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> - yes, your software will continue to run, because that's what the mainframe is for

Maybe if you are using zos without any niche configuration. IBM has discontinued many mainframe platforms in the past, and there's no guarantee that next year they won't approach you with a 10x markup on your renting costs, that will become 50x in a couple of years and will keep going up until you decide to stop paying.

> yes, it will scale with whatever transaction volume you need in the future, because that's what the mainframe is for

Only if you gave-up on data dependency from the beginning. Transactions here means independent data processing, with possible rollbacks, not the relational concept people got used to on databases. If one needs relational data, it won't scale. NoSQL can scale with non-relational data too, it's not an exclusivity of mainframes.

> yes, you can get 99.999999999999999% uptime, because you have reliability built into the platform in astounding depth

That one is ridiculous. Uptime is limited by business code bugs, network and power outages, integration problems, and well, all that causes 90% of the downtime on a single-server shop. All the mainframe promises is that the hardware won't be a problem.

> yes, we'll happily help develop new functionality and support your in house staff in managing this system; the mainframe can actually detect faults and arrange a service call.

Yes, mainframes come with support contracts. You can get support for other platforms too, with the advantage that you won't need to hire IBM.

Anyway, none of that changes the fact that nobody wants to start using a mainframe nowadays, and that the people using them are either looking on how to replace them or avoiding increasing their usage. IBM will certainly be able to milk that market over the medium term, even more if they keep increasing their prices. They revenue may even go up for a while. But that's not thriving.
Likewise, Pripyat remains a ghost town because it was planned city built to support the power plant workforce. Now that the power plants are no longer in operation, there's no incentive to clean it up and resettle it.
UBI is a sham that only drives inflation. At first it looks and acts like a stimulus. Over time it just drives inflation. Rent will go up proportional to your UBI and your landlord will make more money but you won't, for example.
Finding unique ideas that make money is difficult. But most problems that exist don't require some insane intellectual insights. One problem is that developers don't have experience of other sectors apart from the IT field. Dive deep into stuff like Agriculture, Logistics or any other sector and you will see unique problems that can possibly be solved by unique solutions. But as another user said the market is big enough that you don't always need unique ideas.

Another little trick you can apply is searching for new startups in different countries. Like maybe some early stage startup in Singapore, Hong Kong or Israel might be solving something that might work in your country as well. You can definitely get unique 'ideas' to get inspired using this.
rsync.net's zfs as a service is really great for that, though a bit more expensive than b2 is.
No worries, I was very busy at the time I discovered it so I disabled and didn't have time to leap into the code as I should have. I imagine it's something quite simple. I love your projects! :-)
None of this is true.

Zig generics are dynamically typed; Rust generics are statically typed. Everyone in Rust was absolutely aware of dynamically-typed generics and they were actively rejected.

Explicit allocators were likewise rejected. They were deemed to add too much noise in the 99% case in which you just want to use the system malloc. You might disagree with that decision, but none of Rust's designers consider it a mistake.

I'm also very skeptical that the ability to automatically switch between async and sync would be the right decision for Rust. It may be the right decision for Zig. But in Rust we have to, for example, work properly with OS TLS and any sort of automatic async/sync switching would be a footgun.
It's an absolute nightmare. Cadence added support for Matlab calculations on simulator outputs, but its clunky and inconsistent. Don't even get me started on how long it takes to do basic calculations on numbers that should already be in memory...
150MB might not seem like much, but it really is a lot.

iStat Menus, which is tracking a lot more data across my system to render its multiple graphs is using ~85MB total.

Bearing in mind that many users are going to have 5 things like this in their menubar, they can't all use this amount.
Well its up to us to define these symbols, and make certain that 1) most males would be ok to be identified with them and 2) to make alternatives for those who don't. In my experience its more a continum than a binary thing.

Why do we need society to be gendered? Very good question. Masculine and Feminine symbols are found in the majority of cultures, because they allow its people to build an identity and act act on it. We are not stone age people anymore, but even 'advanced' western societies have demographic constrains to deal with. I would also note that most biological men are at advantage in situations where physical strength is a factor. I do want the majority of males and females to behave differently in a myriad of situations.

Of course I do not think that every symbols should be feminine and masculine, and my goal is not to push some archaic-conservative agenda. However I have lots of doubts about the gender-bender-for-all thing. People kill their kings when they dont know how to kill their gods.
They do communicate clearly what is essential, that's why they write the technical rider.

When they band shows up the people at the venue act like everything is OK.

The band needs a quick way to assess the attention to detail of the venue staff. The brown M & M's are just one way. There were multiple similar items also in the rider, it wasn't just the M&M's, that were used to estimate the attention to detail and competency of the venue.
Sounds like those politicians should find something else to cut.

May I suggest: their own salaries or perhaps military spending? I mean, if the country doesn't have the budget, that sounds an awful like it is _their_ fault, not their constiuents'. The constituents aren't elected to figure those things out, they are.

This conservative idea that we have to be all "Aw shucks, we don't have money" is absurd, yet they have enough to give themselves generous salary increases and universal healthcare.
I think it will. In retrospect he was pretty good.
I honestly can't say I have a lot of sympathy either for the mentioned mediocre journalists at mainstream institutions, or for the substack crowd for several reasons.

One is that this entire thing, from both sides has devolved into essentially neverending meta-commentary on journalism, rather than well.. actual journalism.

I have sympathy for people who go independent because they want more freedom and the bosses at the news outlets were breathing down their necks. But people like Bari Weiss, or even Greenwald nowadays are not better. It's nothing but victimhood and uninteresting internal journalism drama between the renegade journalists and the establishment. At the end it seems like they all just profit from the noise.

I have serious issues with the state of mainstream journalism but this antagonistic patronage based system where readers have parasocial attachment to their substack heroes is also terrible. Editors, fact-checking, investigative journalism and so on need resources, at the end of the day most of substack seems to devolve into blogging to a fanbase. There are some nice niches, for example I've been following China scholars on substack who report on the internal politics of China in a way you won't find in general media outlets, but a lot of the most popular people on the site right now seem to try to capitalise on the political environment.
Does pg recycle his themes? I have seen this one a number of times over the years, and others as well.

I guess everyone does that, to some extent, but this is literally the entire content of his piece. Hasn't he written something like that before? Why does he repeat himself every few years almost verbatim?
a) you could have a mandatory one time cost that reflects the average likelihood and cost of them using it (ie up front insurance)

b) the US is already filled with "poorly integrated" people, the whole country was founded on immigration. The only way you'd necessarily be treated as "second class" is by not being eligible to vote, which tourists also aren't and they don't seem to mind much.

The specifics of what to charge and what to demand are obviously flexible, but to me the net positive seems pretty obvious.
Not often, I only remember a few times in the last couple of years. If you're just hosting backups, you're unlikely to even notice. But if you're serving live production data from B2, it can bring down your whole service, which is quite painful especially if you have a large customer base.
Traditionally collectors do have legal control over the display of a work even if it is digital. For instance a film artist may sell three editions of a short film and keep an artists edition for loaning to museums. If one of the copies is loaned to a gallery for a show then the owner might send a DVD or a digital file to the gallery. A gallery assistant might make a copy of the file, and watch it on their laptop.

But they can’t show the film in public and doing so outside of the social and institutional context where it establishes its value would be 100% verboten. There would also be strong social norms against sharing the file online or with friends. It’s false scarcity but it’s maintained by everyone involved because it’s part of the ruleset that creates a functioning economy. Anyone who exhibited a work they didn’t own or have loaned to them would be an instant pariah in the art world. All of this has worked reasonably well for years without NFTs. It wouldn’t be uncommon for Jeff Wall to mail high resolution images of his work to a magazine and even though the art director that received them could go out and print a copy that would look like one of the three legal editions, it wouldn’t allow them to participate in the work. But they would get to hang a nice photo on their wall even though they would pay the cost of all their artist and artist adjacent friends would considering them a philistine.

It’s possible that what we’re witnessing now is a true disintermediation of the institutions that make up the art world and the creation of independent pathways for meaning to be discovered and valuation to be determined. Is the art world changing or being disrupted by NFTs? Probably not really, they may be incorporated into art collecting in some limited way over time once the hype dies down.

The social context is still missing in the idea of pure NFT collecting and is missing engaging with or recreating a culture of art appreciation and patronage. Beeple aside, 99% of the NFT stuff out there is much more of a mix of speculation, consumption, and more appropriate for collectibles than art. A lot of the content is basic meme stuff, and memes derive their value from ubiquity, and democratization. The ethos of Reddit where people won’t even repost stuff that has a small watermark on it is more appropriate for this sort of consumable than anything you’d apply the word art to.

But I could be totally wrong, I definitely never anticipated what is happening now back in 2013 when bitcoin folks were going on about “coloured coins”.
Part of the purpose of law is to protect society. Damage to many individuals damages society overall.
it's a lot easier to move millions of dollars than a half cubic meter of water
The thing is, with a painting, the copies can never be the authentic original. Andy Warhol in particular explored this (art as a mechanical process), possibly inadvertently, as well.

With a digital asset there is no such thing as an original. Even the original file isn't original after the OS moves things around or it's loaded into RAM, etc. Does originality matter? Possibly it always was just bragging rights after replication became reasonably accessible and of high quality?

I'm not completely dismissing NFT's conceptually (this is as hyper modern as we've even seen) even though I don't get it entirely (and I DO get crypto). And I'm happy to see a somewhat practical use for crypto and smart contracts here. I feel like we can conceptualize it enough to trick ourselves into something profound.
Thank you for writing it up and posting it here, one of the more interesting comment threads.
I was exaggerating; however, I also learned TS and CLJS at the same time and walked away utterly confused with TS and absolutely loving CLJS.

I'm a solo dev-- TS probably gets a lot more useful when there's a team of people working together. That would justify the barrier of entry, which was too high for me.
I don't dispute that; every niche has a growth phase and a decline phase. See: Minicomputers or RISC workstations. However, given a nearly 60 year run so far, and an expectation that there's a couple more decades of life it it, we should be so lucky if whatever niche we work in 'fails to thrive' like that.
other than for the lulz of "i shot photos with a video camera", this would have been so much easier with a mirrorless or DSLR. why record 160 frames to just export 1 frame. also easier to get >6K images as well.

sometimes, the "just because" really just makes me shake my head. I love the 3D printing of an adapater and playing with lenses in ways never envisioned by the vendors. after going through all of that hassle, to just tack on the hassle of exporting stills from video sequences is just odd.
It's unfortunate there are so many React open source projects and so few with Angular!
From a candidate perspective its very hard to evaluate what your compensation should be without first pooling multiple offers. Its also very hard to schedule many interviews in a short period such that the offer letters can be compared side by side.

For this reason I generally indicate a 1-2 week response time to an offer letter. I almost always come in before that, maybe around 2-3 days, but I find it absolutely essential to accepting a job to have that breathing room. Even if I lose out of some offers, its still a better investment to be patient.

For context I've been in the industry 6 years with 2 jobs and maybe 12 interviews to date. Currently going through interviews for $job-3.
Sounds nice! What level of funding you typically provide and what kind of business do you seek out?
I'm selling laser jewelry welding machine in Covid era
Incorrect Predictions
In what paradigm are you referring to exactly with Postgres and Mongodb?

Relational turning 51 years old in 2021 while key-value stores category (which MongoDB falls into) is at least 40.

So in a sense this article is about which technology should we use, a 40 or a 50 years old one?
Stop Waiting for the Ripe Idea
Yeah it's super competitive for entry level jobs. I live in a city with a lot of tech workers and it's not uncommon for entry level development jobs to have hundreds of applicants within a day or so.

I suck at actual technical interviews due to anxiety, but I score exceptionally well with take home tests so thankfully I was able to land a job.
Several years ago Backblaze lost all of my wife's data. Their dashboard said it was all there, and we trusted their systems to be accurate. When attempting to download the data it turned out that none of it was there. When my wife contacted support they tried to blame her.

Obviously this was a few years ago, but a backup provider failing at their one job and then blaming the customer left a really bad impression that keeps me from using them.
Obviously the current legislation is made with current circumstances in mind. If tourists can't get financial aid for college there's no reason these hypothetical renters must.
Yev from Backblaze here -> typically not - we've built most of our systems to be keep data up and flowing during those maintenance windows - if we anticipate longer windows or are doing things that can impact performance we typically announce it on our blog and twitter!
What if the UBI came not from the treasury but from a big sovereign wealth fund, which could be built up over a period by giving companies the option of transferring a (perhaps non-voting) share of their stock into the fund, in exchange for exemption from corporate income tax?
I liked to ask the question, "If I extended an offer you like, would you accept it?" It helps facilitate a regular conversation about if & when someone would accept an offer, and if any steps can be taken to make an offer happen.
I'm amazed by the author's $10-15k/year spending [1]. I subscribe to the FI portion of FIRE and am very frugal 99% of the time but wow, some of these bloggers are spending an impossibly small amount of money per year by geographical arbitrage.

I wonder how many people that subscribe to FIRE are in the US, especially VHCOL or HCOL places where incomes are likely to be high.

My conservative 2bd rent exceeds the author's YEARLY budget in 3 months here in SoCal. I would love to cut back even more but I touched the limit on where I started giving up on happiness and satisfaction if I optimized my expenses too much.

I guess I'm realizing that these folks are truly outliers, how many people that subscribe to FIRE are actually practicing geographical arbitrage, especially if you're considering having a family with kids, pets and a home?

[1] https://thedeepdish.org/2017-spending/
That's just the storage cost per GB, if you have any kind of serious throughput, then bandwith costs make it more expensive.
the article and the comments here rather neatly miss the point of the movie.

whether or not you have FU money (or what FU money is) is the wrong question. john goodman, whom the article quotes, is not a protagonist. the safety goodman is describing is exactly what mark wahlberg cant stand.

"You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This?"

perhaps your first instinct is to think this is a first-world problem, an ignorance of privilege, but remember - wahlberg is in debt to two bookies that will likely kill him, and he triples down on a loan from a third who promises to kill not just him but also his whole bloodline. to whit:

“The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray.”
Exploding offers are bluffs.

We all know the team wanted someone that could hit the ground running yesterday for the last 6 months.
> Are you able to share what some of those are?

The papers are being written, so should be public in a few months, but I can't go into detail quite yet.

> Can you explain more about the parametrization? Do your parameters correspond 1-to-1 with schematic parameters like transistor sizes or resistance/capaciance values? Or internal transistor model parameters? Or are they more abstract mathematical parameters?

All of the above. We have a fully symbolic representation of the circuit, so any part of it can be replaced by a parameter. Transistor sizes and device values are a natural thing to do, but the system is generic.

> % SPICE Accuracy"

Heh, we've actually found some SPICE implementations to have significant numerical issues when compared to our baseline simulator, which has some fancier integrators - I suppose that would make us worse on this metric ;).

> That might be an interesting thing for you to consider investigating through the course of your research.

Yup, characterizing error trade offs is one of the primary outcomes of this research.

> One last question - why did you choose this particular DARPA project? Was it any specific interest/relationship with the circuit design industry? Or did it just happen to be a very cool application of CTESN?

Circuit design was my first job, and I have a second desk with a soldering iron and test equipment, though it's collecting dust ;). I have a bit of a hypothesis that - between open source tooling becoming more mature, and more people getting into the chip design space for custom accelerators - we're on the cusp of a major overhaul in EDA tooling. I thought we'd be good at it, so I was advocating internally for us to start up a team in the domain. We have a bit of an "if you can get it funded it, you can do it" attitude to those sorts of things, so I was trying to find the money to jumpstart it, and this is that.
just started using this yesterday and I'm hooked. I have to be in a ton of meetings and as much as wish meetings would go away, no such luck.

being late less often. not having to check calendar and wonder if its a zoom or google meet, and seeing the days schedule from the menu bar all add up to compounded daily value.

$10 a month is a little steep, but I don't think the "people that have a lot of meetings" audience is super price sensitive.
My favorite part of that one is the tiny Pluto IIRC mounted on a plaque on a rest stop wall.
> I've never found the interview process to be reflective of the company. I find the interview process to be a random hodgepodge across the entire industry because nobody knows what they are doing.

If people in a company don't know what they're doing, yet (it appears) have a deathgrip belief in the equivalent of something they found on StackOverflow or in a blog post... doesn't that reflect something about the company?

Or, given that this seems to be a pretty common dysfunction in our industry right now, with not a lot of good role models, maybe any particular org having that problem doesn't reflect too much on them. At the same time, maybe the situation means that an org not cargo-culting, and trying to do it better, tells us something more, and positive, about that org?
How are any of those recommendations related to the Lindy Effect?
I have a family of 5 and I live in California. I don't think its possible to get my expenses down like the author proposes here. Heck, property tax is over 10k a year by itself.

Life isn't all about money.
Thank you. It’s a blast!
It seems none of the commenters opened any of the "clones" in the list.

These are only UI clones, at least from the 5 I clicked to try to understand what I was seeing.

They are not clones, alternatives or replacemente, only exercises in UI design and Front-end development.

It is not a bad list but I hate it because the title (and description) teels a differente story. They say they're clones but they are not.
Umbra's Satellite Just Raised $32M Dollars from a Hedge Fund
Doesn’t look like it has rich types or advanced indices.
It's explicitly called out in RFC5233, at least: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233
> In fact, all my bosses have been great.

Lucky guy.
Is there a good way of doing analytic analysis on circuits with a sensible GUI, if restricted to passive components? I have a few interesting problems that I'd like to analytically explore, but the best I've been able to find is OpenModellica piped into something like Maxima or sympy. Mathematica looks like it has a nice tool -- system builder -- but it costs a lot and I don't have a license.

Julia would of course be ideal for this, and I very much like where you project is going!
> I recall some newspaper (NYT? News Yorker?) failing to test for that when people want to bypass their paywall.

For a long time I could access Bloomberg for free because they failed open when you did this