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Nope, unless your columns are all several kB wide. If you force the hardware to perform a multi-kB read for each 64-bit value you need, you're still going to waste a lot of potential performance.
It's a pretty good idea. Even a flawed set of standards would help to promote accessible web design and make it fast and inexpensive to make a website that more people can use beyond the ones used today.
Awesome, good on you for getting into teaching! And thanks for weighing in. I’m surprised that the expertise and passion was only slightly helpful for getting engagement, we found it very contagious in our classes with the teacher I described, especially in the more advanced classes.
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Great reply.

Just to add on: the software environment should be controlled obviously, but the actual environmental conditions around the machine also need to be controlled for an accurate measurement.

https://benchmarks.ul.com/support/how-to-benchmark
"For example, you should test every system in the same location, at room temperature, and away from direct sunlight and other heat sources."

And even after all that one should expect a 3% spread in scores.
But it's an inconsistent and ad hoc reality. Let's coalesce on the real goals, and document them, and communicate the goals to everyone, and move on.

Right now we are in limbo. The meaning of "school" is drifting and that obviously creates confusion and arguments, as well as bad results.
Concrete Apartments come with fire safety barriers which are ruinously expensive to breach, if even legal. The rewiring also triggered a review of the in-building current distribution burdens to our apt fuzebox, the costs only ratcheted upward. For a single 3-wire copper run, which could have been put in during first fix before plasterboard, for under $1k.

YMMV. Every home has a different cost and risk burden for this kind of work. Mine just didn't work out for Induction. I was really disappointed.

If we afford a major re-fitout eg to get a walk-in pantry I'll reconsider.

Really? Induction suitable circuit to kitchen should be pre-fitted in the apt design. Same as car-parking charging points: they're becoming mandatory, and I think so should the rollover in cooking power. Building has a 50+ year life, Gas is being deprecated for home use rapidly, its an AGW nightmare even being responsive for cooking and "analogue" right temp when you can get it to work.
Some years ago, the COSMOS supercomputer in Cambridge (used by Stephen Hawking’s group) was the largest shared-memory computer in Europe, with 14.8 terabytes of RAM, rather below the exabyte scale and well within the 48 bit virtual address space http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/news/140623_newsitem.php
Acute inflammation as the result of an injury isn't something that should be suppressed. We now understand that it should be allowed to persist as part of the healing process, so long as it isn't causing other serious problems.

Persistent, chronic inflammation is another thing altogether.
Ok. I got really excited by the title. But the diameter of the planet is about 130 km, so its tiny.

Maybe "fat asteroid" is a better term than "dwarf planet" ?
Don't put all of America in one basket. I realize you probably really meant the USofA but I can tell you that Canada is not too far off ;)

We have the same 'everything is lawn' problem. I too am fighting crab grass hell in the front but that's more of a 'I can't really grow trees or anything else on the septic field' problem.

Where I am specifically we have a lot of trees. Forest community. There are so many lots here where the only sunny places are the septic system and the pool. Loving it!

I do get your frustration though. Even with all the above said, of the immediate neighbors I can see in all four directions only one is really doing it right if you ask me. I always see everyone put out the bags of leaves in fall for example and I really don't get it. Compost them! I do it and one other neighbor does. The rest as well as most of the entire neighborhood just puts them out by the curb. At least only one of those neighbors waters the lawn regularly and the rest just leave it out to get brown, so there's less peer pressure to not be the one house with a brown septic field lawn ;)

What I didn't dare yet is to just sow a bunch of meadow flowers and not mow, coz all the neighbors do mow and there are bylaws too.
> It's ultimately better

For who? I'm not convinced that keeping things subtly bad, but maybe acceptable enough that users don't revolt, is necessarily a better outcome for anyone.
To me they're very distinct. I'm part of an all-remote team, but we're all employees and we keep common core work hours so we can have lots of interactive time. I'm sure my employer saves some money on office space, but we also spend more on travel so we can get together in person regularly.

Offshoring in my experience is a very different set of relationships. It tends to have a significant power differential and to be much more distant, both physically and emotionally.
An unusually good article article that abstains from the usual temptation to ascribe all ills to the existence of government (which is not to say that government isn't part of the problem due to partial capture by market incumbents).
And don't forget that the lights at the bottom of the speedo read LIGHTS GEN FUEL OIL, so if you really pegged it out on a downhill run with the wind behind you, you were travelling at the speed of LIGHT(s)...
My pet theory on autism is the Back to Sleep campaign that began in the 90s. (1) Babies don’t like back sleeping. It disrupts their sleep. Sleep is important in brain development. Constantly disrupted sleep means a higher percentage of brain development issues.

I can back up my pet theory with studies. Bottom line is, stomach sleeping with good air circulation (2) reduces SIDS at similar rates to back sleeping without the side effect of autism.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4978628/
2: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
My proverb for the same thing is "never forget the best parts of obsolete technology".
> the critical sensor to me is GPS

How accurately do you care about geolocating yourself?

If you only care about <50m accuracy for the watch to be able to provide you location-based behaviors, I've had very good results doing Wi-Fi scans with ESP32 devices (in particular, a FeatherS2) and feeding the results into the Google and Mozilla geolocation APIs. More than enough to pull up the local weather or public transit info for the bus stop in front of you. It could send data requests through your phone when you don't have Wi-Fi.

Obviously it won't have the accuracy and update rate that a GPS would, but on the upside, it does work indoors.
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I live in a bee-friendly wildflower meadow. It is a 3 acre flowery paradise.

I haven't seen a single honey bee this year. Not a one. Fewer carpenter bees and even wasps than usual. It's concerning.
Would going to a “conventional” company jeopardise my resume? I’m worried that recruiters may judge me as being a lower-tier engineer should I have to look for another job again.
It also assumes the economics of counterfeits are about tricking people into believing they have something authentic.

There's plenty of people who want convincing counterfeits because they are unwilling/unable to obtain the real thing.
Anyone involved in NFTs for physical objects (other than say, landmarks or some other abstract concept) has missed the point of NFTs. Which is understandable, since that point requires a bit of mental flexibility to grasp in the first place.
Follow this chain and ultimately you'll discover the concept of credit creation, where banks lend the same money to multiple people.

It really is not a zero-sum game.
Yes, it’s similar. Google maintains a few honey bee hives throughout their Mountain View campus, and several areas are landscaped with California endemic species to restore local biodiversity. It’s great to hear the pollinators are staying busy!
And we must make sure that lowest rung is firmly planted in the mud, right?
Meme stock apes have claimed this as the new destination of their portfolios.
the 'poorly paid' employees can definitely afford a lawsuit. here's the thing though: if you know what the situation is and continue to work there who is to blame?

also, most stories I've heard is that the sub-optimal comp comes bundled with pretty good WLB. So maybe if you were to double the number of hours worked and double the comp M$ would blow other BigTech out of the water. Maybe this is the play (half the money for half the effort) and everyone knows it.
"Some cutting edge devices have 64 Gb or even 128 Gb, but this is required in very few situations like heavy CAT applications or video editing."

Or running two copies of Chrome at the same time.
> a house didn't get 10x more expensive to build in the last 50 years

It got 10x (or more) more expensive to get approval to build dense housing in decent locations.
Depends on what kind of thinker you are, I guess. For me, I find that learning new languages with different paradigms helps me to learn new ways of thinking that make me stronger in my real work.
Here in Japan, car insurance with unlimited/unlimited liability for person/property is pretty basic. It is considered that why unlimited is important is because normal people isn't good to estimate how much max liability is needed. Anyway no one would abuse unlimited insurance (but may abuse within limited range) so set it unlimited won't up insurance fee much. IIRC Some insurance also offer something like 50M JPY limited plan but it just save about 2k JPY per year (YMMV). Anyway, the point of insurance is to cover very rare unpayable reparation event, so why not unlimited?
Filings do not equal patents. China floods the market with scientific papers and only a very tiny percentile actually have anything useful. China is obsessed with publishing. I’ve often wondered if it’s for prestige or survival.
if you set a goal but don't empower people I think overall you end up killing morale. IMHO, reducing the rate of the incoming tickets can only be done with investments that are not fire-fighting. If you're doing that I think it's awesome.
"In at least seven states, blind residents said they were unable to register for the vaccine through their state or local governments without help. Phone alternatives, when available, have been beset with their own issues, such as long hold times and not being available at all hours like websites."

"Common programming failures that make sites hard to use for the visually impaired included text without enough contrast to distinguish words from the page’s background and images without alternative text explaining what they showed, the WebAIM survey showed. Even worse, portions of the forms on 19 states’ pages were built so that screen readers couldn’t decipher what information a user should enter on search bars or vaccine registration forms."
Royalties would make everything more political. People would try to write things certain ways, evil managers would demand a cut, senior leadership would try to push their agenda.

Besides most software is written in a way to be useless outside of the original business. Having the copyright does very little unless I start the project with this in mind and keep a more generic base.
It's a stretch to call it almost useless. It is certainly effective in reducing the number of intensive care admissions and deaths. The problem is mutations keep popping up before we can obtain herd immunity. The vaccines needs to be continuously updated.
> a well-designed password (or similar) validation endpoint will both limit attempts per IP and per user

I hope you‘ll never have to reset your password then as I‘ll happily send out those 5 requests every hour to lock you out ;-)

This is also a kind of attack.
the former sysadmin of reddit when it was constantly offline doesn’t understand ssds better than slow, permanent memory. it’s all starting to add up.
Reminds me of comments I've seen about counterfeit high end fashion goods. The counterfeits are often higher quality.
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Dogs? Public spaces? Water fountains and such? Horrific!

I will never ever use a public water dispenser ever again after seeing that woman let their dog drink from one. He basically licked the whole thing from left to right.

Public anything is basically burnt for me (not just by that incident) because you never know what pigs were there before you.
> Your edge is agility and bringing your following with you to a superior product.

You assume the product is some easy to alter and adjust software product. What if it’s a new jet engine or a drug?
I've been generating Java code from postgres (created by liquibase migrations) using Jooq, then that Java code is transformed into a OpenAPI spec using Springfox, which in turn is turned into any language of choice (such as typescript types). It's really good.
I mostly agree with you, but I’m not sure where you get the idea that “we missed the generation.” Everyone seems to know that Gen Z is coming of age into a dead end. It’s just that we’re all more interested in using the situation as a political tool than in actually doing anything about it.
The grandparent said autonomous armed robots that are currently in use (which excludes under development).

As far as we know, the answer to that question is zero, unless you might count a missile as an autonomous flying robot (but even that still has to be launched by human).
Constraint programming is a thriving area of research that is used a lot in practice for solving various kinds of combinatorial optimization problems. It’s similar in use cases to mathematical programming (such as linear programming and mixed integer programming) and SAT/SMT solving, and each technique has their own pros and cons.

The easiest way to test CP out is probably using the modelling language MiniZinc. It is from the CP tradition in how models are expressed, but can compile down to many different types of solvers.

While there are programming languages that integrate CP, the main way it is implemented and used is through libraries such as Gecode, Google Or-tools, and IBM CP Optimizer.
haha! very similar sections too .. almost looked copied for a brief moment as i skimmed there
I wonder when PyPI and similar ecosystems will get deterministic reproducible builds.
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Old creator here too. I miss the Fast Tracker days. I went so far as to have two Pentium II computers both running Fast Tracker, using MIDI clock sync between them then deconstructing source music from all those favorite tracker artists, playing partial multiple songs at once. It never got old, always fresh each time.

Then MP3s came out and the whole concept of trading source music for live remixing was lost. Another amazing thing was how compressed they were. I once put my favorite 1700 S3M/XM/IT/etc songs onto a single CDROM! That in itself is wild to think.
There a plenty of things that decouple incompetency in their software org from business success:

1) Amazon has been incredibly successful frontrunning two MASSIVE verticals: online retail, and cloud computing. They were early winners and invested an INSANE amount of money to be #1. That gives them a lot of leeway to fuck up and still be on top. Even if they stopped doing anything at all but maintaining whatever shit show is going on behind the scenes, it'll be a while before they aren't #1 in at least one of those two huge markets.

2) Tech debt doesn't hurt you today, it hurts you tomorrow. You can cut corners and get products out the door fast, but eventually features and products that should take X amount of time, instead take 5X. Given their lead in their units heavily reliant on software, I doubt it would hurt them anytime soon.

3) You can shit on a lot of people for a long time before it hurts hiring when your stock has shot up the way Amazon's has. Money will make people do dumb things.

4) It takes a long time for poor hiring and management practices to incapacitate an organization the size of Amazon. Turn over at the bottom may be high, but I doubt it's the same at the top, at least up until the past few years. When leadership starts turning over more you'll see a lot more business mistakes.
This might be a dumb question but what’s a reproducible build
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Would high-performance data storage be easier to implement on commodity hardware if operating systems supplied an API to get a blob of bytes, segmented out of an entire disk (eg. a file), that presented low-level semantics like a full-fledged SSD partition or drive?

I feel that operating systems need to provide self-contained reliable APIs designed for atomically overwriting configuration files, without losing permissions or overwriting symlinks or such. Or perhaps supply more powerful primitives, like a faster/weaker fsync that serves as an ordering barrier rather than flushing to disk, or an API to replace a file without altering permissions. One issue I've heard is:

> I even had an issue with atomic writes over ssh that created the temp file but where not able to rename it, so the old one stayed.
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At the time it was enacted, the one-child’s policy’s goal was to conserve resources. It was also intended to prevent pollution and the spread of disease.

It was a direct response to overpopulation concerns (Club of Rome, Limits of Growth, etc).

Not only did it horribly failed, it did the exact opposite.

By encouraging industrialization, it resulted in more resource consumption, more pollution, and more disease.

It created an immense amount of wealth, and increased standards of living. But those weren’t the goals.

It was intended to avoid an apocalypse, not create a utopia.

If a time traveler went back in time and told Chinese leaders the effects of the their policy, they might very well outlaw contraception.

Edit: earlier family planning policies were focused on maternal health.
> Why don't we choose to use our rare skills for our own profit

You certainly could, but if you're referring to building a business, you may find that it's actually a different skill set than being an engineer.

I learned this by experiencing it. I left my job in ad tech at Yahoo to start my own ad tech company. I tried to hack my way to success for 4 years (occasionally contracting to replenish savings) and still couldn't pay myself a salary. Even when I got to that point, I instead decided to hire an engineer and began to "work on the business." Only then was I able to grow revenue and build a team.

I would guess that it takes a solid 5-10 years to become a really good engineer. It probably takes the same amount of time to become a good businessperson.

My friends who stayed in engineering (at top companies) definitely make more money than I do. I definitely feel that the grind I've gone through has been powerfully rewarding and I appreciate the autonomy that I finally have (taking days off with nobody to answer to, giving myself a bonus if I feel I deserve it, taking moonshots). It's all about what you want. Nothing wrong with being an engineer and getting a fatcat salary. Sometimes I wonder if that would have been an easier path, but I also know I'd be wondering about the opposite if I took it.
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Just create your views from those queries, so you have schemas. And now your queries are reusable :)
LOL, the reading comprehension of HN posters is astoundingly low. Or have you just not read any of the multitude of posts over the years pointing out that, at least according to the USG, there is plenty of sensor data involved in each of these sightings?
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> which can help creating software that is capable of exploiting them

Unless you're writing desktop software or your application behaves in a way where you have actually selected the particular hardware components (most of us in cloud hosting don't do this), you probably don't [need to] care.
One thing I'm still puzzled about SSD over-provisioning, which is also mentioned by the tutorial (https://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-4-ad...) recommended by the article:

> A drive can be over-provisioned simply by formatting it to a logical partition capacity smaller than the maximum physical capacity. The remaining space, invisible to the user, will still be visible and used by the SSD controller.

Does the controller read the partition table to decide that the space beyond logic partition is safe to use as scrap?
The Chinese traditionally make babies sleep on their backs. You should check out their historical autism rate
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This is really orthogonal to SRE. Google, in many ways, prefers centralized infrastructure. They invest in a few ways of doing things and integrate them all together. Devs have a few tools/libraries/services etc. to pick from and they mostly work together very well.

This makes SRE easier since devs can throw various applications over the wall and SRE only has to learn a few different pieces of infrastructure.

But in practice, any pariticular SRE/dev team pair would work together for a long time and use a small set of infrastructure anyway even if it wasn't the same as the rest of the company. SREs just become a little less interchangeable since other teams will use different sets of infra.
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Define “intensive” in this context.

Do you realize that much of American beef cattle actually graze on natural grasses for most of their lives… in largely natural settings that support complex natural ecosystem? That will not be the case for “Beyond/Impossible/Soylent” burgers; they will be composed of plant proteins that require toxic monocultures to produce.
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Thank you, that was quite interesting.
It amazes me that it last visited the "inner" solar system 2.75 million years ago. And after perturbations its next approach will be 4.5 million years from now. Its aphelion distance will be about 0.8 lightyear.
Any sector with nothing written on it can be used as scrap.

So if you partition the entire thing, but just never write to the full disk (you never use all the space), that also works as overprovisioning.

Partitioning just forces that to happen.
If health care wasn't covered publicly in Europe you'd be paying out those larger amounts more often which would cause rates to rise and then differentiation with cheaper lower capped offerings.
There are other solutions to the problem of trusting maintainers; namely incremental distributed code review. The Rust folks are working on that:

https://github.com/crev-dev/
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