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I see the cause as social inequality. If people felt like they were treated fairly, they wouldn't want to risk marching on the streets.

We don't see protests when the internet goes down; we see them with people are killed by the police.
No.

The last time I tried it (maybe 9-12 months ago) it was a real resource hog (including choking the network) and really slow.
I partly agree with those points.

1. There's still a narrative here in Germany that the big bad USA / trump is wrong for demanding we spend money on our military when we literally signed a contract agreeing to do just that. At the same time, we're in a bit of a unique position where our defence is also in the best interest of the USA.

4. Yes, technological reliance on the USA when it comes to the internet is amazing and terrifying at the same time. Mind you, there is no lack of European alternatives, but somehow these big companies injected a brand-oriented culture into the web-development world on a scale I'd usually expect to see in regards to clothing, not software.

I'll risk sounding ellitist, but I do believe this only works because of the recent influx of newcomers to the world of web and their mentality of doing only what gets them employed. This is a way bigger problem that I could write many pages about, but in this context the important detail is that these people often choose to learn products rather than methodologies, buzzwords and brands rather than theory and logical principles.
>> If we can make the world work without wolves, that is the new natural and there is no particular reason to believe there is some sort of cosmic doom awaiting us for our hubris.

Perhaps we can stake a claim to this when the modern civilization building, terra-forming human has existed for million years. Meanwhile natural processes have been at it for billions.
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It helps that the pi zero hasn't been superseded yet, and probably won't be for a long time. (They've surprised me, heck, everybody, before though)
After posting that I went back through my invoices and it does appear that at some-point Chart upgraded me from 100/10 to 200/10 at no extra charge.
Yes and no. To be honest I did the same back-of-the-napkin math that you did prior to buying my MBP - the thing is the TCO is even worse if you customise the machine.

Example - a Mac is a Mac for resale purposes - if I attempt to later sell an XPS that I've opened up and put an SSD in and a couple of SODIMMS - I now need to recoup my cost on all of those things. The problem is that if someone is looking at a used XPS with upgraded SSD and upgraded RAM they're statistically unlikely to fully investigate and value the (probably really good) parts that you upgraded it with - they're just going to see X,Y,Z numbers and price accordingly.

Generally though, a 5 year old Windows laptop with 16GB RAM still commands the value of a 5 year old Windows laptop as best I could tell looking at resale values.
You don’t have any evidence to support the claim that they are lying.
I mean, the general consensus seems to be that this is the juicero of space launch systems...not 'impossible' just not realistic or useful

I have heard them say repeatedly that the physics work. Physics are 'easier' than manufacturing/building something...lab scale/bench scale are exponentially easier than full scale...full scale is exponentially easier than building something consistently. Ask Tesla.

I have yet to hear them talk about how they are manufacturing parts for the full size centrifuge. When I hear them mention forging or the heavy press program or similar I'll take them slightly more seriously. I'm trying to conceptualize what the arm would look like and the force it would have to withstand and honestly can't.

Right now, they have been stuck for years on 'trust us this doesn't violate the laws of physics' which is not comforting when I only ever hear that from cooks.
Thanks for chiming in!

I don't think he's FUDding about systemd. I may have misinterpreted, but I think he is saying that his application (postfix in the example he gave) requires systemd as a dependency (for logging in this example). I don't think he is saying that podman, et al require systemd.

I would respectfully offer as well that from your perspective there's no fragmentation (and I think you make a great point about that), but from the perspective of a typical developer or sys-admin, there is absolutely fragmentation. A lot of devs/sysadmins don't only work with Red Hat, they have other linuxes to deal with as well. To them, it used to be that `docker` and everything about it was the standard. Whether you wanted to develop on Fedora or Ubuntu, it didn't matter, you just used `docker`. When you went to prod, it was just docker. Everyone on the internet writing blog posts and tutorials were using `docker`. There really wasn't anything else that was popular (although I was personally rooting for rkt and systemd-nspawn but those didn't really take off ;-)

Nowadays, there is "fragmentation" because depending on you production platform, your OS of choice, architect whims, or whatever, at any given time you may be dealing with docker, or podman, or CRI-O etc.

That said, my personal perspective is closer to yours. I agree with your arguments, and I'm a big fan of Podman et al and I don't see it as fragmentation. When I put on the perspective of an average dev/sysadmin (which I work closely with every day), some of the terms (like "fragmentation" change meaning a bit).
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You actually can, if you can afford the paperwork and storage requirements.

It's quite involved and expensive ($200 tax per round on anti-tank rounds just to start with), but it's not impossible. Just prohibitive in cost.
would be interested in seeing whatever you release
ill be on the look out for a link if you're still keen
Seems like the worst possible idea. HTML and CSS are much more robust compared to Javascript, which is finicky at best.
A rail gun would work from the moon, where there's no atmosphere. On earth, the projectile would attain its highest velocity (right as it leaves the rail gun) in the thickest part of the atmosphere (at ground level).

And just for a sense of scale, escape velocity from earth's surface--assuming no atmosphere at all--is 25,000 miles per hour. The projectile is going to tear itself apart in atmosphere at those speeds.
That's not necessarily true, because for many people there are issues more important to them than where a candidate stands on issues related to wage earning.

For example, there are many people who in a race where one candidate favors restricting or ending abortion and the other favors reducing restrictions on abortion will choose whichever of the two agrees with their position on abortion, regardless of where the two candidates stand on anything else such as economic issues or foreign policy issues.
Yea seems like the final blame should go to the Board of directors
I really enjoyed this discussion and will follow your blog. Thanks.
We've run full circle there

ARC is not specific to M1, BUT have been widely used in ObjC & Swift for years AND is thus heavily optimized on M1 that perform "retain and release" way faster (even when emulating x86)

Perfect illustration of Apple software+hardware long term strategy.
Great description. Two things I'd add to that: NeXT's Smalltalk heritage, with what I think of as real object orientation, was great for UI programming. Objects on screen were actually objects that you could message. And Display Postscript made it much easier to get visually solid results.

I can't remember where I read this, but the basic notion was that the Mac was easy to use but hard to program, limiting its adoption. Jobs learned a lesson in that he wanted his NeXT machine to be easy to use and easy to program.

As you say, it might all seem a bit tatty now. The web has raised the game of interface creation quite a bit. But this was in the late 1980s, where a lot of what they did was revolutionary.
The five dollar latte crowd is willing to pay and consume. Walk into any café and good luck finding non-Apple machines. (Occasionally there will be a Surface or two, especially if you live in Seattle).
Im saying I really started noticing the divide between the computer literate and the computer illiterate - that its actually becoming an issue in exactly the same ways general illiteracy became an issue as reading and writing became widespread.

With likely similar implications.

Which makes me sad.
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the USA; They don't care" --Nelson Mandela https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11700110
I feel that their greatest triumph is getting everyone to refer to them by that cutesy nickname “GOP” no matter how they are behaving.
You clearly need to familiarize yourself with the actual facts of this case. Also, I'm pretty sure that for 99% of users, "full performance" is not characterized by "randomly crashing due to lack of intelligent power management".
Hi, OP here :) I've come to the same conclusion about programming language creation. However, for a very large organization, it makes sense to have a team in charge of language tooling (see Dropbox/Python, Facebook/Hack/Flow, Apple/Swift). Which is why I'm trying to convince the French state that they should have such a team of permanent people.
Let's say you're one out of 10,000 users in a large network sharing a single public IP address.

Anyone trying to identify you just needs to narrow that down from 10,000 to one. This can be done many different ways by combining data sources. You could automate it with algorithms and maybe some machine learning, but it'd also be pretty trivial for a dedicated human to do it.

Browser fingerprint, mac address, software versions, browsing behavior (https doesn't hide URLs), access times, and application hashes will all help narrow down that search.

Maybe your university requires you to install some special software (like one of those locked down browsers for exams), and the attacker knows an approximate range of time when you installed it based on your exam schedule. They could narrow their search by intercepting OCSP requests and filtering for application hashes that match the specific version of the software you most likely downloaded, based on the time you most likely downloaded it.
I got tired of such reviews filled with so much bullshit..

These people forget about Pro users and still sees a laptop as an iPad with keyboard.

Pro users need the machine to -heavy- work, and rely on compatibility (software and hardware). Also, I work 90% of the time on my desk with the power adapter connected. So battery is far below in my priority list.

So far, MKHB was the only decent review I found. I suggest serious users to watch it.
Apple also makes apps themselves, and, just like AmazonBasics, has a tendency to clone popular apps (such a tendency that it has a name: to be "sherlocked").

To ignore the fact that Apple receives global platform app popularity data, which provides them a competitive advantage over every other app developer, is somewhat foolish.

Gatekeeper has security benefits, yeah. But this data, just like 3P sales stats to Amazon, has commercial value, even anonymized/aggregated, that permits them benefits over everyone else they are competing with in the app market.

Let's not conflate things that are good for users with things that are good for Apple, and be careful when assigning decisions exclusively to one bucket or the other.

I spoke yesterday on the societal dangers of giving Apple such a pass on privacy violations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-7FpHvv-8
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I agree the UK is not the US and we have different issues in the UK that we are dealing with.

Living and working near London I always assumed the increased ethnic diversity and global outlook in the capital led to less racism.
I assumed it was the rural homogenous countryside that had more endemic racism.
I guess we all misunderstand each other all the time.
I think what we see here is the result of social media A/B testing on how to get votes, and this playbook is now followed by the rest of the world.

In a democratic society, you have to influence the public opinion to stay/get in power. Propaganda is free, information costs money.

If the majority of voters are not willing to pay for quality journalism, you have to get them engaged by fueling outrage and projecting fear. It doesn't matter what side, as long as there are sides you can join and identify with.

Combined with the fact that American politics do have an effect on the quality of life in other parts of the world (trade wars and refugee crisis for example) and the working (aka non-capital) class suffers in most western societies, it is very easy to project similar fears and foster divisiveness.
Nearly all gun control measures in the US are rooted in racism. Some in Jim Crow, some in other eras -- but most of them were to ensure that the "wrong people"* couldn't protect themselves.
Couldn't disagree more strongly.

The web worked because of its unique network architecture (REST/HATEOAS) which handles a chaotic, loosely coupled and dynamically evolving network topology extremely well.

The web suffered from the fact that HTML was a limited hypertext, which hurt usability and encouraged javascript-based work arounds. So we should fix that, rather than tossing the idea of a hypertext architecture. (That's exactly what I tried to do with https://htmx.org, which just went 1.0 btw)

There are tons of hacks and problems with layout and all the rest, but that has nothing to do with using javascript over the original hypertext model for the web. That's just how real world systems end up when they are the most successful network architecture ever devised.
The reason is because the techniques noted have transcended 'propaganda' and just become 'argumentation'.

c.f.: socialism as a blanket assertion of something being bad without evidence.

edit because I forgot this story...not long ago I ended up in an online argument with someone that I really shouldn't have been about what communism is and isn't (yeah...). Their literal claim was that 'communism is a form of socialism' and they claimed that was evidence that communism is bad, because socialism is inherently bad.
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.

I think the biggest thing I'm worried about from my end is I just work with so much C and C++ I can't attempt to do programming that takes away from being productive. I don't have the hours for it. I don't recall the Rusts docs yelling out to me, "Don't forget! C FFI bindings can be generated!" But at least Steve was able to point out some libs to me that would help with my work.

I'm OK with a small productivity hit because learning something new will always entail that, but the long term benefits need to be there. I'm almost always more worried about shipping than I am about anything technical.

That being said I think I can see some benefits over the horizon. In C and C++ land, there are a lot of people who don't use std or boost for one reason or another, and I've worked in circles where I had exposure to that type of programming. Honestly, just the fact that I might be able to rely on Rust's libraries OOTB could be a productivity gain right there.

I have the "Hello, World!" rust app on my workstation, so I've given it a small try. I'd be curious to see how other powerful concepts like threading work in Rust, but that's reading I've got to do.

It's difficult trying to sort out threading concerns from Lua, another language I use frequently, since the most common distributions aren't thread-safe without some work. I'd be interested in seeing what a Rust + Lua software integration could look like, since that might be a successor to the C work I do now.
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5743

Appears to be a junior/intermediate dev with somewhat ambitious and rather ideological views.

That doesn't mean he's wrong but bear in mind the context of the enthusiasm and desire to change everything through JavaScript.
Could you clear something up for me, do you mean DSLs generally, or DSLs for tax codes specifically? TIA
> It was enough time to break even, but not enough profit to live on.

AFAIK this describes most small-scale farmers. They're only doing it because of inertia (eg. they inherited the farm and they don't want to sell it), not because it's actually profitable.
We had an AWS outage, I wonder if it's that.
Seems like an apt description to me. If you're referring to killing chickens for consumption, eggs have no bearing, it has its own demand.
It's easy to be against something. It's hard to be for something.
Seems like it might be a good idea for them to include some text like that on the site itself.
Maybe the idea is the government shouldn't be in the business of saying what they future should look like?

The government keeps the roads fixed and the playing field level and the country safe. People, as individuals say what the future looks like.
"The top 1% in US pay more taxes in taxes than the bottom 90%"

And yet the percentage is lower. It really doesn't matter the comparative amounts; to put this to an even more egregious extreme, if the top 1% had 99% of the wealth, and paid 20% of that in taxes, and the bottom 99% had the remaining 1% of the wealth, and paid 0 taxes, it's not a sign that all is well, and the fact that the rich are paying -all- the taxes does not somehow make it okay.

And, no, pretty much every business benefits. The whole "keeping up with the joneses" mindset that keeps the wheels of consumerism turning is predicated on class distinctions. Our economy is dependent on consumer spending, and the obscenely rich become rich, and remain so, because of that level of spending by the middle and lower classes (meanwhile they have so much wealth they can't find ways to spend it without literally giving it away)
Yeah, splicing gets weird but the biggest estimate I've ever heard is 100k, and again, that's an estimate, not something we have determined empirically.

However, I don't believe it impacts the coding space problem to the same degree. For starters, isoforms tend to have the same fold and similar, but modulated function, and plenty of life exists without them. They aren't randomly sampled the way that is suggested in the OP. Again, truly orthogonal genes number in the hundreds in all the known genome of all known life.

If you start to add PTMs to the mix, then the truth is that we have no idea. A single protein will produce dozens of visible PTMs, probably thousands of invisible ones since even our most sensitive methods detect only population averages. On that vein, any individual protein also has a number of defects from translation, allosteric modification, etc. Proteins are obviously dynamic molecules, but those dynamics are of limited genetic tractability and are significantly different from environment to environment.

I think I'm still going to stick to my initial argument which is that amino acid combinations are substantially more constrained than is being suggested.
“Permaculture” is opposite of low effort. No tilling is not going to save me much effort, given that I can till 200 acres a day with a tractor. Sculpting the landscape of the same 200 acres will take incomparably more effort.

Permaculture is well suited for home gardens, where you want to maximize land use and fun involved. It is not going to feed the population.
Having massive farms does not guarantee a lack of competition though. Lack of competition requires a very, very small handful of corporations to own most of the farmland producing a particular crop.

Additionally, large farms seemingly are more well suited for polyculture (i.e. small farms are more predisposed to do monoculture farming given their smaller scale).
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I agree with you. That was my whole purpose of replying to the person that said they are tired of “red/blue” shit. The political situation is not just colors, it has real life consequences on the allocation of society’s resources. If I want my daughter to be able to take maternity leave to properly breastfeed her children, it would behoove me to support a specific party. And the other party wants to spend resources on other things.
Have you ever been to the USA? Only a tiny, tiny percent of percent of people are served by public transit. I'm also skeptical that the average apartment building is more energy efficient than suburban housing, since the incentive of the owner (who doesn't want to pay for energy-efficient upgrades and repairs) are not aligned with the renter (who pays the monthly utilities bill).

Does a rural/suburban driver spending 30 minutes driving on a highway produce more pollution than an urban driver spending 30 minutes in congested variable speed streets?
But why? Why go to these ridiculous lengths to try to extract information from an unreliable source?

Apple already has the device identifier and Apple ID. These are reliable. They do not need combining different data sources and algorithm and machine learning. They are the accurate data already. If they wanted it, they could just send it.

They don't. Why not? If they wanted this information, why on god's green earth would they not just send it?
The inequality discussed by the article is a reduction to a popular political line. These popularized, almost mythical, portrayals of agriculture are uselessly far from reality. If you want to summarize a tremendously complex industry, it's more useful to compare in terms of the crop being produced and the region's level of economic development.

For example, in the US, mechanized row crop farming over large numbers of acres is the norm (growing corn, beans, wheat, etc). These farms are all small head count family-run operations, sized between a few hundred to a few thousand acres, with a total somewhere in the low hundred-thousands of them.

The worldwide number of farms then runs up into the hundreds of millions due to small landholders - subsistence agriculture, locally sold produce, etc.

A farmer growing corn in a remote Central American village is completely different from the farmer growing corn in the United States. A produce farmer at your local farmer's market is completely different from a wheat farmer on the Black Sea. There's a living to be made at many points on the spectrum, and humanity needs each of them.

Real problems certainly do exist. They have more to do with things like the market pressures of producing commodity products, baseline calorie and nutritional demands, distribution, and structural supply and demand inefficiencies.
> The same people who almost universally use a Mac?

This has become steadily less true since about 2012, in my experience. I don’t know any full time developers still using an Apple laptop. The keyboard situation caused a lot of attrition. I finally stopped support for all Apple hardware at my company months ago, simply to get it out my headspace. Will Fusion360 again be completely broken by an Apple OS update? Am I going to have to invest time making our Qt and PyQt applications work, yet again, after an Apple update? Are Apple filesystem snapshots yet again going to prove totally defective? The answer is “no”, because we really need to focus on filling customer orders, do we’re done with Apple. ZFS snapshots function correctly. HP laptop keyboards work ok. Arch Linux and Windows 10 (with shutup10 and mass updates a few times per year) get the job done without getting in my face every god damned day.
Had Service Unavailable for about 10 mins on Cloudwatch events. Just corrected itself for me at least. us-east-1
True! Though, you're opening up a nightmare for your Customer Success/Support teams. What happens when someone can no longer attend their event? Option 1: Give ticket to a friend, Option 2: Refund the ticket.

If you're looking at Option #2, then you'll need to provide a secondary marketplace for selling off all the last minute tickets that get dumped back into the marketplace.

Source: Past work at a ticketing company
Did you even read the article? I feel like you just repeated like 90% of what it said.