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I often wondered why we aren't seeing more hybrid solutions, base systems running on minimal owned hardware with cloud options for peak-load and DR.

I guess part of the problem with that is the cost of maintaining different platforms, but there are ways around that.
"Fan control with a Nest thermostat"
https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9296419?hl=en

Looks like there could be: (1) an every hour for n minutes schedule; (2) an option to run the fan with the thermostat off; (3) an option to shut off the fan when everyone is gone
The many gaming on their iPhone are not the audience that would buy a dedicated gaming console and hundred of $ worth of games.

They would if 1) the Apple exclusives could compete with the Microsoft and Sony ones and 2) games would not be mobile stuff but current generation AAA.

Yeah, not in a million years an Apple gaming console would succeed.
Isn't it potentially the opposite? If an independent, volunteer mapper contributes a poor edit, someone from the community has to reach out to them individually. This is hard since there's no prior relationship, and no expectation that the person will even take any advice on editing.

Contrast that to a major corporate contributor: the people leading these corporate mapping teams are all talking. Both to each other, and to leaders in the community like prominent volunteers, OpenStreetMap Foundation board members, etc. If a corporate contributor makes a bad edit, one of those _existing relationships_ can be used to help put processes in place that might prevent not just that one individual, but any other contributor paid by that company from making the same error again.

IMO at least, that process scales a lot better. And as OSM continues to grow that will be even more valuable than it already is today.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16457294
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Alcohol is a CNS depressant. This doesn't mean it makes you feel 'depressed', but rather that it dulls some sensations, which can include anxiety (it may also cause mood swings that reverse this affect).. so yeah when it wears off, that anxiety or other thoughts/feelings that it helped avoid may come back even stronger.
> You’re not paid based on “worth”.

Supply and demand ultimately determine the wages, assuming the job is filled at all, but what you're "worth" to the employer does serve as an absolute upper limit on what you can expect to be paid. If no one is willing to take the job at that price then no one will be employed and the job will simply go undone.
Python is an interesting case to me because of my major complaints about it is how unportable it is in practice. In theory, sure, a python script should be portable, but in my experience the level of dependency hell involved can be extreme, and it's not uncommon with what I've done to see a developer specify some baroque stack to get something to work. This in fact is one of the reasons I've seen for using things like conda, so that you can create different environments with different versions of different packages for different applications. This just gets worse when you consider the edge cases for things like pypy etc.

I'm not saying this to slam python, as I use it, but it's one thing I find attractive about certain other languages (such as those described as more portable in the linked piece).

There's a certain honesty about the linked piece that in the very least seems reasonable, even if you disagree with it. As you say, it depends on your idea of "portability."
Why is programming or understanding how the device works considered more important than learning another language to speak to other people?
And people wonder why I don't consider economics a science. It's skience at best...
You're coached to be confident through interviewing. Advice like "apply for anything saying up to five years of experience required". Combine that with a lot of grads who aren't experienced in interviewing can lead to that sort of issue. The biggest thing I'd look for is side projects. The people doing side projects were generally the one who were keeping up, and actually had an interest.

I think Lambda was also a lot more selective towards the beginning (when there were like 12 people in a class) vs now where I think the class size is in the lower three figure range?
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Is there more than one attachment? In that case remove "an". If not, remove the trailing "s".
> It's not a replacement, it's a complement

> [Chat apps] can work great in a well structured environment

> Use each as needed

> I also tend to use discord/steam for throw-away conversation with friends

Yes, clearly I'm only advocating for the use of email in its current form for all communication, see me lean so hard above?

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Wechat might as well be the Chinese government, and it requires a Chinese/Hong Kong bank account to use Wechat Pay. If the government won't honor your transaction record, keeping a copy yourself isn't very useful...
It wasn't invented. It was discovered. Even wild animals know alcohol.
If it was as simple as you are stating (A has power over B), salaries would be zero, except with unionised workers, were company profits would be zero.
In practice, external batteries are so cheap these days and easier than ever to charge your laptop from with usb-c, it's less of an issue than it used to be. It certainly holds up with phones and smaller devices, though.

I'd think the best argument for a thicker MBP would be greater cooling potential anyway.
Are we really sure ARM is where the advantage here is with Apple? Not the 5 nm process?

Let's be real, it's just on par with the Zen 3 in single threaded perf which is on a 7nm+ process. When Zen 4 comes it might be moot.

AMD's entire market cap is practically on par with Apple's cash on hand (so very different companies in terms of size/capability) yet they are equal in performance single threaded? Not only that, in practical terms the AMD chip is very desirable in many situations because it has twice the cores.
This is what frustrates me as well. I know two people who were told that their children will have down syndrome with almost complete certainty, and their kids ended up completely fine, at least in this regard. We're on our third child and the screening and push to make a decision is at every appointment. On our first pregnancy, after the first ultrasound the doctor told us there was a "roughly 10%" chance she had down syndrome and asked us what we wanted to do. As if I'm going to kill my kid over a slim chance at disability determined by a grainy picture from a 10+ year old ultrasound machine operated by someone just trying to make it to their lunch break. I can't help but wonder how many parents terminate perfectly healthy children.
LowEndBox, and you can get $15/year VPSs out there.
Actually, Sxmo has MMS patches pending on the mailing list which allow receiving and viewing text, audio, and video content: https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-devel/patches/14017

EDIT: Wifi works perfectly for me as well, including excellent hotspot (via nmcli)
The problem in a lot of modern software-based companies is that the value you create is impossible to calculate. It might be 10x of what your employer thinks or it might even be negative, and I have definitely seen examples for both myself based on my own calculations.

And even in non-software based products and companies industries this might be hard since the output of so many teams gets lumped together and sold as one product. What's the value of the team that creates and markets the MacBook Pro Touch bar? Personally I think it is net negative, and maybe there's even division over that within Apple.
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When trying the Postman Web View I get:

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Fotos is a spelling error, should be "Photos"

"into an email attachments" doesn't agree on number--it should be "into an email attachment" (singular) or "into email attachments" (plural).

It's not 100% clear that by "shrink" you mean "reduce file size" rather than "visually scale the image".

"Batch image resizer which will make photos smaller enough to fit them all into email attachments. In three easy steps."

Don't use the comparative form of the adjective "small".
"Which" is not needed here either.

"Batch Image Shrinker reduces the file size of a group of images in three easy steps:"

That's a start at least. I hope that helps a bit.
That's definitely the way our students see it.

May be hard for many who have secure tech careers to empathize with how difficult it is to break into a new industry and what a leg up this experience gives them.
I was tinkering a bit recently in an effort to build a simple system that finds 'related' podcasts and see if I can see the network effect play out over time. I did this by building a graph of people (hosts/guests) and episodes and started folding in tags/topics. None of this is in my wheelhouse, and I found:

- It takes a lot of work to curate a substantial collection of podcasts. There are lists all over the place but it's hard to know what's really in there.

- I attmpmted to use SpaCy and/or NLTK to do some 'Named Entity Recognition' in order to extract topics/people/orgnaziations from episode titles and descriptions. This was surprisingly brittle. The string 'Sean Carroll', for example, wasn't detected as a person by either framework (IIRC). It also seems quite brittle to punctuation and other context (e.g. beginning or end of a sentence). This was using the default models shipped with both. I started off with just the english models but expanded as there were lots of names being skipped silently. That helped less than I had hoped.

- I have yet to find a good UI for exploring a graph. I used Neo4j and the built in 'browser' is not intended for that purpose. Gephi has good capability for filtering and analytics, but it takes quite a bit of getting used to and the graph itself isn't amenable to dynamic navigation.

That's all. Bookmarking this as it would really help.
I am aware of multiple hacky solutions, such as loop detection and adding timeouts. This fails in most non-trivial creative coding applications due to long running code. I'm interested what it would take to come up with a general escape hatch like any shell user has.
The months before rolling this out, they modified an internal API "reserve-gamertag" and introduced a small chance of a race condition.

This race condition allowed anyone spamming (3k+ req/sec) this one specific public API to eventually (2 minutes) take any unbanned inactive Xbox360 gamertag that hadn't been migrated to the XboxOne platform.

Xbox has no bug bounty program; ironically this means the finder of this exploit made 10x what Microsoft would had given him, even by a generous estimate.
Right but imagine two people pushing their shopping carts through Costco when it’s busy. One drinks a pack or more of beer everyday and the other is a teetotaler. Which is more likely to get infected? I think the former, but I have no clue.
The lie of cloud services is ephemerality and elasticity. We convince ourselves that this hacked together solution is not actually going to run for years, or that we need instant scale 50x our current capacity. For most is that resources turn on and never turn off. This is why so much of the cost reduction conversation revolve around RI purchases.

The real secret is that compute isn't the driving factor in cost - its bandwidth. I've had too many conversations where people are congratulating themselves on their $0.027/GB PPA only to explain that they are paying effectively $8.00/Mbps for a network link. The real threshold is network consumption and when you cross it figuring out a hybrid strategy is the best path.
Good point. How much did they increase payroll and contracting services to do this?
I am also now writing my first book (https://efficientdeveloper.com/) and it is really difficult, especially during Covid times (my original idea of writing this book was writing it on a transatlantic cruise... )

What you realise when writing a book is that every sentence gets rewritten 3 times, even before you start caring about proofreading. With all the research and decision making, publishing etc. it takes much more time than it looks.
George Clooney Gave 14 Friends $1M Each. Would You Have Accepted the Gift
The only Google product I use anymore is GMail, and only for one legacy account.

My experience has been that the GMail interface is slow, and I'm tired of it nagging me to install the GMail app. If I wanted to install the GMail app, I'd use my phone, not my computer.

GMail's spam filtering was best-of-class years ago. That's why so many people switched to it. But now it's mediocre at best. I can only shake my head and wonder how some of the so visibly obvious spam messages get through.

In keeping with the spirit of the OP, I'm not going to recommend a better option. They're out there. And with GMail getting worse by the month, it's worth keeping your eyes on the competition to see when you might want to make the switch, too.

Google Search is also supposed to be terrible. I don't use it, but my wife does and she complains about it all the time.

Recently she was searching for information about drinking white wine with beer. It's supposed to be a thing in New Orleans. She wasn't able to find anything but ads and places selling white wine and/or beer.

Right now, searching Google for "white wine and beer" and "new orleans" I get a blog post about Christmas in Australia, "Beer Drinking African American" stock photo, Pinterest spam about beer buckets, and a bunch more blog spam. Nothing useful. I see no reason to go back to Google for anything.
Is it really because of a unique business model or the obscene markups on bandwidth and storage?
May I suggest changing the title to Blocklist?
I'll second that Gamers' Nexus recommendation. They do insanely rigorous reviewing and take all the ethics of being a trusted review source extremely seriously. Aside from CPUs and GPUs, they're also about the only people I know of who do actual, detailed airflow etc. testing of PC cases.
My take is that there's only a very specific kind of company where on-prem vs cloud is primarily a cost-driven decision.

"Cloud" providers are so much more than just the hardware. There are probably a lot of AWS customers who could absolutely save lots of money if they took all their cloud servers and magically made them physical on-prem servers. But then they might hit a situation like:

"We need to create a whole new prod-sized cluster for load testing but only for a day". Do you rack all those servers, do the test, then take them off and bin them? Or what?

I'm tempted to go on and on with similar examples but imo the biggest deal with cloud providers is that they can operate at such an insane infra scale that it lets you treat extremely large quantities of servers like an abstraction instead of a physical metal box that needs to be bottle-fed and rocked to sleep at night lest it get cranky.

I think at fairly small scales it's easy to build in-house systems that let you treat servers like abstract units as long as you're not trying to 2+x your infra dynamically. But cloud solutions let you do that because your scale <<< the cloud providers' scale even at pretty large values of scale for any one company.
> The iPhone is their product.

The same exact argument could be used regarding the desktop PC.

Do you think that microsoft could prevent competing web browser from being installed on the PC, if it choose to do so?

I think not. They would lose that anti-trust lawsuit.

> Because they created it, they own it, and they get to decide its future.

No, actually they dont get to decide that. If they are breaking anti-trust law, via anti-competitive behavior, then there are certain actions that they cannot do.

> The consumer gets to decide if they like it or not.

The consumers, or other companies, can also sue them for breaking anti-trust law, which Apple is required by law to follow.
> I don't understand why the other comments are being so negative, this is awesome.

This is the contrarian dynamic at work: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

The first posts in a thread are usually negative because negative reactions are the easiest to feel and fastest to write. Also, most internet comments are objections to something, and when the thread is blank, the only thing there to object to is the article.

After that, other comments show up to object to the objections. These tend to get upvoted, and that explains the paradox of why so often the top comment says something like "I don't understand why everyone here is so negative".

The main thing to understand is that this has nothing to do with the topic! It's a generic effect of the forum mechanism and group psychology.
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Before I integrate this into my development workflow, 2 questions:

1) What is your monetization strategy?

2) Will this be supported forever?

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... /s

:) Nice project, useful.

EDIT: this was obviously satirical...
To the contrary, I placed an order for an Intel i7 MBP13 (32GB RAM, 4TB SSD) around the same date as the Apple Silicon presentation took place. I've read every review I can find, seen the benchmarking runs, and -- in light of the fact that my new device won't ship until mid December -- I could still cancel/return my order, buy an M1-powered MBP13, and save some cash.

That is to say, I have skin in the game.

Say what you will about my igneous domicile, but buying a new-to-market processor architecture is not something that I am willing to do just because some guy at The Verge or Tom's Hardware or AnandTech made some bar graphs or felt it necessary to treat hype as fact. I'm not saying they're dishonest or anything, just that the information is thin because the typical user isn't an instance of Geekbench.

My advice to them: Use the device for a couple of weeks, install all of your work software on it, put it through its paces, and then tell me about what you observed. That's the kind of review that would satisfy my curiosity. I do a lot of financial stuff on my machine, and the software (or software-based services) in that world is often proprietary, poorly developed, and/or expensive. Compatibility and performance of those programs are more important to me than battery life while browsing YouTube or render time in Final Cut Pro.
I mean, I'm also for abolishment of police.

Police in basically everywhere of the world was made by the ruling class to keep people in order. This matter is even worse in the US that a LOT of police departments were literally made after the emancipation proclamation (or somewhat before), to capture runaway slaves. This is the history of policing in the US.

I think what it generally comes down to is a LOT of Americans, and a lot of people in the world haven't learned the history of their own country. People probably know more about WW2 than they do about the history of abuse in their own country. I unfortunately was one of these people and until I decided to listen to people and start studying the history of America I understood a lot of the things I stood for were based on essentially lies.

I do think saying "lets abolish police" without the context of "why", or "wait what about the murderers?" is harmful. I think people on the left generally assumes too much of people, and assumes that they've also spent many hours reading and understanding and discussing history.
IT infrastructure costs scale down very badly.

It's not to offset risks, if you have very little load (a site with 10k visits a day, for example), you can share the costs on the cloud and save nearly the entire bill.

Companies with a high revenue/load ratio tend to stay at the cloud even after they get big. That is because even though the cloud is very expensive for their needs, it adds speed on their internal processes by saving the time to decide and buy equipment. But when that ratio is small, they just can't afford it.
Could it be used as a Linux desktop environment? I.e. Alternative to Gnome?

I would love to be able to contribute improvements to the desktop environments I use, but I don’t have the time to learn languages that aren’t applicable to my daily work.
I recently wanted to search shops in a small French city while being in Finland. Unfortunately the name of the city happened to be very close to a rather common Finnish word (not even really identical). Google insisted to show me Finnish hits, I could not find a way by quoting and adding semi-common French search words to make their algorithms what I want. I could just not get up any reasonable French matches.

Just to demonstrate the effect to myself I took a VPN connnection to France and voilà, very useful hits.

That's the geographic dimension of the search bubble. I am sure there are more.

(I never use Google search when I am logged in to Google and I delete my cookies at least daily. So things should be pretty neutral for me. Someone might say, hah, your fault. If you hadn't subverted their profiling you'd get better results. I doubt that, I had not heard about that French city before and I certainly search more Finnish pages than French ones.)
One thing that has always stuck with me after an AWS training session I attended at work is what the trainer said: "The cloud isn't necessarily cheaper, but it's usually better value for money". It's something to always remember.
I was just looking at this tool earlier!
This is not my area, but one thing that this tool can show is that among North American states, there's a noticeable difference in the distribution of clades sampled. The US is having a surge all at the same time, but I wonder if the differences in the virus seen in e.g. CA vs NY or FL is meaningful in terms of health outcomes.
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/north-america?c=GISAID_clade&m=d...
Of course, but 'what are they going to do about it'?

They can get 'local jobs' for 1/3 the pay, or accept earning less than their peers in SF.

I'm not saying it's fair, I'm saying it's what the market is driving towards.

And it will affect 'our' wages as 'we' get outsourced.