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What kelnos said...

I respect Gentoo fine (have not tried Slack TBH); and a distribution can very well be compilation-based - but that doesn't mean that I have to sort things out manually. That's what packagers and distribution maintainers are for. Gobo seems to tell you that I need to do that work myself.
I know there is a lot of hate toward Amazon going around these days, including calls for regulation and/or break-up (to which I am not necessarily opposed).

But, for my money, the world is an immeasurably better place for the presence Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

Thanks Jeff!
Interestingly, if you go international, Amazon is either not present at all or a niche player as an online store in many countries. But in terms of cloud infrastructure they've become the universal global default / premium service. It is fascinating to me that they have beaten players like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle etc. to this status. I actually have to mount a business case in my organisation NOT to use AWS even though all the desktops and half the servers are pure Microsoft stack.
Absolutely, totally nothing to do with the "billionaire tax" brewing in Washington state. But, you know, the timing probably doesn't hurt.
Google is claiming these videos were never on YouTube? That seems... odd?

And surely easy to refute, if they were public? Internet Archive would at least have scraped the channel's page.

TFA links to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGPZJTVIpNe-hroLo-CQ9wQ/vid... which currently 404s...

But which indeed did contain many videos... https://web.archive.org/web/20201101020416if_/https://www.yo...
The modern West thinks that their version of democracy is the only way to success or prosperity, conveniently ignoring what it took them to get there. I read an interesting article that was making the argument that it's because the modern West is already prosperous that they have the luxury to run their nations under their version of democracy, not that democracy caused them to become that way.

The end goal is to have a functioning, stable, and just society. Unless we're willing to stick to rules that are proven to work, we're going to keep fumbling and wondering why things are the way they are. I bring up the Islamic Golden Age because Islam places a set of rules which dictate things like government and finance, basically red lines that should not be broken. However, everything within those lines are up to society to decide as it sees fit based on the times.

I don't want to say that Islam is "democractic" because that would give the wrong impression that it is fully in line with the West's current practices. It isn't. However, it has a concept known as "Shura", a form of consultation if you will, that allows society to determine how things are run within the boundaries I mentioned, even including the ruler (but not in the free for all manner how elections are run in the West). It's more nuanced, and it's been proven to work.

You can cite philosophers, and I can also cite philosophers that oppose democracy (again in the Western sense). It won't get anywhere, it's all hypothetical. What I did do is show you a system that has been historically proven to work. Today's system is a fumbling mess and we keep crying about it.
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There are a couple of institutions in the Seattle area that have pretty good generic domain names, presumably because of the tech connections in the area. For instance, the Washington State Fair has the domain thefair.com.
Can they relight sooner to improve their odds of landing successfully, or is the window for when they can relight relatively small?

Or does it not matter because a few more seconds won't increase the chances they'll be able to relight?
I strongly advocate for using both BUT not propagating undefined. That is to say, use null and handle undefined.

You'll need to write undefined as a potential type for potentially undefined object members, and as such it means exactly that - undefined.

For everything else there is null.

A sanity check would be - undefined can only appear in a function parameter type or object member type as a union with other types, or in a === comparison. For everything else there is null.
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Amazon, IBM, Red-Hat, SAP, Microsoft, Azul, Alibaba, Twitter, Azul, PTC, Aicas, microEJ are doing perfectly fine.

The day will come for Google's J++.
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Yeah, If you are just watching videos rarely it can be tough to justify it.

I still have some channels that I regularly consume plus travel and cooking/baking videos that I watch a lot so it made sense for me to pay for it.
I have software I've personally written that's still running 20 years later. Most of my JavaScript/TypeScript is now many years old. Getting your typings perfect for some weird use case might not be useful but 3 days -- that's nothing.
Many will disagree, but this is the result of holding the plataforms accountable for what the users upload. The traffic is so inmense that they have to resort to shitty algorithms.

Because given Google's (any big tech company really) lack of morals, I don't believe they'd care to censor anything at all.
"this is day 1".

I'm wondering for what else it is day 1, right now.

I know cryptocurrencies have been booming, it's not clear exactly if they will continue to boom but the space is already so big that one has to really read a lot to catch up.

What else seems like a promising field that one could go 100% into right now to bet on?
> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra".

Lol, so your take is that you have a better handle on the history of Amazon than its founder? He is likely referring to a point in time when Amazon was just an idea.
Yeah, I hear you and I am sad that your unit probably has some issue.. perhaps writing an email asking for a replacement?
If one of the goals of design is to serve as a signal for how trustworthy your business is, then it is absolutely an argument that it’s good design.
The "no performance or code size overhead" result is remarkable.

It seems to me that the path of least resistance for memory safety in C-based OS kernels is to port them to a memory-safe C compiler and runtime.
> So Beats continue to make crap, they did improve somewhat since Apple's purchased them. And Apple, continues to be Apple.

They don't, they make good headphones now. Nobody knows this because they don't listen to the products, have never listened to them, and rely on jokes they read on the internet 10 years ago.
It’s obvious. Too much power under one non elected person with very few checks. It’s similar to a dictator of a small country, with global scope.
“as unknown as MyType” usually works almost as well and avoids throwing you out into the cold untyped darkness.

I also try not to let any escape function boundaries.

Recast it to something better when returning something.
They didn't block behaviour that would lead to that. They disabled their core product and raised $3.4 billion in a week to cover their fuck up. Most likely, the founders of RH found themselve significantly diluted by this event and if they hadn't been able to raise more capital they likely would've gone bankrupt even if they disabled everything. That's pretty much the definition of over-extending yourself.
The judgement was for behaviors between 2015 and 2018.

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321
But I'm not just paying for the pipe. Part of my money already goes to content creators.
That's funny as the meaning in Hebrew (this is an Israeli company) is similar - Zaraz means Catalyst.
Would they even be able to get those vaccines faster than their own vaccines? I'm assuming that Russia and China don't have a giant surplus sitting around, since they have their own people to vaccinate, so the West would have to manufacture them.

They would be starting from scratch, where with their own vaccines, I believe they had already started manufacturing them in anticipation that they would soon be approved.
The irony is domains like books.com sounded like a sure winner but that only works for books. How would Jeff be doing today if he ran books.com and just sold ... books. bookswebservice (BWS) doesn't have that same ring to it.
You're assuming facts matter to anti-vaxxers.

It doesn't matter who reports the data. FDA, CDC, some other TLA. Some mommy blog will claim that autism rates are up 25% since we started distributing the COVID vaccines and the anti-vaxxers will eat it right up.
I'm 45 and there are people who've been using Unix for longer than I've been alive. That's really something when you think about it.
Oh wow, so awesome to see someone like this. You are basically part of history.
I just want to ask two things if it is alright.

1) Any cool anecdotes from Amazon that you can tell?

2) Any advice you have for young entrepreneurs looking to uproar an industry?
> There are CTOs who basically won't touch a google product in beta because there are so many things that get pulled.

That is literally the point of calling it beta and why beta Google Cloud products have a different deprecation policy.
Yeah, it does a "belly flop" during descent, presenting as much area as possible to the airflow, reducing its terminal velocity.
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I don't want to avoid ads entirely - I still want to support creators and the success of the platform. It just seems as if the length, number, and frequency of ads has been ratcheted up to 200% lately.
Literally two posts above yours, the one your parent is replying to, are the words “legally obligated to put profit ahead of anything else.”
As much as I like having the Pinephone to play with, and I know some dedicated folks are technically able to use it as a daily driver, the hardware quality is far below modern quality, even on entry-level phones. This is pretty noticeable on the camera in particular. I believe it's only 5 megapixels, and the lighting, etc. is not great. Totally understandable considering it's basically a $200 developer platform, but I wouldn't try to compare it to any smartphone I've owned in the last 6-7 years.

On the other hand, it's proved pretty popular. Maybe in a few years when higher-performance open SoC's are released and low-cost hardware improves, a new version will be released that causes the quality difference to close more. The upcoming keyboard attachment you mentioned could certainly drive some neat things on that side as well.
The issue is that the Raptor engines can only throttle down to 40% which represents a large thrust-to-weight ratio when you have basically just an empty tank.

There is also a startup time for each engine, so if one fails Starship will likely hit the ground before they can light another.

There are enough engines that a failure on ascent can be handled gracefully but landing is another story.
>And no, steal is not hyperbole here.

I thought theft was a crime... shouldn't the DOJ be prosecuting something here?
> They were made for a time when we were not so poorly educated that we trusted leadership to people so far away,

How do we define 'far away'? I can have a face to face conversation with someone at the opposite end of the country with near-zero effort.

> with so little in common with ourselves and our way of lives.

I strongly disagree with this. Partisan politics try to paint people from different regions of the US as being wildly different, and I flatly reject this notion. I've lived in urban, rural, and in areas separated by thousands of miles. Americans are far more alike than different. There are the same (minor) cultural differences within the average state as between states on opposite ends of the country.

> I tell you what, though. You design an effective, smart and transparent government and I'll never say a word about how big you would like it to be.

I don't have all the answers, but I would start by outlawing the bribery of public officials via campaign donations, and I'd put the legislative process in version control.
That's not what I asked though. I'm not asking whether or not Dante should have his conviction overturned. Though on that note, I'm not convinced it should be, because it seems his crimes were for actual corruption while in public office, and waging war against the government.

But no, I'm pointing out that it seems like his conviction was already overturned, so what exactly is the complaint?
> you can't get $3 billion collateral overnight.

Tell that to Melvin Capital.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-point72-to-invest-2-75-...
More than their tracking it’ll hurt their Audience Network.
When did we have 0% interest on houses in modern times? I said that mortgage interest contributes to bubbles, not that it's the only cause. Interest is more insidious, because it allows people who have wealth to gather even more wealth without putting in the appropriate risk to balance it, giving them the luxury to purchase assets easily, contributing to those bubbles somewhat indirectly.

However, because of interest, those same wealthy people have an even bigger advantage. They take out mortgages, and after a while they can take out loans on said mortgages to acquire even more assets. It's genius really (in a very evil way).

These things are very interconnected. Just banishing mortgages won't solve the issue. The economic system has to be fundamentally turned over.
The PCMark 10 Storage tests do include some cache flushes in their traces. I haven't started extracting and graphing those stats, so I don't know if it's enough to say anything meaningful about how a drive would perform on sync-heavy workloads like a database.
Fellow game dev here. What breaks do you have? Just wondering.
Yes I am.

Unfortunately, the myth still abounds that the conservative side of politics are better economic managers (despite all evidence to the contrary), and the progressives are more concerned about appearances than they are about providing an alternative and representing the working class.

Since we vote for a party, and not a personality, we don't get to pick our prime minister, and since the MSM here is mostly Murdoch-controlled (and he can't keep his digits out of our politics, even though he hasn't lived here for decades), the reporting is myopic and mostly one-sided.

The politicians have become brazen with their corruption as well. There are some rays of hope with new media commentators taking them to task, but it's going to take a grass-roots backlash to unhinge the current party (though this is happening more and more).
If you want to beat the market and you have more than 10 years to wait.

put 80% of your money in spy. And 10-30% in SPXL. Rebalance monthly. Then if the market tanks more than 5% put another 10-20% more in to SPXL. If the market hits it's previous high rebalance back to original.

If the market shits more than 30% go all in. Once the market reaches it's previous high rebalance to original levels.

Btw, this isn't sound financial advice so your nuts if you listen to me.

The key is you've got 80% of your money in the S&P500 and your only playing around with a small amount of it.
The reason that I agree with you is that Robinhood's actions spooked buyers, and long-holders who are Robinhood customers lost money as a result...not to mention allowing covering shorts to front-run the retail demand.
I miss #wtf. I hope it lives on in Slack.
you could also use TECL or TQQQ. there's couple others.

It would be cool to program that into a bot and leave it alone for a while.
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Ha! this is specific to Solaris in the old days where a reboot command can in cases, corrupts the OS. This has long been fixed but personally use sync;sync;halt for Solaris as a matter of habit. It even spills over to Linux on my part because of kernel upgrades and just because of muscle memory, plus it's a good idea to run sync anyways. Now i feel old! :)
Worker exploitation has some degree of legal protection since it's intrinsic to our culture.

I think that shouldn't be the case but the fact that these people don't go to jail proves it in my mind.
HomePod's frequency response is objectively flat when placed in a free space.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/a...

https://www.rtings.com/speaker/reviews/apple/homepod

You might have reflections or room gain if it's in a smaller space. It'd probably help to put it on a speaker stand.
I'm sorry but the claim is YouTube just randomly deletes channels with no notification? And they do it in order to suppress... Whatever this was? That seems remarkably unlikely.

The whole article is extremely thin on facts and very fat on speculation and breathless rhetoric.
At the scale Walmart operates - 25th largest GDP in the world if considered as a nation[1], supporting over 2.2 Million employees[2], in over 27 countries[3] - it's simply more cost effective to do your tech in-house.

Amazon is huge... but Walmart is truly massive... over double Amazon's size in just about every metric. They clearly have the resources to handle things on their own.

[1] https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=0340721260780250...

[2] https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/company-facts#:~:text....

[3] https://corporate.walmart.com/askwalmart/in-which-countries-....
Couldn’t agree more. With Apple’s headphones it happens less often and their switching (between devices) logic works wonders, at times.

I’m partially deaf in one ear so the whole audiophile angle isn’t for me but the life convenience of apple ecosystem is worth it, in my opinion.
The early days of the Soviet space program were similar - fast construction and iterative improvements with each successive test.
Also Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" at the time became so popular due to the word 'Internet' compared to a 'Netscape'. So many non-technical people just thought that was the 'way in' when they bought their first PC.
(Email from Jeff Bezos to everyone in corporate because the larger culture in Amazon is nothing like this)
This causes some interesting questions about continuity of accountability for governments. I wonder how long you can hold a government accountable for the actions of its previous administrations. How many years can you go back? How many iterations of a state can you hold accountable too?
The second employee is probably actually more trustworthy than PR signed by the founder.
Yes, this was after ma Bell was broken up and Yann ended up in the AT&T Research. And then AT&T management closed the whole project. Glory days of Bell Labs are all in the distant past, unfortunately.
For bigger transfers, the $10-20 fee for a fedwire is no longer much of a factor, so people will just use that.
> the beeb

Never heard this term. From context I'm assuming it's slang for the BBC?
Arguably, this could be the UK to some degree, given that if you have a TV, you're expected to pay for a "TV license", the funds of which go entirely to the state run broadcaster.
Been part of some of those conversations, some companies are wary of hosting with Amazon not due to paying their competitor but due to the amount of power they are putting on a direct competitor hands.
Another solution, which I've happily adopted, is: just use a database!

I put all modules in an SQLite database, so if I want to constrain a module to use a specific version of another module, I just do it.

It doesn't solve Unix's problem. But it does solve mine, and that's good enough for me.
Trying to finely parse the semantics of null and undefined like this is a fool’s errand, insofar as there isn’t much in the language which enforces your conventions. Also, these conventions fall apart when we check how null is actually used. For instance, all DOM nodes have a default of null for their first children and next siblings. Does this mean “the value exists but is not set?” What does it mean when the browser is setting the value and not the user?

At the end of the day it would have been much nicer for there to only have been one nothing type but what’s done is done.
Yes but people tend to play this statistics game very selectively in order to bolster whatever point they want to make. For example, I could also point out that there are ~800,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the U.S. and about 60 million people have an interaction with them each year. Only a tiny, tiny percentage of these interactions end with an innocent person dying. However it's insensitive to just shrug that off because the number "could be a lot bigger". It's also insensitive to brush off 2 billion in property damages from riots and looting even though the protests were "largely peaceful".
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The article briefly mentions (but does not do justice) to the fact that identifying small objects at extreme range is something that LIDAR is _also_ really bad at, due to extremely low effective resolutions by camera standards. High-end LIDAR units cap out at ~100 channels (roughly equivalent to vertical pixel size), usually over >100deg vertical field of view, for less than one "pixel" per degree. That's not nearly enough to detect a brick at 100m, and pales in comparison to the angular resultions an HD camera with a decent lens can achieve.

In general, it's not yet clear to me whether LIDAR is all that useful for the hard parts of the self-driving car problem. We know it's extremely useful for the easy parts (not hitting curbs, other vehicles, or walls), but it's not clear whether LIDAR helps that much with small objects, vehicle behavior prediction, or object classification (paper bag vs. dog)
Daniele Procida already has a great Write the Docs talk on this subject already. It is indeed a fantastic talk.

https://youtu.be/qK-AnF5FJTs
The likelihood of addiction without treatment is much higher as far as I know.
i'm just saying that's what platforms that are the defacto town square should do. act as a neutral platform, not a publisher. the town square should not be governed by a few publishing giants.
You can actually measure your hearing and change the EQ to fit it for all AirPods inside iOS's accessibility settings.

The Music app also has an EQ but it's very primitive and hasn't changed since early iTunes.
A discussion about vaccines can be resolved through rational discourse only if everyone agrees that diseases are bad for you. If I think disease is good, you can't convince me that vaccines are good for society, even if we agree on their effects.

That's a contrived example, but this kind of disagreement is very common in discussions about government and society. If you believe that individual choice is important and all humans are born with equal rights, and I believe that individual choice is unimportant and some humans are born superior to others, we are never going to agree on an ideal form of government. We can have full agreement on the facts and full disagreement on what we consider to be a "good" outcome.

You mentioned game theory, but you can't design one model that will satisfy one person who wants to maximize outputs for all players, one person who wants to weight players in different castes differently, and one person who wants to set a hard cap on all players because too much material comfort leads us away from God.
It was ready to go, they got a week's jump on setting it up, and it isn't as close to the landing site as it looks.