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Of course there was the WinFS solution but it was still-born.

It's always seemed to me that a temporary solution would be to attach a metadata extension to either the beginning or end of an existing file type. If OSes recognized the fact then it wouldn't interfere with legacy programs not designed to read or understand said extension (in those circumstances the OS would only present a traditional file to a legacy program).

OSes that did not recognize the new type of file could install drivers that would enable them do so (a la installable file systems).

Metadata extensions on files could contain OS info (such as who created the file, or the name of the previous OS the file was installed on, its history of use, or version info, etc., etc.

Similarly, a section of the metadata space could be reserved only for program use, the same would go for the user. Moreover, one could envision a whole range of read, write, edit and erase permissions connected with any of this metadata.

There are many conceivable variations and I've been whingeing about the lack of any of them for decades. That said, any new system will likely be much better than the god-damn-awful antiquated system that we currently have now!
I think a suit would be overdressed for a lot of west coast tech interviews.
Could be a fun game. For starters I'd move the most useless keys to the index finger home row positions, perhaps pipe and backtick. Then I'd invert the sense of shift, so you have to hold it to type anything lowercase. I'd take all the most common two-letter sequences and I'd move those letters under the weakest finger. So T H E O A R S and N replace the punctuation keys on the right side. This should make it a real hassle to type "the", especially considering that you'll be holding down shift, which should itself be somewhere hard to reach, such as where 6 usually goes.
Well, tubers can't be patented, so rest easy.

As long as we have a patent system, patenting plants (especially with the heavy restrictions on plant patent eligibility) is a reasonable extension. Since the origin of agriculture, you've had the "right" to copy your neighbor's cool new invention to till the soil better without issues. As a society, we decided that giving inventors patent rights for a limited amount of time is going to encourage innovation and investment into new technology. The founders thought it was important enough that we embed it in our constitution, and since the founding of this country, patents have been a driving force in industry. Maybe there's a better way to support innovation and make investment into r&d happen. I personally don't find the alternative arrangements people have tried so far all that compelling- but im open to the idea that this isn't the best way to do things. For now though, I think I'm getting a good deal out of a patent system where the creator of the cotton candy grape is able to spend 12 years developing a cool new variety because they'll get a return on their investment over the 20 years following their product's launch. Patents paid for a lot of the products I use day to day, and unlike copyright, patents actually expire after a reasonable amount of time.
So the truth is revealed. The real technology of serverless is an innovation in billing models.
I'll take these as unsolicited strong recommendations for my next sci-fi novel reading, as I'm just finishing the Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space trilogy. Thank you!
this is especially relevant in places with short build seasons or bad weather.
That is beautiful. I wish C++ had something like that... Perhaps in addition to its current template system. Having a separate build pass to generate files is annoying.
I did corn detasseling to save up for my Amiga 500. My first C program was on an Amiga. Good for nostalgia, not for modern times.
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Your other issues were also addressed, the non-universal configurations by pointing out most people work in one or two environments most of the time. Worst case, it’s hard to imagine a quick disabling of conflicting macros being too large a price to work quickly in an environment for weeks or years.

I do concede this doesn’t solve any problems of yours as you don’t value what you do with your keyboard very much.
Why bring the whole Devorak part into the article? Also, I'm surprised the author didn't go pure stenograph then because that's way faster.

WPM is only a good measure of WPM.

The best coders don't need to type faster. The best writers still hand write things or type on DOS[0]. Once you hit a baseline competency, other areas of improvement/reward far outweigh the time devoted than to a better WPM.

Wanting to type faster is fine, but do not mix it with being more effective aside from being a great typist.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg&feature=emb_titl...
I'm predicting AWS will wait for a competitor to do the R&D work, see if it's successful, and then look for a way to beat them at their own game.
Lap belts are far from useless; they get you probably 80% of the value of a three point harness. Yes, your torso will flop forward, but particularly for a child's body size there's very little for them to hit.
And in Europe, too. Sure, America is huge and there are a lot of cars, but in Germany (as an example) there are still over 500 cars for every 1000 people.
I hadn’t heard of that before, but I like it!

So many current situations where this applies...
Why don't you remap the clipboard combos to their usual places?
Ah yes, the “I know you are but what am I?” school of civil discourse.

Do you think that style makes the level of discourse here better or worse?

The Principle of Charity is mentioned a lot here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19450731 Are you invoking that principle? Or are you lashing out at people who attempt to encourage you to follow HN guidelines?
I was baffled, bemused even, by the article's premise that anyone rational ever thought serverless was going to take over the software world. It's a tool for solving a certain niche problem, not a general replacement for the vast majority of software we run. It's quite a good example of both the potential benefits and the potential difficulties of working in the cloud.

Whenever I read these articles, I always wonder what proportion of tech buzzwords from the past decade are just obscure ways of saying "someone else's servers", "automation" and "unnecessarily complicated architecture".
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There are bad pimps and there are good pimps (erm...?). But you should aim for a sugar daddy.
What about high vis without lights?

Please always use lights, but if all the jacket is doing is making a person more visible, then there should be a similar increase to having lights when only the jacket is used.
I have generally resisted further advancement, well aware of my level of competence. Also, the next level up is often not a level where the required skills are the same. Right now, I do stuff. At the next level up, I'd be required to do some stuff, but mostly coordinate other people's stuff, which is a very different skill set.
It sounds like the 12 year selective breeding is not a natural process. It’s not like someone walked into a field, found this grape, and patented it. How is this different from a chemist developing a chemical compound and patenting it?
> Leasing enables one to have a new car without taking the depreciation hit.

That's not accurate. With a lease you're just paying for the depreciation directly, at a predetermined rate.

It can definitely make sense, though. I leased a Bolt for my wife for $6K for three years. Even if she only drove it once every week or so it would be hard to do on-demand rental for less.
Here's how I interpreted GP's question:

Suppose I drop a ton of these seeds all over the place. Some land in your backyard. Some of those take root.

The next year, you notice some volunteer grapes growing on your fence, taste one, and decide it's pretty good. If you give some to your friend so they can plant the seeds, are you culpable? If you sell some, are you culpable?
> Consensus seems to lean toward this being satire.

I think "How to interview engineers" is a set of actual Slava Akhmechet's recommendations about hiring, sprincled with occasional satire about hiring games.
I was working from home for several months, and after a while it became mentally exhausting. I understand some people have no problems doing this, but even though I'm very much an introvert, being forced to be at home all day with no human interaction was getting difficult.

Now I'm back at the office 50% of the time. The company is split in two, and you work in the office one week and from home the next. I feel a lot better, and I have to admit that I can now appreciate the weeks I'm working from home more, since I'm not stuck doing it all the time.
The very cheapest stuff they sell certainly has compromises: their low end APs have 100Mbit Ethernet and 802.11n (with no 5GHz support), for example. The upside is SoCs that integrate all of this funactionality are only a few dollars, so they can sell entire routers for $20-30 on the cheap end.
A great oatmeal breakfast (or lunch or dinner) inspired by the Persian dish haleem (which is usually made with wheat instead of oats and is simmered for hours):

Put a pound or so of boneless skinless chicken thighs in the slow cooker on low for a few hours, until they're ready to fall apart (the nice thing is that this needs little attention).

Sweat a diced onion in about a tbsp of butter in about in a biggish pot on low heat, with a pinch of salt, until translucent. Move the onions to the side, add another tbsp of butter, and toast a cup of steel-cut oats in it until it smells toasty/nutty. Pour the liquid that came out of the chicken into the pot (saving the meat for later) and then add a carton (32 fl. oz.) of good chicken stock (which they're calling bone broth these days at the supermarket).

Cook this for a while on medium heat (uncovered) until the oats are done (roughly 45 mins). Meanwhile, shred up the chicken really well with a pair of forks. When the oatmeal is done, stir in the shredded chicken. Season to taste.

Makes about four big servings, keeps great in the fridge for several days and reheats well. Makes a nutritious hot breakfast, especially with a sunny-side up egg on top. A traditional condiment for haleem is diced confit onions, which is also great. (I also like to add a bag of sauteed "power greens")
I think it goes beyond the relationship, as a marriage is a commingling of finances and legal rights. A marriage is a common way to achieve pooling of resources and division of labor, with a long-term outlook for the benefit of all parties. Not the most romantic way of looking at it, but this must be taken into account as unaligned goals for the above are the most common reasons that marriages fail.
The housing affordability crisis is caused by a set of polices designed to protect the equity of existing property holders by artificially constraining new housing supply and allowing a non-trivial numbers of properties to be removed from the long-term housing market by sitting unoccupied or being abused as short term rentals.

Further affordability pressure is also caused by the proceeds of corruption and organized crime being used to buy/hold housing as part of money laundering schemes. The sums of criminal money involved in the housing market are non-trivial and have been estimated to account for upwards of 5% of housing valuation in some cities.

Construction costs do not enter into this at all.

If you want to address housing affordability, only three things will make a difference: get rid of NIMBY vetoes on new construction, require all properties that are not owner-occupied to be tenanted, and severely crack down on money laundering through the real estate market.
Bayes strikes again. Just because the Civic and Camry are the most stolen vehicles doesn't mean that they are more likely to get stolen than an exotic car.
If it quacks like a duck it might as well not be. If plants are significantly altered so as to be patent able, I would prefer if their name and shape and color is altered also. There is a a consensus of what each plant should be like each Millennium including its sugar content and other nutritional properties. Additionally for the consumer, any producer side advantages are inconsequential and should not be cognitively burdened by them.

As long as any actual innovative patents are not infringed by another corporate entity people are entitled to use, repair, brake anything they pay for as they see fit. Why must profit maximisation scheme forbid the natural right to plant your plant?
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the reason is because they love complexity. they love complexity because it's stimulating like a puzzle. they create dozens of flags for $ls because they think it's cool. they are in love with minutia but don't know how to get a girlfriend. they spend all their mental energy creating complexity because they think it's a sign of intelligence. they don't get user interfaces just like they don't get haircuts and deoderant.
I support the rest of your comments in this thread, but this comment seems irrelevant at best. Our position is better served by attacking the argument, not the person.
Cool another awesome government program shut down during the Reagan years, I assume to provide more money for locking up people for buying drugs.
My joke around the office is some people optimize for latency, some for throughput, some for memory usage. I, however, optimize for sleep.

My entire goal is for my services to never wake me up. And if they do it had better because I clearly messed up and am the sole human alive able to fix it.
In theory this is much better than what Postgres currently does. Performance depends on autovacuum cleaning up the mess you leave behind, with the amount of dead tuples increasing you also get index bloat which leads to reading much much more data than necessary. I see 3-5x read amplification before vacuum kicks in on update heavy tables (with vacuum tuned a lot).

This is basically what Oracle does with UNDO and it is obviously very scalable. Vacuum on the other hand has its limits, there is only so much you can squeeze out of a single threaded (at table level) process.

What I look most forward to is that it should enable FLASHBACK queries.
Tannins are unpleasant in high concentrations and produce sensations ranging from dry mouth to burning to stomachache. Leeching the tannins out is the only way to make acorns palatable. Wheat is easy to prepare by contrast - simply grind it up and it's ready to use.
No, not for grapes
I'm with you on all of those things, but just to play devils advocate, having a yard, a car, and an extra room are arguably all things contributing to climate change. The yard requires energy and materials to maintain. The room requires energy and materials to maintain, clean, and climatize. The car need gas, tires, oil, and maintainance. Even if it's an electric car it's still needs tires and that energy still has to come from somewhere.

Plenty of people in the world live in much smaller places. See HK apartment or the "average" Tokyo apartment as examples.

I owned a car for 19yr old but haven't for 14 of the last 20 years. I don't miss it. But I live somewhere where I don't really need it.
The missing step is deciding that, in the human world, it is better to make all evil illegal, no matter the level of evil and no matter the cost to good or neutral that might get caught up in it.
2kb by default, configurable per-table with the toast_tuple_target storage parameter if you want more control: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtable.html
Definitely all the numbers have lots of leeway, and you can play with different scenarios to get different results. However, changing the MPG from 15 to 25 would make only a small difference ($17/mon difference in gas), and my point is still valid.
For programming, we should be trying to type less. Tools like TabNine should help:

https://www.tabnine.com/
What about the psychological stress of a massive AWS bill because of a misconfiguration by you or someone on your team?
A bummer with apples is that climate seems to matter. Wisconsin Honeycrisp are lame.

There's something they do to ruin varieties. I think it's either that or picking them green and gassing them for sale.
Missing the forest for the trees perhaps here. Oh well!

I too am a big fan of oatmeal. Funny enough, I like it a bit different than the author does. Particularly, I enjoy it with a less runny/liquid texture, and I don't submerge it like the author does afterward either. My setup I've eaten year round for 5 years now is:

* 1 cup dried old-fashioned oats

* Water plus a dash of creamer (oat milk recently) to submerge the oats

* 1-2 tablespoons of peanut butter

* Cinnamon to taste

* Sometimes flax seed to taste

The biggest thing is the cooking. On the stove top, bring the liquid boiling _and then_ add the oats. Don't add the oats before hand, as that changes their texture a bit too. Then I'll turn it down to maybe medium-low temp and cook most of the liquid off. It's usually 5-10 minutes. In the microwave, I mix the liquids and oats together because what other choice do you have? Then it runs for 3 minutes on high.

You'll end up with a bit of a softer texture, but the peanut butter thickens it up to be much more hearty. It's hard for me to enjoy other oatmeal that's runny.
That's not true, there were definitely blocks of numbers which were and were not allocated to cell providers. Anyone implementing a "prefer landlines, fail over to cell" system was able to do so. Ask me how I know...
Smart move, I’ve got 4 kids and my 2 and 4 year old watch shows on Disney plus everyday and then want all the toys that go along with them. They for sure make money off of my family!
I’m reminded of my favorite Simpsons moment, when Homer gets a robo-dialer. It calls everyone in Springfield.

It keeps waking up Flanders and his wife. After, like, the third time he picks it up, his wife says, “why don’t you just unplug the phone!?”

And Flanders yells, “it could be my mother!!”

To which Homer shouts from next door, “would you shut up!? People are trying to sleep!”
Me too. I worked for 5 years as a carpenter and at the end of the day it just wasn't worth the paycheck and the back pain.

We are starting to talk about externalized costs with regards to the environment, but this concept applies everywhere. We have a problem in this society paying the true cost of damn near everything and that includes physical labor.
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HFT can increase market volatility and exagerate trends. They are not beholden to and can run counter to the idea of an "affirmative obligation" to help keep the market operating orderly. Hence the occasional flash crash or more minor blips.
When I lived in NYC, this was the way everything was. You optimize the stuff you do all the time, and the stuff you don’t costs more time and money, but almost assuredly less money than having it all the time (just try owning a car or having a spare bedroom). Once you get used to it, it starts to feel pretty crazy that people have extra/spare stuff, and actually even kind of immoral in a weird way.
How do they selectively breed seedless plants?

Wont plants propagated via tissue have the same DNA?
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The taste should be pretty mild if they're prepared properly. You need to boil repeatedly and keep replacing the water until they stop tasting bitter. Some species of oak are better than others.
About your car, you're paying for something you need 25% of the time, not 5%.

About your backyard, you're using it when you're not actually in it.
All farmed food today was selectively bred. Corn and wheat weren't always as palatable as they are today. Fruits are all bigger and juicier.

At what point do we decide some life capable of naturally and spontaneously reproducing is patentable, and some life isn't? Should it extend to breeds of animals as well?

If someone dumps a pack of grapes by the side of the road, someone else comes along and picks the fruit that later grows, are they pirating fruit? If they decide they like it and plant their own garden, is that a patent violation? They never agreed to an EULA or even knew of its existence. They found it naturally.

I'm sure this all sounds ridiculous. That's precisely because it is.

The difference between patenting a chemical compound is a patentable compound is probably not producing itself naturally without constant human intervention. Someone, for example, won't be patenting oxygen. They can maybe patent a specific process for producing oxygen, but oxygen is naturally occurring. If a plant is growable from a seed or some other self-sustaining method, it'll continue to produce itself naturally without human intervention as well.
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Verizon's Privacy Settings page:

https://myvprepay.verizon.com/prepaid/ui/mobile/index.html#/...

Verizon's Account Settings page has an evil dark pattern. The link to the Privacy Settings page does not appear in the menu. There is a Privacy Dashboard link which also does not contain a link to the Privacy Settings. I only found the link to Privacy Settings after submitting a request to Verizon to delete the data they have stored about me.

I would switch to a mobile service provider that cared about its customers, if one existed. The options in my area are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, their subsidiaries, and Google.
This is so naive. Unless you’re just creating utilities all day long, at some point you’ll actually have a production service that people are using that needs to be monitored, even if it is build out of lambda functions. And unless you’ve run AWS vs colo at scale, you have no concept of the orders of magnitude cost savings on bandwidth (at 95th percentile billing vs per gig) and compute.
Working at a good company can also help out. MS/Facebook/Amazon/Google all have reputations for a decent hiring bar and need to recruit a lot of engineers. There are other companies that have decent reputations and are less selective about interviewing.
If its propagated by seeds its not patentable - so I don't think it's possible for that sort of scenario to rise. If you asexually propagated a plant and let a neighbor take a cutting, then I'm not sure. I'm not a lawyer, but that situation sounds similar to the what happens if you unknowingly buy stolen art and try to auction it type question. It would probably be a very interesting legal battle at the least - and the original propagator would probably be liable, but that's definitely an interesting scenario. I doubt the end result is going to be that the patent owner just loses protection.
That's a great way to have to change a diaper. Or your pants.
As someone who moved from CVS, to SVN, to Mercurial (with side-trips to SCCS, VSS, Bzr and Git along the way), I haven't found any reason to move from Mercurial ever since.
I hope this "risk aversion" mindset starts to apply to code as well.

Can't wait for codeless, zero code, nocode, whatever name it gets called... something where normal people can build their own ideas without having meaningless discussion about tdd, frameworks and etc, nor the need to maintain codebases, ci/cd and all the jazz
Of course https://blog.janestreet.com/author/mbacarella/
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I can't imagine eating them regularly but they are definitely worth trying out. Pretty unique experience.
> A single failure point is not what worries me. They are competent enough to avoid that.

I remember when they offered text obfuscation protection service (i.e. hiding emails unless you click on them). It was literally ceasar cypher encoded text with the N argument right there next to it.

I'm sure they are much beyond that now but I find your blind trust and assumption rather hilarious.