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And how often are companies castigated on here for getting acqui-hired and shutting down?

Seems like it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario.
No vaccine is ever 100%, you will see that some vaccinated people do get sick. In addition you have people that can't be vaccinated, these are still at risk.
But if you vaccinated enough people, the successful vaccinated will act as a kind of firewall and hinder the sickness from effectively spreading.
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But I think there are some exceptions for communicable diseases, which they will treat without attempting to bill you. I doubt vaccination would fall under that but don't really know.
Is this irony? Or are you serious?
> Some of us would like to see a few hundred-thousand cars go over that new wobbly cantilever bridge design.

It's extremely rare for bridges to fail. I certainly wouldn't expect a bridge to fail given modern safety standards.

You might have marginally more confidence in the bridge after a few hundred thousand cars, but we have processes in place to be confident within reasonable doubt that things are safe before that.

No one is claiming that anything is "100% safe". That's an unachievable level of confidence. If everyone waited for a hundred thousand other people to do anything we'd never get anywhere.
That's not true at all and is a slippery slope argument. In fact, over the decades the courts have made numerous rulings in the opposite direction - giving suspects more rights and protections.
I just wish it didn't have Disqus :(
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I find "distributed systems" to be a huge source of imposter syndrome. Despite having worked almost exclusively with distributed applications for several years now, it is difficult to consider myself experienced. When I'm asked if I've worked with distributed systems, I don't think they are asking me if I've managed a Hadoop cluster. They are interested in building new applications using some of the primitives discussed in this post. All of these links are great, but the fact is that building and operating tools like this is hard. In addition to consensus primitives, your system may need very precise error handling, structured logging, distributed tracing, resource monitoring, schema evolution, etc. In the end, I probably pause for a second too long when answering that question, but I don't think its because of a lack of experience, quite the opposite!
I was hoping that the author would talk about RDF data stores. It may take a while, but I expect some combination of RDF and relational databases with virtual RDF and SPARQL support will do a lot to solve data silo problems.

That said, good article.
We've been working on some Web Components that use the js sdk to talk with matrix but have been wondering if we should spend time looking at how the react sdk could be implemented in this use case assuming it would better handle encryption etc... although I think I read recently that the js sdk also handles encryption - but we'd need to add UI for verification to access encrypted rooms which seems likely to be a pain across browser sessions... there's also an issue as to which websites you might trust to share your matrix user token with to post on your behalf (but will check out Hydrogen to see how it handles this).

So thinking out loud, for a disqus clone - sticking to unencrypted rooms and web components could be the way to go! Thanks for the GSOC and Hydrogen links - will check them out!
I was thinking about ClojureCLR. While my argument could be applied to ClojureScript, I did not think it was fair because ClojureScript calls itself a (proper) subset of Clojure, which is fine and no one expects it to run actual Clojure programs. Again, I apologize for undue harshness.
India alone has 759k millionaires. Assuming each has a family of four, and they’re willing to pay just $500 for a two shot course on an exclusive basis (say). That alone will be make pfizer about 1.58 billion dollars.

There are 13555k millionaires outside of Europe and US. The 1.9 billion paid by the US government for 100million viles pales in front of what pfizer could earn by catering to the rich.

So, again, my question stands, why wouldn’t pfizer sell directly to customers? What binds them to just deal with governments alone? I ask this as a humble non-millionaire (just to clarify that I wouldn’t benefit from such a scheme in any way) :)
Left and right are meaningless terms.

I'm on the right side economically but I'm fiercely anti authoritarian and I find this terrible.
I don't like the "peaceful protests" because it's just destruction of private property but I hope they can create enough momentum to push for the privatisation of police.
Some BLM leader in NY was organising something like that, a militia to defend their people.
I speculate this is also why people like Kyle Rittenhouse were defending people in the protests despite not agreeing with the violence (before being identified as not part of the violent mob and attacked).

Incidentally I don't think police privatisation is going to happen, even under a Biden presidency, because that would remove power from the government and neither democrats nor conservatives are happy with that.
Same for "long term COVID" - doesn't matter most symptoms can easily be explained by anxiety due to the amount of fearmongering. But definitely not for the vaccine side effects!
Well, unless you disband government all together there will always be soft violence - every government imposes its will over the people.
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Typical, celebrities getting priority.

Gotta admire how good the vaccine is though, reviving the dead
I would have drowned trying to assemble the tuxedo without internet. It's probably white tie, so that's assuming I don't accidentally smother myself with the bib or get my tails caught in something.
That reminds me of the two anti-tanks fortresses disguised as houses as part of the Toblerone line [1]. Those two were the only ones visible from the road by people (i.e. tourists), so they made them a bit less scary.

The Tim Traveller did a wonderful video on those a few months ago [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toblerone_line

[2][video]: https://youtu.be/tPL9-L2gwzo
When you need a log-log plot to make the performance degradation not look so severe, you have issues...
I'm not a hardware designer but I routinely deal with low level networking shenanigans and I must admit that I never considered that it would be possible to update a CRC without recomputing it fully (unless you were just appending data of course).

For people like me who aren't smart enough to figure it on their own, this stackexchange answer seem to explain how it's done: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/92279/can-one-quickly...
And most of the time a distributed system just ends up being a distributed monolith.
And yet your odds are still pretty bad!
I agree that a well-maintained monolith is simpler and more stable than micro services.

The emphasis is on well-maintained. If you’ve ever had team A write a crazy query and kill the database for team B, you’ll start to appreciate the damage containment and encapsulation that microservices provide.

EDIT: Of course there might be other, better solutions to this problem.
10 seconds Googling: https://cbs12.com/news/local/man-who-died-in-motorcycle-cras...

Many other stories like that
Besides the advantage of air heating (that gives the illusion of reheating the house [1])there are a lot of differences in the way houses are built.

Generally speaking "traditional" houses in Europe (made with brick or stone walls) tend to have rather poor insulation but very high termal mass, as opposed to more modern houses (and to the essentially wood/timber based houses in north America) that have a higher insulation but very low thermal mass.

In high thermal mass houses completely changing the air does not lower that much the temperature as as soon as you re-close the windows the air is re-heated by walls, ceilings and floor radiating the heat they accumulated before.

[1] whilst in reality it only re-heats the air
> Google went the opposite way. They created Go to be beginner's friendly but at the same time hurting productivity of more experienced developers. Let's see how that turns out in the end.

well, they started the Fuschia kernel in C++, not in Go... that should be telling enough :)
That's what startups are seeking, but it's not that often at all. Also, exponential doesn't necessarily mean "happens too fast to react". If the number of your users doubles every year, you still have exponential growth, if you only have paid users you still have a very nice growth of business and you also have time to react.

It's indeed pretty rare to see services that crumble under the exponential increase in traffic. Especially if it's not a spike from publicity (I don't know how you would say "being slashdotted" these days). It happens, but it's rare. But because it's usually newsworthy or at least interesting it gets more attention and it will feel much more of a danger than it actually is. Both for software developers and entrepreneurs (or even for the general public) it feels lame. Ha! They should have expected this! But the truth is that most of the time you should not prepare for this, because it's pretty rare, it's not even necessary for success, not even for startup scale success at the beginning.

It's pretty easy to see actually: (almost) all of today's successful services provided by startups started as monoliths (or maybe more realistically some kind of SOA, because monolith vs. microservices is really a false dichotomy). It did work a decade ago with weaker hardware, why wouldn't it work now?
I think people have become sensitized only in a good way: they don't panic. Instead they think another drill, better get out in a clam orderly manor and counted. It helps that there are enough fires every decade that you hear of one just often enough that you think "better safe than sorry".

That is my observation anyway.
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AT&T sucks, congress should be requesting their leaders in for a congressional hearing along with Zuckerberg lol
I think you're mistaken to think that more data will save people's lives. The people not wearing masks have turned it into a political ideology, which doesnt respond well to data base arguments.
> It's reasonable to ask what the risks are, but unspecific ramblings about risks aren't helpful and it's unreasonable to highlight very hypothetical risks compared to the very real risks of getting Covid-19.

Where was this ramblings on OP's comment? He genuinly asked a question without mentioning any side effects. Why is it being downvoted?
I recently watched the film Fantastic Fungi and I think she makes an appearance in it. I was really fascinated when they mention how trees can use mycelium to transfer nutrients to other trees, but wished they could go more in depth on how that works. This Ted talk is a great supplement to the research
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I'm sure if it were to happen to me, I'd feel similar to the citizen posting this on Twitter, especially if they felt it was unjust and weren't expecting it.

However, from a police procedural point-of-view:

When the subject(s) perceive a threat, it only takes a small amount of time for the adrenaline rush that could make them more dangerous than they typically would be.

Subject(s) that would never usually be a threat can act in ways they don't even expect when they are confronted by something they perceive as a threat.

Even if the first subject is calm, one of the others in the house might react poorly and use whatever is at their disposal to resist or harm the perceived threat.

Let's say instead that a single plain-clothes officer calls or emails asking someone to come downtown, or maybe even comes to a house unexpectedly because they couldn't get in-touch with the person, then asks them to come downtown at their convenience. The subject may shortly after throw the kids in the car and speed off so quickly they run into traffic and kill themselves and another driver. So, when police control the situation, they cause a little more temporary stress in the short-term, but may avoid harm for the individual citizen and the rest of the citizens.

The alternative is a society within which each person acts responsibly on their own, but there are bad actors, and using science to treat or evolve bad actors is:

1. imagined as evil, such as in the fictional works:

Brave New World - example of dual-society, half utilitarian scientist gangbangers and the other half free natives; the reader understands the "evolved" culture as disgusting, scary, and harmful.

A Clockwork Orange - attempt to rehabilitate the psychopath, sex-addict subject, but due to the music choice, the psychopath becomes hurt when they play the music, leaving them where they started- with a psychopath.

2. actually evil in real life, for example: psychological and Eugenics experiments, as well as genocides and holocaust.

In social media bubbles, psychotic elements in the bubble tend to be hushed or hidden; they seem not to exist. In real-life, about 1 in 10 people are not sufficiently altruistic to be trusted to act on societal best interests under duress and about 1 in 100 people are psychopathic to the point of being a greater risk to others on any day of the year.

Even for a fully libertarian society to function, some part of the 90% would have to cover for the 10% and some portion of the 99% would have to cover for that 1% to make things run smoothly. So, we have police. And, if you add wild animals and wide open spaces without assistance into the mix, you understand why the U.S. has the 2nd amendment, and that applies to everywhere because it's meant to cover all cases and likely futures (if disaster happens and infrastructure collapses, we may need to hunt to survive, given the amount of space in the U.S.).

But, I don't want gun violence, and I don't want citizens to be unjustly apprehended.
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02821
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Holidays in 2020 are a little different. My family is spread out around the country, and due to the pandemic we're unable to gather together. To include other family members in our holiday celebrations, I built a telepresence robot from a Raspberry Pi, a Snap Circuits rover, and an iPad.
That was what we had before.
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I don't believe this is a good argument.
The same argument has been done endlessly for the other side.

There are definitely people who believe the party line on everything. If that's the case, that could be an indication you're not thinking for yourself.
That's not what happens, though. You can just say "I'm not registered with a GP" (and many people aren't), and you will still be treated - no bill.
The addon Privacy Badger blocks it by default.
> You seem to equate kubernetes and containerization. Kubernetes is just too complex for most usecases, that's all.

Kubernetes is just a way to run containers. You configure your application, specify how your containers are deployed, set the plumbing between containerized application, and that's it.

What problems are you experiencing with Kubernetes that make you feel it's too complex?
This is SpaceX, they have literally shipped cars _off_ of the planet as well :P
Presumably they pre-sold based on estimates of their production. I would not be very surprised if it turns out they can make 10% more than they committed, and auction this off. And would expect hospitals treating Saudi princelings & the like to win such an auction.

But does anyone actually know what these pre-sale contracts look like? They must have some wiggle room in case production doesn't go as well as planned... are there just penalties for late delivery to specific customers, or explicitly tied to total production, or did they literally sell places in the queue, or what?
Agreed. I've heard people make this argument for years but they always seem to ignore changes in tech. A high quality range can reach the temperatures necessary for canning (another thing I've been told you can't do without a flame) and hold a consistent temperature the entire time.

I'm very happy with my electric ranges.
There is a difference between the two bodies. One is a state with a history of escalating violence, blatant fascism, utter disregard for human lives and history of manufacturing evidence. The other is a person who as far as I know can still be given the benefit of the doubt.
The chilling effect is the point.
Foreign nationals without a visa (and non-resident British people, like me now) do receive a bill. I used to work in the department that recovers the money.

The rates are in an excel file linked on this page. Visitors pay 150% of the published rate. https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/national-tariff/
They are indeed very useful to criminals.
Didn't twitter survive?

Also how would we know if Apple is working with other companies? It's not like they are known to be transparent or Truthful.
They are already sold out. There’s no spare. And yes they can sell to millionaire but states purchases millions of doses at a Time, not 5.
well, you can interpret my words in a wrong way to try to make a point, or you can admit that taxation discourages the thing being taxed.

Higher capital gains tax discourages investment. If income tax is higher, it indeed does stop people from working (as much). But we are talking about raising capital gains tax, not raising income tax.
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Looks great. What level of student would that course be aimed at do you know (e.g. 2nd year CS undergrad, 3rd year)?
> E.g. AWS Fargate or GC Run.

I really can't understand this line of reasoning. How exactly is something like Fargate simpler than Kubernetes?

I understand the argument in favour of using Docker Swarm over deploying your own Kubernetes on premises or on heterogeneous cloud, but Fargate?

And using GC Run to run containerized apps completely missed the point of containerization. Containers are way more than a simple way to distribute and run isolated apps.
Since when are .io and .ai domains considered premium? Users are still used to only typing .com, .net or .org (or their local country TLD).
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> DoH has at least Mozilla and Google on board, and presumably Microsoft are tailing along.

Note that DoH (and DoT) shipped in iOS 14 and Big Sur, though aren't particularly easy to enable.
Speak of the devil, as of December 2020, Mitholz is preparing for evacuation right now [1].

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Here's a little more about 20ma: https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/connectivity/seri...

It mentions a couple things worth noting: for 20ma loops, depending on distance, speeds over 19.2kb might not work. It also mentions RS-422 [1] , RS-485 (both up to 10 Mb/s) as options. (Both can be full-duplex.)

It also mentions a part (rarely mentioned these days) called an 'opto-isolator'. Might be an addition worth considering ... fun toys that let you keep the smoke-testing on the cheaper side of the project.

[1] https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/connectivity/seri...
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> "Significant testing" is 20,000 people. We're preparing to roll it out to billions. That's not "significant testing". If there was a 1 in 500,000 side effect, you'd never see it in the trials.

That is significant testing. It is correct that you might not see a 1 in 500,000 side-effect in testing, but a 1 in 500,000 adverse effect is probably a risk factor that most people could accept.

> And yes, these vaccines are doing something "magical". We've never had an mRNA vaccine rolled out to the general public before.

Our cells regularly process strands of mRNA by the billion. I don't believe the vaccine is doing anything particularly "magical". It's completely right that we should test that, but I don't think there's any reason to be more concerned than any other new type of treatment.
> Can you imagine the shit storm if some wealthy person got vaccinated ahead of the doctors

In an ideal world, I suppose not. But, in the real world, I think I can. Yes.
Latency is not difficult.

It is just lack of knowledge or focus to understand the total execution path and remove unnecessary elements from it.

I have worked in algorithmic trading where I did research and I designed framework to respond to stock exchange messages within 5 microseconds, consistently.

5 microseconds is difficult and requires some special techniques but 100 microseconds is quite easy and requires just understanding what is execution path and removing all unnecessary operations from it.

If you look at contemporary developers and web frameworks it doesn't seem anybody puts particular care into understanding those things and only try to twiddle couple of things and see how that transfers to performance.
For now, I sort of trust Apple enough on privacy and security, PRISM disclosures and their being a huge corporation.

What will get me to buy a product like Librem or Pinephone in the future would be as a universal device, that is a dock that would make it my only digital device - and feel secure against hacks, etc.
You stand between the carnival operator and the riders holding up a curtain so they can't see each other. In exchange for this anonymizing service you take a 1% cut of each transaction, then spend it on a ride yourself at the end of the day. The 1% cut is priced into the operator's ticket prices so they still make enough profit, and is practically invisible to the rider, but if the service did not exist, then the tickets could be sold 1% cheaper. This is the model, whether or not you call it "taking" the 1% or "adding on" the 1% is inconsequential.
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