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I've posted before about why we're a great company to work for and I realized that nothing compared to mission, purpose, and why we exist:

We're fighting climate change by building better apps for farmers and the agricultural economy. If I didn't believe this was one of the most important problems of our generation I wouldn't put so much emphasis on this.

If you want a mission you can tell your grandchildren about, we're working on it right here, right now.

I'd love to hear from you and learn more about how you can work with us. Our stack is JavaScript/React and Python/Flask.

For reference, we're a Unicorn:

https://www.builtinboston.com/2017/09/26/agtech-startup-indi...

We work on agtech, the most underhyped sector in startups:

http://stateofstartups.firstround.com/2018/#trends-and-takes

CNBC named us the Most Disruptive Company in the world:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/16/indigo-agriculture-disruptor...

And our big climate goal is to use regenerative agriculture to sequester 1 TRILLION tons of carbon from the atmosphere:

https://www.indigoag.com/the-terraton-initiative

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Epic exposes Apple's efforts to persuade Netflix to keep in-app subscriptions
> > You dont need a token. No, really you dont. Your tokens only use case is likely to transfer value

> Other way round: transferring value to yourself is the only use case.

Everyone needs money. These tho claims are contradictory. If by creating tokens you can transfer value to yourself, it is clear use case and thats why people will keep creating tokens.
Currently Coil costs you 5 bucks a month and its distributed to the content creators that you consume on the basis of how long you consume them. The Creator must have a web monetization enabled website [1] to participate.
And you need either an add-on or a browser that has it integrated.
The creator can show/hide content based on whether you stream money or not (kinda like a paywall)

Its obviously intentional very simplified ATM because its rather new. There is long way to go before we can actually pay for exactly what we consume.

[1] https://webmonetization.org/

Old (2018) but fun: A Raspberry Pi ILP power switch (Turns on a light if money is streamed)
https://xrpcommunity.blog/raspberry-pi-interledger-xp-powers...
> PG isn't defending Mighty, Dropbox or Coinbase

Those are not needing defense. Those are quite mundane business.

Dropbox for one, everyone thinks it's useful. The controversial part is whether or not it's a good business. Turns out Dropbox is not so great a business. I mean, if Dropbox is in China, it will be crushed by copycats and die very quickly.

Similarly for coinbase. It's useful. The question was whether or not btc and crypto currency will be big enough for coinbase to be a great business. Of course, given the success in crypto currency, coinbase is a great business.

But neither of these are “crazy new ideas”. They are not even new ideas...
The issue was ISPs deliberately throttling individual sites, and then demanding them to pay up, mobster style.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-...

https://time.com/2871498/fcc-investigates-netflix-verizon-co...
I guess there's a reason redhat dropped to support btrfs.

I guess only facebook and suse are big users.
Scientists Supersize Quantum Effects with Entangled Drum Duet
The latter two are distinguished in Mandarin Chinese, the difference between ‘q’ and ‘ch’ in Pinyin.
In other words, “we were promised flying cars but ...”
You might as well celebrate stock buybacks.
AmazonFba was kind of successful to a degree, issue was the price point in that particular niche was just to small so advertising ate up a lot of profits.
Because the GGP is implying that ISPs opposed NN because they stand to anti-competitively financially benefit when there are other less diabolical reasons that are just as likely if not more likely.
If they are the only payer, they control the prices. And when prices are controlled, shortages are the result.
Those parade of horribles raise an awkward question - couldn't the lack of targetting of advertising make it even worse in several senses? We had the "punch the monkey/click here for viruses" in the past instead to monetize general targets when it was more niche. People forget /why/ Google won web advertising like they did.

The "badness" of the ads results from the selecting function and what becomes sustainable and favored. Infamously with spam and phone calls it can include outright crime.
Typical SLR cameras use a pentaprism which reverses both top and bottom and left and right optical paths to orient the image in the viewfinder to match the orientation we experience without it.

However, single lens reflex cameras without a pentaprism are not unknown. [1] They typically correct top-bottom orientation leaving left-right reversed. They are simpler, needing only a single mirrored surface. Most twin-lens reflex cameras also operate this way.

Though SLR designs became popular, rangefinder cameras avoid a great deal of the complexity and bulk of SLR designs at the potential expense of parallax issues. On the positive side, a rangefinder camera will typically allow seeing elements outside of the film area and tend to be more compact. One reason for Lecia cameras popularity.

[1]: The Graflex reflex cameras are an example, http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Graflex_reflex_models
Yeah, you'll have to add a method to whatever type you implement `Allocator` for that returns the size.

When you call `Vec::push` or `HashMap::insert`, it'll allocate on the heap if there isn't already capacity for it in the already allocated space. If the custom allocator you make just allocates one large space from the global allocator, then you can deallocate the whole thing at once in the `Drop` implementation.

There is limited documentation at the moment because the feature is still in flux, but take a look at `Vec::new_in` [0] to get an idea of how a collection can use an allocator.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.new...
> What do you make of the move corporations are making away from the use of patents, towards the use of a hybrid ‘trade secret + patent‘ sandwich? Is there a scenario where it does not stifle innovation?

I take that it's not happening to the extent claimed, and that those claims are largely self-serving propaganda used as justification for a legal land-grab.

Of course patent owners are going to argue that their patents should be valid for fifty thousand years, with the figleaf that it protects 'innovation'. What else would they say? That they'd like IP law tilted in their favour because it would make them more money?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24719416
This song (language is half French-half Creole) talks about this : Bat'Ker - Le facteur de Mafate : https://youtu.be/HguGsHrc4mU?t=7

It is a song about the Ivrin Pausé, the emblematic former Mafate Postman, who walked 253 000 km on foot (6 times around Earth) for 40 years between 1951 and 1991. He died two years ago in 2019.

I also remember learning that some people who grew up in Mafate have never seen the ocean. This is baffling given that the Island is not that large (40-50km wide)
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I believe that it may analyze the board for all possible piece placements for all pieces and then choose the piece that provides the least good solution.
I wonder if anyone had a long-held limit order that was filled due to the price appearing to be low.
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Pretty much everything you listed is a free consumer product.
(These APIs return Result, so an OOM would give an AllocError back)
PA/NA education is a complete joke compared to what your average MD gets.

They are not qualified to practice as general doctors at all.

However, they are really cheap, which is why corporations are pushing them so hard. Substandard care in the name of profits.
Once of the concepts I'm working on from a technical angle is making stable compute super cheap from an operational perspective and zero maintenance perspective. I can understand companies turning off games because costs grow beyond revenue, so it only makes sense to clean house.

http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/why-keeping-things-stable
Even with the narrow definition, you missed:

> in a way that's going to be detrimental to them.

A dentist recommending that I use more toothpaste may change my behavior, but not in a detrimental way. If the dentist is paid to make the same recommendation, it's more difficult to say whether they made the recommendation purely out of my best interest, so the definition begins to apply again.
The President of the United States supported it. There's evidence that the National Guard specifically wasn't deployed in order to increase the danger to the legislature.
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In scientific computations, it is often sufficient that the final answer is correct to a few significant figures. There are several reasons for this. One is that the model uncertainty is typically quite large (unless you are dealing with particle physics). Another is measurement uncertainty. Except for some unique scenarios measurements aren't going to have more than a few significant figures as well. So there isn't a big difference between 3.14 and 3.14159 and pi to 100 decimals.

I'm sure one can think of plenty of counter examples, but I'll give an example where floating point numbers are used heavily and you don't typically don't care about minor rounding issues.

Computational chemistry can be used to predict the geometry of molecules. The model used to make this prediction has to describe the interactions between the atoms, which is computationally expensive (solving Schrodinger's equation). So often times the molecule is only modeled in a vacuum and not as a liquid (where there would be many other molecules included). All of these add up that even if there was no IEEE-754 floating point error, the answer would still maybe only be right to +/- 10%.

So science is quite different from finance, where the main goal is to converse a certain quantity. Money shouldn't be created or lost though rounding errors.
How technically feasible would it be for Apple to design emergency drive access into the hardware? Even though the flash is soldered on, you could still picture some kind of connector that allows a special device to operate that part of the board independently of the other stuff on the board.

The special device could even be another laptop of the same model that supplies power. Disassemble both, connect a cable, and essentially "move" the drive to a different computer even though it's physically still unmoved.
For anyone wondering, the original implementation was on a PDP-11 clone called Electronika 60 https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_(Electronika_60) ... not the 1989 Game Boy version most people consider to be the "original" :)
Given the number of rocks Earth and Mars have exchanged it would be very surprising to find no microbial life at all on Mars, imo.
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Google is currently integer-overflowing on BRK.A's shareprice
The "but why" question was not pointed at visualizing 1TB of single cell RNA sequence data or collaboration. It was pointed at why you'd want to do it in a browser? Why wouldn't you be able to make links and share them from a native application that they can then open in their application?

Maybe I'm missing something in your problem statement but are you downloading all that 1TB in your browser window and changing parameters? If yes Mighty has to download that data too and considering that each user is sequestered, someone you're sharing this with will have to download all that too. If you're not and the visualization is running somewhere else and the result streamed to your system how does Mighty solve that problem?
I'm certainly looking forward to seeing how much cryptocurrency I can mine on Mighty, especially if they lower prices later.
We are still using it at TrueLayer (almost 200 users). Any good alternative out there?
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That is simply not true. Here are the explanations for all three at a middle school level. There is literally nothing interesting in those videos and interpreting them as evidence as Extraterrestrial Aliens is simply inexcusable at this point.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA&pbjreload=101
But it would be paid for by taxes spread across the tax-paying citizens. It would appear to all people in the US that their healthcare is free as they are not directly paying for it. Hence infinite demand.
> pretty much the definition of hindsight bias

This. The antidote is to revisit examples of "couldn't you just X" where X indeed prevailed. There are even instances where superseding technology was actually better, but it was too late to replace X.

My favorite example is Iridium (and the whole satellite internet industry so far, let's see what will happen with Starlink). It's one thing to remove friction, but only if the new cost structure is still favorable.

Disruption doesn't happen because new tech is better/cooler, it happens when it introduces competitive advantage.
It's not reasonable to expect that developers understand how everything works. There are billions of lines of code deployed that work for reasons that the developers either don't know or only think they know.

In this case, in my judgement, you only need to know about the delayed-ack/Nagling concepts if there's a engineering requirement to keep the flushHeaders call, and the 50ms latency is a dealbreaker (i.e. not merely a curiosity). Even then, it's not clear how to fix unless you can disable one of those features.
Driven by customer demand. And I agreed (then, before Edge came out).

Also, Sourcetrail made it so much easier to navigate the entire Firefox code repository and take in the entire design quicker.

The “hard” … part is the build, long build. Even with 24-CPU, creating and working with instrumentation API points often necessitate a very long but complete rebuild. Long builds eat into what we developers are most comfortable with, a tight turnaround build time. But that is a feature of C++ (and offtopically, Ada as well) even with vtable support.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcetrail
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BRK.A exceeded $429,496.7296 USD (32-bit integer denominated in hundreth of a penny). As such, Nasdaq and Google (and probably many other financial news sites) have completely broken on BRK.A's share price.

finance.yahoo.com correctly display's BRK-A's price: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BRK-A
The real irony of NN opposition is that the dial-up era, which one would otherwise characterize as exactly the kind of thriving market-based competition that conservatives love, only existed in the first place because the phone lines that these small providers used to operate their businesses were regulated as utilities.

In effect, we had net neutrality in all but name until the Internet started to move to other, more vertically-integrated forms of infrastructure like DSL and cable.

I would really love to see a Ted Cruz or Dan Crenshaw or some other disingenuous right-wing hack try to argue that, had it not already been illegal to do so, AT&T wouldn't have done the exact same things to AOL that Verizon and Comcast have gotten caught doing to Netflix.

(EDIT: At least, it would amuse me in theory. In practice, my blood would probably start boiling about 30 seconds in.)
Still one of my favorite videos ten years on. Always fun to see a fresh posting of it in the wild. :D
Entitled.

They want somebody to write, test and maintain a distribution that works without bugs and easy enough for newbies, on an almost bottomless pit of historical hardware.

You can have this. It's easy. Just hire a developer or two. Oh, you want it for free too?!

You don't have to argue with the many technical issues in the post, the author doesn't deserve the oxygen.
Might be a difference of opinion, but what do you propose as an alternative to funding free things like news sites, videos on the internet, and even cable television channels.

I'm not saying that ads are particularly ethical, but I struggle to think of a replacement that isn't more paywalls. This is an easy decision to make for people that have the money, but is much harder for the majority of Americans. A Vox article [1] estimates that this would add an average of $35 a month, assuming every US adult paid this cost (which is a bold assumption).

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/24/18715421/internet-free-...
> People already pay to not see ads its just cumbersome because every service needs a subscription or pro app or whatever.

People will pay if it's a frictionless payment of a small amount reflective of the value gained. Netflix did this with movies, Spotify with music, `crypto with everything?` if the tech and business models are worked out.
yes, relaxng of course is the better xml schema. schema was a leap from dtd.
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This absolutely happened. My parents, who have never heard nor cared about NN, had both their emails used by bots posting anti-NN comments. It was blatantly obvious to anyone who didn't have a stake in killing NN.
It's actually very easy, regulators are directly subordinate to congress and leadership is appointed by the president and confirmed by congress. The fact that people were willing to spend millions of dollars engaging in widespread fraud solely for the purpose of manufacturing the appearance of broad popular support pretty strongly suggests that you're wrong. The campaign directly targeted congressional offices.
The essay is really just self serving to keep stoking the YC starmaking machinery (see lyrics to 'Free Man in Paris' by Joni Mitchell). Keep people dreaming and some of the crazy ideas will hit.

People often forget that even Apple (or might not know if young) was not wildly successful and almost went bankrupt (or close to that) and had to be bailed out by Microsoft.

Also forgotten is that the quality of the execution matters a great deal. Dropbox or Coinbase w/o good execution and attention to details would not be where they are today. Ditto Color Labs with great execution would not work necessarily.
> Would I rather replay history and pay ~$120 every year (~$2400 ?) to search for web articles? No.

But that's an outrageous sum. I'm sure you also wouldn't sacrifice your first-born son on Google's altar either. Meanwhile, would you pay $5-10/year ($100-$200 total)? That would probably cut Google's revenue by two-thirds - one-third, but still they would have plenty. I believe FB averaged under $10/year/active user in all the years I looked at (which ignores the most recent years).

Meanwhile, I guess I'll just leave my adblocker installed and take the subsidy.
They're just doubling down on the crazy for their voter base. I had a brief conversation with one of them in a supermarket here in Arizona, and he informed me that he heard that Hilary was secretly hung last week, Gates and Fauci created the virus, and Trump and military are soon going to be "taking it all back".

He said he gets "underground news" and since he was in his 70s (at least) I just chalked it up to dementia driven delusions.
It's a zero, right? Easily verifiable by copy-pasting it in a Python or JavaScript interpreter.

It's pretty noticeable with the monospace font that used on my system because O is more like a circle and 0 is thinner. There is no slash, and it is fortunate because it could be mistaken with Ø otherwise.
Trump criticized the judge because he was a La Raza supporter. Trump felt the judge could not be impartial because of that, not because the judge was of Mexican extraction.
I wonder whether it would be better to just go with the nuclear option and kill the C extension model as it currently stands.

It would take probably decades for libraries to catch up, and maybe kill the language, but if it survived, Python would be so much more attractive for many kinds of projects.

Conversely, Python has a lot of niches, and works well for them. Incremental improvements are probably fine, even with the dreaded GIL.
Microsoft keeps cutting the cost of licensing Windows for VDI though. Microsoft 365 E3 costs $32 a month (when you're already probably paying them $15-20 per month, not a bad increase) and includes Windows 10 Enterprise licensing for VDI. $12 + compute (which we could presume is $30-ish per month for a VM similar to the one Mighty ships? depending on if you buy the servers vs go to a cloud provider, etc), and it seems like you could get there for the cost Mighty is charging for Chrome. You'd need a sysadmin to set it all up, so a service like Mighty where you could just show it you have the correct licenses and get a beefy VM turned up would be really nice (Microsoft is working on something, but who knows when it'll be out).

I read your article, and the technology sounds interesting. I also understand you pivoted from offering a simple VDI service, presumably because of licensing (and of course, everything I just said goes out the window if Microsoft decides to alter the deal). But for the worker who doesn't 100% live in web apps (I'm thinking of the legions of accountants who have 8GB of RAM tied up in Excel all day long) and needs more than their garbage corporate machine can handle, I don't see this being enough.

Maybe I'm wrong, and they'll hold me up as the next "Dropbox is just FTP with extra steps!" person. I would be fine with that. But maybe, just maybe, once the streaming tech is proven (it looks like it is, honestly), reconsider?
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Well here's how I did it.

Read everything on r/getdisciplined sorted by top all time. There are some good posts in there like No More Zero Days.

Read Atomic Habits. Great book about discipline.

And don't just read these resources, you have to apply them as well.
> The real fun of wow classic is running dungeons and instances with a guild.

This does nothing to solve the parent's problem:

>> But it gets super repetitive after a while. The quests are all minor variations of a few simple formats.

Instead, your proposed solution makes this much worse.

> A clean run of a 40 man Molten Core run is a hoot.

And this is an... unusual perspective. I raided Molten Core in WoW Classic (the recent release, not the original). It's a huge slog in which the only challenge is mustering the willpower to stay in there for the hours it takes to clear. Once my power cut out during raid, and it came as a big relief.
A lot of sounds are difficult even for a native speaker to distinguish in isolation. That's especially true for plosives, since they can't be held; you have only a moment to hear the difference.

Native speakers have the advantage in spoken conversation. They quickly understand not just the word, but the context. No native speaker would ever confuse "Give that document to Ted" with "Give that document to dead" since the latter is nonsensical. Even if you actually said "dead", most people would interpret it as "Ted" without even noticing anything odd about your pronunciation. (In fact, in a context like that between two vowels, it's entirely possible that you would keep your vocal cords buzzing and produce a "d" even if you'd meant to say "t").
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So 98% S and Z pieces and no squares or long 4x1s. Seems about right!