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Mark Zuckerberg's alleged quote is quite interesting - “Young people are just smarter. Young people just have simpler lives… Simplicity in life allows you to focus on what’s important.”.

There's another group of people who have simple lives - empty nesters. Raising kids is time-demanding, hard work. Guess who no longer has that time suck? Guess who has over 35 year's worth of experience (and not just doing the exact same job and working with the same technologies)? Guess who knows how to turn business goals into results? Guess who knows the answers to the questions the business never even asked? This 54 year old developer, that's who!

The good news for us experienced old farts is the idolization of young, inexperienced programmers appears to be mainly an SV culture thing. Out here in the "real world" older developers are prized for their soft skills and their vast experience in knowing what's important for getting stuff done.
First, don't assume something is a shortcoming in their mind unless they indicate it. Odds are HIGH you are being nitpicky about things that are just not a big deal to them.

Second, develop a more positive focus.

More specifically: get out of your head about some ideal that may never be real. Look at the product in terms of what it can actually do, NOW, and the benefits people will get from it, NOW.

Focus on how it will help them, in its current form, and communicate that.

When you do this, it is easy to be up front about what it will NOT do. In fact, in most of my sales calls, there is at least one point where the prospect expresses an expectation that it will do something for them that it doesn't. I immediately, directly, almost forcefully call that out. "Let me clarify, it will not do X. That is not what it is for. It will instead do Y for you, which lets you do Z." (This is just me being my normal, brutally-honest self, but from a sales-tactic perspective it builds credibility and trust.)

Focus on how the product can benefit them, in your thinking and your communication, and then it's easy to be up front about the rest. Otherwise you can never help people who need what you are selling more than they need that money.
AI is a tool, not a person. A hammer cannot win the prize, why would AI?
It is not one country to be blamed, we all have to reduce and cut the Carbon footprints before it is too late. I am not scientist but Nuclear plants though are better option but it still poses threat to environment extraction of resources leads to threat and then we have seen fukushima nuclear disaster after Chernobyl disaster which was classified level 7 on scale [Read : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...] and disposal of radioactive materials. There is a recent article i came across which shows how testing nuclear bomb, even after decades posing a serious threat [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/nuclear-fallout-show...]
So i agree totally agree that now is the time and we have to be quick investing, installing renewable energy and encourage our coming generation to participate in it, otherwise we are screwed.
Also, i would really encourage everyone to save and conserve energy. Doing our small bit makes a big difference
It's all because Binance had not agree to share part of the "hustle" or the "take" with the FCA.

As already mentioned, The FCA has no enforceable jurisdiction over Binance, because Binance's physical and financial assets are not in the U.K.
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It was on sale on prime for $16. The only issue will be "when" Chamberlain gets hacked and millions of garage doors open simultaneously.
I have usually seen the distinction between concurrency and parallelism being drawn for precisely the opposite reason: parallelism without concurrency is a relatively commonly used niche, it is much simpler than concurrency, and it has special tools that make sense just for it.

For example, CUDA exposes a parallel programming model with low support for actual concurrency. Similarly, OpenMP is mostly useful for parallel computations that rarely need coordination. C#'s Parallel package is another example.

By contrast, concurrency often rears its ugly head even in single-threaded workflows, even ones that are part of larger multi-threaded programs.
you would think, but that's not the case. It's used to correlate data sharing between data brokerages. Facebook has your number, Twitter has your number, Microsoft has your number. What better FK to link all this data together than that? Now Microsoft knows what you searched for. Twitter knows what you bought on Amazon. Facebook knows who you hung out with. It's all about the data brokerages.
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Well, since they're competitors in this space, and it's not exactly a novel experience to drive a rover on Mars, they'd probably end up only using it to stir the pot. I guess be thankful they're not doing that?
I agree with everything you say here and if I communicated that the arguments against lab meat are durable, that was the opposite of my intention. What I mean to say is that it’s a foregone conclusion and we should be expediting its arrival and gaining an edge in that future.
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In the sense that there's extra meta information (type) it can be used as a frontend for other things than JS, so I could easily see

1) TS to WEBASM (once JS is out of the picture, might be awhile, lol...)

2) TS as an LLVM IR frontend (compiled TS on the server)

which is basically predicated upon industry familiarity as it's selling point, so yeah, I could see where it's also just a JS industry side-effect. A wart remover, lol
These days there is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Were we? Would have made more sense to change the day-of-month to be zero based too IMO. Or explicitly have both: `monthOne` and `monthZero`.
Context boundary meaning where it interfaces with javascript?
The French equivalent to Lambda school is https://www.42.fr/ which actually predates Lambda by 3 years and is operating at larger scale (29 campuses worldwide). It's also free unlike Lambda.
Perhaps the only reason a hedge fund hasn't tried this yet is the unclear legal status of doing so. One law blog (https://restislaw.com/liability-51-attacks-cfaa/) argues that a 51% attack would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but that blog does not take into account the recent Supreme Court decision limiting its application.

It might also be considered market manipulation to take out a short position on a bitcoin-linked fund or company (like Microstrategy) and then take actions with the intention of changing the price of Bitcoin. That could add enough legal risk to make a hedge fund think twice. I doubt a hedge fund could build a sufficient short position on unregulated DeFi networks, either, especially since blowing up Bitcoin would likely break the peg on at least Tether.

Still, this would seem to leave Bitcoin in an uncomfortable spot: the only reason the "free from government" currency continues to exist may be regulations by those selfsame governments.
Of course it’s different. You need to know how to make solar panels so that it will work on Mars. It’s different than those you would need for the moon. It would have to work through the dust storms.

The equipment would need to be rated differently. How the signal is sent from the rover to the orbiter would be different, etc. There’s a lot of knowledge that you would need to build up about Mars and having probes on Mars and the logistics of sending data to and from Earth via orbiter that you would need before jumping all the way to sending a large expensive rover to Mars.

That’s interesting about NASA not being allowed to share data. I really wonder how China was able to leap to sending a rover without lots of investment in understanding everything else about it.
I like the sauce.
As an user, all the software that I take actual pleasure in using and make me productive, are large plug-in based software.

As a developer of a mainly plug-in based application, the iterating ability it gives is pretty incredible - nowadays for a large majority of my feature requests, I don't have to touch the original codebase at all, just create a small plug-in for the feature.
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Was watching a Scott Brown Carpentry video on Youtube where he mentioned most houses in NZ don't have floor/base insulation because it's not needed, the temperature differences aren't that big apparently. I was really surprised.
That’s very interesting background info.

I didn’t realize it take up to 3 years to make the sauce. It’s because they need to ferment some of the stuff?
> I know the post is about Windows 11 but I installed Windows 10 for someone on a laptop about 2 months ago and it had the most crazy dark pattern I've ever seen to be able to proceed past the installation screen without a Microsoft account.

I would set it up without access to internet as the easiest way to force it. It is pretty awful this has to be done this way. Eventually I will just exclusively use Ubuntu and call it a day.
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You don't know the story but bought the product, so it's still working. Would knowing the story cause you to buy two?
Ahh yes, I remember when people used to say that about trading in the trillion dollar a day foreign exchange markets.
Then people lost 5 times their margin in the blink of an eye.
I thought we went from global warming (hotter) to climate change (not hotter everywhere).

And based on what I’ve read, we’re WAY past fixing this problem. Even if CO2 emissions went to zero tomorrow, the earth will continue to warm and make vast swathes uninhabitable.
>Huge companies, including Disney, GoDaddy, Rackspace, Toyota and Verizon, relied on CentOS, and they were reportedly not happy about RedHat's decision... It turns out that Kurtzer's decision has been a popular one

Is he trying to suggest that these large companies are now using Rocky Linux instead of CentOS? I'd be very surprised if they jumped to a brand new distro with the same support and lifecycle guarantees as CentOS (ie none.) They should be looking at RedHat or Oracle Linux.
A good counterpoint to this is Joel on Software’s post about “Bloatware”

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
You may be right.

There's this weird thing with some speciality produce clashing with EU regulations on food prep at the moment. Not to mention unpasteurised milk. It could end up in that basket. Strange clubs of weirdos meeting up to butcher and eat an animal, and everyone else thinking that's completely disgusting.
It would also help if decision makers at large organizations would stop forcing everyone into Microsoft products such as Teams, Outlook, etc., when much better alternatives exist.
I'm pretty sure you don't need a network connection to set up a mac unless this has changed in recent releases.
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Not to mention just because I was alive in 2012 doesn't mean I know or knew about this.

The parent comments floating to the top here seem to have a common theme of "I knew that already how did the rest of the world not also get the memo at the same exact moment I did?"
Other than it's decentralized, it doesn't do anything different. That's a huge difference though. It will just enable true ownership and "liquidity", the same thing moving from the gold standard to fiat did. Liquidity, or increasing movement within the market did a lot of good.

This conversation, and entire confusion around the utility of blockchains eerily reminds me of the now infamous challenge to Drew Houston that Dropbox was nothing more than a simple FTP with a share.[0] That's right, but also very wrong, missing the big picture.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
In addition to what others have said, Microsoft accounts back up your full disk encryption keys to the cloud.

Microsoft ships Bitlocker with every OS and given the TPM requirements one can speculate that it will be turned on by default on every Windows 11 computer.

I've seen an increase of tech support posts where people boot up their computer after an update or motherboard change and they're asked for Bitlocker decryption keys and they don't know what those are. Their data is lost forever. Their computers are bricked.

The experience of working in IT and modding online tech communities has taught me that computer literacy is very poor even among those who use computers every day. They're just appliances to most people. And this is OK. The problem is that the people who can't figure out what a right click does will never figure out how to back up their full disk encryption keys or even what they are.

Forcing a Microsoft account on Home SKUs eliminates this problem.
Stuff like this makes me scared to upgrade from Windows 10 LTSC (1809).
Right. At least with Gnome even distro maintainers struggle to keep up with the churn and build it, users have little hope of success there. The result is a partition between the community and the developers who spend a lot of time in the code.

Firefox has a similar situation although I would argue it isn't quite as bad.
YouTube was sued by Viacom, and Paramount I believe, with some support given by Universal. Mind you this happened after content ID was in place, but was limited to content that came before. Viacom ended up settling while appealing the decision from the Court of Appeals.

It seems clear from the opinion that Content ID itself was evidence YouTube was actively collaborating with content creators. The court believed creation of that collaboration was the intent of the DMCA takedown process. It doesn’t seem like something they could remove without serious repercussion.
State of the art AI is just mechanized labor. We've let marketers who want to make software sound advanced to people that don't understand software go out and reignite all the 50s era what-if chin stroking. This is an embarrassment to the software domain.

We need to do something like (bad example) repurpose that computer science quip and start saying that "AI isn't artificial and it isn't intelligent."
*Looks like someone may have bought into the hype at just the wrong time*
I'm not sure what they realistically do. They regulate banks but at least banks have deep enough pockets to pay the fines. What do you do when 18 and 21 year old brothers get hacked and lose $100M+?

Well, you say, they wouldn't get registered because they wouldn't have what they would need to provide a fair risk to customers. Then what? People will simply run the exchanges elsewhere and the money will keep getting "lost", "stolen" or seized by the authorities.
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Huawei is just the latest example - and it really isn't an attack on China...
==After all most of the time people like to eat decent pizza.==

Considering Pizza Hut is the largest chain in America, I have to disagree. Chicago Tavern-style pizza is the only type I ever see locals eating in Chicago. Deep dish is mostly for tourists.

Bon Appetit agrees: Chicago’s Real Signature Pizza Is Crispy, Crunchy, and Nothing Like Deep Dish

link: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/real-chicago-pizza-tavern-s...
They should try that sulfur concrete that China has been using successfuly for 40 years.
I know most languages have ways to handle it correctly.

Including JS - http://mikemcl.github.io/decimal.js/
Wouldn't Strive School (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/strive-school) be one of the schools trying to implement the Lambda School model in Europe and the UK?

I don't know how famous/big they are, but I have already heard about it from more than one person, which makes me think that they are gaining traction.
> I'm not aware of any Linux distros that are suitable for non-developers

This is quite a bold statement. I'm not a developer and recently installed a number of linux distros to try which is best. Some of them were actually easier to install than Windows or MacOS. For example Linux Mint was a breeze, and I used full disk encryption and other 'advanced' settings.
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> Also, in this case, the function should return NaN so it's not polymorphic.

Sure. But what if that's function comes from a 3rd party component that doesn't have great documentation or relies on another package and thus a behaviour like this simply bubbles up through the call chain?

And don't think this can't happen - NPM in particular notorious for this kind of deep dependencies. Also mixins and monkey patching are a thing in JS, so just importing a module can lead to an unexpected change in behaviour.
Can it be that JS is not good starting language then?

Maybe strongly typed compiled languages would be a better fit?

One can argue that if you want to program it might be too much information for starters - but IMO basic types are such a fundamental concept that it would be better to teach that concept early on.

It also clears up a lot of newbie confusion as you cannot assign string to an int by mistake with strongly typed language. Such scenarios are then handled by compiler so newly starting dev has quick feedback on fundamental issues with his code without having to ask people around.
It is a false dichotomy currently because the in-between area is largely occupied by “do the economics make sense.” That is very clearly trending in one direction (towards “yes”), so at some point in the future it will largely boil down to something akin to this dichotomy. My framing is definitely dismissive of one side, but it does strike me as a set of arguments that are largely aesthetic on one side and the reality of food security on the other.
I think it depends on what you do with it. I have a linux machine which I use primarily for Steam and watching movies, and I feel like anyone could do it (except for the install of course, you would need a technical friend for that)
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> AI isn't artificial

Lol what? Well it’s not natural/biological intelligence. That quip fundamentally misunderstands the breadth of the ai field.

Additionally, the critique of mechanized labor (regardless of its accuracy) is only relevant to supervised learning and only to the fraction of supervised learning where the datasets are curated not collected. That can’t be equivocated with all of AI in general. Again that’s misunderstanding the breadth of ai research.
of course it's just a 'what if?' fiction piece but people do anthropomorphize AI a lot. It's still just an algorithm, no more sensible to give a nobel to an ML system than it is to give a physics nobel to a telescope.

Would probably be more interesting to write a short story like this about autonomous warfare, because I think there we will very soon have scenarios were people will try to shift responsibility and agency to machines if only to dodge it themselves once things go wrong.
I work directly with a US company. 65k USD is a great salary if I compared it with local wages in non-tech fields but really an ok salary for my position. I have friends who got paid more

Money is important, but it's not my only motivation
I have definitely used the +!! "operator" before. It coerces a value into a boolean integer. It's not weird at all, just a mechanical application of the not ! and Number coercion operators +.

The fact that [] is truthy is something everybody learns in their first weeks of JS programming otherwise you would be writing `if (someArray)` and wondering why your code is broken.

A weird one would be to explain why +[] is 0 and +{} is NaN. That is nonsensical.
No, they wouldn’t. My last “Mac” was a PowerComputing clone, because other manufactures were doing hardware better than Apple. Jobs killed the clones, and I became a Linux user that never looked back. Apple maintains their walled garden because they know that their users would quickly realize the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
Isn’t NASA pretty open with their designs? I don’t think it's hard to find their specs if you do some digging.
TIL I dont know js.
I would love to see a stickyness map for the top companies that apply these patterns to their customers.
Both Android and iOS require an account to be practically useful for most people, and have for years. Microsoft is "only" following suit, and I'm afraid that a bunch of hackers here aren't enough to stop the tide :-/
> these are not footguns and should not be used to attack JavaScript

No one is calling them that except you. The site says it right at the front:

> most of this syntax is probably, and hopefully, not something you use in your daily life.

Your obsession with having to choose Side A or Side B won't let you see this for what it is...

Just showing weird syntax in JS. That's all. Good lord.
> 2) Nuclear waste storage.

Coal ash is radioactive too and people don't mind to live nearby. There is a lot of irrational in the fear of nuclear power.
We know how a hammer works. We don't command the hammer to "analyze the nails you see in front of you and find the optimal way to hammer them all in".

With AI, there's a qualitative difference. We know exactly how the AI is built, but we have no idea what the Gigabytes of FP32 numbers that make up the weight tensors actually encode. We can actually ask the AI to "find the optimal structure of a protein" without knowing how it finds the optimal. Currently, it requires a lot of massaging of data and cajoling the weight tensors to be "just right" in order to get good answers, but in the future we can imagine AI giving very good answers that are "out of our league" (in terms of understanding as to how or why) that are nonetheless optimal according to some metric we can measure.
The inequalities may be there, but even rather poor people (in the US) are quite rich in an absolute sense, at the moment. Radical green policies would cause real, tangible changes to people's lives; if you actually wanted to reach realistic climate targets, many people wouldn't have cars due to carbon taxes, electricity costs would be much higher, etc.

Someone indirectly advocating for such things while flying in a private jet is a pretty bad look. It reminds me of a medieval king gorging himself on food while telling the population to slim down.
> Modularity brings a lot of baggage with it, like duplication of code and lifecycle management

If the operating system and standard libraries provide better facilities for the common parts, that can go a long way to solving these problems.
There is a decent chance that it comes from a foreign (but still Terran) power. We are already in conflict with these countries. It's not currently in combat, but there is constant jockeying and saber-rattling.

It's unlikely to have phasers or tractor beams, but it just might have some plain old missiles. Or at the very least, the ability to precisely track our forces and gather information on the ground.

That's worrying, though perhaps not alarming. It's the kind of thing worth researching: who's doing it, why, how, and precisely what so that perhaps we can compensate for it.

If it actually is aliens that can crush a plane like a tin can, yeah, we're boned. But it's far more likely that it's other human beings, which are far crabbier than aliens, who are probably rather curious rather than hostile.
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