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I approve of this stack. No version control because we would just do this in one shot and the never add any features. The time saved will be spent with friends at the tea shop. An occasional bug fix for a customer that ordered over 32768 rupees of tea for a wedding party.
As on example, to find longitude and latitude on a sphere from stereographic projection (given as Cartesian coordinates) you need both:

[ x, y ] ↦ [ atan2(y, x), π/2 − 2 atan(√(x² + y²)) ]

But atan per se comes up all over the place if you start doing much work with angle measures.
The article explains pretty well why these named functions (or at least some of them) were once useful and thus had common names.
This needs more context
Yup - Australia also.

Wage stagnation for the last 15 or so years.

Meanwhile things get more expensive and we are in a recession.
Anyone can explain the meaning behind this:

> When the Onion imitates real life, it's usually tragic.

linking to an article titled "Man Puts Glass Of Water On Bedside Table In Case He Needs To Make Huge Mess In Middle Of Night"?

Is the word "tragic" in the OP article here used jokingly, or is it a reference to an actually tragic event I don't know about?
Jeez, you’d think you were on Reddit with all these comments.

Like it or not, Tailwind (and things that help people use Tailwind) serves a very valid niche. Unwrapping years of legacy CSS, intertwined with CSS injection in jQuery, is no simple feat. Adding Tailwind to that project and only writing Tailwind has helped immensely.

The downside is that there are times when you have a really long list of classes on a given tag, which can be difficult to read and parse. I’m not sure if this tool is right for me or my team, but that’s one use case I could see for using it.

Are we really complaining about emojis in READMEs nowadays? Good grief.
Well clearly there's something you can do to justify it because fb justifies it.

This is business after all. Your value is a combination of what you bring to the company and how hard you are to replace. FB makes $$$, the $$$ didn't just appear out of thin air, it happened because of the people who work there. Giving engineers a share of all that money seems much more reasonable than giving zuckerberg a second private jet.
This isn't really a big concern. Bacteria and mushrooms can eat anything: rock, metal, radioactive waste, basically anything at all. But metabolizing those things isn't very efficient. Plastic-eating mushrooms will always lose to ordinary dung-eating ones.
Batteries are only the most expensive of a wide array of storage choices that today vie for which will end up cheapest, overall. Pumped hydro is mature, but underground and underwater compressed air are being proven; mine-shaft gravitic similarly; low-pressure LH2 is newly practical with aerogel insulation; carbon-captured LCH4, likewise; catalytic ammonia; and even powdered iron. None of these require any theoretical breakthroughs, just workaday engineering. In some cases combining them makes sense, such as mineshaft gravitics and compressed air in the same mineshaft. In other cases the storage medium is itself directly useful, as for example LH2 as aircraft fuel, and ammonia as both fertilizer and fuel.

Some depend on geography, particularly pumped hydro and mineshaft gravitic, and to a lesser degree compressed air. Catalytic improvements will bring rapid cost decline in LH2 and ammonia production. And, finally, battery technology, still the most immediately practical for home systems, is still improving fast. Any breakthroughs not anticipated only improve the picture.

The cost for utility-scale solar is many times less than roof-mounted, battery-backed home systems, but in places where distribution is expensive (rural) or unreliable (3rd world and California) it has strong appeal.
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> My machine is a 9900K + 32GB RAM which is definitely fast but it's not absurd.

The 9900k appears to have similar compute throughput to a Top 500 supercomputer from 2004, a time when my Northwood P4 with 512MB RAM, and Radeon 8500 were quite comfortable running Firefox at 1600x1200 @ 85hz.

A 9900K + 32G quite frankly represents an embarrassment of computing riches and the marginal improvements in end-user experience since then (mostly in the form of additional screen real estate) betray just how little we've done with that compute that truly benefits the user.
> Plotting tail response times, flame charts, allocation pressure, DOM changesets, database execution plans?

Is anybody even teaching people these things? I do the above as a matter of course, but I've learned how and why through osmosis, over the years, mostly because I dabble with gamedev as a hobby (and because I care about performance). None of that was covered in any of my university courses. And, out of the people I worked with, I was and am literally the only one who knows how to do any of that.
You should only use raw block number instead of filesystems this way you would get even better performance /S
I think it has more to do with economics than mindsets. Compare Microsoft/Amazon salaries in Seattle and Vancouver for instance.
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We are not working on DWARF. However, we hope that the paper will spur a public discussion on these problems. Helping the entire community to have a more expressive standard.
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> ... but accomplishing much more. Easiest example is game software.

Ha! Are you saying the old games that ran faster didn't bring us joy?
Science and engineering have actually helped us address ecological challenges in a way we could not have imagined. It’s science that allowed us to extract coal and stop depleting forests at incredible rates. Science that allowed us to extract oil and gas powering the economic growth and prosperity unprecedented at any other time in human history. Science gave us Renewables too... today, it’s mostly a question of whether we have the political will to commit to mobilize on a large scale to convert to clean energy and end the inevitable climate catastrophe.

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Many thanks for catching the typos!
I will update the arxiv to fix it.
Sometimes I wonder if it's because people don't really pay for software.

Photoshop doesn't really have competition. xcode is free. Why bother improve either of things?

Hell besides C++ compilers seem to be slow af. D is unfunded and mostly been written by 1 guy (Walter). It's faster than Go which people say is fast and go was written by a team (source https://i.imgur.com/FIcgRwd.png, from page https://imgur.com/a/jQUav).

I'm pretty sure compilers can do > 100K lines per core per second easily but I haven't confirmed if any does. I'd bet 100K on anyone who takes it that compilers can do 200K per core per second or 500+ using multiple cores. No cheating with a simple brainfuck language or having everything you need defined ahead of time like C++ does with headers
This legit makes no sense to me. Why would you need concurrent write on a zip file? How would you even know where to write when you depend on compressed sizes that haven't been done on other cores? From what I remember you basically can create a zip by putting a header than adding compressed files back to back (no idea why you couldn't use multiple cores to compress each and add when your ready) then add the filelist at the end. Like I have no idea what your issue is
It'll be interesting to see what this is used for. Probably mostly university EE projects. Thats a good thing: More chip designers coming out of college fully-formed.
Is this supposed to convince people that unions are bad?
Since 1950 lifespan and healthspan have increased on every continent. In every continent bar Africa wealth per person has increased as has education level. Seems to be working well enough so far.
That's the unfortunate reality of working in Europe I think, especially in a lower cost of living country. I've just moved from Germany to the UK, and my salary has increased in gross terms (and an associated significant increase in net), but I lose many of the German provisions/safety nets that the high taxes pay for over there.
it's "scrolldown" :D
Interesting. I assume the R flavour of data frames would be most used?
The trouble with Facebook is the obvious optimisation for them is to offload work from their servers to my device. Hence we get bloated clients.
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Am i the only one that find that code examples really hard to read?

Why not just simple use Svelte?
There is so much manipulation of Twitter. It's really sad. Maybe someone was after his username.
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Agree. In c++, I really like the JUCE editor exactly because of this. You have a GUI to configure things and it's stored as an xml config, but it'll also autogenerate a header for you with all the constant things hardcoded.

In my opinion, that provides one huge advantage that Java currently lacks: you can use tools like ReSharper to statically analyze control flow, find uninitialized variables or unused branches, etc.
That's a shame, she only needed to add "lived experience" and "mansplaining" for me to fill in my "woke bigot weaponising her race and gender to shut down a valid discussion" bingo sheet.
> Because more than half the world's population has yet to industrialize.

This was true when the projections were that renewables would be more expensive than fossil fuels, but “developed” countries would invest in CO2 reduction “for the greater good”.

However, as per the article, renewables (including batteries) are going to become significantly cheaper than fossil fuels.

Any reason to believe countries “looking to industrialize” will opt for the more expensive fossil fuel option?
The title says “effective ruler” and I’m not sure how you got so far off track. You should be thinking of Machiavelli, not Juan Carlos. Edward was able to hold on to power despite the strength of a true rival... things that would lead him to get help from William, and we all know how that story goes. But a lesser king could have easily found himself on a pike in the eleventh century.
Same experience. When I was flying bi-weekly, I made sure most international flights were with Finnair because no Boeings there, for that reason. Mostly everything was worse on Boeings (most experience is with BA; 100s of flights). But the sound was the worst. Maybe this is how the planes are kitted out by the carrier and I had bad luck in that regard?
Where? Do you mean the 2nd or 3rd drawer?

In fact, I never managed to open the third drawer.
same here, scanned for 'effectiveness', but then the article ended...
> It's interesting and a bit disappointing to me that there's no real current trend towards beginner-friendly (or "end-user"-friendly) programming.

I'm honestly not sure it's really needed.
This year I teach a class of graphic students, who have zero coding experience, how to do generative art with p5.js (Processing but in JS). It took a grand total of 8 hours to go from ground zero to making them able to write things involving loops, variables, etc... and making simple generative art autonomously - if anything, they struggle a fair bit more with the maths needed to make pretty things (here are my slides, feedback very welcome! https://interactive-design.jcelerier.name/).
I'm sure she'll make a good asset to any company that wants a totally dysfunctional office culture where everyone is terrified at every moment of doing the slightest thing to upset the wokes.
ARC is slower than tracing GC as all benchmarks where Swift was used prove.

Biscuit was a research project whose goal was to get the thesis done, when the thesis was done, no more effort was spent.

Bing was powered by Midori for the Asian countries for part of its life, and Joe Duffy has stated in the RustConf keynote that Windows Dev team was a reason why Midori faced so much internal resistance, even when they were proven wrong.

Before Google was willing to put the money into JavaScript many would assert that JavaScript would be worthless to anything besides form validation and DHTML.

Mainframes to this day still make use of their own systems programming languages, way safer than C, and you don't see people crying that their kernels are too slow.

In fact, Unisys uses this fact to sell ClearPath MCP to customers that value security above anything else, Fort Knox style.
> So if I understand correctly, you're worried that every little piece of freedom lost, is lost forever. I can understand the sentiment, and I even agree to that.

Potentially. I do expect that most restrictions will be rolled back eventually. But even the damage that has already happened is significant. If protesting stops just 1 more year of that I think it's worth it.

The future concern is similar reasoning will be used in other domains.

> Also, keep in mind that health and money are directly related: an ill population is a poor population. That's why people happily pay taxes for healthcare in many countries.

Well, I am against too much government healthcare. I generally find that most of its proponents do not make the money argument (which I do disagree with). As far as I can tell the main argument has always been the same moral argument about potential deaths/suffering.
Similarly I'm willing to acknowledge that some small percentage of the population would indeed be worse off under a private system. But that doesn't justify nationalization.

The desirable policy is to focus on improvements to healthcare as a whole, which by proxy helps everybody. A poor person in 2020 has access to better private healthcare than a poor person in 1980 simply because everything got better.

I'm not strictly against all collectivist solutions, but the threshold for such actions should be much higher. When COVID restrictions were first introduced around the world, I was generally supportive. The advertised death rate was an order of magnitude higher. Restrictions were presented as a temporary measure to let healthcare systems ramp up capacity. That seemed reasonable to me.

> The solutions (basically just wear a mask and dont' be too close) are easy to follow and not so disruptive.

If you're in the US, then I think many states are doing the right thing. A few are overzealous. If you look at GDP drops across the world US is one of the lowest. And I also credit that to the many people in the US who actively voiced their opposition. Haven't seen that happen much elsewhere.

In the country I'm in there are mandatory (could go to jail) quarantines for merely suspected cases and those entering from some countries. Some businesses can't operate at all. Big fines for businesses breaking rules. Tickets for not wearing a mask.
And as opposed to the US most of these restrictions are legally solid, you'll have a hard time challenging them. Compliance very high.
From what I'm hearing and reading it's still one of the laxer ones in Europe. The GDP drop was one of the lower ones too.
I don't think it's true that the pay isn't drastically different. I was in the pipeline with Apple recently, and the pay for a sr. eng position was 80k. This is comparable to other companies where I interviewed. Of course, without receiving a solid offer I didn't hear about the RSU side, but I think your experience moving internally is totally different to starting a role with FAANG within EU.
WTF! The entire purpose of a webpage is to describe to an end user what it is about. I understand the need to support a social cause, but this is just ridiculous to mask your entire site with a label to the point where no one knows what the fuck your product/service/offering is about.
I've seen people blame practically everything about the PS5 launch on covid

"No stock? Must be covid causing manufacturing issues." What? You don't know the sales figures at all and you're making wild assumptions
Genuine question, I have always wondered about this regarding EU based FAANG roles (I am making the leap that you are EU based):

How statistically common/likely is it for EU based engineers to move to the US on a L-1 visa, specifically at google?
In California, if you're making over a million dollars you're looking at 50.3% marginal income tax i believe, which is a lot more than the 35% cited by the parent as "expensive" and you're probably getting a lot less
This might be stupid but print it out and read it while walking or maybe on an ipad or something?
One place where I can still see this working well is landing pages for marketing campaigns; it’s a fair assumption that most visitors there will be first time visitors.

Other than that, I’d say that there should be a mechanism where the browser informs the server of what assets they have cached, although I can only assume that may open a privacy can of worms.
You compete (as understood from the article) in Powerball by 50 choose 5, 20 choose 1. So 1 in (50!/(5!⨉45!)⨉20 = 42.375.200. There are 15 ascending "suspicious" winning sequences, as the choice of Powerball is always last and thus must be 6-20. Therefore the chance of winning Powerball with a "suspicious" sequence is 15 in 42.375.200. If there are 1000 Powerballs drawings per day for a year, that gives a chance of approximately 12% of happening at least once a year.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+calculator&as...
You can enable local echo for SSH, which makes it quite usable even over latent connections.
"I choose to be blind to the reality of racism and abdicate myself of any responsibility to fix it" sure is a stance you could take, I guess.
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Wow, yeah, that's exactly the technological aspect of what I had in mind.

I guess all that's left is the socialogical aspect: packages' "geiger" status ought to be treated as being as important as their dependencies. In other words, lib.rs/docs.rs/crates.io ought to display these data in all the sorts of places where they list the dependencies of a package.

It would also be great if this tool were made a standard part of cargo. I think it's important enough to deserve that status.
> I don't think everything needs a name.

And you are wrong, at least historically: The article points that without the access to the computers and to achieve numerical precision having precalculated tables of such functions was of direct practical use.

Even if you personally and more recently didn't need that, the said names were needed and used, and that's why they exist.

Had you been you born, for example, more than 100 years ago, you could have been one of the persons assigned to spend maybe years just carefully calculating (or just verifying) the tables of one of those functions which today are seldom referenced by a name. Or at least with a job which involved using such tables (and the names too).

Also, in current computing practice, one can still write programs which produce wrong results if one is not aware of the limits of the partial numerical calculations, including these named. One doesn't have to know the names, but in some specific cases it could be needed to have separate functions calculating exactly the values of the functions named. As we start to discover again that the custom processors could calculate more with less binary digits, knowing this becomes even more important compared to the times where "just use doubles" was enough.
I think there's a disconnect between what people expect from those job titles especially (L.E. from many US and most SV companies) if you come from companies structured differently or from across the pond. Also the language barrier maybe.

Being used to European style job titles of the time (some decades ago), imagine my surprise when I met with some vice-presidents from a big US company who turned out to be among the dozens glorified product managers the company had.

Same with tech leads where the expectation is that you are either just tech focused (best tech resource, authority on that tech in the team, still under a team lead), or less likely both team/people and tech focused (so among the best techs, and proven leadership skills).

> Given the importance of the product [...] the team was back to 4 engineers and since I was the first one, I became the Tech Lead for the product. [...] I was not even in top 3 of the team of 10 based on engineering skills

Being the first assigned to a product because nobody else was around and having your product draw the more qualified techs to you doesn't make you a lead of either kind.

A job title is relevant if it's assigned to people who proved their worth with those particular skills needed for the position (evidently not the case here). So a tech lead in FB basically means you're the first and do a decent job. In many companies this wouldn't fly because being better than your lead but not having the spot because you were not there first is a recipe for high turnover, or at least people dashing between teams and products hoping to catch that spot. But FB and other SV tech giants are juicy enough targets that rely on product attractiveness (success with users) * rather than product quality that this wouldn't be a problem. Hence they can afford to have such tech leads.

* > E6->E7 and E7->E8 promotions were mainly about making something successful. My execution could have been perfect but if the product didn’t work, I would not have been promoted.

The problem with job titles is that they are brag-tags in most companies. At the very low and very high ends they're used instead of a monetary compensation because the company can't afford to raise the salaries for all those people (poor company or very high salaries already), or because money stops mattering after a point and a pat on the back is worth more to the employee.

The post feels like an ad for "you can do it too, apply now". There's enough info there to make the person uniquely identifiable which is perhaps not the best position for our anonymous engineer.
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