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John Oliver covered the topic in 2019:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://time.com/5699545/john-oliver-weather-last-week-tonig...

* https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/14/john-oliver-...
> An object's state is my business, as immutable objects can be used in ways that mutable ones cannot. They can be passed to arbitrary functions with no need for defensive copying. They can also be useful in concurrent programming. None of that means breaching the separation of interface and implementation.

I'm not advocating for object oriented programming. What I'm saying is that if you "buy in" to the actual, abstract, concept of object oriented programming, then the internal structure or state of the object you're communicating with is, by definition, out of your control. Of course, in practice, you know that sending a "+ 3" message to the object "Integer(2)" is always going to return the same result, but you have no idea if the Integer(2) object you're talking to is logging, writing to a database, tweeting, or anything else. And in "true" OOP, you're not supposed to know- you just take your Integer(5) response message and go on your way. When I say "true OOP" I'm thinking about something like Smalltalk or an Actor framework/language.

I'm not talking about anything practical here. Just the "pure" concepts. Obviously, Java has made pragmatic choices to allow escape hatches from "true" OOP in a few places: unboxed primitives, static methods, and a handful of other things, probably.

So it's just very un-Smalltalk-like for an object's API/protocol/contract to make any kind of reference or promise about its internal state at all. That is implementation in a pure OO sense.
Reminds me of a kafkaesque situation I had a few years back. I was getting text messages from Barclays about my account (I don’t have an account). I contacted them telling them to desist but because I’m not a customer I can’t actually tell them to change details on an account that isn’t mine.
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Maybe it's semantics but interacting with a simulation of the world is actually more important. In a pure sense, this doesn't require any actual real world interaction. This concept is usually referred to offline and off-policy reinforcement learning.

If you're saying that interaction in any sense is important, I'd very much agree that unsupervised learning and supervised learning aren't equipped to handle reinforcement learning problems. Correct framing of a problem is necessary to achieve a desired property like causality.
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Use blank for dot and tab for space.

Then your morse code is "invisible" and you can put it anywhere.
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The North Carolina Unauthorized Substance Tax Stamp [0] is one such. I met someone who worked for the Department of Revenue, and to his knowledge, the state has never sold a single one to an actual possessor of an unauthorized substance. Just to philatelists.

> If I purchase stamps will I then be in legal possession of the drugs?

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The FSF is not everyone else's platform for megaphoning their "inclusiveness and diversity" agenda, especially when they cannot manage to demonstrate the very practice themselves. This is why I was fundamentally against any type of Code of Conduct when that was all the rage. At the end of the day, an inclusive culture doesn't meed Codes of Conduct to self-perpetuate. The movement will sustain on it's own virtues. It's exactly when people start trying to put something on paper when you find the fangs are coming out. Even Copyleft, in a way, is the exception that proves the rule. It wouldn't even exist if people were not implicitly forced to manage licenses or IP or what have you.
The GPL was born and codified in response to the practice of ensnaring and hobbling users in pursuit of ease of support by hardware and software manufacturers. The codification of producer's interests over consumer's, sowed the inevitable beginnings of the Free Software/Copyleft license.

The rest of FSF management are worried about the movement/organization. That's not their job. Their job is worrying about encroachment on User's freedoms by tech elite. Let 'em go if their conscience haunts them that badly. Sometimes, even when everyone else involved thinks you're wrong, you just have to shoulder the burden and bust through. There's just no other way to do it.
I as well thought you were just joking but that’s great!
You're right that the experience reports skew in favour of the more extreme. However, I have enjoyed perusing reddit.com/r/covid19positive nonetheless (with that understanding)
Or, have we just gotten better at test taking, and seen similar test questions while killing time at Barns & Noble before taking the test?
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About the selection in the state shops: It is better than what I could get in Indiana (US). If the local places don't stock it, they'll order it for you, and it is really, really easy. I'm gonna guess it takes longer to order to Svalbard, but it probably isn't too bad either.
You don't have to look hard to find stories of people running up huge cloud infrastructure bills by using it improperly.

Engineers in general poorly understand the connection between their code and resources consumed. Until something bites them and they learn.

I'd say that this is pretty widespread throughout the industry.
These two have a great YouTube/TikTok channel where they continue to produce these kinds of posters.
I got only suspended for two weeks because I pressed E in the grub menu and booted linux with a root shell. I told my teacher that their installations are basicially not secured at all and he didnt understand anything what I tried to explain and send me to the school manager which accused me of hacking the school network.
Agreed. It takes about 15 min to build and publish an app, and an hour to get it approved. If you're doing rapid prototyping or if you only have an hour to spare a day, that's a world of difference.
The GP's argument is that slavery was a given in many societies a long time before the printing press arrived. So, they're not even "concurrent happenings in history". We have references to slavery as far back as the Old Testament and Homer's Iliad.

I'd say the same thing about colonialism, the difference between the classical world (and earlier) and Europe post-1600 is the scale, not the practice.
I don't understand what you're saying. Obviously the cars are capable of turning left. Are you saying it took a longer route when there was a shorter path to leave the parking lot? I don't know what video you're referring to (there's quite a few), but that seems to concern the high-level path planning, not any driving capabilities (e.g. a human following GPS instructions might have chosen the same route). Or perhaps the navigation planning system prefers to drive through lower traffic residential areas.
I cannot imagine this taking place in this day and age. The principal would have you marched out of the school escorted by police and charged you with a federal crime or something.
Couldn't you claim you work on the web?
And even that seems "easy" to circumvent by having redundant satellites, such that during the equinoxes (equinoxen?) only a fraction of said satellites are shadowed out at once. Alternately, a massive battery or capacitor bank could give the receiver enough buffer to hold out through an equinox-induced shadowing.
Archeologists joke that if modern sport arenas were abandoned now a d rediscovered in 5000 years, archeologists and historians of the future would have theories that these structures were used for religious rituals that involved thousands of people, and sports merchandise would be interpreted as cult objects.
And sometimes the moon.
The joke made Microsoft look bad because Microsoft was bad then, and in the years before, and in the years behind.

Microsoft basically from Gates' reign was a lot of, "Copy the shit that we see others do."

Ballmer at least had the audacity to attempt something original like the Xbox. Steve gets a horrendously bad rap, but if you look at Microsoft's products from the start of his time as president (1998) to CEO (2000) and until he was replaced by Satya Nadella, Ballmer was trying to provoke his people into something new.

Nowadays, Microsoft is actually an innovator making some really impressive products (the entire Surface line, Azure, etc.).

Gates is boring, bland, and a "genius" at realizing the future potential of technologies (Xerox's GUI, The Internet, mobile phones, tablets, etc.), but he absolutely sucks at producing something that will appeal to a consumer. I've said before that if you could combine Gates' understanding of future tech with Steve Jobs' ability to understand design and consumer desire, you'd have an unstoppable entrepreneur. The only other person out there who I think even comes close is Elon Musk.
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I am working on a product which is pretty much exactly what you describe. I love spreadsheets but I wanted something that I wanted to actually program in right from the beginning to the end of my work process.

It’s called Inflex: https://inflex.io/

And it is a pure functional programming language, with cells, which are reactive, and with real data structures like lists and records. We have a work in progress beta. Sign up requires a paid subscription, but only because I wanted to make sure that the infrastructure was working. To try the work in progress product, you can just hit Try which lets you play in a sandbox. It doesn’t save or remember any of your work, and also doesn’t even hit our databases. (Safe from the hug of death.)

It’s pretty bare-bones right now but it’s based on ideas from Haskell, and Unison which is a content addressable language. (Every cell has a SHA512 hash of its content.) That makes versioning very easy, but this is not seen in the UI yet.

The table editing and what not is a little cumbersome right now, as there are a lot of things to come together and I wanted to demonstrate at least some of them.

Speaking of clean separation between data and display, The plan is to build for example reports using a simple HTML like DSL. Also, things like time and external data sources will be treated in the type system as explicit streams, which is an architecture that has been fully explored in Haskell under the guise of FRP.

But I’m working on this in my spare time and therefore progress is turtle pace rather than silicon valley pace. :)
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I'm pretty young and fairly healthy, so a licensed vaccine was a long way off (and still is) for me personally. The 50% chance of possible protection from Covid-19 was something of a selfish motivator, but more generally it seemed like a good thing to do to try and help society return to some sort of normality (I work in a sector which has been hit quite badly) - of course, there was probably no shortage of volunteers so my space likely would've been filled without my participation.

It also seemed like a kinda fun thing to do, though - I find medical sciences pretty interesting and had read through and familiarised myself with the phase 1 & phase 2 trial results for Ad26.COV2.S. I thought it'd be an interesting experience and the risks seemed acceptable to me.

The only downsides so far have been the distance I have to travel to get to the clinical research facility and the fact that I don't really like the sight of blood. I've had so many blood tests (in this study and outside) that I'm fine with the process, but I prefer not to watch.
Waymo has to learn the exact space it's going to drive in ahead of time, and then have high resolution lidar maps generated to assist. It's currently limited to use in grid-like pre-mapped areas like Phoenix AZ. Tesla is building a general learning solution such that you can take the vehicle anywhere, and not have the requirement that the area be pre-mapped or 'learned' by Tesla beforehand. Tesla has orders of magnitude more data and mileage driven than Waymo could possibly ever imagine having. Waymo is not going to scale. CEO departures like this are a big red flag. Pin this comment. Google will shutter Waymo in less than five years.
That's a good question. I agree with your definition of AG. However, the only time a database (or any other kind of data store) would be useful in an AG setting would be if it's part of an AG system including network and other computers.

Perhaps we need another somewhat similar term. It's like null-routing or firewalling devices on your network.. they're technically "connected" but if they cannot dial out they're in some ways gapped. (This is handy for dubious quality IoT devices, they can't phone home, auto-patch to drop features, or share your usage information with $corp, but still respond to local network commands).

To some extent tunneling is security through obscurity (an SSH tunnel has moved the port you need to secure from 5432 to 22)
I think this hooks into the "losers game" post from a few days back: most startups are still in the phase where they are overwhelmingly more likely to die because they fuck up than because some competitor manages to outmaneuver them. Big tech is profitable and won't die just by itself, so in that theater clever tricks like commoditizing your complement becomes much more important.
I'm using DO's free tier. The static site hosting may be a new feature. There is no VPS needed for it.

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Some input on this would be greatly appreciated.

For example: how much of this would I need not worry about if I use a managed postgres database (like from digitalocean or aws or any provider actually)
> $20M/year really is a waste of time for a $200B/year business.

That's the thing though, it isn't a waste of time.

One can hear very similar logic from people with investments. They will say "The stock market is returning X% / year and is way better than those bonds with only 3%/year. Investing in bonds is a waste of time."

They say that because they have yet to internalize the value of having a diversified their investments. Not everything goes up all the time.

It only makes sense for Google if the Search Ads business were to never ever lose its profitability. And yet, it is losing its profitability. As a result, Google has to aggressively cut back on expenses, remove projects, end of life products, etc as that cash cow slowly deflates.

Consider then the alternative where there are 10, 20, even 30 business lines within Google generating $10 - $30M of profit each. 30 businesses at $30M is only $900M, less than 5% of their revenue, but those businesses are SOLID and provide a supply of management talent, consistency, and some bucks to keep the lights on elsewhere.

That is diversification of execution risk. It works the same way investment diversification works, it adds other, less high margin, businesses to the portfolio that are all revenue positive.

A company like Google can use those businesses to experiment with alternate user support models, management schemes, policies, and communications. All of that helps the "main" company to mature in its thinking about how to be a business. Sadly, executives who have never had any experience other than one wildly successful business tend to think exactly like you do, "Why would I waste time on piddling little products when I've got more cash than I know what to do with being pumped out by my main business?"

Short answer: "Things change."
> Projected cost was about equal to HS2 (about $100bn) for the pilot station but with much reduced costs for subsequent deployments.

How does this compare to regular land-based Solar and/or offshore wind farms?
I'm not saying you aren't doing good work, or that it's
not worth doing.

I'm just saying that nginx is good enough for most people, and they'd need to see massive improvements to their workflows to change.

I'm a web dev, and I've maintained multiple sites / APIs with nginx (ranging from ~millions of requests per day to virtually unused) and have never found a reason to look for a different webserver.

I've never had an issue with deployment requiring users to log out.

I can only assume you're referring to something in your MMO server use case?

Again - my intent was not to disparage. It was to say disrupting something that's "good enough" requires a massive improvement to the users' lives.