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I work outside of tech, and so many of my inter-work communications would be so much better on Google Wave. Of course, certain types of staff-wide communications would be solved better by anything other than email, whether that be Slack or a different platform, but I will always resent the death of Wave for what we missed out on as a society.
>People are really bad at risk

I don't think this is the right way to characterize the issue.

There are a huge number of unlikely disasters, and we round the small probabilities to zero.

This should not be called an error or a fallacy unless you can point to an alternative way of evaluating things which would be a practical improvement.

The idea that people should obviously take small risks seriously reminds me of Pascal's wager.

What's "obvious" at first is not so obvious once you consider the unlimited number of possibilities.

If you do assign a non-zero probability to any of them, then the total will be way too much, and you can't use it for making coherent decisions.
The roof is/was wood. That's what burned.
Possibly replying to someone else.
"Matter" to what end? That is, if you do not have a specific goal in mind when learning a language, then of course it doesn't matter. On the other hand, if your ultimate goal is to learn a myriad of languages so that you can jump around fields, then of course it matters, as you will likely have difficulty learning advanced concepts without understanding the basic ones. (Just as you would likely not dive into calculus without understanding algebra.)

> We don’t have to make programming about mathematics.

I also don't understand the article's interest in decoupling programming from math; that seems like trying to have physics without math or philosophy without logic. The power of the field is founded on math; you can't just sidestep around it and gain its power at the same time.
> Having the bigger OS number is really unimportant

I can tell that you don’t work in marketing.
Another Kiwi here too. First I've ever heard of the "Waikato RISC Architecture" but am curious to learn more.

I'm not the author but my view of the NZ tech sector is that it's pretty much stagnant. I ended up taking my skills elsewhere as did most of the people I remain in contact with from my UC days. It seems successive governments have put all their eggs into the agricultural export market. That's a real shame.
A Proficiency Test for Research Software Engineers
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Bitcoin transcations are 1/600th slow at best and super expensive compared to the system that banks offer where i live.
I hate to break it to you, but most of the people who “care” about Palestinians just don’t like Jews and Israel. When Middle Eastern countries condemn “Israeli occupation” they don’t do it out of “solidarity with Palestinians.” Antisemitism is a way of expressing solidarity among Muslims. (There’s a reason none of these countries are making a peep about Uighur.)

I’m sure many people in America are well meaning, but they’re being played. There is huge amounts of Saudi and Qatari money making this “Palestinian cause” thing happen.
Yeah, ignoring that might be okay in a course like "Programming for non-CS Majors", but I'd expect better from an actual CS program where understanding the foundations of the language you're working with are important.

I remember the same exact thing from Java, and similar "magical words" that weren't explained but I was simply told had to be there.

Learning for/while/do loops and variable assignment and all of that is fine for a programming course, but the first semester of a CS course shouldn't just be sticking a fahrenheit to Celsius converter or a string reversal or simple sorter in between magic words and symbols.
git blame WS_COMMIT^ -- FILE

You’ll need to change the file name, though, if it’s been renamed since the whitespace change.
“… sufficiently skilled […] given enough time …”

Well, sure. For some values of sufficiently and enough.
Could have been coincidental- the drive was about to die and that triggered it.
It's used in the Solaris init scripts for shutdown, shortly before the system tries to unmount all mounted disk volumes.

I made the same mistake nullc made once, as I was more accustomed to linux than solaris. That was after hours and the effect was immediate, but it was still a pretty jarring and memorable moment.
Was anyone really training ML models on Mac to begin with? Pretty sure most people run Jupyter on a Linux server somewhere and develop in their browser.
How does terraform make it easy to move between vendors when CF doesn't allow it at all?

Is that actually a question you are seriously asking?

The providers for AWS/Azure/Openstack/VSphere look very similar, to the extent that terragrunt templates can smooth over the differences.

Calling renaming provider resources 'reconfiguring' is a stretch. If that's the worst thing you ever have to do, then I would suggest you're not doing much that is complicated in this space at all.
And it comes down to it: the logic of progressivism inherently demands the end of Israel because it can’t conscience the notion of an ethnostate.
For sure they can. Someone with an appeal to power will take advantage of these people and tell everyone how smart the decisions are (s)he is making and that everybody else should shut up.

We are witnessing just that.
We have dedicated classes in computer architecture to learn all the things you mention, it's not the job of a programming language to teach them to you

When I first learn C in highschool the asign statement was what bugged me the most because I had already has a math background at that point so statements such as x = x + 1 made no sense, and even in natural science general, the idea that you can "asign" new intrinsic property to a thing is very unintuitive. 20 years later mutablity is the exact idea that I have to unlearn everyday.

My point is all these languages and learning hierarchy were made up by people like us, and in an era when frankly, they had no idea where this field was headed. We should not just blindly think because they're written in a book and sound important, that students should be condescendingly reminded about them in programming languages while they're trying to learn to solve real-world problems.
Well aware of the supposed "'need' to use unsavory characters," given Mueller's direct role in the Whitey Bulger affair [0]. I also recognize how aggressive and cavalier that behavior is in practice.

I appreciate your applied view of the legal system but it's reasonably likely that such derogatory evidence would not even be admitted in court.

This is middle-age justice with a modern veneer. Might as well torture confessions.

[0] https://technofog.substack.com/p/when-the-fbi-framed-four-in...
Now I'm curious; which parts of quantum field theory don't have a rigorous basis?

EDIT: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6530/rigor-in-qu... is pretty informative.
Was typically cold at night. I’ve lived in southern Arizona since the 90s. 30 years ago it would feel cool driving home from the city. Now? Not at all.

Owning a concrete block house feels like all my money is going through the walls. Even if you have the AC on in the summer, you can touch the walls from the inside and they feel warm. I’m definitely going to need to look at insulation going forward.
TL;DR: if we as society in the large had a broader mind as to what males might do/say/prefer and what females might do/say/prefer, there’s be a lot less interest by many in changing their body parts. We conflate body parts with a relatively small set of behaviors right now.

Maybe so. Shifting in that direction would be unsettling for many. MANY many. But fears would be as overblown as always: “oh no, no one will get married anymore, they’ll just pork goats all day” was the cry as non-hetero marriage was coming in.
The person you responded to didn't make any claims about bad teachers or good teachers. The claim is that not everyone can understand computer science. As an extreme example do you think a person who is mentally disabled can understand computer science? From my perspective it's clear to me that not everyone can understand computer science and the same applies to many academic areas.
> TBH, my team was very gracious about it and the RCA focused purely on the events that occurred and how to never let if happen it again. No blame game at all.

Which is how a PIR, PER or PCR should be. If you don't understand why someone makes a mistake, you can't avoid future mistakes.
There’s a definite trend of Europeans looking puzzlingly at things that Americans do differently and assuming it must be due to some combination of stupidity and greed.

I'm an American and I look at the things we do and they seem to be a combination of stupidity and greed.

You can look at strongtowns.org and many other places for a summary of the illogical, unsustainable and short-term-greed fueled quality of American urbanism.
> Daniel Dunbrill

This guy?

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3127611/chi...:

> Dumbrill’s YouTube channel has 140,000 subscribers while his videos, commentaries and interviews – on topics such as the Hong Kong protests – have previously appeared on CGTN. His long track record of providing fodder for Chinese state media to throw at the West has earned him special privileges not accorded to veteran foreign correspondents in the country.

> Last year, he partnered with CGTN to travel the length of the Tibet autonomous region, interviewing residents and visiting schools to highlight the successes of the Communist Party’s poverty alleviation campaign. In contrast, foreign journalists who gain permission to enter Tibet are accompanied by government minders and forced to strictly adhere to an imposed itinerary, with little time for independent reporting.

> While Chinese and foreign reporters do not need prior permission to enter the Xinjiang autonomous region, many journalists from Western media outlets have reported being tailed by security forces on arrival.

CGTN is China's version of Russia Today.

This is what real reporters encounter when they try to go there:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/insider/china-xinjiang-re...:

> Chinese authorities have made the [Xinjiang] story a huge challenge to cover. Their constant following makes true reporting almost impossible. In Kashgar, the best I could do was take photos and videos and hope police wouldn’t delete them.

> ...Another time, a police officer stopped us close to our hotel. Inspecting Chris’s photos, he deleted a shot of a camel. When Chris asked why that photo was deleted, the man turned to Chris and said, “In China, there are no whys.”

> It was good advice. As we pulled down another road in search of a re-education camp, a car sped in front of us, cut us off, and stopped. Men jumped out unfurling a spike strip directly in front of our car.

> “Road’s closed,” we were told. We didn’t ask why.

> Each evening as we returned to our hotel, we would pass a boarding school surrounded by tall fences topped with barbed wire. Socializing in clusters in the twilight, the adolescent students looked very much like prisoners.

> How they came to be there was impossible to discern and we couldn’t safely ask them. With the followers on our heels, any contact would be dangerous. Often we were left with the painful necessity of remaining remote, even when locals tried to be friendly.

This is worth a read: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/22/technology/xi...
I don't know if there's maybe something to this analysis on a global scale (certainly I've got zero confidence in the good faith of Saudi and Qatari foreign policy), and it's absolutely the case that there's an insidious strain of antisemitism hiding in advocacy for Palestinians, but plenty of people I talk to about this problem are observant Jewish people; they're absolutely not antisemites, or getting "played", any more than people who advocated against apartheid were getting played. The situation is by all accounts very, very bad.
Overprovision like SSDs I would imagine
No, it was just a bad configuration choice by the system administrator.
This article is a bit light on substance.

The meat of it appears to be the following: Satellite photos show decline in vegetative cover in the Sonoran desert between 1984 and 2017.

Therefore" `Dryland ecosystems "may be more susceptible to climate change than expected,"`

Has the temperature of the Sonoran desert changed significantly enough in that period of time to explain this decreased vegetation? Doubtful. How about rainfall? Maybe, likely not.

So what has changed in the Sonoran desert in the last 30 years? One thing right off the bat, a massive influx of people as the Phoenix/Tucson areas have grown tremendously.

Maybe that is something to look at? Is there more human activity (for example ATVs) in these fragile habitats? More air pollution (yes there is that). More of something else?

To really show warming was causing this decrease in vegetation they would need to show a mechanism that caused it to occur. And quantify it. i.e "Palo Verde trees die when the average nighttime temperature is above XX or annual rainfall is below YY". But nope, they don't do that.
I would say it took 10 years of professional work across many languages where I can say I feel that comfortable.

Maybe I was a shitty student but I think I went to a general well taught undergrad program that grounded me in the various concepts (although not functional programming and lambda calculus - that was a pure CS-only thing at the time). It took a long time to actually build that level of intuition through experience. I wouldn’t expect someone who is just out of college to have that trait but it is to me a strong signal of seniority (eg you can start helping someone proficient in the language/more familiar with a codebase try to spot tricky system performance issues because you know what kinds of things to Google). Similarly language fluidity is a skill that not everyone develops (due to whatever mix of available time, interest, or natural talent) and that’s also OK. There are plenty of meaningful contributions made by people who only specialize in expressing all the CS concepts in one language and that’s OK too (or even just building useful tools/OSS contributions that are unrelated to CS topics).
That one hurts
Well if you take into account that the roof framing that caught fire was made out of timber I think that highlights that even just using wood as part of the building is a massive fire hazard.
You're right for Google Fiber's failure being political, but that article is pretty garbage, mainly points 2 and 3 being price and 'partnerships'.

Google's entire plan wasn't to make an insanely popular internet offering that generated an overall profit within 10 years, it was to make internet itself better for _everyone_ so that they can make profit via their other products over the next 10 years - and that meant going into every single market possible and becoming a competitor. They were ready and willing to drop hundreds of millions of dollars in actually getting their network deployed, but at a certain point the lawsuits against incumbents indeed squeezed way too much out of them that it would be truly reckless to continue fighting them in more suburban markets. In this vein, they did succeed in making a lot of people's internet better across the board as ISPs know that municipalities could greenlight access to new ISPs easily or make their own. Now all they need is Starlink to take the bill for rural internet.

The fifth point about outages is also terrible as the example of the world series outage was a problem on the network's end with blown generators[0]. It doesn't seem like outages are any more rare on GFiber.

0: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/world-series-outage/#:~:text=B...
I would indeed be surprised. Like I said, point me to a production renderer used by more than one application that actually gets away with pure arena allocation except at blocking scene/frame boundaries. Until then, you're just asserting you can work within these restrictions without providing any examples. Considering that even stuff like hashmaps generally require allocations, it strikes me as fairly unlikely, but I could be convinced with code.
How about the -shocking- possibility that google thinks 'genocide' is US/Western rhetoric to stoke tensions and keep nations under western hegemony, and they feel it's their duty to not contribute to that?
> Because the ecosystem has been offerint 8-20% interest to hold USDT and put it in a savings account or defi contract.

1. do the defi contracts not accept other stablecoins? Does USDT have a disproportionately higher interest rate than more reputable stablecoins?

2. This situation (large amount of USD being parked in USDT, people warning that it's a fraud) has existed since the last run-up (2017-2018), before defi got popular. So while there might be people parking their money in USDT to earn absurdly high interest rates, I don't think that's the whole story. It'll also be interesting to see how much USDT is locked in defi contracts vs that's issued.
> There were questions about its editorial oversight, but those were secondary. Basically it's one of those sites, like RT, that has a political position and has little problem with pushing disinformation to support it.

I think any news agency is like this.

The strength of journalist freedom is that all such different news agencies can present their facts.

> disinformation

I am pretty sure everyone believed their information and don't want to verify them thoroughly. I mean, even US government does want to verify the so-called evidences of WMD in Iraq...
I’m making a different point. The idea that Americans whitewash their history is absurd compared how kids are educated in nearly the whole rest of the world.
You can customize it for your friends.
Why is this assumed to be a problem? I'm much happier now that I've accepted that I don't need or want friends other than my wife and family.
I'm not sure this is the mic drop you think it is, since what you're pushing back on here is the idea that Palestinians living in Israel should be allowed to simultaneously remain in their homes and have full political rights and agency. Which of those two things do you disagree with?

You're excluding the middle a lot in these comments, suggesting that the only two valid perspectives on this conflict are "Israel must be an exclusionary ethnostate" and "Hamas is a legitimate actor". It's possible to disagree with both of those statements. People who stick up for Hamas are dumb. Ethnostates are immoral.
Theres an outfit called Square Off that has made literally this. They were about to deliver a 2nd gen version before covid hit and broke all the supply chains. Its still happening, but harshly delayed.

https://squareoffnow.com/
Do you remember more specifically what made you give up on Linux?

individual control/power/freedom + simplicity/ease-of-use... is it possible?

I'd recommend Linux anytime, all the time; but I also have the time and patience to deal with its rough edges; of which there are many. Basically, you have to operate assuming nothing will work out of the box.
Thanks for proper explanation on why this is better. I stand corrected.
quote:"What I do find now is that the amount of corporate, media and government propaganda in the west is insane and is as cheesy as the one of former USSR."

Indeed. And it's gone on long enough (on TV) that now it's hit the re-runs. "24" in particular did not age well ...

As an American it's very depressing.
Totally opinion and preference. I’m a millennial and dying to get out of the city into a master planned community with beautiful lawns and big homes and properties
The deployment process for a site I used to work on would entail changing the owner of a folder. You would change the owner from the web server to your user, upload files, and then change it back.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data [folder]

I’d made some changes and was ready to update the owner only I was inside the folder that needed updating. In the moment I decided the correct way to refer to that folder was /

I noticed the command was taking far longer than usual to execute. I realised the mistake but by then the server was down with no way to bring it back up.
>Real estate buyers are typically not building science subject matter experts

I know nothing about it, but I used to park in a garage for work, where they would periodically remove some concrete, exposing rebar, involving a huge amount of noise and dust, and I wondered why.

I assumed they were checking structural integrity, but it always seemed hard for me to conceptualize how you could take concrete out and then patch it up without somehow damaging the relationship with the rebar going through it.
>I also don't understand the article's interest in decoupling programming from math

It's an unfortunate side effect of America's long acceptance of anti-intellectualism. And people like this perpetuate it by coddling Americans who were somehow allowed to get through high school without even a basic understanding of the fundamentals of math. I am also a victim of this defeatist way of thinking, and have worked hard to appreciate math and learn it on my own to undo the trauma instilled in me by math teachers who simply taught formulas for us to remember to pass tests that we immediately cleared from our memory afterward.
Which bad things should we stop studying in school?
As an intern at a major automobile parts manufacturer, I took a hub home for a LAN party. Brought the hub back after LAN party and promptly plugged it into a network port and connected the wrong power cable. This was in the server room next to an AS/400 running production.

Took a long vacation weekend as my error proceeded to shut down all production due to network issues causing the AS/400 to freak out.

Cant run a conveyor belt, or robot, or sensor, production line, or or or if your mainframe isn't working.
I oversaw a Solaris machine for a very short period, and never got any reason to use it. But if you can change the signal, sending SIGHUP into everything looks like reasonable thing to do.

Still, it's not something common enough to deserve it's own program.
If you twist it around enough, it sounds substantial. Then we have to slowly and tediously dig out that your end claim has utterly nothing to do with your beginning claim. Not the same countries, people, timelines, relationships, nothing.
C imparts a very specific architecture onto your code. Scheme is more of a blank slate upon which many different paradigms can be taught.
Now I see how obi-wan did it. Waves hand. “These are the PIN digits you’re looking for.”
Reading through these stories, every one of which is fascinating, I’ve never been more glad that my job does not involve doing anything where the consequences could be summed up as “Tokyo stopped working.”
One Tuesday morning, my code brought down 67 restaurants piloting the new point-of-sale (POS) system.

I'd written the code to reformat the mainframe database of menu items, prices, etc, to the format used by the store systems. I hadn't accounted for the notion that the mainframe would run out of disk space. When the communications jobs ran,
a flock of 0-byte files were downloaded to the stores. When the POS systems booted with their 0-byte files, they were... confused. As were the restaurant managers. As were the level 1, level 2, vendor, and executive teams back at headquarters. Once we figured it out, we re-spun the files, sent them out, and the stores were back in business. I added a disk space check, and have done much better with checking my return codes ever since.