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the person pushing for the software is looking to use software to enforce bureaucratic control that they have been unable to otherwise exercise

This is frequently my observation as well. In the process of creating stricter control the bureaucrat increases the the power of their bureaucracy while shifting the blame for any problems to a faceless entity.

They then institute all sorts of punishments and controls to insure it must be used.

This leads me to one of my primary frustrations with the bureaucratization of our lives. Severe consequences are attached to low stakes situations and rational individuals who see the harm caused by the situation are rendered powerless to make changes.
When I wanted to have compiled [1] financials, PriceWaterhouseCoopers told me to pick a recognized accounting system, then change the company's business processes to match that. They said absolutely not to go the other way, to try to customize any software to match our business.

I think about that every time I read about another government (or private!) company that wastes tens or hundreds of million of dollars (or euros or pounds) on custom software.

It seems like there should be 1, 2, or 3 DMV programs. The same for building codes, tax codes, etc. And prison software. You can be more like Massachusetts or Mississippi or Montana (hypothetical examples) but pick one and harmonize with it.

1: compiled is the lowest of 3 standards that outside accountants can do; "reviewed" is higher and "audited" is the highest. Even at the compiled level they mailed out postcards to a certain number of customers asking if they were customers over the past year and had spent this much money. It was fairly easy for the acquiring company's outside accountants to review PWC's work and bring it up to audited standard.
Purely marketing for the “more is better” pseudo audiophile.

ABX testing blew the “lossless sounds better” mantra out of the window nearly 2 decade ago [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_listening_test
The government will tell us of course! Are you one of those lolbertarians who thinks covid is a myth and doesn't trust government?
What if you slice it up wrong?
A friend of mine started working on an experimental Emacs mode to provide structural navigation of code based on tree-sitter: https://cs.tvl.fyi/depot/-/tree/users/Profpatsch/emacs-tree-...

The potential for this is essentially something like Paredit, but for all languages.
To qoute Paul Stanley from KISS when asked about what its like to be rich and famous:

"Well, I know what it's like to be famous but I can't tell you anything about being rich"
I would go even further and say that a stationary bike behaves quite differently than a moving bicycle. There’s side to side/rocking motion, slippage at the wheels, geometry in turns etc. A stationary bike is incredibly constricting, eliminating a lot of different factors in a way that treadmill running just doesn’t (it’s much more similar to running in motion).
But for graphql you will have the problem of naming the mutations instead. That is also a debate...
We did tons of tiny contracts when I was working in government contracting (DOD/DOE).
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Almost certainly not, but the audiophile community is a profitable one... :)
Maybe it’s a desire to compensate for what San Francisco transformed into over the last 30 years.
It might not be organized that way. For instance, it could be that IBM canada basically sold the project and IBM India are the people who would be implementing it. I don't enough about IBM's organization structure to comment on this topic.
Man, if were to select anything that would put me off that movie, it's Baez's screeching. By far not her best work. Thankfully, that part can be safely fast-forwarded.

The robots are cute, though.
There certainly was shrapnel damage to the plane. http://avherald.com/img/united_b772_n772ua_denver_210220_8.j...
I was frustrated immensely due to that.

I could fetch the objects in bulk request.. except they didn't have the field i needed when fetched in bulk. So i had to do bulk fetch, where each object was pretty big and then fetch them again individually.

If that service supported graphql i could easily just grab what i need, without hammering the poor already over-utilized server.

This kind of issues prop up constantly especially if you use on-perm hosting.
API with NestJS #30. Scalar types in GraphQL
It's a common design style it seems. O'Reilly's REST API Design Rulebook reads similarly...

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/rest-api-design/9781449...
I'm currently reading Ra[1], and very much enjoying it.

[1]: https://qntm.org/ra
> As a millennial (25), I disagree with the notion that all of Facebook and Instagram are vapid and meaningless. To me, that just shows that you're not curating your feeds in a manner that highlights what good remains on the platforms.

I don't know about Instagram, but Facebook will put vapid garbage into your feed if you've curated it down enough. 'You might be interested in ...' because they don't want to have a stale feed when your friends aren't doing anything.

Disclosure: I worked at Facebook, as part of an aquisition; however, I never worked on or with the feed team.
How do you suggest enforcing that root can't write to a LUKS swap partition? Root knows the key, root can write to block devices, what's stopping me from disabling swap and writing a backdoored image to the partition with a user-space implementation of LUKS?
I often do mediocre / small / shit tickets, it's definitely true that my staff have way more interesting tasks than I ever do.

A manager who picks clean interesting stuff and leaves the rest would be an absolute nightmare to work for. He shouldn't be in the business of managing people, since his self-interest now interferes with the interests of the team and the company.
If you don't care about others using your API, then don't do it. If you do, follow the standard which says you SHOULD have a Content-Type if there is a body to your response.
Let’s see if Apple stumbles through last in this field at all.
I think it depends on your personality. It probably suits some people much better than others. An example is Kurt Cobain who hated being famous and felt trapped by it.
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Well, if a judge ruled that a software bug means that you don’t get your money back if you accidentally send it out, then that same judge would probably rule that the inmates have to stay in jail due to a software bug.
It's a common thing. Perhaps not where you are.
To be frank, you probably want this solution to be vetted out pretty well. I really don't want to think of cases where the wrong person was let go. The sizing is what 12 people x 40 for 4 weeks? Really not that extreme for large projects.

I also don't understand why they can't identify these people and release them by other means...
It appears I live in a bubble! Thanks for the info.
that just means it might evolve slightly slower, not that it won't ever happen. it 100% will evolve and 100% will evade the vaccine. we've understood about evolution for a very long time, but everyone's in denial atm.

even wearing masks did fuck all because it just evolved anyway. it ain't gonna matter when you aren't wearing them.
It's an excerpt from their movie Electroma https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ . I really don't know if we should look too much in the meaning of the scene.
"Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks."

Yes, we are down to the level we were...last fall.
I don't see why I would trust grammatically-required self-assessments of expertise any more than I already do when someone tags one of those phrases (not much).
Virtual Meeseeks. What could possibly go wrong.
It's a simple result. SoC or not, if total power consumption is at X with only the CPU while the GPU is inactive, then it will either be at >X when using both CPU and GPU at the maximum, or be slower in CPU performance.

This holds for SoCs or for systems that manage total power equally.
I think that's part of the Kraftwerk play book that Daft Punk have previously acknowledged.

Obviously Kraftwerk's robots look like them to a certain degree, so Daft Punk have taken the on stage anonymity further but the anti-pop star thing is pure Kraftwerk.

There was famously only one way to contact Kraftwerk, via a phone at their studio with ringer mechanism removed.

If you had the number, only given out by their lawyer, you rang a preset time of day when the handset would be lifted... if you were lucky.
That is not the case - it is for that specific variant of the disease but diseases spread through the entire population have a huge area to mutate in and one of those mutations could be quite deadly.

One of the reason there's a lot of gas behind rolling this vaccine out quickly is that we want to avoid allowing the virus enough time to mutate up some different strains that this vaccine isn't effective in preparing us for since that makes the vaccine far less effective overall.
That's the height of obnoxious. I can't really imagine the level of self-centeredness required to think that's okay.
No, I want the presumably thousands of people who work at prisons to each go through their list of prisoners and determine when prisoners should be released, using the assistance of software but not completely deferring to software.
It's also that they don't necessary hire for specific positions. They know they'll need 500+ junior devs by next year so they can afford to hire then determine placement.

It's also why they are frequently the firsts on college campuses.
The goalposts were installed on a speeding train early last year.
In a noisy place? Hand your phone to someone attractive and they call/text themselves, then you and they have eachother's numbers.
bucket head:
A guitarist with a bucket mask.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead
I like much of Stephenson’s work, but Fall did not rank near the top for me. The parts in the virtual world get pretty boring, with little payoff.
> Back to languages. If you've never taught an introduction to computer programming for a general audience you are blind to what does and does not matter about a language. You look at things like `foo.bar()` and think "Yeah that's a simple method invocation" and have no idea how many people you just lost.

I keenly remember in college when they were first starting to teach me C++ and I asked something like “Ok: I hear what you’re saying that this is a function, and that’s a parameter, but my question is how does the computer know that you’ve named it [whatever the variable name was]?

The teacher had no understanding that this was a conceptual barrier.

Of course now I know that the answer is “because order of the syntax tells it so“, but stuff like that made those classes much harder than they needed to be.
This is awesome. It has my favorite one: "ping me"

Man, I hated hearing this. Just use normal words, please.
It can, but that implies capital is the only thing required for good execution, and we know that's not true (as we saw with some of the Softbank failures).

However, if you need to make a bet, you make a bet, because for a VC fund, the small chance of an outsized return (that can return your fund) is better than a more likely chance of a 'decent' return, so you often make a bet and double down while it still seems viable.

There's a reason Lyft kept getting funded even when Uber raised significantly more.
Take for instance, my cousin's husband in India, who currently holds a bunch of black money in either INR or in gold, can buy stablecoins such as DAI, then park it in various DeFi solutions to earn a nice return on it. So not only he is gaining an exposure in Dollar instead of a highly inflationary currency like INR, he is also able to make it work instead of burying it in a bag until he needs it.

Before you start with the morality of the situation, just ignore that. You wanted to see a real use case, and I am telling you about it.

As it turns out, not everyone shares your moral code, or lives in the similar legal system which allows them the similar property rights.

Replace that person with a Venezuelan whose currency is completely destroyed and Venezuelan Americans are trying to provide their families with money.
If lockdown explains most of the variance between Australia's 1k deaths and America's 500k deaths, then the difference between 10% and 20% lockdown should still be very visible.
I completely agree - and it’s not like there aren’t plenty of Americans who coasted in a boom market or relying on things like nepotism, too.

The main thing I see impacting offshoring is communications: it’s hard to build custom software for a business you don’t understand and most companies haven’t been willing to invest in effective mitigation strategies. I’m expecting one outcome of this to be Indian companies pivoting towards SaaS, realizing that many businesses increasingly see in-house software development as a riskier choice.
> Execute it step by step, take lots of measures of all parameters, save/reload state, test every possible input and variation.

This assumes that simulation can be done faster than real time. I think it will be the other way around: the brain is the fastest hardware implementation and our simulations will be much slower, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftPC

It also assumes simulation will be numerically stable and not quickly unsable like simulation of weather. We still can't make reliable weather forecasts more than 7 days ahead in areas like Northern Europe.
IMO, the Financial Times is a good alternative to WSJ.

Global perspective but still does deep dives into American issues; not owned by Murdoch; opinion desk not insane; soothing peach background color in both paper and online editions.
What are some of the ultimate examples? FB with colleges for sure. Amazon with book sales. Slack used to be for a gaming company? Discord from gaming to general online communites. Twitch from justin to gaming to now just streaming. Airbnb from air beds for conference events.
A serious C++ course or embedded dev class should cover 2.
Rendering a complex 3D scene? Easy to imagine. But a 3D scene that the computer could generate with seemingly infinite variations? Given how manual the process of 3D animation was, that didn’t seem plausible*. After all — it’s only been in the past few years that GANs have started generating realistic scenes.

1: possible, not plausible (see my edit above)
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Don't forget ransomware payoffs
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Finding and researching good products can be very time-consuming and frustrating. Every time I want to buy a product, I waste hours reading reviews and researching the quality, durability and maintainability of it.
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2. Running it through a fake detection

3. Doing a sentiment analysis

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I asked users where they look for product reviews and focused on the most trusted sources.

Besides the reviews of buyforlife, the sources are:
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This is a question that always comes up. There is no
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I plan to continuously increase the number of products with an AI-Review.
In addition, I can think of a few more use-cases:

- Summarizing warranty terms and conditions of brands into simple bullet-point lists

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- Shopify App & Google Chrome Extension

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That’s a skinny gorilla.
> The naysayers who think this is all for a quick buck are missing the pattern and listening too much to the (admittedly, insanely loud and annoying) shills.

I'm part of a community that's currently being overtaken by the crypto art craze, and I'm still convinced it's "all for a quick buck".

The crypto art economy seems to be driven by "collectors" who will drop thousands of dollars on anyone who can get them more exposure. People who have no followers and aren't tweeting about NFTs every day generally don't get their art bought. Some of these kids who made $10,000 off a png then feel some social pressure to put some of that money back into the community, so they purchase more crypto art with the proceeds.

Some collectors openly advertise their ongoing bids on social media. They want people to see that they're dropping big money on art. If it was a true art collector, wouldn't they not want to be outbid? Wouldn't they be hoping that there were as few people in the auction as possible? None of it smells right to me.
You'd need a configuration system that is so general it would become a programming language. And then nobody could configure it except the original programmers because now your rules are written in the weird badly-designed programming language you developed.
This was covered a year ago, and is literally the most popular post for "Rust" ever on this site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22238335
Where is the evidence that Tidal is actually using masters that exclude DRC for their HiFi mixes?

I can't find anything that suggests this is actually true.

The only thing I can find indicates that their HiFi versions are based on MQA-supplied 24-bit masters, but that doesn't tell you whether or not DRC was applied to the source mix that MQA used.

And given that an uncompressed mix would require remastering by the artist/studio (DRC is not just a byproduct of conversion to a 16-bit format), you'll forgive me if I'm incredibly skeptical of this claim.
China is increasing its spending in molten salt reactors; they are NOT pulling back.

And not all designs have to be expensive. Turns out smaller can be dramatically better: https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/2020/10/13/new-de...

Lots of smaller distributed generation sources closer to the points of consumption also help with complexities (and fragilities!) in the electrical grid. Also solves the issues around transmission loss as well.

Solar and wind are not going to undercut costs any time soon. For every current nuclear plant that gets taken offline, the bulk of the load is made up for with fossil fuel generation. If solar and wind were as awesome as you are convinced, then why aren't they picking up the slack?

Until we come up with something far better than current battery technology for energy storage, solar and wind will never be more than a niche solution. The disproportionate amount of money being dumped into them is downright criminal when proven technology such as molten salt reactors is overlooked for either political or emotional reasons.
You're doing it all wrong. What I also don't like is the lack of sharing. When I see people taking photos of me with a selfie, I always say "I'm on your side". But when I take an Instagram photo, everyone who saw the photo sees "this poor guy". I don't give a fuck about it. I just want to share my awesome adventures together with people I love. The whole point of the Instagram was just that it is easier. We can see each other and share our experience!
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Arizona has private prisons (subject of civil rights lawsuits, but TBF I bet they all are). I would not be at all surprised if it's in the interests of these companies and the prison guard unions to conveniently ignore this issue.
Yes, but you have to consider how to describe code lengths from 1 to 255. For example, DEFLATE only allows Huffman codes to be 0 to 15 bits long, which simplifies the number of possibilities that the table encoder needs to handle. http://www.zlib.org/rfc-deflate.html#dyn
> No, they are imposing restrictions on use after it's purchased.

No they do not! Nobody has any 3060s yet! The cards become pre-installed with this software. If you don't like this software, don't buy the card. It is not an update! It is pre-installed software that you can choose not to buy.

> No one is claiming that this has actually occurred yet with this product.

So then you agree that nothing has been changed after the fact. Got it, that is my point. The cards are not sold yet. And you are being told, ahead of time what software is on those cards.

If you don't like that software, don't buy it.

> they can update them to further modify the capabilities of the devices after purchase.

Nothing has been updated on these specific cards after the fact. The cards are not sold yet. This is just about unsold devices, that you can choose to buy or not buy.

> No one is claiming this is currently happening.

So then you agree that your device has not been limited after the fact, and that the drivers are pre-installed? Got it. Thats my point.

> their intention to change the functionality

No. It is pre-installed software, that comes on a device, before you purchase it.
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I was once told that if I wanted to make millions of dollars instantly I should write software to just calculate jail exit dates. With "Time for good behavior", skipping parole, credit for time served you can give five people a inmate's jacket and get five different dates easily, and should rationally expect to.
I think the effect would be greater than zero, but not as much as some might think.

Some people have a pattern of speech that implies a level of authority that they don't actually feel.

It's obvious when some people need to 'police their tone', less obvious for others.
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You can spot inefficient runners once you know what to look for.

Efficient runners are striding 20 or 30% faster. Usually over 180 strides/minute.

If you look at the efficient runners head looks like it's floating smoothly. If you are bouncing you are losing energy.
There is no such thing as inherited guilt.
The company in question, "Business & Decision NA" is a French company, though their website is pretty sparse on the details: https://www.linkedin.com/organization-guest/company/business...

So, some French brogrammers are preventing US citizens from being released from prison due to incompetence.
Congrats on the launch! I live with two cats and sadly I am allergic to cats. It's not super bad but certainly noticeable. Will your treatment work for people like me?
> Did you just link a person to a two-kilometer long page about HTTP, assumed they're not a programmer and almost accused them of not being professional enough, because they haven't heard of some Erlang library?

Nope, I linked to a specific section of a HTTP specification that goes through "Content Negotiation" since that was what the topic was about and I wanted to share a resource to spelunker so they could read more about it, as if you're familiar with the topic, what seliopou wrote is not alien.
From the Wikipedia article on ad hominem arguments:

"Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments, some but not all of which are fallacious." [Emphasis added]

In particular, pointing out that someone is speaking outside of their area of expertise is a logically valid ad hominem argument.