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Trying to move a conversation about Apple and Epic Games into social justice politics territory (i.e. the comment I replied to here) is definitional flamebait.

And yes, I called that guy a stupid fuck only after my two civil comments both got flagged, one including a source. I'd say I acted in good faith there, and got flagged by the community. The level of toxic use of downvote/flag on this site is quite apparent, and maybe mods should find a different approach on moderating or even allowing non-technical topics. Comments or discussion on those topics is constantly slanted in a disgusting manner, and I could easily lose my own downvote rights for bothering to participate.

PS: I'm not white. Will I get protected by moderation now that I've pointed this out, or do I need to throw that in to every one of my comments as if it is relevant? Or am I just fucked because I'm not a leftie who feels compelled to use my race as a blunt object when engaging people online?
> Aren't you mixing two things? TRISTATE was required to hook up multiple chips _data_ lines, yes, but not the address lines, which are input-only. If the innovation was sharing the data bus, then, sure, that would make more sense.

You're right in this instance.

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The innovation therefore, was coming out with a 16-pin RAM chip when everyone else was coming out with 22-pin RAM chips.

Looking up the history of the time, Intel, and other big companies, were betting on 22-pin RAM chips to deal with the addressing issue.

The innovation was realizing that you're strobing RAS (Row Address) and CAS (Column Address) in separate cycles anyway. By using those separate cycles, you only needed 6-pins to address, even on bog-standard address busses.

Sure, the Intel chip may have a 16-bit address bus, but the MK4096 didn't care. Wire up the bottom 12-bits, 2-pins to each input address pin, and you're set. Seems brilliant to me.

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I keep looking at the datasheet and the main thing that annoys me is that its wasteful TTL. But I guess that was the late 60s / early 70s for ya, CMOS wasn't invented yet so I guess TTL was what they used.
> If I remember correctly, pushing back hard when not winning a contract was not done. I can’t imagine how much this would sour future contracts and future negotiations.

It definitely can and does happen for big contracts. It's what you do if you think someone rigged the process and want to make the point that you won't stand for that.

I heard several stories about exactly that when I was in the defense world.
> It just comes across to me as a 'hate the rich' policy that creates perverse incentives.

Indeed, wealth tax sounds good because there are problems with income inequality and it's currently fashionable to hate the rich. But that's about where it ends, while second-order effects are ignored or at least not taken seriously.

Andrew Yang was one of the few high-profile Democrats brave enough to push back on it.

"I think the wealth tax is an idea, in spirit, that makes sense, given the wealth distribution. But in practice it would have massive implementation problems. There would be capital flight, wealthy people would renounce their citizenship. And the bigger problem isn’t even the money. It’s the annual inventorying of their assets. The truly wealthy in this country have zero interest in submitting to an annual audit of all of their assets. They barely know what all their assets are. And the last thing they’re going to do is report them every year and then pay a toll. So you would have massive compliance problems. And to me there are better ways to make this economy fair, though I understand the spirit of it and the intent of it. But I agree that it would be somewhere between problematic and a disaster in practice."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/02/andrew-yang-wealth-tax-plans...
Asynchronous coroutines with C# 8.0 and IAsyncEnumerable
I'm going to find one for the first. It is in this https://youtu.be/_b4qKv1Ctv8?t=8071

The second one is pretty obvious, Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005.

With what we know of Peter Thiel I think the burden of proof is on you that he doesn't make use of the knowledge he has on specific network work effects of youtube.

Just like he installed Donald Trump with Facebook in the White House.
What are you talking about? AWS has an absurd amount of government contracts, JEDI notwithstanding. A quick Google estimates that ~20% of AWS revenue comes from govcloud, and I don't think that even includes the secret contracts AWS supposedly has with the three letter agencies.
> If someone intercepts your password you're screwed anyway. How many of your emails are intercepted regularly?

Every single one of them. Email is a plain text protocol.
There's a lot of non-DoD (and even non-federal-government) customers, some very large, with federal data with FedRamp constraints (some of which require govcloud, some on FedRamp certified commercial offerings); Amazon isn't going to dump all of them even if their litigation over JEDI eventually fails.

That said, they seemed on the road to win before the do over caused the lawsuit to be put on hold, so unless DoD provably really did do it right this time, I wouldn't be surprised if they end up winning and all the do over does is delay that win.
I don't see how that's different from Apple locking developers into their own crappy tools.
To be clear - He Tweeted that in response to Bezos opposing Trump's muslim ban.. it's much less nefarious in that context.
LA: The Biggest Urban Oil Field in the World?
I never got a definite answer: What problem does MongoDB even try to solve?
No they cant for any entity that properly implements security. This is the entire point of u2f.
Is there a write-up of this anywhere other than techrights.org? That sites signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.
Being black isn't the determining factor. Consider that black immigrants tend to be more successful than black Americans. They earn more than black natives and are more likely to be employed. Likewise, white immigrant groups outperform their native cohorts. The children of black immigrants are more likely to go to and complete college than native blacks (and whites) and are less likely to drop out of high school. The children of black immigrants also earn more than native blacks or first generation immigrants.
A once asked my then-mentor if it was an abbreviation of "GNU rep". He was highly amused.
Microsoft has a pretty strong pitch for government cloud services. The department of defense runs one of the largest Active Directory deployments in the world, along with a huge install base of Windows desktops, Office, SQL Server and SharePoint.

Many of these DoD deployments have been extensively customized by Microsoft’s professional services division, which has an excellent reputation in the defense industry. Apparently Microsoft rolled lessons learned from these big deployments into their Azure offerings.

I think it’s clear that DoD can reduce costs and improve service quality by migrating to Azure managed service variants of existing Microsoft systems. Amazon is probably better for basic IaaS, but this SaaS/PaaS stuff is gonna be better on Azure, at least when you already have such a big commitment to the ecosystem.

There are probably some strategic concerns too. Amazon has been the only real cloud provider to the defense world for years. Giving Microsoft a big contract means the government will have more options in the future. This dynamic really only shows up in huge enterprises with weird needs... look at NASA for another example.

If you want to complain about Microsoft’s behavior, the best place to look is probably at the non-hosted upgrade paths for their legacy products. They could refuse to let you run Word without Office 365; Office 365 requires Azure, so you have to certify Azure for your data to keep writing documents. That’s a pretty aggressive move to pull on any client though.. the sort of thing that pushes folks to make do with Libre Office.
Right place, right time, long days.
Is there anything beyond the appearance of impropriety, is there anything technical in the RFP that strongly suggests either direct or indirect influence from AWS? (I ask this in all sincerity).
> Not only is inflation extremely low, but we were at serious risk of a deflationary spiral without all the funny-money that the feds are pumping into the economy.

Was reading just the other day that inflation is actually underestimated right now.

People are buying basics, like food, at far higher rates than normal, prices for those basics are rising, but the CPI hasn't adjusted the ratios. Ergo prices are higher where it counts but the index doesn't see it.
Yes. Similar experiences. Basically the position I ended up in was mandatorily selling out to Oracle with no other choice on the table. The key purchasing decision was whether Sun or HP got to bugger us for hardware. This was loudly shouted out to drown out the “why do we need oracle” question. This took months of noise and pretendering (pretend tendering) and all sorts of meetings where no one knew anything about anything that was being required. But everyone was doing Six Sigma of course do the cargo culting was justified by process. Eventually HP was pulled out of the hat because someone saw a nice shiny sales brochure.

In the end, £1m down the shitter, 9 web pages written in JSP backed with a full 42U rack HP/UX crate running oracle was seen as a success. The whole platform was scrap in three years. each http request made cost £83 in the end ($100ish).

And that’s defence spending in a nutshell.

No one says a thing to stop this happening.
If we're being extra pedantic, hashing is just using some function that maps inputs to a set of values and is not necessarily hard to reverse and he should've used the term cryptographic hash.
It's less the personal preference of the president and more the DoD.

Microsoft has a decades long good relationship with the DoD, specifically on the security and access control side of things.
> he has become too much of a cult figure

I didn't know who PG was until recently. I knew he was well respected on HN but I've never found that much value in his blog posts either. Maybe people like his writings in the light of his achievements, rather than for their intrinsic values.
Etsy gets into S&P 500, Tesla does not
I'm working on a distance learning project at the moment. . . analyzing focus group results. We're talking with parents, teachers, and adult/alternative learners.

Just finished a parent transcript today. What came through loud and clear is that school from home is wicked hard for all kinds of people and that combining WFH and school from home is even more wicked hard. Parents are struggling with their kids' academic content (pre-calc? algebra?!). Kids are struggling with less structure. Everyone is struggling with limited bandwidth (literally and figuratively) and learning/working styles and the need for socialization are colliding in an unfortunate, constant way. For many, not all.

Looking forward to reviewing all the transcripts and compiling the findings. But if parents are any indication, it's gonna be a rough fall.

*Edit: Yes, I'm from New England. (wicked)
I'm in the same boat. Though I the feeling of pressing a button instead of squishing it, I don't care for typewriter-level noise and I greatly prefer the ergonomics of low-profile keys.

I switched back and forth between various mechanical keyboards and the Logitech K360 (which I also own multiple of) for years, but a while ago I stumbled upon a low-profile mechanical keyboard that hits the sweet spot for me: the Sharkoon PureWriter TKL with red Kailh switches [0]. (If you need a numpad, they also make a full-size version [1]).

We've been using them at the office for a few months now, and I've been so happy with it that I recently bought one for home as well. You can get them for < 100 euro, so if you're still interested in mechanical keyboards, you might want to give this one a chance.

[0] https://en.sharkoon.com/product/PWTKLRGB

[1] https://en.sharkoon.com/product/PWRGB
What are people using to store API tokens (eg. hmac based secrets)? My understanding is that it is symmetric so you need to store it in a recoverable way -- which always means you can leak it. What are better ways?
This is an important point. It’s a readiness premium. Otherwise, you’re beholden to an org “too big to fail” like we’ve done to ourselves with Boeing.
I don't think winning a federal contract is what would allow or disallow Amazon from having a monopoly on cloud, and I don't think the current state of the market is monopoly (though oligopoly or duopoly might be appropriate).
In our case we've already got all the stuff for serving web pages out of Django... the data model, DRF, auto scaling, access control, CI/CD. If I can use the same infrastructure to serve predictions, without having to duplicate anything or learn new frameworks, that's a huge win. Dealing with CPU overhead is easier than dealing with brain overhead.
That is not true. Henderson was promised a role as "God of gods" and one percent of revenue during his tenure. Molyneux simply decided not to implement the role of God of gods in the game and gave Henderson nothing. In his BAFTA acceptance speech he admitted he "makes up game features on the spot to keep game journalists from falling asleep". Peter Molyneux is so full of shit his eyes are brown.
Ditto, but it can be difficult at times to wade through the nonsense. At least it's less painful than it used to be since they switched to hiding comments by default, some time ago.
Regarding simple passwords, we added a check against the top 100K seclist passwords when first registering, to keep users from using easily guessable passwords (we also had an experiment where we checked if that password was one of the frequently compromised ones).

Literally this converted into:

1- Users abandoning on sign-ups "oh how am I supposed to find a password I will remember"

2- Users bashing us on the app store reviews: "make it super hard to sign-up" even though we only ask for username and password, not even an e-mail

3- Users logging in, liking the app, then a few months later when they got logged out for whatever reason, completely forgetting what their password was and not having a fallback e-mail.

We ended up pulling it back. We just have a small note now that says "easily guessable password" but allow them to proceed with registration.
The problem of schemas slowing your development.
They're describing a procurement process that is designed to favor ownership by women, minority groups, veterans, and disabled veterans in particular.

Programs like this enter into it: https://business.defense.gov/Small-Business/WOSB/

You're absolutely correct that the outcome is quite transparently wildly inequitable. I think it's possible that it could be the case that both assertions could be correct at the same time.
I thought Trump doesn’t like Microsoft anymore? Didn’t he want to block them from buying TikTok and would instead prefer Oracle as the acquirer? Anyway I can’t keep up. It’s all changing faster than middle school friendships.
The transaction: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/ef600c380a239d9b929c6c964d...
>Who else would you have tariffs on? Yourself?

You laugh, but that was a fairly common practice in some places.

Pre-revolutionary France was fairly notorious for it's internal taxes if you crossed provincial borders.

Salt and bread were the most common items, if I remember correctly.

The idea of a cohesive nation-state with an internally free market is pretty new.
I worked in an office that had no mobile signal. So for me a 2fa SMS involved walking out of the office and down the road for a few minutes until the SMS came through and then running back to my desk in the hope that I get there in time to enter the code before it times out.
I very recently have built a multi-cloud empire of machines, effectively, and from my experience it is best to build for each cloud one at a time. The difference here is you have the day 1 assumption that you will be on all clouds and you don't lock yourself into vendor-specific features and make sure your platform can run anywhere with no functional differences to your users.
Ah good memories. Such gems.

"relation dbs have impotence mismatch"

"does /dev/null support sharding"

"redis will kick memcache's ass"
My understanding is that gold measures the (dis)trust in fiat currencies, with the USD the biggest part of it.
Like almost every other behaviour or trait we want to use to characterise (or worse, categorise) humans -- it's a spectrum.

There's certainly some people near either extreme -- from those whose mood, productivity, health plummets when away from a social/work environment, to those who could happily go weeks or months with minimal human interaction, and whose productivity soars when they set their own schedules and can control & minimise interactions and interruptions.

Apart from a tacit acknowledgement that people are not required to be in an office 5 days a week, I am hopeful that this pandemic will lead more workplaces to embrace and accommodate that spectrum, facilitating environments and conditions that will better suit - well, ideally everyone, but I'll take 'more people than before'.
I don't really see how that would stop the zealots. They are already getting pushback within the Rust community.
I think the idea behind the article was to explain why people are encouraged to stop using passwords from Site A if Site A gets 'hacked,' even on Sites B, C, D, etc. It's not just that encryption was broken on one site. It's that now that password has been matched up to a hash, so its strength is kaput.

I do think the message got a little lost in the post though, with the follow-on discussions of salting, bcrypt vs. md5, etc.
I interviewed recently at a payment provider that is rewriting its PHP/Mysql monolith in Java & go microservices with MongoDb.

The architect would praise static typing but would prefer MongoDb "because it's easier to add a column". It felt weird but I've never used MongoDb so I could not really argue about it.
That’s exactly it. Everybody would dream to have his life and his blogs do give a vivid imagery that makes you feel good and believe you can do the same (plus with YC actually giving some hope).

But I’ve learnt a lot more from others, who are not nearly as successful.
It was a long time ago, but when PG first started writing, nerds into programming were a marginal group, not rulers of the tech world with great influence. His writing resonated with that group at a time when they didn’t seem influential or especially important in society.
A board competitive with the Raspberry Pi 1B (800 MHz single core) is not "incomparable."
What’s interesting about these mega contracts is that I’m sure there is consideration of second-order and long term effects, beyond the contract itself.

E.g. If awarding the JSF contract to Boeing would have caused Lockheed to go out of business, that could be quite bad in the long run, as now you have just a single major aerospace provider. As long as both planes meet the requirements and are competitive, I could certainly imagine that tipping the scales.

I think the same argument could easily apply here. AWS is the market leader by far. As long as the price and services are competitive and both meet requirements, giving the boost to #2 keeps the market more competitive for the long-haul.

Occam´s razor would suggest that there probably was some influence. But there was also likely influence in the initial creation of the RFP, favoring AMZ. In any case, the FUD in this post about ‘inferior technology’ is pretty effective at wiping away any sympathy for Amazon that I might have had..
Oh it's absolutely a political issue (they cite other examples), and it's also very likely that Trump was a deciding factor considering his outspoken ire for Amazon. It's also likely that Amazon has contacts in the DoD that have told them as much.

I mean it's been as petty as the president calling for federal agencies to ban The Washington Post (Bezos-owned).

From the response:

>On JEDI, President Trump reportedly ordered former Secretary Mattis to “screw’” Amazon, blatantly interfered in an active procurement, directed his subordinate to conduct an unorthodox “review” prior to a contract award announcement and then stonewalled an investigation into his own political interference.
How is baseball a 'quarter' based business? The employees in franchises float with the successes on the field, I'd think. I guess I should go read Inside Baseball or something.
A sibling comment points to two essays from "back in the day" which are broadly about conformism: "What you can't say" and "Why nerds are unpopular".

If you went back and reread them, would you say they're "highfalutin pseudo-psychologizing"?

Both you and pg have changed in the intervening decade-and-change; I think you're over-weighting his changes, and under-weighting your own.

Which is natural, but I'm curious what you think of those essays in that light.
I admit that politics is mixed into my opinions here.

It's just that based on current political climate, I think it's hard to keep politics aside.

My thoughts about pg have essentially gone through this flow:
- Start reading some of the old essays in college, agree with most of the points
- Start working, the essays slowed down. I read old ones once in a while, still mostly agree
- Start following pg on twitter. There's some stuff I don't agree with but it's alright.
- See a lot of stuff that I don't agree with [1]

(in between somewhere, I got convinced that keeping politics on sidelines is not an options)

Then I see the essay on wealth tax. My read is that main argument is that the tax compounds. But I don't see any alternative arguments. So I see his position as against the transfer of wealth and societal equality and I don't agree with that.

Maybe I'm being too opinionated or not reading deep enough, but that was my line of thought.

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1130241349935149056
IMO the fed pumps money to reduce the risk of collapse of tbtf entities. It can't do much to reflate the economy as it depends on the banks to lend them out.
Most politically visible Americans yes. People in other countries hold different perspectives, especially in former colonies. People that don't benefit from social inequality (i.e. the majority) are relatively easy to convince the system doesn't work for them.
Obligatory: that's not a llama you hear, it's probably a goat or sheep. The llama says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4h3Mo4pRI
Just feels like a cheap way to get Internet karma to compare old apps to modern apps made with Electron.
When you're as rich as Gates and Buffet you not only have a teams of people managing your money, you also have teams of people dedicated to managing your image.

So yes - Gates seems like a pretty good guy. And he'll have paid a lot of money to create that impression.

Zuckerberg doesn't seem to be running the usual PR operation - possibly because he's too young to be bothered, and possibly because he doesn't really care much.

Likewise Bezos. But you can be sure that if/when they turn to philanthropy, they'll consider the option of a similarly wholesome transformation and proceed if it seems likely to provide extra social leverage.

The alternative will be managed media invisibility, which is also an option at that level.
Pricing is a function of both supply and velocity.

Increasing money supply without any change in velocity or other exogenous factors is inflationary for asset prices, etc.

Real-life, however, is not a vacuum [0]

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
In my experience, your second statement is, factually, incorrect. Nothing personal, but I find that not to be an accurate reflection of human behavior.
Thanks! I hope so. I just got an awesome internship. Hoping it'll turn things around for me.