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Your estimate (> 90) for the number of people working on the core language is way off:
https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors

Re: SML types, I think you may be confounding simplicity and terseness. The last time I touched ML was decades ago, so I don’t have a specific opinion here but consider “both more simple and more powerful” could be a contradiction. The lack of power and expressiveness can in fact be part of what makes things simpler, not strictly because of the language but because programmers are forced to do things in a “dumber” way.
A rather common joke that I've seen on social media and also have personally witnessed in real life is that within the US, the person making the comparison is of one race and has difficulty accurately comparing a person of a different race with the picture supposedly of that person.

Consequently, two people who don't really look alike can essentially share the same ID card as the person doing the comparing doesn't want to invite accusations of racism.
Most companies can't afford to be market leaders either.

No stock comp sends a strong signal to top talent. And about the company in general.
As precisely as meaningful.
“Yeah I got to figure that myself too”

As a senior I often find myself needing to say this and I hate saying it. I’ll do my best to solve the problem and sit with them look through the code etc. first.

Sometimes code has been written by ex employees and it complex and not well documented. I don’t always have all the answers to hand.

I do my bet to set them up for a win and if I have time will try to solve the problem in parallel so next time they ask I might know more.

That said wading through undocumented spaghetti is a good skill to learn!
They're not paying for your lawyers. It's that simple. Unless you have a deep war chest any competent lawyer would tell you not to pursue it.
While it's true that jq's DSL has a bit of a learning curve, being able to try expressions and see immediate feedback can help immensely.

Here is a demo of a small script I wrote that shows jq results as you type using FZF: https://asciinema.org/a/349330 (link to script is in the description)

It also includes the ability to easily "bookmark" expressions and return to them so you don't have to worry about losing up an expression that's almost working to experiment with another one.

As a jq novice, I've personally found it to be super useful.
I will not buy or recommend HP products.
I read that Quibi does not own its content. The content creators do.

I don't understand. How could Quibi possibly spend $2B in 6 months when it doesn't even own its content. What exactly did it spend those $2B on?
But what about other aspects, such as for example radiation hardening for electronic devices used in space ? Would this make them more or less susceptible to radiation ?
There's wanting and there's being able to.

There are a lot more folks who want to be NFL players than there are actual NFL players!
I guess the wording of the US Constitution is a conspiracy theory now...
That requires a very specific understanding of progress. It requires that you take the position that the world is an imperfect place for humans to live, and that there are adaptations which make it better. Although this isn't unlikely, it's also not self-evidently true.
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You overstate it by calling it a theory. I'm sure you just watched the Veritasium video [1] on this very subject. The point wasn't to claim that space has a preferred direction (which would contradict known physics) but highlighting that there is no way to prove the speed of light is uniform, only that the round trip speed is 'c'.

Second, even if the speed of light is unbounded (or has a much higher bound) in one direction, that doesn't give a free ride for objects with mass to travel any faster than they currently do. It would take an incredible amount of energy to accelerate such rocks to near/above the constant 'c' and then you'd need to explain how it returns to normal asteroid speeds before crashing into Earth.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
Excellent; thanks for sharing. If there were a convenient way to anonymously share links, this could be a game-changer for a lot of people.
Whataboutism I think. Bringing up another issue, to distract from the current issue.
Intel mentally isn't anywhere near the rock bottom they would need to be to admit inferiority to AMD by actually underpricing them even though they easily have the margin to do so. This might even be the right strategy if they think they can come back in a couple of years and beat AMD, why damage the brand now?
If your metaphor becomes detached from reality people focus too much on the side that’s supposed to be familiar.
> so you show now just a false phone

You'd be sending a message cryptographically signed by the government to someone else's device, so it doesn't matter what's on your screen—if you can't produce that signed message, you can't do anything.
>and then you tell me what I've missed out.

You've missed my point. Asking you to list out all the risks is rhetorical because you can't list your unknown unknowns.

I wasn't challenging you to actually list them but to show you that you can't claim the ability to weigh the risks against the benefits like you claimed since there might be risks you're not accounting for.

So you might counter with "well then by that logic we shouldn't do anything for fear of the unknown unknowns"

But to that I would say the difference here is you're playing with an system of immeasurable feedback loops too complex for anyone to model.

What's being introduced here is another feedback loop with no backsies, and what if we find out later we've made a catastrophic mistake?
That's a good analogy. I'm going to try that one next time I run into problems.
This reads a lot like simply another way to tie users up into a smartphone specific Eco-system, not to mention the privacy implications.

There is a much better approach that doesn't have the privacy problems that the proposed solution has: https://certisfy.com

Use good old PKI with the verification process for generating certificates delegated to suitable third-parties.
> (and the reason to go metaphoric in the first place is to make the concept less abstract)

I completely agree with you there. But I disagree that the unusual library example is more abstract.

As a point of contrast, I gave an abstract account of technical debt for the purpose of comparison to the more concrete library metaphor (to show that the abstract account would be more difficult for many):

> technical debt is about the up front time-cost of introducing new systems of organization to replace ad-hoc, unsystematic methods whose cost-effectiveness decreases as project complexity (to put it loosely) increases.

A library with 25 books is not more abstract, though it is a hypothetical concrete thing [1]. If someone has difficulty with hypothetical concrete things, that could certainly make using metaphors with them more difficult—and I can see why you would add additional constraints onto what makes a good metaphor. In my personal experience, saying, "imagine a library, but with only 25 books, which is run by a single person," would be not asking too much of an audience. But I see your point that some may struggle with it.

[1] There is a handy way of considering this distinction: becoming more abstract involves making some 'parameter,' which was fixed, free instead: so for instance a more abstract notion than any particular library is: a manager of a collection of objects which are loaned out to people for limited durations of time. In that example, we free the parameter 'book' so that it isn't set to anything specific. If we instead say, "a library but for CDs instead of books," it's equally concrete since we haven't freed any parameters, we just replaced one concrete value for another. That's what happened in the "library with 25 books" example, which is why I say it is not more abstract.
Most of the current developers _are_ random people on the internet who decided to contribute to it in their free time. If you have noticed, repeatedly asking for a feature when it's already on the roadmap as a high priority item and has been there for some years also does not help the feature get implemented any faster.
which city?
I don't know if there is an excellent writeup out there I can point to; this field is full of a bunch of BS advertisement articles, and a quick google search found nothing worthwhile on either side of the debate.

My opinion in the parent post to yours is based on my decade of experience with bitcoin, and having been there every step of the way in its evolution and the birth and erratic journey of Ethereum.

In short summary, Bitcoin seeks to provide a secure, stable, no-BS minimal base layer upon which financial contracts of all sorts can be written. The Lightning Network is an example of a smart contract on Bitcoin, one that has been quite stable and secure compared with frothy DAO, ICO, DeFi, or whatever the latest marketing term for smart contracts is in the Ethereum space.

Bitcoin adds small, targeted features to the base protocol after a truly intense amount of work goes in to proving their correctness and the way in which they interact with other parts of the base layer. Ethereum chases after whatever the fad of the moment is and crams everything into a gigantic toolbox of everything and the kitchen sink, and makes you use all that complexity for even things as simple as multi-sig and replay protection.

To stretch an analogy, Bitcoin is a minimal RISC architecture while Ethereum is x86, with all the history of legacy features and obsolete stuff included. Now your task as a cryptocurrency application engineer is to build a secure protocol that must survive without mercy from attackers. Would you rather do this on x86 or a minimal, proven-correct RISC platform?

The choice to me is obvious. Going into the details of why is way more than could possibly fit in a HN comment, however.
It also decreases the supply of bad neighborhoods. Given that demand is more or less constant, this increases the cost. If the price gap is sufficiently large between the two, prices go up during gentrification and the poor have to move to more expensive bad neighborhoods
> can work against you anytime.

Often does work against you really.
You are wildly incorrect. The Winter War ended well before the Continuation War began. See: The Treaty of Moscow. And it was not just a few German troops. Finland served as a staging point for a major if unsuccessful assault on Murmansk. More important, the Finnish invasion (and taking of Karelia) helped tie down Soviet forces near Leningrad. The alliance was eagerly sought by Finnish politicians convinced (not unreasonably) the Soviets would attack after many months of belligerence toward the Finnish ambassador by Molotov. But they were also convinced that Germany would inevitably defeat USSR and usher in a New Europe (code for fascist Europe - long racist toward Russians, the Finns relished the fraternal ties to Germany and the privileged place they could assume in this new world order).

Finnish leaders actually served time in prison after the war for their war crimes. I am sympathetic to Finlands position but to say the Winter War never ended is an absurd falsehood. An entire book was written about the period between the wars by AF Upton. Finland In Crisis. It is superb. It details extensive deliberate planning at the highest levels between Finland and Germany for months prior to Germany turning on its then ally USSR.

(Here’s a quiz for you. If it was only a few German troops in Finland who quickly left, why is it they burned so much of the north and center of the country e.g. Rovaneimi on their way out and why did Finland have to fight them to get them to leave? They were dug in in bases supplied by Finland.)
There is a lengthy history of general toxicity, gatekeeping attitudes and the like in the Gnome dev community, dating back to the early 2.x days. This extensive comment https://dot.kde.org/comment/60560#comment-60560 dates back to 2003, and back then RedHat wasn't even heavily involved in development (the major corporate sponsors back then were Eazel and Ximian, which are basically unheard of today) but clearly the overall attitude has not changed much since then.
> Manuka is a versatile sugar substitute that’s lower on the glycemic index,” he says. “It won’t spike your blood sugar levels immediately in the way white sugar does.”

The sugar in honey is roughly a 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose, there is nothing metabolically special about the sugar. Fructose has a lower glycemic index because it is metabolized first into triglycerides- it may be better for diabetics in some circumstances but has also been blamed for why people drink too much pop, because the glucose fructose sweetening doesnt leave you sated. From a purely sugar perspective, honey is basically HFCS.
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The sad news is that the credit card scammers have ruined this - automated credit card testing often looks for small donation pages like you're suggesting, then uses them to check if stolen card numbers are valid. This leads to chargebacks, loss of reputation by the donatee in the eyes of the card processor, and a whole bunch of wasted time. One of the "services" that organizations like Patreon actually perform is to take on this risk on behalf of their clients.

I guess bitcoin/etc payments are still OK, but except in some small niche subject areas, aren't generally accepted enough to make the direct donation setup worthwhile.
Delete this political garbage please.
This sugarbag honey reminds me of the Melipona honey from Peru that I learned about in (I think it was) a Netflix documentary about fake honey.
For a secret chip in a server to be useful, it needs to emit a signal, send data over the network, or be manually retrieved. If that were happening at any scale, someone would notice (especially in a data center).

If secret chips were going to be used, they'd be very targeted in nature (like a fake Comcast modem that they give to a specific target) rather than something general.
I didnt know about ctrl+l. I use Alt+D all the time.
It's okay, don't think it's gotten better since. Until I graduated a few years ago, I'd take the Vancouver to Seattle route about once a year to meet friends or interview and can't say I've ever had anything I would describe as a good experience in my dozen or so trips.

First, there seemed to some major issue with every other ride. One time the vents started leaking, in another the shocks were absolutely horrid, sometimes the bus reeked, sometimes the seats were dirty or you could feel the seat springs. One time the driver just didn't show up and our bus departed 4 hours after the scheduled time.

Second, more minor issues were always abundant. Things like broken or glacial wifi, power not working, stench, dirty terminals, dirty washrooms, annoying passengers, late departures/arrivals or general confusion from poorly documented check-in/pickup/dropoff locations.
"We wonder Mr. Babbage does not invent a punning engine; it is just as possible as a calculating one."

--Walter Bagehot, "The First Edinburgh Reviewers", an essay of 1855. You can find the essay at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068581279&vi... .

[Edit: removed stray colon.]
For the most part, yes, Greyhound is a solid service. I have been across more than 20 states on Greyhound buses and it is generally a great service that provides excellent value. That said, I also have about 2 drinks worth of seriously messed up stories associated with some of these travels. As a man under 40 with a reasonable build and plenty of patience, everything will probably be fine, but I would not necessarily recommend this mode of transportation to everyone.
I grew up in a neighborhood where probably 90% of households had at least one parent working at Intel, including mine.

Very simple: Cultural Decay
> a mismatch for arguably more poweruser-centric Linux user base.

Uhm, to the best of my knowledge the macOS file dialogue is far more powerful than anything the various linux toolkits offer.
Debt is a good metaphor. Carrying technical debt can be a smart business decision. Constantly taking out more loans and never making payments leads to bankruptcy.

In my experience the problem is usually it's hard to quantify the costs. It's easy for managers to tell themselves engineers are just perfectionists. Someone's bonus might depend on not listening and they probably won't be held accountable when something goes wrong.
I am a bit of a drifter/vagabond, so I've been using shared workspaces for years before Corona.

I have a basic ritual of how I set it up, and it helps get into the mindset of working.

First I prepare the space for my computer by removing anything unrelated and adding keyboard, charger, mouse, LED candle, and tea/coffee cup.

Then, I ceremoniously place the computer in the middle, line up and connect the components, and boot it.

I say a prayer of intention of what I hope to accomplish and move my praying hands down towards the G and H keys to ensure that my keyboard is centered.

Then, I'm ready to work.

If anything distracts me, I go through the following mental process, which becomes easier every time as it's habituated:

1) I thank the distraction for reminding me to focus on what is important.

2) I take a slow deep breath in and then let it out slowly.

3) I return my focus to my work and my intent.

4) I rejoice that I was able to succeed once again in remaining focused and mindful on my task.

So yes, I do have a dedicated space for work: It is inside my mind's eye and my awareness, as well as the desk and chair I am sitting at/on, and where I am currently focused on the screen. :)
So did Apple just sashay in and poach half of the best people?
I grew up in NZ and find it hilarious when I see a tub of manuka honey in a supermarket in the US. This is the most genius marketing ripoff of all time. Most honey you could buy in NZ back then was either clover honey or manuka honey, it cost about $3 for the same amount, and there was nothing special about manuka honey. Manuka is just teatree, by the way. And all honey has the same antimicrobial properties -- it has nothing to do with hydrogen peroxide and definitely nothing to do with UMF. The reason honey kills microbes is it has exceptionally low water content.
Technical Debt is just another name for those concepts that are well understood in industries, but renamed to be directly applicable to the type of work.
Freight is also a good part of their business

When I worked in television, satellite time was very expensive, and microwave links were scarce. We very often would send videotapes between stations and bureaus via Greyhound freight.
If negotiating costs with the arbitrator could, per se, constitute cognizable collusion I don't think arbitration would be a thing. It is a thing. Therefore we're stuck with the system.

What really needs to happen is for Congress to legislatively overturn conservative justices' belated, radical reinterpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act, effectively preempting traditional state law-based policies that reign in unfair arbitration practices. But anti-trial lawyer propaganda has permeated deep into the American psyche, including among Democrats. Legislation that could be spun as empowering trial lawyers has become something of a third rail in American politics, especially at the national level. The alternative to fixing the FAA is to do like Civil Law countries and create more regulatory bodies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But 1) both conservative legislators and judges make it their hobby to cripple those agencies; and 2) I, for one, would prefer going back to a regime that permits more private actions because, at least in modern American politics, a centralized consumer protection process is politically impractical even without the disingenuous and baldly partisan efforts of politicians and judges.

The problem with regulatory agencies is that to be effective they have to stick their nose into everybody's business preemptively. That's not a good fit for American-style enterprise and politics. The nice thing about civil suits is that, at least in principle, they can only happen when someone has actually been wronged and suffered actual losses. Which means companies can move fast & break things, so long as they're prepared to pay for any damages.
Make a throwaway email address, send it to your intended recipient.
I think some MUDs could qualify better than others. A key element (IMO) of a Roguelike is randomness in the maps/scenarios, not just the encounters. I say "key" in the sense of "necessary but not sufficient". Most MUDs have fixed maps, perhaps with a few small areas that are randomized. So you can memorize the layouts of many, if not all, areas. There is exploration, and you may forget areas, but the exploration is really a one time thing. In Nethack, by contrast, you really don't know what's coming next (though sometimes it reloads a level you died on before [0]).

[0] I was killed by a mummy. And in my next run found my now mummified former self and the mummy. After a few runs that level was full of mummies. Needless to say, it did not go well for me.
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Great quote. Thanks for sharing.
Intel employee. Can confirm all of the above.
And it should be noted that "technical debt" appears to have been coined before "capability trap". And many other industries lack a proper term to describe the same concept, even if they possess it.
If you've got poisonwood honey.. wait til you try Turkish seasonal... HALLUCINOGENIC honey.. (sorry for clickbaity) which actually exists and is a "thing"
Yes. In PDX, Azure recently had a big hiring frenzy and there was a lot of attrition as well.
Put some money on a Visa/AmEX/etc. debit card and drop it in the mail.
But it's also important to be clear that a complex script large enough to have (critical!) security holes was required to do something as simple and as foundational as multi-sig: the basic building block of all distributed or decentralized protocols. How can possibly expect something more complex to be secure?

Bitcoin, on the other hand, builds these core crypto competencies into the base layer, so that scripting can exist purely in the application domain.
I'm using SQL.js and it's great!

A few weeks ago, I built a program to help find jobs in New Zealand and Australia. It scrapes the Seek website, and allows me to make more complex queries (e.g. does not contain "right to live and work in this location")

https://ifeelseek.github.io/

Currently I'm running the scraper on a spare laptop manually every day or two. I'd rather set it up to work with Github Actions, but didn't get around to that yet.
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I would assume that the preference is not for low quality, but low price. That is, if better quality housing was available for the same price, I don't see why one wouldn't choose that option. But it is certainly true that some prefer to spend less of their budget on housing.
Are there any industries where high-end manufacturing doesn't subsidize low-end and low-middle products substantially?

Are we saying this all started to unravel when most of the money moved to mobile and Intel still, after 20 years of warning shots, didn't have a compelling strategy there?
And bankruptcy is just the extreme of debt. It's also possible to survive, but be slowed by the drag of debt.

Financial debt reduces profit, which slows expansion and reinvestment.

Technical debt does the same, but slows novel development or expansion of the system.
unsure what your point is