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Such an overreaction. Some people prefer not to read Twitter threads as individual posts. This is merely an option provided for those people.

No need to get your knickers in a twist over it. The original link remains in the original post, as clickable/tappable as ever it was.
An alternate perspective to this is. The great line of thought, that you are meant to 'follow your passion' and discover your true calling. There is a job mean for you and you just need to find it.

I disagree with this and feel this thinking makes peoples lives miserable thinking they're somehow wasting their lives and makes people take plunges in life that they later regret.

I feel there is space for an attitude that, to learn a craft you need to toil and master it with deep dedication and practice. Mastery, will bring with it naturally that joy that we seek.

I think if people consider their craft as bigger than themselves, with an attitude of humility and learning they will get the happiness and satisfaction of building things. Rather than seeking a job that's somehow obliged to give you that happiness juice..
"Companies exist to allocate resources" is 100% correct, but not in the way
Musk and engineering culture think. Most office workers are of the
interviewer's IQ or less, meaning they can't "just make the product better."
But we can't let their families starve. So we hire them to do things
within their means, which is largely chasing their tail via powerpoint,
jira, and long email chains. Again, companies exist to allocate resources,
that is, they feed and clothe the IQ bulge bracket of the population.
> It's not hard to imagine a browser extension that helps you perturb all images you upload to a particular domain, or something similar.

Ideally I’d like to see something like this be part of the camera filter itself.

Why can’t Apple, if they choose to do so, just add something like this as part of their camera app itself?
>Spotify and co have obliterated music piracy on the internet. It's hard to find torrents for music these days and even the best private trackers can't compete with Spotifys ever growing catalog.

Eh? Maybe it depends on a musical genre, but from my experience musical piracy is about as popular as it ever was, with a lot of new releases every day (although I admit that it didn't really grow). I can still find anything I'm interested in less than a minute.

I also think, that having your own musical library is more convenient than spotify. As an example - https://ibb.co/VLTh5fD and https://ibb.co/fnxnMmG
Since when is CSS a programming language?
That varies by country and sometimes even by university. In some universities there are far fewer teaching positions than staff scientist jobs, particularly when you count research institutes, while in others a typical teaching load without additional funding hovers somewhere around the poverty line.

In my case it's both, so instead of teaching I take half-time IT consulting gigs here and there, which pay enough for me to be able to do science even if I had no funding at all. I still get some grants, mostly because you're looked at funny if you don't, but I'm done losing sleep over them, plus if I finally decide to give up academia I'll have an easy transition.
Unfortunately, storage of electricity is quite difficult; supply and demand therefore need to be balanced at all times. An oversupply (ie, overvoltage or excessive frequency) will damage equipment, so prices go negative to encourage those plants which can go offline quickly to do so; generation stations which take longer to shut down or start up, on the other hand, tend to stay running.
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Anyone else disturbed by this? These packages have root access for millions of computers and thousands of Fortune 500 companies and no one is maintaining them?
Here's raw table data to look at 15 min spot price per mWh http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/20210220_real_time_spp

Here's overall grid conditions in real-time http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/real_time_system_condi...

You can see the massive excess capacity which is why pricing has gone negative now, total opposite of earlier in the week, grid may fail now from overload instead of brown out.
I put a lot of effort into making sure things don’t explode. I write tests. I think about the failure modes.

I use a simple tech stack. Golang monolith, Postgres database.

I pay a little extra for God managed services that auto-recover. I run my database on Cloud SQL and my web servers on Cloud Run on GCP.

As a last line of defence, I have a remote development environment I can access from my phone. I can make fixes and deploy from there. I also have a Garmin InReach satellite communicator that I can be contacted on if I’m out of phone range.
For me... yes. I was significantly smaller and was only able to weakly punch his chest. I got punched in the face and got a black eye and a sore skull.

As an adult the concept works. Bees can’t hurt me significantly, and even when they land an attack they die - but I go out of my way to leave them alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_I
This is still done today with some premium milk in the US - e.g. Strauss milk: https://www.strausfamilycreamery.com/simple-faqs/what-should...
> Funny enough that exactly this arrogant behavior has lead to leaders like Xi, who is so consumed by the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union that directly impacts relationships we believe that matter, e.g. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang with their Uighurs.

The west, by not recapitalizing a bankrupt system (that threatened them with nuclear annihilation for decades) is to blame for Xi operating concentration camps?
Maybe there is but I doubt you'd call the reasons why the majority of people die as something that's 'worth it'.
I've been reading technical books for so long, hunting for information and with my shortened attention span, I now have difficulty reading for the sheer pleasure of it. I tried reading fiction not too long ago and found it laborious. It was the most disappointing feeling in the world to me.
Yup, corrected. Thanks!
It makes perfect sense. When there was not enough power, because generation was frozen, electricity was in demand. Now that those power plants are unfrozen and there is enough power, over-generation is a liability.

The real question is does the spot price being able to go to $9,000 produce a useful market signal? Or is it just a pointless hazard to ensnare the unprepared? Normally this kind of question doesn't make sense because if there are still transactions at a high clearing price someone has decided they're getting $9k of utility. But in this case the market is a post facto settlement system decoupled from most usage, rather than something built on deliberate transactions.

Also, does anyone know who ends up paying for energy usage that cannot be attributed to any specific customer? Like if someone jumps their meter while the spot price is at $9/kWh, does the local transmission company just end up eating that or what?
The first paragraph on the page specifies that the release is named in honor of Xerxes I, not Xerxes II.
The twitter link doesn't work with js disabled unless you turn your browser into a bot via user agent switching.

But the thereaderapp link works perfectly fine without any js while simultaneously stripping out all the other garbage inherent on twitter like advertising, "discussion", or "related" content.
4xx would be what you want anyway, no?
The person you replied to asked what the behavior was when you access an offset of an array that doesn't exist and you are giving me an example of dereferencing a null pointer.

The array access should error out on the line that it happens.

The dereference could print a line of the last assignment, but this isn't what was being talked about.
Why does this page request access to my VR devices?
>thousands of dollars

People are already receiving such bills:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/02/20/170...

Two problems:

1. Most consumers who signed up for such plans had no awareness of the risk they were taking. Sales people would have tried to hide it.

2. Many such bills will prove uncollectible, bankrupting the middlemen involved.

A bailout is surely coming:

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2021/02/20/griddy-custom....
The glass is half full.
Actually, frontend is my strength. I've written (and shipped) dozens of apps. I'm quite good at "closing" the app development process. I've been shipping (as opposed to just "coding") applications for over thirty years.

The backend was just a more challenging project. I won't go into all the reasons that I wrote it, but it works a charm. A dedicated backend engineer could probably do better (actually a dedicated backend team. I'm fairly productive). I'm just glad I have a use for it. I was assuming it would never be used. I wrote it on a lark. Took seven months, but it was fun. I do stuff like that. A number of years ago, I taught myself to program Android, but decided I didn't like it, and never followed through.

As far as recruiters...They do rush to my profile. I have a lot of nice buzzwords.

As soon as they find out how old I am, though, the call suddenly has "connection problems," and I never hear from them again.

I've taken to making sure that my age is clear upfront, just to save time. It's amusing how quickly they start discouraging me. They start by lowballing me, and when I make it clear that I would have no problem working for low wages (I do it for fun, and I don't really need the work), they start trying to find other reasons I wouldn't want the job.

Like I said, I bailed on the rat race. It was just making me grumpy.
I’m guessing that’s a Texan.
The market in power should only exist to optimise. Its become a rei-ified good in its own right, and is being gamed by bad faith actors with stranded assets (coal, oil) to make a point about green power and capital investment money they want.

It's possible no power network could have avoided some of this, but its patently obvious a regulated power utility function needs investment, and the market is not the best model to get it: its the one federal and texan politicians wanted.

A public utility model is not perfect. I argue it would have been better than this, and identified the capex required for systems resiliency before this crisis hit.

The energy market is not the solution. The energy market is the problem.
> Some people prefer not to read Twitter threads as individual posts.

That's great, but Twitter already does that by default. Is this about padding between paragraphs (in the CSS sense)?
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Perhaps related: https://xkcd.com/277/
I don't understand this. You make it sound as if other trades and professions are about getting invited to parties.
I apologize, given the message of the comment and how personally addressed it was throughout, I had thought you’d meant to have a conversation with someone other than yourself.
I have no vested interested in any cryptocurrency, but I have been researching them in the last few months due to the bull run. The polarized views on Nano are actually what drew me to research it more in depth compared to other alt coins. My findings are quite positive.

- Over the last 3-4 years the community (both of users and developers) has been chugging away consistently, regardless of bull/bear markets (something that can't be said of 90% of other altcoins).

- It had more of a grassroots start, and the community is creating some pretty cool projects (e.g. WeNano app) which are directly geared towards use, not promises/announcements.

- It's certainly a lot greener than others (not sure how other BTC contenders measure on the energy spectrum, so won't comment further)

- It's fee-less, which if you ask me is a critical aspect of a P2P, decentralized currency. I understand the game theory behind BTC's proof of work is great, but haven't the last bull runs shown what the effect is? the mining power becomes centralized and the fees become astronomical.

My only gripe with Nano is with the incentives (the fee-less nature)..i.e. why should I run a node? Having said that the internet is thriving on free-based services through advertising, so maybe that's one potential avenue for running a node? Curious to hear someone experienced with Nano answer this for me.
Depends where you are. In Europe, we have Biontech and AZ. Thanks to aggressive PR and media campaigns, nobody wants AZ in Germany.

Even the surplus AZ doses are just sitting in storage, official centers don't use them if you are not eligible yet. Even if that means less people are getting shots. As soon as doctors are jumping in, that will change. We also have, quite likely, an incredible amount or surplus doses come Q2, early Q3.
What's a DKIM Record?
I do agree with this thesis in the sense that leaving an inheritance has no benefit to you. I've tried to explain to people that life insurance is a waste of money for this very reason but it is hard to put into words.

I think they are undervaluing procreation though. You should do it because it makes you happy - I have never met a parent who regretted having children.
Seems like those Fortune 500 companies might think about making a donation or two?
Because there is no I in AI.

At a mile high conceptual level, AI is nothing but a program created by a computer based on the data it is provided

Which is why it is extremely easy to fool using techniques that it is not trained to handle, today, but might be able to handle tomorrow. It is a race...
Why do think speculation is an issue here?

My understanding is that electrical markets are physical markets in that you literally have to either provide capacity (electricity) or take delivery (use the electricity) to participate. And you need a utility level power meter (for buyers/users) or to pass a detailed interconnection queues (for sellers/providers) to participate.

The reason prices go negative is federal production tax credits incentivizes wind power producers to be able to bid a negative price and still make money. Said differently, the negative price in the market is outweighed by the positive revenue from the production tax credit.

Am I missing something here about the structure of the 15-min real time power market? I'm asking as I'm genuinely trying to learn more about this stuff.
> I couldn’t find a good way to run them on my Mac, so naturally I wrote a Turbo Pascal compiler

Of course, it’s the natural thing to do.
Amazing, writing a compiler
Thanks! It’s interesting to read about the history of L4, which Wikipedia claims developed out of dissatisfaction about XNU predecessor Mach’s performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family
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> libertarian fantasy

So what do you recommend? Mandatory lights/heaters/AC on/off times, so the power produced is actually used, and the power needed is actually produced?

The british have the problem that during a football game half-time, a bunch of people start their tea kettles at the same time, and there is a relatively huge spike in electricity usage... this means, that the electricity providers have to plan for this and import electricity and/or shut down other cunsumers for those 15 minutes. Now imagine an unplanned half-time, without the time to prepare, and a magnitude higher changes, that happen suddenly (eg, three/ice brings down cables)... there's no way to predict everything and deal with every problem.

What variable pricing does is, that it gives incentive to consumers to use electricity when it's cheaper and not use it when it's more expensive. For homes that means washing clothes in the evenings and on sundays (cheper electricity here then) and not during peak usage hours, and for industry that means shutting down the highest consumers when there is not enough power available, and having them use up extra power when needed.
Also housing, healthcare, and college tuition.
Ma, the passion police is at the door again.
Sneering contempt because it's currently impossible, and we built up all sort of cultural artifacts to dissuade people from doing or coping mechanism with the fact that immortality isn't possible.

The Epic of Gilgamesh(you should listen to it once) is one of our first written story which basically state this opinion about immortality.
There is no remotely efficent way to store very large volumes of electricity.

Wind power works great sometimes, but we need electricity that works all of the the time.

> Nuclear is stagnating at just 10% of global electricity

At the moment the slack is increasingly being picked up by burning coal or oil. That's bad.
I don't think this is what any of us had in mind when we say "eat the rich".
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In the immediate term, sure.

In the medium to long term you probably want some central management that can ensure extra capacity exists. When you depend on the spot market for everything, this happens, and you encourage an attitude of "yeah you're begging for power but I very likely won't get paid for it so why should I care?".
Can I get a raise of hands for folks who think "Dream Machines" is the #1 book on software? How about for those who believe that Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect is a driving force for humanity? And that software is a radical embodiment of that all? I think we can get a modest show of hands; I've seen enough confirming points of view from about. (Would that I have a memex to highlight all the mentions I've seen, all the other endorsements!)

Elsewhere I've talked a bit about whether we are romantically engaged in software development. Or whether we are justifying ourselves, merely up to fun.

And I think this comment hones in a lot on what the real chase of this all is, on where we can be radically romantic & hopeful & builders of enduring meaning. It's good advice, for just trying to get better. But this act of enhancing ourselves, learning, cobbling together pools of wisdom: it's the meta-act, it's what software development enables, for software & for other areas. A push for excellence. Software both requires us to improve ourselves, to learn, but it's also a tool for learning, for augmenting ourselves, for becoming more than what limited things we might otherwise be constrained to develop into.

Working not just with but on personal information systems, is, in my view, a nearly sacrosanct act. I see developers like Karli Coss[1] as vanguards of humanity, a bringer about of higher orders & new ranks of human development, via software. Don't merely just use a knowledge management system, develop them! This is the core point, the core enablement of software, and it's not automation or products or ai that has ultimate relevance: it's this human development, this getting better at getting better. Invest yourself into knowledge management systems, build them to further reaches. Pick up really good open source tools like Foam (built as a vscode extension!) & build plugins, expand, grow! Excel! Keep expanding the reach that your mind can travel, by actively engaging yourself in building better bicycles of the mind.

[1] https://github.com/karlicoss

[2] https://github.com/foambubble/foam
"Mountebank" gives me 763k matches, "Chirurgeon" 185k.

Never come across them before I looked for uncommon terms for doctors in the English language.
I am not saying it is not a word or incorrect, but that I haven't seen it in practical use. Have you observed that?
"A long-standing commitment to open hardware and open software allowed Antonić’s invention to ripple across the country. It precipitated a minor computer revolution, activating a multiplicity of subcultural actors—programmers, gamers, DJs, musicians, and fanzine collectors—who each coagulated around his machine’s novel combination of collectivity, autodidacticism, and technophilia."

This is great :)
What people are trying to convey to you is your innate choices are very poor and recommending better picks.
Not just for you, but for other readers who may try to follow in your (poorly thought out) steps.
Thanks for sharing this. THAT IS SO COOL.
It is similar to the fine balance between nationalism and globalism.

As someone on hn I am sure you know how much more nationalist and mono cultural much of the world is.

I am from TN, the amount of power these "minority" religions hold is unbelievable.

As an example, Loyola college in Chennai is totally under the control of the church so much so that being a Christian gives one preferential admission or skip the queue.

What many people do not know is that the campus property belongs to a temple and the salaries are paid by the tax payers. The Church has disproportionate control of an institution to which its contributions is practically zero.

India has not completely decolonised.
> Only about 5%

Perhaps. But 5% of gazillions is still bazillions. Bazillions of non-biodegradable goods - many single use - adds up. Forever.

Presuming oil follows the same path as coal (i.e., demand collapses and price follows) then plastics will get even cheaper. If we don't find an alternative soon, it might never happen.
The system is complex because Texas designed it that way. This is in no way a technical problem, is it a political problem.

Just because something is complex, it doesn't mean there is no one with the required expertise. Texas chose Ayn Rand levels of deregulation with its energy market, and it will keep struggling with black swan events since those are the types which the private industry tends to chronically underinvest for, since they are the easiest to cut and turn into profit.
I think that's what Larry Wall was trying to do with Perl6/Raku:

https://thenewstack.io/larry-walls-quest-100-year-programmin...
https://dlang.org/spec/abi.html
The problem is that it isn't good enough if the grid only works "on average". It needs higher uptime than pure market incentives would give.
> The twitter link doesn't work with js disabled unless you turn your browser into a bot via user agent switching.

So you want to read the content. But you can't because you disabled JavaScript. But you still can if you change the user agent config. But you won't, because ...?

What?

> stripping out all the other garbage inherent on twitter like advertising

It still has advertising! Except it advertises for the proxy and not for the original source! You've got an ad blocker, good for you. Don't go praising one ad-supported service ahead of another just because you don't see ads on either.
Most of the plastic can not be practically recovered from the ocean. It's more of a publicity stunt and cleaning hotspots.

We need to catch the plastics before they go into the environment, disintegrate, release their plasticizers and other toxins.

As has been said, best way to deal with all the plastic garbage that contains who-knows-what would probably be fuel, feedstock in refineries or similar.
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I applaud the general goal (easy to understand for everyone makes a great educational language), but there doesn't really seem to be enough here to provide feedback.

The runtime may do more than is documented currently, but the docs don't seem to describe a full language yet. E.g. there's an "any" type, but no way to inspect types. There is an "integer" type that holds... decimal numbers? That's possibly accurate, as there is no other number type. There's type inference mentioned once in the variables doc, but I didn't see it anywhere else so I have no idea if it only works with literals, or if there's inference anywhere.
This is cool!
Thanks for sharing!
As a second point, even if mirros can't make the earth hotter than the sun, Why isnt the suns temperature enough to vaporize the the earth?

The sun is a plasma bound together by gravity and earth does not have enough gravity to retain it's mass?
Retirement sounds amazing.

What really gets me is my employers hiring engineers for $500k per seat and they can memorize their way through Leetcode interviews but can't even structure small programs in a modular, easy to understand way, and when it comes to larger pieces of software, it's complete chaos.