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Interesting. I feel like coding is not that dissimilar.

In the early phases of learning a new coding language, I learn how to write lines of code. Sometimes it compiles, most of the time it would cause errors.

At some point it works, but a more seasoned engineer could easily find places to refactor it in order to make it more extensible/flexible, easier to read, less brittle, and most importantly to this discussion on coding language, more idiomatic.

Now, you could say surely I could've seen these by reading the docs and learning about certain library features or patterns specific to the language. But in my experience, I tend to learn faster by first exercising my brain and trying it out on my own take before having someone (be it a mentor or a tutorial/book) correct me so that I have a bit more context about why an alternative approach is better.
Bezos wants to build spaceships. His money will go to that.
> [...] she's helping more people than you are.

It's not a contest though, is it? I'm sure we can all help one another in some way, and it's disheartening to see comments such as yours discrediting (passively as it may be) the help some people give, as if their help is less worthy than others.
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I do hope we see similar features from the Galaxy and Android world, altough I'm not holding my breath, based on how tight the software, hardware integration needs to be to pull this off. It might be a very long time until we see something similar, which would probably be half-baked regardless.
The Public School Is a Public Health Issue (2008)
As someone who sometimes uses e.g. FreeBSD, I'll take CMake over someone's hand-crafted Makefile any day.
I recently read the book "The Live You Can Save" by the philosopher Peter Singer. He said that yes, it is considered tacky and self serving to let the world know you did something charitable. That leaves us all in the position of not knowing what is normal, or perhaps that giving $1000/year is good enough. But if you learn that many of your coworkers give $20000/year, it will likely cause you to reevaluate if your $1000/year is really generous enough.

So, to turn it around on you, if your choice is to let friends know that you've donated $X to some charity which may cause them to also be more charitable, or to keep it private because you are afraid of looking tacky, you have made the choice that your self-image is more important than the extra money it may cause friends to donate to the needy.

BTW, it is a great book -- the most important book I've read in at least 10 years. One important point is his philosophy: all suffering is important, not just the people you know or who are local to you. Raising $30,000 for a fancy truck for a disabled person is unquestionably a kind act, but that same amount of money could save 20 lives in a developing country, or prevent river blindness in more than 100 children.
> Hearing MacKenzie giving away 4B of her 60B is not really impressive because you can live pretty nice with even 1B.

> If I made 300k (my yearly salary) / month for my entire life, I still won't have 1B.

It would take more than a millennium of making 300k a month to match what she gave in 4 months.

I cannot begin to comprehend how one could donate this much money in such a short time, it would require a lot of planning and execution. I think it's impressive from that standpoint.
So what you're saying is, if you're annoyed by "subscribe to our mailing list" modal popups, "doesno5exist@garbage.blah" is better than "jeff@amazon.com" ?
The American Red Cross doesn't have a great history either [1][2]

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2015/06/03/411524156/in-search-of-the-re...
MacKenzie Scott announces $4B donation to 384 organizations
I agree.. its very much a quality of experience for me.

I paid $250 for a six person table with dinner at the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra while they played all the best pieces of John Williams' music from his many film scores. Only a two hour concert, but the Jurassic Park theme made me tear up, and I was only 10 feet from the orchestra.

I paid $300 for two Conductor's Box seats at the MSO for myself and a girl I was dating to see the Harry Potter in Concert series, where you watch a Harry Potter movie while the orchestra plays all the music from the film live. For me, it was hit or miss, since I was too old to really get into Harry Potter, but the lady I was seeing was 15 years younger than me, so it really affected her, which of course really benefited me.

Both cases, money well spent.
Little thing called empathy.

Some people are literally incapable of feeling happy no matter what they're doing when they see so many people and friends in utterly fucked situations in life, especially when it's purely because of finances.

If you make quite a bit of money, and have never even remotely felt this way, you may actually be a clinical psychopath (not that this is in any way a bad thing. Really... can't be helped with our current state of medicine, even if the person would want it)

I have a good bit of personal anecdata that psychopaths that are financially better off do seem to enjoy youth-middle age a good bit, but crossing over into older age leads them towards some rather harsh methods of suicide fairly quickly.

Also, on a slightly different note - if all your wants in life are to be able to spend your time playing video games... well, many, many things can be said about this and related to why this person feels the need to financially help others. May want to consider some self reflection... or not. In the end, the world really owes you nothing, nor do you it. Enjoy your time here in whatever way you find yourself able to.
> She's basically a cofounder of Amazon.

Being married to someone who founded a business does not make you a cofounder.
Thank you for the kind words :)

Agree completely re: the steps 1-3 text being too dense, I'm going to try to make those much shorter just as soon as my current A/B test is done.
> Is the value of a future life worth less than a life closer to our present moment? I can’t help but feel like there’s some sort of logical fallacy there, akin to speciesism

I think taking the perspective of "the present" is a bit misleading here. Putting $100 in my bank account today isn't more valuable than putting $100 in my bank account in 5 years because it's closer to the present, it's more valuable because it'll start collecting interest sooner, and then that interest generates more interest. Putting $100 in there a century ago would be better than either.

A live saved now can get to work on adding value to society, and that value could lead to saving more lives later. The sooner you start that process the better.
This seems very unlikely to me. Not only would the attacker need to know precise detail about the exact methods and steps taken by a russia-sponsored group, the attacker would also need to entirely suppress their own methods and approaches so that they are not identifiable as themselves.

Much easier to simply hide who you are by changing your compromise fingerprint than to try to impersonate someone else's compromise fingerprint.

If a technique is seen in this attack that has been seen in previous attacks which are now known to be by a russia-sponsored group, that is very strong evidence that the same group is responsible. It is not proof, but it is strong evidence.
It's not a runtime dependency.
I know you’re joking, but leaving out honeypots to slow down enemy attackers is a valid strategy. Except you need to purposefully leave honeypots that don’t have anything valuable in them. They seemed to have misunderstood the strategy.
> What did surprise me, though, was the lack of similarity to mathematical thinking

I've noticed that many programmers hit a wall when dealing with Haskell or mathematics because notation that I parse effortlessly they have to puzzle over symbol by symbol, so I suspect it is a different system.
unikraft move so fast. it can be another choice other than the existed large-scale deployment cloud product.
A well-run charity is like a force multiplier for money. For example, you give your money to a food bank, and they can buy food in bulk to help far more people than you could on your own.
I don’t think Apple competes much in the $200 anything segment.
But now the site will carry a prop 65 warning...
My main use of Periscope was to watch live football (not the American one) matches. Going to miss that!

The part of the world where I live sports subscription fees are simply too high and controlled by duopoly of old school companies. On Periscope, it was great to have some good person point their phone camera to a large screen TV and watch the match together with many others on chat.

Thanks Periscope for letting me enjoy live action of a few El Clásicos!
This is kinda like dividends -- if the value of the dividend (or charitable donation) grows more slowly than the AMZN stock, then delaying the dividend/donation a year and giving the invested/grown amount later might mean greater impact. And then inductively...
> Depending on how strictly you read this, this could be interpreted as forbidding the use of encryption on filesystems containing GFDL documentation.

That's a strange reading. I can see it interpreted as forbidding storing the document on a workstation that is locked-down to prevent exfiltration of sensitive data (and such a system would almost certainly also use an encrypted FS among other measures), but forbidding the use of an encrypted FS per-se seems extreme. All an encrypted FS is doing by itself is ensuring that if you don't have access to the content, then you don't have access to the content.

Nothing about the GFDL forces anyone to redistribute, it just ensures that recipients have the right to redistribute. By itself, an encrypted FS is no hindrance to redistribution.
She left him due to cheating.
unikraft moves so fast. It can be a choice other than the existed large-scale deployed cloud infra.
Can you provide a source for those facts? If true, it would be quite important to know.
I felt the same but after spending more time, things are starting to click.

Stealth for example is not nearly as good as Deus Ex: Mankind Divided or The Metal Gear Solid series. The tutorial seemed alright but when it came to real gameplay I felt like stealth just didn’t work and I just resorted to guns blazing. But after more effort and getting a better hang of quick hacking I have found stealth to be viable actually. You really do need to make heavy use of quick hacking though. Also that game is very visually busy which makes it easy to miss a camera.

Driving feels pretty good, but not as good as GTA. So far driving really seems to be a way to get from point A to point B and not a core gameplay mechanic like it is with GTA. The NPC driving AI and Cop AI is downright bad compared to GTA but besides being a little immersion breaking it doesn’t seem to affect the actual gameplay much. GTA is very focused around driving and avoiding police, most of the missions involve it in some way. Cyberpunk doesn’t really rely on driving so I can give it a pass on those faults.

Gunplay really bothered me at first. It felt chaotic and a bit clunky. Other FPS/RPG hybrid games have suffered the same issues. Shooting powerful or higher level enemies will just feel bullet spongy. Some of that just needs to be accepted as “this is an RPG, not a shooter”. The cover system isn’t very sophisticated or obvious either. However the more I play the more I get the hang of it and I have found the gunplay to actually be quite satisfying.
In many cases one might not want a full stand-alone program with arguments, usage and such. Rather a "script" i.e. something that can be simply executed to run a series of tasks. For example it's quite silly for a build script to require the path of the project it resides in.
I played the pen and paper way back in the day, and I agree. They have absolutely nailed the aesthetic: a dusting of kitsch and campiness that isn’t over the top. I’m also enjoying the story and game mechanics. It’s my first open world AAA title, so I don’t have much to compare it with, but I’m having fun!
Happy B-day :)
No, but she worked in the business just as much as he did at the beginning, and Jeff himself said Amazon wouldn't exist without her work.
Wouldn't that just move the problem from dealing with visa and mastercard to dealing with the banking sector?

Isn't it challenging for, amongst others, adult entertainers, the legal marijuana industry and bitcoin/crypto currency businesses to maintain stable banking relationships?
Giving money to your low income parents so they can retire early I can understand. I do that.

But that's not what that guy is doing. He gave away everything (except $3k with a $300k income)!

That's like a month's rent in the Bay Area, I'm kind of worried to be honest.
and I also find it disingenuous to elevate unpaid spousal contributions to unlimited asset and dollar figures and call that empowerment.

that is a slap in the face to every spouse with a much harder life and smaller platform.

the divorce settlement they came to was decent and good for them as individuals, clever to separate the voting rights from the assets. Other people adding more to that as a statement for society is what I find disingenuous.
> a multithreaded C++ program which copiously used autoincrementing pointers and polymorphism

I'd hazard a guess that the results would be the same. It all boils down to (multiple) sequential processes, which can be analyzed by spatio-temporal reasoning.

Functional programming, on the other hand, may be different. When "execution" of your program is driven by beta-reductions and control flow can be abstracted away, it becomes less certain that spatio-temporal reasoning is the right tool for the task.

And, yes, I hit the wall madhadron mentioned in the sibling comment.
There's empathy and there's giving away so much you're a step away from making your own life a disaster by giving away everything. I mean, given possible life situations, OP is on average likely to help more people by skipping one or two months of giving and building some buffer to make sure they're able to keep helping in the future. Giving away almost everything goes past plain empathy and is an interesting choice.
You'll probably be happy with your purchase. There's already a patch that fixes 600 bugs, and they're working on another patch that should be released by December 21st. Christmas Day should be a little shitty for your gift recipient, in that that they'll have to download a big fat patch, but hey, at least the game should work well.

Assuming you got the PC / PS5 / Xbox Series X version. If you didn't... yikes.
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I generally agree with the GNU stance on most things, but here this is just irrelevant and out of topic.

I run my own mail server, and you can screw up badly with free software. And you probably will more than Google or the big players, especially if it is not your job. Free software does not make your admin-sys screw-ups or hardware failures something you can "get the whole community involved in working together to fix problems".

(Fortunately, I haven't screwed so badly that my server started responding "no such user". Just some regular downtime that, as far as I know, has not make me miss any mail)

Using someone else's computer and services can be problematic for a lot of reasons, but uptime / reliability is generally not the issue.
At least in Bezos' case: let's imagine his position after the Amazon IPO. It's absolutely true that his skills as a capital allocator are extremely socially valuable. But at the same time, him taking advantage of his newfound liquidity wouldn't prevent him from continuing in that role: he wasn't going to be dumped and replaced. He could have given away his money to high value charitable causes and still continued to run Amazon.

Other people would be getting rich in his stead, sure, but some amount of that wealth accruing to other people would also end up reaching charity. The only big risk would be if his lack of ownership in the company caused him to not be able to execute on his vision.

Going at the question from another direction: imagine you have two companies, each with the potential to provide equal economic and social value. However, the government promises to tax the profits of one at 0% and the other at 90%. Which one will be undercapitalized? I would argue this is analogous to at least some charitable situations: oftentimes it's impossible to capture the economic benefit of socially valuable investments, because of institutional, legal, or informational challenges. But the value from making that "investment" doesn't disappear: it simply dissipates into the amorphous category of positive externalities.
Since it’s a heat pump, the ability to heat the inside depends on the outside temperature. Warmer outside, faster to heat inside.

But there’s no way to tell the system - I want 72 at 8am, you work it out. So I need to see if tomorrow morning will be 30 or 50 outside and set the start time accordingly. That’s not smart.

Heat pumps aren’t great at large changes anyway, but even 68 to 70 or 72 would work for me

And I also want that inside temperature to be based on the rooms I expect to use at those times: Night time, bedroom. Daytime, living room. Ecobee has exactly this function, Trane/Nexia does not
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You cannot "cheat" and "steal" your way to massive wealth because those are forms of leakage on the primary pile. (You can only cheat, steal and siphon from piles of money people submit for services they desire—even if you consider the price to be "unfair".)

You cannot monopolize an industry that doesn't provide something people want in the first place.

In general, you're talking about extraction or leakage, which represent a tiny fraction of money that changes hands.

You may have an issue about "what's fair" but you give weak examples of how people get "rich".
> Stock price down over 30%

Yet the game is the second largest retail launch of the year in the UK, only topped by FIFA 21 [0], it allegedly already recouped it's development costs one day after release [1].

Just gets to show that stock prices a very bad measure for actual performance of a company releasing a product, it's mostly driven by hype/shitstorms, of which there is currently a lot surrounding CP2077, some of it justified, other just coming across as tone-deaf and needlessly hostile.

[0] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-13-cyberpunk-...

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2020/12/11/22170468/cyberpunk-2077-s...
> I am planning to fix this in ring early in 2021 (January)...

This is definitely the piece that gives the current versioning policy its sharp edge, so it's great news that the fix will arrive soon.

Thanks for your hard work on Ring!
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As you suggest, the exact calculus is difficult, but you also can't ignore the positive effect that many (not all) billionaires have in the process of generating their wealth. Amazon, for example, saves consumers' time, and makes it easier to compare goods and prices, saving consumers' money. Bezos became a billionaire because he provided billions of dollars in value to regular people.

That does not absolve Bezos or other billionaires of their sins. But likewise, you cannot exclude it from your calculus.
> Russians, you're a fucking Trump supporter!

The Mueller inquiry was 4 years of lies and theater on the side of the Democrats, that verged on treason. Having said that, as a superpower, the US requires a relationship with Russia.

It turns out that the CCP is vastly more dangerous than Russia ever was, making our relationship with Russia even more important. The CCP has been in a cold war with the US since the 1950s when Mao said, "hide our strength, bide our time." Mao had a falling-out with Russia because Russia wouldn't declare a joint military war for ideological reasons on the US on multiple occasions in the 50's and 60's. (The CCP developed nuclear missiles mainly to attack the US.)

Xi is literally an ideological clone of Mao, even though Maoists jailed his father and made Xi do child labor in a work camp digging ditches. To protect his immediate family, they live in Australia and Canada because it's not safe to live in China.

The real Mueller investigation should have been into the Biden family, who was involved in influence peddling to the CCP and Ukraine. And the Clintons, who were bought by the Saudis. (There is indisputable proof online, and neither family has ever denied it. Biden's "I love my son." is not a denial.)

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-politics-business-ukrai...

https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/jul/07/fact-checking...

Trump's foreign policy is widely acknowledged to be the best in almost 70 years. Whereas Obama is compared to Jimmy Carter, Trump is compare to Reagan. (Don't confuse what's best for the US and the free world with what Europeans whine about. They don't even pay for their own defense.)

AMA.
If you are accusing me of lying im not lol. I assume he got north of 125k for a top dev job not 70k

You could grow a lot as an engineer in three months in the right environment assuming a guided curriculum is able to channel your energies in the right places and teachers/fellow students are able to help as well. I imagine you could also be bored for 3 months, or overly stressed for 3 months, and have negative feelings in regards to that experience. Like most things in life, its not right for everyone and its not wrong for everyone.

I have lots of friends who've paid for coding bootcamps, most are rather content with the services provided. I know some students as well that feel they were swindled out of cash because they weren't able to get a top tier job right out of the program and resorted to previous career path that they were already unhappy with.

I think its great that the good bootcamps that show success are trying to branch out to more normal learners, not just the greatly gifted or qualified (like an Ivy league degree) few, it is a noble sign that these schools are trying to expand using their special sauce to help more averagely qualified student transition into professional software engineering. Ivy league schools, do not do this. They have hundreds of years of success and don't feel the need to teach more students every year. (in regards to their on campus facilities not online programs that clearly dont offer the same experience)

If Lambda or the other top tier bootcamps capped their programs at 10 students a year or cohort, all of whom had ivy degrees or significant personal experience, all of whom who would get jobs immediately out of school, they would better be able to keep their graduation rates/salary rates top notch, they wouldnt have any students complaining online,

I commend them for trying to expand and help more students, and im sure they will stumble and get better as time goes on.

None of the good bootcamp schools that I am aware of just ignore feedback, because they know students will stop going to the school if feedback is ignored as they dont have hundreds of millions of dollars in funding like universities do.