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Says the eco-extremist hopelessly writing 'bringing up a baby' articles.

To answer the question and with Betteridge's law of headlines: No.
> that tend to have reasonably stable ABIs

Today I learned about Application Binary Interfaces.

(and thanks for the generally insightful comment)
Where should a trans US citizen with no other legal residency go?

Their ability to live safely is coupled fully to their ability to live safely in the us. Immigration was one, but not the only, example GP mentioned.
We can do some bird calls decently.
I get your argument, but "oh, sure, you're calling me out, but you did this similar thing earlier, hah!" is not going to de-escalate conflict. Isn't part of being a manager in a prickly situation learning to choose your battles? If he'd just dropped it at that point, would there have really been any harm done to the company? Would that harm have been greater than the end result we've arrived at instead?

The damage done to Basecamp's public reputation, internal morale, and now all the projects set back by losing a third of their employees is unfathomable -- all for the satisfaction of "by gum, at least I don't have to say I put up with one of my now-former employees talking back to me in a way that was arguably hypocritical." On balance, was that really the right tradeoff to make here?
Can speculative fiction teach us anything in a world this crazy?
Amazon is this super well oiled machine. People never think of it that way. They just think: 'Amazon: Oh yeah that e-commerce store where I buy my gadgets and groceries'. But it's so much more complex and nuanced. What I always loved about it is the self-dogfooding that happens with AWS. The fact the store uses it means they get to use AWS for free (in a sense). It's pretty clever.
Reconsidered
Torvalds specifically calls out those kinds of shared libraries and considers it reasonable to leave them shared.
But why? Ain't Teal & Orange all the colors we ever need?
Agree, it would be more than 7000. I was just reacting to the the claim that it would affect the "most wealthy" which is not what an income tax targets.
No pressure, Mon Handling low memory conditions in iOS and Mavericks (2016)
> The miniscule risk of a slippery slope

The slippery slope is occurring right now in Canada:

> Had you predicted [in 2015] that the right to an assisted suicide would soon come to apply, not only in cases of physical pain but psychological, and not only to patients in the last agonizing stages of death but those who were nowhere near it – had you predicted, indeed, that a patient’s request to be killed would not even have to be repeated and persistent for a doctor to act on it, that the whole process could be telescoped into a single day – you would have been accused of “slippery slope” thinking.

> Had you predicted that, by 2019, just the third full year after it was legalized, nearly one in 50 deaths in the country would be by assisted suicide, even on the (almost certainly underreported) official numbers; and that, this having been accomplished, talk would turn to extending the procedure – not just to competent adults, but the mentally ill and even children – you would have been carted off.

> Yet that, incredibly, is where we are. The cautious, limited exceptions that people understood the issue to involve at the start – what most people understand it to involve even now – have been overtaken by an accelerating drive toward death-on-demand. Had the public known this was where we were headed, they might have objected. Instead it has been done in stages, a series of bait-and-switch routines in which the courts and legislatures have taken equal part.

> The irony is that the very foundation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Carter was that there was no such slippery slope.

* https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-our-cautious...

* https://archive.is/s5bPu

Would you consider killing newborns "involuntary euthanasia"? If so, then that would be an example advocation. Per Jerry Coyne:

> If you are allowed to abort a fetus that has a severe genetic defect, microcephaly, spina bifida, or so on, then why aren’t you able to euthanize that same fetus just after it’s born? I see no substantive difference that would make the former act moral and the latter immoral. After all, newborn babies aren’t aware of death, aren’t nearly as sentient as an older child or adult, and have no rational faculties to make judgments (and if there’s severe mental disability, would never develop such faculties). It makes little sense to keep alive a suffering child who is doomed to die or suffer life in a vegetative or horribly painful state.

* https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2017/07/13/should-one-be-allo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Coyne

If not "involuntary euthanasia", do you have an opinion of it 'should' be classified (if at all)?
There you have it, laid out the ways in which capitalism has a destructive effect on anything approaching an ideal system.

They want to corner the market and raise prices. That's how they think. That's the desired end-game for these ghosts in the machines, these corporations. Corner the market, raise prices, extract money while delivering the same value.

It's pure shit.

If you're still a fan of unrestrained capitalism in this day and age, you're a moron and a tool of the elite. You're probably a tool of the elite anyway, but at least do yourself the service of chucking the Koolaid into the dust.
"Don't abstract your code into functions! Just copy and paste it all over the place. That way, when you need to change the behavior of one of them, the rest don't break!"

/s

Abstraction is good. Surely anyone can see that having one copy of code is superior - technically, and from a standpoint of elegance - than duplicating it once per program. A huge amount of effort has gone into making this infrastructure work. This isn't just about disk space, or memory, or the ease of patching - it's about composability. I like that I can override behavior with LD_PRELOAD. If we think of our systems as a collection of unrelated, opaque blobs, then static linking looks seductively simple; but if we think of them as a network of interacting code that transcends application boundaries - vivisected and accessible, like a Lisp machine - then static linking is a repulsive act of violence against deeply held aesthetic principles.

If dynamic linking doesn't work well - if we've messed it up - that's a sign we should try harder, not give up.
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There was a period between about 2011 and 2014 when the fastest way to mine bitcoin was on a GPU and it did cause a shortage in cards:

https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/11/amds-graph...
There is no solution. Significant percentage of qualified youth is migrating to Northern Europe or US where there is short supply for high skill labor (doctors, engineers etc), the rest are just coasting with their families. Weddings and birth-rates are also plummeting, which indicates that youth also have low confidence about their future.

The reason that this structure exists is that older generations accumulated wealth in an era that economy was roaring, and the state was able to provide ample support (free higher education, healthcare, high pensions). This cannot be sustained with the current stagnant economies.

Only solution that I can think of is to embrace immigration, & impose tarrifs to imports from Asia, to restart low cost manufacturing & large scale agriculture in the south. This will also make available positions for high-skilled labor (engineers, mbas etc).

The uglier possibility is that the states collapse due to their unsustainable welfare policies, and everyone goes back to their fields for digging.
That BLS table contains all expenditure categories they track, including expenses which are not "ordinary" in BLS parlance, which is incorrect for these purposes. An expenditure is "ordinary" if the vast majority of Americans spend part of their income on it, regardless of how or how much people spend -- a lot of objectively luxury spending is classified as ordinary. In practice, ordinary expenditures captures every kind of reasonable living expense most people think of as typical for living in America, with no frugality implied.

The BLS calculates discretionary income by subtracting all ordinary expenditures from income in a given decile. Which is ~$1,000/month for the median household. Some of that leftover money may be spent on non-ordinary expenditures, like the odd expensive hobby or lifestyle flex, which is also captured in this table but is not included in the cost of living an ordinary life. I find this to be an eminently reasonable approach to inductively measuring the cost of an ordinary life without making a judgement if some spending is excessive or luxury. Spending money on a car is an ordinary expense, the BLS doesn't care if it is a Honda or a Ferrari, both are included.

This explains another apparent anomaly as well: ~35% of households have no meaningful discretionary income, yet only about ~15% (per Federal Reserve studies) have difficulty paying their bills. Because there is a substantial amount of luxury spending padding the ordinary costs of living, households in the 15-35% range have significant elasticity in how much they spend in some of these categories.
"I think that anything that causes a person to feel bad, particularly bad feelings that stem from internal causes, should be considered a disorder"

What if someone feels bad when they hurt someone else?

Should that be considered a disorder?

This is not just a theoretical question, as I've read that the military has been funding research in to whether drugs can be used to assuage feelings of guilt and distress some of their trained killers suffer from when they hurt/kill other people.

The military wants their soldiers to be more efficient killers and pesky feelings of guilt or suffering when they hurt/kill others gets in the way of that.

So should every source of negative feelings be extinguished, and should we all try to live life with a smile on our faces even when we engage in unethical or hurtful actions?
I find amusing that your reaction is exactly as described in their experiment: people have a favorable bias toward someone who stuck to his course of action even after multiple failures than someone trying multiple different approaches.

It's double amusing since the paper starts by outlining multiple cases where an administration of company stuck to decision to ultimate failure, yet the one example that you chose to single out is the one about president Carter being seen as waffling.
The D compiler takes about 25 minutes, GCC + D frontend tests takes about an hour.

There is absolutely a huge amount of room for performance in areas like this. With Python especially it's very common so think "Ah yes but numpy", when it comes to performance, and that is true in steady state where you are just number crunching, but there is mindnumbingly large amounts of performance left on the table vs. even a debug build with a compiler. Testing in particular is lots of new code running for a short amount of time, so it's slow when interpreted.
On desktops this is 100% correct. On mobile it sucks to have to ship stuff statically linked (or even dynamically linked) but included in the .apk or .ipa. But mobile is a different world, it is more like the past where every resource is constrained. You have limited storage (and storage is relatively expensive), limited memory, limited bandwidth (despite what the carriers want the consumers to believe), and the app stores impose limits too.
Its only "use" is to artificially inflate the total crypto market cap by effectively providing another source of leverage to crypto coin traders.

And no, it is not at all like borrowing against your house. You can live in a house, even if you secure a loan with it. If living in your house is your primary use case for your house, which is the case for a lot of people, that's totally fine.
You cannot "live" inside of your BTC. They are a token of value that is effectively useless to you if you cannot do the only thing that you can possibly do with a token of value: spend it for something else you desire to have.
I agree but MDMA is not comparable to marijuana or hallucinogens. It is structurally similar to amphetamine and there are studies suggesting that it causes brain damage even after a single use.
> (who I find are always rather disinterested with us plebs in "shit-hole" India)

It probably doesn't make you feel any better, but I ran into this attitude frequently when working from a satellite office in the US.

Teams worked in constant fear of a defrag (read: their jobs got impactful enough to pull the work into MTV), and we regularly referred to ourselves as a "vassal" office. Teams in the vassal would get assigned sustaining engineering work on systems that the MTV folks didn't want to maintain any more, or product development support work for low-end gear. I was told by a PM once, "how can your team contribute if you aren't in MTV?". There were too many examples to count, and enumerating them all would just turn into a grouch-fest. It also certainly isn't everyone on the campus, but incidents happened often enough to be a sore point.

So, yeah. They don't look down on you for being from India. They look down on you because you aren't in MTV.
there is no "eventual E-Waste issue" .. there has been an E-Waste issue for 20+ years. Ridiculous amounts of fresh water, electricity, transport fuel and other non-renewables have been poured into the PC industry since most here were born. The damage that this does is proportional to a few things, like the source of the electricity and the containment of the material and "end of life" .. Consumer electronics have been living way past their means for decades, but in the age of COMDEX Las Vegas, as long as the quarterly results match, few in a decision-making role actually care.
Sounds unpleasant..

Next time I feel like an unintelligent imposter, I'll remember this story, and be happy that at-least I won't break my brain this way.

(We can probably still stress our brains into dysfunction by other means, if we're not careful)
If advertised duty cycles aren't a thing, then every SSD, printer, and paper shredder is breaking the law.

I'm not aware of anything in magnusson moss prohibiting you from indicating a devices designed workload-- whether it's pages shredded per minute, pages printed a month, or TBW / DWPD. It is well known that flash has a limited lifespan and no court is going to rule that burning through those cell writes with a commercial workload somehow entitles you to coverage under an implied warranty.
"I’m fashionable once every 15 years, for about three months" - John Cooper Clarke
It’s notable how prevalent AGPLv3 licensing is all throughout the Fediverse. This, and the fact user accounts are decoupled from the federated frontends present a radically different incentive structure for providers compared to the traditional model of social media.

You can feel the impact this has when browsing PeerTube: eclectic videos — a good sign of a burgeoning ecosystem — but with video buffering rates seemingly decades behind YT.

I’m actually a huge fan of the fediverse. But if PeerTube in particular wants to hit it big, there are some serious scalability issues which need to be addressed, despite fediverse development being largely antithetical to profit.
> live a dignified existence

I think spending $340/year on a decent phone is pretty dignified. I think it’s comical to assume that dignity requires $1200/year in phone service.

I’ve lived in poverty, I’ve worked and fought against extreme poverty and I’m not sure your basis of reality. Poor people live in group settings. I’m not sure what advice you would give to help them as me saying “get a roommate” and you saying “$37k is not livable” have very different levels of usefulness.

I used a lot of help when poor (and still do now) and the most frustrating part was people who expressed their sympathy but did nothing to help me. I didn’t want empathy, I wanted food and safety. Of course I’d rather have both empathy and food, but if I have to choose one, you know what I and most will choose.
> If there's a security fix, I'd love to have `apt update` apply that fix for everything, and not worry about verifying that everything that might have statically linked it gets updated too. Although ideally the latter would be easy anyway.

While it is one failure mode, and a well-understood one, to end up finding that you've been owned by an application with a hidden dependency that had a security hole that you didn't know about, the "apt update" means that your ability to fix a security hole is now waiting on the time it takes you to update thousands or tends of thousands of programs, 99% of which you don't and never will use, against the One True Copy of the library.
Fixups are done by usermode code, which means the pages containing them can't be shared between different processes. The kernel has no visibility into what is being fixed up.

(Also, the fixups themselves could actually be different between different processes due to address space layout randomization.)
"The day of the dolphins" is both nearer and further away.
https://youtu.be/-ThyLB6bakk

Here is the “wicka moonlight”. Already 6.1K dislikes. I wonder why...
> google has something like 100B in assets

I'm confused, are these assets their offices or...real estate investments that they own for some reason? If these assets are just offices, what is the value to Google if those offices are worth more or less as real estate? It's hard to imagine that the market for a giant complex of offices is super liquid?
I asked this recently but the topic died before I got many answers. Basically, I’m not a cryptocurrency denier. I just don’t understand it. Do people want cryptocurrency because they want to spend it on stuff? Or do they want cryptocurrency because they want to sell it for other currencies? In other words, at what point will a cryptocurrency stand on its own as something that’s worth a pair of shoes? Instead of being something that people invest in to eventually sell for dollars with which they they buy shoes? Again- I know I just don’t understand. My original question:

1 point by theshadowknows 4 days ago | parent [–] | on: The Last Days of Satoshi: What Happened When Bitco...

Bitcoin and other crypto/alt currencies are so interesting to me. Partly because I do not understand them:
If I mow your lawn and you pay me in the locally accepted fiat then I can use that fiat to buy hotdogs and fuel for my lawn mower because the gas station itself will accept that fiat.
The gas station will accept that fiat because its vendors, creditors, and employees also accept it. And the chain goes on.
If however I mow your lawn and you pay me in bitcoin I'll need to find a gas station that accepts it. Many likely exist. But, how many of their vendors, creditors, and employees also accept it? Some, no doubt, but I'd wager not all would.
So, even though these currencies no doubt represent massive potential they're still somewhat limited in terms of adoption. Obviously this is becoming less true over time which I think is a good thing - competition isn't something fiat currencies tend to have to deal with, but they sure could use it.
My real misunderstanding is 'why' people accept these currencies in the first place. In other words - people accept a United States dollar because it is worth one United States dollar. However, it seems that most people accept bitcoin (or bitcoin fragments) not because they are worth some percentage of bitcoin but exactly because they are worth some amount of United States dollars. Is that true? Is the primary reason that bitcoin has become more popular that an investor can spend 10,000 fiat on it - wait a year - and then extract 15,000 fiat from it?
I feel like a luddite sometimes. I want to limit as much as possible how many devices I own that have access to the internet. My computer(s), HTPC, phone, game consoles, and that's it. There's no reason anything else ever needs internet access.
Never mind your video – turn *incoming* video off
Please provide evidence to the contrary instead of silent downvotes.
> If you need to handle different versions talking to each other in production it doesn't seem any harder to also deal with different versions in source

It's much more annoying to deal with multi-repo setups and it can be a real productivity killer. Additionally, if you have a shared dependency, now you have to juggle managing that shared dep. For example, repo A needs shared lib Foo@1.2.0 and repo B needs Foo@1.3.4, because developers on team A didn't update their dependencies often enough to keep up with version bumps from the Foo team. Now there's a really weird situation going on in your company where not all teams are on the same page. A naiive monorepo forces that shared dep change to be applied across the board at once.

Edit: In regards to your "old code talking to new version" problem, that's a culture problem IMO. At work we must always consider the fact that a deployment rollout takes time, so our changes in sensitive areas (controllers, jobs, etc) should be as backwards compatible as possible for that one deploy barring a rollback of some kind. We have linting rules and a very stupid bot that posts a message reminding us of that fact if we're trying to change something sensitive to version changes, but the main thing that keeps it all sane is we have it all collectively drilled in our heads from the first time that we deploy to production that we support N number of versions backwards. Since we're in a monorepo, the PR to rip out the backwards compat check is usually ripped out immediately after a deployment is verified as good. In a multi-repo setup, ripping that compat check out would require _another_ version bump and N number of PRs to make sure that everyone is on the same page. It really sucks.
This is cool.

Any reason you didn't use Singer or PipelineWise, with https://github.com/singer-io/tap-stripe as the source?

Your solution has the advantage that it's real-time. And I guess Stripe will retry webhooks if your endpoint is temporarily down.

But it seems like extra maintenance effort vs. a launching Singer with a cron script, or installing PipelineWise.
> As Serge Guelton said in a followup email, one of the reasons that Linux distros use dynamic linking is to reduce the disk usage and bandwidth requirement for updates.

There are a number of ways to solve the latter problem, though: dnf, for example, includes the ability to download only the diff between your installed RPM and the version you're upgrading to.
The "at our scale" is doing a lot of work there. Once you're split into different campuses I'm not sure why increased size makes remote harder.
https://paidleave.wa.gov/estimate-your-paid-leave-payments/

Washington can claim it does not have an income tax (for the purposes of subverting the state’s constitution forbidding it), but I do not see how money deducted from your income by government mandate is not a tax.
I don't think it's awful but I don't like it.

I really wish I could literally just dump LaTeX onto the web and be done with it. Everything I've tried either doesn't work (Pandoc is cute) properly / isn't 1:1, or does work but yields enormous amounts of html (pdf2htmlex).

I am fairly happy with [insert MD->Book tool of your choice], but sometimes I want citations and things like that.
Well remember when they scanned a bunch of books? Like all the books in a bunch of libraries?

That was physically turning pages, photographing them, doing OCR and then correcting that. By comparison create a library of public works in terms of audio to test copyright claims, and reject or put greater requirements on ones for public domain works would be relatively easy.
Before make any policy suggestions, first honestly admit its existence and admit it has nothing to do with slavery. And then you might find what caused it and how to fix it.