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Legitimizing people's status would definitely help to a degree, but not fully.

The wage to earn a significantly higher standard of living than that found in the poorest Central American nations where most of these human beings come from is significantly lower than the "living wage" that we on the left talk about frequently.

"so why not just raise the minimum wage, that'll solve the issue!" is what many say to this.

Yes, it would, if the construction, meat packing, agriculture industries were remotely capable of having enforcement against hiring "under the table" workers, which based on my experience in these industries growing up in a rural location of the southern US, isn't possible.

At the end of the day, in the short term, demand for labor is relatively fixed, and increasing the supply, even if you ensure that the human beings that are added to the supply are given the rights they deserve, is going to lower the price of labor. Supply and demand doesn't care about our morals. It's indifferent, because individual humans and businesses are going to make rational economic decisions when they rent labor from human beings, and will go for the quieter, cheaper, far less likely to complain about working conditions person than the American who they tell themselves (as they choose the undocumented person) didn't capitalize on the opportunities they were offered being born here and therefore doesn't deserve it. (This is a rationalization I've encountered numerous times, and often it was uttered by people who chose to hire undocumented folks instead of a crew from LaborReady, a short-term labor business that is compliant with the law.)
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I don't follow you. Microsoft only dabbles in specific hardware. Where they do, they're fully integrated like the surface or the xbox.

If you're talking about things where Microsoft just makes the software, aren't they still winning over the Mac?
> this is the root cause we're discussing

It's not. Someone explained that browser makers spend billions on top talent to make browsers fast, and you posted a flippant comment — "are you joking?" — about your observations that performance of browsers is getting worse.

Now you're talking about stuff that web developers do on the pages that you visit.

Browsers are an example of software that is fast because companies have put effort into making them that way, instead of not caring. That's the claim made by the person you responded to. Dispute it, if you want, but don't make claims and then change the subject or shut down inquiry into the things that you're saying.
I think that this is a very reasonable observation. It's definitely weird in theory, but the reasons that I've seen are:

* Very large tech companies build software (relatively) slowly due to their size

* Sort of like a toddler, you don't know what you want until you see that someone else has it. Another company hitting product/market fit + traction proves the value of a product that you might have just hypothetically wanted

* You're often buying a go-to-market motion (marketing, sales, services, etc) that complements a product

* In some cases, you're buying talent that would be difficult to hire + train on your own _fast_. Ie even if you could theoretically hire 50 traffic mapping engineers, you can get them onboarded onto your team faster by acquiring Waze
Stadia was terribly implemented -- almost nothing appealed to gamers from the pricing to the games -- I can't think of a single killer game. I recall it being originally annouced thinking Google -- like Apple -- don't get gaming and probably never will.

It's classic -- we're big -- so we have a chance thinking we just need time to make it work. Stadia would have been much better implemented by startups. Google simply can't do "small" anymore. To be fair they're just too big.

Microsoft is the only FANG that remotely gets gaming.
What he's implying, and what you're missing here, is that the discussion is about the FFT and MP3 algorithms, and how that signal processing affects the signal.

The physical substrate which executes the algorithm is irrelevant to the discussion. Indeed, even the fact that the signal represents sound waves is irrelevant. We could build a computer that executes the same instructions on the same inputs mechanically, using gears and valves and whatnot, or perform the instructions manually on paper, and the algorithm would result in exactly the same output.
The exact same happened to me! I was terrified this was the type of thing my parents were reading. I think ability to spot satire like this is one of the most stark differences I notice between myself as a child and as an adult.
the most interesting thing about this laptop are the eight slots for 18650 cells. standard-size batteries, for once!
These conversations tend to conflate psychology and psychiatry. Which isn't altogether unreasonable.
That is a very good point!
Thank you for raising that.
Ask someone else and they might call that censorship.
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I agree totally. It matches my learnings in my career as well. But how much slack is the right amount? What do you think?
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> It has no built-in control for a company that becomes too big to the point of being a detriment to society.

That's verifiably untrue. One of the key traits of capitalism is that businesses are allowed to fail, and we see that they do fail. 30 years ago, the retail and supply chain behemoth was Sears; today that's Amazon; 30 years from now, it might be someone else.

Berkshire Hathaway recently remarked on the dynamism as seen in the top 20 companies in the world in 1990 vs today.

https://twitter.com/brettberson/status/1388555627698429953

It's almost entirely a different set of companies.
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> Since VP9 isn't royalty encumbered the way h264 is, that could well be a win for the rest of us too.

I can only repeat myself: "Google creates dedicated custom proprietary processors which can process VP9 at roughly the same speed as a 20-year-old codec". How is this a win for anyone but Google (who is already eyeing to replace VP9 with AV1)?

"The rest of us" are very unlikely to run Google's custom chips. "The rest of us" are much more likely to run this in software, for which, to quote the comment I was originally replying to, "without dedicated processors, VP9's encoding is roughly 4.5x as slow as H.264".

Note: I'm not questioning the codec itself. I'm questioning the reasoning declaring this "a big win for the open format(s)".
Stadia is a project that should never gotten off the drawing board and it takes only two words to kill it.

Input lag.

That's not a technical problem. It's physics.

In the very least it should've operated off existing launchers eg buy it in Stream and you can use it in Stadia. But honestly, the games where input lag isn't an issue is such a small subset that Stadia was only ever going to be a niche product.
Did he ask for one of these for his birthday? https://surplus.gov.ab.ca/OA/ItemDetail.aspx?AuctionID=31633
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I'd say for that part of history, I'd go with Dr Dobb's Journal from the period. Not sure if any are online or if you'd have to find paper copies at the library.
On the contrary, that game made $50k over ten years after release and nearly a decade after being included in a Humble Bundle (the very first one, in fact).
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Google needs to release fewer products and maintain them longer. Simple as that.
Unlike other cloud gaming services like Geforce Now and xCloud , Stadia chose to use a platform which had very few existing native games i.e Linux. So it was in effect like the launch of a new console, since developers had to port their game to the new platform . But developers didn't have much of an incentive to since there weren't many users on Stadia. And users didn't have much of an incentive to use Stadia, since there were few games and their friends were on other platforms. It's a classic chicken and egg scenario.
It's a balance. If 10 firefighters don't see high utilization, you don't want to increase the staff to 20, just in case. That's just a waste of money.

The rule of thumb is that you want utilization to be where there is an acceptable latency depending on some percentile of cases. For a firefighter, you'd probably look at p99 latency. For a hamburger joint, p50 on order time would be good enough.
South Africa - a parliamentary republic with three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. All bodies of the South African government are subject to the rule of the Constitution, which is the Supreme law in South Africa.

That sounds more stable than many South American countries, even Russia.
>What other internet browser could I use in the 1990s besides IE?

Netscape? Opera? Lynx? All of which predate IE.

>What other phone can I use besides a Google or Apple phone?

A dumb one. Or install something like LineageOS. And if your complaint is that they're not as nice, well, they're not required to be. Philosophical positions and moral boundaries have a price, and convenience is a small one to pay.

>How do I avoid giving Nestle or Unilever money? By avoiding a massive list of thousands of brands?

Yes. That's exactly what you do. With the exception of certain pharmaceuticals, the vast majority of the stuff they sell is not necessary. If you don't want to support billionaires, don't be suckered into the consumerist trap. It's not hard to live with, and want, less stuff.

Honestly, the sibling comment about billionaires capturing critical infrastructure and monopolizing it is a much better argument than this. But you're not even trying to look at the issue from my perspective. If you object to the way your government is spending its money, as many citizens have done over the past twenty years, what can you actually do about it? The consequences of withholding your money from the tax man is much more severe than doing so from Bill Gates or Charles Koch.
Check out the link "raising him well" -- If this really is from 2001, then I'm quite surprised that link is still valid...
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Diamonds are a prestige thing, like fancy watches. It doesn't make sense to lecture a fancy-watch-wearer about how cheap electric watches can actually tell time better. They know, and that's not the axis that matters to them.
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Rich people don't work. Seems more like some sort of "aspirational spending".
Writers use all kinds of tools to "cheat", up to and including not actually writing. Mining computer-generated nonsense or coherent-but-empty prose for the odd accidentally-excellent phrase or sentence might end up being just another. Hell, it may already be.
Right or wrong, Galloway's thesis would specifically reject that idea. Synthetic diamonds are equivalent (or superior!) on an atoms level. But on a bits level they lack the history of being formed in the Earth's crust, which stays scarce.

Diamond marketing exploits that to good effect -- most diamonds are marked and registered in a database that traces its unique history. Doing so makes it possible to value the history as unique, and also leads by example in investing in the value of that history (they make a big deal out of the tech used to confirm authenticity). Since the final purpose of the diamond is to demonstrate stored value rather than produce it, the target buyer is focused on whether others recognize the value, not whether it is justified.

On a personal level, I think the history of "real" diamonds is almost always horrific and a negative asset! I hope companies like Pandora can put marketing power into creating scarcity stories for synthetic diamonds.
Apparently a lab grown diamond meant my love for her was also artificial [...]

Why then a ring [with a diamond] at all? It's nothing special at all, just what everyone does. Almost the definition of replaceability and arbitrariness. There is no connection between the relationship and a random ring with a stone you buy at some random jewelry store. Why not something individual, specific to the relationship? Every $1 toy ring used as a wedding ring is more personal and telling than any thousands of dollars ring with a diamond.
Many corporate acquisitions have the sole purpose of killing off/absorbing companies early, before they gain traction in the market and become viable competitors.

Focusing on real world metrics will give a very incomplete picture of the impact acquisitions might have had on the market.
I'm an iOS convert, so you don't have to sell me on the benefits of a closed platform. But I was referring to more than just software. When servicing an Apple laptop with a broken keyboard last month, I had to find an Apple-brand USB keyboard in order to get it into the recovery menu, because I needed an Apple command key. (Linux works fine with the Windows key for similar types of shortcuts.)

The idea that I needed an Apple keyboard to do something trivial on an Apple machine was... hilarious to me.
I wonder if I could make a model to accurately predict the number of HNers over 50 years old by the number of Lisp related posts...hmmmmmm :-)
Counter to a lot of the sentiment in this thread, I think it's pretty obvious that a different set of ethical beliefs would result in advocating for a totally different set of policies and that's how it should be. If even a single covid death is unacceptable to you (something I've heard expressed by a couple folks on the far left), then it's pretty obvious that advocating for continued caution is the right answer.

That said, obviously economic distress, depression and other factors are taking years off of people's lives too, any reasonable viewpoint must accept some level of tradeoff here.
Yes and no, they made incredible strides to get that lag to a better position. It's much better than expected. I had an actually good experience in a racing game on XCloud.
In a lot of cases, the affected party is the local council (government) which often doesn't care (or doesn't have enough free time to care).
Yes, the legendary SID chip was a digital oscillator followed by an analog filter.

After seeing this heroic SID chip reverse engineering (0), I tried building the filter section using a quad opamp to make the state variable filter. It sounds kinda nice for such a simple circuit.

I've been planning a project of using a micro controller to do the oscillators and then use the PWM outputs to drive the filter control voltages.

(0) http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4150
> I feel like we'll always be leaving performance on the table if we don't understand the characteristics of the hardware we're developing on.

Absolutely. Mine is not a suggestion to ignore performance, but to build languages that push programmers towards doing the right thing for performance and maintainability. These do not have to be at odds, except often at the extreme of performance.
More fundamentally: we're conditioned to privilege our ambitions (or maybe just grand ambitions in general) over things like concern for the horrific-yet-ultimately-banal suffering that enables them, or for building and maintaining a stable and sustainable "floor" for human existence. We pour funding into tech startups that promise to maybe change the world when we know that we can move the needle (often for a fraction of the cost) by spending on basic needs and not looking for a direct ROI. It doesn't matter that people are starving, homeless, wallowing in practical and spiritual squalor, because we're going to Mars, damn it.

In the end, we just can't seem to take our eyes and minds off the shiny things, even knowing that we're merely gazing at the glare of hubris.
Isn’t there some level of faith, small f, required to keep this technical religious practice up? It’s undeniably burdensome, and perhaps a bit silly to the outsider - and goyim culture is not hermetically sealed off, observant Jews know most people live simpler lives. So what keeps them at it, if not faith of some description? I wonder about this in good faith :)
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I am operating under the assumption here that said articles can pertain to any topic, and not just diamonds. If that is not the case, I do apologize.

I am a huge fan of William Langewiesche's work (some of which, incidentally, has been for The Atlantic). He writes crisp, longform articles on a variety of topics, including but not limited to aviation [1], shipping [2], nuclear proliferation [3], the dark net [4], and private military contractors [5].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/mh370-m...

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-w...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/12/how-to-...

[4] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/welcome-to-the-dark-...

[5] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/04/g4s-global-...
Fair enough. Otherwise I think we're on the same page.
> the fact that vertical works better

It works better until it doesn't. A company with high market share and positive cash flow can invest in vertical integration. They gain economies of scale. It gets harder to adapt to the market and stay efficient and innovative at larger companies. Or they slowly kill off the competition and no longer find the need to innovate, and settle into money printing mode and monopolistic behaviors.
Both recent administrations patted themselves on the back for the stimulus checks, which were smaller and arrived later than they should have. I don't think you have to worry about people depending on them long-term. And even if they did, so what?

And I dunno what your last sentence is supposed to be if not a vague gesture at some conspiracy theory. Yeah, another pandemic might happen in the future. Do you have actual evidence that shows the US government is purposefully facilitating that?
Nice read.

As a sysadmin / DevOps / SRE / whatever, I also realized at some point that being constantly busy is actually a state of extreme fragility.

Nowadays I try spending a significant part of my day just trying new stuff and reading, not being micromanaged helps a lot.
This is probably the quintessential example of what I'm talking about. I was actually surprised to learn they didn't coin it themselves. It's not even a word, but it has so much meaning. It's an entire mood and everyone knows what it means. Lisa says it to Homer in an offhand exchange. It's not even a joke but I will never not laugh at it.
What's the timeline for the firefox extension? It looks like it fits up my alley, but I wouldn't want to manage this through google :)
Software is about domain knowledge more than code.

Also, userbase and customers are valuable.
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Simply, the system becomes significantly less responsive the more utilized it is. Isn't this one of the most important discoveries of Queuing theory?
Clinician and researcher in mental health here. In my view, you're being too charitable.

> The groupings persist because they are useful in facilitating communication regarding potential complications, prognosis, and patterns of response to treatments.

These are reasons, but they're a distant second. Mainly, they persist because those groupings - diagnoses, in other words - have become necessary for billing. The DSM, for instance, is an economic document, not a scientific one. For most people, it sits on a shelf, gathering dust.

As for "the best we've come up with so far", you'd perhaps be interested to learn how often the decisions about these groupings are made because of politics and economics, and not by science [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/They-Youre-Crazy-Paula-Caplan/dp/0201...
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Have you actually tried it? At least with the Stadia controller, Destiny plays fine. I was pleasantly surprised.
Overheard in the office a few years ago:

"Did you know that Tetris was originally written in Haskell?"

"Really? I thought that it was originally written in Russia?"
If I understood parent comment, it's that any unmodified mosquitos would quickly fill in any gaps from modified mosquitos who died.

What we need is a gene bomb. Create a gene that makes mosquitos more resistant to gene attacks, but 10 generations later creates infertility. Spend 10 generations dropping gene attacks to ensure those bomb'd mosquitos proliferate and reproduce.

Still, you'll never get all of them.
Funny then that nobody I know that uses it complains about the input lag. (Similarly to how input lag in TVs etc is not something people outside dedicated gamers really care about. Plenty people are quite tolerant/don't know what they are missing)
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Yes, I meant solid body guitars. As soon as acoustic resonance becomes part of the sound, you start getting feedback on the strings and a lot of other phenomena. Wood makes a huge difference with acoustics, or else all acoustics would be made of plywood.
You could just use an artificial stone and no one would know. If you just care about the signal, buy good replicas of things you could plausibly afford, how hard can it be.
I don't know I'm playing Red Dead Remption 2 on Stadia at the moment and I haven't noticed this issue with input lag.
Pretty much the description of all carbon capture. Capturing carbon is inherently difficult.

IMO, barring some breakthrough, biology will be the most efficient mechanism for capture. Millions of years of evolution have made plants and algae pretty good at carbon capture as the carbon levels slowly depleted (until recently).

An appealing benefit of biological carbon capture is the fact that all biology is solar powered. All the non-biological solutions required a pretty hefty energy input from somewhere. I mean, I guess it's nice that you could provide that from solar/wind/or nuclear. But then it's also nice to not require transmission lines for energy input.
I am curious what went wrong during development here.

Was it an accident? Did someone think that it would be a waste to throw away all these fine higher bits and just did anything with them?

(It feels a bit like a self-designed crypto algorithm when someone adds complexity because that's sure better than not, isn't it?)

They might not have been too familiar with linear congruential generators (LCG) because then they would have known that casting the result to an unsigned 32bit integer was not an accident but the modulus operation of the LCG (here: "mod 2^32"). See [0] for details.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Understood though it was the reality of the 90's.
did it changed? yes absolutely, but you were tagged as a Lunatic, to introduce Linux in corporate environment.
In Japan it's called GAFA at least in the news I watch

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It seems excessive if you never experienced extreme stress.

It sounded like a comedy sketch, until it happened to me. I wasn't at work, I was at home, but the reaction was the same.
I'm sure there's some accounting wizardry that helps make this viable, but it could just be the optimal strategy if a Big Tech company has a warchest of cash, but knows some of it could be hemorrhaged by taxes (or the costs related to transferring funds) if it isn't spent. $20 million to acquire a development team for a few new features may seem like a lot, but it is a more surefire thing than spending $10 million to hire, design, and build a competitor.
Yes, I do. No complains, everything still works.