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Ah, that’s the dream. At least for me!
Yes, so A/B testing won't work. You need a one-armed bandit algorit.
Sure, off the top of my head:

- Explain plans for slow queries, via auto_explain in Postgres. You could get really fancy here and convert the pieces of an explain plan (Aggregate, ModifyTable, FullTableScan) into proper distributed traces. Hard to tell, but it looks like GCP might offer that.

- Various errors logs associated with queries that require more detail than a SQL state code. For example, lock timeouts.

- Debugging, especially root cause analysis when you're trying to figure out why something broke. The trace IDs help build up context.
Maybe it will help with standardised placement of plumbing and pipes etc.

Real examples:

I had a gas leak. The pipe was hidden behind all the kitchen cabinets. 1/3 of the cabinets had to be removed to get to the pipe.

At a new build one guy was sloppy and put a nail into a water pipe. The entire wall had to be redone.

You don’t have to save cost if you can increase reliability and speed.
Every single one of those headlines asserts a conflict, and the only difference is these MSN ones appeal to sentiment instead of outrage.

Arguably, newspapers as a concern are a post-Marx phenomenon, and it's what people get taught in j-school, and what editors accept. Students of both are peddlers of pernicious nonsense, but their students also produced some entertaining and powerful things, notably recycled recipes for accelerating and reverting democracies into their inevitable tyrannies.

Anyway, the NYTimes doesn't register as meaningful to me, and if they were looking for a reason why people are leaving them and other mainstream outlets behind, it's becuase their conflicts are contrived.
Who said anything about big corporations? Maybe all of his stuff uses zigbee or z-wave and is controlled by FOSS controllers?
And maybe viruses, books... languages? Books seems to me a little like tardigrades sometimes, if you squint. Information stored indefinitely (hibernating?), which can be rehydrated and spring back to life within human minds. We talk about tardigrades like they're really weird, but maybe we just can't see how truly weird a form of life WE are :)
yes you can see the requirements here https://userflow.com/bootstrappers
HomeKit is so bad and clunky I had to delete it and just use the proprietary apps shipped with the iot products we use. I really wish they tried to do less and opened up their OS to better developers to build their own solutions instead.
Yes, I actually pay a premium to go with an ISP that has a decent implementation of native IPv6. I work day-to-day with several clouds that are IPv6 only (they have IPv4 NAT for getting out) so it makes things significantly easier.
So basically you install this on a dedicated, network connected computer and the it connects to the printer? How tough is the setup?
I think they're clearly saying that Zapier is a positive for them.
Never thought I'd actually find a webpage that's in Times New Roman soothing. Maybe it's tickling my nostalgia. :-)
Why would it need to be updated? Either it works, or it doesn't. If you're not using the "smart" parts, then it needs to just decode the damn HDMI signal. If it stops doing that to the point of needing an update, then things are terribly terribly wrong.
Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD (2016)
> ORMs are a doomed proposition. There is simply no way to write a database-agnostic ORM API while also taking full advantage of the underlying tech.

Not every application needs to take full advantage of the underlying DBMS. Sometimes it's just a place to put data and not lose it, e.g. a key-value store with transactions. ORMs handle that use case perfectly well.

(I'm not a fan of ORMs personally, but they seem to work fine for logs of applications.)
I read it as "Internet as fuck"
I actually think that issue is overblown. I observed some of my friends (and relatives) progress through the academic track. Today I live near a major research university, and a lot of my friends and acquaintances are professors.

My grad school friend who went the furthest, the quickest, is in fact a brilliant physicist. Another friend has had a long career teaching at a regional college, a job that he was really well suited for. Those are just a couple of examples, and of course they're anecdotes.

In my case, no amount of politics could have saved me from the fact that I didn't have a good idea for my own research program.

I can't tell you what happens at the absolute top tier, since I don't know any of those people, or at the very least, haven't asked them.

What I do suspect is that nobody's career is untainted by incidents that involved politics if you were to examine carefully enough.
Phillips hue works like a normal light if there is no internet or if you cycle the power from the switch.
But won't having to sit through a few additional ads wipe out all of those time savings? Not to mention the time spent on setting them up in a way to make the appliances not spy on you.
Yeah, it would be fun to imagine a language designed with a video game style unlock progression. I remember programming in TI basic with a small number of global variables and subroutines. No scopes, no local variables, functions _couldn't return variables_, you had to manually keep track of which variables a subroutine was allowed to use, and where it would write out its outputs. After a few months with this functions, scopes, and return values seemed like super powers!
Thank you. This was really insightful.
Almost sounds like an Underhanded C Contest story.
The first time I saw people posting about 10x engineers I thought it was a meme and a joke... I assumed the punchline was super obvious and clearly insinuated the things written about in this article.

That lead to a couple awkward situations where I discovered the adoration of what were even obviously poor behaviors such as treating other devs poorly ... was sadly serious.
My nearly 7yo loves Minecraft too - both Java and Bedrock! He keeps asking me about Roblox but I've also heard of the whole monetizing thing and I keep telling him to stick to Minecraft as well.
If true, yes. Don't imagine it would get enforced as zealously on a company willing and able to defend its recurring revenue stream though.
Work, Play, and Motivation
I have spent some time with Rust and written some non-trivial Zig code (a simpler assembler). My simple take-away is that Rust is simply too complicated.

I spend some time on other technologies on occasion. I could get into Zig fairly quickly and do some useful stuff with it.

With Rust it felt like I had to really decide on some significant time investment to be able to get anything done. It really reminds me a lot of Haskell. Those kinds of pure, elegant languages which are awesome once you grok them, but which is never really going to be used apart from in a small niche because they are too hard to learn from an average developer with limited time on his hands.

Rust and Haskell is more like the languages I looked for when I was younger. When I had these utopian visions of THE best programming language. I have long lost any belief in that. I do think strong type systems are helpful, but I also think they tend to get overhyped and overrated.

I am with Rob Pike, one of the Go designers on this. Writing correct code is a lot about understanding and being able to reason about that code. A simpler language makes it easier to reason about code and understand it. That makes it more likely that you make the code correct or is able to maintain and fix it.

I do believe this complexity barrier begins at different places for different people. But for me I think Rust is too complex. Knowing myself I would get back to 3-4 weeks old code and wonder what the hell I wrote.

If you get into that situation you are likely to make mistakes. This is what I believe developers often forget when chasing down the BEST tool. That ultimately it is your brain that is supposed to solve problems not the tool. If a tool solves some problems but reduce your brains ability to do its job, then the tool isn't really an aid.

To be honest I am not actually certain if Zig has hit the sweat spot either. Go is quite good. You can pick up quite old Go code and still read it with relative ease.

Zig is definitely not as easy as Go to read. I feel like I have to wait until a 1.0 release before passing judgment. Some of the issues I felt I had with Zig is down to lack of documentation and rough edges in the standard library.
10 years from now: Azure, AWS and GCP are spun off into separate companies due to antitrust action and then promptly merge into one.
Whoops, I just fixed that typo too. (not yet deployed)
Free is free.

Your return on investment at the $20.00 per month level is a year or less. So it depends on how long you need it for.
I started using chef again recently and I love it. Feels great to use it again after being full k8s for a while.
Cosign – Signed Container Images
This is the experience on Arch Linux if you use intel graphics, install gnome and gdm, and then start gdm.

For the open source Radeon drivers you have to specifically enable early kms, but I imagine that's done for you with most distributions.

Really, this stuff just works if your hardware is well supported (i.e. - not nvidia).
It _usually_ makes sense to optimise for engagement, particularly in the US where there's no state-funded media outlet (cue discussion about socialism that will be ignored).
The UK has the BBC, Australia has the ABC, and both are state funded media outlets that aren't (at least overtly) driven by views. I'm sure their funding largely depends on how many people are consuming their product, but it's not as though some editor is going to be fired that afternoon if their "Oprah/Meghan" story loses out to the Murdoch equivalent.
I'd be curious to compare how A/B testing works for state-funded media vs pay-for-access media outlets
How much time or effort is this actually saving you? Maybe its just me, but id say i spend maybe a few minutes doing these tasks every year. A lot of this is achievable without smart technology anyways
The latency of decision cycle was too great in previous times. Even within digital workflows the length of time between knowledge of final space available on the physical page and when that space had to be filled with text was too short to haggle with a writer. It had to be performed by a smaller set of people right next to the people laying the type of not the people laying the type.
Massive generalization with numerous exceptions, but an ingrained belief that new is better than old, and first-hand better than used.
If people don’t like click bait I recommend not using news aggregators that only show the headline and are curated based on the votes of users who don’t read the articles!
I didn't downvote and not an activist of any kind (even if there's a campaign, I am not a part of it). But I am very pro-nuclear, so would like to respond to the second half of your message: the nuclear waste problem.

This is a real problem. Three ways to address.

1. One I don't like, but that's widely deployed: create remote storage facilities and just store it there. This is what's done now, it works, but the costs are pretty high. What's worse, store a tonne once, pay for it forever.

2. One I like a lot and it's getting adoption in Russia: they built light-water reactors that work on nuclear waste ([1]). So, same fuel is used twice and the results are much less dangerous. What's good is that these reactors can run on anyones waste and Russia already imports nuclear waste from Europe.

3. The third option is funny: it might become viable in the next decade. Ship it to the Moon. The math is simple: 1 kg of fuel generates about $5000. If Starship makes the cost of shipping <$500, it would be a no-brainer to ship it all to the Moon. Theoretically, it can also be used as fuel there (see point 2) to generate power for moon bases.

In the short term, option 2 looks pretty reasonable to me.

1. https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-proposes-new-...
This article provides a bit more background: https://telecoms.com/508812/chips-are-down-as-china-semicond...
> I can use it with the same remote as I turn my TV on with.

Any modern TV will let the connected turn it on and off with HDMI-CEC. For Apple TV, you just use the volume or whatever button to turn it on, then hold the home button and tap sleep to turn it off. Roku supports this, too.
Sara Imari Walker has some REALLY interesting things to say about life and information: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/40

> if you want to understand the laws of gravitation, then you go and study black holes because you have a very intense gravitational field there. And you can understand and probe gravity very well there.

> If you want to understand the laws of information and how information operates in the physical world, then you should go and study a living thing. Because that's where information actually is at its most dense or most intense.
"In short, some young people think that science is a good career for the same reason that they think being a musician or actor is a good career: "I can't decide if I want to be a scientist like James Watson, a musician like Britney Spears, or an actor like Harrison Ford."[0]

>choose to pursue things based on limited information.

I've pondered over this for a while and one workaround I've found is to: rather than ask people "what do you want to be when you grow up?", ask people " where do you want to be when you grow up?". The former question almost always returns a wish/pursue based on limited information and idealization. The latter often gives bland or blank answers, but can be answered from your current (less) limited information about your own preferences, rather than your own wish and idealization of others/other things

[0] http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
It would be nice if they covered the environmental cost of constantly re-building houses, which is to my understanding quite significant.
I believe the point was that the types of ads or surveillance we are talking about here doesn’t strictly require 5G. It can work perfectly well with existing 4G/LTE networks and infrastructure. You could send a pretty good signature of what someone is watching by SMS if you really wanted to. The components to add that connectivity to consumer electronics is not that difficult or expensive to add from a BOM perspective.

I think the reason why we haven’t seen more of this vector being used isn’t because it is technologically unfeasible, but rather that there are easier ways to get a device connected.
It is much better structured than C. Everything in the standard library that allocated memory takes an allocator as first argument.

And you got cleanup with defer statements. Together this makes the memory management story very different from C.
Not at all in my anecdotal experience! My Prusa Mini just connected to my old Pi via MicroUSB and it all "just worked" for me. Ended up adding a Pi camera to the setup and installed the OctoLapse plugin to automatically generate timelapse videos of my prints; been very happy with it all so far.
Web site as functional editorial. I really appreciate the effort and hope it continues to emerge into a good resource.
Roku TV is no more invasive than the standalone boxes with the benefit of an integrated OTA guide.
Fundamentally with a machine, if it goes right it works. It is just a question of making sure that it goes right often enough. Planes have the advantage that there are more ways for them to fix things that go wrong. Rockets have the advantage of being simpler so less can go wrong. If we had equal experience in both, it isn't obvious which would be safer.

And yes, it is possible to make rockets safer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_escape_system for one of the ways. But there are limits. If you're next to something that decides to explode, that explosion is a problem.
Exactly what I do and I love it. The AppleTV Plex app was a game changer.
It looks like Zig requires manual memory magagement, right? That seems like a pretty big downside compared to GC or the Rust approach.
The amount of things you can do seems to have been shrinking over the years though
There's a complete open source toolchain available for ice40 and ecp5 FPGAs from Lattice, for both Verilog and VHDL. I've been using it for almost a year now and it's really good. See github.com/YosysHQ
This is all about creating orthogonal features. In any system where you are able to create a small number of features which combine in very flexible ways you can achieve a minimalist language together with immense expressiveness.

Zig is in that category. It takes some powerful ideas and combine them in ways that gives Zig a lot of power despite a small feature set.
based af
SpaceX is operating on the theory that if you build it, they will come.

That said, rapid delivery of materials from one spot on Earth to another is inherently valuable. I'm sure that most of their flights will actually be suborbital instead. As in point to point travel between two places on Earth. The ability to do transcontinental trips in an average of 30 minutes is of interest to a lot of people, and doing so with physical packages is acceptable at higher risk than doing so with humans.
A year is _crazy short_ for enterprise business, which is where most of cloud growth is right now. It's worse if that component is core to the business in any way.

Think about components you rely on for your service. How long would it take you to stand up or migrate to an alternative. Consider that you've also got all your other business to do too. You can't spent a year just spinning your wheels from a business perspective, while you're migrating stuff between services because your upstream provider decided to stop building something. You've still got to keep growing. If you're lucky, you've got staffing for meeting your business growth needs, but odds are that's barely true.

On top of having to migrate, what are your replacement's performance characteristics? Are you replacing it with your own solution instead, and if so how do you operate it, what happens under load, how do you ensure durability? etc. etc. lots and lots of questions and you've got scant 12 months to figure out what you're doing and how to get off it _on top of your existing business needs_.

This criticism has been brought up so many times, and yet routinely we still see GCP saying "but we promise to give you a whole year's notice!" as if that's a good thing.

(disclaimer: I work for another cloud provider)
If you could pass photons from arbitrary points in the past you'd have Light of Other Days. You'd also break causality in ways which would be problematic, because removing photons is communication back in time; it's probably not physically possible.
Seems like a clear violation of the CFAA.
I run a tech community on discord and I'm having a really hard time keeping it alive and well. We've been active for about 5 years and it's hard to keep a tight group of regulars around. Most people seem to come and go, a lot of them only interested in getting their issue solved. People who are interested in being part of a community, chatting with other people etc, don't seem to find what they're looking for and end up leaving.
I have about a full renewal of the regulars every year or so where the old regulars become inactive and new people emerge but I can't seem to build a cohesive core of people and build a community culture around them beside the moderators. Have you managed this? How do you deal with retention and culture?
No vegan or vegetarian options except for gnocchi.

This isn't based cooking, this is meatporn for carnivores.
> the most toxic substance humans have ever tried to store

That is actually wrong. We have stores far more deadly stuff such as chemical and biological weapons. In addition, the waste gets less deadly with time. So after a few decades or so, the most deadly waste has decayed.

You can actually swim at the top of a nuclear containment pool without much adverse effects.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
Originally I thought the same as you, but when I tried it, I noticed that it actually saves way more time than I expected.

I think we simply don’t notice the amount of time spent on the little, meaningless things. For me, once things were connected it kind of felt like I had aliased a commonly-used command.

You could also argue that the saved time was already spent in researching which smart home appliances to get (bad ones can be a flaky nightmare), which is a fair argument. For me, though, the increased convenience in actual day to day use was well worth it.
Should have used subdomains for at least some of the entries!

chicken.based.cooking
rice.based.cooking
omnivores*
Norway’s Aker to Put 100% Bitcoin in Treasury Reserves of New Investment Unit
You might be interested in the little-known Chemoton model: http://web.archive.org/web/20210221212235/https://www.nation...

1. metabolic cycle
2. ~~stores information~~
2. membrane/boundary
3. template replication

More recent origin of life theories (even proto-cellular) focus on:

1. periodicity/cycles
2. compartmentalization/boundaries
3. microdiversity/entropy

https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.cocis.2007.08.008
Well, no, that second one isn't valid rust, perhaps you mean:

move || async move {}

But this is not equivalent to:

|| async move {}

crucially the closure is not going to take ownership of anything. This is kind of besides the point though, what I'm getting at is that both of the above are a closure which returns a future. i.e. you can also write them in this style:

|| {
return async move {};
}

Maybe that's more clear with the explicit return?

I don't understand your second question about it begin "inferred", I never used that word. make_service_fn is a convenience function for implementing the Service trait.
That's because the Zig approach is "no hidden control flow".

Everything in Zig is explicit, this is not a downside, this is a feature of the language.

Choose the tool that best fits your needs.
Care to expand on this? It sounds like you're saying hedge fund managers are jealous of Elon Musk's creativity, so they decided to push for more nuclear reactors, so they could feel some ownership in the ideas. Am I misunderstanding you?
Right, good point. It has also been discussed on HN a few times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Oh, that is so wrong. I don't want to know about not having internet access unless I asked it do something that required internet access. That's even more user hostile than I thought we had debased ourselves.
Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the "spring forward" to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year. [1]

1 = https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130144410.h...
It's that too, just by happy coincidence :)
Let’s say I believe you. Do you have any proof?