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This comment deserves to be higher. People just think you can put these anywhere but you need water connection, sewer connection, electrical, telephone line/cable, permits and red tape, by the time you're done it'll be double. And I don't think these solve any of our housing affordability problems, the land in a desirable area will be far more expensive than what's on top.
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A boom town where labour is really expensive and there is an acute housing shortage ??

Or someone who thinks it's the future and love telling his or her guests about it. Or someone who's fascinated by IKEA furniture.
I can’t get cuda to work for me on my nvidia 1660x. I’ve followed their steps straight from nvidia, am using the Ubuntu LTS, etc. I’m sure I must be doing something wrong but I always get a dependency issue (cuda depends on X which isn’t going to be installed) or when I try to import tensorflow it claims it can’t find the .so files. I’ve added the cuda path in opt to the LD path with no luck. I bought nvidia specifically to be able to use tensorflow (had an amd prior) and I’m just kinda upset about it.
As a Canadian I've always found it weird (and worrisome to some extent) that the two dominating political parties in America go all the way up from the Presidency to all the way down to municipal politics. I mean the term "conservative mayor" is pretty much unheard of in terms of party lines.
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True. B&H is sort of unusual in this regards, but from what I hear their employees are treated well, and the lack of tax is well worth it!
Wankery?
Nearly everyone who does real work like this for the government is a contractor anymore. The government employees manage the contracts.
You're getting repeatedly downvoted but I think you have a point here that could have been articulated with less snobbery.

There's many folks here who grew up on videogames and most likely find it to have been a vehicle for meaningful experiences that are to some extent comparable to some of the things you've listed (for example, often videogames have social dimensions to them where lifelong connections are made).

I find you more agreeable with your emphasis on artistic value however towards developing a person. While it is true videogames are an artistic medium as well, the vast breadth of human art and knowledge/ wisdom lie in more established mediums that have been around for longer such as literature and music.

Videogames certainly have the potential to provide artistic value that is comparable to this long accumulated pile, but this is no easy task, pleasure and relaxation aside.
> How and why do authoritarian regimes topple?

They don't topple, they are toppled.
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There’s only going to be two types of customers for that. The Uber rich who can afford spending multiple thousands of dollars in what’s effectively a private hotel room you can install wherever you have land, and the extremely poor who will live in them because it is the maximum they can afford.

The negative PR from the latter set of clients can’t possibly be worth how much margin they can get from the former, especially when hotels exist in every city, town, and village.

There’s still probably a market for something that size from people who can afford 30k+ to handle the static costs of building a luxury cabin in the country and are still price conscious enough to want to limit how much they spend on building.

It’s extremely unlikely that there’s a market for deplorable houses this size that also fits in a middle class budget like 2k would
> right/security or wrong/money :-)

right/no users or wrong/yes users

Not much point being right if no one uses the product :)
> We had two viable choices for the new application that needed to be built---Rails and Phoenix. The team to which we were delivering the project had no Elixir experience at all, so a choice to build a Phoenix app represented a choice to adopt Elixir.

*Laravel and all the other PHP frameworks waving their hands frantically...

Hello, Hello!
why release 21.04 this late? 21.10 is soon here and 21.04 will be eol!
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When you spend more time arguing about how the message was said rather than what the message is actually trying to convey, it doesn’t matter what the response is: it’s unlikely that you were ever going to listen to the message anyway.

This isn’t directly specifically at you, just this whole thread in general.
Are you trying to convince me that I'm schizophrenic? :)
For #3 in general the advice is a NIF or a Port to an engine (polar is a good example) or to use Luerl

For #2 i know nothing about this kind of stuff

For #1 it depends a lot. Something like Oban can be enough, or Ulf Wiger's Job or Broadway. These tends to be more ad hoc and extracted to independent services. It depends a lot of what kind of constraints you have for these workflows. There are lot of options but they are all more specific to use case and constraints than these broad projects that try to do it all.
Inflation, cost of living. Families, social comparison. America life is built like a never ending hamster wheel.
Why do they release 21.04 this late when 21.10 is out in a couple of months and 21.04 is eol?
You are not accounting for opportunity cost here. Yes, there were incidents, and people died, and there will be more. But there are also victims on the other end. People who died because they had to breathe coal. People who died because the power was down or too expensive to run AC or some hospital machine.

When people are deprived from basic necessities, their life revolves around survival instead of moving humanity forward. How many Elon Musks have died or lived a life in which they could not realize their potential because of no access to power? If there was cheap and abundant power everywhere, you could get rid of the whole class of environmental and societal issues altogether, not only saving lives, but greatly improving life quality.

Think of how many problems Internet brought up. And then how many it solved.
Messi was one of those kids like Tiger Woods and Steph Curry who had a dedicated parent coach who got them into the game at an extremely young age, and into the hands of the best trainers they could throughout their childhood. Most kids who are born into that situation end up at the tops of their sports.
If you have a 2020 motherboard, your Intel CPU almost certainly supports PTT, and you don't need a standalone TPM module.

But you're right about the demand - I had a TPM 2.0 module listed on a local buy/sell site for the past couple years, and received a dozen inquiries after the Win11 news.
Googling Stackoverflow itself can sometimes be a high expertise skill, simply because sometimes you need a fairly good understanding of your issue to figure out what to search for. A recent example: we had an nginx proxy set up to cache API POST requests (don't worry - they were idempotent, but too big for a query string), and nginx sometimes returned the wrong response. I'm pretty sure I found most of the explanation on Stackoverflow, but I didn't find a question that directly addressed the issue, so Googling was a challenge. You can keep your job finding answers on Stackoverflow of you are good at it.
Stats measure our shared experience. Is there something better for this?

The human spirit isn't unconquerable. Believing it is has the side effect that you write off others because, "try harder."

Vertasium did a fairly convincing bit on the zip code thing, which is -- I think -- why it's top of mind:
https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I

I encourage you to dig into economic data and not use your experience as a frame of reference for the economic reality of others.
This sort of mRNA work isn’t immune-driven at all, in theory, and if you need your target cells to keep producing your desired protein, you’re going to have to keep telling them that by sending them more mRNA. Once a day? Once a week? Who knows? That’ll need to be worked out by experiment.

This doesn't seem like a problem from the point of view of those who are in the business of selling mRNA :)
I’m in the middle of trying to figure this out with a friend by building an off-grid tiny house and this is pretty accurate. With our labor at a nominal rate (30/hr) it’s coming out to about $250 per square foot. We think on the next one we might be able to get down to $200 maybe $175.

Interior is not done yet, but exterior is: https://imgur.com/gallery/KbPlbPR

That 250 psf includes everything you need to live from the get go except you have to fill the 50-gallon water tank.
The justice system functioned decently well before the time when ubiquitous surveillance was possible.
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> How and why do authoritarian regimes topple?

Multiple overlapping reasons, some of which include:

- the military overthrows the rest of the executive/legislative powers

- Gross incompetence resulting in the government's self-destruction

- Financial collapse

- Secession

- Very strong external pressures (invasion, economic destruction, etc).

- Multiple violent insurrections straining executive resources and undermining the rule of law, allowing other groups to fill the role of the government.

Note that those necessary to take power are not always the same as those necessary to keep it; people often end up with something different than what they bargained for.

An excellent read: "The Dictator's Handbook". To say that politics is a dirty business is an understatement.
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The power of the capitalist class, the lack of social supports, the weakness of organized labor, etc.
I love taking meeting notes on pen/paper, and my colleagues, clients love them too. I used to write mostly text -- bullet points, keywords, figures, etc.

I started moving more towards sketches that depicts the idea, relationships, and the likes. I have suggested the books by Dan Roam[1] earlier and I'd still recommend them today.

Today, for instance, if I'm in a meeting for a product feature; by the end of the meeting, my notes are usually the starting point for the product team (designers, engineers) to get started.

1. https://www.danroam.com
Not to mention that the post-911 NSA surveillance program leaked to the NYTimes within a few years
Has anyone read his other book ‘Silicon Snake Oil’ [1] from 1995 lately?

Sounds like most of his predictions in it (eg e-commerce will fail, digital books will not be viable, etc) were wildly off the mark - but were any prescient?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Snake_Oil
It's only been two months since the Ubuntu(upstream) release. The versioning reflects that base. They've been working on Cosmic, which is no small thing, and likely the reason for the delay.

Either way, it's 2 months late and 4 months until October's release, so not really ridiculous or anything.
On the bright side, I think I’ve finally manage to internalise the meaning of “Kafkaesque”.
The idea is to take Ivermectin as a prophylactic. Weinstein is not suggesting taking a massive overdose of Ivermectin. He makes this clarification repeatedly.
Economic sanctions and boycotts lead to overthrow of governments all the time, that's how USSR collapsed.

And when hundreds of millions of people are living in what is effectively just a very large concentration camp that can harvest anybody's organs at anytime then that's the worst kind of "crippling poverty" there is.
Ever heard of Embrace, Extend (We are here), Extinguish?

Downvoters: I hope you read the 'Availability' Section of the FAQ. GitHub literally admitted this.

> Can I use it in another IDE than Visual Studio Code?

Not yet. For now, we’re focused on delivering the best experience in Visual Studio Code only.

> Will there be a paid version?

If the technical preview is successful, our plan is to build a commercial version of GitHub Copilot in the future. We want to use the preview to learn how people use GitHub Copilot and what it takes to operate it at scale.

That is a translation to a proprietary lock-in service tied to VSCode, GitHub and OpenAI which is all Microsoft exclusive and it admittedly unavailable on other editors. The extension does NOT work on Atom editor for example.

If that is not a strong case for the 'Extend' phase, I don't know what is.
This. Follow the money (follow the white rabbit). We don’t know how to unplug from the financial/social Matrix.

Morpheus:

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
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A kernel is not an OS. Or do you consider Android just another linux distro?
There's a world waiting for you on YouTube.
> If the ADU is sub-standard, then the lower class can choose to not live there.

Buddy, not for nothing but that sentence could be a textbook definition of a synonym for “Let them eat cake”

Are the lower class supposed to use their vast sums of savings to choose more expensive housing? If a 20 year old Toyota Corolla with 200k miles is substandard for them can they simply choose to buy new?
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Fwiw there has been some history of B&H workers being treated fairly not-well. I encourage reading past the first few paragraphs of this article as it's not all "union stuff"--there are lawsuits, DOL complaints, and OSHA fines as well:

https://gothamist.com/news/bh-photo-workers-strike-on-may-da...
This is a great idea. There are times I want to disable web fonts, audio, video or even images.
"hunter-gatherer societies like the Ju/’hoansi spent only about 15 hours a week meeting their material needs despite being deeply impoverished by modern standards."

I don't understand the "despite" in the above sentence. The more they would work to meet their material needs, the less impoverished they would become, no?
It think it's like Döner Kebap. Created by turkish emigrants in exile, unknown in Turkey up to that point in time, then re-imported back there because it was trendy.
> It will drive innovation and reduce operational costs by ensuring much greater reuse of capabilities.

I feel I have seen this vague promise on a lot of software projects that either failed or overran budget significantly.
Yes I do remember opening the news that day and my reality completely changing.

Up until then the “party van” parked outside your house taping your conversations was a joke perpetuated by schizos. Turns out they didn’t need a “party van” parked outside of your house.
Which point seems particularly interesting?

About dehydration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_distance_(boxing)#Distance...
Good point. Just lack of determination to make use of available techniques?
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Amazon stimulates fake reviews, fake listings and fake vendors.

This practice has to stop.

Gigantic class action suit is overdue for this fraudulent criminal empire.
There are many fundamental difference between standing armies and/or organized militias and violent mobs in terms of scale, martial effectiveness, negotiations, treaties and post-conflict continuation.

Mobs don't win wars, they merely destroy and the rest is left to fate, often with disastrous results(see Libya as an example).

Mobs can't sit at the negotiation table

Mobs can't agree to treaties and enforce them

Mobs can't form proper functioning and recognized government.
the stressgrid benchmarks look bad because they forgot to turn off the "spin your cpus" setting. That optimization is really important for some lower-performing platforms of yesteryear (which the erlang VM does need to continue supporting) but basically irrelevant for modern platforms, and actually bad, if you're getting charged CPU credits. However, it's a command line switch away. I don't know if the default has been changed in more recent BEAM versions (I feel like they did, around the time they were changing defaults to favor cloud deploys, like setting up concurrency to detect cgroup vcores instead of machine vcores)

The stressgrid folks did a RCA and posted the explanation in a subsequent, but most people rushing to shoot down erlang/elixir don't get around to reading that article.

Extracted comments from the article:

> we discovered that Elixir had much higher CPU usage than Go, and yet its responsiveness remained excellent. Some of our readers suggested that busy waiting may be responsible for this behavior.

> c5.9xlarge and c5.4xlarge instances show similar results in responsiveness, and no meaningful difference with respect to busy wait settings.

https://stressgrid.com/blog/beam_cpu_usage/
It doesn't have to be complicated: deliver your work as operating system packages which you've integrated and tested to production and Bob's your uncle. If you invested the gargantuan amounts of time and effort to master "Docker", or "Kubernetes" or "Ansible", then mastering how to make nice, clean RPM's[1] shouldn't be a problem, should it?

Use the "Ansible" RPM module to do mass-deployments (if you don't have anything better, like a software deployment server) and hey Presto! you have effective orchestration.

As soon as one goes OS packaging route, "Docker" for instance becomes immediately obsolete.

--

[1] http://rikers.org/rpmbook/
> The US has Medicaid, free healthcare for the poor?

That's not the same, as there are tens of millions of people that don't have access to affordable healthcare in the USA. In Canada (and a host of other developed countries) there are none.

> The claim was "Canada doesn't have a problem with x, y & z, or people who are desperate or struggling".

No it wasn't.

The claim very clearly was: "Canada has much less of a problem with x,y & z and far fewer people who are desperate or struggling than the USA does".
> Why this only becomes a problem when done at a state or national level, is not something I can fathom.

If anything, the larger risk pools would drive costs down.
Taiwan is not easy to invade.
There's this documentary about him too: "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164
> The government employees manage the contracts.

How long before that's outsourced to Accenture too?
I recently read the book The Dictator's Handbook, which discussed this topic among others. It makes the argument that for such a movement to succeed, the existing regime must be destabilized in a way that makes its key supporters lose confidence in the regime's ability to continue to reward them. Often this is because a leader is sick, or the economy collapses and the leadership runs out of money. When that happens, those key supporters hedge their bets. Army generals refuse to fire on protesters, or local officials refuse to disperse them, etc...

In the case of Hong Kong, clearly Carrie Lam never lost confidence in the PRC's ability to keep her in power, so she and the other loyalists in the HK government never put up meaningful opposition.
Individual boycotts go together with individual voting for better politicians who will build better policies regarding PRC.
Oracle still has a product though.
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Not so. In the US, your health insurance is often tied to your employment. You often don't get health insurance unless you work full time. Full time is always 40 hours or more. That isn't a whole lot more productive than 32 hours, but employers benefit by having fewer employees work more rather than more employees working less, because of costs like health insurance.

I think it's quite a bit more complicated than "because we want stuff"--I'd say it's because we're serfs for the ultra wealthy.
That's not really true.

Or rather, the need for the distributed system to be fault tolerant is, but downplaying the language/framework isn't entirely.

Kubernetes has definitely made it so the distributed tooling of Erlang is less valuable; many of the things it provides you can also get with Kubernetes. The tradeoff being that Kubernetes is far more complex (but, also allows for things Erlang doesn't have).

But what Kubernetes can't do is help you write correct programs. That is, if an error happens, what do you do? In most languages, you catch the ones you can predict and handle them. For the others, you let them trickle up until someone catches them, or the app crashes. The problem is figuring out where to handle them, and to make sure you really -are- handling the things you know how to handle.

Erlang flips this. Handling things becomes far less important as isolating failure. If something goes wrong ~here~, where else is there state that is likely wrong, and how do we get it all back into a good state?

This is a really powerful approach, as it ends up being far more robust, for far less work. It's harder to get 'incorrect' behavior this way; rather than have to enumerate the unhappy paths, and how to address each, you just have to declare dependencies between processes and how, should they find themselves on an unhappy path, to drop their state and get a known good one.
> remember obama was against marriage equality amongst other things at first

It is worth remembering that at that time period, which was just 2008, California literally voted to change its constitution to ban gay marriage, which was purely a popular vote which was successful. If you want 55 electoral college votes, you aren't going to be saying things that ensure the opposite outcome.

I don't think it is useful to have actual opinions if you are playing that game.
I agree, just look at North Korea.
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"If you protest against CCP abroad, they will find people you love to make you pay."

I don't understand how this tactic wouldn't backfire.
Such a tactic is outright thuggery.

Thugs tend not to have a good brand. Thus defeating the point?!
"If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary"
It's not even really material inheritance or gifts. It's that successful parents teach their children how to be successful.

When I reflect on my life I realize that pretty much everything went right because my parents had explained all the steps. I followed my parents advice to learn programming, I followed my parents advice on how to get a job, I followed my parents advice on how to negotiate how to negotiate higher pay and when to put the squeeze on management.

And now I'm doing pretty well for myself. I did work hard but I could have worked just as hard in the wrong direction and got nowhere. But I was already shown the path by my parents.
Note that B&H has been sued for discriminating against its non-Jewish employees:

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/new-lawsuit-claims-b-and-h-disc...
This policy would simply shift the economic gains of China to India and Africa.

Hundreds of millions of people living under more palatable governments are currently being denied the chance to lift themselves out of poverty because the default choice for investment is China.
Well, it’s easy to see the result. There are plenty of countries with high unemployment (especially among youth). Take Greece for example. Their economy isn’t doing so great relative to a country with high employment - Canada, USA, Germany, France, UK. Work hard if you want to have the highest standard of living.