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Do you think DocuSign is overpriced as a product and stock?
DocuSign is a great product, no doubt. It solves an important problem - signing documents, paperless. But, don't you think it is overpriced? Docu prices also skyrocketed after the lockdown. There are so many options in the market like Adobe Sign, HelloSign, Zoho Sign, PandaDoc, SignEasy, etc. Any thoughts? Which app do you use and recommend?
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I believe you are looking for Sapper, which is the Next/Nuxt equivalent for Svelte. https://sapper.svelte.dev
It is nice to see Milton Keynes as number in anything. Very forward thinking
Digging should not be required in most cases. It would require replacing gear in most of the telco central offices. That probably sounds simple, but it is not. Much of this gear is ancient, most of the people that intimately understand it are no longer with us and most of the companies that made it no longer exist. The new equipment would have to be backwards compatible and run side-by-side with the old equipment for a couple decades. Many of the CO's are at physical capacity. Even if the new gear is a fraction of the size of old gear, there will be logistical issues in many places. That alone is a significant undertaking. The coordination required between telcos within countries and between countries would be significant.
...because Airbus' 100% subsidy from the French government did not cause parallel organization and incentive issues which bled into engineering and was responsible for similar preventable accidents in the company's history???
Real men invent the laws of physics from scratch.
The disagreement is because most M1 reviews/comments were a bit of fan fiction - ranging from custom instructions for JavaScript, to "order of magnitude" perf per watt gains. Just as it doesn't make sense comparing the performance of the fanless M1 with a desktop CPU, it doesn't make sense comparing the perf-per-watt either; they are just optimized for different parameters. From what I've seen with the more objective benchmarks (not just geekbench), the Ryzens don't seem to be doing worse if you account for 7nm vs 5nm.
In the style of the famous Carl Sagan's apple pie recipe. "First you create an universe ..
I'd also shout as widely as possible why their product is better to limit the traction AWS's offering gets.
(Disclaimer: blog author and Timescale employee)

There are two main points here.

1. To complete this benchmark workload, it took less than an hour in two different environments (Digital Ocean self-managed & Timescale Forge fully managed) to ingest 1 billion metrics and run all 30K queries. It took us a week of work (testing, modifying code to try and make Timestream better) to get 40% of the metrics into Timestream and then query it. 1 hour vs 7 days.

2. If you look at the bill/costs, the main driver was querying. We (attempted) to run the same 30K queries on less than half the data (410 million metrics) in Timestream and somehow scanned 21TB of data. I have no idea why and there's nothing we could do to change it.

As a developer, that's going to be your biggest unknown. If you're ingesting millions or billions of metrics a day and querying it with a real application, you could really get hit with crazy query costs.

With a more traditional server architecture, at least you know your day-to-day costs and can set a known capacity to achieve the performance you need (or scale in understandable ways when you need it)
I always read that, during litigation, one is not supposed to disclose anything to the public. Everything should remain private and within the court, as channeled through lawyers.

Can anyone comment why this is? Is it because you may potentially say the wrong, and therefore self-harming or self-incriminating thing? Does it simply hurt your case, from the judge's perspective (i.e. they prefer to keep things private)? Is there some cost-benefit analysis going on, and generally it is thought that there is zero benefit to public disclosure while the case is ongoing? Might it bias potential jurors, and that is problematic?
I know the first thing that shocked me was how they could get so close to something that was purpose built for time series. Even being within spitting distance is really great in my opinion for an off the shelf, general tool.

> However none of the databases tested above is anywhere close to the efficiency of a column store database that can do vectorized execution over batches of rows. ClickHouse is a good example of one such database. For queries that have to shift through large amounts of data, either filtering or aggregating it, the performance difference is easily >10x. I was seeing aggregation performance above 2B rows/s and that was I/O throughput bound.

Agreed -- OLTP (in the case of Timescale) and purpose built timeseries-focused (but not necessarily analytics focused) DBs hold nothing to a proper OLAP database.

Did you write about this anywhere? would love to read it. I've never had a real need for the kind of stuff that Clickhouse does, but it looks to be the best in class for F/OSS OLAP DBs. Have you ever tried Druid?
I feel like the M1 hype is getting out of hand. Apple bought up TSMC’s entire 5nm manufacturing capacity so of course it’s going to pack more transistors and use less power than AMD’s 7nm TSMC process or Intel’s 10nm process (which is effectively similar to 7nm TSMC).

The M1 is a great and well-refined design but when compared to AMD’s similarly priced 4750U in multi core benchmarks, the performance per watt is better but not by much more than the improved process would suggest. And that’s without the IPC improvements that mobile Zen 3 will bring.

And when compared to last gen 14nm Intel MacBooks, a 5nm TSMC part is going to blow the doors off just by virtue of feature size alone.
Not even 24h and they already reached $1,000,000
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Are you seriously suggesting that there's no improvement to be had in the typical ui without rewriting in assembly?
No more related to Android than any other Chrome supported OS.

The post linked in the article, https://g.co/chrome/root-policy makes it clear: the goal is to provide a consistent, cross-platform experience to the Web.

Users, and developers, hate “it doesn’t work on my machine” bugs, which are incredibly common. Sites that work on Chrome on macOS 10, but not macOS 11, or work on Chrome on Windows 10 but not Chrome on Windows 7. Giving developers and site operators predictable guidance, so that it “works in Chrome, works in Firefox” is good, no different than what Web Platform features you can use as https://caniuse.com

Yes, Android is important, but it’s a bit like saying the forest exists because of this specific tree here, when in fact it’s made up of hundreds of trees, of all sorts of types.
I do a similar thing with leaves. There’s a place where I blow all my leaves in the fall and it’s become a long term composting pit.
He’s not saying permanently disable Adblock, but rather disable it to see if it’s responsible for the memory leak in question.
Until people forget about it again.

And it would be retribution and speaks against you for litigations and future employers.
How is this better than just shoving it in a compost bin?
Sure. When you look up in a rural region you see stars. When you look up in an urban region within, say, the same geographic hemisphere, you're very likely to see the same stars.
Its trying to push whatever service should make more money, be the next big thing, at a rate of frustration that is optimal to minimize user quitting..
This comment is pretty dishonest after reading the article. The most striking part of the benchmarks was the absurdly abysmal insert rate for timestream. Honestly after seeing that, I think the team at AWS that built it should be reassigned and contractors or an A team brought in to try and salvage it. Because they've built themselves a very expensive lemon and they're trying to sell it to the world as a Cadillac.
(Journalist behind article.) Thank you! I can say that it is not easy to use subject access requests to get information. Without the help of Michael Veale’s template and a lot of grit, I don’t think I would have made it.

Transparency is just a first step, but it is a powerful tool.
How many processes you got going on your phone? I don't even know what a "heavy" mobile workload is.

I'd much prefer more RAM so the os can keep the apps I'm running paged in for longer.
Much like Amazon themselves with breaking away from using Oracle.
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I agree. Competition is awesome for consumers. I don't care much about macs either (although I'm really interested about Mac Pro Mini rumours), but I know that Intel and AMD will invest lots of money into research right now as not to become obsolete.
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when we move to renewables, the production of oil will go down, and plastics as a byproduct will decrease in supply increasing its price, so I'm predicting point 1 to happen in time.
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I have an old XP laptop in my office, which I keep around because it still has a serial port. Every couple of months I have to use it and I'm always a bit unsettled at first by how responsive everything is because modern software has made me so use to everything feeling like molasses.
> The implications for drug discovery are enormous.

As every disease has a mechanism via a protein channel, and all cells are made of proteins, doesn't this open the possibility of curing nearly any disease for which we understand it's mechanism and for which we can conceive of a protein shape to block or rebuild the tissue damages caused by such a disease? Delivery will still be an issue, but I don't see how this couldn't be used to prevent metastasis in tumors by custom created blocking proteins, for example.
Not gonna lie, I wanted to do something like this, but then remembered how bad at math and physics I was.

On a random note, I find it disappointed the tiny of amount of physics material on MOOC sites and such.
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It’s strange, I haven’t experienced the memory leaks but now you’ve got me curious.
I would respectfully disagree. The reason for MCAS existing in the first place is, without it, the flight characteristics of the plane are quite a departure from the standard 737 and can be rather unstable. And the only reason Boeing did that was to circumvent some regulatory restrictions around airframe certification and pilot training. So, you're right in the sense that the MCAS was poorly implemented, but it was only required in the first place because of the abnormally sized engine. Well, not so much the size but the increased size with the same airframe caused it to be moved to a different part of the aircraft.
Don't get your hopes up. My prediction is, that yes, there will be a slew of new ARM laptop's. And even though the technically run ARM chips, it will only be a marketing selling point for new. They might even cram Snapdragon's or other mobile device CPU's in there, just to be able to put a ARM sticker on a plastic frame with an folding LCD panel and keyboard. They will sell it as beter than Intel, because that is what people who can afford an Apple will tell them is so great about their new laptop. In the long run, due to this, the Windows ecosystem might adapt to embrace ARM as a whole and then we will start to see competetive ARM PC's. But it will take a while.
Actually, I don't have that device in my normal shell, mksh, but the command works in bash? Is bash putting things in /dev? That seems rather... bad, to be honest.
I like this way too
But crucially, nowhere near as fast as iPhones: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-12-benchmarks-this-des...
I have personally worked somewhere where the person who did the same work as me was paid 3x as me. I was new to the workforce and he was best friends with the CFO for 15 years. Despite my newness and her experience it was the same work.
As a fellow newsletter maintainer (https://weeklyrobotics.com/) I can only imagine how much efforts it takes to put something out 4 times a week.

Is your workflow automated in any way? I would appreciate any tips you might have!
My impression is that this is just an extreme version of a problem that is very common. Most students are going at the wrong speed in one or more areas because of the supposed need to sync everyone up completely. Starting with literacy. If they don't have the reading level for subject matter then they are not going to be able to learn those things and that needs to be trained up first. And if they have better core skills then they may be held back if the material doesn't keep up.

Personally I think this is a failure to apply technology to education.

If there was a proper individualized track in the school then you wouldn't have a situation like this where kids were going to college. They could be kids around other kids and still have their own learning path.
As far as I can tell, the issue is present without any extensions. I'm not willing to browse unprotected for several hours to 100% confirm, but it still grows with every tab.
> First moves will be to revitalize Soviet economy, end the arms race, and get Mrs. G a charge account at Neiman Marcus
Babies cry, a LOT. I'd say that's pretty mad and upset
Yeah I'd be down to add comments for issues on the site. Ideally I'd like for people to be able to add them without accounts, but I can also see how that might cause problems. I'll ask in the next issue if that's a feature people would like.
Yeah, it's confusing terminology, because "buying in bulk" usually means buying large quantities, but the "bulk bins" of e.g. nuts at the grocery store really means "buy as much as you want."

But when the tomatoes are loose, we don't call that bulk.

Anyway, we can just say "without packaging."
> Or force Intel and AMD to pull a rabit out of their hat to match the performance/watt of ARM chips

I believe I read an article the other day that explained why the M1 was so fast and efficient and basically the design it came up with is impossible to do on Intel, for many reasons including the fact that Intel instructions are variable-length (which means they need to be completely parsed every time to find the end of the instruction) while M1 instructions are fixed-length (which means you don't need to parse it) due to the RISC design (finally a winner).

Methinks we are witnessing the death of the traditional Intel chip API as the bad design decisions made along the way come to a head.

Should make things interesting as now both Apple and Linux have a head start on ARM support.
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No, notifications have changed a lot in the recent years. And you can get unified clipboard by installing app for your OS (windows or linux) through playstore. You should try a new pixel device to see the improvement.

Some apps are better on iOS but it's not a big difference because some apps are better on android as well. People care about different apps in the end.
> The longest battery isn't on an iphone, the best camera isn't on an iphone, the latest screen tech isn't on an iphone, etc. etc.

It is not on any single Android model either. Fragmentation is a thing.
I have experienced many crashes of these on Wintel. What a surprise that they crash on M1 Macs!
Be aware Sapper will never reach 1.0, and instead will be replaced by just using Svelte (with SvelteKit). https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-the-deal-with-sveltekit
If you take one thing away from this it's do not use AWS timestream, and if you are using it, get rid of it quick. It's unfit for purpose.

That first graph tells you everything you need to know. Time to insert a billion events:

TimescaleDB: 5 min

AWS Timestream: ~2 weeks!

I think the team at AWS that built it should be reassigned and contractors or an A team brought in to try and salvage it. Because they've built themselves a very expensive lemon and they're trying to sell it to the world as a Cadillac. The fact that they did not detect this themselves before or since releasing it upon the world demonstrates to me that they're incompetent and have to be replaced.
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That is not the mantra at our company. We want serverless and managed services whenever possible because getting resources to setup and maintain anything is next to impossible. We are now trying to use some competing products to AWS products that are full SaaS, so theoretically great, but because it isn't tacked on to our AWS bill it is very hard to get it approved and we are waiting around for weeks turning into months.
When did calling cops 'pigs' become a thing?
Curious about the engineering of the 737 Max compared to NG,

Where can I find info about the differences and improvements in terms of aerodynamics, structures, materials and systems?

For example,

Does the Max have a composite wing box?

What percentage of the Max is composite, compared to the NG?

Do the wings use the same airfoil section?

Have they been re-lofted, re-twisted?

Are there any changes to the high life devices?

Have there been any changes to the materials, gauge, design for the fuselage?
Is there a timing infographic? Or luck chart, for that matter?
> He consented to the collection and Apple would have exactly the same issues.

Would it? In iOS you can selectively forbid applications from using locations services.
Thanks. One of these centuries, maybe my obsessive perfectionism will give way and I’ll actually publish something. :-)
We don't need batteries we just need a massive change in lifestyle including self-managed power cuts and making our houses freezing cold so they're tolerable at night when we can't run the AC. Sounds... not ideal
do you think this is clearer in any way than "circle 5" ?

for one, it looks harder to type just with a keyboard
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I'm curious how the poem with proper pronunciation sounds like.
I'm solving advent of code puzzles in Julia (first) and Common Lisp (second). So far I like it quite a lot and I'm surprised that even my naive CL code is comparable with Julia when it comes to efficiency (0.004s Julia vs. 0.009 CL for day 2).
I would disagree - Alice[1], Scratch[2], and Snap![3] are all attempts to be beginner friendly; that is the entire area of block based programming. There are also attempts via Python with websites like CodeCombat[4].

However, I would say the issue is there is no "transition" to "real" programming languages. No one builds a Red-Black tree in block based programming and there is still an unrecognized issue about how "end-game" programming should be. Is it through layers of abstraction like corporate Java or is it completely linear with the current adoption trends of Jupyter and Data Science?

In my opinion, where the issue stands currently is that older languages like BASIC made the visual creation aspect of coding super easy. You could write 250 lines of code and you have a rudimentary space invaders game. Today, this requires external libraries, creating objects, etc. It used to simply be "HPLOT" to make graphics, now you have to introduce shaders.

[1] https://www.alice.org/resources/lessons/programming-in-alice...

[2] https://scratch.mit.edu/

[3] https://snap.berkeley.edu/

[4] https://codecombat.com/
I would guess packaging transparency is very important from the marketing PoV in retail?
IDK how it actually went down at Apple HQ but I can imagine. They are so, so keen on sleek, quiet machines that it tops all other concerns. When the hardware engineers said "more performance is going to require a fan or two" the leadership said "nah, let's design and fab our own CPUs".
Most of industry can use renewables just fine.

Chemical ones need carbon that, if energy is plentyful can be captured from the atmosphere.

The agriculture number is mostly methane. Methane is different from CO2 in that it's short lived, so it doesn't keep adding up after a certain amount. Just adding it to the CO2 emmissions us very misleading.

We do need research, but renewables are a key part for solving those problems too.
I have a feeling that a judge would want to find them invalid, but what happens if he/she rules that they are non-binding? The chaos it would cause for US B2C businesses would be large. This alone may sway the courts to make them binding.
Oh? Then can you explain why the same phenomenon happens in FOSS software?
You're 100% right on notifications -- despite having borrowed a bunch of ideas from Android on how to handle notifications, iOS still doesn't get it completely right.

There was a point in time that I was pretty deep into the Android scene, but at this point in my life I just want my phone to work consistently and have great battery life.

After many years of using Android devices (including many Nexus / Pixel devices), I switched to an iPhone 11 Pro Max last year. I've been very happy with that switch, my phone always makes it through a day of use and I haven't ran into any of the quirks that I encountered on my Android devices on a regular basis.

I completely understand why you would prefer Android, but there are definitely people (including myself) that are happier with iPhones.
Now? Until the 1920s or 1930s, there was very little regulation of drugs. I am old enough to remember when paregoric could be bought in drug stores without a prescription. (For use in stopping or slowing diarrhea.)
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It sounds like $7.99 + $900 lifetime subscription to have a snitch in your house.
With 600 million people it was likely filling in naturally as people shuffle about.
Sounds like proper sewage processing and landfills would be better and faster solutions to A and B.

Then we can also talk about Asia being the primary source of the trash in oceans...
I feel like you might be unclear on the definition of luck.
> Plastic-eating mushrooms will always lose to ordinary dung-eating ones.

Lose what? They're not competing for the same food.
JS front-end frameworks are born from ad hoc application architecture or from difficulty applying an existing framework to an application. The progenitor applications had different feature and development requirements, which is reflected in the varying frameworks.

While it may seem a plethora of frameworks exist, a few have most of the market share. That is not too far from the situation with other programming languages and framework types.

There are also old frameworks that have essentially been obsoleted but continue to stick around due to project inertia, the needs of legacy code, or marketing needs of the maintaining organizations.