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I don't understand what the value to you is here in arguing that we all ought to just settle for less. More space is preferable, better conditions are preferable, and we do have the capabilities to work toward these things for all humans.

The specific factors of post-WWII America may be unlikely ever to be repeated, but I can't agree that we should all settle for life as it was in the 1910s or earlier on the basis that that's simply 'how life is' -- the status quo is not an argument for itself.

The average (human, at least) life has improved substantially in the last few hundred years in some key ways (admitting that there are some ways it is likely worse). Even if the potential improvements to life track a sigmoid curve, there's no reason at all yet to think we've maxed it out, let alone gone beyond what's possible.

We can absolutely continue to improve, so it seems totally fair to identify and analyze causes, means, and paths to do so, i.e., recognizing "I cannot afford the same standard of life as my parents did" as something that ideally would be different, and discussing patterns of wage growth, economic trends, and policy decisions that might counteract that perceivable regression of quality.
That's fair. Please accept my apology for this oversight.

Nevertheless, it makes your comparison with "putting a man on the moon" very puzzling. Why not compare this great achievement of science with a great achievement of philosophy?

Moreover, you place science and philosophy in opposition with each other, yet science is exactly a subset of philosophy. And while you might point to the higher epistemological quality of empiricism (as opposed to, say, metaphysics), you would have to concede that science is also tackling easier questions by a significant margin, precisely because they can be apprehended through epistemologically-objective observation.

Given the above, the charitable interpretation remains ignorance. One might even qualify it as "galling".
Basically, the cable company stance is "640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Borland bought Paradox (was developed by Ansana (???)) as a me-too move when their biggest competitors Microsoft/Lotus was moving into databases.
Ah thanks, touche!
Cool, thanks!

Yeah, Twilio has a lot of documentation. It's pretty good, though. It felt like most of the time I spent on this project was finding the right documentation and setting up my account and number correctly.

Maybe what the world really needs is a Twilio Concierge as a Service -- a meta-Twilio if you will. ;)
I think computer hardware is one of the few things that decreased in price over time. The price of most other good and services has definitely increased since the '80s.
Which company? Hathway offers only till 100Mbps in my area
Part of the Data Transfer Project?
https://datatransferproject.dev/
The best reason to think so is that most men find most (young) women attractive, but most women only find a small minority of men attractive.
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Pavlovian effect is pretty strong. Same goes for fitness - put on your working out clothes (have some specified) and you'll want to work out, partially because you will feel stupid if you put on your fitness clothes and don't work out ;).
I love how this myth has morphed over time. Not only did nobody get "paid billions to upgrade their infrastructure from the government." But even insofar as you assert that lifting rate regulations (where the government tell you what prices you can charge) is the same as "getting paid billions" that was for telephone companies, not cable companies like Comcast. But don't get facts get in the way of Political Truth (TM).
What do you think about people like Chalmers who obstinately refuse even the idea of neural correlates of conscious is even a thing, preferring to just assert that the hard problem is hard, full stop?
After the end of google music, I switched to Tidal + Plex. It's great for library organization, custom dynamic playlists, and mixing personal files with streaming.
Or even 25 symmetrical...
I too prefer the code itself to be the joke rather than relying on comedic devices
Not concerned with handing all that data to Google?
If their intent is to convince Google, then I agree. If the intent is to convince the public and policy makers, I don't think they need to re-frame it. I am okay letting a company (even a complete industry) fail if society has decided that the industry or business practices are parasitic.

Privacy is a freedom which has many parasites (state and private entity driven) attacking it and I welcome changes to perception, regulation, and law which places safeguards around it.
All modern adtech is a terrible idea.

Let's go back to banner ads that are "targeted" based on what type of website you're looking at, rather than based on vacuuming up as much private info as possible about users.
And despite the same technological improvements, gasoline is decisively more expensive. Technology is purely deflationary, so the situation with phone cost isn't very telling. What is more impactful is the cost of phone service vs median income across those decades, despite technology's deflationary forces.
The worst kind of criticism about scientific papers is when people say "but the paper that didn't study this topic, didn't study this topic!"

Would you expect a paper on COVID mortality also discuss heart disease and ALS? Of course not.
And we do! For many years! Just not on this thread.

Global climate change won't be slowed or stopped by a single silver bullet. It will take reduction in many, many areas combined, and many of those are already underway, have been underway for years now.

Meanwhile, all of those savings are being offset by wasteful-by-design crypto mining that benefits extraordinarily few people. So yes, in addition to the many, many, many reports on various other major contributors to ongoing climate change, it's time to talk about crypto mining, too.
I completely agree with you and I don't think it's being pedantic at all. Clearly the 21st century is bearing the FRUIT of scientific discovery and we're seeing incredible iteration and innovation that is very exciting. But much of this is the result of things which were DISCOVERED in the 20th century.

Language is important. "Discovery" means something just as "inventing" means something. I see these words used all the time for things like websites (Facebook/Twitter) or computer hardware (Apple products most notoriously). Something can be a wonderful and very popular implementation without being either a discovery or an invention. Often these larger things DO contain many smaller real discoveries and inventions along the way! But people always seem to be referring to the end product as a whole, which I find bizarre.
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I'd rather you switch your language slightly to state that it'd be the CCP who could easily force the concentration of miners in China to do bad actions; afaik the CCP allows mining to occur in China but not for the Chinese to own Bitcoin?
Very disappointing to see an "open source" project locking their community behind Discord. Why not IRC, XMPP, or Matrix?

Worth noting PineTime is a similar device and they're reachable on IRC and Matrix.
Covid might change that. People that are completely working from home will want to have proximity shops.
My first kid was just born last week. The hospital billed my insurance company $45k. This is for an uncomplicated, straight-forward vaginal birth.
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> We have normalised in our industry that the only way to progress is to job-hop

I share that this is a bad state but I think this situation is an exception. Almost all the engineering managers I know got promoted into management in a company where they held an IC position before. (Almost) nobody hires engineering managers without management experience.
I think consciousness is being able to do something without knowing how. We can play chess, do math, run, etc but we don't know how we do it. Presumably it has something to do with our brains, something to do with neurons, but we don't have any insight into exactly how we do it...we just do it. If we knew how we do these things, there would be no mystery.
Yup. For those of us with slow WiFi, Google Takeout is basically unusable.
Texas is a ridiculous idea, but how about Connecticut? Near the coast, comfortable 8-24C temperature range, not too far from the US education and business hubs.
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These researchers presume that their goal is to make users think that an operation is happening quickly, even if it is slow.

I thought the goal of a progress bar was to report reality, not manipulate users into thinking that your slow code is faster than it actually is.

Since when have dark patterns infiltrated academic HCI?
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After being forced to live with cable most my life since shifting away from dialup, fiber has been an absolute joy. I pay for 400mbps through Fios but get something like 500d/300u. It's stable, no capping non-sense I've experienced and only slightly more per month (I think I pay 20% more than cable) yet service is significantly better (I think I have 2.5-5x download before and 10-20x upload rate).

I have no desire to go back unless Verizon or one of its competitors decide to change drastically. What they're doing right now is fine, I don't even think about network service, it autopays and just works how I need it when I need it. First time I've been able to enjoy the pleasure of having fiber at home and not just work.
The mainstream media in the US are all owned by capitalist corporations and are pro-capitalist. They represent a spectrum spanning from the far-right* (OANN) to the world right-of-center (MSNBC). The socialist and communist left nearly exclusively uses alternative distribution channels. Even centrist to social-democrats like Bernie Sanders are treated with scorn in US media.

US news is broadcast to the world as widely as possible to support the American empire's soft power projection. It also helps that they report on some news too.

* There are further right outlets in the world, but we're really getting up there these days. At least they're not outright monarchists (though supporting a presidential dictatorship by Donald Trump is getting close).
It doesn't matter how much legitimacy Italy/EU might have, this is just going to have very bad optics overall.

A few wins for the local nationalists i.e. 'our people first' ... but it comes with just as much of a downside.

Better just to get the vaccines moving.
> They do that because it’s cheaper that way for them, and majority of users don’t complain.

I haven't heard a real-life person complain about broadband speeds since cable modems became widespread in 2005 or so.
I rather liked Dreamweaver for static sites that needed to be user-modifiable without some complicated backend. You could establish templates with clear descriptions of the content and turn it over to the end-user relativily easily. Now, I have no idea - I wouldn’t want to try and explain markdown to a church secretary.
It was last year maybe, just before the pandemic hit, Comcast doubled my download speed but also cut my upload in half. They spun the change as a 'free' upgrade, but in reality my download speed was fine before; My gaming, outbound streaming, and work use cases all suffered massively due to the change.
I'm far from the only person who
- has needs that can be met by cloud providers at costs I can afford
- can't afford to pay a sysadmin
- has enough technical skills to hack my way through it

But this is also like saying "You should have hired an expert to tell you that when the sailboat builder kit manual says drill into the back it actually means the front." Regardless of whether someone more experienced at this would know better, this UX is awful, its title is inaccurate, and the whole process around changing storage classes far more confusing than the UX makes it seem.

There are petabytes and petabytes of data from independent filmmakers that are rotting away on drives, and part of the issue is lack of other affordable options. So I get that "shoulda hired a sysadmin" is an easy response but that's not always an option, especially when there's dozens of hard drives or other complexities that make these tasks last weeks or months.
"Premium" being 2.5$ a month for 200GB of storage space?
Im 26 now i have nothing

Dont waste time

Write jounals every month

Track progressd toward your goal
> A bit sad that Google Photos will start charging you for storage soon

Google has always charged for storage in Google Photos - it's part of your "Google Drive" storage quota. They do give you 10GB free though, which can be substantial for a lot of folks.
Those three things are not hard to do or unenjoyable.

You feel better for doing all those things and want to keep doing them as a result usually. I love to lift heavy weights and sleep. Eating healthy not so much but life isn't all about having what you want all the time.

I do differ with the no caffeine past noon though. I don't have too much trouble with caffeine and falling asleep though.

Apart from sleeping well, fitness & diet are tough at first but once you get in the flow they're easy and actually become a part of what you love to do. Just got to find the right workout for you.
thats true, I guess theyre not required for consciousness but thats how it evolved here on Earth. I suppose all you would need is to be able to have a mental map of the world, however it happens
Certain in memory or on disk bit flips would make it use the wrong domain repeatedly until rebooted, or even until the system was reinstalled.

Having said that, I suspect that if these were investigated in detail you would find software bugs or typos to be the majority. Simple things like a race condition when suspending to RAM could flip a few bits occasionally if the RAM isn't correctly refreshed.
You're right, I probably don't know enough philosophy (but then again, who does...). What great achievement of philosophy should we put in the league of the moon landing or splitting the atom?

Also there is a larger conversation to be had, because we're really talking about Western philosophy in context. Buddhist philosophy has all kinds of things to say about what the mind is and isn't, but we don't carry that in our traditions because a lot of Buddhism completely nullifies our Western consumerism culture, and that's uncomfortable. So...
I haven't really considered that. Current zoning conventions are so counterproductive. Maybe there's cause for optimism.
I used to encourage back-end web developers to write a web server from scratch as a learning exercise. With HTTP 1.1 it was actually pretty easy to write one in C (plus berkeley sockets); the idea being that you learn a lot about how things actually work at the lowest level without spending an inordinate amount of time. It's not really practical with HTTP 2 anymore but in any case, having done my own exercise I had no idea about many of these quirks.
The scrollable tiled window concept is really nice! I hope more softwares / desktop environment adopt this.

This alone does not beat search / recent buffer like features for me. Besides goto def feature, I usually use search in project, go to last changes and avy/kjump to navigate codebases.
> So much for EU's principles of non-discrimination and free trade.

I think those things apply (or are prioritised) within the block.

> IIRC they said AstraZeneca vaccine is not very effective.

Do you have a source on that? The vaccine was not certified in certain countries for certain age groups.
Ah yes, the "this is obviously a conspiracy" defense despite offering no evidence of such a conspiracy at all.
Come here to say the same, I actually had to click on the github link to learn what it meant first. Should've explained it the first time it's brought up instead.
Been to the grocery store, ordered takeout or tried to buy a house lately? The prices of electronics (calculators, watches) fell consistently throughout the 70s which was a period of very high inflation. You can't cherry pick one sector.
In my experience, it's a crapshoot.
> they didn't say that for _currently existing_ people it's better to not be existing

He said the guys kids would be better off if he didn’t have them. And basically said he had them for selfish reasons (kids make your life better)

Seems like you’re the one making leaps, I read what was written
If this actually goes anywhere, I'm kind of excited about it from the perspective of a product developer.

Being able to do content recommendation for fresh visitors without any tracking effort of your own would be pretty cool.
It will probably come with a dialog, so users will likely opt out often for ads or on page load, but not if they just clicked "show me movie recommendations" in your app.
You don't even need GF for those prices.

My local Bell is $65/mo for 1Gbit symmetrical.
This is not meant to be a cynical take, but where do you see investment in America right now that's not being done in a corporation?

All I see is "we can't afford to do this" while the military wastes trillions of dollars on pet projects.

When I look at how other countries treat their citizens, I can't help but think of the guy who calls us, "human capital stock."

That, IMHO, is how the U.S. views its citizens.
Share what you know or are learning with other developers. This could be in the form of tweeting, blogging, open-source, user group presentations, code camps, videos, podcasts, and more. These activities force you to really learn subjects deeper than what we might do every day at work, which tends to concentrate on what gets the job done at the time. It also helps the community so that others can learn. It also helps learn how to communicate complex topics in ways that are simple for others to understand, which is an important skill for senior developers/architects.
Well, in fairness, Microsoft's Office365 subscriptions conveniently include 1TB of OneDrive storage. So, if you already need the other Microsoft Office apps, and are already going to pay for them, you essentially get 1TB of cloud storage "for free".
This is the transition that needs to happen. People just need to get used to the idea of paying for software. Software providers can then focus on making their products better rather than finding streams to tangentially monetise their offerings by invading user’s privacy.
What's tracking in your definition here? Is counting display of an ad tracking? Load of an image on page? Is logging nginx entry for your page load tracking? Is responding with correct image for your browser user-agent tracking?

I'm sometimes confused what is covered under this term and I'd kinda like to know where the line here is drawn. What exactly are we talking about here?
> How can any professional programmer be 180 degrees wrong about the purpose of a function they use regularly

If you have a strong understanding of move semantics, then I agree it would be pretty weird to misunderstand the relationship between move semantics and emplace_back. But how common is it to have a strong understanding of move semantics, really? Can we confidently assume that even 50% of professional C++ programmers have a strong understanding of move semantics? I've known competent C++ devs, who write template metaprograms for fun, who were still surprised to learn basic facts about move semantics like "the destructor of a moved-from object will still be called." I know for certain that I don't have a strong understanding of move semantics, but I wouldn't call myself a C++ programmer either, so at least I'm not dragging down the statistics :)
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That seems like it will also weed out people who decide to have some personal fun with the stupid question while answering the others accurately.
And neither is highlighting bitcoin, especially by focusing ONLY on the mining aspect of it. The use of the network is also part of the bitcoin story. If instead of using new bitcoins mined they did transaction value per day (ie, $20B+) the math would be totally different.

If you applied this same damage model to something people had fondness for (ie, driving an electric car) you'd realize we should be working as HARD as we can to kill EV cars dead, because there is a MASSIVE unaccounted for cost to charging them (using this model).

Reality though is bitcoin chases low cost power, and that is currently often actually green (hydro, excess solar during day when their is curtailment and negative pricing etc). I can't imagine the economics making sense to mine using coal power.
I caught wind of that a few days ago. I wonder if it will effect rss feeds, which is usually how I open links. I might be willing to put up with just never clicking a link through the site, but if the rss feed hits their servers first, that'll be the end of Reddit for me.
Thanks for the follow-up.

> there were many earlier databases on mainframes and minicomputers

We were talking about commercially successful DBMS. From the Wikipedia-page it is still not clear to me when IMS became a DBMS for example. Wikipedia lists TOTAL as released in 1982.
Let's not be fooled by the messaging. This is the wired broadband telcos/cablecos not wanting low orbit satellite providers to be eligible for federal money. Starlink is scaring them. Perhaps the prospects of CBRS as well.

This is anti-competition in an area in which we desperately need competition, and therefore should be fought against, no matter how good it sounds.
Solar flare or internet destruction, any calamity that would result in bitcoin or any cryptocurrency going down is going to cause us a lot more problems than just that.

No, the real existential threat to any cryptocurrency is the breaking of its hash or cryptographic algorithm. So, if someone breaks SHA-256 or ECDSA then and only then is bitcoin hosed.

SHA-256 breaking would allow someone to guarantee they could mine all the blocks faster than anyone else.

ECDSA breaking would allow someone to work backwards from someone's public key to their private key.

Both of which are currently computationally secure, as we understand computing.

If you can do those then you've basically got an Oracle and wow, that's some monumental and theory breaking power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine
There was a free tier of photos and videos under a certain resolution which didn't count towards your storage which they're removing.
The fallacy does account for that. In a counterfactual where the windows were not broken, the effort spent improving the efficiency of glassmaking would have been directed (by the invisible hand) to improving the efficiency of something else.
There will be some kind of new maintenance taking up the old one. I'm thinking batteries and charging will be a big job maker. While in general frown upon job diminishing moves by corps, with EVs this is a natural evolution of the car industry and divorcing or distancing from the fossil fuel industry seems like a big win in my books.
This should be what you're looking for:
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