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Great way to never be competitive in rocket launch. Huge investment required for little benefit.

The Skylon people (who emerged out of the largely unsuccessful British government rocket program) basically invested this concept that was supposed to be amazing and basically hand waved all the insanely complex engineering questions away.

Their original analysis for Skylon has already been beat handily by SpaceX.

Watch Elon Musk talk in Britain where they ask him about Air breathing engines. His point is simple, if you are gone introduce a massive amount of new complexity, you should get a a massive payoff. And with these engines, this is simply not the case.

Investing the same effort into simple better first stage engines, will likely result into a far better outcome. That is exactly what SpaceX did.

Maybe for some future Hypersonic airplanes or something this could maybe have some use, but for rocket launch, I don't think so.
In the new Reddit settings you can disable new Reddit, which will make the regular domain use old Reddit.

No broken links and much better experience.
> I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but both Tesla and SpaceX only exist because of government policy.

This is not true.

> Elon Musk himself said

This is wrong. You are remembering this wrong, Musk has corrected this often.

The reality is in 2008 SpaceX got saved by Daimler.

Later they did get a DoE investment for Model S manufacturing but that did not save the company. They could have raised the money without the government but it would have been more difficult.

> Tesla's biggest money maker

This is again, wrong. In terms of total revenue its a small part.

It is true that Tesla would make less profit without those credits but they would still be a hypergrowth company and would still be successful.

Also, those credit system exist for all manufactures and there is an equal playing field.
Having a life means that you should love a standardized interview format. There's nothing worse than project assignments from companies asking 'for only a few hours' with descriptions that very clearly ask for multiple workdays.

Algorithmic interviews also compensate you better. Being able to prepare for multiple interviews at the same time means that you have a broader range of options to choose from and can play them off of each other.
I love Go and I think many people use - it works great in production environments and it's cross-platform by default. Are you insinuating it's not a widely-used language? Without going too far, Docker is written in Go.
Aren't polls like these usually anonymous?

Usually the email will say, this survey is completely anonymous, here is your unique link, don’t forward it to anyone else
I meant it the other way around. The non-reversible type A does not have this extra pair regardless of standard. But the type C is reversible and short of having pins automatically reconfigure based on the detected position, the only straightforward way to achieve this reversibility is to double the number of pins. So one side of the type C connector perfectly mirrors the other (but flipped for reversibility) mechanically and electrically.

I'm fairly certain they are using double the number of USBSS because they're available due to the mirroring. It was the easiest way. Unlike the control channel or side band, you can actually benefit from using all the pairs for data transmission since they're already there.
One thing that always striked me was the mad willingness of soldiers in WWI to jump over the parapet and plunge into the hail of enemy bullets. Where does such suicidal bravery come from?

But this article made me realize that it might be just preprogrammed in some of us, a legacy of the long forgotten ages when our forefathers regularly faced a ton of galloping angry beef with just spears. Possibly the tribes that would not even try died out from lack of food.
Homes aren't a natural monopoly. Highways largely are.

"there is not enough available/affordable land to build competition"

There definitely is in the large majority of places. The only city that can possibly say that honestly is Hong Kong, but even there they could go a bit more vertical and more dense if they needed.

"It's also clearly not "easily addressed","

Whatever lobbying hurdles you need to overcome to reduce regulatory interference on increasing the housing stock, you're going to face those same hurdles (and then some) if we're talking about public housing. So it doesn't make sense to immediately go for the radical and untested solution when an easier and proven solution is waiting. If we build vertically and it doesn't work (which it will, but nevertheless) - only then does it make sense to consider something more radical and more difficult to push through.
Step in as a multi-national company, open a software engineering office, pay well over "local market value" and you get good software engineers, at a lower price than moving them elsewhere. They, in turn, get a better quality of life, don't have to emigrate (which for some is a bonus, and for some the opposite (a malus?)) and relatively speaking have more spending power than they would have had, if they moved.

It is really not as easy as go "this is the exchange rate" and simply use that to compare pay in different countries.
Thanks for the feedback! Pricing is always a challenge and we set the price based on surveying other products in this space. So far our paying customers have had no complaints about the price. But that being said, we'll for sure keep thinking about it as we move forward and grow.
Elon's leadership drive and capital had the catalyzing effect. Without Elon, all the capital in the world would've gone into laggy bureaucratic procurement and project management pie in the sky bridges to nowhere. ARPA might've done what today's DARPA/NASA does not do.
Machine Learning Smart Inventory Tracking with Raspberry Pi
Maybe in the hope that the interview would reflect the actual work that needs to be done, which my education and previous work experience have prepared me very well for.

Then I'm happy to prepare for the interview in the sense that I try to learn as much as possible about the company and the people I'm going to meet.
Compile speed is part of Developer Experience, and one of the most important aspects thereof is the feedback cycle. I want to see the results of my code changes as fast as possible, and the performance of my hardware is rarely ever the bottleneck.
I think if you've been bitten by compilation times in e.g. Scala or C++, then compile speed is something you end up caring about. When it comes to modern static languages, it seem like there's a tradeoff where providing all the abstractions and ergonomics to make you not miss any functionality from dynamic languages will instead expand compilation times and make you miss the instant feedback of an interpreted language. Or give up on that and make the language much simpler and more limited, and you get fast compilation (e.g. Go). So I think people are looking for the holy grail of a language with both ease of use, extensive ergonomics and abstractions, while maintaining fast compilation times. So anytime a candidate comes along they ask about the parts of that equation that are not in the bullet list.
The UK is already blocking exports. They basically paid off AZ to have the export ban written down in the contract.
> Go programs with unused imports do not compile. This is a deliberate feature of the language as importing packages slow down the compiler.

I'm reading this and I can't shake the feeling that this is really bad compiler and/or language design.

Why would the compiler import (that is, parse and compile) a package that's unused in the code?

> A better solution is to use goimports tool. Goimports removes unreferenced imports for you. What’s even better it tries to automatically find and add missing ones.

Why can't the compiler do that? Why do you need a few dozen separate tools to complement the compiler?
The Problem with Odoo
Bursting with Productivity
there doesn't seem to be any talk of using "AI" (ie Neural Net stuff) for planning and strategy

AI wrote the logistics plan for Gulf War 1 and more than paid for itself.
I wouldn't call it carbon copy. Slack's performance is abysmal (while Discord is relatively snappy), and this is, interestingly, toxic to Electron, as Slack is frequently used as reference to assert that Electron applications perform poorly.
Welcome, men and ladies of Discord. Rather than incestuously promoting the same faces from within, you represent fresh blood, new ideas. Everything teams was not. It is my honor to personally welcome you all to Microsoft.
Office was released in 1990, are you saying that no MS products since 1990 have been successful?
Unfortunately no, it need some runtime (libevent, boehm gc) which is hard (impossible?) to integrate inside a shared lib.
I know you are joking, but a lot of Google development is data driven.

This means that a lot of decisions are done by A/B testing instead of proper analysis and design.

This is most visible in UI stuff. If you wonder why Gmail or YouTube look or behabe differently every few months, that's the reason.

Suffice to say, this confuses the hell out of less tech savvy users and the main reason some people feel uncomfortable with Android but can't really point on any particular issues.
However, Bohmian mechanics are not pseudo-science. It is a beautiful useless interpretation of quantum mechanics that has many problems, but at least it is still science. Cold fusion I agree tends towards pseudo-science.

I can understand that it makes sense to teach the most useful stuff at the university, however I do wish that I could have had the choice to follow an optional "obscure, useless topics" lecture during my years in university.
> This behaviour is particulary present across European high-educated middle- and upper-class circles and in general in Germany. In short: in areas of a society which have trouble celebrating their roots, because it grounds them. Next to their lower class neighbours or distant un-urban relatives.

Wait until you learn that I'm Swiss, generally proud of my country and its history and people, do not have a European citizenship, have no form of high-education (my highest formal certificate is from an apprenticeship, I'm self-taught and built my software engineer career myself by learning directly on the job), and come from a single-parent family categorized as "lower class" by wealth statistics.

Other than attacking an imaginary "elite" persona I'm supposed to embody, do you have some actual points to discuss regarding feeling "disturbed" and "ashamed" by the EU?
Aren't all good hubs quite costly though? I just use a shitty little USB-C adapter + usb cable, and my monitor acts as the hub. I agree about the fan noise.
the way to do it has been known for years: https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/g/std-proposals/c/-KV...
If measured by the suicide rate of its users then yes.
Sign in with twitter, I dont have twitter.
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It seems people have a pretty mixed experience here. I trialled DDG for several months back in 2019 but switched back to Google after I found myself using !g for almost every search.
I was going to make a sarcastic comment about "Lync for Gaming" soon. Not sure which is worse...
That time investment sounds like a tragic loss of open source development and random curious exploration by students.

Maybe also quite a few lost innovative startups, which might've been spun out of students making things they want to make, rather than grinding just to prepare for interview rituals.
"Product" is military/intelligence-speak for synthesizing knowledge/information/an analysis into a document/artifact. "Customers" of that product are basically stakeholders or the people who requested that an intelligence unit _produce_ the product.

e.g. if you have a UAV flying over a region of interest for long period of times, on a schedule, a product out of this flight would be the analysis of traffic/footprints over the region over time, say as a heatmap over a satellite picture.

e.g. if you collect and analyze data from the data warehouse of your company, to answer a question you have about a possible implementation choice and the effect it would have on scaling your systems, and write this down into an architecture decision record (ADR) or something similar. In intelligence-speak, that ADR would be a product.
This is a great thread to plug my favourite crystal streamer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaydNuV-VSO0gFSrvS9WgXg
I think you are genuinely curious. The point here is, people are confident that they can do the job, just can't pass the interview. The purpose of the interview is to select someone to do the job, not to pass the interview. "Preparing for the interview" is chasing the wrong KPI for both parties. Companies don't want someone who can pass the interview, they want someone who can do the job, they are not the same things.
How Fintech Companies Can Benefit from Artificial Intelligence?
Minks (and other mustelids) are extraordinarily capable of transmitting human respiratory viral diseases. Ferrets (same genus as Minks) are used as an animal model for human influenza research for that reason.

SARS-CoV-2 also spreads exceptionally well on mink farms. Out of a total of 128 mink farms in the Netherlands, at least 69[0] had an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, with more suspected cases. On at least two farms, there were confirmed transmissions from the animals to farm workers. It is likely mink would form a natural reservoir SARS-CoV-2 if allowed to spread in the wild.

Mink farming has subsequently been banned since early 2021 in the Netherlands.

[0]: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/coronavirus-covid-1... (Dutch)
If it were as simple as that, speculation wouldn't exist, because no one would ever buy anything thinking that it's worth more than the price on the table.

He's saying he doesn't think the market price for GME will hold, a position I happen to agree with. Might be more juice left in the rollercoaster, but I'm not buying it.
I created a KINETIC CLOCK simulation
Cultural extrapolation
It would be basically impossible to incorporate ALL relevant information into the system. Dogfighting has comparatively fewer inputs.
Copying this response from my older comment:

The rampup at FAANG can be brutal and you'd be doing lots of learning even after getting in. The leetcode style interviews are designed to select people capable of studying and materialising broad problems in depth and scope under time constraints. They are also objective and can't really be faked nor you can talk your way in like in most banking/finance IT jobs. I was of similar opinion at some point but these realisations made me change my mind and I've come to like leetcode interviews.
But I also think they only make sense in FAANG scoped companies where all the stack is proprietary. Small companies or companies using opensource tools don't really have this rampup and are doing such interviews mostly because others (FAANG) do it.
What's the deal? I can easily beat your results just sending my CV to all your list +1 random company.
Nobody ever lists any alternatives. I've used some of the most popular and they are halfway to discord's levels in terms of tech and 1% the way in user base.
And we're back to my original point that, where it's used, the AI powering search simply isn't very good.
> No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish.
I believe a researcher discovered the malicious "like button" behavior in 2011, and Facebook claimed to have disabled the behavior in that year.
Whatever I viewed, frequently morphed into car shapes, with an apparent emphasis on frontal and rear portions. A sort of pseudo intellectual ADHD pr0n vid for kinky vehicle computers, or very peripherally specialized humans.
The author gave a great talk on this at cppcon last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JByCzWaGxhE
It's possible to have the compiler running on raspbian.
I did that with an older version, (not tested with current, but i guess it should still be possible) and it works nicely.

I found that easier than constant crosscompiling.
MS succeeded in that they're selling Lync and Teams to businesses. They can make money that way even with every single user hates them.

Discord would be a completely different territory of getting the users to join rather than their bosses.
I wonder if this is going to go as badly as the net neutrality one went [1]. Filled with fake comments that celebrate the incumbents, and still used to justify policy.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jsvine/net-neutrality-f...
It is not just mythology, it is experience. Plus "break room chatter about the hockey game" is massive straw man.

I have seen exactly that happen multiple times. The in office workers were core team, the from home workers were invariably "secondary citizens". In terms of what tasks they got and how much influence they had. They were first to go when the company needed to lay off people. They were forgotten about when splitting tasks, making decisions, starting meetings, dealing with issues.

And second, emotional matters. The productivity does influences how team and management treats you, but so does "connection" and crap like that. If you have jerk tendencies or lazy tendencies, people tend to excuse those much more if they know you in person. Bonus if they perceive you as cool or funny.
Sidney Powell Says 'No Reasonable Person' Believed Election Fraud Claims
You have to support those LTS releases. Their solution is to update everyone to latest and only support that one.
Breakathon, Goals and Objectives
The spec is still not open, as far as I can tell. The TB4 mode of USB4 appears to still be proprietary.
That first redirect send users to correct URL for login, “ballmer@corp.contoso.com” might have to go “server23.auth.contoso-logins.com” and that first next button works like a mini search engine to make that work.

Perhaps the most contributing factor that kicked off the chains of event that resulted in the mess of that chain of the event is that sometimes the “domain” part of RADIUS or other authentication servers(called “realms”) don’t resolve, because they aren’t FQDN, in the same way com.companyname.myapp1 never is. On top of that, you would want to be able to log in with non-matching realms in ID, such as ballmer1@microsoft.com on contoso.com, so it’s always just a long String with at signs and dots with no discoverability anyway.
> “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Some of those languages that nobody uses, are really good, though.

Programmers that learn them hit well above their weight-class in individual-productivity, and if they're lucky they get to support applications written in "dead" languages for fat stacks. Oh and they're often fun too -- who doesn't want to have fun for the 1/3rd of their life that we're supposed to be working?

I think I understand that some people want to be popular more than they want to be good, but what I find really weird is the people who would rather be close to popular instead of close to good. What's the point?
Thanks for sharing this. Looks like the channel has covered variety of videos on Crystal ecosystem.
Much better footage of the original with higher framerate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQOblgAvrHw
The Dumb Money Bubble Is a Crowded Trade
Similar.... if the shipping and billing addresses are on the same page, I can't use a password manager. It always fills in both sets.
Even there compile speeds make a difference. The linux kernel is quite slow to compile, but when you make changes it doesn't take that long because it generally just rebuilds a file or two fairly quickly because of the way dependencies and changes are handled. If every driver change would require 15 minutes to build it wouldn't be nearly as popular as a platform.

I don't know how opensolaris kernel builds are, but they're not nearly as simple to wrap your head around as the linux kernel. As a result the level of participation is quite low.

Of course this is more a build issue than it is a language issue in this case.

But yes as you said the compile speed on the linux kernel is partly because it's C and not C++
I agree with your comment but it feels out of place considering that the complaint is about unproductive financial instruments.

Low interest rates create zombie companies that are only staying alive thanks to cheap credit. If the Fed were to raise rates all those unproductive companies would go bankrupt at the same time and we would have the biggest crash in the last 80 years. The only reason you would keep this scheme going is because you care about the owners of those financial instruments and those owners aren't poor people.
Interesting. I am a writer who now makes enough money off writing to have relegated programming to a hobby status.

Reading his piece, my impression was that this guy can formulate his ideas fairly well, but his writing is horribly stretched and, at times, outright boring and bland. IDK if this can be fixed with enough practice. Maybe. Maybe he just does not have enough "internal energy" (for the lack of a better term) to spout some engaging prose spontaneously.

That could have been fine in the 19th century, when long and low energy novels were the norm, but contemporary standards and expectations are very different.

Accidentally, I feel that my writing flows better if I have something else to do, too. Maybe being retired just does not help you get things done.
Could you please define "right near" ? Are we talking about the lab ~10km away ?
Discord is basically Slack but slightly better.

Continuing to silo it into the gaming niche when Slack was just bought for 3 times as much makes no sense.
> one is that there is an "objectively best" music.

Case in point, I enjoy some shit. No way AI will replace lo-fi recorded-in-underground-bunker limited-cassette-tape-release atmospheric black metal / noise.

I mean it might, but here's a take from a different angle: art is not just the end result, it's the process and the story behind it. Nobody objectively gives a shit about a selfie from the early 1500's, but because of its provenance the Mona Lisa is considered one of the most valuable pieces of art out there. Nobody gives a shit about a database row with an ID, timestamp, user ID and the text "just setting up my twttr", but because it's the first tweet and it's put on a trading platform and it might appreciate in value, someone spent $2.5M on it.

You slag of TikTok because every generation will slag off whatever the following generation(s) do, that's normal. But the generation following you see that differently, and in two decades they will still reference some of the more iconic clips they've seen. I mean I do it with really bad movie voiceovers from nearly 20 years ago, as well as terrible porn intros. It's part of culture.

Anyway, there will be a place for AI generated anything alongside the handcrafted stuff. Like how there is still a market for handcrafted goods alongside the mass producing machines. Or hand-drawn art in the age of digital. Or physical valuables in the age of electronic money and cryptocurrencies.
So what's a safe withdrawal rate then?