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As someone who has been in decentralized social networking with Qbix, and decentralized cryptocurrencies with Intercoin, I feel like an old grandpa who doesn’t “get” why people find half of the NFTs to be useful.

NFTs for reading/viewing are useless. If you have software interpreting the NFT by showing you something, then that can be easily copied. Growing up I have seen enough in the WaReZ scene that even kids traded cracked versions of Windows and Photoshop, so those licenses were useless. So much more so for OPEN source software that can be easily forked.

Real scarce value comes from being able to control/edit/modify/own something, including things like domains (namespace entries), Earth2 land plots, cashflows etc. And that is only valuable insofar as it has a large network effect. Think “milliondollarhomepage.com” and Alex Tew going on a media tour. That made the pixels valuable to edit. The original NFT lol.

ERC721 NFTs are first generation idea. Each NFT can be generalized to fractional ownership and automated market makers should be able to assist in price discovery.

In short ... sell rights to edit something, and maybe let people mix and match to level-up more than the sum of its parts, like the game Battleship or MacDonalds Monopoly game. And make a new ERC for fractional ownership of ERC721 stuff.

Oh, and while you’re at it, get off blockchains! They are overkill for NFTs, too public and don’t need a global consensus. An NFT can just be a private chain per token, they arent divisible after all, no history UTXOs needed.

This whole NFT space is over hyped and has the wrong fundamentals.
The gatekeeper for these jobs is almost always not an engineer--it's a 40k/yr HR person with a psychology degree that does 3 things: count how many yoe you have, control-f to see if the skills in your resume match the requisition, and check to make sure you went to a prestige university. And I don't even blame them, because the entry level positions are swamped with hundreds if not thousands of applications, most of which are abysmal. I've applied to dozens of positions so far, and although I can pass a code test easily, the real trouble is just getting them to offer it to me. And as for internships, they typically require that the applicant be pursuing a degree in computer science; not much help for someone 2 years out from graduation.
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> I contrast it with excellent experiences at Sun, Motorola, Apple and others over the past 20+ years, where in some cases I had very high engineering ranks with fabulous results, in very well run and just healthy orgs.

I can understand how junior devs end up in these positions for a while and stay on the ride, but what is making someone with your level of experience you stick to Amazon? Is the compensation that good?
I mean the whole restriction on which roads tesla can drive on kind of exists in the form of chrysler's autopilot which uses only specific roads for its own self driving ... imagine a future when the data about certain roads is somehow restricted by intellectual property and certain car companies refuse to license whatever source contains that data.... this isnt entirely unthinkable

on the other point you make as someone who uses their ipad for actual professional work (3d artist, film industry) there is absolutely no reason to update from my 2018 ipad pro that I bought second hand, because there's nothing the M1 does that adds anything significant to my life.
worse than that, the ipad is really only useful because of its apps and power, while the OS itself feels like it actively hinders anything I really want to do with the device and in many ways feels mildly broken!
> Definitely not "directly", because Smalltalk messages are synchronous, whereas Erlang messages are asynchronous.

I think you have a problem comprehending English. Directly does not mean exactly. Most of the rest of what you wrote is basically rehashing what I am claiming.

> Considering he created the language, he might have had an idea of what he was talking about.

No shit. However, he did not know as much about OO, or the history of OO, because he was at the time it was picking up steam very much busy building erlang. 2009 is around the time of the turning point in Joe's understanding of OO:

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-November/0...

> "swept up"

Someone pointed out the full history of OO to him, he realized that his naive understanding of OO (Basically, C++ objects) was not complete, and he quickly grabbed on to his new understanding. Ok great. It also sounds diplomatic, and also now everyone who complained that his language was not OO and therefore bad can be shut up. What would you do?

> but the only who has done this here is you

Nope, so is Joe Armstrong.
Code is read more often than it's written, even scientific computing code.
This example is not really testing Fortran vs. Julia, but rather testing the speed of the math library you linked to.

The most expensive part of the fortran code is evaluating sqrt and exp.

For example on a 5600X the current Fortran code (with n=10 000) takes about 2.7 seconds. If I change the definition of M to remove the special functions (M(i,j) = a(i)+ a(j) then it takes .3 seconds. (Using gfortran with -Ofast)

When the special functions are the issue, using the Intel Fortran compiler and Intel MKL will make the code about 2x faster (this is what Matlab or Julia is probably using)
I use Cookiecutter for scaffolding but only with templates I’ve written myself.

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The trade-off has been worth it for me so far.
I've ridden in a few new cars recently. Maybe I'm turning into a crotchety old man, but who needs massaging seats, engine start buttons, automatic trunk closing, temperature targeting AC, charging docks, or proximity based unlocking?
But the "problem" you describe was never a problem, hence it required no solution. You don't have your orientation written all over you, so gay and straight people use the same public spaces and there is absolutely no problem. There was no debate about it because it was not needed.

I remember I was in a public restroom in a mall once and a strange man approached me while I was peeing, he was literally looking at my penis. I was very surprised, but didn't feel really threatened, just a bit uncomfortable. But I can imagine being a woman in a similar situation and it doesn't feel like right. The core of the problem is that the victims of vast majority of sexual assaults are women, and for some of them this problem is very real.
The author understands little to nothing about programming. I'd bet on the law of the straight line over his/her uninformed take.

Python is slow, but PyTorch is fast, GBTs are fast, Cython is fast, Pandas and Numpy are fast (and even faster libraries or even basic joblib code can parallelize these).

Anything that needs to be fast either is or can be made fast--and most compute in data-intensive applications exists inside these optimized libraries anyway.
Entirely agree. This is where some of the AI "controversy" has come from. A blurred Obama photo got "restored" into a white guy's face, which was never going to be understood well by the general public.

The nomenclature needs to improve for this sort of thing to make sense, and it not be used for the wrong purposes.
Don't know about other people, but my old vehicles are fine. I can maintain them. They have bluetooth, working heaters, aircon, all the controls work. Both do the top speed and have excellent acceleration for what they are. Plus, they both know they are vehicles - I will miss that feature.

Frankly I'm waiting for EVs to become realistically available because right now they aren't practically priced. The range, eg of a tesla, is not an issue.

I'm happy with the future idea of three vehicles. Right now I have a little hatchback and a old truck for trailers and knocking about with heavy equipment. I'd appreciate a daily commute thing that is fully electric. By that time, the hatchback will have likely failed.
There are true RNGs that use a physical source of randomness such as resistor noise [0] feeding into a comparator. Most of the things like mouse movements can be random(ized) but tend to be really slow (few random bits per second).

Psuedo-RNGs typically use an algorithm (such as a hash) which is very hard to reverse. The next value is deterministic and easy to predict if you know the algorithm and input values, but effectively impossible (i.e., 'random') if not.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447766
I've been doing software development for nearly a decade now and I've seen 0 teams implode. Nothing I would call a "toxic pattern" springs to mind either. If you've seen multiple occurrences of both at Amazon and think it's an ok place to work then I think you've just normalized the dysfunction.
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It would be nice if their was an "offline version" of this, e.g. automagically cache all compiled code to disk. Daemon mode isn't restart-friendly.
> assumes that companies will pay dividends

The most powerful practical enforcers of valuations are M&A and debt financing. Both are highly dependent on cash flows. You can narrate a stock up and down until the cows come home, but acquisitions and debt will set a fundamental floor based on economic reality. (There is no similar mechanism limiting upside given our cultural aversion to short selling.)
"We have been able to create new land-based vehicles from technology but whether humans capable of heavier than air flight like birds is a complete unknown.

It's possible that there are many facets of flight that are simply outside of the comprehension of human brain."

You could make this exact same argument for all technology until it's discovered.
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This makes a lot more sense.

What producers actually want is an enforceable monopoly on trade dress (the look and design of something), not authenticity or even scarcity.

This is why the most successful art market is probably video game cosmetics, where the game developer can meaningfully enforce that they are the only ones who can provide an X that looks the way it does. Even though an unlimited number of people can have it.
> I'm not sure what GP is doing wrong, but it sounds like they're only applying to places out of their league and/or only FAANG.

As someone who took over a year to get a job in software after graduating C.S. from a local university, I hate this myth. I was applying absolutely everywhere. It's easy to get a job if you have some kind of name recognition, but if you've graduated with a mediocre GPA, no internship, and no "real-world" experience, it can be very, very hard.

In the time after graduating, I took online courses that taught me things actually relevant to the job postings I was seeing, applied to tons of jobs, learned git, worked on personal projects, and attempted to network through user groups and tech conferences.

Finally, 9 months after graduating from CS and loads of rejections later (I think I only got 2 or 3 interviews in that time), I was able to get an internship with someone I met at a conference who took pity on me, which paid $15/hr (and with very limited work available).

Finally, after doing this for a bit, and continuing the self-education, I was able to get another job (which paid about the same), and then another (which paid a little bit more), and finally an actual full-time job in QA/support which was salaried with benefits. The salary was still low (like $42,000), but improved quickly within the company as I put in a couple of years and proved myself.

Before looking for work in my field, I did have very good references as a waiter in several restaurants. I had a CS degree, and was able do basic programming (fizzbuzz and similar-difficulty problems were trivial). And everyone said it's so easy to get a job. But this wasn't my experience, and if I didn't have help from family I wouldn't have been able to put the time and effort in to actually learn the things I needed to find work in tech.
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Hire to fire might just be the sign of a healthy organization that only wants performant employees. You can't really tell how well someone is going to do just form an interview. Given a reasonable sample of work you'll know if you should keep them or not. Of course, human nature will lead to some of the perversions of the core idea and lead to good people being let go and buddies being kept on.
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I'm not sure I'd want to do any serious coding in an editor that doesn't have the most basic support for the language I'm using, but to each their own I guess.

For new users, if they're not used to writing unicode characters and don't have an editor with nice support, then they don't have to write them.

The julia community has a pretty strong convention of giving both unicode and ascii versions of almost all functions. Some packages don't have this convention, but I'm not aware of any big important ones that don't follow it.
Fully agree. Walled gardens are springing up.

On the other hand, it took the software industry a long time to go from the early days of mainframe programming to the wonder of apt-get. Perhaps we're being a bit impatient.
Not just MS, they pretty much all dump SMTP errors with URL's telling you about the SMTP error they gave you. Some are really awesome when you visit the URL, they say oh, do X and then you are good. Others say we just don't like you at the moment, with basically no detail... and then you get the full burden of figuring out why they didn't like you and trying again.

We host and manage the SMTP server(s) ourselves(We currently run Postfix). If you outsource your email to Google, etc, then they have to babysit the email logs for URL's, not you.
But you can still detect exactly where it was robbed, and if the robots of each restaurant chain have a distinctive shape people would know it was stolen, reducing the likelihood of reselling it.
If you remove all the mitochondria from a brain, it stops working. So, maybe they are on to something.
I'm sorry, I have a lot of respect for Joe Armstrong but this is simply something he got wrong, probably because he didn't fully understand smalltalk objects. Before he 'admitted' as such, he understandably thought OO was stroustrop style OO. Then someone pointed out to him that originally OO was smalltalk OO, which admittedly looks vaguely like erlang message passing. But there are critical differences.
The point is complete transparency into everything happening on your computer through installed application, operating system, or loaded website. Absolutely nothing would be running as an obfuscated binary.

The source to build it is not just 'open'. All running binaries would be able to be mapped to their corresponding source.
What someone else said about that in 2014:

What every programmer should know about solid-state drives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049630 - Feb 2015 (31 comments)
> How important is form when I'm programming mathematics?

Not important.
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The first task you have at hand is to get kids satisfied and asleep in an optimal time.

Likely, it's about the ritual, about putting the visible, sensible effort in.

For that I'd recommend trying to do voices.
Assign a voice to each character and stick with it, with a separate "narrator"/usual voice.
If it's silly, so be it. You're an adult with your own kids, there's no one to reprimand you for silly voices.

Then read whatever you like and think is appropriate to your kid(s).

My elder told to my wife recently that he doesn't understand half of what I'm reading to him and that he doesn't care at all, as long as I read and then carry him to his bed.

From my perspective it's u likely that you need to pjt in more effort in stories, i.e. modifying them and such.
Likely, you'll be ok with reading what you like with sensible gusto.
> Thicker pillars are not a bad thing. Visibility is not appreciably limited by them either.

They really do! If you want to know what it's like transitioning from my 1980's compact SUV into my gf's 2021 compact SUV, don one of those cheap Halloween masks you wore as a kid and leave it on as you go about your business the rest of the day. Steel-toed shoes would make a great complement.

> By that token motorcycles would teach you a healthy fear of operating without a chassis, and thus a safer vehicle?

If you're referring to a perceived lack of concern for personal safety among a subset of motorcyclists, try handing one them the keys to a Bugatti Veyron and see if their behavior improves.

Psychological issues with this demographic aside, would you be willing to ride an ordinary bicycle at freeway speeds if you were able? If yes, do you think you would spend much time looking at your phone while doing so?
Are the FAANGs not clear and transparent?
> Unfortunately zsync is a bit old

Yup. Last update of the Github repo was 2015.

zsync is effectively abandonware.
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Yes, but a lot of it isn't as highly optimized as some of the more mathy stuff.
Julia has a ton of really good readers of various file formats (CSV, JSON, Arrow, etc). Many of these are as fast as anything out there, but some of them have some performance issues still.
https://www.genieframework.com/ is a web framework entirely in Julia, (but probably not the fastest).

If you have specific things you are interested in, feel free to follow up.
> Mind-boggling that there still exists upper management that thinks otherwise.

Far too many Harvard MBAs calling the shots, I guess?
Exactly. Pilots are highly trained, but they are not experts in everything (physics, atmospheric science).

At the end of the day, everyone is fallible -- and even the experts are sometimes surprised.

These reports can only be treated as best efforts to fit observed phenomena into an existing framework of (inherently limited) understanding. When the phenomenon is adequately oddball, you have to expect an increased level of misinterpretation. See also: doctors, scientists, infosec practitioners, ...

Clearly, this is adequate justification for collection of additional data, but it's not enough to draw conclusions from.
Is that the division of Autodesk that was behind the ruthless ceiling tile attack on Ton Roosendaal?

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Never really considered these as my first two employers were big enough to not care. My new exployer restricted me to being remote in any city they have an office (haven't yet seen how far this can be pushed, city vs metro area vs state). Also came across this with another company's recruiter: they were specifically expanding remote positions in Texas.
You beat me to this thought, but the difference is that exercise and high-level lifestyle changes will include underlying changes in a million biological factors, including mitochondria.

We see this over and over in press releases when new research is focused on one mechanism (e.g. mitochondria). To me "weird tricks" that capture whole body or lifestyle changes are at least worth paying attention to. While "weird tricks" in the name of a single biological mechanism are indeed overblown (but still worth knowing if you're in to that sort of information).
Well, that and the petrodollar's standardization of price in US Dollars following Breton Woods in the 1970's
Because the complete truth matters.

When I was younger, I thought that pretty much all of the developed creatures died at that point and that the whole evolution from single-celled to multicellular creatures got reset and restarted. Which of course isn't true.

I think we should always try to be as accurate as we can, because facts already get distorted my time, thus there no need to distort them before they even meet time.

I believe truth and accuracy is important. But because many many people don't, we now have a saying: "History is written by the victors." Meaning history is distorted.
Can you share your knowledge or reading materials for how to reduce on-call load?

I’ve worked at a number of big companies but all the problems driving the oncall load seemed, at best, domain specific if not application specific with highly variable fix times and unpredictable occurrence (eg started becoming more of a problem due to unrelated change X). As a result each team has to decide the cost of fixing the pain vs focusing on other things.

If there’s actually best-practices here that help that we’re not already doing, I’d be extremely eager to learn about them. I’m not an Amazon engineer but I’ve been bitten by oncall stuff.
https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql might be worth looking at, at least the parsing section.
You can get rearview cameras that integrate into the rear view mirror. It does make for a tiny screen, and good luck finding that on a new car, but the option exists for older cars at least.
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The Fortran doesn't look quite equivalent, and we don't know how it was run, though that's irrelevant to the analysis except perhaps for OpenMP. As usual, it's a single number from a benchmark without understanding it, e.g. with -fopt-info. The general conclusion about Fortran invalid.

It happens to be an example of a pathological vectorization case for GCC with an ancient issue open, sigh [1]. Much as it pains me to say so, apart from NAG's, I think, all the other compilers I know will vectorize such loops: ifort, xlf, flang, PGI, nvfortran (but the last three may be essentially the same here).

Also, last time I tried it, -floop-nest-optimize (marked "experimental") was quite broken, again with an issue open either in the gcc or redhat tracker. -O3 does unroll-and-jam, at least.

1. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40770
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Yes, people are using it for databases, web servers, video games, and a bunch of other things. These domains are less mature than julia's traditional wheelhouse of numerical / technical computing, but I think eventually it can be very competent at almost anything people put the time into building.

Julia is an incredibly flexible language that's all about enabling powerful code transformations, so it can be adapted to very different niches.
Ah, I just mean that usually by Sunday i start getting tense about work on the Monday. Logging in today and getting my Monday todo list sorted out and doing a couple of hours of work has put my mind at ease. The Sunday "fear" seems to be a bit of an Irish / UK saying, or maybe it's just me and my friends that say it.
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