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> but don't try to think of this stuff as anything on the same level as the sciences.

Depends on what kind of sciences we're talking about. For an enormous span of the sciences, serious reproduction and funding crises have emerged to place whole fields on the verge of if not the middle of conceptual and practical collapse (hence the continuing brain-drain from science into tech).

At a deeper level, I think you're making a lot of assumptions that don't seem rooted in reality. Worse still, you don't seem to feel any need to root them in reality -- you minimize and diminish uncomfortably sharp edges in a very whiggish kind of historiography. Why is that? Your conjecture is that architecture is not well understood because it is not formalized. What if you're merely conflating cause and effect, and software architecture has not been formalized because it is not well understood? Then formalization is merely a memento of something else -- something far more primal, something far more deeper. And I think (though only you can say) that you might be afraid of that.

When we learn how to use powerful tools, we want to use them for everything. That includes philosophical ones. What if you're taking it for granted that architecture will /ever/ reach the level of formalization as the hard sciences? After all, there is something a bit hubristic about that. Wouldn't it be ironic to have such a deep faith in formalization so as to ignore (and even invert) the fundamentally unidirectional flow from phenomena to formal abstraction? But that seems to be what you're doing. After all, you have no proof that formalism, as a tool in and of itself, lends any utility to making sense from and building structures for the world.

It is the observations, the data accumulated in enough curious detail, kept preserved through painstaking work via the investigator and archiver, which provide material for abstraction to compact into greater expression: succinctness, clarity, and semantic power. But without that raw material, the abstraction is nothing but window dressing. It is onanistic and serves no formal purpose. And frankly, software as a field is very young by human standards. For it to not have the level of formal abstractions far older human pursuits have is a function of its youth. I think that to love formal abstraction for its own sake is an obscurantism of its own, and this kind of thing has a name: it's called scientism.

Bertrand Russell tried to axiomatize mathematics into logic, and completely failed. And not because he was unintelligent. He failed because the opposite premise was vindicated by reality. What will you do if the same holds true for you here? Even he was so taken and seduced with the elegant possibility of axiomatizing mathematics that he was unable to see the logistical (and finally logically provable) impossibility of doing so. And finally even he had to ultimately give up his endeavor as directly fruitless (although the silver lining was that his work did pave the way for a lot of crucial discoveries). Consider whether you're doing the same thing.
The idea behind the "serverless" approach is a lightweight process which doesn't spend any measurable CPU / memory (at least for healthchecks). GitHub Actions is the opposite of that. After all, cloud is someone else's computer - in this case, several other projects can use this computer for something more important than health checks.
Apparently electric vehicles like Tesla are noisy on the highway, where external noises dominate; due to less sound-deadening material to save weight.
I don't see why macro-op fusion should be harder for RISC-V than x86. x86 ISA was designed without this in mind. The RISC-V designers in contrast seem to deliberately design instructions to make it easier to perform macro-op fusion. You can see specific revisions to the spec being made to make macro-op fusion easier.

Actual real world performance tests already suggests that RISC-V tend to require less memory for their programs as well as fewer instructions than x86 and ARM. Hence even without pervasive macro-op fusion they are in a good spot.

E.g. for CoreMark used to benchmark embedded processors RISC-V BOOM implementation came ahead ARM-32 Cortex-A9 with about 10% fewer instructions, 10% smaller memory usage and about 10% higher clock frequency (thanks to smaller core).
The Fed has flooded the financial sector with cash. That cash has to go somewhere. Every security with a CUSIP and a price tag is getting inflated as a result.
At this point, pretending that TSLA has anything to do with the company Tesla is grotesque. I applause the length to which you go to justify yourself.

TSLA is a meme stock that operates on a narrative that "TSLA always goes up". It's pure speculation and that bubble is going to pop very badly. And it might take the whole economy with it now that it is in the SP500 with a ridiculous valuation.
Oh, God help us - it apparently honks the car horn automatically in some situations. Fully autonomous driving may or may not be "AI Complete", but deciding when it is appropriate to honk the horn definitely is.
Several very good articles on the Enigma machines (this one was a Model 3):

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/

"As early as mid 1928, the Poles had been able to purchase a commercial model of the Enigma and began studying its' components.... In January 1933, two other cryptologists collaborated with Rejewski's work and in the same month decrypted the first German messages." :

https://polishgreatness.blogspot.com/2011/03/enigma-machine-...
>And while it's true that a novice can beat a grandmaster in a single game

This is what makes it so good for gambling. A wealthy novice is very unlikely to gamble against a grandmaster in a game of chess because its clear they have no chance to win. Backgammon (like poker) is another matter..
Kidnapping and ransom seems to be the most profitable part of piracy. Insurance costs would likely go down for unmanned vessels. You could spend money on arms and mercenaries and RPG launchers and machine guns and escorts and drone squadrons through danger zones, but it is cheaper to just pay insurance. If insurance stops working, the next cheapest would be to pay pirates protection money to keep other pirates in check.

https://www.forbes.com/2010/04/15/pirates-somalia-shipping-i...
Cash crops = the type that a farmer can grow and make it rain, yah? Like spinach, lettuce and other leafy greens which bring in revenue year round, can be turned from seed to harvest in a matter of weeks, and have a high dollar value?

There are definitely barriers to entry associated with getting into vertical farming, but there are also advantages for the farmer.
Same feelings here...
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I looked it up again. All un-crewed free balloons with payloads meeting certain conditions are required to be radar-reflective, and notice to ATC is mandatory; ATC is entitled to position reports if they want them. 14 CFR Part 101 Subpart D.

Any one of the following payload conditions trigger these restrictions:

- more than 4 lbs and more than 3 oz/in² on any side

- more than 6 lbs

- two or more packages totaling more than 12 lbs

- suspended from a rope or other device that requires more than 50 lbs to separate

So you’re right; small payloads don’t require any notice or special equipment.
> Your complaints about the words "architecture" and "design" sound like a cached rant.

To be completely fair, my notes were similarly cached, and it was a little poor of me not to respond more directly to the substance of the original post.
Read up on Esperanto Technologies mentioned here:

https://medium.com/swlh/what-is-innovative-about-risc-v-a821...

They use small RISC-V cores with the vector extension to do high performance machine learning. Basically they make minimalist small cores supporting this extension so they can put over 1000 of these cores on one SoC.
This looks really cool, I’m going to try it out — by the way, what app/tool did you use to record the screencast?
Can you give a definition of "flawed" that doesn't make everything flawed?

An irresistible force can't move immovable objects and vice versa.
You can't (I think?) do progressive QE, so for most developed economies that's not the same thing.
“The general rule is that comparing your systems against other countries is worthwhile, and is what most every other country manages to do for breakfast.”

If most every other country managed to do this for breakfast, most every other country would be ahead of even the best parts of the US. The fact that the US and Europe as a whole are roughly comparable proves this simply can’t be correct.

“Dismissing other countries because “The entirety of NZ has a population comparable to the size of a large metro area in the US” is the problem. Start fixing that attitude..”

I’m not dismissing other countries. What I’m dismissing is this claim of a fix that everyone else is applying and that the US is not.

You mention strawmen in another part of the thread, presumably you must realize that the idea that California’s problems stem from an ‘attitude’ is a strawman.

As I point out elsewhere, the entire message you are delivering here is to attack America with this strawman and claim (now) that almost everyone else is governing better.

When asked for a single idea about how others are doing better, you simply say ‘look at other countries’ and admit that this is a vague handwave.

Have you considered asking people why they think there is nothing better? You might discover they have different values to you.

Drilling down on policy would be much more meaningful than claiming America’s problems stem from an ‘attitude’ you don’t like.
So automated stuff? Retail has been dying off due to online sales. Delivery services are looking automate with drones. Not to mention that places like Amazon start their own service and pay their drivers less than the major places (worse jobs). Service industry is reeling from the pandemic. Many of those jobs are automatable too.

The general trend has been to eliminate onshore jobs that are low skill and outsource those tasks to lower cost countries. As it has also been towards jobs requiring higher education. So what opportunities are there? After all, we are seeing increased dependence on support programs and wage stagnation.
>I am currently going through the Fall of Civilizations series [0] which I highly recommend.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out.

>The central point of your original comment was that there is extensive historical information available connecting us to our past but one has to put in the effort to discover it. You provided links to support your point.

That was one point I was attempting to make. I further wanted to make it clear that such resources are more available to more people than they ever have been.

However, the central point I was attempting (apparently unsuccessfully, in your case) to make was that history is not, and never has been, all that important to most people, that our media and culture actively discourage any interest in history; and that feeling a "disconnect" from history is neither unusual nor a recent development.

Again, I appreciate your feedback, as I already know what I think and want to say, but (obviously) don't know how others will interpret what I do say.

Edit: Clarified several points.
DC transport is expensive. Low voltage high amp devices require very thick cables. Not an option even in your house.
It kind of is. Hawaii had a proposed grid connection between Oahu and Maui canceled while two solar farms with batteries are being built.
> I disagree with you and you've made a mistake. You're the one under the illusion. I'll explain.

This is a very effective way to make the other party in a debate not wish to continue. I respect that you have strong opinions, but I'm not sure it's worth being right in a population of one.

In all sincerity, I'll leave you with wishes for a restful end of year.
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And their perception of time itself might be different too.
> $27/month per user

How does this even matter from a budget perspective? You are already paying probably in the $10-20k / month range for per-employee salary.

Seems a lot like complaining about a dripping faucet while you have a water main break.
Python 3, Angular 2, Polymer 2. Not all full rewrites, but breaking changes with lots of the pain from a rewrite.
We're probably in a cryptocurrency bubble rather than a tech bubble. Blockchain.com and Crypto.com look like Pets.com.
It doesn’t look like the produce produced by this farm (from the pictures) provides much nutritional value. Creating overpriced herbs, salads and micro greens in little plastic pots maybe commercially viable but we need vegetables like legumes, potatoes, onions, carrots, and brocolli (and in the US maize) to feed the world.
> Tesla makes real things.

Well they redefined what full self driving means, that's for sure.
So that's a fair point ... but 1) 'value based' pricing is inherently part of capitalism, and it's more or less a 'good thing' ... and 2) the upside in general is still pretty huge for most services. The fact that software has 'zero unit cost' is for the most part, built into the price.

It's the reason you can try 100 services for free before buying. The challenge is, to find things that really work for you and that do provide value.
I'd expect a greenhouse in the desert to need an enormous amount of ventilation to prevent overheating.

You could probably recover some of the water from the exhaust air with a dehumidifier. I'm not sure if that would use less power than air-conditioning the whole structure, but at that point you're pretty much back to indoors farming anyway.
The definition of “gaslight” is not “I disagree with that”. Read more carefully and then respond substantively or don’t bother to respond at all.
> We can store KV structures in a SQL database, but we're seeing projects using Cassandra and co.

I think a key difference here is illustrative: you typically only see that when the problem is well understood to need the characteristics of those specialized KV stores and were willing to pay the costs of working with those trade-offs.

In contrast, Mongo was overwhelmingly favored people who were speculating about problems they might have without much experience supporting that call. Usually they never actually came close to that level, likely because they were spending their time on the much harder problem of trying to build SQL database semantics into their application instead of working on their business.

The key lesson I drew is the powerful value of sticking with proven tools unless you know you can’t. Reading about things FAANG work is cool but people cost themselves a lot by not asking how many orders of magnitude separate their workload and team size from yours.
Where did you get your number for AGI? An adjusted gross income of $2060 seems extremely low (very far below average).

It's not dystopian to consider the possible effects of one's work. If you don't consider them, then how can you make adjustments/improvements? It would be dystopian to maximize the negative impacts. We are doing the opposite - questioning what the best course of action might be.
There are third-party apps or proxies like Invidious. If you're comfortable with having a Google Account and giving them your payment details you can also subscribe to YouTube Premium.
Hey man thanks I’ll definitely check it out
> Don't use anything from STL that allocates memory, unless you don't care about memory management.

The important part is "if you don't care about memory management".

In language benchmarks, C++ is often portrayed as less efficient/slower than C. C++ is also commonly shunned when it comes to embedded software, especially on low performance chips. It doesn't have to be! C++ is (almost) a superset of C, and generally, they use the same compiler backend, so your C code should compile on a C++ compiler and generate the same binary.

Now that you know you can write C++ running as efficiently as C, you can start to carefully add features that will keep the spirit and efficiently of C while making your life easier, or even improve performance. For example you may want to replace macros with templates, use proper objects instead of doing like stdio does with FILE*, use namespaces, etc...

That's exactly what Orthodox C++ is about. It is C++ for those who want to write C. There is absolutely nothing wrong with STL containers and smart pointers and all the fancy stuff that make up modern C++, there is also nothing wrong with using languages that have heavy runtimes and garbage collectors, it is just not the use case Orthodox C++ is addressing.

I think that's the good thing about the mess that is C++11 and beyond. You can pick what you want. You can stay low level and know exactly the memory layout of your program. Or you can choose not to have a single raw pointer and let it manage the memory for you.

Note: There are still a good reasons to use C over C++. A big one is that linkage is a lot simpler and more compatible in C. C++ compilers do name mangling to support things like namespaces and polymorphism and require the linker to understand their particular conventions, and you may need the right libstdc++ for your target. You also need to be aware of static initialization.
It's sloppy terminology. I am fairly sure that "cash crops" was intended to mean "high caloric density, mass market crops".

While millions of people do eat hydroponically grown/growable produce, they do not survive on these kinds of crops. They rely on root vegetables and cereals for that, and those are currently impossible to grow in the way described in TFA.
> We are in a period of rapid inflation but mainstream economists and the government pretend we aren’t. It has been going on for decades but the official inflation rate is supposedly sub-2% while healthcare, education, daycare, high-quality food, housing, and all manner of highly-desirable-yet-cannot-be-easily-created assets have gone way up in price and are unreachable to even the middle class let alone the poor.

Can't agree more. Cheap, imported crap remains cheap and crappy, and everyone pretends that because TVs and egg mcmuffins remain affordable to the common man, therefore inflation is under control. Meanwhile asset prices, healthcare, housing, education (i.e., all the real, actual things important for someone's life that take up the bulk of their income) balloon in price.
It lists the nvme drive as being attached to "Apple Fabric" so that sounds like an internal bus of some description....
> If, however, an investment bank essentially buys a large chunk of your company, if only temporarily, they have a real motivation to figure out if it is legitimate, and there are real consequences if you screw up, not just legislated consequences but real financial bag holding ones.

Right, but what I'm saying here is, a bank can still choose to be an arms-length investor. My hypothesis is the market gets as much positive signal from that as it would a traditional underwriting syndicate, without the upside bleed-off.

> You have to think of the everything-is-a-game mindset to help you evaluate situations. The game of being a regulator is different than the game of being an investor. There is value in both.

I'm not conflating the two. I'm suggesting the investor signal doesn't require a traditional underwriting syndicate.

Phrased another way, how many IPOs have canceled due to a failure to form an underwriting syndicate, or because of the due diligence performed by the same? WeWork comes to mind, but I don't think we needed the bank to tell us it was problematic - reading the S-1 would have been sufficient.
Was on current iOS as of writing / on Safari, so makes sense.
Are folks not aware of the idea of a 'control' group or 'hold-out' group? It's easy to mathematically prove the effectiveness of some types of direct response digital advertising, such as what corporations are running on Facebook.
No one ever answers a question like that to a satisfying degree.

I made a bunch of money speculating on the swings of stocks. Not with options, just patience, and it enabled me to make wild returns. For example, I bought and sold Virgin Galactic 3 times over the past 13 or 14 months, which tripled my initial capital. I did similar but with a risky few pharma stocks. PLTR tripled since IPO (and unlike AirBNB it wasn't rigged to benefit banks-and-friends) so that's another 200% return. While many people dump their capital into index funds, I keep most of my money in cash and speculate wildly with a fraction of it, and my returns over the past 5 years exceed what many large funds do. I also learn about industries and follow news that I wouldn't otherwise. Stock market index funds terrify me because I want to use the cash in the coming years for property.

I don't know, but none of this seems healthy and normal. I've been following the financial press for a long time almost daily, and I'm pretty confident no one's proclamations of the bottom or top can be trusted in advance. We'll know in months or years whether we're in a top.
> I'm not convinced. They only show a couple of examples, but there must also be counter-examples.

A couple of counter-examples that come to mind are Windows (with effectively a 15 year long rewrite that required selling both lineages in parallel while keeping the compatible enough) and Mac OS (when transitioning from classic to OS X).
'If you zoom in on that image really fast it immediately restarts your phone'
In my experience, "systema design" has nothing to do with climbing the career ladder, except in a narrow sense of "architecture astronauts claiming credit for 'designing' the work their teammates actually designed and implemented. Most people get promoted by inventing useful or at least measurable new tech. building a horrible system doesn't hurt anyone, since text debt doesn't collapse the project until after promotion.
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Well, traffic doesn’t exist in a vacuum. One could engineer a system where this is less likely to happen, by simply engineering a system where people are less likely to drive. Many European cities are systematically reducing incentives to drive at all, by improving alternative means like public transport and biking, removing parking, narrowing or eliminating car lanes, and cutting off through streets for cars.
Appliances are a problem; most are AC motors; three phase wiring is pretty efficient for them.
S&P500 has a total market cap of $31T. Tesla's current piece of that index is ~2%. A bubble pop would be unlikely to "take the whole economy with it" (thankfully).
Get some pointers from a friend who is a native speaker. I still do this today even though I'm (IMO) well versed in the language.

For instance:

welcome on -> welcome to

web-side -> webside? (unsure)

working as front-end -> working as a front-end

i want u -> unsure what that means

besides that, any specific front-end js platforms? (maybe put angular before jquery in your cv?)

on mobile, the about me page has the linkedin/github icons on top of the "contacts" page.
lastly: besides those minor things, your website is PRETTY COOL
If you think this is cool, check out BPS Space on youtube
I guess it depends when there you consider other costs like office space, equipment, utility bills, HR overheads, consumables etc.
They aren't flawed designs, they are simply optimized for better survivability of each individual offspring, at the cost of having fewer offspring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
Only if one think's there is no rehypothication going on of collateral (i.e. someone else's debts in the form of government bonds, corporate bonds of all grades, or even stock [which are liabilities on corporate balance sheets]) that is on deposit with some party…
As long as the older species survives, they would eventually coexist.