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Just my interpretation (of the Pascal quote), beginning with the full quote.

> When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town. A commission in the army would not be bought so dearly, but that it is found insufferable not to budge from the town; and men only seek conversation and entering games, because they cannot remain with pleasure at home.[139][#201908302349]

This quote is often summarized roughly as: "all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." (i.e. the title of this post). Taken out of context, this would seem to suggest (to me) a belief that if we could simply meditate and avoid external distractions (a commission in the army, conversation, games, Pascal suggests), we might find happiness.

However, a reading of the full passage reveals that "on further consideration" he thinks the reason for this is that if we were to sit with our thoughts, the "natural poverty of our feeble and mortal condition" would drive us to despair.

He thinks that someone who truly understands the human condition would do everything they could to avoid sitting alone with their thoughts ("there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil") . We seek diversion because if we didn't have any distraction, we would end up dwelling on the miserable human condition (selfish, pre-occupied with self-gratification, sensitive to the opinion of others, judgmental, etc. - basically, 'sinful').

In the end, he suggests that we should look for happiness externally, in God, which he then talks about a lot.

[#201908302349]: Blaise Pascal (1958): _Pascal's Pensées_, New York: E.P. Dutton.
But it is an activity.
That was a fun little exercise
Writing perfect software that nobody wants to pay $ to upgrade/fix is a really bad business model. You want to create software that people want to pay $ for even if it isn’t perfect. It’s like the medical industry. They don’t want to invent medication that cure you. Only medication that “manages” your symptoms and guarantee a long term $ income from your sickness for years until you die.
> There's also this enduring myth you see repeated even here of how much saving there is by not having "devops", when only very big companies needed them in the first place.

I dunno, the first company I worked at was very small, under 30 people, sales included, and I was hired on as an SA. If they were using serverless, they would not have needed to hire me.

Deployments and system upgrades were very toilsome. The dev lead would spend a few hours deploying new code and we’d only do it around midnight in case there was a problem (our customers were almost entirely US based). I spent a lot of my time automating OS upgrades on the web servers behind our proxy. All of this work would be unnecessary for that small company if they were using serverless.

Additionally, as mentioned before, the majority of their traffic was during the day so they could have scaled down automatically at night, cutting costs. Would this be cheaper than running machines 24/7? I’m not sure, but I could see why you’d be interested in at least looking into it
I like to say, most people are afraid of being alone with themselves in their head.

It's just practice. Most folks don't know what to do, so when they find themselves alone with their thoughts they instantly decide to leave that state. Its a sort of Attention Deficit thing. With practice you can figure out something to think about when in this state. Review, question, or just observe. Anything can be interesting if you invest it with value and do it deliberately.
Maybe the game keeps them around so you can buy them back?
> people detest being made to spend six to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think – even to the extent of being willing to give themselves mild electric shocks instead

I must be weird, because I don't connect with this at all. I can easily spend hours in daydream, introspective pondering, world building, or creative thinking.

Surely I'm not the only one that finds this article inapplicable?
The infrastructure might be stable now, but could break with an update.
Has Microsoft acknowledged the problem yet? It's still not listed as a known issue on the update page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4592438/windows-10-...
You realize the good old UK is also apparently taking cues from the East German Stasi here?
Where is dashboard and tracing app for this ? Possible lock down for all coming ? I'm not specialist
TFA is talking about serverless, not cloud computing in general (e.g. rent a VM, run stuff in it).

I don't love that I pay aws to run my open source domain(s), but the extent of their job is: keep my VM up, provide me with outbound email that works, offer backups. For now, I can live with that.
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how big is the userbase of Atom? I remember there being a lot of hype when it came out but I never hear about it anymore
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Is there any variant where both players play blind every other move or in the starting?
Enterprise version (LTSC) hasn't had a feature update since November of 2018. Only security updates.
> It's not the same. Come on.

I never bought records, only CDs. My memory is small and low resolution cover art. Browsing album covers on spotify on anything bigger than a tablet will show the art at a bigger scale with better colors.
I would assume the room is an average room, in contrast to a warm you could swim in, trampoline you could play on or similar physical outlets.

The key thing, I would claim, from a "whole person" perspective, is that the contrast is "sit quietly, forget your body entirely and think" and "get stressed by bodily tension and start an uncontrollable argument with yourself" where "bring your mind and body into harmony through movement" isn't an options.
In my life, this was an aggressive employee we hired who was not performing but also passive-aggressive to everyone, and at the beginning we were obligated to give them the benefit of the doubt (due to their explanations that they're struggling with the pandemic, civil unrest, family emergency, elections).

Then even after gathering evidence of their poor performing, they will just keep arguing their case, and would protest to everyone who will listen, and pit people against each other. They will claim they never knew those things were their responsibilities, that they were working hard on it, and that they were just about to address the performance issues, etc.
>Oh well, I guess I will be using Macbooks for the rest of my life

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/15/macos-big-sur-update-br...

Dropping quality is happening everywhere.
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Because I assume a significant portion of the site has completely forgotten which sites are paywalled.
I know we're basically comparing anecdotes, but I've been surprised at how much more I've come to trust my windows workstation than my Mac in the past few years. I can't actually remember the last time my Windows workstation crashed outright (if ever?) but my Mac locks up at least 2-3 times per week. I also have to be extremely careful to avoid high memory pressure under Big Sur now, otherwise Finder spirals into a restart loop that can only be fixed with a hard reset. I also had to give up my Mac Thunderbolt setup because I've been fighting the same Thunderbolt crash that many people have been complaining about since Catalina was released in 2019 ( https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/16/gameover/ ).

Meanwhile, my Windows machine just keeps chugging along, drama free. All of my hardware and peripherals work just fine with it, but I often have to play the plug-unplug game with audio peripherals until video playback works on my Mac.

Five years ago I never would have guessed I'd be writing an HN comment praising my Windows machine and lamenting all of the issues with my Mac, but here we are. It's downright depressing to think of all the time I've lost in the past year waiting for my MacBook to reboot or replugging USB cables until everything works after I wake it from sleep.
pycharm charges for use - https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/buy/#personal?billing=year...
That science guy has a good sense of humor.
Did this submission get deleted? I can't favorite it.
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>I don't otherwise understand why you would bring up the idea of "changing everything every few years" being bad practice

I was just suggesting that breaking things for people who can't afford new computers isn't necessarily a "good practice" and there's different perspectives on these things. Once again, I'm not arguing for the use of <center>, nor do I use it myself.

My main point from the beginning was just pointing out the irony of deprecating <center> 20 years ago, then seeing it used on this very site. Reading your arguments, nestled in between that awful <center> tag, makes the irony all the more delicious.
The mention of utilitarianism reminds me of this idea of insensibility. A calmer culture, I assume, is grounded in sensibility.
>"Invariably, their response has been to tell me that I just don't get it"

I cured this one when my native server running on not so expensive multicore CPU with enough RAM left their cloudy setup in a dust performing more than a 100 times faster and still having huge potential reserve in vertical scalability. They were just astonished at what a single piece of modern hardware in combination with the native code could do.
Why can't this be fixed by fake slowing down/randomizing cache reads? Are they wasting actual bandwidth making HTTP requests for already cached content?
Temporarily, but over the long term, TSMC would likely have to more than double their leading edge capacity, which would take a decade or two or more.
Looking at the article, these images, a s your description of what happening. I get the impression that the imaging radar has no angular resolution, the only thing it captures is time of flight of the radar signal from chirp to return, and that this data is a very thin beam, 50 cm wide in this case.

So when the data is visualised, the perspective in the SAR image is actually 90deg offset from the imagining direction. This is done because the collected data only contains distance, rather than distance and angle (which you would get with LiDAR).

So places where building look transparent are caused by the fact that visualisation perspective is different to the imagining perspective. In an image that appears to have been taken with the camera south of a target, it was actually imaged from the north (this is a simplification). So you will always get overlapping data, because the imaging and apparent visualisation perspectives are different. And the reason for not aligning the perspectives is because there isn’t actually enough data to do that (no return or transmission angle is collected along side the distance data).

It’s important to note that I say “apparent” perspective. Because the imaging perspective doesn’t actually change, I think the perspective change is caused by our brains recognising shapes, and computing a perspective angle. But this angle is actually incorrect because the RADAR imaging process is completely different to how our eyes work.

For those still confused about this. Try thinking about how the shadows are being cast, they’re not from the sun, and likely the only thing admitting radar signals to “illuminate” objects is the satellite emitting the RADAR chirps, and also doing the imaging.

Could someone tell me if I’ve got this right?
>>IMO, this is a false equivalence -- governments are uniquely different from other entities.

This is another difference on our world view. I do not believe they should be. The foundation of the American style of governance is "For the people by the people".

The government is the common organization of individual natural rights. Any legitimate force the government has comes from the common organization of the natural and individual right of self defense. We the people ordain and establish governments to protect our individual rights. As such the common force is to only do what the individuals have the natural and lawful right to do, to protect our rights.

So if it would be unlawful or unethical for me to enter your property, mow your yard and take our car as compensation it should also be unlawful / unethical for the government to do the same

Granting government special powers is how government abuse occurs. Just look at all the police abuse, this occurs because we have given the police immunities, protections and powers not afforded to the general public. This power will, is, and always will be abused by those that hold it

This was the fundamental problem with the Monarch system we revolted from over 250 years ago, and as we granted the government ever increasing levels of power far above what a normal citizen could ever dream of the resulting problems are clear, evident and predictable. Including the resulting Wealth inequality which I can and have made a case is cause by government regulations not by capitalism or lack of regulations
Same with lawyers. They are billing by the hour. So it is in their interest to make contract negotiations as complicated and drawn out as possible, and the resulting contract vague enough for the client to require more lawyer hours in the future. If you are a lawyer and you help clients to quickly get high quality contracts finished, you will never become a partner.
Has there been studies to check if this effect is more pronounced in people with aphantasia? My thoughts are usually rich with visualizations and I have no trouble sitting in a room and thinking.
The same could be said of Australia's internal borders, which were largely closed as well. Most people will follow the rules, so simply closing the borders will get you most of the way there.

The issue is not whether it's possible - it is - it's whether the cost of doing so is too high. It's a fair consideration to make, but it should be clear that that's the consideration being made, rather than pretending that only island nations have this option.
This is beautiful. I never desired to <relearn> any amount of Assembly language since my CS program, but this is making me want to try agian

> It has been designed specifically to use as a teaching tool for the Introduction to Computer Architecture course taught at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College London.
I think you are miss understanding my comment. I was responding to the author’s comparison of serverless and the cloud to collocated servers in a DC, I never argued that other services in the cloud are bad/shouldn’t be used/inferior to serverless in all cases.

I suppose this wasn’t clear because another commenter had a similar question/response
Name Generator: What Would Your Victorian Pen Name Have Been?
"The Guardian was founded as a socially-engaged newspaper for the working classes"

My point is that the pieces like this are inaccessible for the vast majority of people. Its meaning could easily be conveyed without so many obscure references. If this were in a literary magazine then fine, but this is the Guardian.
This is a really weird title.

It sounds like they think vaccination is a bad thing? It seems completely sensible to vaccinate these people early but the title is worded like 'they did something good, now something bad happens to them'.
Still... $450 for the CPU only vs a $999 laptop, for most use cases the apple's MBA offers much more value and will have slower depreciation.
I help run a service that uses hundreds of Windows boxes, and at any one time two or three of them always seem to have a borked windows update state. Recovery is utter fucking voodoo, and it's usually better to flatten a machine than attempt to repair things.

A while back I installed a couple racks of shiny, new, absolutely identical servers (except for MAC addresses) with factory-imaged operating systems, and had two of them fail initial windows updates. Out of the box. How do you even do that?
Thanks for putting this into words. People want a reason to log on, a reason to show up to work.

I wrote a blog post on Monday about a relatively old and not-hot language. The post nevertheless trended on Medium and received 50k views. A lot of the feedback was from people who were just happy to see someone senior say something positive about the not-hot language.

Anyway, working with The New Hotness also gives people something to put on their resumé: “I built system X on top of The New Hotness. Nobody had built such a system before for The New Hotness”.
"Yes, we run workloads that your nephew can run on his Raspberry Pi 4, but this is the future of enterprise."

This hit home... the amount of money I've seen businesses pour down the drain in my past few years of experience is insane. Offices with less than 10 people being talked into server setups costing tens of thousands of dollars for nothing more than a NAS, recoridng camera footage, Door access, etc.
But what's the harm in this? Before DVRs there were plenty of times when I was interested in watching TV but nothing interesting was on. This wasn't some well of untapped discovery to be cherished. It was just 2pm and all that was on was soap operas.
The 3900X really is an incredible processor. I switched from mostly crappy Dell work laptops to a proper desktop with a 3900X late last year and the compile and general responsiveness times are night and day (not unexpectedly)
Longer than you should? There is no such thing. Of course it's possible to spend thought without resulting in any new discoveries but that's not really a problem because thoughts are interconnected and build upon each other to create better mental models for other situations. It doesn't matter how petty or insignificant the topic is, it's the act of thinking deeply about something that's important.

Anyway, I understand the social context of the phrase, but my point is that it's used so often in place a real argument and is a sign of the greater superficiality of most discussions today.
I've been mostly Linux since 2011 and the few times I had to install Win10 for something I've been very displeased. We've fallen quite far in Windows, with ads everywhere, hundreds of services that do God-knows-what, fresh installs that break as soon as the updater runs for the first time. I'm really not impressed and I try to use it as little as possible. Just a bloated, unstable mess designed to sell Microsoft's value-added services.
Singapore is first country in the world to approve lab-grown chicken products
In your analogy, the climbing is what's important, not which ladder. Learning how to climb well is applicable regardless of which ladder you encounter in the future.
Could you sell illegal files? Perhaps in an encrypted format?
Early versions?
While that is an incredible number, have you factored in any workers for agricultural supplies and equipment, or for processing, distribution, or preparation?
There are far more languages that compile to Java bytecode then to javascript or Webassembly and it has been a thing for far longer. The Java virtual machine has a good jit-compiler(at least for java but often for other languages too) and a good garbage collector. It offers access to many useful libraries especially for desktop guis so its long been a target. Most popular languages targeting java include groovy, scala, clojure, Kotlin. Also Jruby is a fairly popular alternative ruby implementation on top of the JVM

You're probably thinking of something like cpythons bytecode which is unstable internal only thing (breaking compatibility with minor python versions). Java bytecode has to be stable since it had to be shared by multiple jvm implementations. And even then a famous ruby hacker made a ruby-to-python-bytecode-compiler(now probably broken by version changes).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321204
> While M1 is indeed very powerful for its size, when comparing it to the high-end x86 desktop, it is still slower

I too am astonished that a high-end x86 desktop could possibly be faster than a Mac mini or a laptop without a fan. Now I will have to burn my Apple card (if I had one) in protest.

I call on Apple to immediately retract all of its marketing that says that the M1 is the fastest CPU in the universe.

> obscene power draw

Who cares about power in a desktop (or laptop for that matter)? These things aren't solar powered - just plug it in like a normal person! Duh.

I also note that a single Ryzen 5800X processor is actually cheaper than the Mac mini, and is readily available from many helpful and enterprising resellers on ebay at special holiday pricing.

;-)
> do you feel that it is uncomfortable to not do anything?

I don't. Although if reading qualifies as "doing something", I guess I'm almost never not doing anything, because if I don't have anything else to do, I almost always read. Of course I've always been careful to have plenty of reading material on hand; one nice thing about a smartphone is that you can carry a whole library around with you wherever you go.

In situations where I genuinely have nothing to do, not even read, I might get bored if I can't come up with something to think about, but I wouldn't say it's uncomfortable for me to not do anything. It's just a situation where it's on me to come up with something to think about.
I always have standby copy deployed elsewhere. And I make it a point not deploying production until a single script could rebuild new clean system by using backed up data, configs and software packages. So for me it is no a big deal at all. Well if the hardware died I have to pay for replacement which is not fun but it is a very rare occurrence.
In university, friends in the lab came up with, and regularly played, a 4-player version we called "Drop Chess".

In this variant, there are two games going on at once asynchronously. Your partner is sitting beside you, but playing the opposite colour. Whatever pieces he captures, you can drop on the board- but not until the next turn after he captured it, and with some extra rules about where it can go. When one game ends, both games are over.

It was as much fun to watch as play.
What do you think the intermediate job should be?

For what it's worth, the job titles can be ambiguous.

The formal progression in the US/Canada is usually "Assistant Professor" -> "Associate Professor" -> "Professor." However, someone in any of these positions can be called a (lowercase-p) "professor", with the most senior job referred to as a "Full (or University) Professor."
Pentagon considering separation of offensive hacking function from NSA
S3 has an interesting limit of about 60 LIST requests per bucket, depending on the number of prefixes/size of bucket.

They used to advertise 100 per second, but then they pushed a big update that doubled the read QPS limit, and conveniently left out the reduction in LIST qps from the docs.