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Finance for Software Developers with Aaron Kahn [audio]
It's good for games, but for applications where you're not rendering new frames constantly, the paradigm doesn't seem a very good fit.

It's also very inefficient to continuously redraw, which is not a concern for games, but not in general.
Similar: https://www.xeno-canto.org/, a crowdsourced bird song database (over 600,000 recordings)
According to this https://steamid.uk/profile/76561198004426967
the friends are mostly canadian.

But it also says that one friendship is just 280 days old or something.
Impersonating a police officer is still illegal in the UK, the point is: the ends don't justify the means.

My response was to the comment:

> If the criticism is valid then its source is surely irrelevant.

If the account was a throwaway, the source would have mattered. I think it's worth making this counterpoint irrespective of whether your account is a throwaway, since you made an argument that would seem to defend that case.
He talked to support first, they didn't have a bounty program until a year+ after the incident.
I’ve long wondered whether a legal system could be concocted around a corporation to make it possible to make a “virtual country” within another country like how we host OSes as virtual guest machines within a host machine - and whether this would be meaningful. Thinking about it again, now, I think this may just be what cities/towns are basically. It’d be interesting if that could be decoupled from territory somehow.

Edit - I.e. have the citizens of the “guest country” be employees of the guest country.

Some properties:

-It would probably be constrained to the currency of the host country.

-It’s income could be “tax” like a monthly subscription to its “citizens.”

-It would possibly work best if it did have some real assets to back its finances.

-The “warrior class” of the guest country could very well be well-versed lawyers within the host country.
A powerful tool for prediction engineering
this is a common misconception. once you consider local, state, and federal funding, almost every state in the US has at least slightly progressive school funding (ie, low-income districts get no less, and sometimes a bit more, funding than high-income districts). [0]

the incentive still exists to live in expensive districts when you have school-aged children, but the main benefit is simply that your children go to school with children from other well-off families.

[0] https://apps.urban.org/features/school-funding-do-poor-kids-...
I feel the same way about noise pollution. We just take for granted that public space in cities needs to be uncomfortably loud because most people haven't had it otherwise in living memory. It could be so different and everyone would prefer it if it were. Most loud noises on streets are loud because of all the cars on the street, and also the fact that people in the cars can't hear as well as people outside of cars (necessitating louder horns, sirens, etc.)
I personally believe that Elixir is an excellent 'gateway' functional programming language because it is dynamically typed.

Learning OCaml and especially Haskell (I've done some of both) requires understanding a complex type system and learning how to encode what you want in it. On top of that you have to learn to code in the 'functional' way - representing your data, pure code, recursion (or reduces), higher order functions etc.

When you write Elixir you eliminate most of the type system stuff, and you just have to learn to code in a functional way. There is surprisingly little 'language' to learn - functions, tuples, lists, maps, modules and that's about it. There is then the OTP (processes and supervisors) side of it, but that's separate (and if you're writing a web backend in Phoenix, mostly ignorable).

We're just (hopefully) wrapping up a 9 month project with a team of about 8, none of which had written much Elixir before the start (a background of mostly C). It has been a very smooth process, and definitely the right choice of language.
"Drivers and labor groups" = Drivers who were hoping to unionize, so not very surprising. I think the whole goal of 22 was to expand the ranks of unions. Very glad it failed.
Some people really like Lyft. I drive for both. Some riders just hate Uber.
It can make a massive difference. I grew up in village near Portsmouth (UK, metro area population 1.5 million according to Wikipedia), and the night sky was bright orange whenever it was cloudy.

I now live in Berlin (6.1 million metro population), and although it isn’t perfect darkness, it is vastly better even though I’m in a built-up part of the city rather than a rural part of the city equivalent to my childhood area in the UK.
There's some paper called roughly "why mountain passes are higher in the tropics." Basically the closer you get towards the equator, the more unique species that exist in a very small amount of land. My theory is that the more stable climate promotes diversity and specialization, since species don't have to be general enough to live through significant temperature changes
The prop requires 7/8 to repeal it though, which is ridiculous.

We should be able to vote on props in chunks, not as an entire atomic unit. We should be able to say yes to the prop but no to 7/8.
Even with a clean slate and shared intention actual government policy tends to go astray over time. The book Jennifer Government explores this and there used to be a simulator online which allowed people to see how their political intentions might pan out given various circumstances. An extremely short summary is that people are constantly being challenged in various ways and government almost inevitably end up trying to help and getting stretched and incoherent.
>rather than a perpetual slow boil conflict that turns into a low intensity shooting war every few decades like you see in other parts of the world.

End of Reconstruction, Bloody Summer, Brown v Board and the subsequent CRM, the War on Drugs, Trayvon Martin et al. I'd say we're on schedule.

Enjoy the gritty crunch, it tastes just like chicken.
With the exception of Ceylon (because it's basically dead), there's actually a really nice gradient on the JVM these days:

Clojure is a nice, expressive, dynamic language that is really great for messing with arbitrarily-shaped data.

Java is a workhorse language that has been powering businesses small and large for decades.

Kotlin is a modern spin on Java, and the degree to which they share functionality (with differing or identical semantics) over time will be interesting.

And then Scala exists for all your meta-type-wankery needs.

It seems natural that Kotlin/Java would be most popular over time, with Clojure and Scala hanging out with small amounts of market share.
You forgot to add a maniacal cackle
I live in a rural city with a dark skies initiative and I really like it.

The north star is easy to find. I can just make out the milky way. Any outside gatherings have a real cozy, old-timey feeling to them. Halloween is especially creepy.

The only downside I can think of is that I have to slow way down when I drive at night because I can't see the wildlife standing just off the road - waiting for their chance to jump in front of my car.
Powerline for Nyxt Browser
Open Invention Network Expands Its Open Source Patent Non-Aggression Zone
Higher prices are naturally regressive and burden people with lower incomes more than higher. If the gov't levied a hypothetical "everyone pay $2k in taxes right now" tax who do you think would be the most impacted?
Same thought, and I don’t think they get a lot of choices of this is triggered.
Pluto is like Jupyter, but with no hidden global state, and it’s git friendly. It’s specialized for Julia.
Don't confuse the internet situation in Germany for the internet situation in the whole of Europe. Some countries have cheap data, others are unreasonably expensive. European internet infrastructure isn't as homogeneous as people seem to think.

Here in the Netherlands, you've got national coverage with unlimited data for €25 per month (practically unlimited, not theoretically unlimited, of couse, because fair use policies exist everywhere).

One country to the south is Belgium, where even the landlines have data caps, something that would be unthinkable here.

There's some connection between GDP/purchasing power and the price of data, but there's much more going on. Things like nationalised internet connections, government investment in public internet infrastructure and geography are more important than how much money someone in a certain country makes on average.
How do you optimize to maximize billing while minimizing effective takedowns? If I recall, you could host youtube-dl like repos in the Netherlands and Turkey on VMs running hosted git, and they'd be out of reach of the copyright cartel.
It was 4 years ago and Chase has very deep pockets. They could hire talent this morning if they wanted to.
Toner alone looks to is about $0.10/color page by rated capacity for first party toner, for compatible third-party cartridges, a bit less.

If the printer uses four-color toner so it has pure black, your cost for B&W pages will be significantly less.
From the article: "It would have been lovely to have had full-size HDMI connectors, but in order to achieve this we would have to remove other functions, or make a bulkier unit."
I think rather than pretending such efforts don't exist, opposing companies could strategically join to have _some_ say and _some_ influence on how this plays out.

Or maybe I'm just being naïve.
>you need some function to disincentivize people from being drawn to try drugs.

Something that Bernie Sanders talked a lot about that I found very compelling was the idea that a lot of people get into life ruining drugs (I'm talking heroin/meth, not weed/mushrooms) because they feel like they have no hope. A lot of them have little in the way of prospects. Drugs are an escape from the hopelessness in a lot of cases.

If our society had a better social safety net combined with education about drugs that is based on facts/truth (there's plenty of truth about heroin/meth that would put off most people from ever trying it - but for a long time a lot of lies were told about other recreational substances.) it's likely that usage would go down organically.
China has a lower level of pollution per capita than many other countries, including the US.

Think about it, they have more people than the US, Canada, the EU, UK, Russia and Australia combined. That's some major need for energy, which everyone else just blames on "China".

I think they're doing pretty well in comparison.

While I'm at it, I need to mention their one child policy basically stopped hundreds of millions people from ever existing. A whole lot of pollution that never happened. Something no other country has done, and I think China should have some recognition for that.
Cold starts can be one of the biggest trade offs when adopting a Serverless platform like Cloud Run, especially with 30 second start up times. We introduced minimum instances[1], currently in beta, which will allow you to specify a minimum number of container instances to be kept warm and ready to serve requests.

There is a cost for doing so as instances kept running in this way do incur billing costs [1].

I've done some work with Ruby in the past, and based on my experience, you might not be able to take advantage of Cloud Run's best feature, concurrency[2], which is another way to reduce cold starts by routing concurrent requests to the same container instance. Ruby maybe blocking in flight requests and forcing us to fire up another instance to handle it. Once the first request has completed there is a chance the container instance processing that request will be spun down, this is something minimum instances can help with. You might need more than one minimum instance to compensate for the lack of concurrency if you really want to see improvement in overall latency.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/min-instances

[2] https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/about-concurrency
I suspect that Covid is going to run a coach and horses right through that improvement. The best ways of getting population growth down in places like Africa are education and a strong, stable economy - and it's just trashed both.
But slowing growth isn't enough. It needs to drop dramatically and permanently.
Microsoft is a member of RIAA.
Are you male, under 30, and unmarried? Because this seems like a wildly out of touch statement.
That's not capturing in a utility sense, it's merely preventing system failure from overheat (edit: autocorrect was turning this into "merrily preventing" which was kind of fitting as well). The result is a high volume, low delta-T coolant cycle and those are notoriously difficult (read: impossible) to capture meaningful amounts of electricity from, it will actually consume a lot. That quote is just a slightly more elaborate way of saying: no, we'll definitely not do any utilizeable capture.
why is it irrational? They are looking out for their best interests, just as they should be.
China already leveled off in 2011.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=USA~IND...
GP is correct, just expressed it in a clinical way. Re-read that commend, but mentally prepend to it "From a perspective of identifying the biggest contributing factors to the climate crisis, ...".

Calling some countries a "risk" isn't a value judgement. It's pointing out that focusing on US, EU and China is looking at less than half of the picture.
Thanks for the kind words. My thinking has evolved since that video; my blog at https://raphlinus.github.io/ is a good place to check.

As flohofwoe suggests in a sibling, combining an imgui-like API with an actual retained widget tree would be something of the best of both worlds. That is indeed pretty close to what the Crochet prototype does. We're not trying to exactly match the imgui but it's pretty close. In particular, getting actions back from widgets (like button presses) is the return value from calling the widget-creating function. That's a notable difference from, say, Jetpack Compose, which is fairly imgui-like on widget creation but pretty much uses callbacks for those actions. Crochet does solve the page tearing problem (though the current implementation is hacky, don't look too closely under the hood).

Another note - the Dear ImGui implementation has become a lot more sophisticated over the years, and is no longer a simplistic implementation of the immediate mode GUI concept. It has unique id's for widgets, its text processing has become better, etc.
On the motivation front, that's a personal thing. When choices are limited and things are new, there's that exciting factor in learning. But it seems most of us have seen the same thing in different variation, and then drowning in choices which does reduce the motivation factor. But this is more subjective than objective. Nothing stopping you from creating your own OS for the pi. Linus did it in 1990 for x86 with very little resource, anyone motivated can do so today.
PWRs are some of the highest power-density energy sources that exist, though (which is why they're so popular on submarines). 40x less than a PWR is not low.

I agree that ITER is an overwrought boondoggle, however.
That is true.

This is not: “NeXT was just a way to be rid of a legacy business”

Apple needed an OS, they bought NeXT which was a superb investment given how critical the OS has been.

They also needed cashflow, and more importantly to appeal to consumers and differentiate themselves from Windows PC. The iPod was a successful part of that strategy.

The iPod served its purpose and now is gone. NeXT became the most commercially successfully operating system of all time.
Uhh, I would expect them to do exactly that for someone who presented them valid proof and and an MVP for how someone could get away with stealing tens, hundreds, thousands? of pizzas undetected. Rewarding someone for helping them with their “bread and butter” is how I would expect to be compensated for helping.
The main reason for German gas demand is that a lot of the residential heating still works with gas.

But the gas infrastructure synergizes extremely well with a shift to a hydrogen based energy economy, as is not just the goal in Germany, but pretty much an EU wide ambition [0].

It has nothing to do with the German nuclear phase-out that started in the early 2000s, just like European reliance on Russian resources it not anything new, nor is it bound to change, it's the consequence of geographical proximity and thus realpolitik.

Particularly considering the alternatives: LNG shipped from the US to Europe in tankers is an net-energy negative. It would be a pointless and expensive exercise of creating even more pollution all for the sake of satisfying US foreign policy ambitions to antagonize Russia and keep it as separated from the EU as possible.

[0] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/dutch-pin-hopes...
Slavery was very satisfying to slaves? Was it though?
Nah, that's regular parenting.
Scala really isn’t that complex though. It’s actually pretty intuitive.

You CAN write bad and hairy scala code just like you can in any language. But that doesn’t mean the language is to blame.
> high amount of start-up capital AND high regulatory hurdles AND the low margins

Not independent variables. The large wired broadband ISPs already enjoy economies of scale (access to capital, army of lawyers, etc.) and operate at slim margins. An independent ISP would need to reach the same size just to get the same near-zero margins.

That being said, there is a market for independent ISPs, but they tend to serve specialty customers where margins are much higher.
My experience differs: The higher end places I've lived had 0% income tax (because the wealthy had the means to work within the system to keep it that way), while I've lived in some pretty crappy places with surprisingly high income taxes.
Due to a duplicate protocol
Well maybe they should find some alternate structure where the different rideshare companies will chip in for benefits like health care.

Otherwise it's just a huge externality being leveraged on the rest of us.
I think it could be that nobody wants to be the bearer of bad news which might reflect very poorly on themselves/their team, so they rather ignore the issue compared to asking budget from the higher ups to deal with the issue.
Yeah, that's not a good scenario. But they could also just check the physical switch, which cannot lie.
I think you hit on something interesting. No one is enforcing quality or safety really, not any of them, including taxis.
Because paper is such a great medium for some tasks. Every day we print out the list of assignments my kids have, and they can check them off as they do them. They have several writing assignments which we print off and they write by hand. (my kids are in kindergarten and second grade - too young to be good at typing so a pencil is clearly better for writing tasks)
The EFF appears to concur with a previous comment I made on this topic:

"EFF believes that the circumvention restrictions in DMCA section 1201, which prevent people from bypassing technological restrictions, are too broad.

DMCA 1201 is incredibly broad, apparently allowing rightsholders to legally harass any ‘trafficker’ in code that lets users re-take control of their devices from DRM locks,” EFF wrote recently."

This creates an unaccountable enforcement party who can harass "targets" on behalf of another unaccountable party. The way it is written, reddit would have to take down a selectively unpopular subreddit for providing technology that facilitates the trafficking of copyrighted images. Whose copyright? Who cares? One could inject a bunch of copyrighted material into sites and then use a DMCA notice against their upstream provider to shut them off - a pattern I would predict is likely to materialize in coming months. Write sideloaded apps for a community because an app store uses their policy against you? "Circumvention!" The opportunities for abuse are endless.

While teleological arguments are always a bit iffy, the final objective is to ensure that there can be no information or service on the internet that is outside not only U.S. subpoena, but that there can be no communities or networks of personal relationships that are not governed by legacy institutions. It is under the auspices of people being "accountable," for their thoughts and beliefs, and yet without precision about to whom one is being held to account by.

To every establishment growth is the greatest threat of all, and the DMCA s1201 is effectively designed to suppress it. The good news is these blunt attacks are a forcing function for developing decentralized technologies, and every one of these creates a cohort of new hackers.
Most of the population of Earth lives close to the water though. Be it rivers or coasts.
It's not an obvious solution, because in that regulatory environment people will avoid creating small companies in the first place.

They won't avoid it to get some minor edge.

They will avoid it because every company formation and financial advisor will point out that it's commercial suicide to start your own company in that environment, and that instead you should take your idea to an existing company which specialises in opening "nearly autonomous departments", for an instant 30% or so increases in post-tax income, or 30% edge over competition on prices, or 30% edge on salaries you can pay, for exactly the same kind of business. (30% representative of some countries not others... adjust for your locale).

The few real companies specialising in that would love your M&A and tax regulations, as they could take a few % of every small business' profits, and have some levers of control, effectively government mandated.

After that, the millions of small companies which already existed, who cannot consolidate due to your M&A restrictions, will gradually either go out of business due to competition, or find a way, though contracts, deeds etc, to transfer their activity into these "autonomous department" companies without actually merging. It's not uncommon to transfer some of a company's activity this way already, so that would just be scaling it up.

You can try restricting all of that, but it will be very difficult as you would have to do it restrict what sorts of things people can agree to in contracts in a very significant way, and in doing so, restrict what are currently effective business arrangements for some companies to make them less effective. That would be an enormous change to business culture, and I suspect even if you did restrict what can be agreed in private contract terms, alternative ways to transfer what gets done where would be found very quickly and easily.
Please don't be snarky. A better response would have been just your hint:

"You can mirror the board but that doesn't mirror the pinout of components"
I think even more than the lack of generics, Go is difficult to read because it forces you to mix the error path with the success path in every function which can possibly fail, often making you bubble errors up the call stack manually.