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At least in Sydney, I found that bare-metal jobs typically paid far less and required far more experience. Some of the best engineers I know are being paid peanuts but are just happy to be quietly amazing in their corner.

I was proper bare metal at one point (even wrote my own crappy rtos at one point) but couldn't resist the better pay and better treatment that you get up the stack.
Yeah but presumably that would increase land prices.
> The introduction of the potato reshaped Europe and boosted European population by 25%.

I think you missed the parent’s explicit point or I missed your point. The parent wasn’t saying potatoes aren’t efficient; only that they didn’t spread widely throughout the new world due to geographic factors.

As for the rest of your post, I’m really not sure what point you’re making by focusing on the Inca. Specifically what about Diamond’s thesis are you refuting? Note that I’m not partial to “Guns, Germs, and Steel”; I just want to understand the criticism better.
Too little too late. Now there are competing emotive arguments that bury the lede.
Its not surprising that elites are for sex with children. We see that in 2020, too.
I wish there were a vetted Open Source license that:

- allowed the code to be visible and available as a general rule

- allowed an individual user to use it and modify it for non-commercial use

- disallowed redistributing modified versions (distributing patches would be fine)

- disallowed commercial use

Basically, a license that would allow free experimentation and grassroots adoption and all kinds of open-source goodness for individuals, while not giving FAANG profiteers a handout for RMS' ideological reasons.
Yeah, "not universally a thing" is what I should have said. I've never had the option to opt in to time-of-use metering anywhere I've lived. :(
Cheap. Atari ST line was the cheapest 32bit computer and also cheapest per megabyte computer on the market for a couple of years (4? maybe longer). It certainly wasnt great on its own, almost everything was a compromise, omission or a design defect ;) Electrically its a miracle they worked at all, try probing CPU bus sometime :o. "Bad DMA" chip recall (would erase your hard drive on first access) was actually caused by using too fast DMA chip picking too much interference for the overloaded bus. Lacked smooth horizontal scrolling because someone didnt think to wire one register inside Shifter chip making it terrible for games. Digital Audio added in STE line was also barely ~20 additional logic elements. Those free to implement scrolling and sound oversights in initial model sealed the fate of all games targeting lowest common denominator compatibility, which meant they sucked compared to Amiga.

On the other end of the spectrum advanced components at rock bottom dollar made it good business proposition, cheapest Macintosh replacement by a wide margin. Computer + razor sharp 640x480 70Hz monitor + Atari laser printer (no smarts inside! mechanics driven directly by the computer) + Calamus DTP package cost less than just HP/Apple laser printer alone, and managed to print faster too. Too bad US market was obsessed with status of brands and relegated Atari (and Amiga for that matter) to the toy section.
PhotoStructure (very happily) uses libvips (via sharp) and doesn't include any ImageMagick pieces-parts.
Wow, so much pseudo-science and just plain nonsense in one long comment. The wikipedia article on Orgone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone is a good starting place in learning just how goofy these ideas are.
It just isn't something most people buying electronics care about, and there are real tradeoffs with size, weight, and aesthetic design choices. Combine those factors, and it's easy to see why the economics don't work. Making your device easily serviceable makes it more attractive to a tiny segment of the market, while making it less attractive to a much bigger segment.
> generally we would expect a parallel algorithm to be no more energy efficient (with respect to total conceptual work performed -- e.g., training a fixed neural network) than an equivalent serial implementation

I think it depends on how you conceptualize the topology in both cases. A serial implementation requires threading all the data through a single point, whereas a parallel implementation can leave data where it is going to be used. Moving data around requires energy, so implementations that maximize locality of data should be more energy efficient. Such implementations would naturally synchronize as little as possible, so they would be highly parallel.

Basically, serial implementations of neural networks require a clock and a form of RAM, including the energy overhead of dispatch, synchronization and data transport, whereas parallel implementations don't: each neuron could just contain whatever little data it needs and nothing more.
tldr: my point is that people at high income levels still care about marginal income differences, not the morality of the tax.

"asked to contribute back to the society" is a generalization. how much should people be asked to give back? Similarly, even if a rate was fair, isn't it understandable that someone might prefer to pay less in taxes? We aren't talking about tax evasion, rather considering regional differences in taxation as part of the cost benefit analysis of moving. I imagine many in california share your beliefs and feel they are giving back a fair share of their labor. but it feels you are advocating for avoiding the conversation, or perhaps too quick to dismiss them as selfish, which seems to be less productive than understanding why others behave differently.
> The thesis of Guns, Germs, and Steel was Europe's east-west orientation allowed varieties domesticated in one place to easily grow in another.

It's worth noting that despite the east-west orientation of Eurasia, there is quite little evidence of technology and agriculture actually being shared between the Mediterranean and Chinese origins, especially if you restrict yourself to the traditional origin-of-civilization innovations such as agriculture itself, pottery, metallurgy. By contrast, the Americas show a great deal more transmission along its north-south axis, with maize (from Mesoamerica) almost completely supplanting native North American domesticants, pottery appearing to come from the Amazon rainforest, and metallurgy arriving from the Andes.
Just FYI, transmission lines are aluminum not copper. Also, both copper and aluminum have positive temperature coefficients of resistance.
Saying that increased demand for compute will spur exponential growth is like saying that increased cross-Atlantic travel will spur the development of supersonic passenger airplanes, which we know is the opposite of what happened.

Alex Krizhevsky's revolution was to find a way to train large neural networks using existing hardware that was optimized for linear algebra. Linear algebra is literally the first applied problem that was studied in computer science, with papers that were written by Turing and von Neumann. It's the most mature field in computing and is long out of steam. Progress since AlexNet came from scaling $$$ not scaling tflops. There will not be exponential growth in compute performance.
GPT doesn’t make the kind of blatant grammatical mistakes the commenter did.
It's like going from a pad and paper to a typewriter. Sure, you can write much faster, more precisely, and everybody to the same standards, but you're fucked if what you wanted to do was draw a spaceship. Then there's always the apologists who come in to say that their ASCII-art spaceships are basically fulfilling the same function of the ones you used to draw and you should stop complaining.
How could that conversion work while respecting the second law? Here’s a good breakdown on the subject: https://stanfordmag.org/contents/can-vegetarianism-save-the-...
Thanks! Do you perhaps know any cases of acquired intellectual property?

I don't see any mentions of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_51(xxxi)_of_the_Consti...
I would say that PSLDX has proven itself. Max drawdown since inception (2008) is about the same as VFINX, less than VTIAX/VGTSX. Return in 2008 was -33%, compared to -37% for the S&P 500. In March, it dipped more than the S&P, but not terribly so. The only year it didn't significantly outperform the S&P was 2013.
I think that's transparent to a lot of people, because IIRC, charging price $x on your website, and then charging price $x+30% on apple's store is a breach of the app store contract and will get your app removed. Am I wrong though? If I am, sorry. xD
Mobile has been fixed, thanks!

It's very similar to Fathom and Plausible feature wise, except it's self-hosted. I'm currently hosting the entire app and database on a $5 DigitalOcean VM which is a lot cheaper than their basic plans.

It also doesn't do email reports, but I just open up the dashboard daily.
Author of one such library faced serious problems. He has opened up yesterday in this blog post.

https://medium.com/@behdadesfahbod/if-you-read-one-thing-fro...

His tweet:
https://twitter.com/behdadesfahbod/status/129532694517805465...

The library:
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz
I prefer progress in the forward direction.
Unfortunately, the horror stories about state mental hospitals in the US were true. Patients had no ability to leave of their own accord, even if they were reasonably of sound mind. Once committed, you were completely at the whim of the doctor(s). In many cases people had unnecessary and permanently damaging procedures done to them such as electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) or a frontal lobotomy. There are serious philosophical concerns around consent and patient rights when it comes to permanent involuntary commitment.
Well, you're missing the part where many acres of vegetable crops are inputs into that single acre of pork, so how are you going to compare an acre of pork back to an acre of vegetables as if it just comes out of thin air? For example, 60% of crops in the USA are fed directly to animal ag.

Animal meat is nowhere near as efficient as eating vegetable crops directly. It concerns me how long you've been spouting your claim with such an elementary error.
I suspect people downvoted it as a seemingly low effort post - ambiguous about whether it's a joke and no citation to indicate it isn't

I tried briefly googling, but while it's easy to find others talking about the delay [1], I didn't find a why confirmation

[1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3052/is-there-a...
Right to repair is not about redesigning products to become easily serviceable, its about access to same tools and parts manufacturer uses for its own internal service.
Are you seriously denying that this cultural genocide is taking place? It's well documented by the US, UN, and several human rights organizations.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/ch...
You mean the things that fall from the sky in the game? You don't pay for them, and the stuff in them only lasts for that one game.
When in SMT4 mode, various hardware resources are "partitioned off" in Power9.

The first, and third, threads use the "Left Superslice", while the second and fourth threads use the "Right Superslice". All four threads share a decoder (Bulldozer style).

1/4th of the branch predictor (EAT) is given to each of the 4x threads per core.

Register rename buffer is shared 2-threads at a time. (Two threads use the "left superslice", two other threads use the "right superslice"). An SMT1 mode, the single thread can use all 4 resources simultaneously.

A lot of the out-of-order stuff looks like it'd work as expected in 1-thread to 4-thread modes. At least, looking through the Power9 user guide / in theory.

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Honestly, I think the weirdest thing about POWER9 is the 2-cycle minimum latency (even on simple instructions like ADD and XOR). With that kind of latency, I bet that a number of inner-loops and code needs 2-threads loaded on the core, just to stay fully fed.

That'd be my theory for why 2-threads seem to be needed before POWER9 cores feel like they're being utilized well.

Obviously, POWER10 probably will change some of these details. But I'd expect POWER10 to largely be the same as POWER9 (aside from being bigger, faster, more efficient).
5.2% is crazy.

The target date fund I use, SWYJX (Schwab Target 2055 Index Fund) has a net ER of 0.08%. Over 25 years, the difference between 0.4% and 0.08% can be hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Like Betterment, SWYJX an automated portfolio, but one adjusted for age, not some individual profile.
Doesn't it essentially decay to CO2 eventually anyway? In the long term barring it is equivalent to CO2 per carbon molecule. Granted there are Nth order effects of short term heating.
What would have to happen for you to change your mind ?

What if bitcoin passes gold in market cap ?

What if central banks start holding bitcoin like they hold gold rn?

What if a future Nobel winning economist says something nice about bitcoin ?

Or is it impossible for any new information to change your mind on this ?
No. My point is not that they are a small business, it’s that they are smaller than Apple and selling into a different market. Thus it does not “follow,” from the proposition that Apple is a monopolist, that Epic is also a monopolist.
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The encoding of natural numbers in lambda calculus can be mysterious at first glance. I'm surprised the author didn't spend more time on it. No need to be so hostile about it though.

Essentially, we represent numbers as functions that will call a function a number of times on a base value. So for `zero = λs. λz. z`, we can see if we gave it a function `s`, and a value `z`, it would apply `s` zero times to `z`. For `one = λs. λz. s z`, clearly `s` is applied once to `z`. I think you can see the rest of the pattern. Its really as simple as that.

We can then define the successor function as `suc = λn. λs. λz. s (n s z)` (I'm not sure why the author doesn't write this out. Instead he confuses the successor function with the `s` argument). We can see `suc` behaves as expected with examples. `suc one = (λn. λs. λz. s (n s z)) one = λs. λz. s (one s z) = λs. λz. s ((λs. λz. s z) s z) = λs. λz. s (s z) = two`. All we need is our definition of `zero` and `suc`, and we can define any natural number.

Now go back and look at the definition of `plus` and it should make a lot more sense.
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There is also the $99/year subscription to apple developer program
I think you meant Adobe Air?
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What you're describing would preclude someone from forking the project, even to maintain it after the author lost interest. That's one of the main risks I seek to avoid by using Free software.
Direct link

https://www.reuters.com/article/ip-patent-fees-idUSL1N2FJ27N
Thanks. That's a good thread.

I was there only part of a day. Had a day off in Phoenix, and a colleague and I drove to Flagstaff via Arcosanti and Sedona. Discussion on that thread gives a lot of information about what has happened since. The book I bought in their store had a lot of ideas about huge cities built as monolithic structures, unlike what is on the ground now.
They’re definitely taking a gamble, rooting for them but I wouldn’t bet against Apple on this one. Also seems like you would have better odds if you took on only Apple or Google instead of both at the same time.
Also checkout Scott encoding - for numerals each number is constructed by embedding it's predecessor (with 0 as per Church):

0 = \f \x x
N+1 = \f \x f N

To interrogate such a numeral, you supply a function that accepts the predecessor numeral, and a constant for zero. Recursion is needed to effect a fold.

On the face of it heavier than Church, but allows the recursive definition of infinity. Lists and more complex structures can be similarly defined, again with the possibility of recursively defined infinite components.

Then you can do fun stuff like 'taking' infinite elements from a (possibly infinite) list, adding infinity to any number to get infinity, multiplying likewise. Division by zero naturally returns infinity by construction, no convention necessary. 'dropping' infinity elements from an infinite list does not terminate however - you can never reach the first element of that result.
Cherry picking is pointless and doesn't prove anything
> They could have done the same thing.

Nope, the MS-DOS and Windows market was too big by then to introduce a new incompatible system. Ask OS/2 how it worked out.

> There was no lock in with Macs

Sure there was. Firstly, many schools across the country had been convinced to by Macs through the educational discounts Apple gave, and school bureaucracies like all government bureaucracies move very slowly, so aren't going to switch, but simply maintain and grow the bureaucracy. Secondly, if you had actually invested in a bunch of Mac software and a LaserWriter, the sunk cost fallacy would lead many people to stay in.

And then there's Cognitive Dissonance.

> Have you ever thought that it wasn’t just about the hardware?

Mac software and hardware was inferior until the Intel switch-over. Sure, MacOS was more consistent, but the software available for the platform was worse. And in some categories, practically non-existent compared to Windows.

Almost every single response I see from you in threads is like a paleo-libertarian response that "things are the way they are because they are what the market intended" without almost no insight into how consumers can be manipulated by corporations.
$300/year for us, and each additional client we choose to work with. This is the cost of obtaining what is effectively side-loading capability.
Thanks everyone for the feedback on Yubikeys being stolen! I've tried to summarize it all in a footnote, and downgraded the severity of my original starting paragraph. Thanks for reading!
Neither does just invoking No True Scotsman at every turn.
All very interesting questions, which Apple can raise in its defence to the lawsuit contending that the answer is “because of Apple’s unfair trade practices.”
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Las Vegas was a water stop for steam powered trains going between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.

When Boulder Dam was built, the government built Boulder City to house the workers. Being a government city, gambling wasn't allowed. But Vegas was just over the hill and filled that desire for the workers.

When the railroads switched to diesel and didn't need the water stop anymore, Vegas was already established as a gambling destination.

The spring still flows, and is part of a tiny state park in downtown Las Vegas.

And Boulder City is still the only place in Nevada where gambling is illegal.
It's not much and not helpful to industrial farming, but I'm doing my part on my own garden by creating healthy soil via composting.
Harold Thomas is an artist who created something and is still fully alive.

He has every dam right to do as he wishes with his own creation.

He has always had copyright and everyone knows this. It's his creation, it came from him, it's used today exactly as he created, nothing derivative.

If you don't want to respect this you can also shove your GPL or shove your copyright over books. You show respect what people create or you don't.

To the question, to attack him I'd start searching here - https://trove.nla.gov.au/ See if you can find early articles saying how he did it, he might say he copied in part something or you might be able to twist what he says against him. Track possible artists or styles over picture search.
It could be done privately under the right circumstances. Government could incentivize it with a special economic zone. There's also a large exodus of Hong Kong residents who've proposed to build a city in Ireland.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/28/hong-kong-prop...
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> Yeah or Epic could not be pricks and just put the game on the stores like every other app developer

So contesting an absurd fee is being pricks now? Wow...

Like every other app developer? Many can't accept payment in the app as this fee would increase the cost too much. Many can't have an app at all because Apple politics over moderation are unfair and absurd (see Floatplane from Linus Tech Tips, they are struggling to get their app approved with comments as they "couldn't moderate it well enough", while Twitch has no issue getting approval).

Epic has the current luxury to do not depends on Apple and be quite comfortable financially to contest what they are doing. Many app developpers would do the same if they had the same luxury, sadly they can't afford the move Epic did.

> That’s the mysterious third option you’re missing and that we lived with for literally years up until this point.

China population has lived with CCP for years too! Why not inspire our laws on theirs?!

It's not because something keep happening that it's a good thing, you know? It's keep happening because of their position of power, for once there is someone that has the means to contest it.

> Apple has the capacity to protect me from stores like origin, steam, epic, and everyone else who wants to install crap on my device.

First, you can build an OS that won't let crap happens. You don't need any curation to not allow something to happens. I will decide whether an app can get my GPS, not Apple, not you, not the developper of an app, just me.

Second, if any app follow Apple standard, why wouldn't they still be on the official app store? This is what most people will use, thus not being there would be incredibly absurd. Fees could be a reasons, but that would just prove that the fee is quite unreasonable.

> they just had to install a forked OS and a custom store are proving the point.

Proving what point? That they have control over what happens on their own device? Are you forgeting that we are arguing about not being able to get control over our own device here?
Yes. But also the continental shelfs. (If it could be made to work under water at all.)
I actually think it's awesome that you went to bat for your employees.
Right now Lake Michigan water levels are at a record high, and the lake is eating some Chicago neighborhoods.

This is only expected to get worse as sea levels rise and the lakes can't drain as effectively into the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
I didn't say it was "the" reason it's just an example of something mandated that doesn't help their cash position. The postal service, having been mentioned even in the constitution, has a lot of such mandates that public companies don't have.

And again it's possible for something to be partially subsidized not just either income based or free. As you mentioned if it were 100% subsidized it'd lead to lots of abuse of the service. That does not mean the only alternative is it be 100% funded via shipping fees and 0% subsidized there is still 1%-99% subsidized which are valid options. Maybe you'd personally like it to not be partially subsidized but there is nothing strictly requiring it to be only one or the other.

Another example of partially subsidized services would be the roads the postal service and everyone else uses. They tend to be 30%-60% paid for by e.g. gas taxes or tolls and the rest subsidized via general taxes. That doesn't mean roads are failing to turn a profit they are also working as intended being somewhat use based and somewhat a public service.