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I think you're correct but I also think the article is correct.

At scale there are levels of inescapable complexity. There are a lot of tools that help manage this complexity. However too many in smaller teams emulate bigger companies and inject wasted complexity by using tools that solve problems they don't have.
Mainframes were (and still are) billed by fractional second of CPU usage, total storage, bandwidth between storage and compute, bandwidth off box, total number of jobs scheduled, and per-use fees for third party tools such as sort, RPC servers, and such. So times literally have not changed in this regard.
I know how much Hacker News likes T.S. Eliot.

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Teach us to care and not to care

Teach us to sit still.

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The environment doesn't matter. If it does then you're already distracted from the thought.
Numerous other roadways. For one, Highway 89 and 88 (Monitor Pass and Carson Pass) south of Lake Tahoe, which are both part of the annual Death Ride which I've done a few times. I suppose if I was coming from 50 I'd do 89 (Monitor) and then take 4 (Ebbetts Pass/Pacific Grade) into the Angels Camp area, which is a much nicer ride than 88.
oh dear, I slack off from watching 5G training and get this..
I run a fibre ISP as well, and you're completely wrong. There are no settings for you to play with on an ONU. It gets fully configured remotely. A fibre ONU is not remotely in the same class as DSL or cable modem - there is no complex signal processing going on, and there are no wires for you to fiddle with. More importantly, virtually nobody has the required tools to work on fibre. You'll probably just break it.
Redis Cluster – Benefits of Sharding and How It Works
Agreed. I did not mean to detract from your point, and awareness of bus architecture is so limited that vendors usually get away with cheaping out on memory channels so we often have even fewer than our CPU module could exercise.

In practice if you have more memory buses they are more likely to be useful to help more processes or threads make simultaneous progress than to speed up one process. For a single thread to make good use of more memory buses usually requires using memory pre-fetch intrinsics and memory sequestration, and even then it is hard to keep more than two or three usefully engaged for that thread.

So, your point stands.
Self defense with a firearm can be part of a plan to avoid being the victim of violence, but it works a lot better in a society where crime is rare, serious crimes are likely to be punished, and the probability of profiting from major crimes is low. When skilled and motivated criminals attack unsuspecting victims, they tend to be successful even if the victims are armed.

Case in point, in 1986, Michael Lee Platt and William Russel Matix went on a crime spree in the Miami area. They started by murdering a man at a shooting range to steal his firearm and car. They then tried and failed to rob an armored car, murdering an armed guard in the process. Next, they robbed a bank. After a couple months off, they robbed another armored car, during which they stole a guard's rifle and murdered him with it. A couple months after that, they robbed and attempted to kill another man at a shooting range, using his stolen car in a bank robbery a week later.

All of the victims these criminals shot were armed, which did not dissuade them from initiating attacks. The armored truck guards were presumably trained, but not sufficiently to defend against attackers whose opening move was gunfire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout
Getmail is probably your best bet for an automated email backup - that will fetch your email over IMAP (getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens can use oauth to connect to IMAP) and store it as a maildir or mbox. You can then use that with whatever client or search system you like.

You could then use this maildir as the backend for a dovecot IMAP server and use any webmail client of your choosing to connect to this and search it etc.

I'd avoid POP3 - very old protocol and it removes your mail from the server (is this your goal?). You're definitely better using IMAP. Even if you want to delete mail from the server, you're probably safer to fetch it by IMAP, then delete it.
It's funny, I haven't used Linux in some time, but my choices were very similar to yours. At least back in the late 90s and early 00s, IceWM seemed to be the Window Manager that was designed to look like a sexier Windows 95. 15-20 years later, that seems like a weird thing to hang your hat on, but it looks like that is pretty close to where it is.

I also tried Blackbox, used Gnome's desktop for a while, but it was too heavy and settled on XFCE. Were I to go back to Linux, I would probably end up on XFCE again (or maybe Elementary).
Funny to see this. About a month ago I took a break from my usual environment (Linux Mint Cinnamon) and gave Icewm a try. I decided after a week of usage that it did everything I need in a window manager: fully configurable with hotkeys, multiple virtual desktops, a taskbar, a decent "start" button with a menu system you can edit to your heart's content.

I usually like transparent terminals with a slight shading to them and icewm uses older technology so the newer terminals don't provide transparency. I fixed that by moving to aterm which in turn gave me trouble by not handling unicode.

So icewm is perhaps dated. But it's very lightweight, a bit more mainstream-feeling than openbox etc., and I thought it's a good compromise between a KDE/Mate/Gnome3 and openbox/fluxbox/i3 etc. It's nice for remote machines you remote into where you want some basic GUI functionality but not a full-blown desktop environment.
I see. Sorry I didn't complete the idea when "owning wealth" was used. I own money in a bank account. But I see now what he/she meant.
Switching from Google Products to hosting parallel products in Oracle Cloud is basically the same as one step forwards, two steps back.
Fast as in about a decade of consolidated work while Intel ran away with all the money?

Apple bought PA Semi in '08, for example.
Thank you, I'll try that out!
Recently I was having a debate with a friend who said "you thought about this lot" in a mocking tone, and I suddenly realized how strange it was that that phrase is used so commonly as an insult.

Solid thought isn't just good but necessary and we're seeing the symptoms of this everywhere.
Or more likely some other American aerospace buys the assets for cheap and the business merrily continues on.

People act like corporate death is similar to the death of a person. It’s not. The body parts just get shuffled around into other companies.
Aside: I just started using KM to implement Gmail shortcuts in Mail.app because I'm sick of the direction of third-party mail applications, and I'm super-impressed by it. Seeing the two mentioned in the same breath made me think Hazel must be important, and it solves a great need for me as well. Thanks for the tip!
I just rode the Hiawatha this summer! Really touristy, but lots of fun and so scenic. I would have guessed that more of the Trail of the Coeur D'Alenes would have been used as opposed to the Hiawatha. Or perhaps my geography is failing me, but I think you have to go a bit north off the Cd'A to get to Hiawatha.
All problems stem from people being alive
I’ve seen the same thread (and commented in it). I stand behind the statement I made there (and here in the past), it’s very likely one of two issues

1) specific monitor and connection method combinations have issues

2) manufacturing defect on some laptops that Apple is refusing to acknowledge
> Apple will have 16 high-performance core variants of the M1 soon

I doubt that’s coming soon. The M1 is a HUGE chip. The decoders and pipelines take up a massive amount of space, and the L2 cache is apparently unwieldy, too. They’ve focused on making a limited number of cores perform very well, but there isn’t enough room. They need another die shrink to add any more.

I think the upcoming pro hardware will just be tweaks to the current formula.
In a room was the setup for the alleged experiment, therefore not irrelevant.
I'm wary how quickly the writer jumps to the conclusion that it's thought avoidance and not, possibly, just the fact our minds seek stimulation
That’s absurd. To take it to extremes, for example, if you made someone sit alone in the freezing cold and they complained, the environment is the issue not their ability to live alone with their thoughts.
Why is the alternative to serverless, colocating servers in a DC?

The alternative is renting VMs from those same clouds. It works fine and is cheaper when you work on software that actually has users. It also doesn't result in the cloud provider cramming a crappy under-baked programming model down your throat.

Per request pricing and "scaling to zero" is just old fashioned unbundling. You are selling a smaller quantity of a product at a higher unit price and putting a bit of lipstick on that pig to convince people they are not getting hosed.
How this comment thread hasn't been detached is honestly surprising. This is far from productive.
> A few minutes per month is the most devops any startup would need to do in reality running their own VMs or servers, after an hour or two of setup.

Right up until something crashes or some hardware fails.
Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco
Distraction from mortality is actually a recurring point of discussion in Pascal’s writing.

“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
Her views are extreme and crazy often.
> The irony was never lost on me.

As mentioned I came from a music scene that incidentally has its roots from pirate radio, literately guys climbing towers and hi-jacking frequencies in London to broadcast locally as well as online streaming, illegal underground raves so it was typical to see how this very same group of artists and DJs had their own labels to bypass the gatekeepers/middlemen as the sound was too 'strange,' but would eventually get coprorate backing after it became profitable and Red Bull even dcreated an academy for many of the pioneers.

I really thought we would have done away with large labels and middlemen in this Industry by now, because while I only know this 2nd hand touring catches up to you; especially as many went from being teenagers/20-somethings with no responsibilities to middle aged parents so touring becomes impractical and often detrimental to any chance of any work-life balance.

But, yeah it was clear they never cared about the mom and pop and it was always about protecting thier archiac business model. And I really think our DNB and Dubstep scene kept many independent shops and mastering/pressing afloat and it was a big part of the resurgence in vinyl in the 2000s we saw. Even now I get a chuckle of seeing the limited color pressing offers/pre-buys on Bandcamp as almost no one who DJs is on vinyl anymore, unless it's their gimmick, so when it sells out you know its just fans buying them up. So why do we need these people now that distribution and fees can be reduced to what they are now on bandcamp and PR/booking tours is no longer the only thing that made those relationships remotely tolerable?

If you haven't already done so, check out Grimes interview with Andrew Yang. It was kind of interesting hearing her view on things as Canada promotes its local talent and the State gives them grants, which is incredibly odd but kind of novel way of doing things if it generates local demand for events and record sales which they benefit from in tax revenue.
Take care with Migadu if you use mailing lists. I troubleshooted some issues with bounces earlier this year and both users in question were using Migadu - they had ended up with the unusually strict "p=reject" DMARC policy. Every time they sent an email to the list I was on, my account would (correctly) trigger a bounce and after several of these incidents _my_ subscription would be removed from the mailing list for too many bounces. I'm not even sure whose fault this situation is, but it's something to keep in mind.
It can be used when you just want native, low-level WASM features. It is often better when you don't want complex WASM interoperability interfaces of other languages. This help your code keep clean.

Its minimal runtime can be run outside of browser easily. Even Rust requires complex interfaces, requires big runtime binaries to run on WASM, and it sometimes is not portable that it can run only on browsers.
There's also a social tipping point sort of thing that happens, and fines help with that.

When hardly anyone is wearing a mask you feel a bit weird or silly.

When half the people are wearing masks you look at the people who are and aren't and can't help but wonder which side is your in-group.

When fines are enforced, everyone has an "excuse" to wear a mask. Darn fines.

Then, when everyone is wearing a mask you feel naked if you don't have one. Only the seriously anti-social will defect.
Surprised this is not 100% FUD. My Uncle was telling me about the farmer opposition to the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes, and how all the farmland-billboard-propaganda was that a bike path would bring drugs and prostitution to their fine rural community.

Are you sure the problem is not your city, rather than the bike path?

I'm not sure a bike is a great way to pick up prostitutes, but that's just me.
My “inward-directed thought” happens while hiking alone. It’s been very therapeutic and helps me retain a lot more information by replaying a day or class’s events in my head. Some people think I’m weird for doing it, but I think they are weird for not.
Just wait until BA asks for data from different sources and you have to connect those parts...
No one talking about the other conclusion, that not necessarily there is a thought to be avoided but that our minds are wired to seek stimulation?
A lot of cars have radios (and streaming music capability for more modern cars) that serve as "further entertainment."
For me it's definitely more that I have a smartphone which facilitates easy access to a socially accepted addiction - sitting alone might make me passingly think about some eventual demise but it certainly doesn't dominate my thinking. Wasn't this the basis of Terror Management theory ? I'm not sure that ever had much evidence for it, other than in some extremely general sense.
Its like a well stocked grocery store with thousands of brands, I think the biggest draw of "the cloud" is the illusion of infinity plenty, all you need to do is press a button (even though the reality really doesn't measure up, at least not in ways people naively assume)
Restricting pattern awareness to the sort favored in GoF has become a pointless exercise. Most of the originals are no longer relevant at all.

An expanded awareness of unavoidably repeated constructs remains useful.
Famous British philosopher Andrew Zaltzman put it like this: if you leave a man alone in a room an electric socket he will eventually try to stick his dick into it.
This kind of thinking is precisely why people get away with it.
It can see through buildings, it can do some pretty precise depth estimates,...

It’s not a replacement for visual range (or infrared for that matter) but an additional sensor. It’s usually used to create things like elevation maps. So all those altitude measurements that you see on Google Earth might be at least partially SAR.
AI risks, and AI risk categorization
I believe where schemes along those lines have actually been implemented, only the government has the option to purchase the asset at the declared value. That has less potential for abuse, I think.
As an 'academic' who has done plenty of physical labor, I find this argument reductive and offensive. You can disagree with the author without painting this negative picture of them.
I don’t like this gatekeeping philosophy. I feel that this line of thinking discourages self reflection because the first thing we usually notice when we look honestly at ourselves is what we don’t like about ourselves, but that is just a small part of who we really are. Discomfort from self awareness may be the first step to self improvement. Instead of (falsely) equating mental discomfort with causing “all problems”, we should instead work to understand our imperfections and work together to correct them.
rxvt-unicode is what you want.
There was absolutely huge amounts of backlash against AC, as well as hype.

People complained that it was a shallow facade of an open world game, with at best a handful of formulas for encounters, where you could beat the whole game with dodge then attack, and escape any situation by running a hundred feet.

It was billed in pretty much the same way as Cyberpunk with the idea of AI cities that lived and breathed.
Having the same actions be allowed or prohibited depending on intents in your heart only you can observe is not very game-like.
I have heard that a couple times as well and all but once it has been mocking. There is almost a built in anti intellectualism to some people.
However, the sentiment that the M1 chip obliterates any and every desktop part on the market is getting kind of silly at this point.

1. Nobody ever stated that. If anything, it was all of the Intel and AMD users who created that straw man. "See, it's slower than a 64-core Threadripper at 280 watts". No kidding.

2. The M1 is clearly not a desktop-class SoC nor was it intended to be. However, it's more than competitive with many desktop x86 processors that run faster and hotter while consuming much more power.

3. As a first attempt, the M1’s performance per watt is very impressive. Obviously the 5nm process helps but it's never one thing with Apple: it's the unified memory, the 8 instruction decoders (AMD and Intel max out at 4), and the integration of the 16-core Neural Engine, among other features.
I would call it outwardly-expressive utilitarianism. The idea that the individual should channel their views, emotions and experiences through self-expression and self-identification, for the purpose of achieving tangible worldly goals. It’s an interesting amalgam of the traditions of Anglo-Saxon liberalism and of Protestantism with its practices for preaching and confession, transitioned on a new geographic and institutional reality.
The quote is from Blaise Pascal. The room experiment seems pretty ancillary to that.
> There seem to be a lot of people who live at a level of abstraction where they perceive every interaction as being about dominance and submission. In my humble opinion it is a very limited mindset.

That is sociopathic so it isn’t always easy to identify but it’s easy to disregard.

Kindness is generally a default. At a minimum it’s called mutual respect and at an absence it’s called being an asshole. It hardly takes any courage to be better than that. I cannot imagine the amount of medication people require if that is their definition of courage, as there isn’t any challenge there. Perhaps it’s a cultural difference.
Is there an easy way to browse the shops that are associated with this service? A prominent search function without having to login may potentially help to sell the service. My apologies if its there, I didnt see it. I am very curious to see more!
They will surrender and buy from TSMC.
The point of the quote is that people use distraction to mask the discomfort of sitting alone with their thoughts and that this distraction causes problems. It’s not saying that the discomfort is a problem.
Thanks! That sounds like about what I'm looking for!

And, yea, I'm not so concerned about which protocol to use or deleting the email from Google's server, I just want my own local copy of it.
I find it kinda weird that you called the doormat archetype gross, and not the abuser.
> One Ryzen core active, 37 watts total package power. It doesn't matter what the per core wattage is, because you can't get that one core without the package.

This is the desktop Zen 3 which is still using the 12nm I/O die. It uses more power as a result, which nobody really cares about on the desktop. The Ryzen laptops use a single die which is entirely 7nm and thereby less power with no corresponding reduction in performance.
I find people who argue scarcity more often than not don't have actual numbers to back it up. Amongst human beings biggest necessities, what are actually scarce?

Food? Not at all, tons and tons are thrown out daily. Housing? Well there's enough of that for everyone we just don't know how, and don't want to, distribute it. Clothing? Even though people burn through clothing almost as quickly as food, it is produced in surplus so much that we invented fashion.

What necessity exactly is scarce in 2020? Classical economics has no explanation for this modern surplus of production.
It is particularly true. And too many armchair academics are painting HCQ in a bad light when it is an immensely important and safe drug.

> Medicine also isn't in the "we recommend it because there aren't many reasons against it" business.

I'm not arguing with this. Who cares.

Doctors still recommend it, it still works and doctors still use it themselves.
Agreed. You seem to be less interested in discussing the game and more interested in gatekeeping who is allowed to discuss the game and how. If you'd like to discuss the game, I'm all for it. But if you're just here to gatekeep, I've no interest in continuing.
> Yet even in 17th-century France, apparently, people hated being alone with their thoughts so intensely, they'd do almost anything else: play boules, start the Franco-Spanish war, and so on.

Is that a bad attempt at humor or sheer ignorance?
> Absolutely. You can't make a country richer by enslaving part of the population, and you don't need slavery to make a country rich

Correct, but I didn't claim either of these things. I asked if the immense wealth among white Americans didn't grow out of the subjugation of slaves. Imagine 100 people who are equally wealthy. Now, imagine you take 1/6 of the people, remove all of their wealth, and disperse it among the remaining 5/6. Perhaps you skim a few percent off the top due to inefficiencies of the scheme. Are you saying the 5/6 people here didn't benefit? Sure seems like they did!

> The claim isn't directed to one group's heritage and its contribution. On its face, it is directed at "nearly everything that has truly made American exceptional." It literally ties the entirety of the American story (or nearly all of it) to slavery.

You...you read the full quote, right?

> Almost none of those things grew out of slavery. Our "legal system" for example was imported wholesale from England--based on principles of the Magna Carta dating back to 1215. Any slave trade into England itself was banned in 1102. Are there imprints on our legal system from slavery? Sure. But its factually incorrect to say our legal system "grew out of slavery."

There are a number of uniquenesses to the American legal system that trace themselves to slavery and racism. And I'd argue that many of those things are the things that make the American legal system "exceptional" and unique.

> The founding principles weren't fulfilled in 1776, but the history of the country has been one of progress in that direction. That was conventional wisdom among Democratic political leadership when I was growing up (and I'm only 37) and almost certainly still is the conventional wisdom among most rank-and-file Democrats.

See, I read the opposite from this. "Consent of the governed" is incompatible with slavery. You say that this was simply the principles "not being fulfilled" at the time, but then how can you say that we were founded on a set of values that the constitution then proceeds to explicitly reject? The constitution provides for the 3/5ths compromise, but didn't encode a right to vote (for anyone, that was left up to the individual states) until reconstruction.

> but the history of the country has been one of progress in that direction

This is sort of a meaningless platitude. "Sure you still don't have the rights to life, liberty, and happiness yet, like most people do, but you're closer now than your ancestors were 150 years ago" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the US.