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If you’re handling that many connections, does pgbouncer really add that much complexity? Surely at that scale, pgbouncer is less complex than alternative scaling options (replicas, caching, etc). We run it in production and hardly consider ourselves experts in pgbouncer.
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Crystallising architecture around the front-end is one of those anti-patterns my grandmother warned me about.
This is incorrect. Community areas and wards are two very separate things. The "History" section of your link even explains the history of why community areas are used in place of wards.
I spent a few years at Caltech in an academic role (not as a student). I never understood the rationale behind the unsupervised take-home exams. Could you elaborate what is it that makes it a 'success', in your opinion?

The shortcomings that seem obvious to me are:
- Penalizes honesty
- Implied notion that Caltech students are "honourable" and honest. How is this achieved in practice?
Good news: A 463L pallet is a 463L pallet, and the military plans this stuff out long in advance: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN1858...
Think of Red Hat employees. Most of them are paid to contribute continually to Open Source (linux kernel, numerous libraries, etc), then they sell product and support licenses. The problem is that few developers are helping to maintain Open Source libraries. In what universe is it feasible for an large Open Source project maintainer to make a living without patrons?? For-profit orgs should be the driver for maintaining Open Source.
The mechanism of action is known, so potential side effects are largely predictable. I'm not an expert, but I don't see any reason to think there would be unexpected long term side effects from this sort of vaccination. Is there reason to think otherwise?
This is not a tax dodge. There is no way to dodge taxes as a US citizen by moving abroad, the US is the only country in the world with a global taxation system.

It’s not to avoid criminal justice either as Cyprus is a lapdog to the US for extradition, same as the UK is.
Slovakia has tried it:

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/slovakias-second-r...
Does anyone know if Russia/China's vaccine operate using the same mRNA mechanism?
Government != military. The military has its own logistics command that, like the parent comment mentions, is unbelievably well tuned. Vaccines are something they do extremely well-- every sailor, soldier and airman in the entire 5 arm military needs regular vaccinations, even when deployed. Can't have GI Joe catching a flu, giving to the rest of the battalion only to sitout the rest of the conflict. All the stuff you need to safely distribute a vaccine, they've got, and know how to use it. Things like a chain of custody to keep cold things cold, and SLAs to meet perishable goods requirements, transport and delivery from remote locations with little infrastructure, the command and management to ensure enough supply gets to where it needs to be, etc. From what my friends who served in the Navy & Air Force said, they don't fuck around with vaccines. You get lined up, jabbed or misted with the vaccine and sent on your way. There's no reason they can't scale up from hundreds of thousands of soldiers to millions of civilians.
I have always loved tearing things apart and fiddling with them. The one exception to that is my primary phone. There's a set of functions I expect it to perform, and that's it. I don't see it as a general purpose computer, nor do I want to be responsible for it's administration. The way I see it, I am paying apple to administer it for me. If it was my only device, I would not be able to use it, but I have so many computers that I'm ok with not being root on my phone if I never have to spend a thought on maintaining it.
The oft-cited theory about 1918 is that WWI upended the traits that were selected for in the virus. Whereas in peace time a more serious case would reduce the mobility of the victim, in war a serious infection would result in the patient (a soldier) being transported off the front lines, spreading the more serious version of the virus more.
Base technology first, then convenience features.

Merck is working on a one-dose pill, but that's not expected before mid-2021.

There's micro encapsulation for vaccines.[1][2] The vulnerable active molecule can be put inside a coating that is stable in storage but dissolves after injection.

[1] https://www.academia.edu/33376119/Microencapsulation_of_Vacc...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbio...
agreed. if anything, being an island would be worse because you have to condense a lot people into confined spaces just to cross the border
> In fact, the laws are so strict, they make living abroad as an honest middle-class expat a total nightmare. I have friends who cannot find a single bank in their country that will work with them because of the reporting requirements of working with US citizens.

What? This is not true at all. Getting a bank in most other countries is not hard at all and certainly not a "nightmare."

As a U.S. citizen you must still file taxes and an FBAR that merely reports your assets in foreign accounts, but I've never seen a bank have any problems opening an account for an American, in any country.
> I am keen to help others to adopt this approach, so everybody is most welcome to reach out to me with any questions.

I'll take you up on this.

How far have you gotten? What surprises have you uncovered?

Are you blogging or tweeting the project?
I'm the first user. :)
Looks like they solve about 30% of homicides.

I don't think you're second question is answerable as phrased, but I think having fewer killers on the street probably matters for quality of life in Chicago, or, at the very least, quantity of life.

What is the alternative to detectives that solves more crimes?
Is a too generic question that could fill a book. Most people just ask to somebody. Libraries and grandmas can definitely save the day in this sense.
It's your list so make it however you want. But to me it looks more like a list of reasons you love emacs than a list of requirements.
couldn't see that one coming /s

honestly... how was this even a thing? i never got the appeal or the concept to wanting to watch my own TV from a device. i mean... do people actually miss their local programming that much when they are away?
Nope, but it's basically a faster path.
McPossible Burger would have worked.
> If you let end users query your object model, it takes far more work to ensure they don't do something very expensive.

How so? There are existing tools that prevent both N+1 problems (Dataloader) and complex, recursive queries (depth and complexity limits).
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that President Trump should not concede defeat in the 2020 presidential election in part because Republicans will "never" be able to elect another president from their party again.

"If Republicans don't challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again," Graham said Sunday on Fox News. "President Trump should not concede. We're down to less — 10,000 votes in Georgia. He's going to win North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than 20,000 votes in Arizona, where more — more votes to be counted."

https://thehill.com/homenews/525063-lindsey-graham-if-trump-...
> Citizenship is something that ought to be earned and given to people who show that they want to live in and contribute to a country

Says who? You?

The beauty of people is we have different opinions. If Cyprus wants to sell their citizenship for a dollar each, that's their right.

> People like Schmidt purchase themselves a...

Yes, that's one of the motivating factors for being rich, is being able to purchase things afterwards.

There's a child dying somewhere on this planet right now and here you are moralizing on HackerNews - people like you purchase themselves an internet connection and talk about blah blah, while a child is dying.
A lot of countries have mental health response teams that work with the police to balance the safety of the individual in crisis with public safety. Seems like it’s worth looking into.
Which is just a “do it on the internet” twist on basically all get rich quick schemes that aren’t pyramid or Ponzi.
Not OP, but I’ve had same difficulty switching among windows.

I remap “other window” shortcut to something more convenient. See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/3471
It could easily be throwing good money after bad - and he has moved on from it. It would be like giving money to an impoverished country with a blatantly corrupt government - it wouldn't do any good if they just waste it on say landscaping instead of say doing anything about bullying.

On that note do you feel an obligation to donate even say $5 to your old high school decades later when you have no other connections to it like kids currently attending? I don't think that is a very common behavior or sentiment.
What's the point of even commenting if you're too busy to so much as string together a few coherent sentences?
I'm not sure I understand why power is a limiter. Free solar power and heat during the lunar cycle...
>But if people had more resources left to themselves, they could spend some of it on the same projects US gov spends it on.

With your assertion in mind: there were plenty of wealthy people in the US in the early 1990s so why didn't they fund the nascent Google project? You'd think anyone would love to be the likely majority owner of Google.
Trump won among white people, males of all races, and people without higher education.
Check out Figure 1 of your cite [3]. Of course mutation rate is high compared to a prokaryote. The point is that coronaviruses (as proven by Fig. 1 of [3]) do not have a high mutation rate for an RNA virus. Indeed, the mutation rate is much lower than influenza.
None of what you said makes it any less destructive.
Depends on how much time you have to spend to make it work - if it's a full time thing 1k MRR is >7$/hour if you spend 160 hours a month on it - if you can code anywhere in the world that's below lowest tier remote coding gigs, triple that and you approach low end remote gigs.
I assume this is in reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006619?
The biggest players in the game do not use SSDs for persistent storage longer than x weeks. It is offloaded to tape at some point and restored periodically.
> yet my geography makes it impossible to get anything other than satellite internet

You just need to make friends with the landowners at the tops of the mountains.
I was expecting the operator selections to still be available after clicking on an operator to view. I'd prefer a quick answer than the slow animation.

The first thing I clicked (++) on lacked details re: pre/post usage. The linked MDN refs[0] are more useful as it has the details and preserves a navigation pane.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> aren't subject to US jurisdiction

Every single financial institution that transacts in US dollars (so, all of them) is subject to the power of the US Treasury.

So many people want to believe all the rich are hiding their money abroad.

For American citizens, this simply isn't true and hasn't been for a decade or more. It's not feasible. Also, American capital gains taxes (the ones rich people mostly pay) are extremely low compared to most places in the EU anyways. Its not worth the risk even if you can find a nefarious organization to help you do it.
> I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that unpaid labor where the other side is profiting is definitely bad.

That is definitely not always true. And regardless, creation of the software itself is labor. It’s not a great idea to claim all unpaid labor is bad when the author explicitly chooses to forego payment for writing the software, and also turn around and say you’re only talking about a fuzzy gray line called change requests.

If profiting from someone else's labor without paying is bad, then why focus on change requests? Most companies who profit from OSS aren't asking for changes, but are making money.

> it’s implied that the changes should be free

No, I didn’t mean that the license implies changes should be free. I just mean that the license doesn’t help setup expectations, and the author is the one who both controls the license and the expectations.

The main issue here is expectations. I see and appreciate your goals here, it’s applaudable to vouch for people who should be getting paid.

What I don’t see is a clear and strong argument for why this shouldn’t be handled by market forces - why companies should pay without being asked, how much they should pay, and why devs shouldn’t simply charge for change requests and/or the software, if payment is what they seek.
I'm not so sure. By his own admission homebrew is not that great a piece of software. There's a lot more that goes into popularity than being good. Being first, marketing and network effects are as or more important than being good.
A marketplace for group therapy online
I think you underestimate the amounts of rain dance magic lawyers can produce with wording like "using any means." ;)
From HP's point of view of not given them a penny for maybe 20 years - and now I'm paying them $2 a month. They can knock off the cost of making and sending me a new cart - but they're ahead from this. A transaction has occurred due to this innovation and both sides are 'happy'. Innovation/Capitalism - should be catnip to this audience.

I agree that I can't predict the costs exactly - but ballpark is good enough. Like cutting the cord. You don't know how your cable price might change, Netflix prices might increase, your provider might shift cost to your broadband to compensate - but for now it works out and presuming nothing major changes, you'll be fine with incremental stuff and maybe make another bold decision in a few years.
I'm more skeptical to be honest. Jonathan Blow discusses the unique programming & design challenges that most (not all) video games face in this great podcast episode: https://oxide.computer/podcast/on-the-metal-9-jonathan-blow/
Polymun from Klosterneuburg (near Vienna) are suppliers of Lipid-Nanoparticles used for mRNA vaccines.

Translated from:
"Bei der Impfstoff-Entwicklung von Pfizer und Biontech mischt auch die Klosterneuburger Firma Polymun mit. Die heimischen Experten liefern wichtige Teile für die Vakzine zu. Als eines von nur wenigen Unternehmen weltweit ist Polymun auf die Herstellung von Lipid-Nanopartikeln spezialisiert. Diese werden für die Herstellung von mRNA-Impfstoffen gegen Covid-19 gebraucht, da die verwendete mRNA ein geeignetes Transportvehikel braucht, um in den Körper eingeschleust zu werden."

Source (German): https://kurier.at/wissen/gesundheit/biontech-plant-zulassung...
Which part needs recovery? The pandemic, of course, but if it were up to democrats the shops would’ve been closed and businesses bankrupt more than by trying to keep stuff open.
Minimum wages have increased, stock market is doing fine, unemployment rate up to SARS-CoV-2 has been lowest, under Obama the national debt grew by 25 (debt-to-gdp) from 40-65 in his first 3 years (!) where Trump only 3 (76-79), people on food stamps lowered drastically in his 3rd year... if you mean that the democrats need to recover from prosperous years by riuning everything, you got it right...
> Presumably Xplornet will be filing requests for this new funding.

I'm sure they already have them filled out. After all, they designed them.
I wouldn't consider the revenue streams of any of these companies to be meaningfully representative of potential market size in any way. Pretty much any niche market you can think of will be 100's of times larger. You can literally put pretty rocks you pick up in a streambed and generate higher revenues. With a little hard work and luck, some of the companies listed will grow 1000's of times in the future (but they'll still be considered "small businesses").

To argue the other side, an old boss of mine would say that some of the products listed are really features. One of his favorite mantras was: "A feature is not a product and a product is not a company."

To respond to the "is it really just this hard", well... yes and no. If you are unwilling to market/promote/sell your product or just give most of the value away, then sure, it's very very hard. However, if you're willing to hustle on the "business" side of things, then it may not be that hard. One thing that too many techies get wrong is that they try to be innovative in everything. Don't -- just innovate along one axis. For everything else, just copy best practices and you'll be fine.

Side note: commission driven sales is a viable strategy for some product categories in some markets. But for most, it's not. Remember, in business, almost everything is context dependent. Any good tactical advice of "do X" is also bad advice in a different context. And vice versa.
May wanna read that again...
Have you looked into the ethereum decentralized finance sector? It’s worth billions.
why would somebody use a chinese version of python?
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I was seriously thinking of contributing to open source this past week when I started going over all the articles I've read from open source authors about entitled users and wealthy companies that don't donate but make profits off the projects. It's beco0me clear to me that large corporations like Microsoft have jumped into open source whole heartedly in a big part because they get tons of free labor. Not only that, I had a bad experience contributing to an open source project in which the author snidely told me I should have searched the code base because the bug was fixed when it wasn't, closed my bug report out and denied my pull request. So it seems to me a negative deal situation on both fronts. I'm know there are great open source projects, but I'll need to be very selective about them.
Game development problems are very often global state manipulation problems. In a given game, many things may have genuine need to be able to read and write to multiple global variables once per frame (that's usually somewhere between 30 and 240 times per second), and that is after all unnecessary global state has been removed.

Enterprise developers often look very poorly upon the solutions that game developers come up with, but game development is an entirely different realm, very far away from any enterprise software development stuff I've worked on, or even heard of. I've looked. I didn't believe this myself for a long time.

Games have very strict performance requirements that enterprise software simply does not have. Virtually no one in enterprise software cares about performance, really, and certainly not as a primary concern. Enterprise developers will often just throw more RAM or CPU at the problem until it goes away. I mean why not, that's an option that is on the table. Of course they're going to take that route sometimes. Game developers can't do this, because they're not in control of the hardware that their game is run on.

Games are often scored on how good they look, and how well they perform. Game sales are a function (at least partially) of the score/rating that the title attains, and game developers are paid out of the money that game sales provide. Concerns that do not result in an improved critical game rating are secondary. So, there is a very strong hunger there for performance which simply does not exist in other software development fields. Until enterprise software developers are paid based on the performance of the applications they write, no one who has NOT developed a game and fought performance problems along the way can ever understand.

There are games which consume nearly the entire bandwidth between CPU and RAM on a modern PC -- continuously -- and this is after many optimization passes to prune the data that is needed from RAM at any particular moment in time and make it as small as possible.

Game development is just an entirely different thing than any other kind of software development. Languages created with general purpose use in mind may achieve (and have achieved) some success in game development, but those languages will get in the way of the developer at least as often as they aid the developer. Same rule applies for general software engineering rules.
Ok, and why do you think most people use Redis? Is it (1) they did a careful evaluation of the options and selected Redis because it was best or (2) everyone knows you use Redis if you need an in memory cache?
Netflix Capped at 1.66mbps/480p
An old coworker (Vim user) of mine had a good response to another coworker who asked him "why don't you use an IDE?":

"I do, it's called Linux."
The Church Co - $199/month for ultimate package. You can probably charge churches more since there is lack of technical knowledge. Are founders and employees of Church Co religious or not? Is there any moral barrier in helping churches to collect donations?
Because those people never lived and will never live in Cyprus or EU, but the citizenship gives them rights in elections and access to a different banking system, for the sole purpose of evading laws.
If you do the key exchange face-to-face, all you need is some bytes from /dev/random for the key, and the cryptographic algorithm Data XOR Key. They can't outlaw the XOR operator and they can't "backdoor" all random number sources (not even the most trivial ones), so the idea that it is even remotely possible to obtain political control of encryption is quite insane.
They're getting the scraps from the T-Mobile/Sprint merger.

http://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/october-2019/the-d...
Things or raw materials that are useful automatically have value.
I know - if I decide to code outside of work in a non-Emacs Lisp project, I'll give them a try.
No... if he flies from JFK to Cyprus he’ll be allowed. That doesn’t mean that he can connect through to London or Dubai without being stopped. It also doesn’t mean that spending the night there suddenly opens up the world to him - if you’ve been in a (for lack of a better term) “blacklisted” country in the last 14 days you still have to quarantine.
Extradition laws
Eric Schmidt's move may be a signal of what is to come in the next months.
The Electoral College counts have not finished and rampant fraud is being found everywhere.
Thank you. There's a summary here (I downloaded the linked PDF and read it): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337578410_Virginia_...

I've made a note of your comment someplace I have hope of finding it again.
There's a lot of reason to doubt the exit poll data for this election. It's easy to waste ( virtual ) ink and grab headlines, but it'd be more honest to admit that we don't really know and jumping to conclusions probably isn't helping anyone.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/exit-polls-can-be-misle...
I was struck by the poor grammar when I read this, and there's also something that feels vaguely unprofessional about the voice and tone. I'm not sure what that might indicate other than that HP doesn't consider this an important enough PR issue to run it through their best copy editors.
Very interesting take.
Wow, that's extremely impolite.
Yeah...the first one's pretty much burned permanently in my mind forever, I can recognize most of the second ones, but after that I don't really know them.
Verifiers may be slower to repeat, but those with a good track record of authenticity presumably have larger networks willing to take them at their word. It may take longer for Nature to publish something than a random crank journal, but Nature's impact factor is orders of magnitude higher.