well as privacy - as per https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom.
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So one article from a source I’ve never seen before today?

Sure I’ll take that as gospel truth.
There are countries that are better to work in than others though, e.g., Switzerland salaries are near US with significantly better benefits. US is in the top 10 though.
Not really. Out evolution and existence in our current form rely on many things that have happened in the entire universe up to this point. But I’m not saying each of our brains and bodies encode all that information. We just benefit from it with an intricate physical structure that would have been difficult to create any other way.
While I agree, I find this common argument to have a faulty rhetorical approach. Leadership can often be allergic to allegations that there are problems that they don't know about. They can be outright defensive towards suspicions of uncertainty.

I feel there may be a better way to express the utility of rapid iteration and design-as-you-go without triggering a fight response.
I am somewhat sympathetic to the check size argument simply because I have seen a lot of people drift from accelerator to accelerator to accelerator and mostly focus on getting to their next one. They become really good at the pitch and grant collecting, but have websites that barely work or rarely go and meet customers. There is a perverse incentive in the accelerator spot in itself being a reward.

I suppose it depends on what YC wants to optimize for. You can risk giving money to not so serious founders or risk excluding ones who want to cap their risk.

I don't get why they would want to ban dev tools and SaaS. The latter especially is a huge segment. Many enormous companies like IBM and SAP are built around those types of offerings.
Slack(November 2, 2016): You cant make good chat for work!
https://slackhq.com/dear-microsoft

Microsoft: Thanks for the warm welcome. We think we can.

Slack(22 july 2020): You are using your office suite super power to crush us.

Microsoft: We thought we we're welcome?

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Slack, stop the complaint and just make better products.
> And how long until I cannot send mails from my Gmail address to you Outlook one?

FWIW, a few of my friends at an Elite engineering undergrad program didn't think that was possible. I was baffled.
1) College itself is not worth the cost of full tuition. College tuition costs have increased above the inflation rate for decades to become enormous.

2) Online education can be equal to in-person education and is worth the same cost as in-person education. The overall college experience is subjective, but you can learn everything you need to from reading a textbook and completing assignments and taking tests, all of which are the same in an online setting.
You can add levels of meta to disarm any analogy and excuse any statement but that's silly. Yelling 'white power' is goatfucking and that guy is a goatfucker.
Neat! So it's like an EM Flux measurement, but for the brain?! If so, that's fascinating :-)
Everything is a cost/benefit analysis. Do libraries provide some services that home internet can't? Yes. Does that make them overall a better investment? No.

There's already unemployment agencies. Maybe they can setup computers to assist the homeless. Or you know, the homeless shelter could have a computer for job searching.
Indeed. So the correct thing for a business to do for both its short- and long-term survival (since we can't know a-priori whether the conclave of wizards will be stable) is to minimize the odds of forming one in the first place.

Businesses are structures that minimize risk. A core set of specialists who can't be replaced without tanking the business's performance is a risk. And a hard-to-quantify one at that.

Unless, of course, the business is not setting out to minimize risk, but instead to shield some less-risky structure from outsized risk exposure. Like, say, a startup company funded by angel investors trying out experimental technologies in the hopes of hitting on a jackpot new system that a big corp could then buy. If they fail, only the angel investor money is gone. If they succeed, a risk-averse business can buy a valuable asset.

But the first thing that business will want to do to maintain its long-term risk profile is fire the wizards. ;)
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What about Microsoft bundling OneDrive? Or One Note? Should they be forced to remove those too? I don't understand how Microsoft is in the wrong here. This isn't like them bundling it into Windows. O365 is a paid product and users are specifically paying for a productivity bundle, where Teams makes perfect sense as a product. They previously bundled Skype here IIRC, which was also a chatting app, they just replaced it with Teams.

If you want to argue that Teams ripped off of Slack, I won't disagree with you there. But Slack was just an evolution of IRC + plugins also. So it isn't a novel idea that they came up with, it was just well executed.

I don't even like Teams, I much prefer using Slack. But Microsoft having a productivity suite where they're offering a productivity app seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Google is doing the same thing with Google Meet/Chat, it's going to get bundled in Google Apps for Business.
If someone gets split brain surgery, does this law mean they stop being a mammal? Personally I think you should get your nipples removed if you want to stop being a mammal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
What you described sounds like a pain.
Indeed, though if the authors are saying

> The number field sieve algorithm is still far from being fully understood, in particular for extension fields that are so important for pairing-based cryptography.

I won't say I understand it either. But it indeed seems to only be applicable in towers of extension fields which are only used for pairing-based cryptography.
If that logic were true, then there would be far fewer companies built by founders who already have a successful exit. The success of a company is far more likely to be correlated by the founders not having to put their own wellbeing on the line than the other way around.

I think, as a point of failure, that most would agree that a system that allows a few people a 'free sabbatical' but also provides security for those founders who would not succeed without it, but who will with it is a good thing.
I just started a toy project using S3, and at least to a novice user, it was a confusing, overwhelming array of options and linked pieces. It felt like being hit with a lot of advanced options all at once, with no obvious happy path for common cases.

I'm sure an expert finds it all very natural. Security is always hard and has to be done right the first time. That's a domain that's always going to deter novices, and perhaps the only way forward is to hire an expert to ensure you're doing the right thing.

Still... I've been programming for four decades and it felt a little odd to be quite so out of my depth. It's not the same as anything I've done before, but it felt like it shouldn't have been quite so bewildering.
> as project lead for Matrix I may be biased :)

I actually chuckled.
I don’t think a paeudonym is a pseudonym if it uses parts of your real name.

For example if my name is Dan Smith and I say “call me Dan”, well, that’s just my name
It was incredibly helpful to me though. Now I feel like maybe I could actually grok quantum computing.
I know what you mean, and a number that is not infinitely precise is an interval (i.e. a set of numbers).
e is a number that is quite hard to pin on the imaginary number line, because the chances of hitting it with a pin is virtually zero. But the same argument can be made about the number 2 or 3. Those are just notations to abstract ideas, even though it is easier to formulate analogies for some of those numbers.

Now, formalising that above sentence even with symbols is quite difficult.
The OpenGL is a much better example than the database connection, FWIW.
Bluntly, college costs are not going to be dropping, at least this year. Universities still have the buildings, the infrastructure, and the staff that they bought to deliver in-person classes. That those staff are now having to do more work to put together online curriculums, and the admin are having to arrange extra technology for online classes makes it more expensive, not less.

A college set up as a distance-learning establishment is in a different place - and there are some of those. But the costs of running a university don't suddenly vanish just because the students do. And as everyone expects/hopes in-person teaching to be back next year, I don't see many institutions deciding to go online-only as a business model, either.

(FWIW the associate professors will be fine: they're mostly tenured. It's the adjuncts which are going to be shafted, together with the people who were hoping to get tenure-track positions in what is now a decimated job market).
Well at the very least you'll learn how college is spelled.
How out of touch can you be?

So her company facilitates equity for tech workers, an industry whose goal is to 'disrupt' all other job markets. They justify this by claiming to empower individual workers. Her unique justification is to empower women in tech specifically.

She does not acknowledge that her company will benefit from this decrease in demand for labor, which will also affect women. She does not consider the countless women in legacy jobs that tech has eliminated, who stay at those jobs even after sexual harrassment, never mind filing suit (something that almost no one except serial executives is equipped to do).

Not to mention her completely unfalsifiable claim that the things she was fired for demonstrate sexism following from nothing other than the fact that she is female.

So she posts a hybrid call-for-cancellation and job posting, so she can hopefully get back to work disrupting asap.
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What is it if not a filtering function?

It is a filtering function and it's the wrong filtering function. Like others have said, it filters out anyone with a great idea who is unwilling to put their lives in danger, or more importantly the lives of people dependent on them.
A smaller check size hurts startups in capital intensive industries. Others already made excellent points about the diversity if founders that can be attracted with a smaller check size, since less money favors people with money already in the bank or with easy "friends and family" rounds. I'd also like to add that smaller sizes work against company and market level diversity as well. If YC is purely for software, sure, but they've been trying to fund hardware/biotech/etc, and you need that cash to build an actual prototype. Smaller class sizes makes sense as a proposal, but if you reduce funding to original levels as well, you'll be stuck with an overwhelming number of overrepresented demographic founders starting b2b SAAS companies. From a financial perspective that locks out a talent pool and limits your investment horizons in a pretty big way.
Sweden has euthanized a large part of of its elderly population with covid19 in the bygone months. Euthanized as in "not even considered any treatment except palliative treatment".
If the circumstances were not that extra-ordinary, people would demand for swedens leader ship to be shipped to Den Haag.
You’re ignoring the part where I suggested that the “we” you mention would be redesigned to be amenable to that sort of stuff.
You won't find anyone willing to teach several sections a day in a teaching laboratory with 24 students, the risk of infection is (correctly) perceived as too high. The market has adapted, there are kits to do experiments at home.

Research labs are much less densely packed, and in-person interaction is less. In less affected states lab-based research is starting again.
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That is a good framing. When I explain it to people, I compare it to the NBA. Except it's like trying to get into the NBA when all of your coaches over your entire basketball life up until that point have been in the NBA. Proximity can trick you into thinking you just have to "decide" to pursue such a position, not knowing that such positions are the result of a ruthless tournament system.
5 years of books and courses or how I made $369k on the side
There’s a significant trade-off here – it can result in overvaluing money in comparison to time / effort. If you’ve been scraping by for a while, you train yourself to always pick the cheapest option, which often isn’t the best option. I’ve seen several founders waste time and effort trying to work around shortcomings in cheap / free tools or implementing something themselves when spending an insignificant amount of money would make the problem go away immediately.
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Yes, those are both possibilities for building a polarizer [1].

For example, a simple polarizer could be a grid of thin metal wires whose spacing is smaller than the wave-length of the incoming light. For the component of the E-field parallel to the wires currents can be induced freely along their length, and so the grid behaves much like a solid metal plate and reflects that part of the wave. For the component of the E-field perpendicular to the wires, significant currents can't be generated (since the wires are thin) and that part of the wave passes through.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer#Wire-grid_polarizers
I would recommend a couple of things:

Sidebar with links to headers similar to other documentation sites.

And if you are going to provide insights on accessibility, which is great, make sure your site is also accessible.
My problem with Uniqlo is that they changes cuttings, Materials and some other minor details all while showing the same label. So they will look 95% the same, even material is pretty much the same.... but it is still "different". ( The Item code will be different ) Not to mention Uniqlo's quality depends on its country of origin or where they are sold. Uniqlo in Japan is really a bar higher than Uniqlo around the world. ( Which is pretty much the same with everything in Japan, domestic products tends to be of the highest quality compared to Export)

So if you are picky about these sort of things Uniqlo tends to offer inconsistency.
Well, clearly mind would need a nontrivial idea about nothingness. But you seemingly don't see a difference between nothingness and an idea of nothingness?
Go on a gap year when you can backpack around the world. This is literally the worst time to have a gap year. If you're stuck at home you might as well study.
The real problem here might be that you're not actually interested in your project/work. Given all what you've said, if I was still interested in my work, or found a way to make it interesting I would still go as fast as I can sustain. The environment and speed-bump obstacles can be demotivating if you don't find a way to block them out. Given the 'extra' time that you seem to have let's you solve problems in a round-about interesting way. Even if something starts out as a Rube Goldberg contraption it might lead to something else.