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> > and US has proven unable to build a Mercedes

> And yet neither the US or EU could affordably fix a Mercedes

Or an Apple product :))
> Why would you choose to use a system that doesn't scale by default?

By all accounts Postgres seems to be a pain to scale off a single machine, much more so than redis.
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Although it has found a niche it definitely wasn’t a ‘huge success’ in the Netherlands.
Hello there! here are the links - one to the FDA, see the Nevisense device https://search.usa.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=fda1&.... the second is a scientific article on bioimpedance and diagnosis of melanoma https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VqlKzjrmjKiS_EtdEjkisBjBDb7... . also enter bioimpedance melanoma or bioimpedance skin cancer in google you will find a dozen articles with research there
I’d think job burnout would look like dreaming for your current job without the downsides. Career burnout might be a complete disinterest in this job or the next one like it.
I've looked into this, and moving to the US has absolutely zero appeal.

The US corporate tax code is incomprehensible, healthcare is an expensive and high-risk potentially deadly nightmare, small businesses in tech are permanently at risk from litigation by patent trolls, scam artists, and other white collar thuggery, if you're reliant on a big corporate provider for payments or market access or promotion - and you usually are - they can shut you down without notice on a whim.

But - best of all - I don't need to worry about being murdered by some rando on my way to work.

Good luck being allowed to move to the US unless you're already a high net worth individual or have a high public profile. An EB-x series visa isn't going to get you far unless you're already a household name or you have an unusually in-demand skill. Most startups don't count.

While you can game the system in various ways, or at least try to, the reality is that your immigration status is likely to be precarious for a good long time.
Hopefully one day projects like que[1][2] will become stable and battle-tested enough to use in a production environment. Until then I'll be using something like sidekiq (if you're going for a client-side job queue, eg: the clients don't really know about each other and only have rate-limiting, not true throttling).

With Postgres you also need to worry about high churn, especially since you are creating/locking/deleting rows constantly. This can be alleviated through a variety of means, of which personally I would use per-day table partitioning and truncate older partitions on a cron, not to mention the sharp increase in database connections to the host now required.

Ignoring the literal elephant in the room of synced writes to the store. Redis can be used quite effectively in a blocking manner with RPOPLPUSH/LMOVE(6.2+) for a reliable queue, allowing an item to not be lost because atomically the pop and push from two different lists are done together.

[1] https://github.com/que-rb/que
[2] https://gist.github.com/chanks/7585810
I was never able to make file.pizza work either on lan or over the web.
Hello! here are the links - one to the FDA, see the Nevisense device https://search.usa.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=fda1&.... the second is a scientific article on bioimpedance and diagnosis of melanoma https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VqlKzjrmjKiS_EtdEjkisBjBDb7.... also enter bioimpedance melanoma or bioimpedance skin cancer in google you will find a dozen articles with research there
> Accumulating debt tends to drive inflation.

Well, its kind of a chicken and egg situation. I agree that moneatry (and price) inflation incentivizes more debt. However, the fact is that the mechanism by which monetary inflation happens is generally by creating debt. So if you were to pin whether the egg or the chicken came first, the answer would be that they happened at the same time.

> Inflation is disliked by banks

Mmm, no. Banks gain seigniorage from monetary inflation. So no they don't dislike it.

> Inflation aids creditors.

Devaluation of the currency aids creditors. However, monetary inflation does more than just currency devaluation. It also reallocates weath (seigniorage) and manipulates the market. Banks can simply loan out whatever money they want, so an inflating currency doesn't matter to them. They take that inflation into account already. What does matter is unexpected inflation. That's why uproar happens when inflation rates change significantly (either high inflation or deflation).

> Direct injection to consumers ("helicopter drops") would be least injurious to inequality

I agree. Still economically harmful, but less harmful than traditional seigniorage.
I'm not sure how Apple's ecosystem or web frameworks limit the validation on a backend, which is pretty much platform agnostic. The limitations are bound by what a HTTP response can provide, and the error states the front-end devs are willing to handle. During my time as a mobile/web dev, the back-end devs were always compliant with providing the error information where relevant, and would enforce business requirements (e.g., paid users are only authorized to do 'x') on the back-end. Once again, it's more expedient to not care, but I think Bumble has the budget and self-interest to care for the examples in the article.
Well not million but 500-600k sure.
I would contend that it really depends on what one would prioritize the most in that scenario. In my experience, Redis EXPIRE means it is not selectable. That is the primary requirement for a lot of development around EXPIRE/TTL. It is OK if it is still in memory in some form, it still won't be accessible by applications SDK or CLI. Since Redis 2.6 the expire error is from 0 to 1 milliseconds which is accurate enough for many use cases. Not to mention, Redis will handle that deletion for you. You don't need to run a deletion job and/or include an additional condition on a query.

Additionally, the expire/ttl/get/set in Redis is incredibly easy to use (and abuse, hence the OP article). Some team's criteria is limiting the amount of moving parts - and that's great. Don't use Redis and use a relational database for everything such as what you mentioned. Use it as a queue, a cache, a message broker, etc..

Other teams may care less about an extra moving part if it
means their code will look simpler and they leverage relational databases for their more common usecases.
but they are cheaper than going to the doctor, especially if there is no insurance.
And commercial exhibition, every large theatre/cinema/auditorium/performance space I worked in up until 2008 when I changed track had a rack mounted MD player hooked up to the automation to do announcements.
libsodium is a solid choice.
I’m a 50 year old Asian software engineer. Let me give you some advice because you sound angry and miserable.

You must have been beaten down by your parents over the last several decades and it has rubbed into you. I get it. Back in the 70s when I grew up, it was worse because they could legit beat me with a belt if they wanted and it was socially acceptable.

You need to understand that you are doing great. You have a job at Amazon that will help you get jobs for the rest of your career. The Amazon name pops on a resume. Stop worrying about others that got into Google or Facebook or Jane Street. All you are doing is reinforcing a circle of self hate. Fuck it.

I failed getting into Google 5 times. I failed getting into Facebook 3 times. I flunked at Amazon twice. Fuck, I haven’t gotten into any FAANG at all. That doesn’t measure your self worth. Who the fuck cares. I think you are probably jealous at all those that got in but stop thinking about it. You can forge your own path and be extremely successful without ever working at a FAANG. I worked at Uber but besides that it was all two-bit startups and shitty companies. and I did okay but you will probably make more from Amazon than I ever did at Uber. But I really made the most money in real estate. I’m semi-retired at this point because of that.

There’s nothing more important in life than being happy. Stop worrying about money. Worry about being happy. Go spend money on shit that makes you happy every now and then. Take vacations. Get a girlfriend and go traveling. Stop worrying about money and worry about proficiency. If you are programming because you think it will bring you money and not because you love it, then your life will be miserable.

Let go of the trauma that your upbringing brought you. It’s toxic and you are suffering for it. I get it. My parents wanted me to be a doctor and when push came to shove I told them no. They were furious for years but I never felt so free in my life. I stopped caring about them and what they said and just moved on.

You’re still young. Don’t waste your life stewing over others that got into better schools or better companies. Take what you have now and leverage it as you move up the ladder. Make smart decisions for your career based on what interests you, not just because of FANG or money. If you are happy and are progressing, money will coke and it will be on your own terms, not your parents and not from killing yourself while working at Jane Street like a slave.
Physics allows it? This in the same way one can commit crimes or at least that's how I read it. Clearly one can not do the things physics doesn't allow.

As you point out there are likely punitive consequences but those are after the fact.
Looks neat, nice work. I would suggest changing the download links to have more affordances that they're clickable, it just looked like a table of version numbers to me at first and I didn't realize they were links at all.
I found that opening a company in one of the most bureaucratic countries in EU (Austria) was very easy. I did everything online, from my personal immigration to founding an LLC.
The only in person meeting was for establishing a permanent residence.

Yes, the taxes are high, social security is high, but being a programmer makes things much simpler as we are the high earners in this age.
Covid: Is there a limit to how much worse variants can get?
This has happened to me a few times, and I imagine many others!

I bought a “tortilla pan” in Spain which prevents this. It’s basically two pans with an interlock on one side. You cook the tortilla on one side, grab the other pan and lock it on, then flip it over and put the other pan on the heat to cook the other side. Foolproof and worth it when you cook as many as I do!
Any pointers to good sources on crypto protocol design?
> they moved their taxable entity to Ireland

Apple’s Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich avoids taxes on non-U.S. profits [1]. U.S. profits are still taxed domestically.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
the best defense against cancer is early diagnosis. the point of the device is to help with this. if you have the opportunity to check moles with a doctor - it is better to do it with him.
Does it support M1 Mac?
hmmm, I disagree that it's not better. Select operation implies index scan most likely with O(log n), while GET operation is essentially O(2-3). And you also have to run DELETE on sql to remove the expired keys.

Oh, and i'm not entirely sure about the part about redis active expiry (disabled by default, default is remove expired on lookup - lazy); you're talking about key eviction which applies to all deleted keys and AFAIR happens only when certain watermarks are hit. Since it happens in ram, it's also faaaast, unlike SQL DELETE, which will definitely involve disk...
> full federal funding of us public schools

Why isn't state funding wide enough?

The politics around education funding are mudled because governments love to put stipulations around receiving funding, so they can control the recipients. I would agree with those who don't want the federal government to take more control over how education happens. But I could be convinced of federal funding of schools. Of course, both of these things already happen to a (large) degree.
> it definitely wasn’t a ‘huge success’ in the Netherlands.

Fair enough, the land of Philips :P

(But in all seriousness, plain CDs were more popular in certain regions in Europe because "why have a different device for music?". It isn't as drastic as in America though, where it is a product that looks like and feels like never released to consumers.)
If your data has no value whatsoever, sure.
They didn't calculate health benefits that Pokemon GO induced by making people walk and bike more.
Game console CPUs get away with all sorts of brokenness. The Wii U CPU also has broken coherency, and needs workaround flush instructions in the core mutex primitives. You can't run standard PowerPC Linux on it multicore for this reason.
There's a case to be made that Europe is playing the smart game here.

At this point, US has cumulatively burned a few trillions in funding for their software corporations. Europe, meanwhile, gets the fruits of it, mostly for free (1). Case in point - I personally spent more money last month on a fish tank cleaner than to all Silicon Valley corporations combined, and even that's an aberration in my social circle - most of the others do not wire a single cent there.

Yes, the overall money flow in IT is from EU to US, but expressed as ROI, it's unlikely to be very impressive.

(1) - apart from Microsoft. Imho they're the true crown jewel of the US software sector. Most of the world's economy runs on Microsoft Office in one way or another
Not just that but they are genetically closer to animals than to plants.
There’s already a Donald Duck story like that. Some guy comes to Duckville, and Gladstone Gander is completely terrified of him because.
Funny enough, the model for the cover photo was actually a professor of computer science at my university (recently retired, I believe). I'm a bit surprised that this pocket guide is well-known in the mushroom hunting community.
redis is not a database. It's a key-value based cache. If you're using it as a database, you're gonna have a bad time.
Nice CRT effect using a CSS animation!
Hey if that's what they needed to do to fund investigative journalism, I'm all for it.

Investigative journalism is even harder to monetize than regular journalism. For example, you can't really publish a sponsored article.
> advantage is really in working for a rich company

Of which America has more. For structural reasons. Per the article.
just then you should understand how important early diagnosis is. take care of yourself and go to the doctor regularly. all the buyers of the device just survived melanoma
Depends on the demographics. Algerians in France or Turks in Germany don't have such a great quality of life, but neither do El Salvadorans in the US. The U.S. is 60% Europe, 25% Latin America, 10% Africa, 5% Asia, and has pretty good quality of life for these demographics. As demographics in Europe change, the EU will see more of the issues it likes to criticize the US for, but the demographic-adjusted quality of life in the U.S. is pretty good.
Redis is not a DB. Only idiots think Redis is a DB. To be fair, I've met plenty of such idiots, so if you happen to be one, you're not alone.

I'm not calling people names to be mean here; I'm trying to save your lives.
Gio is a very strong contender for GUI in Go.

https://gioui.org
Definitely Interesting! Especially as the cited scientific papers tell us the principle is possible.
But I wonder: has the manufacturer classified this as a medical device in the FDA sense?

Was it developed and tested like so? Question to the OP.
Check out Bitcoin’s script language sometime.
A site search of he FDA for a device other than the one you’re marketing, and a link to an article in some low-impact-factor journal I’ve never heard of?

Solid.
If Huawei or someone else was building a better mobile experience people would be buying that over Apple.

What is an innovative phone? The iPhone 12 looks marvellous, runs great, is secure, gets constant updates unlike android and tries to preserve privacy. Apple Pay is awesome, makes me spend more cause of how fluid it is but still is an amazing experience. The software with the hardware makes apple great.
Nice! Glad to hear it’s not just for research nerds these days. I’ve done a fair bit of experimentation with photogrammetry and it does work well for the built environment.

I have an application however where I want to be able to capture an outdoor forest scene with a video camera and convert that to a video game/simulation scene which renders efficiently. It turns out that is a more challenging problem that actually no one has solved as far as I know.

There’s lots of neat research tho and it will be possible some day. This bit of research is pretty cool:
https://youtu.be/JuH79E8rdKc
I guess the iPod is also a failure then since no one uses them anymore.
We had a lot of liquefaction in Christchurch during the 2011 quake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XwPmoIRwLo
I would say Redis with RediSearch is a database.
I still have several portable MD players I bought new in the early 2000s. At the time, even on high spec PCs, the software was slow as hell to convert music to their proprietary format. MP3 wasn't speedy, but it wasn't nearly as slow as converting to ATRAC. I remember it taking on the order of hours to copy a CD to MD. The quality was better than MP3 so it was worth it in the end, but an annoyance nonetheless, and probably didn't help adoption in the US (we want it now dammit!).

> The MP3 format spelled the beginning of the end for the MiniDisc.

That should be "the iPod spelled the end". MP3 and MD coexisted for quite a few years before the iPod's arrival.
The previous range of state of the art smartphones did come from Europe. They couldn't compete but not because of structural restrictions on scale - just because of a series of bad decisions that were independent of the continent they were developed on.

It's more likely the next generation will come exclusively from China - not because of structural restrictions on scale but because it's deliberately built up its electronics manufacturing base while the US and Europe allowed theirs to dwindle because short term profit margins outweighed long term industrial strategy.
But you could play the music over SPDIF and record it while playing. I cannot remember having had problems with that. (Until my self-built SPDIF adapter broke...) Also other than stated in the article, MD used its own compression format so you could put 700 MB uncompressed audio onto a 130 MB disc. But in times of > 10 GB storage it makes no sense anymore to use replaceable cartridges. Just put it all on the player. That's what ultimately killed it.

It could have gotten a second life though with MD Data but the drives for that were just too expensive.
Spam and probably snake oil. Show me your FDA approval pls.
A lot of US wealth is fake wealth in the stock market which is propped up by artificial money printing. EU wealth is real wealth, mostly outside of the stock market and hidden from view.

Any stock could be artificially propped up to be worth 1 trillion dollars. Just issue 1 billion shares and trade a tiny subset of those shares (e.g. only 1000 shares) at $1000 per share each day; there you have your trillion dollar company (since market cap is price per share times number of shares). You only need $1 million in cash to pull off this scheme. You just need to make sure that the vast majority of shares are kept off the market. This is not as difficult to achieve as it seems. The reason it's fake wealth is because none of the billionaire shareholders can cash out more than 100k in a day without massively crashing their net worth unless the money printer comes to the rescue at just the right time.
So the entire EU economy grew at the same speed than the US one but not its 500 bigger companies.

This is misleading. The article says the poorer (former communist) eastern European countries got richer, which brought up the average.
I still have mine in the attic (lives in my cable/bits box that has moved with me for 20 years ..) I'll try and dig it out later, see what I was listening to then!

It served me well during my GCSE's!

But when the iPod Nano came out, and I could fit a load of songs on it, and physically fit it in the 'watch' pocket of my jeans - the minidisc went in the box and never came out.
Putting all your eggs in one basket with a handful of extremely large companies might not be a long term winning strategy. Companies fail eventually. Big companies are no exception. When they do, things get ugly.

The FANG companies are great at hoarding wealth but not so great at converting that wealth into new things. You need small, nimble companies for that. And not necessarily the VC funded Silicon Valley variety. Which of course is basically the FANG companies (and their clique of wealthy investors) trying to own and monopolize the future.

A dynamic you see in Germany where I currently live that I find very interesting is that of family owned businesses thriving and adapting to modern times every few decades. Germany has a lot of very wealthy families and some of these businesses are multi billion euro companies that you probably have heard off and there are loads more that you may not have heard off that are also worth billions.

Lately some of these companies are discovering the virtues of going online with their business. You might argue a few decades too late. But we are talking real businesses, with real markets, real customers, and real profits, real products, etc. They'll be fine. They are simply adapting and integrating commodities like the internet and making it their own. In some cases they simply skip a few steps and fast forward to what many other companies might still consider science fiction. Some of them make it work and prosper, some don't. And they disappear or get replaced by something more successful. It's organic, highly adaptive, chaotic, and competitive. You might even say that this is capitalism actually working.

Some of those commodities are provided by the above mentioned FANG companies. But how crucial are they really long term? Amazon is nice and all but it's basically just a logistics company with a side business of running cloud based services (or the other way around). I've used both and it's fine. But I also use competing services and products. Amazon being big doesn't make them better at what they do. Often it's the opposite actually. Bureaucratic, slow to adapt, not able to tap into opportunities when the payoff isn't measured in billions/trillions, etc. It takes more agile/nimble companies to do that. You find these companies all over the world.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/useful-cryptography... this link page is from 2012, but still pretty good.
> If it is, how would you convince regular people that the state of the art “something something sodium chachacha” crypto algorithm in the app is the best for them?

Personally, I'd make a separate page with more details for the subset of folks who are interested. It doesn't need to be on the main page, but at least something to reassure technical users that the project hasn't rolled it's own DIY crypto would help. :)

(And yes, libsodium is a great choice.)
> If you start a company here, better think about profitability from the get go.

How is this a bad thing? Compare this requirement to, say, Uber, who has been losing billions, and has used investor money to engage in price dumping to corner the market.
It has problems. If you have an idea that will take you a year to develop with 10 people, you need one million up front (simplifying a lot). But if the investors only give you 250k, they you need to spend time working on getting that missing 750k which will dilute your focus from the product you actually want to build. But the initial investor will still want that product.

I definitely think that there is some middle ground to find between not being able to rise money for any project, and being able to get 100M funding for a juicer.
you asked for confirmations - they are provided. and about fame - someone and DallasNews is an authoritative publication.