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Inflation due to monetary policy is a hot topic right now, but it’s getting too much blame for current events.

Prices are up for multiple reasons, including more pressure on shipping channels due to increased demand for goods across the board.

Also, this article is largely about inflation in developing nations like Indonesia. The inflation noted in countries like the United States is more pedestrian:

> In the U.S., prices rose close to 3% in the year ending Jan. 2, according to NielsenIQ, roughly double the overall rate of inflation.
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It's one tactic to try and avoid them 'accidentally' having sex at a young age (and getting pregnant and everything). I can kind of see everything, I mean on the one side sex ed is important, but if they can avoid attempting it for a few years until they're more well-rounded individuals it'll be a double bonus.

Mind you, I've very much been a late bloomer so my perspective is probably not representative.
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I've often thought of that, a compression thing that says "start with this small board state, run for so many generations, go sample this area of the board, and maybe apply this run-length-encoded binary patch" but computing that initial state is, uhhhhh, a lot. A huge amount. Too freaky. But maybe there's a cellular automaton that is easier to run in reverse to find such a thing? This becomes a question for the real computer scientists.
Weave is my multithreading library. It's just a recap of what I went through for future reference.

I unfortunately didn't have time to go through:

- compiling glibc from source

- converting my code to C

- trying to reduce multithreaded synchronization code to a minimal example given how non-deterministic any of those bugs are

- do a write-up

That said, it seems like people went through the motions 4 months after me in this bug:

- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25847 which affects C#, OCaml, Python

Someone also fully reimplemented Glibc condition variable in TLA+ to prove that the glibc code was buggy:

- https://probablydance.com/2020/10/31/using-tla-in-the-real-w... (at the bottom)
Can you explain? I never really tried Hey.
Talking about inflation seems to have turned into some sort of political issue. I know I can feel the prices rising everywhere. But ppl counter it immediately by saying 'fed has tools like increasing interest rates if it really becomes a problem, they know better than you'
> Outside of cult-like SV, you'll be fine.

This. I know several people who switched from some non-tech career to development in their late 30s/early 40s. All of them are still working as developers now around a decade later and all very happy they made the switch rather than writing themselves off as "too old".

Will it be harder than when you were 20? Well yeah. Just like any career change after around 25 or so is harder than fresh out of university. Doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't do it though. Not much in life worth doing is easy imho.

Decide what you're interested in, look at what you need to learn, learn it and build up a portfolio of your work. Perhaps get involved in some open source projects if there are any that catch your eye, or start your own open source project.

Once you have built up some confidence and a demonstration of your work apply for some positions. I highly advise you brush up on your soft skills as well as your tech skills if you are not used to "selling yourself".
I remember seeing an article about how some container ship crews haven't been able to leave their ships and see other people for crazy periods of time because of lockdowns. That can't be good for retention and shipping.
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But... you can go from Israel to Cyprus to Greece without entering Turkey, even if you accept their claim to Northern Cyprus.
"If wifi supports a modulation that's more inherently efficient at transmitting low latency audio data than bluetooth, then it would make sense to implement it."

I agree, if. In this case the if is a no. Wifi does not allow for transmitting audio more efficiently than Bluetooth. It makes sense, wifi is a much more powerful signal, takes more power to drive and process.
None of those games are from AAA studios, so you haven't exactly rebutted the OP's comment which was "Microtransactions permeate every single AAA release".
> What’s the unique selling point?

It’s multiple dispatch, how did the almost-author-of-a-book-on-the-language not get that?
Well they’re more likely to believe in God than the general public so yes that’s entirely possible https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news/survey-shows...
That's an interesting zero sum game. The reality does not match, but it's a convenient excuse to never face a lack of moral character.

You can quit and find a new job. Most would do it in a heartbeat for a tiny change in total comp, but struggle to make the decision when lives matter but might come at an economic cost?

That seems problematic and extremely self serving.

An interesting insight into the tech industry and its lack of 1. moral character 2. engineer accountability in general.
Grateful Dead is my go-to recently. But really once I get in the zone, any music plus the noise-cancelling does wonders for letting me focus.
It is a high-voltage direct current transmission line, so I would expect losses to be well below 5% per 1000km.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
The approach described here is very lossy, and very inefficient since you have to search a huge number of permutations to find reasonable results.

It would be an interesting experiment to implement lossless compression, but it likely wouldn't achieve high compression ratios or be nearly as efficient as a purpose built algorithm.
This is one of the biggest problems I have seen with attempted real-world deployments of wifi-based mesh systems.

Another issue is the half-duplex, CSMA nature of Wifi. It all but guarantees high amounts of jitter and latency instability. Particularly when several nodes in the same path are still in signal-range of one another so effectively share the same collision(and inteference) domain. A->B->C->D

I've found this wreaks havoc on TCP connections as well as applications that require some ability to detect and adjust to link condition.

This becomes significantly worse once the typical levels of WIFI interference come into play, causing multiple retransmissions and lost packets.
People don't save money. They save consumption, and the savings are in the form of money or other assets.
In many companies, the boss actually has a yearly budget that he spends on his people's salaries as well as other costs. So, the less he pays you, the more money he has left for other needs. BTW I'm curious if FAANGs are arranged in this way as well, does anyone know?
I'm not Greek, but your question seems to be disingenuous considering the fact that the long running dispute between Cyprus and Turkey is fairly common knowledge. See this[1] for why ethnic Greeks might consider Turkey to be disinterested in working together.

[1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03526/Turkey_...
Nintendo as a company is 120 years old. Nintendo as a video game company is 50 years old, more or less. The reason why it's held on for so long is not its brand , it's their properties. Nintendo is essentially the Disney of the video game world; they own immensely popular pop-culture trademarks which they can rehash and reboot over and over and over again.

Nintendo isn't a tech company, they're a publisher which so happens to publish their properties mostly as games, and do a remarkably good job of producing consoles which you need to buy to enjoy their properties. This is why they'll still be around in 100 years, and Microsoft and Apple most likely won't.
A varying-in-size part of everyone believes that the whole world is the 5 people closest to them.
The subscription sign up form at the bottom of the page is rotated by -1 degree. It may be designed to catch my attention but it just drives my OCD side crazy. Anyone else notice that?
We have to move away from interest as an underlying mechanism, it's one of the root causes of the chaos in today's financial world.

The superior model is investments, similar to how VCs invest in companies in exchange for equity. Loans are to be relegated to charity only. If we apply all this, loans will become close to non-existent. We have seen this successfully work because interest is prohibited in Islam, yet it was able to flourish especially in the Islamic Golden Age to push the boundaries of knowledge and science and exploration, during a time where Europe was in the dark ages.
You really don't see the benefit of paying USA $60 to rent 24 high quality games a year indefinitely? I mean really? thats almost a $1000 value.

I mean literally, you will get more games (and AAA ones too) for pennies. I have PS plus, and they throw games at you. It's a problem because it probably suppresses people's desire to buy new games; like why buy control at launch when chances are it hits plus later?
Does it mean my IT department will drop McAfee? this horrendous thing eats CPU and drinks memory like there is no tomorrow, it brought a perfectly good laptop to crawling speeds with the fans kicking in too often
I expect the cables will be quite fat (physically) which reduces their resistance. Also, by increasing the voltage, you decrease the current for any given power, which decreases the resistive losses. So yes, there will be some losses in transmission (as is the case for literally all power transmission methods), but engineers clearly consider this and design around it.
There's no negative impact on Turkey apart from making it more difficult for them to blockade Cyprus (which would be a highly aggressive move, anyway)
I'd like to hear your source for this.
Yes. For 10 years and probably 10 more before it gets anywhere near significant adoption...
To expand on what qsort said, the paper is right in stating that it's not possible to draw bright lines between the different programming paradigms, but who expected otherwise?

You can use C++ to write C-style procedural code, or object-oriented code, or functional code. You could use it to write stack-oriented code in the Forth style. With the help of a library you could even use the logic programming style of Prolog. C++ compilers also tend to support assembly. Of course, the list goes on. You could implement a Turing machine, or a one-instruction-set computer, or Game of Life, or Langton's Ant, and use that as your computational paradigm.

The distinctions between the programming paradigms are often a fuzzy matter of emphasis and idiom, it's not precise and unambiguous.

I hadn't encountered the term hypercomputation before. [0]

> The notion of distinct programming paradigms, as opposed to permeable traditions of programming languages and methodologies, now seems anachronistic in Computer Science curricula, and should be revisited. In particular, the inconsistent uses in the influential ACM/IEEE Curricula should be addressed.

I'm not convinced. It makes good sense to have a course on functional programming, to introduce students to its concepts. The concepts aren't easy, and it makes sense to dedicate a whole course to them. What does it matter that the distinctions between programming paradigms are ultimately imprecise? The same is true for just about everything.

Also, the paper didn't mention the related concept of the Rule of least power: choose the least powerful computer language suitable for a given purpose. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
Sigh... I remember the days when Gmail was considered a power user tool. Sad how far it's fallen.
This article is primarily about inflation in developing nations like Indonesia.

The inflation in countries like the United States is much lower (around 3% on food compared to 1.5% overall inflation).

Ironically, some of that inflation is due to increased demand for goods providing more demand for shipping services due to lockdown. People had a lot more money to save or spend during lockdown (personal savings rates spiked upward), so shipping prices are inflating due to demand. Food is often shipped, so these inflation costs are partially from shipping costs.
It is a feeling to ppl who want to start a family, buy a house. Official Inflation doesn't count for those. What else is the word that we can use here?
Not necessarily, morning after pills and IUD-induced abortions are not counted.
Thanks for posting, that was my question when I saw the headline.
I think you are underestimating greatly Greece military capabilities with that comment.
So now we are jumping to megaton nukes? You do realize that the current Minutemen warheads in the US arsenal are ~300kt each right? Most nations don’t have multi megaton nukes standing at the ready, and Taiwan could never get to that point in the first place.

Getting to one nuke sure maybe, getting to dozens warheads you claim are needed and the 100’s in reality that would be needed, a robust delivery system and a first and second strike capability... are you kidding me?

Nuclear deterrence works well with near peers, it doesn’t work when one side can’t take a single hit and the other can.
Where can I find this Bitcoin corporation that issues stock?
If I have $10 from 10 years ago, they're worth less today. The government's incompetence and engagement in usury has caused my money to lose value.
They didn't declare the likelihood of the result, they declared what they believe to be the likelihood of the result.
Python's strength is its simplified coding style. People who use these frameworks are not software engineers who want to deal with object passing mechanics in excruciating detail. There are software engineers to do just that. So until something beats Python in simplified writing style or Python becomes incredibly slow, it won't be easy to supplant.
[1] this episode of the Caspian Report (an excellent Youtube channel on international affairs) discusses how Israel and Turkey are trying to establish stronger diplomatic ties in order to directly connect their maritime EEZ's and block Cyprus from the Mediterranean.

It would give the both access to undersea hydrocarbon deposits, and Israel was going to support route changes of pipelines to pass more through Turkey.

I suspect this project and goal is somehow intertwined, but I'm not versed enough with international relations to see the big picture.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOMSTElVHk
Is it flaming if I point out you're probably not American while being one?
The only issue is that there is a nasty side effect from the freeloader problem.

Through most of human history there were various mechanisms in place to punish people who weren’t ‘doing their fair share.’

It seems like it shouldn’t be such a big deal but I wonder if it can actually be crippling to have no good mechanism to address whether someone is coasting off of others.
Idk if anything has changed, but last I knew those are just RSS readers on the backend.
> Greek nationals doesn't seem to like this comment

Yes, they also seem to have bribed foreignpolicy.com [1] to slander the peace-keeping efforts of Turkey in the region.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/08/turkey-military-overstr...
XKCD: Purity [1] is semi-relevant. I think many US students learn this kinda stuff in high school, so it's a little odd that the researchers asked for Tai to write something to cite. Neither of them recognized this?

https://xkcd.com/435/
Do we have a way of seeing periodic media obsessions? Seems like a good AI challenge, although would require a good corpus.

I saw another analysis suggesting a 75% drop in media coverage of Biden vs. Trump, at this same point in each’s presidency. That’s a useful statistic that I have a hard time finding in a comprehensive way.
The article is about developing countries like Indonesia.

They mention US inflation down below:

> In the U.S., prices rose close to 3% in the year ending Jan. 2, according to NielsenIQ, roughly double the overall rate of inflation.

Money printing isn’t the only or even the main driver of inflation. Increased demands for goods during lockdown has put upward pressure on shipping costs, which is reflected in food prices.
Most people believe that they'd do the right thing, and yet most people don't do the right thing when the shit hits the fan. It's like how everyone thinks they are above average.

You can always justify it to yourself -- well, I'm not sure the thing will blow up, all these other smart people disagree, do I really want to risk being unemployed and my family living in poverty for it? We have an immense capacity to convince ourselves that doing the right thing coincides with our personal advantage and convenience.

What can do we do to make it more likely that we'll do the right thing when it matters? Only practice. One can ask oneself, when was the last time I risked personal advantage or security to do the right thing, when was the last time I gave up something to do the right thing for others? If one hasn't been practicing it when the stakes are smaller, one possibly hasn't built up the muscle to do so when the stakes are huge.
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Hades, Disco Elysium, Valheim

None of those are "AAA" games. Don't get me wrong Hades and Disco Elysium where great (haven't played Valheim), but if your idea of a good time is CoD, Fortnite and Madden I won't blame you for not enjoying them.
Which is mostly an advertisement. Probably the main author is linked to the Euroasia Interconnector.

Also note that there is little reference for the Greek part of the interconnector for which there was a great debate. Greece decided to create the part connecting Crete with Attica on it's own citing delays that cost Greece hundrends of millions a year because it is forced to operate diesel plants in Crete.

Also Greece also has the longest and deepest AC connection in the world under construction (2 cables connecting Peloponesse with Crete). One of the cables is already operational.
that doesn't jive with reality as I see it. for most people, any number is never enough, it would seem
This doesn't say much.

First, as an analogy, since in most games, the goal is precisly to beat someone else, and there's nothing wrong with that (it's the very meaning of sports competition).

Second, because for a programming language community and adoption and ecosystems matters, and you don't get all those without beating "someone else" or at least comming close to doing it.

Either you magically double the number of devs/people doing data science, or you atract data scientists from Python and R (either attract existing users of Python, or get more new users into you rather than in Python).
The "negative impact" is Cyprus being recognized as a sovereign.
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I am already earning money that I would expect to earn only close to my retirement in my other careers, if successful. So I am very happy with my choice financially-wise. And I still enjoy a lot coding everyday. Also I am lucky to never have felt (or at least noticed) the effects of ageism on my career. On the contrary, employers have explicitly told me that my long professional experience and maturity was an asset that was considered in my hiring (they paired me with a 21-year-old who was a senior by technical merits, but still needed to improve in other aspects of fulfilling a senior dev role).
I found Julia scoping rules to be weird, and a bit off putting

While this clearly doesn't seem to impact its adoption, or its community from creating great things

For the new comer to the language, the scoping rules just gives a bad feeling for the language, I wish they fix it in future versions

check my github issue if you want to know more what I mean by off putting scoping rules
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/37187
Well, yes, of course. The point is to get her to actually ask.
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Probably also explains why sign language interpreters similarly use NVBs beyond their hands to express spoken language.
Stock market is always the best available long term bet on average, because that's where you can disguise your assets to mix in with wealthy people assets that gets government bailouts.

There are other things like real estate and government contacts, but those are less available to the casual investor, except through stock market funds.
> I've been taking many DEI trainings at Google. I'm wondering how that will work at a Google Riyadh office.

Google is already hypocritical enough to virtue signal DEI stuff and then discriminating anyway in the US.

I would expect Google in the KSA to just plainly play by the local rules.
Is there not a whole industry devoted to selling developers on automated testing?
It enables trade in electricity between the countries.

Certainly with more and more power coming from renewables that can’t be switched on or off at will, that’s a gain for all.

Also, as to the poking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_Authority_of_Cypru... says:

“In 2015, the EAC generated a total of 4,128 GWh of electricity consuming 947,226 tonnes of fuel costing €288,632,000. Maximum demand in the areas controlled by the Republic of Cyprus reached 939 MW. A total of 2.0 GWh of the produced electricity in 2015 valued €240,000 ended up in the area occupied by Turkey and no money could be collected for it.”

I guess that might stop once Cyprus can export power to the EU (but I also wonder why they would produce such excessive amounts of electricity. Could be to keep the peace, because they promised the UN, or something similar?)
My main use case for that would be: I'm generic user. I just want to run and use a Julia script for some output, by adding 'julia somescript.jl'. I don't want to modify it because I don't know the language.
If you want to be precise it would be: "Swift for Tensorflow", a project lead by Lattner, while working at Google, as part of the Tensorflow project (published on tensorflow.org and part of the tensorflow github organization, which are two official channels). Presented at Google IO 2019 [0] as "Swift for TensorFlow is a platform for the next generation of machine learning that leverages blablabla...".

I stand with my "pitched by Google" :)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fJsqGHhlVA
> Borrow checker tracks who is using what over time.

This is a very imprecise statement. Do you mean tracks at "compile time" or at "run time"?

A more accurate statement would be -- the borrow checker enforces a specific set of rules and constraints at _compile time_ only. But this set of constraints guarantees memory safety at run time (with the exception of unsafe code). In fact, Rust's runtime is minimal -- it handles panics but has no GC or other bells and whistles. The fancy things are in libraries.
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The good news is that you have about 3 decades worth of great games (1990 to 2020 roughly) to enjoy for the rest of your life
Call it a price rise. But it's not inflation. You don't get to re-define what economic concepts mean.
This is awesome. The real loser in all of this is Lebanon. 30 years after the end of the civil war there, and 24-hour electricity is a pipe dream. People still rely on neighborhood generators that contribute to the already bad pollution.
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A similar post can be found here (2020, implemented with backsearch):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552006

https://kevingal.com/blog/mona-lisa-gol.html
Thats our business culture. You don't really get rewarded for doing the RIGHT THING. Hell your stock options will go down if you do the whistle blower thing.
You don't get punished for NOT doing the right thing. Precious few CEOs and CFOs in jail.

Ultimately it comes down to your own conscience and being able to sleep at night.