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> Counter-argument: A positively staggering amount of decisionmaking at a company consists of "look at what other, successful companies are doing and mimic them". It's cargo cult management by the very definition: they see the other people doing the correct incantations and bounty fall upon them. Clearly, we just need to utter those same incantations and we'll have the success they did.

They never do.

I recall talking to someone who was very very happy to brag that his company was doing "everything just like Google" and following the exact same practices he read the company did on various engineering blogs.

I asked him what was the compensation like and how he managed to get kids from Stanford to work at his company instead of their startups and he just gave me a blank stare. Said something about how they were not in Silicon Valley and paid median salaries and that he had "no trouble finding Google caliber talent in the local market." and that "it's not really the local market's customs to give stocks to coders".

I think someone ended up buying the whole thing. Not the company but the office furniture they left after going broke.
> In this case, the important point is that a hedge fund with a 140% short position is more vulnerable to loss than a hedge fund with a 100% short position.

Sure, but only in the sense that a fund is also more vulnerable to loss at 80% short than 40% short. Nothing magic happens between 99% and 101% short.
> This architecture accelerated Intel's downward spiral. It should have been shut down years ago, and I find it surprising in the changelog that Intel "is still officially shipping chips until July 29, 2021" no wonder Intel is behind on innovation.

I don't think so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4:

> Launched November 20, 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium:

> Launched June 2001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core:

> Launched January 2006

You seem to be basically claiming their downward spiral started before their biggest recent upswing, which doesn't make sense. Itanium (and the Pentium 4) were mistakes that they managed to recover from 15 years ago. However, it's only just being discontinued because Intel's not a company that's willing and eager to leave their existing customers in a lurch.

Edit: it sounds like HP was basically paying Intel to keep Itanium alive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#HP_vs._Oracle:

> ...court documents unsealed by a Santa Clara County Court judge revealed that in 2008, Hewlett-Packard had paid Intel around $440 million to keep producing and updating Itanium microprocessors from 2009 to 2014. In 2010, the two companies signed another $250 million deal, which obliged Intel to continue making Itanium CPUs for HP's machines until 2017.

According the the article, the latest Itatium processor was released in, surprise!, 2017.
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Bulk operations are were a lot of rails programmers struggle.

Active record is awesome in many ways, but it can shoehorn you into n+1 solutions.
lol @ people who think Apple pushing back on FB tracking is out of their goodness of heart.

They want FB to introduce a subscription model so they can rake in that sweet 30% commission.

I am in favor of more consumer options, always prefer subscriptions to ads/tracking, and am a huge fan of Apple products. The issue is more that 30% commission is extortionate imo.
This is pretty neat. I like the positioning of a monitoring service for your data.

As someone who isn't a data engineer: How did you guys come across this problem? Is this something people have often?
> There was a time where adding a column to a database was a really big deal. You had to get it past the DBA, and there were real resource constraints on the database system. With a document store the schema is entirely in the hands of the developer.

That time is still here if you're running enough read nodes and QPS.
So they are cancelling the part that actually costs money and creates draw to the platform?
Sounds like tey are putting service on life support with no plans of expansion
I fear the problem is that the person doesn't do joins but separate sub-queries which then get recombined in RAM in the client. Given the software stack described there is a realistic chance of this happening implicitly due to ORM mappers.

But then the way tables don't map well to 1-to-many mappings and joins still returning data in tables this can also be a problem. Especially if a large field get duplicated a lot. RDBMS really should go from 2d-Tables to proper nested types for results IMHO.
Not that I have seen. Apparently all the health insurers in New York got scared away from PPO plans.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/17/3934087...
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Had Google been willing to invest in some next gen "cloud only" titles, we could have seen something truly magical. Imagine a WW2 game with thousands and thousands of concurrent players, or a real time 3D life Sim where people could meet and socialize like in real life.

I think it's being realized across the industry that there isn't huge value prop in bringing existing games to the cloud and targeting low-spec gamers, but rather architecting entirely new experiences that simply are not possible without cloud compute.

Jeff Bezos seems to recognize this, his exact marching orders for Amazon's game efforts was to make "computationally ridiculous games". That to me is the bigger opportunity, because it opens the doors to the next internet called the Metaverse.
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Likely it’s the other way around and Stadia isn’t doing well enough to think that first party titles released in a few years time will pay development costs or necessarily have a platform to launch on.
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> Clearly that's not true, as evidenced by the enormous illegal drug trade. Highly regulated availability of safer substitutes for the worst drugs might reduce uptake of those worse drugs.

Hold on, that logic isn't sound. You are saying because the illegal drug trade is enormous, therefore the illegal status of drugs has no suppressive effect on new user uptake? Why can't both statements be true? "The illegal trade is enormous and making drugs legal would make the drug user base even more enormous"

Illegality status might suppress 50% of new users and impulse buyers, who knows. You can claim illegality does not suppress 100% (that much is clear), but I guarantee illegality has suppressed some non-zero % of potential users from trying it.
I can already see the headline coming: "I was a CRISPR baby, and I wish I wasn't born".
The issue is that MongoDB isn't chasing a fixed target. RDBMS have gotten better in the mean time.
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I take ADHD meds, and I will admit I have a dependency. When I go without my meds, I'm in a really bad mood the first day and get much worse the following days. That said, I don't have an addiction disorder, because it doesn't impair my ability to work, maintain relationships, pursue goals, or remain healthy. In fact, it does the opposite. That's why my doctor prescribes them.

(As an aside, the reason I've gone days without meds is because my insurance company has a harmful policy of requiring "prior authorization" from the same doctor who prescribes the pills, and more than once I've found out it needed renewed from a pharmacist who was only allowed to try filling it the day I took my last pill. I'm tired of this incredibly helpful medication, and the people who depend on it, being thought less of.)
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Depends. If you only have a couple workspaces, then no. It's worth the money for a company with lots of data science teams, and one team who is janitoring all the workspace infra. Our company has 20 workspaces for 10 teams already and it would be a nightmare if we expected everyone to fix and manage their own AWS stuff.
And I thought Itanium was designed for Linpack ;-)
Give this article to someone, taking out every occurence of 'food grammar'. I'll bet they'll guess the missing words are 'eating habits'.

Why invent new words for existing concepts? Most of the times, in my experience, it is done to either appear more intelligent or to stake a new ground and be the self-anointed expert.

What's wrong with eating habits?
I don’t think local means what they imply, which seems to be within an arbitrary geopolitical border like the Netherlands or Belgium for example. Don’t grow citrus in Amsterdam just get it from the Mediterranean not Brazil.

And while maybe it’s fine to import the beef, maybe take a second look if the logistics of raising it locally would be absurd. Maybe it’s fine to do that and sustainable or maybe eat less depending because it could be outsourcing the unsustainable practice. Only an analysis will show which.

And that’s not even addressing that one doesn’t have to get tomatoes in January, but instead could eat seasonally.
The skeptic in me bets that side effect was quite thoroughly researched, by the media companies, who found by normalizing intrusive banners they could get users to agree to whatever they heck they’d want.
Thanks! I launched it softly on Friday and no customers as of yet but I dog-food this tool in another project I am working on :-)
It's not even Gell Mann, it's total lack of skepticism on any part of the narrative that to me at least, falls apart the moment any it is has any amount of thought put into it. Why does 140% short interest mean that all of it is done by this Melvin strawman. Why did people think all 140% of it was going to be due last Friday. Why would buying shares and holding result in Melvin going bankrupt from being unable to cover if 140% was an uncoverable amount in the first place.

I don't understand how the stock market actually works. I also don't need my Economics degree to understand that the way people over the past week have suggested it works doesn't make a lick of sense.
If a single officer is the only witness to a murder, what consequences will there be if the officer chooses not to make an arrest? Yes, there's nuance and as soon as multiple people are involved there's the risk of public outcry, but as far as I know, there's not a legal obligation for a peace officer to make an arrest just because they have witnessed a crime. Whether there is a social obligation to make an arrest is highly situational and depends on not only the crime but the surrounding circumstances.
I love soda too much to kick caffeine entirely. Never got on the coffee train thankfully.

I've tried to kick caffeine multiple times but always fall back during stress. I just can't find another (cheap) drink I enjoy sipping on.

My harm reduction is a Soda Stream, which at least lowers my overall sugar intake. I don't understand sparkling water, I've tried it and it is less enticing than plain water.
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How does it compare to Hydrosphere? https://docs.hydrosphere.io/
The model was trained with features of human voice bound to a frequency range so it may work for "cross-language" sync. Why not give it a go and check the quality? It won't change the content of original segments but only shift them along the timeline if there are gaps.
The EU? That tax machine... its a wonder these companies still sell there at all. Seems like they should double down on Asian markets instead of bothering.
"Best practice" is what you are least likely to get fired for doing, which may not be the actual best thing to do.

It's kinda like "enterprise". Originally the word implied a desirable goal and risks taken to achieve it, but "enterprise" software is aimed at businesses which are notoriously risk-averse and don't have much in the way of goals to achieve beyond their own continued existence and profitability.

Business speak has eroded the meaning straight off English words.
Because (all other concerns and objections aside) the intent doesn't matter.

Apologies for the crude analogy, but if I install a camera in your bathroom and say, "okay, technically I could watch you poop, but the only reason I'm actually doing this is to figure out when you're out of toilet paper", that explanation won't leave you satisfied.

Similarly, if someone is tracking me across the web and trying to link my identity across multiple sites/devices, I don't really care whether or not they're worried about attribution. The concerns about attribution are secondary to the fact that they're still watching everything I do online.
> the development experience when trying to incorporate the SDK into your own software is utterly miserable.

It's not miserable anymore, but yes, it's far from good. If you are not doing something very simple, it can be very hard, and there is no support team to help you.

Examples should be better those days, but the road is long to go.
I'm also 75% of the way through... my fourth read-through. It's notable how my opinion of the major characters changes each time I read it.
Same, if possible I try to plan my stimulant intake based on anticipated workload, i.e. I don't want to be using my focus energy if there's nothing requiring it going on. I have noticed that simply changing up the delivery substance can "fake out" the tolerance sometimes, e.g. drinking a cup of coffee might have no effect due to tolerance but drinking a cup of green tea gets my brain going despite the core drug being caffeine for both.
everyone of them.
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>> >"When Cyberpunk 2077 was faltering on everything else in December, it was running quite well on Stadia."

This is the first time I have heard that, it seems like something that Stadia's marketing team would want to tell people.
> My Kindle shows me ads

I have no experience on Kindles, but on my Amazon Fire HD, I have rooted it, uninstall 50-60% of the bloatware, I have installed "NoRoot Firewall" to cut down on the unwanted comms between my tablet and Amazon, and I now have a perfectly functioning tablet for reading.

Extra tip: install ReadEra and you can read the non-Kindle-app pdf, mobi, epub, etc.
>after explaining line endings to a co-worker, she asked, "What's DOS?"

How old was she? I bet there are plenty of people born in the late 80s / early 90s who've never used DOS. Windows 95 changed everything.
Could you explain what you mean by that?

..and it's also how Germany became dependent upon the largest foreign threat to its region's security.
That's interesting. A lot of good could be done at your company.

Do you hire from Europe too, or preferrably from US?
Are there plans to sandbox / harden VLC against security vulnerabilities? While my jolly roger days are long gone, and virtually all media I play are from trusted sources, VLC probably ranks top 5 by attack surface among the software I run regularly.
This might just be my own environment, but it seems like VLC's ability to stream from Youtube breaks very frequently.

Is that just a side-effect of Google constantly updating their YT infrastructure, or do you believe they are intentionally introducing changes to sabotage the ability for third-party programs such as VLC to render their streams?
The article says

Google will continue to operate the Stadia gaming service and its $10 monthly Stadia Pro service. It’s unclear how many, if any, exclusive games will still come to the service, though the company has indicated that it can still sign new games and will bring more third-party releases to the platform. It nevertheless will look to many like a draw down of the plan to have Stadia run as a bona fide competitor to console platforms.

So it's not dead yet. The race is still on.
What are your thoughts on market fit for Stadia? It seems like Nintendo made something that people really want with the Switch [1]. Do you know if Stadia is being used much?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/1/22259836/nintendo-3q-2020-...
Eerie in accuracy http://stadiacountdown.com/
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I personally have no idea. US culture is rather averse to discussing matters of death so this is all new. My brief searching around looks like this is tied to however you purchase the plot and the terms set with the cemetery itself and if they expire, they just bury someone a foot or two above the previous plot owner after removing the headstone....
Audio editing skills << ProTools proficiency, especially when it comes to the experience of understanding legacy session import gotchas.

Plus: pre-iLok TDM systems can still be found in some facilities today; they can be had for a song.
The problem was he's not a techie and only has a Linux laptop because of cost. Trying to get him to understand how to work the shell cost me a year of life.
Without something to constrain where it is used, chroot can be theoretically abused as part of an attack. Thus, by default chroot requires root permissions. Part of what schroot does is indeed allow root to approve a list of known-safe locations for a unprivileged users to chroot to. It can do much more, including automate setting up the chroot environment prior to a given user's entry. A more minimal solution that just lets unprivileged users chroot to a given list of directories is capchroot, written by an Arch Linux developer. It used to be hosted here [0] but does not appear to be any longer.

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I read a wonderful comment in another thread the other day. It was about the obsession of devs to collect a whole range of technologies on their resume. It went something like: "When I hire a carpenter I won't hire him for what he has in his toolbox. I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn."

I will try to look up the link and obviously 'he' can be 'she' as well.
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