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It would be a positive signal but it wouldn't be the only signal. You can still do untrustworthy things without engagement stats.
Despite the replies, I thought this was a good take.

$5,000,000,000 is a truly unimaginable amount in both senses of the word unimaginable. I couldn’t tell the difference between a $5B and $7B company, for example.

And it’s especially hard to tell for a service which is, somewhat by nature, invisible.

But my smart, non-programmer friends love Zapier and I imagine many of their customer relationships will be multi-decade. There really are so many odd businesses in the world.
This argument makes less and less sense with each passing year. I'm old enough to remember when we had to change all the clocks by hand, and some people had no idea how to change the clocks in microwaves and VCRs or their car, so it'd be off by an hour for half the year. Somehow we managed fine.

These days all clocks change automatically, and there are standard and constantly improving datetime libraries to help applications manage these human factors in a standard way. Your morning alarm is automatically updated, you calendar events automatically reflect the timezone they are defined in.

The only curveball is when when the government arbitrarily changes the rules, like then did not too long ago in extending DST. And which DST advocates are advocating for doing _again_.
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It will be interesting to see if this is a SF thing or has a wider impact. According to the article, they’ve been trying to build this tower for 5 years and still can’t get approval. Perhaps Salesforce just said ‘F it’

As an example, last month Saleforce said they are still going forward with their new office space in Chicago: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/ryan-ori/ct-biz-sales...
> introduce a layer of complexity that ruins longevity and predictability.

These are more growing pains than anything else. Adding a HomeKit appliance is absurdly simply these days (you just scan it with your phone) and then it just works.

> the "time saved" is a bit like saying modal editors are good because you can enter text more efficiently

It’s not an insignificant amount. If you live in a highly connected smart home, you will definitely notice the saved time and you will definitely notice how you simply have to do less things. There’s a sort of lightened cognitive load that’s difficult to describe. Things just feel more chill when you can adjust conditions to perfection without lifting a finger.
I think there is a difference between nihilism towards our society or existence and the feeling that the stock market is crap. The latter does not necessitate towards the former.

I think the feeling that the stock market is crap is completely rational for the working public. And hoping for the destruction of it is normal given that the normal person has experienced nothing good coming from it; in fact the normal person sees the stock market as something that the rich use to get richer.

Believing that the stock market is crap has nothing to do with our institutions beyond wall street† so it doesn’t necessitate towards this dangerous nihilism that you are so afraid of. In the current discord I see two avenues for this despair.

1. Susceptibility towards populism and fascism. This includes trumpism, and is indeed worrying. Minorities are blamed for all the inequalities even though this stems from wall street and the stock market being crap... (don’t ask me, I don’t understand the logic either).

2. Susceptibility towards socialism. The collapse of wall street is viewed as a favorable outcome in the current class war. The suffering of the Bourgeois is victory to be celebrated.

† Well perhaps tangentially the institutions which favors wall street; such as the white house; but that despair translates more to “we should improve our democracy somwhat” rather then “we should abolish democracy”.
A simple map was discussed in the post. The problem it has is that it has unbounded growth. The sync.Pool approach is a best effort to avoid allocations only. If its API was changed to return sentinel pointers rather than the string, it wouldn't have the guarantee that Intern(x) == Intern(x) when x == x.
As a non-technical founder my company pays Zapier thousands of dollars per year.

We've automated a lot of tedious, manual tasks that you would typically assign a VA.

I think we save some money, but even if it was break even, or more expensive than manual labor, the mental overhead of not managing another person, wondering whether the tedious work was done, and according to specification justifies the cost.
Maybe they'd put effort into avoiding failure if we held decision makers liable for negligence when appropriate, rather than shielding them with the entire company employing thousands.
*poor comms
The value in A/B testing headlines is 30% boosting engagement directly and 70% creating a feedback loop where the newsroom can learn how to write a more engaging headline. Avoiding clickbait headlines requires some restraint and they are well aware of that slippery slope.
I work in all three. Windows is the worst as a general development platform, in my opinion.

And Visual Studio is not a good choice for a beginner. It's too complex.
Google heavily bet on Google Plus, and they still left it to rot and shut it down. GCP closing would be much bigger than Reader, but not that much bigger than Plus.
The ancients took it for granted that civilisations would rise, reach a peak, and then gradually decline, similar to other living things. It's a distinctly western/modern idea that there could be unceasing progress.

While both these views are essentially myths, my money is on the ancients being more in-line with reality. At the very least I don't need to look at decline and call it "weird". Permanent progress on the other hand is a political poison that will turn people against one another as they try to find the culprits.
Appreciated! No need to delete it - it's just a matter of learning for the future, and we're all working on this.
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The infertile human still came from some fertile being.
On my 2019 E9 there is an option to turn off ads and another for content recommendations. Did it on day 1 and haven’t seen an ad on my TV since. Maybe this is different in the US?
> For example, some apparently 10x engineers were only so because they were allowed to only work on interesting, relatively easy early stage work. The difficult, fiddly work of mopping up the awkward corners was left to other engineers, who were considered 'slow'.

I am someone who loves mopping up the awkward corner cases. For me, this is the most fun part of coding. I think the early design and infrastructure work is actually pretty challenging work. The decisions made at this stage pay dividends later on, in ease of debugging, api goodness, future expendability, etc. I prefer collaborating with senior engineers who are strong and relatively fast with that, and then I help clean-up to facilitate their speed. If everyone is on-board, I am not sure what is wrong with this arrangement.
Have journalists ever controlled or written their own headlines? I don't think this is a change from any point in newspaper history.
Because 70% of the population will never bother doing that.

And then it creeps higher, as people get used to it.

"Sure it's opt out, that means it's not forced" is a horrible argument for an anti-consumer move. Wait until IP's are hardcoded and ads can't be turned off, on any consumer TV, because there's no more demand for dumb ones, and it maximizes profit.
A lot of hedge funds don’t really have the ability to find their own investing ideas so they just copy and pile on to existing trades.

Nuclear is their attempt at creating something, which I might mention is expressly opposite the vision of something that Tesla with its batteries represent.
Those do not require that the services guaranteed contractually remain available to other customers for use.
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How does this compare to the terms and the actions of Amazon towards AWS?
Yeah, that would be the obvious representation if we were willing to go to 32 bytes. (on 64-bit)

But paying 8x memory cost for IPv4 and 2x for IPv6 was a bit hard to swallow. Especially considering how rare IPv6+zones are.

And we didn't want to have be worse in any regard compared to std's net.IP. If we went to 32 bytes then Go's net.IP would win if you parsed an IP and stored it multiple times. Because we'd be a 32 byte value type and Go would be a 24 byte value type containing a pointer to the shared-for-all-copies address bits. Sure, they'd all be aliasing the same memory (danger zone!) but in Go the culture is to behave and risk that.

But staying at 24 bytes, we're never worse than net.IP and strictly better in all regards. (at least by the metrics we highlighted in the blog post... perhaps not by "don't play unsafe shenanigans with IPv6 zone interning")
The phrase I heard somewhere was that when Boeing bought McDonnel-Douglas, what ended up happening was that MD acquired Boeing and convinced Boeing to pay for it. I don’t remember where I read that, but it stuck with me. Maybe we read it in the same place :).
Wait, so you don't disagree with the BLM movement but you think its in poor taste to include it as a sign of support? Being that the tech industry has historically been dominated by white men, wouldn't you think that any PoC visitors might feel more welcome?

Why would a non-US visitor feel unwelcome seeing that? Why w

And as far as it being a political message, that's also a matter of branding. It's been actively demonized by one particular party, whereas most of its supporters likely consider it to be apolitical -- simply about social justice.
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Most of that stuff aside from the surveillance feed you could set up, probably in a lot less time, with analog outlet timers. My grandparents had a setup similar to this smart home setup 30 years ago.
Same with bugs. Hate to be the mantra guy but:

1. Make it work

2. Make it right

3. Make it fast (make sure you need to) a.k.a. optimize

4. Make it scale
we're talking very few dollars here. In my experience, the only thing making me go above a dollar a month on AWS is the storage on the VMs.
It's so sad that these are the tools we have to work with. They are both so shitty, in such subtle ways, to the point that I tear my hair out once a week because of them. And the corporate IT world will never invest in development of truly free replacements just to make other people's lives easier. It's truly depressing.
diggin' the minimalist UI. I have one like that too.
> This is a myth, cat is an hyper-carnivore.

And this is your religion. The nutrients in meat have to come from a living animal. The killing is an spiritual part of the process. You can't just take nutrients from plants and other processes.

Many humans believe it's personally important to kill and eat gods creatures as they are gifted to us as part of his bounty.

But I'm not religious, these are your beliefs. I'm not here to stop you killing, please don't stop those of us want to feed our cats Vegan Cat Food, from doing so without scientific evidence. They have been tested for palatability, digestibility and of course nutrition. Brands are getting to a decade old, we should know if they don't work. Problems in the past were found and fixed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5035952/ (Yes, it has some bias)

Personally I think domestic cats should stopped, they cause serious disease in humans and kill a lot of wildlife. But that's another problem.
Why has it been historically separated like this?
Could you explain how the estate taxes drive that? I’m not quite following the connection.
Looks like it to me. I just unwrapped one in white, and the perforations on the front/top look like a match.
Japan has a far more challenging environment for structures than many other countries, with high humidity, temperature swings, typhoons, and earthquakes being the obvious ones.
I think the Greeks had it right when the original Olympians competed naked. Running and swimming require no equipment at all, skaters need nothing more than boots, throwing sports need no clothing. Let us see who is best without technology.
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Thanks. I re-read this paragraph from the original article and it makes more sense now:

> use a zone mapping table, mapping between zone index integers and zone name strings. That’s what the Go standard library does internally. But then we’re left susceptible to an attack where an adversary forces us to parse a bunch of IP addresses with scopes and we forever a bloat a mapping table that we don’t have a good opportunity to ever shrink. The Go standard library doesn’t need to deal with this, as it only ever maps interfaces that exist on the machine and doesn’t expose the integers to users in representations; its net.IPAddr.Zone field is a string.
Republicans have been playing a leading role on criminal justice reform, actually. Some of the earliest voices pushing for it were conservative ones, well before there even was such a thing as a BLM movement. The fact that Dems and progressives more generally will never acknowledge this suggests that their commitment to genuine social justice is rather shallow. Biden and Harris were both known as proponents of failing "tough on crime" policies until very recently, when they basically flip-flopped on the issue with zero explanation or public self-criticism of their previous stances. Riding the BLM bandwagon, nothing more than that.
Let’s abolish time itself. We’re all too busy dealing with space, no one has time for time.
What's the cause of this tendency?
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I too am ready to lay down my life to defend the honor of Apple Inc. sir!
Maybe valuations are just way astronomically off right now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-12/warren-bu...
I bought a 4K Sony this year and it’s been an entirely simple experience. I didn’t connect it to my wifi, so I see nothing except a gray textured screen. Works great.
I've got 11.2.3 downloaded and ready to update. I'll set these same you've seen to have been changed and I'll report back. I know another commenter did this too, but I don't think hurts to have another test.

For reference, I've got a 2020 Intel MacBook Pro 13.
> I never liked (or even understood) the concept of a smart tv.

It's perfectly understandable from the manufacturer point of view: a more complex, programmable, platform that can be instructed to show ads or grab personal data. I'm expecting the same behavior from every connected piece of technology we will put in our homes/cars/bodies.

> I duct taped it’s Ethernet port, and shielded it from wifi. (Just an image... but never let it connect).

Thanks to 5G (which is a good thing in itself) most of them will connect anyway, and some already attempt to find unprotected WiFi hotspots to get online.
Just use an Apple TV and don’t connect your smart tv to the internet. Stream everything through apps on Apple TV or cast it with airplay.
It's always fascinating what happens when a well organized community starts to develop around easily-modded games. Kerbal Space Program for instance, has people building frameworks, APIs, and resources to make the job of making mods easier.

Part of why it works in KSP's case is that any mod or plugin published to the official forums needs to be distributed with a license.
Batch processing as a special case and stream processing as the main case
The worst offender I've seen is the share button on the iphone. You can scroll down to select more sharing options, but the first row of options aligns perfectly with the bottom of the screen. I've seen at least two people have no idea there are more options.
cdn; seo impact is also tested for; canonical URL doesn't change; titles are written by humans, testing is entirely automated; small parts of larger UX team just do testing so babysitting these is their job
Because the headline isn't part of the story, it's part of the index/ToC of the whole paper, so it's written by the staff that put the whole paper together.
Octoprint is great for 1-2 printers, but quickly becomes cumbersome when running more than that. What's the best option for big print farms?
> If everything you do is under the whims of large corporations, does anything "actually matter" anymore?

First, you already live life at the whims of many other entities. Whether you use HomeKit or not, will most certainly not be the breaking point for your freedom.

Second, what relation does being under some level of control have to the value of life? For example, would an otherwise fulfilling life under a monarch be empty and meaningless?
"Engaging" while being highly irritating. The first one is concise.
Do young people read the NYT?
You've used MySQL, I would guess. Personally I like the superficial similarities to basic MySQL syntax in ClickHouse. MySQL and Sybase T-SQL have always struck me as the friendliest SQL dialects.
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> The diversity you're talking about uses the definition everyone is familiar with from English.

> The diversity Black Lives Matter is talking about is a technical term with the definition coming from Critical Race Theory, which defines whites as the least diverse categorically due to historically injustices against BIPOC folx.

Can you provide a citation for that from a CRT source, not a political opponent to CRT?

> > The idea of focusing diversity isn't at odds with focusing on competence

> It is explicitly such, as stated by the movement you defend.

I think you're misunderstanding the major points of Ehmke and others. It's not that we should give up on competency being a driving factor, but instead that the set of organizational tools grouped together as "meritocracy" don't actually make competency the final end result because of the biases those tools impart. "Not a great culture fit" and all that.
“The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history”

"This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ..."
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(Just love his writing.)

We cannot predict the future. Period. Stop trying. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can. Randomness (serendipity, change encounters, mixing of ideas, meeting new people, etc.) is the spice of life and often can lead to breakthroughs. Seek it out.
I’d love to see an estimate of how much time per year saved. My suspicion is, not much. And my bet would be that one or two outages (likely to happen at some point with these devices) would tip the scale the other way.

Nothing wrong with liking cool stuff, but this type of argument doesn’t resonate with me.
I don't like the idea of attacks, but I would refute the idea that nuclear waste is an unsolvable problem. It is a difficult problem.

The long term cost of nuclear has to be weighed against the long term cost of not using it. That cost will be significantly more carbon emissions. Quantifying the magnitude of the problem created by those emissions is hard. Then trying to estimate at what point do affordable renewables backed with good affordable storage options come online. As it would only be in that in between time that nuclear would have a significant impact on carbon emissions.

It's not about picking a harmless option, it's about finding the least harmful.
Once this actually comes back online, if you're looking for free stuff, Oracle Cloud gives you the most free resources of any cloud provider. But probably you should have a backup.
You can use arena allocators in Rust: bumpalo is popular. And it's easy to send objects off to a separate thread to be destroyed if that's what you desire: just send them over a channel to another thread (though this is really something that the malloc implementation should do internally if it's a win). There's an RFC for multiple allocators that has had some implementation work done lately: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1398-kinds-of-allocators.ht...

I don't believe that that 8kB number is with UPX, but again, even if Rust produces smaller binaries than C, it doesn't matter. Most users would prefer faster compilation times with codegen-units over a few kB smaller binaries, for instance, as long as there's a reasonable way to get the smaller binaries for those who need them.
I think the implication is that if estate taxes are high, then when someone dies their estate is calculated as hard assets + cash and they have to split that somehow to pay the tax.

If taxes were 25% and the house was worth 200k and the deceased had 20k in cash, you'd end up paying 55k in taxes but only have 20k in cash to pay it with unless the descendants used their own funds. As such, it's easier to sell the house, take the 220k and pay the taxes.
> but unfortunately in the current social-media-oriented landscape, headlines are very, very important for clarity,

Clarity? Or click-thrus? It's definitely not the former. Which in turn discounts the NYT as a beacon for journalisms and associated standards. They're desperate for traffic. Clarity isn't a metric in the playbook.

Witin the world of high volume publishing, this type of A/B testing was popularized BuzzFeed.
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Don’t forget — for a while you couldn’t get Amazon Prime video on an Apple TV. I too went all in on Apple TV and I’ve been able to largely avoid the ad issues in the article. But it isn’t like it was completely immune to these shenanigans, especially in the beginning.
> Sure there is. If all the management at Boeing stayed in charge, there would be no MD executives and management to have tarnished Boeing's culture. But that's not what happened. MD DID take over management and DID change the culture.

The problem with this narrative is that Boeing CEO/President/Chairman Philip Condit knew precisely what he was doing when he sought the merger. The board had elevated him precisely to make a strategic move like that--in fact, to make that particular move. And most importantly the board knowingly chose the financial pitches of the McDonnell Douglas executives over the protests of the more risk-averse Boeing CFO Givans and his faction. Givans was pushed out shortly after the merger by Condit and the board, including original Boeing board members. (See https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19980715&slug... Unfortunately I can't find some of the more informative contemporaneous accounts that explain it better.)

All of which is to say, Boeing's engineering-first culture was already on the way out before the merger. Yes, McDonnell Douglas executives ended up winning the power struggles, but that was Condit's and the board's plan from the get go. McDonnell Douglas was the vehicle, not the instigator. But top Boeing leadership didn't want too much spectacle because they needed to keep stringing along a handful of board members and major investors who were wary of the strategic and cultural shifts.
More than the manufacturers want to admit
Why does Gemini need to exist?