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I had the pleasure to work with Werner in many occasions, from my early AWS days as Tech Evangelist in Europe, then in Asia, then in America, from 2008 to 2014, when I left.

He has always been one of the nicest person I've met at Amazon (and I've met a few like these! They aren't rare), and has helped me a few times over the course of my career while I was there.

I can safely recall a particular memory to illustrate how nice Werner is: one evening, back in 2011, after a very successful event in Australia (here's one of my videos [0] of that event, after being introduced by him as "the magician" [1] - something I didn't expect at all!), a few of us, including the head of AWS Asia-Pacific, the head of marketing, etc, were in his hotel room celebrating the event with a glass of wine.

Out of the blue, without any need to do it and without me asking, he decided to praise my work in front of them, and even humbly suggested that he was going to take inspiration from a couple of things I did during the past few presentations. I've rarely seen such humility in someone so accomplished.

Little did he know that I was going through a tough period where I didn't feel fully recognized or rewarded for my work, and his praise helped me significantly as I felt much better about it, and possibly my bosses saw me in a different (better) light.

I think it was the first unexpected praise I have received in my life, and that's probably why I remember it so fondly.
My job was high pressure, and at that point I had been at AWS for more than 2 years, worked crazy hours, and had my fair share of tough moments in my career (mostly with PR, but that's for another time).

I even considered the idea of working for him, but unfortunately in these years he didn't want to manage an organization because he didn't want to handle the related stress, so he stayed an Individual Contributor, and I believe he still is to this day.

Nevertheless, many great memories about him, both as a human being and as a colleague. Amazon is lucky to have him, and I am lucky to have worked with him.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6XvQ94UnM

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZoq_NrwTw&t=6m18s
If Taiwan looks like it might be a battleground, then I guess the question is what country the elites flee to.
Perhaps the Falklands war? Argentina circa 1982 was stagnating but still about the 20th largest economy in the world. Taiwan is also sitting at about 20 right now.

Of course, a PRC/ROC war is likely to be much much more serious than the relatively minor conflict that was the Falklands war.
Can the "safety is lower priority than rust" trend stop? Zig is not less concerned with safety and will catch illegal behaviour at runtime for that which isn't caught at compile-time. It's only ReleaseSmall and ReleaseFast that elide this where you're able to toggle safety checks via a builtin if you wish. There's ongoing work to provide more of it within the standard library with the GeneralPurposeAllocator being an example of it.
Google, Amazon, etc.

The reward structure for quite a few of these (FAANG) companies is geared towards launching new features and/or products.

There is little incentive to improve existing software (as an IC). Which is why, for example, every "feature" at Amazon has a press release.

Behind every press release is a promotion for someone.
“The developed prototype in this paper has a limited range of actions. But at the same time, the results of this work proved the possibility of using lasers to destroy mosquitoes. In the future, to increase the damaging ability, it is necessary to increase the accuracy of the laser operation.
To implement tracking in the Python language, various algorithms were written, both with tracking at each moment of only one mosquito and using the multithreading function and transmitting data on the position of mosquitoes using an array to the galvanometer. The success of the experiment can be enhanced by using a more powerful laser, which will make it possible to neutralize more than 2 mosquitoes in one second.”
But for most people it’s more secure since they can’t reuse the same password everywhere
Taiwan with nukes would lead to long term peace. South Korea used to house US nuclear arms until 1992 and they're re-considering it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas...
I learned a lot from your code. Kudos
How some goverment could manage to tax my wallet on usb flash?
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Any pointers from someone with DL/AI background in Python? I was looking to do web development with flask, postgresql,HTML/CSS... Does flutter just replace front end and interact with the flask rest api instead of things like jinja templates?
What are your concerns about being naked around children?
I can assure you that kids raised around parents who are naked constantly is perfectly normal and healthy. I was raised in the 70s and my parents were constantly naked. We all sat in the backyard hot tub naked. Not a thought was given to it.

I now do the same to my kids. The key is to do it from day one, so there is never that first memory of “when did you first see your parents naked”. There is no first because it’s been always. There is no shock because it’s perfectly normal.
Point is, islam was a progressive religion. But many countries took it in as a regressive one since they were also taking in customs from the culture which islam was supposed to progress.

Which totally misses the point. You shouldn't have been importing burqua if women were already were allowed to go outside without it.
Then you are using it wrong.
They would just get the oil by trucks.

Sure it is more expensive than getting it by oil tankers. But possible. And it would be cheaper than the US cost of doing a naval embargo.
But wouldn’t china be motivated and have the means to build all of that pipeline very quickly?
Duplicate of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381640}]
I'd say it's extremely important as a foundation to understand and better influence all kinds of politics, whether it's governmental, workplace, family, or any other relationships.

Most people have a very simple view of the nature of politics, and therefore, tend to think the people charge are out to get them in some way, when really, they're just operating under some kind of game that forces their hand to make difficult decisions. By understanding a little game theory, a person might at least be able to better understand what's going on, if not even influence the odds in their favor.

Obviously, ordinary people might not want to play this game, but the game will still play with you.

This video is a good rundown of that for government, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
> That their leadership would act rationally is likely (though not assured) when dealing with democracies.

It would appear the past two decades have really worn at the optimistic sheen of democratic systems. Whether populist anger generating suboptimal decisions or cabals of self-appointed technocrats and bureaucrats using democracy's own procedural motions against itself, they haven't really revealed themselves to be much more rational.

> All bets are off when you're dealing with a dictatorship with enormous concentration of power in the hands of one person.

I'm not convinced that the Chinese Politburo is really comparable to states such as North Korea. For all of their authoritarianism, the government has gotten modern China into a prosperous state. An irrational state can't do that. Not to mention, if one was to argue that China's rise was because of other countries outsourcing production to them, well- those nations are often democracies.

> That's likely why China before Xi was less likely to attack Taiwan, and why China post Xi is an entirely different animal.

Xi is definitely more aggressive than his predecessors and is playing up jingoism. But it remains to be seen if it this isn't just a whole lot of saber-rattling and rhetorical brinksmanship. To prepare for war is one thing, to be ready to actually wage it is quite something else.
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It’s worth pointing out that Orwell wasn’t so much predicting a future as commenting on current trends. For instance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4412199/ or https://www.jstor.org/stable/27673024

My point is not that the above articles are definitive but to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same, etc.
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Cookie-cutter western porn is also boring as silicone. And pornhub is shit except for the brief moment when it had gun videos.

Eastern-european is much better, imo.
I get what you're saying and think that's a pretty reasonable view. But why do we see having to use your brain to earn a living, or use your muscles to earn a living as any less exploitative? Why is any job ethical unless someone can choose to have no job and be fairly comfortable? Either way, you're essentially forced to do something you'd otherwise not do.
See, Mark, I told you this was a violation of of the rules. We'll talk soon.
Kids don’t know if something is good, bad, weird or whatever until they’re told. If you are fine not wearing clothes, and do it in your home, your kids wont think anything of it.
Reddit sadly went the way of mostly write-only microblogging a long time ago now. I'm not sure what the solution is between invite only subs or heavy and time consuming moderation, and random comments that are just people thinking out loud, as using any sort of karma metrics would be useless when you can get 20-30k off a no effort post in a popular sub, but I also doubt that reddit the company spends much time worrying about it.

I can't remember who I stole "the internet is write only" but it's felt very true as audience size exploded.

Perhaps the worst part is that it's self reinforcing in either direction, and few people ever leave the agora unless they delve into niche subjects, so they bring the agora mentality with them.
Apologies if I misinterpreted your comment, but I understood your second point as a risk primarily to the US.

My response was that such an act by China would actually help the US economy, not hurt it (while simultaneously hurting China).
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How can so many highly-paid and bright employees routinely fuck up products so terribly and so often? It boggles the mind.
I own a Boox Note. Onyx shamelessly uses shill accounts on reddit and twitter to advertise their products. And yes, they are GPL violators.

My Boox isn't all terrible, but I would strongly suggest people check out Supernote or Remarkable instead. Both have their issues, but don't buy a Boox.
aka Normalization of deviance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

And a short video in context of challenger accident : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC0qkVf5SmE
That's just a part of the plan.

https://technews.tw/2021/03/01/tsma-expand-its-new-lab-plans...
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In 2020 I wrote a serialization system for types in C, as the foundation for a kind of distributed database. Types are a tree structure: records with fields that can be records; arrays with elements that can be any type. Thus the serializing and deserializing operations are recursive.

The system has no external tooling (no description language). The application uses the C API to construct the needed types at initialization time.

I have a test case whereby a whole linked list is serialized and deserialized. The deserialize function mallocs the necessary nodes. There is a function to recursively free the object, using the serial type as a guide.

Another time, a little bit farther back, I worked with something recursive on the job fairly recently was speeding up the recursive file system tree walking function in BusyBox. It fails to take advantage of the Linux-specific d_type field in the inode. With that you can avoid stat calls.

This shaved a bunch of time off the boot of an embedded system, where BuxyBox's mdev program was scanning through device nodes in /sys.

Yet another time. I used recursion to shrink a Linux image by blowing away unused content in the initramfs. That time I used Python to write a kind of "garbage collection" program: it recursively traversed the contents of an initramfs filesystem, determining what files are reachable, marking those files and deleting the rest. Reachability was determined mainly by scanning the file contents for occurrences of the names of other files, with some other heuristics. The root node was the init script; the idea being that anything not required by the initramfs init script is bloat. The idea worked; we got a smaller initramfs that still booted fine.
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From what I know about it whether or not the core blew up (again, a small part of it blew up in the beginning of the incident and spewed radioactive graphite all over the site) was a dime on its side, the core was well underway towards landing in the water underneath it, the resulting steam explosion could have thrown all of the core all over the surrounding site. That it didn't happen is due to the heroics of a couple of people who never really made a big deal of it, they went underneath the reactor core to manually open the valves that drained the basin.
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The US is still a very wealthy country. If they handle their role as a declining superpower gracefully, they can maintain that wealth for many decades.
This analysis aligns with some of my thinking on the subject, and it's the first time I've read quarantine seriously discussed let alone presented to congress. I've mused about quarantine policy before since it's a historic parallel of ROC closure policy (关闭政策) where ROC navy declared "closure" of ALL Chinese ports and attempted to control PRC shipping between 1949 and 1979. The policy was largely ineffective, suspended after 30 years and not abolished until early 90s. Along with ROC based U2 Black Cat squadron that conducted surveillance over mainland from 60s-70s, there is historic precedence for PRC to rationalize reciprocating similar strategies under a quarantine framework. I would not be surprised salami slicing will eventually encroach past median line as force balance shifts more towards PRC favour, PLAF will aim conduct unfettered flight over Taiwanese proper, PAP coast guard start interdicting shipping into Taiwan, which will setup pieces for escalation into blockade when timing dictates. History rhymes. Potentially prefaced via staged Tonkin style provocation that attributes Taiwan as aggressor, providing everyone opportunity to sit out. Really the fixation with DDAY style invasion needs to die, modernized PLA forces of 2035 has different capabilities as 2000, and greyscale warfare is something China has consistently utilized since reforms.
Oops, cheers!

It's definitely worth looking into. In hindsight, I think it severely hampered my life in that I never graduated high school, I failed hard at university, and I did poorly at all my jobs that involved doing routine tasks.

However, the ability to "hyperfocus" is how I taught myself to code - albeit at some cost, staying up until 4am coding has some costs when you have a day job.

And then I lucked into a coding company where there were lots of interesting challenges I could hyperfocus into, even though I was failing at the necessary routines, it was overlooked because I could make the big leaps that transformed things.

If I'd be hired by a "Write the CRUD app using JSF templates and Hibernate for a slightly different client" company, I would've failed hard.

But the biggest issue that the medication has resolved for me is my impulsiveness around drugs and alcohol. Now, I can have two beers and then say "Nah, I don't need another".

Previously, that wasn't possible. With the obvious life impacts that followed.

So if you think it might be present, definitely worth confirming if it is, or if it isn't.
DDG do far more work then just syndicating Bing. The have their own crawl, combine many sources, and are much stronger at down weighting low vaulue content.
For many they also have an up hill battle against Google as personalising search results to your interests is a double edged sword.
How long will it take China to build its navy to the point it can defeat the US fleet?

The PLAN is growing fast. Its size has tripled in the last 20 years, and right now it has more warships than the USN. The average size is smaller, but the goal is 400 ships by 2025. Having a big commercial shipbuilding industry helps. The US no longer has much of one; China has a large one.

China's third aircraft carrier is under construction. The first carrier was a refurbished Russian one. The second one was an improved version of that. The third one is comparable in size to a US carrier but without nuclear power. The next generation may have nuclear power. That's expected later in this decade.

China has a substantial truck-mounted land-based missile capability for sinking ships in areas offshore of China. This is a serious threat to USN carrier groups.
What has run time have to do with it?

It's either accepted, liked, whatever. Or not.
Unlimited storage?
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Shiller does such a great job explaining finance theory in simple terms! Would recommend
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I'd think that Argentina of the junta wasn't quite as important economically as Taiwan is now, but I'd have to research to compare that. I would also imagine Taiwan's HDI is quite higher to Argentina's was back then. Another factor of note is that the junta was going through a shaky transitional period while Taiwan's democracy is fairly stable. Not to mention that while mostly diplomatically unrecognized, democratic Taiwan probably isn't a pariah in the same way a military autocracy like Argentina was.
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In my opinion, the idea that you can have well-tested code OR performance is tosh.

If you don’t have good testing and do it regularly how can you refactor your application for speed if you’re not going to be sure that you’re going to introduce a regression?

And I think the stackoverflow team know it:

> Currently, we’re trying to change this. We’re actively trying to write more tests and make our code more testable. It’s an engineering goal we aim to achieve, but the changes needed are significant.

This makes it sound like a lofty goal but I think it just sounds more like. “Oh crap, we’re sitting on a mountain of tech debt”

No I know you can’t always expect to arrive at a project and find the sunny uplands of TDD and continuous delivery but if you do get to “optimised for speed” code (to me that’s a synonym for tech debt that’s slowing down delivery) all you can do is slowly add what should have been done in the first place (tests).
Do you think another masters is really required? We had a solid CS foundation as electrical engineers back then and if you compare curriculums between CS and EE, the difference is manageable to grok by yourself. Or is it more as a "CV" item thing to have something to show to HR, besides just words?
I think he means that uploads beyond your free Google storage are not free anymore, not even for Pixel users.
There is only one place in that article where an actual course of action is discussed, and this is it.

> That has her less focused on moderation policies and more on actually educating young people because they're going to be the ones who have to fix this mess.

So no to censorship, yes to educating the public. Nowhere do they advocate any form of censorship, and they even argue against moderation. So where exactly did you get that opinion from if it’s not actually in the article?
Would USA even blockade China? At this point it really would be mutual destruction. The retail market in USA would suffer, bringing most of the rest likely down with it...
People probably downvoting you for the tone, but I think you’re mostly right.
Yes! Very much! I took a course of evolutionary game theory, which opened up my eyes and changed the way I think. So much that I'd recommend (evolutionary) game theory for everyone.

It's relevant in every day life: human interaction often fits the schema of the prisoner's dilemma, the signalling game or the chicken game. That tit-for-tat is the optimal strategy in iterated prisoner's dilemmata matches intuition about human cooperation.

The theory is beautiful, easy to understand and leads to verifiable predictions, especially in the context of evolution, such as the competition between genes, the behaviour of parasites, allocation of resources in a tribe, mating rituals, etc.
Did you just assume that the receptionist is going to be female?
Well, now they'll have to stay at home again...which is what the fascists who brought that in actually wanted. They just don't want to see them on the streets.

It's kinda sad that so many supported this and I'm happy that this wide ban would (probably...) be unconstitutional in Germany.
Here's the fun bit though - I don't get "speedy" from the medication I'm on. Looking back with hindsight, when I was a teenager and snorting Ritalin with my friends, they got all silly and giggly, while I felt calmer. Was a sign I should've taken seriously. At the time I just thought I'd gotten dud pills.

But yeah, I think a good metaphor is that people with ADHD are starting at -1, people without are starting at 0, and then the pills add a +1 to both.
I'm sure one can come up with more social engineering tactics, but if we talk about countries where people have and use proper documents, the American style sim swap is unheard of.
But if it's not Unix, what is it?
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I recently switched to an iPhone and am an Apple Maps purist now. A man can only be told to turn left at the Carl's Jr so many times before he snaps.
In this scenario, the better analogy would be US - UK, China - Argentina, Taiwan - Falklands, think again with that in mind.
I think the bar for child-safe content these days goes a little further than censoring images of lynching mobs, yes.
Similarly, I believe our goal in writing children’s books should be a bit loftier than “not unleashing a PTSD epidemic.”
It’s not that you’re tough and rugged; no grownups are fainting into couches over this, but some are clearly annoyed over their children’s confusion at reading these books. Why would they do make this decision if nobody spoke up about it?
Seriously. This is China. No need for environmental impact studies. They built 2 hospitals in a matter of days. They can probably lay down a few tens of thousands of miles of pipe in a week.
Why is it hard to believe? That’s human nature. We fight over territory just like most other mammals.

That we could rise above our very programming is exceptional (like the Mars lander), not the norm.
The reality is that progress tends to be a case of two steps forward and one step back. It's also reality that this is true in part because people come up with these theoretical ideals of equality or something and they sometimes don't work in practical reality.

Additionally, one way to spread religion is to be tolerant of the existing culture of the people you are hoping to spread the religion to. This is Christianity is associated with a lot of holidays that have seemingly inane and random traditions, such as Easter and Easter Bunnies and hiding Easter eggs.

What on earth do bunnies and hiding eggs have to do with each other, much less the risen Christ? Not much, but it's some pagan set of traditions that got tolerated by the Christian church and that's how you have bunnies and hidden eggs all wrapped up with the risen Christ.

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/history-of-easter