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Yes, the JIT has got to be the biggest difference. I wonder how node compares to pypy.

I think when GVR mentions "There's machine code generation in our future" that he is talking about a JIT
It was always a joke honestly, the kinds of customers who mandated IE11 were always more trouble than they were worth, even when IE11 was current.
Back in 2012-2013, I did a type of competitive debate in american high school called "policy debate". That year, the topic (which we debate the full year about) involved transportation infrastructure. At the time, my partner and I read an affirmative about how good mass transit is.

Randal O'Toole is the primary author of "mass transit is bad" style arguments used against us. It was so prolific that I had a counter piece of evidence titled "O'Toole is a tool" which just tried to character assissinate him.

What is he doing still being relavent and stuff? I had judges on my debate circuit that apperently knew him in real life and mentioned at the time that he was old...

Edit: for anyone that wants to know O'toole's canadian, extremely liberal equivilent who supports mass transit, I recommend you checkout the work of Todd Litman from the Victoria Transportation Institute. He wrote most of the evidence for "mass transit good" and has publicly feuded with O'toole multiple times.
We should start calling Bitcon etal cyber crime futures, since that's what it is. The only people that have to use it are crime victims and the people who are making money on it are criminals and speculators.
To make more money from investing than working you need a whole lot of savings. If by some miracle you can make 10% a year long term (and you haven't been poached by a hedge fund yet), and you need 100 k to live, that means you need to have more than a million in the bank ("more", because you want to compensate for inflation as well).
Well such things are to be expected since people cant work the land anymore. They dont own it. Writing code for Snapchat filters is infinitely more valuable than working the land.

In short, we've made out bed. Now we have lay in it, go to church and pray in it. We deserve everything we get.

Such is life. Such is dignity.
That's a pretty big difference. Makes the idea of a sales tax only kind of attractive since it doesn't disadvantage income over capital gains.
When I was a student in 2001, I was remote learning via a specialized satellite television system. I also had internet access and was unsupervised, so "cheating" was very easy, and I did so often. Yet I still managed to learn, very well. I put "cheating" in quotes because I think we need to redefine what cheating means to exclude looking up answers. And we need to rethink how we verify and measure learning. We should be encouraging students to look up answers, and teaching them how to do that. Instead of measuring what people know, we should measure what they can DO with what they know. Project-based evaluation and dynamic performances should replace problem worksheets and exam forms.
Depends on where they live, but our Asian enterprise customers are >70% on IE11, even with Edge installed on most of their machines.

In the US the number has dropped significantly over the past five years (it was >50% but is now under 25%).
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it should be illegal if the government wants to help recoup the losses.

If a have a firm that makes $100,000,000 a year in net-profit , paying a $5 ransomware is a cost of doing business, an unfortunate one nonetheless
Are there enough Infosec people to fill every open job for it in the USA? I would imagine that it is like software development, where the unemployed software devs are the kind that can't figure out git.
"pay with no sushi in the cafeteria?"

Look you mock french for many things, but food is not one of them
"If I'm not mistaken, the images cannot be zoomed in"

Do you mean the animated gif demo? It's 1835x983 pixels:

https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/f51f7990db97ba601d742e...
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Is there data for how much appraisals on a single house vary across appraisers, in general? The process seems pretty ... unrigorous.

EDIT: Here's another NYT article complaining about appraisals [1] and attributing a 50% increase in appraised price to the presence of blooming flowers in a formerly dormant garden.

There's also a very long thread about this topic at "AppraisersForum" [2]. It's an interesting thread if you're curious about reactions from appraisers themselves, though it seems to have sort of a Fox News tilt.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/your-money/decoding-the-w...

[2] https://appraisersforum.com/forums/threads/allegations-of-ap...
So if I'm allowed to put out 1000kg of CO2, and my neighbour as well for a total of 2000kg of CO2, hey, let me be zero emissions and emit 5kg of CO2. Hooray, it's better for the environment, the CO2 emissions are down 995kg!

Oh wait, I sold my credits to my neighbor, so total CO2 emissions are still 2000kg. Hooray, I'm saving the planet! Worship me! /s
You think Musk hadn't thought a few months ahead?
> So let people who aren’t experts at physical security suffer break-ins, and physically weak people get beaten up?

First, in many jurisdictions, paying protection money for physical security is illegal.

Second, Colonial Pipeline has an operating revenue of $1.32 billion. I suppose in the USA it's technically a person, but... it's not actually a person.

> We have law enforcement so everyone can be free to focus on their own value-add in life without having to learn 1000 skills to cover their own ass. I love security but 99% of people don’t, and shouldn’t

I submit that oil pipeline operators, hospitals, and large corps are part of that 1%.
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Intel coerces the big guys by gaming their supply chain.

A little startup will not have got the attention of Intel, and their total volume needs are much more easily satisfied by what they can get from AMD's limited delivery than a big player could be.
The title made me think it was going to be about creating a new language using Zig to build the compiler. I'm glad that wasn't the case.
A few suggestions:

The degree to which it's difficult to admit you're wrong is probably aligned with the manner in which you asserted whatever it was you were wrong about. If you dug in your heels, or were assertive without good reason... it might be the posture that is as hard to back down from, as much as the thing you were trying to convey.

If you assume the best of someone else's effort to communicate, and you step in incrementally into what you're trying to convey, it's easier to back off. If you've wholesale essayed a long and intricate point, you've also built the hill on which you're standing, and may topple from.

Being aware of the scope of what you're trying to convey can also make it easier to create loosely coupled assertions, each of which are more flexible than if you've tightly coupled (in language) the things you're trying to tie together.

And, of course, being aware of your ego demands. If things are rising, why? If you're hot, why? If you're speaking, have you listened? Using mindfulness to see things as they are may help you before you even do the thing you may need to admit was wrong, later.
The efficiency of the hashing algorithm is irrelevant in Bitcoin, because the difficulty of finding a new block auto-adjusts to keep new blocks coming at a fixed 10-minutes interval.

If hashing gets faster, miners will just hash more, until the
block reward approximates the total cost of operating the mining rigs (which is dominated by the cost of electricity).

These block rewards halve every 4 years, but Bitcoin's price has been increasing faster. Consequently, power consumption kept increasing and will likely continue to increase.
> stop writing CRUD structs and junk. Use a framework that understands your schema / data storage system. Declare what you need done, then let application definitions do the work.

Which frameworks have you used successfully?
There's a built-in HTML tag for this that traditionally uses the dotted underline. Looks like it doesn't do that on all browsers, though, these days, but it's a CSS tweak to add it. Behavior also seems worse than it used to on some browsers—safari makes you hover for a little to see the expanded definition, while I recall clicking to see it before, which is better.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ab...
The first installment of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish universe is a time dilation story in the style of a folk tale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dowry_of_Angyar
A peer-to-peer distributed ledger isn't needed for decentralization. It's just how Bitcoin does it.

Also, I used github and its number of forks because it's the number I can easily work with. I have no clue how many copies of our tree are floating out there, nor is there a way of finding out.
It all depends on this company surviving
So i take it that the involved crypto addresses should be in a blacklist database somewhere? Who if anyone is monitoring all these ransomware addresses? There are probably thousands of addresses by now.
I thought you were kidding and then I looked it up: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/latest/A64-F...

Seems kind of gross to me to have such a language specific instruction to be honest.
When you mention thresholds you also have to say that they are not medical but administrative. For many substances medical, desirable, values are zero. For example, lead: "There is no safe threshold for lead exposure" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27837574/

There simply is no feasible way to have "zero" of pretty much anything today though. The molecules are out there and there time flows only in one direction. So thresholds simply mean that above that is when something can be done about it. If environmental levels rise thresholds would have to rise too because what can you do if it's everywhere? No use having the option to sue someone, including government, when it's out of there hands. Things like mercury or lead in the environment are global (even higher levels can be found in the arctic -- https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/122855-a-better-understa...).

So for better or worse, life on this planet will have to adapt. There will only be action on the edges, when it gets so bad that it cannot be ignored. All the many small long term effects can't even be properly studied, because what do you compare with when it's everywhere and it's impossible to isolate only one or few chemicals' effects?

.

So, in summary, citing thresholds in a medical discussion is pretty much just a distraction at best. It's for discussions about what to do, or what can you do (legally). The values of the thresholds don't easily or directly translate to "it's safe". Of course they are taken into consideration when threshold levels are set, but only as one factor.
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Funding doesn't work like that. It's not "we have to settle for 9% return instead of 10%". Everything is done at the margin.

So if someone prices out a project where they can expect 10% return but now you tell them they are only going to get 9%, then the risk may not be worth it.

You may not think like this, but I guarantee you the people in charge of allocating capital do think this way.
Stop using them too, then. I already did.
Your explanation was a bit unclear in the beginning but I think I got the point. From my perspective, you're describing two skilled coders (neither bad) but asking about the speed tradeoff, neither being bad.

I try to be that ideal programmer that switches between being both the fast or slow programmer and situationally adapts depending on the climate of the product and the company.

Who would I hire?

The ideal programmer if I can find it but otherwise, I'd just hire a mix of both.
If you will enjoy the book, I would recommend reading also the sequel "What Do You Say After You Say Hello?". It is much less famous, probably because it was published posthumously, but I liked it even more. It needs to be read later, though, because it heavily references the "Games People Play".
> If some kind of software was provided by the attackers, and Colonial installed it, this could be far from over.

To be fair, malicious code has already ran on the affected machines, so if the ransomware authors wanted to do further damage they wouldn't need a malicious decryptor to do that.

So you'd either:

1) not trust the ransomware authors, rebuild everything from scratch (potentially paying the ransom and reverse-engineering the decryptor or running it isolated from the internet) and make sure to not carry over any executable code that could allow potential malware to persist

2) trust the ransomware authors and not rebuild everything, in which case you may as well run their decryptor
I can't believe the article doesn't even mention New Zealand, where "eh" has become "ih" (or "eeh") right across the vocabulary. It's the most striking thing an American tourist hears from arrival on.
That's a non sequitur. Certainly law enforcement should aggressively pursue criminals who engage in assault, burglary, and extortion. But that has nothing to do with paying off ransomware gangs.
Unless I'm reading that graphic incorrectly, isn't it only a $24m delta? i.e. credits + bitcoin profits are only $24m greater than their operating profit?

On the scale of Tesla, that feels like a tiny amount - for which they'd dip into their war-chest and not slow anything down at all?
It used to be you could see what cards were in a Magic the Gathering booster without opening it by pushing each card one at a time to the edge of the pack and shining a bright light behind it. The edge of the packaging was white, so the name of the card would shine through.

I think most people into collectible card games know boosters aren't to be trusted in general.
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That's pretty easy to say when it's not e.g. your child being held for ransom.
I get that. The important bit is that there are a lot of other important concerns besides the type system--tooling, ecosystem, ease of finding/onboarding collaborators, etc. Personally I think Rust is the only of these languages which ticks most of these boxes, and even then Rust makes you think about ownership all the time. I think there's space for a GC'ed Rust ("Rust-lite") or an OCaml with a familiar syntax and really great support (last I checked, ReasonML is still a confusing mess). Maybe Go will get generics and sum types and it will be close enough?
I have no idea, I've just seen it in several places :)
You don't need extinction events for it to be an advantage for seeds to be more resilient.
>but no one is seriously proposing to hook up empty spaces to HSR.

The California HSR plan begs to differ.

>Since HSR works in France to connect those cities, it should generally work equally well in the US to connect those cities.

Only if people routinely travel to those cities rather than further away cities.
Here we have a coordination problem, like the prisoner’s dilemma. People who pay ransom are the defectors, improving their situation at the cost of making the problem much worse for everyone.

If fewer people paid ransom, ransomware would be less profitable and would happen less often and we’d all be better off.

The government can help coordination by making defecting more costly (with criminal penalties).
> rural voters who don't want high speed rail, even though they would benefit from it greatly,

It's not clear to me how a rural voter (I guess the 'voter' part is because these are publicly funded works) really benefits. Once a year vacations to the beach? Shopping trips where you are limited to what you can manage on foot? Visits to a specialist doctor?

Since the sense of rail depends on regular use, I guess all that's left is commutes from a dispersed area to a central one. You have to wonder how much telecommuting will decrease the need for that over time.

One good thing about rail is that you are allowed to do it piecemeal. There's bound to be somewhere that needs a point A to point B bullet train.
I suspect one would need bigger problems than autism to willingly give up, forever, the opportunity to experience life's most basic pleasures: walking, wind, water, grass, trees, flowers, sunlight, food, and other people.
For many companies, security threats are all theoretical, but they are required to have the positions to meet some compliance requirement. They need to have them, but don’t really want them, which would explain the lack of enthusiasm (as demonstrated by the low salaries) in getting the jobs actually filled.

Also, a lot of infosec positions are just chugging through audits and ticking boxes to say whether you have some control in place or not. Those are more clerical positions that don’t require deep technical knowledge that could command a higher salary.
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Github is a completely optional thing though. If it were to die tomorrow, everyone still has the code locally, and code sharing is still very much possible.
I think everyone hates to admit they were wrong about a topic they care about. There have been a lot of studies about confirmation bias.

I like to play devil's advocate. I think it's also important to acknowledge that your opinions are not you. Separating them from your identity allows them to change more easily.

https://moveyourcompanyforward.com/2020/11/03/four-ways-to-o...
It’s not about being pampered or shielded from the world. There is a difference between a) being challenged, being put into competitive environments, and having access to a wide range of experiences and b) having negative childhood events or trauma.
> How would you define "the old social structures"

They're social and cultural beliefs that used to be accepted by corporations and the media but are now not. For example, unequal outcomes doesn't imply discrimination. Some cultures are better than others. There are widespread physical and psychological differences between men and women. These are common beliefs that are still common, but people are afraid to voice them.

> Do you think they are good/bad/benign.

Any extreme ideology is bad. Requiring strict gender roles or saying whites are superior is extremely harmful. But so is flagrant discrimination against whites or other similar things. What is bad is allowing one extreme while suppressing the other.

> Do you they are still present/fast fading/already gone?

I read some studies somewhere that stated that conservatism and liberalism are inate character traits that never really go away in a population. This means that changes in the visibility of such traits is largely a function of how much power one side or the other can gain. This means that in the 50's, liberalism was just as popular as now but they didn't have the power.

Now its swapped. Liberalism has the power, the corporate support, the narrative. But that doesn't mean that conservatism is any rarer than before. This power asymmetry increases the chances of conflict. See the affect of the Culture Wars on our political system.

I want to emphasize that my personal opinions don't matter much at all here. But if corporations continue asymmetric political pressure, there will be pushback. What will the repercussions of such pushback be?
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I am indeed saying DDD wasn't proposed as a solution to the problem because the problem didn't exist.

I even call that out in the post you're responding to - "Every place I've encountered it, it was attempting to fix with process something that needed to be fixed with culture." And then expound how places with the right culture didn't see value in DDD, and places with poor culture tried to band-aid over it with DDD. As I comment elsewhere, that's not an indictment of DDD as a practice, just that when orgs seek to adopt it it's indicative of a problem, one that DDD won't fix.

>>> Starting to jog is a smell that you're out of shape, if you were in shape you wouldn't need to start jogging.

Let me rephrase that, since it's not 'starting to jog', but 'jogging'. Trying DDD (because of purported benefits) is different than continuing to use DDD (because of actualized benefits).

So "jogging is a smell that you're out of shape; if you're in shape you won't be jogging". And that's patently false.

What I think you're trying to say is that jogging will help keep in shape people in shape, and will help out of shape people get into shape as well, yes? Which would equate to "DDD can help effective software orgs stay effective, and ineffective software orgs become effective". Which is a reasonable claim, but one I've simply not seen; I've not encountered an effective software org that used it, and all the ones I've encountered that used it were ineffective, and, at least during my tenure there, remained so.

>>> One of the ideas that DDD pushes is that product and dev should be closely aligned.

It may try to push that idea, but it does nothing to help it occur. It's implicit, but no more than anything else software related (in that to build something the builders have to know what to build). Certainly, if you asked anyone, using any process, whether or not it's a good idea to have product and dev -unaligned-, they would say "of course not! As a practitioner of X I certainly believe they should be aligned".
Yeah, sure, but why is it coming up 25 years later?
> Noticing malware after it's installed based on a hash isn't any better than eg windows defender. The App Store doesn't help with that at all.

False. Once a scam has been detected, the developer account can be disabled, which adds cost to new attempts, unlike windows defender.

> Nope, lots of people knew it was happening for years before Apple actually stopped it and it happens with other libraries still.

That doesn’t change anything.

>No, because that would enable social engineering attacks once again.

> People still get tricked into installing CA certs which is just as effective since everything has to be done in a browser due to the App Store restrictions.

> So no this hasn't prevented social engineering attacks,

A false statement. Many kinds of social engineering attacks have definitely been prevented.

> it's only changed them

Here you admit that significant classes of attack have been prevented.

Your argument is that because not all attacks have been prevented, there is no value in preventing attacks.

This is an obvious fallacy.
Its not the computer. WE have a application that only runs on IE11. Our computers are windows 10. We use edge/chrome for everything else but 1 application still runs on IE11.
The 5M ransom plus all the other damage such as reputation loss, increased government scrutiny and potential damages to pay to partners (I'm sure they provide some sort of SLA for their oil delivery services?) is a good enough deterrent from allowing this to happen again.
I think I agree. The problem with a traditional TCG is that there's a small set of cards. One could imagine a really cool NFT based game with only unique cards, and permadeath rules that cause you to actually lose the card when used or lost or whatever.
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Paul Graham on Twitter: "Antonio García Martínez is actually a good guy. He might write the occasional shocking thing for effect, but he'd never, for example, organize a petition to deprive someone of their livelihood."

..followed by:

"So you feel, in a world of properly run companies, he should never work again?"
It’s usually a certificate issue: if you install Firefox things should mostly work.