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dotnet and Java stand no chance in the modern world

They are heavy, bloated, and try to do everything, at the end of the day they pick the lowest common denominator, for everything, and they ship it

They want compile to a small executable, they are stuck and ended up just zipping everything and calling it a day

They want to interop with native world, but they introduce runtime overhead and their GC/memory model is a barrier

They want to AOT compile, but their runtime and libraries rely a lot on runtime reflection

They want to be tiny, but they have ton of legacy package that makes them very heavy

Just look at the success story of go, it invalidates any attempts to make both dotnet and java attractive, it is too late, even more too late in an ARM world where relying on a JIT is a weakness
N26, Klarna, Contentful, GetYourGuide, Ebay and some others I cannot remember have engineers who make more than 100k, not all their engineers, but senior engineers. Mid-level, depending on how they define it, earn between 70k and 90k per year.

If you want salaries close to US ones with lower taxes, go to Zurich, but that's a different story.
> Yep, it's starting to click. My guess would be that this (or the 180 degree opposite) is the flight path of the imager in the golf photo, basically opposite the perceived perspective of the photo

Yes! Typically SAR images are annotated with the direction of flight, otherwise they are very difficult to interpret (unless there are tress, like here).

You are right that, even if the image is acquired from the "upward" direction, it looks like a regular image taken from "below". But this correspondence is not exact when there are occlusions (typically the vertical walls of buildings). The side of the building that is visible is the one closest to the antenna, not the one closest to your imaginary point of view. Thus it looks as if it was transparent, because it is superimposed with the ground next to it.
Pi's don't last as long as traditional hardware, but if you are running a self-healing cluster of machines, why wouldn't you use this for production environments?
Did you consider using servos vs electromagnets? Curious if small servos couldn’t accomplish the same goal.
First: ruby is used by almost no one so at a minimum you need to diversify your languages
Second: I see typos in your post, so you need to be better (exceptional) at writing
Third: Add another skill set like project management, data visualization, or DBA.

Put all those pieces together and you can easily double your salary. You have put yourself in a box. Continue diversifying and in the US you can even triple or quadruple that.
If the counterfeit shoe fits...

Although it is interesting that you use Tetris as an example. Communist Russia appropriated Tetris from its creator, and he didn’t see any financial benefit until the USSR dissolved.
> Emotions are a drawback imo, the fact that they're so deeply intertwined with the logical parts is a drawback.

Homie I hope you eventually wake up and smell the coffee :).

Take away emotions, lol, and you literally are no longer a human being.

Lol take away emotions and you literally die - fear, anger, sadness,desire, hunger, joy, curiosity. Intellectual curiosity is an emotion. The joy of solving a problem, doing something with some slick and elegant logic? Emotion.

> We often act against our own best interests and health purely because we're afraid, for example.

Best interest? The very concept fundamentally depends on caring about something - being alive, the good of humanity, whatever. Caring about absolutely anything? An emotion :).

We actually are able to control a lot, but not all of our bodies. Once we accept that we are inherently emotional beings and work on being more conscious of our feelings and mindful ;).

FWIW while it’s a lifelong effort, practicing to neutrally observe our feelings and treat them more as data to analyze, without divorcing ourselves from them or denying them, is a powerful tool to counterbalance the ease of confusing a transitory feeling with one’s self and the counterproductive behavior or decision-making which often stems from that. AKA practicing mindfulness.

Lol which I’m not really doing, writing such a heated comment ;).

Laughter? Emotion.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but computers are perfectly logical and have no emotion and they’re not fucking alive.

Take a page from Commander Data’s book and try to appreciate the fundamental nature of humanity :).
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Not at all. One of the major concerns in schools is student to teacher ratio and small classroom sizes are considered a plus.

All the well-meaning but naive plans to turn education into mass media would with up with all the wealthy zip codes having teachers and everyone else relying on glorified youtube.

At this point, if there’s an education problem where technology would be useful, it’s probably something subtle like collaborating to publish an affordable textbook as a way to break monopoly pricing.
Scientists looking for aliens investigate radio beam from nearby star
Whoa, that's a huge range. Do you know what number is typical for (higher paid, 100K+) tech workers?
My first computer was a ZX81 with 1K of RAM, received as a soldering kit. We had the 16K extension, very sensitive and which made the system reboot at the slightest shock.
Who often does this? I've used my own modem on Cox, Comcast and Spectrum and none have charge me a fee for doing so.
This is some helpful insight. Anyone who plans to edit video in the future should contemplate it. We need more longer, slower shots. Rapid cuts - like high notes for a singer - should to my mind be used more sparingly for greater impact.
And _then_ breaks?
Just for a different perspective, I grew up in a very low income household, and the Pi was the only computer I was able to convince my mum to get me as an early teenager. "Cheap" is relative, and I disagree that the Pi wasn't a big step forward in terms of price on the very low-end.
>someone must have done a cabbie vs satnav challenge

I'd argue it's been happening on a fairly large scale for the last few years. That Uber is competitive is a good sign that the Knowledge isn't nearly as much of an advantage as the cabbies would have you believe, but nor has it been completely eclipsed by tech
Your comment reminded me of this video of David Bowie from 1999: https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1339427341387313155
It still confuses the hell out of me. I feel like every freaking question about swift I searched are always 5 to 7 years old.
But the title doesn’t mention the FCC, and nothing else suggests which country it concerns either.

HN is an English-language website, which often translates to majority US. We can further speculate that HN is likely majority able-bodied, heterosexual, male, cis, white. That’s not a reason to make it less inclusive of people outside those majorities.
"Published in science journal PLOS ONE in March 2013, the study documented reliable core body temperature increases for the first time in Tibetan nuns practising g-tummo meditation...

"The researchers collected data during the unique ceremony in Tibet, where nuns were able to raise their core body temperature and dry up wet sheets wrapped around their bodies in the cold Himalayan weather (-25 degree Celsius) while meditating. Using electroencephalography (EEG) recordings and temperature measures, the team observed increases in core body temperature up to 38.3 degree Celsius..."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130408084858.h...
Curious, are you a boss, or have you ever been?
30 in Paris, finance, 80k€ fixed salary + 10-20k€ bonus.
It seems a bit unfair to label it a downside to just her cookbooks. At least in the US, it's only been recently that recipe providers have transitioned to weight based recipes, with folks like Kenji championing the transition.
BBC Micro and its evolution to mobile dominance is one of my go-to examples for how a lot of private sector innovations were originally high risk investments subsidized by the public.
I actually just looked at my 1992 copy of The Whole Internet from O'Reilly. The World Wide Web (WWW) is very specifically used to refer to the CERN project and not Gopher et al.

"The World-Wide Web, or WWW, is the newest information service to arrive on the Internet."

That the web is conflated with the internet in many minds doesn't mean they actually are the same thing.
I grew up with IMs like Yahoo! Messenger and WLM. I tried to use IRC a few times when I was younger and found it impenetrable (a mosaic of text-only boxes that look like a mature emacs configuration -- way before I knew what emacs was -- and immediately greeted by a long wall of text telling me I had to do this and that to post in that server).

My qualms and expectations are indeed very different. For example, fat clients like WLM were more peer to peer, which meant unlimited file transfers, sending voice clips, and uploading custom emotes all for free since they're not sitting on someone's data farming server. I miss that. Thin clients like Discord are of course more profitable but are more limited/onerous even as you're paying a subscription like Nitro to be able to bump up your file transfer to 100 MB and use custom emotes (despite the great UX).

An older person's IRC is my WLM. xD
> It makes me wonder why we haven't been spending anything close to 1/5 as much time and effort on fighting opioid abuse as we have on covid.

If you think opioid abuse is bad, wait until you know the amount of deaths from obesity or smoking.

> More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke)

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

> Obesity is associated with nearly 1 in 5 US deaths, according to a study published online August 15 in the American Journal of Public Health. The new data suggest obesity's toll on Americans is more than 3 times previous estimates.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/809516

All preventable causes of death that apparently we must be ok with!

What's the lockdown equivalent?

Is it "not caring" if I don't lock anyone above 200lbs in a room and starve them until they're a healthy weight?
Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
How about instead of fetishizing ascendance to the middle class we start building a society where working class people can live in dignity too?
And again, I’d rather pay for it out of pocket once than get taxed at a higher rate for my entire working life. There’s these things called “stocks” that may companies grant or provide at a discount. That combined with the effects of ~18 years of growth means getting your kids a head start on tuition isn’t nearly as expensive as you’d think.
> Controlling everything from start to finish like Apple with swift, m1, MacOS can give you a several percent advantage just because of the synergies you can take advantage of.

That's definitely true. Nevertheless, while Apple controls the whole chain for the iPhone, iPhones are not the most popular smartphones in the world. Depending on their use case, rational customers will buy not the best/most optimized, but the one that fits their needs at the lowest price.
This wouldn't generally help with that, as these record meteors that are passing through the atmosphere.

Potentially Hazardous Objects have to be modelled from quite far away and have their courses plotted. Most PHOs would not show up on cameras such as this.
In one experiment, kids were allowed to play all the arcade games they wanted. They played endlessly.
Another set of kids were paid to play video games for hours. Those kids cheated and were found to slack off when viewed in a hidden camera.
This is one example of why I think people are essentially anti-authoritarian.
>I'd love to see some sort of automatic regulation for situations of market failure.

Why do you assume "market failure", and not "regulatory capture"?

> the presumption should be regulation

Can we first get rid of the extant anti-competitive regulations that create and maintain monopolies?

> But my girlfriend lives in an area with Comcast only

Have you looked into what's stopping a would-be competing ISP?
Finally, a criticism that is not completely generic conservatism. It's a good point that this would work better for shareholder votes on policy decisions rather than board elections.
I really enjoyed this when I was younger, around the time it came out. Over time though I came to realize it's way too cynical and reductive to really guide you to any sort of successful outcome.

Do your best to be confident, kind, and engaged and you will run circles around the characters enumerated here, even the "winners".
Pretty close - their initial investment seems to have been 30%.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-28-fi-4993-s...

"Apple has invested about $3 million (roughly 1.5 million pounds) for a 30% interest in the company"

Also from that link, this amusing sentence: "Some analysts speculated that Apple might be eyeing ARM chips for use in a future notebook-sized computer"
I’d suggest the number of British expats in Silicon Valley who started programming on a BBC Micro or Spectrum suggests that it very much did pay off, just not in the way anticipated.
You can't draw attention to it. That might raise even more questions about the net effectiveness of continued lockdowns.
When I read "15 year-old game written in D", I calculated 2020-15 in my head but I already knew this could only be Torus Trooper. What an amazing game, I only wish it had a few more features! It's also where I first learned about D. This article was great and it's kinda "wow" how little had to be changed on a codebase that's 15 years old.
Telecommunications. And indeed, I graduated 6 years ago.
So does heart disease, cancer, surely plenty of other reasons.

Why is that a story other than to create controversy over the "it's just a flu" mentality combined with the "degenerate San Francisco" narrative?
Correlation, not causation. It’s also known that people simply congregated outside their homes more during the NYC summer.

This is the problem with self-regulation. Not everyone is a doctor, so many people will incorrectly gauge their own risk of severe infection and/or transmission.

Just think about it, self regulation is the easiest government intervention (basically no intervention required). If that strategy worked, we would have seen at least 1 success by now. Sweden and Brazil had few (if any) restrictions and some of the highest death rates in their regions. Developing countries with poor governance and zero public health infrastructure are also struggling.
I find it really funny how often European and US developers are incredulous of each other's salaries :)
I really like the stoic philosophy regarding death. It agrees with what you’re saying. One of the key reasons why the end of suffering is good (even if it’s sad) is that the suffering person can’t really function as a human being anymore. If you’re no longer able to fulfill your role and your days are unbalanced with suffering, it’s considered sensible and honourable to die peacefully and intentionally. You were nothing for an eternity, you did your best to be a good person, now you’ll go back to that quiet nothing. It was fine that you didn’t exist, you existed, and it’ll be fine that you don’t exist.

Obviously this tidy philosophy doesn’t mesh with things like murder or other untimely deaths. It just encapsulates nicely why sometimes death is a good thing. And why we shouldn’t fear it.
I really liked the show for its light-heartedness and it's non-PC oriented comedy (which faded away as seasons went by), but there are also other interesting themes there, such as subtle hints from writers that Michael Scott putting up an act to actually make the most out of employees of Dunder Mifflin.
> I have long had the hunch that depression (and especially SAD) make sense from an evolutionary perspective as a sort of hibernation strategy.

Interesting, I've long had the hunch that an evolutionary purpose of depression could be to strengthen a tribe by weeding out individuals that are a burden to said tribe, as self-perceived burden seems to be closely linked to the disorder.
> And surely, you participate in the same process, even if you don't feel as strongly about it - otherwise, why are you replying to strangers that you are unlikely to ever meet or speak to again?

Why not? Do you not value discussion, hearing new ideas, learning new concepts, having a soundboard for your thoughts? I also like sharing knowledge and participation in the process of humanity developing its collective memeplex (or at least fooling myself that I'm doing that). The fact that I'm not going to meet the people I discuss with has no bearing at all.

While what you describe in your comment is a factor, I cannot agree the rush is the dominant factor for commenting for me.
Bitcoin is Projected to Reach $318K in 2021
Frontier used to - they were sued in multiple states for it so I'm not sure if they've stopped everywhere already or not. Comcast does in some markets. AT&T fiber still does as far as I know.
It might be a consequence of Acorn's aggressively simple design for the CPU. They preferred complex software over complex hardware.
The ARM chip was low power essentially by accident. The designers wanted to keep it under (I think) 10 watts which would let them use cheap plastic packages for the chips. But they didn't have good power simulation tools so they needed to be very conservative with the design. When they manufactured the chips, they found the power consumption was closer to 1 watt.

Edit: as beagle3 pointed out, I got the numbers wrong; they aimed for 1 watt and came in under 0.1 watt. For more details, see Steve Furber's oral history, page 15. He says "Effectively, we used Victorian engineering margins on the power consumption of the chip." https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
The US is in a new cold war and losing BADLY. In a few years, it will be even more clear that Trump is a traitor and beholden to Putin. It will take a decade to undo the damage if that's even possible. When Biden takes office, the US needs to bring the US's full political weight down upon Putin and completely rethink how "defense" money is spent. If the US doesn't transition away from traditional defense and weapons to cyber-defense and cyber-weapons, the US is doomed. Russia isn't the only one ahead of the US on this. The US is an ostrich with it's head in a hole.
Right, so perhaps one hypothesis is that EU tech salaries are so much lower than US because EU tech salaries have to subsidize lower class much more than US salaries.

Even still though, pre-tax EU salaries seem really low compared to pre-tax US salaries
For one thing, drug abuse is not communicable. For another, COVID is indeed significantly more deadly than drug overdoses.

But the actual answer is that the UE has spent far more money and resources into fighting drugs than it has COVID. The majority of police resources goes towards fighting drugs. The majority of prison resources goes towards fighting drugs. Unlike COVID, where at most people have been sternly asked to quarantine, hundreds of thousands of people are locked up and have almost all their freedoms taken away for drugs. There is an entire massive federal agency that only exists to deal with drugs, and has counterparts in nearly every state.

The problem is not a lack of resources vs say COVID. We have been putting orders of magnitudes more resources towards drugs in the US for decades than we have in this one year for COVID.

The problem is that a very large majority of society is unwilling to treat drugs as the health problem that they are and want to test it as a criminal issue. We are now seeing some movement towards treating it as a health issue, now that white families are affected the same way as black families have been for decades, but the change is still far too slow and is largely unofficial.

So the question that we should be asking is not why we are not putting in more resources towards drugs as COVID (simply because we are). The question is why we aren’t putting the bulk of the massive resources we spend on drugs towards the health aspects as opposed to trying to criminalize it out of society.
> A solo software developer can rapidly experiment and test ideas until one starts to scale.

In all fairness, this same thing can be done with virtual machines. VMs have been "cattle" for a long while now. "Serverless" just removes the start and stop buttons from your UI. There are still servers and there is still configuration, it's just being done on the conflations of others.

What I find interesting is how many people feel the need to justify using whatever it is they are using when others are exercising their right to question whether or not all the tech we've built is "worth it".

In many cases, having all this power of the cloud has just removed value from companies as they allow their employees to spin up whatever and leave it running because they don't know any better processes than what has been sold to them by crafty sales and marketing people.

How many millions have been "blown" on cloud just to say something is started or running? My observations say "a lot".
The importance of the WWW for me has been research papers and books, dev tools, and jazz & classical music.

Although I use it every day, the WWW has become something that I actively mistrust. There are too many predators, both commercial and espionage.

I scrape WWW pages from the terminal and download archives for offline reference. Just to use what TBL conceived, it has been necessary to develop multi-layered defence: router, firewall, dns doh and filters, VPN, firejail, browser extensions.

I think it's safe to say that this is not what most users have in mind when they buy a shiny new computer and "connect to the Internet".
I play banjo, too!

It's an illness, I think. :)
I thought a lot about your comment. This is what bugs me:

That said, social tolerance should not devolve into some sort of forced social acceptance for the "liberation" of sex work. Just as any woman should be free to engage in sex work, I should be free to judge her for it

What exactly are you judging her for? For being comfortable with her body?
> because the long distance phone bill was $926 and my dad was furious

Blimey. I'm not surprised. In today's money that's $2,239.52. You were like a very early forerunner of those kids running up massive credit card bills on in-app purchases.

Great story though: thanks for sharing.
The compiles are parallel, but not all work can be done in parallel or divided among 32 threads equally. So from 24 to 32 threads is not typically a 33% increase unless your compiles are huge (like the Linux kernel).
[grin] like me.

That’s a good point. I originally meant that the PC took over the world, but if you take a step back and look at the influence of that ubiquity, yeah. That’s a good point :)
I liked HotBot’s. It had a customizable portal page where you could X out boxes that you didn’t want.
If networking is not a problem, why not deploy it already decompressed? I'm assuming the 5 minutes time included decompressing it? It seems a bit weird to take so much time to allocate some objects in memory and possibly establish a few connections.

Anyway, can you share which kind of environment even a 5 minute deployment would be a problem? Most places I worked at it took a lot more than 5 minutes to actually implement the change that's going to production, so deployment times were pretty much irrelevant overall.
Behind the clickbait:

"Last year, 441 people died of drug overdoses — a 70% increase from 2018"
"621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year"

"fentanyl... more potent than morphine"
"2,610 potential overdoses were prevented by Narcan, a medication commonly sprayed up the nose to reverse an opioid overdose"
That's what I said? Principal devs will make that regardless of location if they have the requisite domain expertise (which is usually required for the principal slots).