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Right? I opened a Windows XP VM inside my 10 box a bit ago to play an old game, and oh boy was that incredibly snappy compared to what we have now. Sure, it's running in anachronistic hardware, but where did we go wrong?

3.1 was before my time, but I can imagine.
>Crystal's is about a year older than Rust. If it was going to get popular it would have by now.

You mean at least a year younger ?

Rust

>The language grew out of a personal project begun in 2006 by Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare,[18] who stated that the project was possibly named after the rust family of fungi.[29] Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009[18] and announced it in 2010.

Crystal

>Work on the language began in June 2011
I see what you meant. We are in total agreement.

These days it seems somewhat more difficult to be anonymous online. I'd be better off having a username of numbers, such as yourself. I have published a few writings online but if I really wanted to throw that into a blog I'd definitely construct a new online persona to do it.

I've tussled accidentally with mentally ill individuals online and experienced harassment that was bordering on dangerous. I would not be quick to put myself in that position again.
I can see what you're getting at, but everything you described can be achieved by joining a coworking space.

It boils down to this: a 100% remote policy doesn't rob you of what you need, but a 0% remote policy robs those of us who prefer WFH from what we need.
The residence won't charge anywhere near as quickly as this, though.
Imagine asking all the nicely dressed people on video zoom/webex call to stand up!

lol
Are you hearing youself? Do you really believe that a class goup project prepares you to negotiate an employment contract or a morthgage? Does a person coming out of scool understand they rights, where to complain if they employer is avuvsing them, can sue a landlord or can read a health insurance contract and understand what it covers?

Preposterous
Being blunt: you're a terrible developer if you think like that.

What the heck does it matter if 5400 RPM disks are old technology or not?? Do you have any actual reason that your program runs slowly on such hardware?

It's very arrogant to assume that since you can afford to upgrade to the latest technologies, then everyone who can't should be left behind. There are probably billions of people using spinning rust in their machines. If your software does not run with acceptable performance then that's a problem with your software, not their hardware.
That was my first thought. I remember reading an article before Spectre was patched, that it could slow down the speed by ~5%? I never checked back in on it.

I have noticed that the latest update feels faster than all the other ones, but it's always hard to tell since that's the only time I really reboot the machine.
I've done this, gave up managerial role to become an IC basically because I enjoyed staying technical and could have a bigger impact in faster iterative cycle than delegating work and expecting others to deliver at the level and quality I desired.
My favorite TMS fact is that if you target a specific area of the brain, bombard it with electromagnetic stimulation (which apparently "disables" it for 20-30 minutes) you get a remarkable increase in working memory (nearly a doubling, if memory serves me).
It's really hard what to do here.
I'll let it stay on the list, since it will promote itself too and people can still use it for free.
There are two lessons you could learn from this episode:

1. Use shallow trees and the clever workaround presented in the article.

2. Don't use Spark for tasks that require complex logic.

People should trace out the line of reasoning that leads them to use tools like Spark. It is convoluted and contingent - it goes back to work done at Google in the early 2000s, when the key to getting good price / performance was using a large number of commodity machines. Because they were cheap, these machines would break often, so you needed some really smart fault tolerance technology like Hadoop/HDFS, which was followed by Spark.

The current era is completely different. Now the key to good price / performance is to light up machines on-demand and then shut them down, only paying for what you use - and perhaps using the spot market. You don't need to worry about storage - that's taken care of by the cloud provider, and you can't "bring the computation to the data" like in the old days, removing one of the big advantages of Hadoop/HDFS. Because they are doing mostly IO and networking, and because computers are just more resilient nowadays, jobs rarely fail because of hardware errors. So almost the entire rationale that led to Hadoop/HDFS/Spark is gone. But people still use Spark - and put up with "accidentally exponential behavior" - because the tech industry is do dominated by groupthink and marketing dollars.
I paid $4800 in SF to be 40 min. away
It would be great if there was a way for these articles to clearly differentiate many things companies allow.

1. Work from home in your primary geo, commutable distance, but be ready to come to work x times a week / on demand

2. Work from anywhere, but restricted to states where company has a presence.

3. Work from anywhere within primary country.

4. Work from anywhere in whatever time zone and country.

May be different terms?? Right now WFH is a big bucket

May be label them like we call self-driving car levels :)
People have been claiming the same thing about SpaceX and Tesla for 20+ years now doesn't seem to stop them. Having a small sample size theater about people you personally know isn't really representative.
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I think you are being more than bit harsh. This is not an academic paper, it is not "A New Kind of Science", it is a fun personal project that the author took a lot of time to document well. I think the author should be applauded not told to read textbooks from the early 1990s.
Sounds like they confused W and kW then?
Surely just pay them with some kind of deferred salary?
> Adopting some poorly-maintained FOSS solution
Well, don’t adopt a poorly-maintained solution, adopt a well-maintained one. Simple.
I mean "lets purge our academics of non-believers" is a practice applied in basically every society, for time immemorial.

The non-charitable reading is that they're implying that "access to information" is the blocker from NKers just rising up and accepting "western" norms, and _if only they knew how amazing society could be_, they would change their minds.

It's the same brainworms as the liberal "oh, if only you knew all the facts then you would agree with me". It implies some sort of objective truth that western society has found, yet these societies haven't.

Educated people in NK know about voting and democracy. It's not some super well-kept secret to keep the masses down. Censorship is just applied in much more banal ways (preventing too much embarassing information about people in power from spreading, and making it hard for any form of opposition to organize itself)
Good point. Street view cars since 2017 have had high def Lidar sensors on them[0], and they have some prowess in extracting features [1], but I'm not sure if that's enough detail.

[0] https://www.geoweeknews.com/blogs/google-putting-lidar-new-s...

[1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/16/google-maps-is-roll...
Then pinch the wheels and do it again and again until an unholy grating sound comes from under the vehicle.
One could argue that if the community expanding over a couple of decades is what made a house more valuable then it would be appropriate for the community to receive the profit, and not the home owner who just sat there.
Ha. There's a short story in which the narrator is invited to a dinner to eat monkey brain, but is tricked and consumed himself. Can't remember the author or name of the story (would think ea Poe or Roald Dahl). Was making a big impression on me when I first read it as a child.

Anyone knows the story ?
>It seems really what you are saying is not that Tesla are charlatan but the whole industry is.

The entire industry has an air of charlatanism. Tesla is the biggest charlatan of the bunch. The LIDAR-using ventures at least have a snowball's chance in hell. Tesla has no chance with vision alone.
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Don't feel bad. The original intent (or at least part of it) for Java was embedded systems. That... um... isn't how it worked out, like, at all.
I wonder if Deloitte management working in the commercial office sector will put some behind the scenes pressure on staff to spend time in the office.
I thought I was applauding the author and suggesting they read up on some antecedents.
$299 for 10 trips would make for a phenomenal way to get around the Northeast. Fly into DC and do the government sites and museums. Head to Philadelphia for some more history. New York City. On the way up to New York City, a few great New England beach towns like Mystic Connecticut, or even a ferry to Block Island from New London. Up to Boston for history and universities. Then Portsmouth New Hampshire, finally Portland, then back to Boston to fly back home.
Team explorer saves my days. Playing with command prompts for simple tasks is never ideal
Historically somewhat related: The underwater shot Baker test of Operation Crossroads in 1946 which tested the effects of an underwater nuclear blast on obsolete warships some of which were captured Japanese and German ones from WWII: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
Yea, after dealing with the accidents and traffic seemingly every day on 101, having a short walk to work is just incredibly glorious and results in so much less stress. A nice couple block walk on water to an office in the morning is a pretty great way to start the day.
are you kidding?
Assuming they are mostly consultants, this isn't terribly meaningful, is it? Whether they can work from home will be determined by the client most of the time.
Is there an alternative you’d recommend?
My understanding is that LIDAR is diminished on the aspect of not just "not needed," but also potentially exacerbating local minima under good (e.g. fair weather) conditions.

Having LIDAR means you can rely on LIDAR, which means you need the LIDAR to be 100% reliable. I've read some companies claiming their lidar works through rain and snow but I haven't seen actual renders of it yet to judge for myself.

No lidar acts as a forcing function for Tesla to get their vision system that much more reliable. I think this will ultimately result in a better vision system than the competitors, and I believe that (somewhat paradoxically) this will result in an overall better, safer, and more reliable system, when it comes to the 20% long tail.

Lidar+vision will probably dominate in fair weather driving. I'm skeptical it's of much benefit in bad weather, and that long tail is the hard part.
No, they didn't.

A. The link is very clear that Redbubble does this proactively and it doesn't mean the rights holder filed anything.

B. Redbubble does not say what kind of rights were potentially violated. Names of things aren't covered by copyright, and - if anything - this would fall under trademark, not copyright.

C. It bears mentioning that I agree with the general idea that even a trademark claim over the Norse god Loki in a way divorced from the MCU would be ridiculous. However, see again point A.
And by not driving, you cheat death a little bit more on behalf of other people. Less air pollution is good for literally everyone.
Better than being involuntary homeless due to Covid I guess.
> Why not fork instead of pivot?

Remember Qwikster?
Nice ableist slur, on brand.

I use a modified gitflow. The article and this thread are about how when you get into trouble, git quickly becomes complicated. It’s not about branching being too hard or whatever you turned this conversation into in your head.
Because when passions are inflamed, emotions tend to take charge over rationality and logic.

Dispassionate debate doesn’t mean that you don’t have strong opinions about something, it means that you set those emotional connections to your argument aside and debate solely with logic.
I really don't

Innovation seems to come from

- Academics, who would be doing the same thing regardless of patent revenue

- Entrepreneurs (and people working for small companies), who are hurt much more by the existence of the patent system than the potential revenue from it.

- People working for big companies, who would almost always be building the exact same product if the patent system didn't exist, except they wouldn't have to worry about working around competitors patents.

Certainly the patent system makes some people money, but it mostly seems to be

- Lawyers (for obvious reasons)

- Owners of already very large and no longer very innovative big companies, who had the time to build up a war chest of patents.

I don't particularly believe that giving extra money to either of those groups encourages innovation, and I certainly don't believe it encourages innovation enough to make up the harm it does to people attempting to be entrepreneurs, people having to work around patents, and so on.

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One potential exception to this is bio related industries, which are different in that patents are often the primary product a company produces, instead of a byproduct produced by engineering work that happens for other reasons. Without patents you would need to find another way to fund that work, if you want it to happen. I wouldn't call most of that work particularly innovative though, it's mostly just very expensive mind numbing work like "trying a million different possible drugs" and "running huge human trials" and so on.

I would generally prefer that the bio work be funded by a different system, because I don't think the patent system produces good outcomes for society. It creates perverted incentives to always be creating new drugs, instead of finding new ways to use old ones. It creates perverted incentives to not build on each others work. It means that drug companies have the ability to charge substantially more than the cost of production for drugs they produce, meaning people who could be treated cheaply in an optimal system go untreated (note: The marginal cost of treating more people is really small since the expensive part is the R&D that already happened). Moreover it forces drug companies to do that if they want to recoup their R&D costs.

Something like direct government subsidies to companies who discover drugs that people end up using (for medical purposes) seems like a better solution. There are a million variations on that, but I'd claim that basically any variation on that is probably better than patents.
isn't that very close to just rebranding a phone that already exists though
I think one can insulate themselves from the worst of the noise with some very selective follows/blocks/etc,

But anyway, re: your comment on the worst offenders, a related quote that came across my twitter this weekend-

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats" - Aldous Huxley
Fortunately, organisations can cater to both sets of people. Take the money you would spend on an office and provide a co-working stipend to your employees instead. The people who like working from home can continue to do so and the people who like to work from an office can do so too.

People have varying needs. Some people are suited to office life and some people are suited to working from home. And some people like a mixture. Until relatively recently, organisations have had to put everybody in the same environment. Remote working isn’t good because you can work from home per se, it’s good because now the working environment can be tailored to the individual instead of forcing everybody into the same environment that is undoubtedly sub-optimal for a large proportion of the workforce.
> components which could interoperate via a binary contract

COM still underlies an abhorrent amount of the Windows architecture.
I dunno, I think I disagree. I have much higher expectations of software. I have these expectations simply because most of what we do these days we could do decades ago, and using orders of magnitude fewer CPU cycles than the "state of the art" now (e.g. your example of VS Code). Most software falls far, far short of these expectations, which, IMO, is an ongoing embarrassment for the entire field.

Even your example of 2 whole seconds seems wayyy too slow to me. I don't even tolerate that sort of delay when working on my 10+ year old commodity hardware --- I've already tweaked my tools to be totally instantaneous so I can continue typing as soon as I release the short-cut key.
He showed how poorly their outdated radar performed. The rest of the industry uses newer, vastly superior radars.
The employees should reply by asking AA to volunteer some money.
I thought tech would lead to much more isolation than it has.

By isolation I don't mean lack of socialization of course. There was plenty of socializing back then. But the people I met on Usenet, BBS, IRC and phpBB forums were people like me. We worked on tech projects, we talked tech, we had our specific jargon and subculture.

I distinctly remember when people asked me what I wanted to do back then, I'd make up some lie, but knew that my future would be living in a single room with no social interaction but with my online friends. (I did not think this to be bad at all, this was my idea of a good life).

I thought tech would evolve to make the internet more into an alternate reality, more separate from the real world. Maybe I was reading too much cyberpunk sci-fi.

In any case, I certainly did not anticipate social media, dating apps and the digitization of traditional brick and mortar businesses. And to be honest, I'm not sure we wouldn't be better off without them.

It seems there aren't that many "pure internet" projects out there. IRC replacements are all tailored for the workplace and real life interaction (maybe except for discord?). It still feels very strange to me that communication platforms would ask your for your real name (especially when, at this point, there's more "reputation" or "social credit" or whatever you'd like to call it attached to my online persona as to my real world one).

Crypto is perhaps the last bastion of such an autarkic technology (i.e. by netizens for netizens) but even that is slowly moving toward real world asset tokenization and institutional integration.
This is a vital point, its not a fair contest if it's me in my spare time vs a team of worldclass layers fulltime.

Any specialist worth their salt can mislead or scam a layman. In some idustries you go to jail, but in others its somehow an accepted practice.
Cut compulsory foreign languages which for most people is just memorizing lists of data that they forget a month later.
Didn't work when I fixed casing until I refreshed the page.
It isn't worth the complexity for the rare cases when it might be useful. Even if you live at the top of a mountain, the easier solution is to just not charge to 100% to account for your "free" energy gains when leaving.
> No lidar acts as a forcing function for Tesla to get their vision system that much more reliable.

Alternatively, no LIDAR means you aren't gathering corresponding LIDAR and vision data that you can use to improve detection of the vision system.
Perhaps you could elaborate on some concrete benefits that reading up on some antecedents provide here. Has there been any work combining A-life with GoL?

I've got some passing familiarity with the A-life literature, and I'm not aware of anything like OP. So it's not clear what benefit mentioning Tierra has to a reader beyond name-dropping.
Another recent example in 2021. Kauai is supposed to be up to 80% powered by renewables with their pumped storage install. Small scale, but great example.

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/renewables/kauai-island-...
> CNN is still here.

The denizens of Hong Kong already have a wide selection of CCP-owned media to choose from.
I spent a good chunk of my career at the same place, and during that tenure I grew from IC into management, eventually a senior leadership position. The company grew at the same time and through those years we had many fun challenges.

I truly enjoyed being both an IC and a manager. At the company I am referring to, although I was an IC, we were small enough to require any individual to wear more than one hat, which led to gaining skills in project management / organization / collaboration early on in my career.

As I grew in that role and transitioned to management, I gained plenty of value in learning how people work, and how they are so much more difficult than systems! I spent many hours reading all the usual people management books and doing my best to optimize my team in a people-first way.

Unfortunately, I have a knack to over work myself. I would easily work 60 hours a week and because I was in management at a fast growing company, there was always something to do

This led to full burnout in 2019, just after I was promoted to a more senior leadership position. I should have said no, but it took the pandemic for me to make a switch. The pandemic triggered layoffs across the company and with that, my morale and will to rebuild depleted. I left the company half way through 2020.

With that departure, I decided to try IC again. I missed writing code and I had incredible fears that I'd lose the one thing that got me into this career in the first place.

The switch was a bit bumpy at first, I feel like the first 2 months I had forgotten how to write any code, but it all quickly came back, and the 40-hours a week of practice helped :-) Finally, I had the benefit of management experience which has allowed me to easily collaborate with others, build rapport in a remote environment, work past a few staffing issues that affected my immediate team, and be a mentor to my peers (at varying levels).

And the biggest change was how much time I spend working. I don't work 60 hours a week anymore, in fact some weeks I work less than 40. I spend more time on myself and that has allowed me to not only be better at my job, but be a better husband and father.
TSA tried once. Amtrak, who has actual police with actual arrest powers, said next time they showed up and harassed Amtrak's passengers, they'd get thrown in jail. IIRC, Amtrak and TSA came to a face saving agreement that essentially made it clear that TSA has no say in Amtrak security. Unlike an airport that has many airlines, Amtrak stations only serve Amtrak so they have complete control. Not sure how things work at Canadian stations that Amtrak services but I'm betting it's not through a TSA type of situation.
Probably about the equivalent of ‘undefined behaviour, in a computer program - maybe you segfault, maybe you unlock the ability to speak Spanish fluently. It all depends on the when and where.
That doesn’t sound right for Facebook unless you happened to apply for some specific positions that require being in the office.
The Model 3 manual says not to tow for long distances and to use a flatbed truck for that.
> ANNs are fundamentally backwards looking and cannot adapt to unforeseen or even slightly unusual combination of circumstances. It will go fine for n miles and will dramatically fail at mile n+1 where a new situation requires understanding of ones surroundings, and n is arbitrary number.

And humans also fail after some arbitrary number of m+1 miles. And in many cases far more catastrophically then AI.
> But machines don’t consume ads. So APIs are second class citizens.

This just gave me the most wonderful bad idea ever.
In short, no.
The operation itself lasted for over 12hrs, but I am only aware of (approximately) the first hour. So weird shit may have happened, but I have no memory of it.
a lot of "senior" engineers dont have 5 yoe, let alone 10.
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