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> The answer to this is a container. Containers don't "reinvent" static linking, they solve problems that go beyond static linking.

This.

I would also point out that containers handle also other critical features like it's virtual network, which obviously goes way beyond what may be simplistically described as "static linking".
I had one of the later models that had LP features, so up to 4x the music on a disc at a lower quality. It was also a recorder, which was so handy, and something no iPod ever offered. Many of my friends had players, 1 even had an in car player. That's in the UK. I think the big issue was that many people assumed Minidisc was supposed to be a replacement for CDs, rather, than a replacement for cassette. It's understandable why it wasn't marketed this way, but if it had, I think it would of taken off much quicker in the mid/late 90's.
having lived and worked in Asia, I have to say that table looks weird. i have found no other place in this planet where people work longer and better than certain places in Asia.
That's why I said "not because if the code itself". But I have a typo there, shit. of, not if.

What community? The one where you have to be rich to be a part of?
Deleting whole partitions is generally useful strategy. It's like the difference between single inserts and batch inserts (often huge performance difference, and much lower IO)

Since you mentioned Cassandra and TTL, I'll mention ClickHouse, very nice TTL options, splitting into smaller partitions and using "ttl_only_drop_parts=1" has prove itself in the production with big data ingestion rates.

Last, but not the least, I almost always prefer Postgres for data storage needs, one can trust it to be safe and fast enough. Only some specific situations warrant other solutions, but it's a long way until that point (if ever), and better not optimize too early.
I was looking for your comment here, thank you. I hope they solve this problem somehow in a future release.
So far no comments upon the artist/composer J.Cage interesting and intellectual, perhaps soon to be lost to time. Is he the American analog to Joseph Beuys or maybe the American zeitgeist makes them incomparable?
Hilton's 1967 plan for a space hotel
I’m reminded of a joke, which I’m often reminded of when I think about this (excellent) point.

Two revolutionaries, one young and bright-eyed and the other old and grizzled, are sitting together. The older asks the younger what he fights for, to which the latter responds “For there to be no more rich people!” The older one sighs and says “How times have changed! Back in my day, we fought for there to be no more poor people.”
For me it's an issue primarily with syntax; I am aware of FP concepts and can recognize and understand their use.

I'm still sort of confused why it needed its own DSL and couldn't have just reused an existing language.
Americans are willing to work longer hours which is used as proxy for hard work. Which is then coupled with collegues being whole your social network and meetings socialization. Afaik, by all studies, working 10 hours a day wont make you produce more, but it feels like it does.
It’s important to see the time effect clearly the internet economy started mostly in The Valley and in that economic network most of the follow up growth happened. Chinas rise produced big companies. What happened is that there is no second or relevant third position in the internet economy and the US companies had a head start.
The model I had allowed for only 1 digital copy, after that generation it had to be analogue before another digital copy could be made.
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My kneejerk reaction was to say you're wrong and of course EU citizens are happier, but thinking deeply about it that's nonsense. North Europe yes, happier by a lot. But if you consider the EU in its entirety, the South (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece) and the East (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria) bring down the average by a lot.
When the economy is down and corrupt no amount of safety nets will help you be happy, you simply won't have a job.
So on average I would say happiness levels are about the same, both blocks have very vast regions which are poorer/neglected and where resentment is growing. The state of the economy is one of the most important factors in determining happiness, other things are perceived corruption, equality, freedom and safety. That's why North Europe scores so high but the struggling South despite it's awesome weather and views is not happy at all.
> EU investors invest in sure things

Which is mostly real-estate
Imho, what was happening in the Silicon Valley economy looks much more like displacement of value rather than creation of value (1).

Google/Facebook have displaced other ad formats, redirecting money to themselves. AWS have displaced IT technicians in other corporations, redirecting money to themselves. Apple is selling overpriced commodity hardware, redirecting money to themselves. Uber is displacing taxis, redirecting money to themselves.

In other words, it's barely above zero-sum game. And US productivity statistics are clear - the aforementioned corporations grew 500%-1000% in their profits and valuations since 2010. Meanwhile, the US productivity has grown by 4.7%. Had the SV tech been a clear net positive to the economy, the productivity growth would look different. When the tech/telecom was truly creating new value (1995-2005), the productivity growth was at 27% that decade.

(1) with notable exceptions: Microsoft really is creating value where one didn't exist before. So is Netflix, Amazon's venerable logistics and Tesla's drive to decrease battery costs
> U til the 1950s they were needed to work in the home most of the time.

So? Working in the home is also the norm for men. Historically, the norm is that men are self-employed in agriculture and women are self-employed in textile production.

> And it's only really the last 20 years women haven't been REQUIRED to opt out of working once they got married or had kids...

Note that being a hard worker is traditionally one of the highest female virtues. They have never been required to stop working after getting married; they had to work just like everybody else.
I would access the table through a view that had that query built into it.

create table all_items(id integer, value text, expires timestamp);

create index all_item_expiry on all_items(expires);

create view items as (select id, value, expires from all_items where expires > now());

Then you can treat items as your base table and postgres neatly allows INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE from it. You'll need a job to clean up expires < now() items but it can be done at whatever arbitrary interval you like, could even be a trigger in PG if you were feeling spicy.
For what its worth, I have partially switched to ff 89 and will fully do so in 3 months time. I have 24 chrome profiles and consider myself to be power user.

I like the new ff design barring the tabs which is the main concern of the op. But you have to give ff the benefit that they are trying hard to keep everyone happy and improving things as they go. I like the fact that atleast with ff I browse in containers and use their password manager compared to other browser password manager. Android ff nightly is great and supports extensions.

Would I trust my password to chrome ? Would google allow ublock origin on android ? One only needs to think a bit more to answer these questions.
> What community? The one where you have to be rich to be a part of?

Looks like HN hides the reply if we go back and forth too quickly so I'll just reply here to say quickly that these companies have friction with local communities so they try to be nice. I've been to Facebook event like Siesta day. They try to be nice but it doesn't always help with the locals.
It would have been better to frame it more generically as "adding another store or db".

But the official self-description of Redis is the following:

> Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.

Quote: https://redis.io/

I'd be interested on why exactly you think that Redis shouldn't be called a DB?
And? What is your point?

The Dutch is also one of the best. Singapore too. You can bring examples pro contra for both types.

I think the regulation that makes a healthcare good or bad, not that it is private or public. Many public healthcares are in Eastern Europe are bad. Some private healthcares are also bad. I still think that a combination of private and public offering is probably the best with regulation being the QA.

My previous comment was to point out that public healthcares can be bad, if it was not clear. Many of my friends do not want to have any nuanced discussion just, public good, private bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands
German and Austrian broadband is equally worse.
They also changed the URLs of all the recipes, which previously had dates in them (luckily the old ones still redirect for now).

This was useful as recently they've been republishing a lot of old content, and it was easy to see if that was the case by hovering over the URL. They've even changed the date on the recipe page to "last edited" - a couple of old ones I was looking up yesterday from 2016 now have 2020 at the top.
> Exactly! I don’t see this as a criticism of containerization so much as it is a praise of static linking.

Not really. It seems the keyword "static linking" is being abused to refer to stand-alone executables, because that's what some people know. Yet, calling containers a kind of "static linking" is simplistic and incorrect, even taking the standalone executable interpretation info account.

If anything, container images are installers, and containers are the end-result of installing and configuring these containers, which is barely noticed because it works so well even and specially the networking part. More importantly, containers are designed to be both ephemeral and support multiple instances running in parallel on the same machine.

Then there's also the support for healthchecks, which allows container engines to not only determine when they should regenerate containers, but also provides out-of-the-box support for blue-green deployments.

And absolutely none of this fits the "static linking" metaphor.
The other issue with LISTEN/NOTIFY is that a client will miss any notifications sent while it is not running (e.g. due to crash, update, etc.). An alternative would be logical replication and change data capture (CDC), as provided for Postgres by Debezium for instance. That way, any consumers won't miss events during downtimes, as they'll continue to read from the replication slot from the last offset they had processed.

Disclaimer: I work on Debezium
Don't you mean Fortran?
Wait til you hear what they did to Bengal, one of the richest places in the world when they arrived. Today it’s Bangladesh.
Yeah, that's addressed in the fine article as well:

> For years, he was an abalone diver on the West Coast in
> an area with great white sharks that have a history of
> attacking divers; he lost some friends to the predators.
> But reform will not come from within the Ivy League,

It's ironic that the article is written by two harvard ivy leaguers. They have to replace the Ivies with something else. It's hard to envision that from within.
And your comment shows exactly the attitude this tax policy is supposed to inspire. Why do anything or have anything, you do not need it.

I believe it was in the republic of Plato. There is some comment about how in ancient Greece, Slaves used to complain a lot about how severe their Master was, or praise the Master by how friendly it was to them. However they never complained about slavery itself...
One day the British will have to face up to their genocidal colonial legacy.
How confident can we be that we didn’t just do better PR/cover-ups than the Belgians?
Great! So I learned this technique. But one thing that's not clear to me - how a "expired" datetime field can allow easy retries? Anyone give me an example? Thanks!
That’s not actually “just how the world works” that’s “how people have chosen to organise society”. Other places work differently with different outcomes.
True that. I guess the difference between the streaming services vs bandcamp is more relevant to the content providers (musicians) than to the users.
Yes, but how is Europe monetizing those things? Just because something was invented here is irrelevant if people can't use it to pay rent or create new well paying jobs.
I do not want the EU to become like the US.

All those things make for a stronger top 0.1% at the detriment of the rest of society.
You may be right for the vast majority of users but I was a nerdy power user already back then and this was never an issue.

I loved my MD player but what really killed it for me were affordable mp3 players. And I never owned an iPod. But I did own several other mp3 players, and eventually smartphones with mp3 playing capability (before iphone).

And once I got my first Android the game was over for MD in my view.
> New vaccines usually take 6-7 years to complete clinical trials

Not necessarily. The yearly updated flu shot doesn’t for example. This case is similar, the novel technique itself was in development for a decade now with different parts having been clinically tested.
Interesting that DAT was blocked from commercial sales because it was too good. Basically CD quality audio copies with tiny cheap tapes.
Nor in the UK
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To be fair, what I'm usually hunting I don't eat, but I fail much more than 77% of the time. Probably most men do.
>we're not getting shot in school, and also we're not on the way to be ruled by a fascist

I downvoted you since you're going massively off-topic with your generalizations about the US that have no place on HN.
I remember wanting a Minidisc player, but they were to expensive. In elementary school we had portable CD players and in highschool I got a MPMan which played mp3s off an 128MB flash card.
So China shouldn't dominate?
There's no "official" client for the web either. And still, I don't see why this would be an issue since I've tried 3 different clients (amfora, kristall, deedum) and they were all quite serviceable.

As for inline links, I mostly agree. I like and use inline links pretty heavily and feel like it would be against my habits/nature to unlearn that and switch to separate lines. I don't mind reading gemini content that uses this already but it doesn't come naturally to me when I am writing myself. Inline linking is also just more efficient.

As for the third point, I don't see why something like Gemini can't exist if the regulation was also in place.
US creating top paying tech jobs for the working class and not taxing them to death so they can grow into a flourishing middles class is also helping people.

>large part of the US economy that consists of hurting people

Source? If you're talking about the defense sector then you should also know that the UK and France were several years in a row number 2 and 3 worldwide in arms sales, including to the Saudi regime.
you can do that using postgres portioning and a trigger to drop old partitions from the table.
Pokemon Go got a lot of negative rep when it came out but I were quite (positively) surprised that local kids that used to sit at cafe with friends, not talking to each other for hours glued to their phone, now was walking around parks talking to each other glued to their phone. Funny how the negative consequences was mostly among adults (that can drive) and the behavior change among kids was pretty positive.

That said I also remember heartwarming messages from Parents with autistic kids that for their first time in their life had something they could do together outside and interact with their kids.

So I'm surprised it still gets a lot of negative rep.
> in the US your quality of life is fantastic if you are rich

I would argue almost everywhere in the world quality of life is fantastic if you are rich. What is the huge difference between living in a gated community in California to doing it in Thailand?
The NHS is probably the worst health care system in the developed world.
The answer is quite likely to be yes. But then when you consider who is the primary typical user of a spreadsheet and ask yourself "are they likely to learn Lisp?" then the answer is no.
Thinking about it maybe I do remember some marketing about it being a cassette replacement. A quick Google brought up this, which is assume is a Sony advert.

https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorow/status/12586000447118090...

Also

https://co.pinterest.com/pin/715579828285803543#imgViewer
His children's book, Every Night is Pizza Night, is a fantastic introduction to being an adventurous eater for small children.
I say this with kindness

It didn't sound very kind or even understanding.
Forth was originally thought of as a "fourth generation" language when Chuck Moore designed it while doing astronomy research.
Ah so it's that the playbooks are imperative and "dumb" (does exactly what you tell it, rather than inferring "these actions must happen, do them in a sensible order"). That makes sense.

Dove into the puppet docs/wiki article, I guess part of the difference as well is that puppet considers each "unit" a resource, vs. ansible being a "module/action".

It does seem like ansible roles have a dependency mechanism, I guess that might be the intended level for a "declarative" approach in ansible, to encapsulate the playbooks/modules underneath that are more of an implementation detail at that point.
Redis can be made durable. The WAIT command allows you to guarantee writes to a quorum of nodes, and it can be configured for on-disk persistence rather easily.

That said, due to it's single-threaded nature, blocking on quorum writes is likely to bottleneck your application under any kind of significant load. It really shines at volatile data, and while it can work for valuable data, there are better tools for the job.
It is absurd to compare "Europe" with the US or China and I suppose in the future also India. Europe is a collection of nation states where a nationalist landmine always awaits to blow on our faces (See Brexit which deprived the European Union of one of its main economic powerhouses). Further, there are deep rooted linguistic barriers (See French attitude towards use of English as lingua franca - which diminishes the role of yet another powerhouse). Next, steps towards economic integration (like the introduction of the Euro) are sketchy. The financial system in Europe is in a half-baked (yet frozen) state of disrepair as there is no appetite to integrate further. It will unravel completely if a really serious economic crisis comes about. In any case it prevents the kind of rapid scaling that is enjoyed by entrepreneurs/private sector business activity in the US and China.

Despite all those handicaps, European societies and economies are doing reasonably well. No Trumpista degeneration here, no oriental authoritarianism and oppression. A sane approach toward digital privacy and sovereignty (which any US citizen should really be thankful for as there is nobody else to carry the torch). Similarly ahead of the curve on environmental sustainability. Innovation is definitely happening (a rich and diverse cultural heritage and diversity almost guarantees that). Just a tiny example: several countries have digital banking systems significantly ahead of the US.

What Europe must work out is how to organize its constituents so that they act more coherently without losing their identity. Any comparison and/or imitation of the aberrant mono-cultures of the East and the West is a waste of time.
Can you clarify what you mean by certificates? Do you intend to link to approval documentation from a 510k clearance?
Hilbert's Paradox of the Grand Hotel
I've seen it used for large-scale genomics. Saving a few bits if you're dealing with billions of a thing is very useful.
They're also vital for being able to pack as much of a datastructure (e.g. a graph) on a single node. Some graph algorithms, e.g. random walks, are latency bound and scale really badly in a distributed system.
United States unlike EU is one big market, with one unified language and standards, and I believe this difference is a huge reason (the reason?) why US has so many large startups and corporations. Also one might think that the existance of large companies like Apple points to a deficit in executive/governmental branches.
Nothing you mentioned is high tech. Car companies haven't innovated anything in decades. Spotify is a perfect example of a company with lots of revenue that doesn't do anything interesting with it.
I think you misunderstood the original point. The idea is that there is more to life than consumption. Even if a higher extraction results in more consumption, that doesn't mean the end result is more valuable to the people.

When you remove the assumption that more consumption equals more value to the consumer, then it doesn'tatter whether the value "leaves the system" or not.
Lately I’ve been enjoying physical artefacts more and picked up a minidisc player and some blank discs. I’ve had fun printing labels out and putting albums onto it.

There’s also a pretty fun synthwave scene producing new work on minidiscs, the music is a guilty pleasure of mine particularly while coding so I’m having a lot of fun with the format.
no you don't but it's a lot better to do an atomic select/update IMHO.

Basically you have status = 0,1,2 for queued, processing, done. You have a filtering CTE that returns the queued rows, sort by id and update status = status +1 of the top one.

You can even get fancy and disallow updates on the status column for other users to make it immutable.

I've done this in SQL server in a very similar way to as explained in the post
https://exophysics.net/exhibit/ogneron.html

Pretty cool! I see some rare behaviors like maybe there is a weak magnetic property and certain combinations of particles are more prone to it than others? Trying to rationalize this behavior I see after about a minute where some "molecules" seem to start trailing others.
In the category of old unmaintained tools:

- https://github.com/linkdd/manyssh : Before discovering ansible/puppet/etc...
- https://github.com/linkdd/i3tools : For when I was using i3wm
- https://github.com/linkdd/xautostart : Also for when I was using i3wm without a Display Manager

For more recent projects:

- https://klifter.datapio.co : Easy GitOps
- https://klander.datapio.co : Kubernetes Compliance as Code
> Any time someone says ‘this works for small workloads’ I hear, ‘we’ll eventually have to migrate this’.

Personally I aim to develop with future migrations in mind. Certain abstractions are worth it. Put an interface around a cacher, db store etc. Day to day dev overheads is low, but your future self will thank you should you need to migratw away.

Sure this isn't always possible, but do it as much as possible.
As much as I love Postgres, I would rather use Redis for this. I haven't used Redis much though, and on our project we actually decided on using Kafka. Admittedly much heavier and maintenance intensive, it seems to do the job very well.

Any opinions and experiences here with Kafka vs Redis as a queue?
>If Huawei or someone else was building a better mobile experience people would be buying that over Apple.

Just what is it with HN and pretending that customers in general care more about functionality than anything else?

Marketing and hype are the main motivators for your average customer. As long as the product isn't utter shit when compared to the alternative, those are far more important for sales than the product itself being good.