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It's been seven years since I've tried writing any Latin, so you should assume this is butchered. (edit: I think it's less butchered now)

codex bonus a discipulo prendatur

codex magnus a novo prendatur

codex optimus nullus est

Part of the problem is I couldn't find any good word for "code". "Codex" sounds cool but may not be the best fit here.

EDIT: Forgot a word. Also, I think "prendere" is better for "understood" here than "scire", which is more like "to know".

EDIT2: My friend suggested using the subjunctive for "comprehend" so that it's "may be comprehended" instead of "is comprehended". Also I got the tense wrong initially and I think that's fixed now.

EDIT3: "Ablative agents" are a thing. This is a rough language. Thanks, James.

EDIT4: prendar -> prendatur; aka "oops, should have used third person"
But this only applies for messages that are deleted on your local device (either manually or through an automatic timer). Otherwise, whatever adversary stole your keys can steal your message archive too, they're on the same device. Now, assuming you aren't going to be deleting most of your mail, I don't see how forward secrecy is "such a big deal" in this scenario. It's certainly nice to have, but it definitely has drawbacks wrt the features I mentioned earlier.

Post-compromise security, on the other hand, makes more sense, since the future messages don't exist yet.
Audit is Latin for "I hear" (think "auditorium", "audience", "audition"). If you think about it an audience with a lord, a legal "hearing", and an academic lecture are in many ways similar.

Later the meaning of audit branched/changed, and one common modern sense of the word is to do a thorough examination of something, comparing results against specification. I speculate that it first became a technical specialized legal term (in a context where it was originally still about a hearing in court), and then mutated as it filtered back out to people who didn’t know the word’s origin.

The "audit" in "audit an academic course" (meaning to attend the course without obtaining a credential) branched from the original sense of the word.
Happened to me as well. I got a Asus ROG Strix G15 laptop on 13 May(this month) and upon clearance from Sri Lankan customs (where I live) the UPS agents discovered that the contents was missing. UPS notified me this and report this to Amazon. They(UPS) held the package with them and didn’t deliver it to me as it was empty.

Even in the commercial invoice the gross weight of the laptop package was just 1.81KG! The laptop itself weighs about 2.3KG!

When I connected Amazon support they basically said that the package was delivered and they did an investigation the the weights are correct as well.

The UPS has filed a claim with Amazon and Amazon is not responding to UPS even and insists I obtain a police report. I didn’t even receive the package. Shouldn’t UPS and Amazon sort this out?

We are under lock down due to COVID and I can’t go to a police station to make the complaint.

Now I don’t have the laptop or a refund…

This costed me about 1700 usd with shipping. It’s not a cost I can afford to just write off.
They are racial chimeras.
Changing between majority and minority based on the speakers preferences.
Family gave up their home, job and school for a nomadic life
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The problem here is that there is no bright-line distinction between "friendship corruption" and "doing high-quality collaborative research in a small field where colleagues are cordial."

I'm not saying that one can't bleed into the other -- sometimes they do. I'm saying that any approach you take that disincentivizes the bad behavior is also likely to harm good scientific collaborations as well. It's one of the downsides of peer review.
WTF? I was definitely bullied by kids 2 years ahead of me.
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> They don’t run corrections based on the number of simulations they run, they don’t take into account other variables, etc

I think this looks like a bigger problem specifically because you are in AutoML.

Suppose you are training a GAN. There's notoriously a certain amount of luck involved in traditional GAN training, because you need the adversary and the generator to balance each other just right. So people try many times until they succeed. Probably they were not even recording each attempt, so they do not report how many times they had to run before getting good results.

From an AutoML point of view, this is BS work - the training procedure cannot be automated, and (apart from using the actual seeds) the work cannot be reproduced.

But from the point of view of everyone else, maybe it is fine. They get a generator model at the end, it works, other people can run it.
One strategy I've used is to bake a raise into the negotiation. This raise should automatically kick in when the company reaches some measurable goal (MRR, ARR, MAU, whatever...not profit, not VC funding) or a certain amount of time has elapsed. The 'or' is important here as the time component should reflect your worst-case expectation for getting the raise.

There are a couple important things to keep in mind here:

1. You have to trust the other party to some extent. You have to be willing to believe they'll be up-front about the metrics and willing to execute the raise.

2. You have to be willing to work at the lower rate at least until your time component kicks in. Despite any growth projections, do not count on meeting the first criterion before the time component.

Let's use your situation as an example. You'd like to get to $35/hr, but you're willing to work at $30/hr. You've already anchored $40/hr so negotiating a follow-up raise to $35 should be doable.

Let's assume the company has 500k MAU. You might suggest a raise to $38/hr when the company reaches 1MM MAU or after six months of FTE.

If they're not willing to engage in this level of negotiation, that's fine. You've lost very little in terms of leverage and you can still take a more traditional approach.

If they are will to engage, then you have a few more knobs to turn in the negotiation process.

Of course the main risk is they'll renege on the contract, but that's always a risk (I'm assuming this is an at-will contract). You should be prepared for that. But, if they're an ethical employer and you do a good job, I bet they'll be willing to pay a bit more per hour to keep someone who now has a decent amount of domain knowledge and proven themselves to be competent and reliable.
Even worst is the meme that “programming is just copy+pasting from stack overflow”
In that particular case, I wouldn't say "the virus jumps directly to humans", because it is already a human-specific virus, just with a different spike protein. It may evade preexisting immunity (or maybe not, since the spike protein isn't the only point of attack), but that's about it.

SARS-CoV-2 is decidedly nothing of the sort, the entire thing is unknown, while it has some resemblance to bat corona viruses.

Viruses that pass through cell cultures are usually getting weaker, by the way. You'd have to "pass" them through actual human subjects to actively increase their pandemic potential. That would not only be unethical but also very difficult.
> If I'm awaken at 2am from being on-call for more than once per quarter, then something is seriously wrong and I will either fix it or quit.

Yes, something is wrong. But it could be many things. Here is how you can find out:

1. Is the thing that's broken a bug in your code? Then it's your fault, so fix it. This means you need better testing too, and maybe a redesign to resist failures. Try to get alerts at 9am in dev so that they don't come in at 2am from production.

2. Is the thing that's broken a server thing that Ops is supposed to deal with? Probably you should quit. You can also work with Ops to redesign the server stuff to be something less prone to failure. Often Ops can't do this themselves because they don't know enough about how your apps work. Go talk to them, help them out. Or quit.

3. Is the thing that's broken a false alarm, or not important? Quit. Or work with Ops to create better alarms and tests. Ops doesn't know your app, so you need to help them craft the SLIs and SLOs.

4. Did Ops create all these alerts themselves without your involvement? Quit. Or take ownership of the tests and alerts for your apps.

5. Is it a huge slog to try to figure out how the alerting works, to work with Ops to make changes, to add tests, or to figure out what's broken or not and troubleshoot it? Definitely quit.
A quick note on Crunchy Bridge, it is pure Postgres, not "based" on Postgres. We haven't forked or modified code at all. And some of the above (Timescale) are extensions which do not change Postgres, but hook into the extension APIs.
I had Hof as a cognate to "hall", but that's not correct, it primary cognate is "hovel".

But there's a modern meaning of "pub" — via Korean!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12_U4TBppd8

https://blog.woleet.io/woleet-singlefile-extension-bitcoin-p...
I think this is exactly the implication.

The amount of people pouring into AI, or more specifically to Neural Network version of AI is unnatural, and it resembles a bubble in the classic economic sense.
Netbooks had one enormous advantage: they were cheap. That also means they are expendable. I used one (Acre Aspire One) as my mobile workhorse for quite some time and it never felt unusable. Of course, the tests an i5 runs in 30 seconds the Atom runs in 2 minutes, but you can spend that time thinking what to do next.

Now you can get a reasonable entry level laptop for more or less the same price, so, even if the name is no longer a thing, the product is still quite available.
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For fully managed (similar to Heroku Postgres) Crunchy Bridge [1] supports replicas across regions including say EU to AU. Which would actually couple really well with Fly.io for the app side.

- [1] https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge/
> when you really need that bill, you definitely want it and want it quick.

Seems very unlikely & it's a very improbable event and if it does happen, say you have "all your bills for the last 3 years" jumbled up together it'll take a minute or two to find it anyway. Vs filing each one carefully..
Yes, people like it (for a while). This is why it works. But it gives Amazon more tools to abuse their market power.

The cost is high though. Amazon is already much lower quality than they were 10 years ago.
Imagine the quota’s they must have: “10,000 likes or we send you to the reeducation camp!

/s but in all seriousness, they have to put up suicide nets at Foxcon, imagine the pressure on the Chinese social media team to prop up the image of a genocidal regime.
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Came here to post exactly this quote. I've never seen a wiser drunk. So lucid, and so relatable.
Had the same thought, it made video's like this: https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg

Looks like it's still a thing as well: https://www.nawmal.com/
I find this back and forth weird. It seems to me that you are saying that the air strikes did not make the revolution successful because it also needed troops on the ground to be successful.

You are also saying that they were not material in its success. I would argue that the revolutionary ground troops would have suffered more losses if Gaddafi had had air support but the revolution didn't. Nevermind the tanks and such destroyed by NATO via air strikes. Potentially enough to make the revolution fail.

Is that not material?
Sellers compete for the "buy box", inflating prices through Amazon requirements. That seems fair enough, but why then are the "other sellers" never cheaper, at least in my experience? While the buy box might have the costs of shipping and FBA baked in, the other options don't yet they're universally a worse deal all in. More often than not they're the "gimmicky" types of deals where the base price is "less", but the shipping is absurd.

Conditions like "don't sell cheaper elsewhere" are gross across the board, but the fundamental point doesn't seem valid.
My model for people who "know what they're doing" is that they tend to have a well-organized hierarchy of rules. At the base are principles; at the top are opinions.

The foundation tends to be pretty simple, deeply held, and unchanging, while the higher levels are increasingly fluid and specialized. The higher you get on this stack, the more "making it up as you go along" it becomes, but every improvised part is perched on something more stable.

They key to "knowing what you're doing" is organizing this hierarchy well, having the right supports in place to successfully guide improvisation and course-correction while steadily fortifying the foundation.
I believe Vladimir Putin referred to that as “a managed democracy“
In big tech's utopia, real artists don't have to beg for tips thanks to cat videos.
Yeah, I don't think there's anything special about working in tech. I've seen the same exact dynamic happen in lots of other fields. People who love cooking and become professional chefs only to leave after a few years is extremely common, for instance.

So much so that I would have said it is pretty common advice that if you try to turn a hobby you love into a job, there's a good chance you'll end up losing your passion for it.
Unfortunately I can't share a demo or docs as this is NDA work we did for the client (and the commerce is still in alpha).
But basically you're right. We would create a new checkout page (for the link) that would show the items of the cart (through the Commerce Platform API) and with the credit card fields shown (that would be later sent to the gateway). The link is for the checkout, so you'd have only one per cart/client and it has a timed session.
It's amazing how writing with a certain tone can totally change how people would react to basic facts. Not that Stoller doesn't manipulate basic facts anyway. The A brief word on numbers is hilarious given his preceding paragraph.

I do agree that Amazon shouldn't be allowed to force sellers to price match on Amazon, though.
Because you’re on the same wifi network behind a NAT and have the same public IP?
Feels arbitrary. You don't group oil painting with mechanical engineering why group Math with Beauty?

This isko organization... if they do indeed follow pierce is incredibly strange. Case in point: https://www.isko.org/cyclo/peirce1.jpg

Philosophy is under mathematics which is not under logic? Philosophy is like literature it is entirely a separate category and logic isn't even mentioned in his arbitrary grouping.
I also disagree with the quote. I think it's fair to say that the goal of Computer Science is to generally improve computing, but the purpose of astronomy is not to generally improve telescopes, nor biology microscopes, etc.
> Amazon is already much lower quality than they were 10 years ago

Could you expand on 'lower quality'? I personally have not noticed this.
Exactly. The past is past. Want to dig into what China done in the past too?
> Conditions like "don't sell cheaper elsewhere" are gross across the board, but the fundamental point doesn't seem valid.

It's Matt Stoller. The point is the tone, not the facts/interpretation being valid.
I built a similar project (https://github.com/taylorconor/inkymon) using an Inky wHAT e-ink dev board [1] connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero, which seems to be the same display as used here.

It's really not fit for this calendar / todo list use-case. It's not possible to get much information density on a 400x300 two-tone display. No anti-aliasing or hinting on the fonts, for example. So you either need great eyesight or very few todos :)

[1]: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-what.
Yes, but SARS-CoV-2 can't have come from any of those papers or grant proposals directly. It has never been sequenced before.

If it evolved in a lab through any kind of "gain of function" research, this must have happened completely off the radar. The existing evidence just doesn't prove anything. On the contrary, the evidence that there was "gain of function research" going on with viruses that weren't nearly identical to Sars-Cov-2 makes it less likely that this virus originated from such research.
The people I know who own electric cars can sit in them and watch a movie while it charges. That is not much of a captive audience.
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I don't get why Amazon doesn't allow the customer to chose between multiple available shipping carriers. They do for returns, which is fantastic and one of the reasons I love buying on Amazon, because I can always chose to pick the carrier that has the office 1 minute walk away from my home that is never busy, instead of being forced to drive to some remote store and stand in line.

If Amazon gave these choices to customers for shipping, it would apply pressure to shipping carriers to improve their service, as people would experiment and pick the best ones and stop picking bad ones. Eventually a bad carrier is forced to improve to not lose revenue. And Amazon would get way happier customers, who can pick what is best in their region, and they would have a massive advantage over smaller shops.
Who decides who the "right people" are and what makes them correct?
Google and youtube are the same company, so it's not exactly surprising that they'd share data. As for whether it's creepy, I'd say it isn't because you explicitly gave up that data. This is slightly different than something like google/facebook tracking you via third party cookies, because that involves no consent at all.
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The reason Amazon can charge so much for its fulfillment services is that it often delivers the product next day.

I run a print-on-demand company, dropshipping for merchants. For me to deliver a product next day (or even two-day) costs many tens of dollars. The fact that I can buy a $7.95 item on Amazon and have it profitably delivered in a day or two is absolutely incredible. It should be lauded, not punished.
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The commingled inventory problem is seriously a United States thing, from what I have heard. It is a frustrating situation here in the US where lots of spoilable goods are available on Amazon but if you purchase them, they are spoiled. Deodorant, cereal, protein bars, tape, everyone has stories.

A Japanese friend said he could Amazon order a particular variety of candy and it would arrive next-day in good condition and I felt jealous. In America there really is no such service for ordering food or spoilable items online.
Here's a clip of Fred Dibnah (steeplejack) climbing a chimney without any safety gear - https://youtu.be/T00zEt1-3VA?t=784

"I were criticised for saying I'd had a few pints before I climbed up... well I'd say you want to try this bloody job sober!"
If US Gov. isn't allowed on Chinese media, why doesn't the US just outright ban any ops. from China on Western Social media, and put some teeth behind it?
Yes I'm doing that all the time. There is no good TTS on Linux so I often have to use online tools. I need to try some of the cloud providers TTS systems, their demo sound great.
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Sorry, but when I’m in an aluminum can 35k feet in the air, I don’t want “inherently violent” people there with me or people with such poor impulse control that they might snap at anything they perceive as extreme.
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OTOH the PolarDB specific changes seem to be contained enough that if you decide to run it in production, you can probably just apply most of the changes from the v11 branch yourself.

But I agree it's not a very good look to code-drop something on a .2 release when there's been 2,5 years of fixes.
I've helped found multi-million dollar companies that I left before I could "cash out" because they were desktop based companies working with technology I considered growing stale and I wanted to switch to the web.

Now I'm doing the same thing with another company with the web, expect I'm handling everything as a sole-engineer, full stack.

Here I'm dealing with creating an Angular application to replace an aging ASP.Net MVC app, having to rewrite hundreds of SOAP services into a proper REST architecture, and dealing with an Oracle database who's schema we need to keep in place. With a C# .Net Core back-end.

This company needs me, badly, but I doubt this is going to be come a cash cow either (no equity, just a paycheck, and their budget is tight).

Just doing my job as usual.
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Nice discussion!

> I guess to answer my own original question, it sounds like you’ve swung back and forth a few times?

Indeed, I couldn't decide if I want industry or academia. What I (think I) want is to experience the whole innovation pipeline, from TRL 1 to 9. I'm now working 80% in industry and 20% in academia, and it satisfies my intelectual needs, both to explore moonshots and to get sh*t done. :)
The criticism may depend on different values of "making it up as you go along", i.e., it may not mean so much "just wing it in ignorance" vs something like "even if you have many answers you don't yet have all of them, and new answers generate new questions exponentially...". So, perhaps less "everyone's ignorant" vs "we're all living in a land of many unknowns". But, yeah, he did find it disillusioning, and maybe is over-generalizing from a one-off experience (in contrast, I've done similar and was nothing but impressed, finding it is extremely valuable to learn from the best in a field).

How do you distinguish between what you do and "making it up as you go along"?
The craziest thing I’ve ever seen with targeted advertising (on iPhone) is when I was vacuuming the room one day & as soon as I finished & opened Safari, was seeing ads for Vacuums

I hadn’t even ever said the word ‘vacuum’ - iPhone literally seemed to have cued the sound of the machine in the background. And mind you it’s an iPhone 7 with few apps & not some Pro Max future phone ..

From that moment I’ve been convinced 100% microphones listening, cameras probs watching.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos knew that the number one pain point for online buyers is shipping - one third of shoppers abandon their carts when they see shipping charges.

I'll wager this is due to sites that won't let shoppers see shipping charges until they get to the end of checkout.
That's a fair point, and I do hope that regional caps will take that into consideration.

Generally speaking, are volume caps on fixed line internet a thing in many countries? I'd imagine that it would be hard to use something like a smart speaker on such a tight data budget in the first place, as I can't imagine them to be very bandwidth-conscious in general (music streaming having no "low data usage" option on them usually, etc).
I am also against military or some other government interference with local politics, I am disgusted by politicians, companies and people that would use hman rights complaints selectively and close their eyes when there is a lot of money involved.
> I know that nobody would ever actually do this

Or would they?
See also Dr Brad Stanfield's discussion:

https://youtu.be/hXlGQls5eS8
Viruses that spread readily suck as biological warfare agents.

Even if you don't care all that much about your own people, the risk of Chaos is much too great. Nobody can contain such a virus, and China didn't come out ahead, nor did it expect to. Its export markets suffered a great deal, and at the beginning it was far from certain that China could contain the domestic damage as well as it did.
Not sure I follow, if this happens to some customer (who are in the right) they shouldn't get a refund? And this is considered just because it saves investigation spending?

If Amazon chooses to refund without question to save disputes money, that's their choice. But it's not the customer's problem. If you pay for something and you don't receive it, you must get refunded.