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> Docker is not for production (most of the time), it's a dev tool.

Sure.

>Ignore docker compose

Don't ignore Docker compose. It allows you to set up a test/dev environment with dependencies between containers, shared variables/volumes, etc.

>If you're lucky enough to be developing on Linux, then docker is just a name for a bunch of stuff that's mostly already built into the OS.

We could all just use cgroups to achieve containerization, but why? Docker is a great tool with a huge ecosystem of images at your fingertips, mature and powerful command-line interface, and lots of documentation/googlable discussions for even the most esoteric problems.

But yeah, I wouldn't use it in production.
I just mean that if you name is going to get dragged through the mud you can forgive the feeling that maybe they should a profit out of it. All of their competitors are recording record profits from vaccine sales.

Their only silver lining is they have sold a $250 million USD stake in Moderna for $1 billion this month.
Weight-per-wheel also figures into wear inflicted on local roads.
Officially it is a supply/demand issue. The crypto miners are buying up all the high end cards, so NVIDIAs main target audience (gamers, workstations, etc.) end up empty handed.

What a lot of people seem to think: Used up cards could end up flooding the market while miners migrate to the newest cards, cutting into NVIDIAs profit or NVIDIA wants to make more money by selling pure mining cards that can't be reused for anything else.
It's easy to offend without intending to, so I don't get how your intentions are relevant. Yes it can be annoying and difficult to consider the impact of your words and how they might be perceived by other, different, people. It would be simpler if you didn't have to think about that at all. But is that really the argument? It's a big hassle and you'd rather not have to do it?
> The doctors were completely dismissive of and uninterested in the symptoms -- it really shook my faith in medical practice.

I had a similar experience as a child, where a textbook case of a reasonably common disease went undiagnosed for 2 years by doctors before a toll booth worker at an airport diagnosed me. She recognized the symptoms because her dog had it. Sure enough, after my mother brow-beat a doctor into running the absurdly simple blood test she was proven right.

On the one hand, I want to chalk this up to them being like everyone else: 90% of them are just shit at their jobs. On the other hand, I have it on good authority from nearly every nurse I've ever met that doctors are indeed arrogant, dismissive, and often mistaken.
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I found the series "Write Great Code" to be helpful because they give accessible introduction to computer architecture, software engineering and compilers. It's not at the level of traditional university textbooks, but enough to understand the main ideas and bridge into more advanced texts.

Some of the other books I didn't find helpful. For example, Learn Java the Easy Way seems to be too slow for anyone with any programming experience but not enough coverage of fundamentals for beginners.
Sorry, but the stuff you just said is bullshit. Any Docker user will hopefully see that.
Sowell has the great and challenging characteristic that he never quite gives you the answer that would let you justify your first reactions with, "See? He agrees with me!" His writing is too nuanced to provide an easy escape from thinking, even if people occasionally use cut-up quotes to do so.
>Adobe After Effects is impressive. I pirated it as a kid, and I proudly pay for it now :)

After Effects was one of the most astounding pieces of software I ever used, it's like pure computing + code + art working together as one.

But neglect and some missteps the past 7 versions or so have ruined it, it's all extremely single core constrained for no good reason and basic things like the playback with sound and basically broken at this point, no matter what the platform or system power it can't consistently play back a ram preview with sound without it slurring or cutting out completely.

Used to work perfectly on a Core 2 Duo 10 years ago, now it feels like a joke on a far more capable machine.
> It's hard to imagine a scenario where I accidentally run out of batteries and then can afford to wait for MULTIPLE DAYS before finishing my trip.

In a lot of places, it's either keep moving or hope someone finds you fast enough. Not all roads are within throwing distance of a town or city.

In more common cases, it might be enough to cover limited driving (I think it might be able to cover my current car utilization in full), or at least offload the grid a bit. And in remote locations with limited or no power, it'll give occasional driving capabilities.
Wow thank you for such an extensive and valuable write up. Few parts really hit the home, thanks for that! I will be reading this again.

Really valuable info, thanks again!
The author responded to this question on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/m5jpwz/_/gr10ysr
I live in greater metro Detroit and I used to think the same thing, until I bought winter tires and tried to get an appointment to have them put on in mid-November -- Discount Tire and Bell Tire were both booked solid for weeks with everyone swapping to winters, so I think it's more common than you'd know just looking around.

That said, I didn't buy them until I had a long commute after graduating from college, since I could get around well enough in the college town only needing to go a few miles to the grocery store and such.

Now, mid and post pandemic, I'll probably only maintain a set for one vehicle since that's all I'll be driving in ugly weather, since I'll be staying home whenever the weather is even vaguely questionable.
A big problem these days is that you have to spend a week or even more getting your pipeline working.

The problem domain should not be that difficult.

There should be a lot more automation and standards.

It should be worth missing some customization or perhaps making the flow with the animation instead of everything being bespoke.

You can probably write a faster or better suited for a project over using whatever library your programming language needs, most accept the trade offs with using the most generic ones.

There is also ah explosion in the number of products used for each project. From projects I have been on lately that adds a hell of a lot of confusion and complexity for deployment and makes the solution overall Esp since most of the products have words and issues you need to be aware of.

Last project they spent 3 weeks getting the pipeline going. For the last week and a half they brought in an expert in AWS to help them at a HUGE cost. Even he had tea trouble getting it working. We “had” to do this because “devOps” and save money buy not paying for “old fashioned not needed infrastructurepeole”

The system were creating was not very difficult not would it ever need to scale much at all.
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Cargo culting can be very harmfu.
No. Don't mean to be ugly but when it comes down to it, it's not needed. It makes life more pleasant but isn't necessary for survival.

Which means it's somewhat out of balance for an IP protection scheme to exist that allows an entity to perform/create a work of art once and then sit back and collect on it for the next 150+ years.

Work once, get paid once. Musician? Venue commissions you, you get paid. Visual artist? Someone commissions you, you get paid.

Anything else is a benefit to one person or company at the expense of everyone else. A limited such benefit, per the original idea of copyright, is fine if society wants to encourage the arts. At what point is society oversaturated with "creatives" though?
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Wasn't the joke that the only purpose of the solar panel was to stop customers asking for one.
Many large airports and certainly the majority of airports in large metropolitan areas have underground or covered parking.
Not really, I can predict that anything I will actually do that has valid types will type check.

Some pathological valid cases invented by someone trying to break the type checker, might not type check.
"Don't use the Java ecosystem. It's junk and Oracle is just waiting to fuck all of you."

There's my crash course in Kotlin
This is why you want stock/equity instead. Everything else is just toilet paper until it becomes stock/equity.

Usually countries have lots of laws and regulations protecting small shareholders, but not really anything to protect people who might become shareholders one day.

I wish companies had easy ways to give out real stock instead of options... it's up to regulators to make this smoother, easier, cheaper.
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What should be illegal (or at least require treatment) is the behavior after taking drugs. Being drunk in your own home alone is one thing; getting behind the wheel of a car and driving is different. People have always wanted to hammer their brain in some way since people existed; legislation can't change that. If you can't be responsible taking it and (potentially) hurt others then you have to pay the price. Taxing the sale of drugs would bring in quite a bit of money as well. Even treating pot the same as cigarettes/alcohol (which are way more dangerous) would likely cause a lot less experimentation with more dangerous stuff.

Personally I have no interest in messing up my brain taking anything, I rarely drink more than a single beer and even that is rare, much less anything else.
Experiments with Cycloidal Drives, on OpenDog 2
Does the owner pay electricity in the UK? In the US the tenant pays it directly.
If you are studying for career purposes it is not free time.
Smooth delivery of power has surprising downstream effects. The wear on ball joints and tyres for EVs can be significantly less due to not having as much jerk (derivative of acceleration) from their motor.
>a risk many were not willing to take.

A risk many _cannot_ take. For a company as large as NVidia, the risk of it collapsing is basically nil. The risk of itsInvesting at random in the stock market gives you a pretty much guaranteed growth on average.

However, many of us cannot blow 20k. We can't blow 10k. We can barely blow 1k. Once again, OP ought to have a little bit of humility and recognize his incredibly privileged position.
I didn't think it needed more saying. Happy to hear arguments why "anarchy doesn't scale" is false.

Small societies, done thousands of times, sound a lot like individuals.

Unless you're proposing some sort of overarching organization principle by which these individuals agree to abide, in which case...
These miners are really getting on my nerves: not only they are polluting the planet (1% of electricity in 2018 was for cryptomining), but are driving off the budgets of whole deep learning practitioners
You've stated:

"I'm only interested in FAANG money and retiring early"

You literally have no intrinsic motivation to solve hard problems other than getting paid more.

Focus on learning and acquiring skills and solving problems, not trying to get "FAANG money".

Leetcode has nothing to do with FAANG money, sure, knowing algorithms and how to optimize code helps, and that's the only commonality between FAANG interviews and leetcode, but those things can be learned outside of leetcode. Simply taking a few CS algorithms courses will make it apparent that 90% of leetcode problems are
found in some variations inside your undergrad CS algorithms course.

Sounds like you need to reset your values and re-align your priorities.

You got fired for performance reasons as you mentioned. "Had" all these resources and time spent on trying to improve yourself, but you just want a "FAANG salary". This is not the way. Either you love CS as a field and you love solving hard problems, or it's not for you.
Market segmentation is always better if you can pull it off. That way you can optimally serve two demand curves instead of just one. Sell more units at a lower price to gamers, for higher total profit from gamers, and sell at an even higher price to crypto miners, for a higher total profit from miners.
Ok. I tried to make fun of you but you’re still friendly so I’m curious.

Do you mind if I ask what kind of stuff you’re maintaining where you see any traffic from these old browsers? Do you think it would ever be possible to transpile a site into some shared common set of syntax/features/whatever instead of making browser specific corrections? And what do you think about features like WebGL which are impossible to replicate on older browsers in a performant way?
That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Good lord.
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> If we're strictly talking about learning _new_ information (As in, not closely related to previous knowledge)

Is it possible to clearly separate the two, or are there universal concepts underpinning every domain?
I think you are on a right track and seem to know way more than many CS grads know when they finish university!
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Legally wrong with? Nothing. Brand-wise? Huge. Gamers and miners hate them for this.

As a shareholder I'd imagine you want continuing revenue, not a short bump before the market switches to AMD.
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I support the move but the headline is kind of misleading. The ballot initiative was limited to directing the police chief to make these crimes the "lowest priority" but they are still just as illegal as before and carry the same penalties. I'm not even sure this directive is binding. As the mayor (who did not particularly support the measure) pointed out, it's not like this was a high priority to begin with.

A proper decriminalization or perhaps even legalization would have passed, but DC citizens lack the same rights over their own local laws that any other American living in a state would enjoy. DC deserves statehood.
The level of downvotes on a Bjarne Stroustrup C++ programming language book joke[1]2] shows how much people are really familiar with the C++ ecosystem when they complain about how tedious it is. Have you really took time to learn the langauge?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/language-lawyer%2...
[2] http://foldoc.org/language%20lawyer
Not convinced by this car. But as a general idea a little free air conditioning when parked could be very handy for many. Trickle charging the battery probably extends the life of an electric car and prevents long term problems of neglect
Talking console browsers:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...

> A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London

> ...a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair ...Clutched in her hands is a games console – a PlayStation Portable.

> ...She’s connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit

> The PSP’s web browser is – charitably – pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.

> But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.
Funny; since you are right now bringing up this group of people to express indignation towards their behavior.
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Managed to make it through without being attacked by a single greyling. Quite the accomplishment
You are chasing the wrong thing. There are plenty of companies where you'll solve better problems than at Google and have more freedom to solve problems your way, and they pay well too.

Chasing money is not going to get you far. Focus on skills.
Google unveils new Nest Hub that can track your sleep with radar
Maybe.

What I've seen in practice, is that when working in Australia we had recurring meetings set in California local time. So those moved around 2h during the year.

When people change their hours, they usually tell you. When they change to DST, they just assume you know.
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Read the top comment on this article.
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Welcome to the Global WFH Diaspora
Despite the misnomer title of his show, John Oliver has always done issue advocacy not weekly nor news.
Per the Aptera guys, the weight, cost, and complexity add isn’t much steeper than just the average cost of custom paint. As others have said, a central pain point of solar is installation specific and this ameliorates those problems. Heck, imagine if every apartment complex had a fleet of solar covered cars in its parking lot? Or every open air parking lot for that matter. At scale, it would add up.
I've never found vendor provided OE BSP layers to be easy to use or useful beyond initial proof-of-concept type work. In general, hardware vendor provided software has sucked greatly in my experience.

Taking the vendor provided thing and then removing a lot of the junk, or taking the upstream software project and then selectively cherry-picking some key changes which the vendor has made works pretty well. But this isn't a fast process and requires quite a bit of education about how/why the vendor has done things a certain way and how the upstream open source code in question works. But long term it's been a much better solution for the projects I've worked on when I've been able to do this.
Another way to skin the same cat: Safety is not a binary variable even though we have this mental model of safe/unsafe. In fact safety is continuous ranging from high risk (unsafe) to low risk (safe).

With more information (more trials/subjects) we get a better estimate (with less uncertainty) of the associated risk. The properties (safety/risk) of the vaccine don't change. What changes is the uncertainty around our estimations.

This is still a simplification (e.g. there could be unknown unkowns) but I find it a better heuristic than safe/unsafe.
Not only that, the more you learn about other languages, the more weird than ‘insult’ becomes! Some representative examples from outside Europe:

(Murik)
g-a-kərə-na
3P.NUM-1S.ERG-hit-PRS
‘I hit them’

n-umbwa-ŋa-kərə-ŋa-na
INV-3P.ERG-1S.ACC-hit-INV-PRS
‘They hit me’

(Yimas)
ma-mp-nanaŋ-yawra-kia-na-ntut
3S.ACC-3D.ERG-DUR-gather-NIGHT-DUR-RM.PST
‘They both were getting it during the night’

(All examples from The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area. And yes, all those are single words.)

And it gets even worse… pity the poor language learner who wants to conjugate verbs in Isirawa:

SG.M SG.F DU PL 3PL
‘kill’ sən sin nonɪn trevrun trevroun
‘give’ vrɪn vrun ninɪn rirɪn nəniyəun
‘see’ maun main makaun marɪn maun

(Foley says ‘The accretions that individual verb roots take to form stems seems unpredictable’, which to me seems to be putting the situation mildly!)

And, on the other extreme, there’s plenty of perfectly respectable languages with no inflection whatsoever, making the ‘insult’ even weirder. Lao, for example:

kap² maa² maø laang⁴ tiin³ laang⁴ mùù² …
go.back come DIR.ALL wash foot wash hand …
‘[We’d] come back and wash [our] feet, [and] wash [our] hands, …

… qanaa²maj² lèkaø khùn⁵ tiang³ tii³ kaleeng¹ nòòn²
… clean.up C.LNK ascend bed hit bell sleep
… clean up, and then get into bed, [when they’d] ring the bell to go to sleep.’

(Source: Enfield’s A grammar of Lao)
I find it odd that anyone would give permission to a third party (any third party) to at will withdraw money directly from your bank account (and if I'm understanding correctly how it works in the US without even being able to set limits on it, neither in frequency nor amount).
Every penny spent on electric heat would be more efficiently spent mining.
This has been so close to my experience. I chuckled at the kindergarten scribbling comment as that is such a common theme. Sure there are more difficult tasks, but whenever these simple ones come up I feel a little guilty for getting any praise.
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I've been preaching for years and every time I do I receive a lot of hate, also misinformation like "with Docker you can scale out effortlessly" which isn't a Docker feat at all.

For Go I copywrite a systemd service, for js/html I write a client side bash script and use rsync and run commands via ssh.

I never needed Docker. All it does is complicate your life.

Oh and for the record, I don't use overpriced Cloud either.
My guess is string case conversion functions, of which Lodash has quite a few, and parsing the micro-templates it has built-in. The case conversion regexes are likely defined in one place.
Shouldn't low barriers to entry reduce these excess profits?
If you delete an account, the account must be gone. No login possible anymore. Otherwise it's not deletion.
If I wasn't stuck in an Asian country, I would pay decent money to live there :(
It’s at least worth it for the AC of the interior and battery.
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If you own land in the backwoods of rural Canada I doubt anyone who cares would know you've built the cabin. If there is no plumbing, power, road etc. and the cabin is under 500sq/ft and you have logging rights I can't imagine anyone has jurisdiction to oppose. Unincorporated land, no environmental impact, ownership of the property. I can't see a problem.
It's not dead, it's just hiding. Design has retreated into a cave and is occasionally peeking out at what foolishness we have wrought for its amusement, laughing maniacally. One day, Design will return, and we will feel very foolish indeed, and then all will be righted again in the software world.
I have to complete a DS/ML project to graduate a course.
I would like to work on a real business case and not a made-up one.
I am not sure where one takes real business cases to work on to train models. I don't think there is place where companies ask for freelancers data scientists.

I thought maybe if there is a company interested in having me work for them for about a month, I will gladly work on their data instead of try to come up with some realistic sounding dataset.
I was hoping this meant that Google was giving up on PWAs :) But no, sadly. It's about a hack to bypass some restrictions that's being blocked.

The reasons I don't like PWAs are inefficient resource use (same reason I don't like Electron apps) and integration with web tracking. A standalone app has no access to your web cookies. PWA's do, as they run within the same browser.

I know it's super handy for developers but as a user I avoid them.
Research shows that comedy "news" watchers are generally better informed than most other news station watcher. The question is of the comedians are bringing people up or down from where'd they be otherwise.
That tweet you linked is from the CEO of Telegram. Seems likely he wants to sow doubt about his competitors.
Boo hoo? Whats your point? Nobody has a human right to affordable graphics cards.
The proposed Singapore protest is illegal in Singapore (protests are limited to Hong Lim park with permission from government). I hope people participating realize this and don't get arrested.
Sand isn't all that useful at temperatures near freezing- as the snow / ice melts a bit in the sun, it sinks in, and you end up with fresh glaze as it cools and refreeze. Using salt or similar to completely melt the cover allows it to drain off the road or sublimate, leaving the road dry.
I felt like this article could have been summarized in a single line.

Guess why the new mail truck looks 'weird'? PROJECT REQUIREMENTS such as view and mailbox accessibility.

I know this place has sunk a bit over the years but clickbait?
Why on earth were mushrooms ever made illegal in the first place?
> What happens to the Ψ and its byproducts as it decays or is metabolized?

I had the same question. What I found in a long paper about mRNA vaccines is that they do not really know, but they assume you'll be fine, since they didn't see any immediate effects and because the quantities are tiny.