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You can also run default-free full-feed BGP4 on your endpoint, if you're just trying to make a point.
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I work for Intel, so here is a first-hand data point: I have worked for a number of large organizations in my career, including the U.S. government and several large companies, but Intel is the hands-down champion of dysfunctional bureaucracy. Case in point: last week I took a week off. When I came back, I discovered that my remote access had been disabled. It turns out that my contract happened to be up for renewal during the week I was off and someone entered an incorrect date, so I was effectively fired while I was away but I was not notified, nor was anyone in my chain of command. This happened on Monday, and today is Friday, and they still have not managed to get me reinstated. And that is just the most recent in a long list of similar incidents.

So yes, Intel's market failures cannot be attributed entirely to financialization. They have screwed up in many, many ways.
In the very first section (albeit after from introduction, but still before the Tarzan example you show), it clearly states the limitations:

> Before we proceed, I should point out some limitations of the technique:

The author clearly states you may have to add one or two extra line of code, in your case regex.test(string) may become `regex.match(string).group(1).length` > 0 or something along those lines.

The author explicitly states:

> so it will not work in a non-programming environment, such as a text editor's search-and-replace function or a grep command.

But in a programming environment, I will choose to have one more line of code over the extremely hard to read alternative regexes.
I had to cut it because of the character limit that hackernews has (https://emojipedia.org/grinning-face-with-sweat/ hn blocks emoji apparently) but thanks
I agree that copilot is a real breakthrough, considering that the results seem to be mostly functioning. I think it has a ton of potential for helping people reach a crude solution instantly, without the need of learning the boilerplate setup of some library they wish to use. The developer still needs to pay careful attention and not accept the suggestions blindly.

The dissatisfaction comes from many concerns that need to be solved:

- Licensing: Sometimes Copilot copies chunks of code (including the comments) directly from the source dataset.
- Quality: at least one example from the Copilot promotion page had a vulnerability issue, and another one used floats for currency.

Then there's a problem I haven't seen anyone mention. When using copilot, your editor is sending chunks of your current codebase. I understood that Copilot is using this data for further improvement (a no-brainer, right?). But what if your project is proprietary and critical company IP? What if you have secrets to be leaked through Copilot?
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Exactly. When you are a monopoly power, especially in our times and coming decades, there is a high probability that innovation will stagnate and the focus and management will shift to extracting cash from the company's customers.

My contention is that the monopolies of the past had a long life. The monopolies of the future, will not be so fortunate and there will be someone else who will innovate better and creep up.

This shift, in my view, is because the industrial production base of the world, has become fragmented enough and optimized enough, that the capital and effort to innovate have come down.
The Battle of B-R was surpassed recently by the Battle of M2-XFE, the largest (by ISK value destroyed) battle of the ongoing world war. While B-R saw a total of ~80 Titans die, in M2 each side lost more than that.

Interesting summary from the developers: https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-massacre-of-m2-xfe
> the formula has now jumped the shark twice

Maybe we can rename the trope to some sort of car-based hijinxs? I want to say "launched a car into space", but that's probably going to annoy Tesla fans.
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I have seen this happen so often. A large company will want to outsource some of their development to India, hire some shady agency to facilitate this, pay half of the going rate for good talent, then come away with the conclusion "Indian developers are terrible".
> I don't understand, why people are so dogmatic about static typing.

Most static typing folks have backgrounds in dynamically typed languages, and it's this experience (not dogma) that informs their preferences. The inverse (people have extensive experience with statically typed languages but developed a strong preference for dynamically typed languages) seems far rarer, at least nowadays where the canonical statically typed language is not C++.

Personally, I think one of the killer features of statically typed languages is that they make it difficult for people to write code for which the types would be very convoluted. In other words, statically typed languages provide rails which guide poor developers toward better habits (and incidentally, these same rails make it very painful to port a lot of JavaScript to TypeScript or for many JavaScript/Python developers to use statically typed languages).

From my understanding, the lisp language communities tend to select for programmers who have good habits already so they probably don't benefit from this property as much as other dynamic languages. Similarly, lisp programmers can use metaprogramming without it turning into a complete shit show, which is what almost invariably happens whenever Python programmers start dabbling in the metaprogramming facilities of their language.

That said, there are other advantages to static typing besides preventing classes of errors. For example, a lot of important documentation is generated and guaranteed by the type system. A perennial problem in dynamic languages including lisps is documenting the types. If you say something is a "file-like" object, what does that mean? Does the callee require that the object has a read() method, or does it also need seek(), close(), etc? And very often you don't even get "file-like object" but rather just a terse variable name (lisps are especially guilty of this, in my experience) or the documented type is outright incorrect (typically someone changed the code but didn't update the documentation). Additionally, you get a lot more powerful tooling, because the types can be reasoned about statically (which isn't to say Closure lacks powerful tooling, but rather that its tooling is powerful in spite of dynamic typing).
Am employee is not a slave. You owe your employer the work for which they have hired you, and no more. These kinds of employee agreements should be illegal; what I do with my own time and resources is none of my employer's business.
F# isn't really ML + .NET: the module system in F# is much less capable than that of Ocaml, but has the advantage that it is compatible with C# classes.

There's some nice stuff in F# that is entirely novel: my favourite feature is that if you omit passing ref values in a function call, they are added as multiple return values, a kind of dual to Currying.
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Wow man yeah, that's pretty ridiculous. Fairly certain the ridiculous parts wouldn't stand up to legal scrutiny, but still, this isn't really that far off of reifying the old joke about signing over your first-born.
Oh come on, that attitude is shameful
Can anyone find the unique amazon specific definition of "Personal Game" complete with peculiar capitalization?

My guess is we're seeing the stick with all mention of any carrot very carefully edited out. I would further guess Amazon is providing some kind of interesting carrot, perhaps a great big pile of free AWS time or free marketing.

I mean, fine, if push comes to shove, I wrote something I choose to define as a realistic fluid dynamics simulator based helicopter flight simulator, not define as per the unknown Amazon definition of a "Personal Game".
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I definitely agree that 11 years for cameras in general isn't that much - I personally use us 60+ year old lenses on my A7ii so I can certainly empathize.

Mostly my point is that mirrorless cameras adopted PDAF as soon as making a useful pro-level mirrorless camera was possible.

Also, I'd argue that mirrorless cameras are basically a digital version of rangefinder cameras - they make a lot of the same tradeoffs optically and indeed there is a continuous history from digital rangefinders to modern mirorrless cameras.
I won't. I am from Czechia and maybe the culture here was different, but it used to be that movie theaters were somewhat like a normal theater, where you are supposed to be mostly quiet, behave, and not eat and litter during the show.

But modern multiplexes have changed that etiquette, and it's hard for me to stand it. And the advertisements...
One thing I noticed is that their control was a cotton shirt "about the same thickness" as the new one. But the new shirt is "550 micrometers" thick, which is about twice as thick as a regular T-shirt. So maybe they're tilting the scales a bit to make the cooling effect seem a little better?
Doh! Thanks, I missed that.
I highly recommend the In/Frame/Out YouTube channel for dissections of good indie and older classic movies. His year-end lists are always satisfying. The Scottish accent is the cherry on top.
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I think there is good reason to get worried. My understanding is that third party proposed changes and PRs on the open source version have been denied because they would lessen the benefits of Enterprise. In addition, the lack of certification prevents commercial 3rd party JDK vendors from attempting to support it.

Unfortunate, because I'd love to build some prototypes based on graal features, but Oracle's apparent disinterest in supporting community contributions, and the questions around licensing of parts of the graal ecosystem leaves me worried enough to avoid it for now.
to your point (and how to fix it in a way that seemingly nobody does) - you can make complicated regular expressions pretty simple by using named groups, and ignoring pattern whitespace because they allow you to logically separate different components and specify intent. Nobody would ask a fellow dev to debug javascript where it is all on a single line and every variable name is a1, a2, etc. Except people do it all the time with regex. Its insane. Hell, you don't even get the blessing of a1, a2, a3. It is all unnamed. Insanity.

Some rare people can figure out:

\d{1,2}[-/]\d{1,2}[-/](\d{4}|\d{2})

but a dummy can figure out this:

(?<month>
\d{1,2}
)
[-/]
(?<day>
\d{1,2}
)
[-/]
(?<year>
\d{4}
|
\d{2}
)
You can be proud of the accoutrements it takes to do your job without caring about the end product, especially if it's an environment you have little influence in the direction of the product.

It's not mutually exclusive.

Do you think tax attorneys are proud of tax laws, or do you think they care about being the best tax attorney in their field? This mind set isn't exclusive to certain industries.
That is possible, but a new Air was $900 for the longest time. $700 cheaper is a laptop starting at $200, and I don’t believe any laptop even $500 or less would have been made with components likely to last for many years.

It’s like that story about a poor person having to spend more in the long run buying boots every year than being able to spend a little more to buy ones that lasted many years.
I last played EVE circa 2005, but I have kept friends from those days who still play and so I hear a lot about it still.

Jumping a fleet of thousands into a system with already thousands in waiting, seeing nothing but a black screen for 20 minutes, then finally you're back in your clone station.

Yeah, so much fun.

"Massive fleet battles" became "Massive fleets waiting either side of a gate smacktalking each other into jumping first"

I was there for the first Titan launch (and loss, ASCN v BOB) and the corp I was a member of launched the first Mothership.

Both losses were down to meta-gaming - the titan was lost because a BOB pilot had infiltrated ASCN's teamspeak server, and the mothership loss was because the pilot desync'd. We even had video proof of the pilot being "safely in another system" still receiving damage from enemy pilots that were 4 jumps away but CCP said the incident was "too important to reverse" which was bullshit, they just didn't have the capability to do so.

EVE:Online is a tale of selling meta-gaming and "You can be a cunt"-ship, with a side-game of spaceships.
That sounds like a convenient thing to believe, similar to family telling me to just leave the heater on all day on a base level heat to supposedly save energy because it doesn't have to do a lot of heating when I come home from work. But, obviously, a lower temperature differential between inside and outside is going to lose less heat/cold, so unless the heater/AC is more efficient at lower power levels (they're not) it cannot possibly make sense to leave the heater/AC on when you're not making use of it to save energy. Sure it'll have to work harder when you get home, but that's better than it trying to maintain that temperature all the time. I guess people want to believe this though because you'll have a higher thermal comfort if you don't come home to a hot/cold house.
What currently interests me in F# is that it has two viable options for being used in the browser - one over WASM (Bolero via Blazor) and one transpiled to JS(Fable).

It is therefor become an interesting alternative to TypeScript/Redux and Clojurescript/Reagent.
I like to imagine lots of people tripping and going to this movie because of the light show they heard about, but the part that really blows their mind being the whole sequence with HAL 9000.
Are you sure they could? I can't imagine how could you possibly fit a connector within my great (and its thinness is a principal component of that greatness) Macbook, and having multiple ways of doing one thing doesn't seem like good business or good for the nature - especially if phones and tablets are the major product of the company.
Since there’s a free version either the extra performance of the paid version pays for itself or it doesn’t.
Yep, I partially withdraw my previous statement. You make an excellent point- I guess as someone who just grew up in the US and understands the legalese and ways of doing business and where to look it probably seems a lot easier than it would be to someone totally new to the country. Still probably better than much of the EU with a few exceptions like NL and Estonia but point well taken.
Reader mode to the rescue... I still can't fathom why it's so hard to make a readable site with a readable type, weight and color.

But it's an interesting story.
Just wanted to pipe in with my own experience, but I've seen it come from the clients perspective too. Initial phase of the project is very visible and critical to the client and is delivered with the A-team. Client starts to care less as the bottom barrel of features start being implemented and they want to reduce costs. Instead of losing the contract, we start dropping some of the more expensive devs save for 1 or 2 very good ones to keep the project moving and we backfill with more junior to increase their experience. The client starts wanting to reduce the expense even more and we keep the 1 or 2 very good devs/architect and we bring on a few near-shore devs. Project coasts for a year or two until they're done with us or they have another high priority item that kicks the project into overdrive again.
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Big shoutout to lru_cache. I tossed in two lines of code and was able to get a 60x speedup in my code by reducing the amount of regular expression compilations I had to do.
IMO Most of the major incidents involving self driving failures are actually simply failures of scene construction and not ones of AI.

So while self driving might be hard (as in Hard AI) the notable failure are actually in the "easier" parts.

Examples from memory (that may be faulty and not specific to a company):
Car hits cyclist crossing street.
Car runs into stationary vehicles
Car turns into semitruck
Exactly. Each of these algorithms’ beauty comes from understanding them. And reading the original paper is probably the best way to understand and appreciate them.

I guess this site is trying to sell Julia a bit, by showing how close it looks to mathematical pseudo-code.
- one-letter variable names

- Greek letters

- glyphs with obscure latex codes

The last one in particular - how do you read this in your mind if you don't already know the name of the character? - "Hmm, that's a curly handwritten A". It's so disruptive to the thought process of the reader of your code if they don't already know the notation.

I really think that this is the opposite of beautiful. Code is about communicating with other people too. I also think that mixing code and math notation is liked by a vocal minority of Julia users but in the long term is harming the adoption of the language by beginners.
Thank you for standing up for what you thought is the right thing to do. Takes character to swim against the stream and not simply falling back to group behavior.
I've never used them, but they seem similar to Qt. For whatever reason Qt seems to be the most popular in commercial products.
Copyrights protect expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. The ideas themselves could be a subject matter of patents. This addresses a few of your comments.

>> It would be nearly impossible to trace the original code or make a copyright claim.

The difficulty in proving infringement is a different aspect than an infringement happening.

>> I always thought the idea of open source was to use copyright against itself because we believed in openness.

That's exactly the point. The open concern being discussed with using Copilot is that one may incorporate parts of the code under the "openness" license into an application which is not under a compatible "openness" license.
According to what criteria? Tesla was allowed - despite not having any approval, only preliminary approvals - to start building as long as they guarantee to undo everything if the final approval is withhold. That's almost unheard of in Germany and is already bending over to make it easier for them. All they have to do is follow at least the few rules of the pre-approvals and they even fail to do that.
I am trying to figure out whether one should take into account the cooling power of the surfaces being replaced. The figure of 80-120 W/m2 for air conditioning is presumably based on conventional building materials, which have negative cooling power.

In the paper, the figure of 40 W/m2 seems to be the net cooling power, which is defined in equation 1 as being the power radiated away minus various inflows of heat: radiatively, from the atmosphere; radiatively, from the sun; and by conduction and convection. As far as I can see, these corrections are all for this particular surface, not the surface it might be replacing. These will not, in general, be the same, and, given that this new surface is both highly reflective and vacuum-insulated, I would guess that its values for these properties are lower than the conventional building materials on which the a/c rule-of-thumb is based.

Nevertheless, I doubt that replacing the entire roof with this material would be sufficient cooling, on its own, in the Australian case, and I agree that this would not likely be a straightforward retrofit, to say the least!
Even my coworker had been using an S6 until a couple months ago when he jumped to a pixel. I've known multiple people who were using S5s until at least last year.

So my personal experience makes me doubt that my phones are some kind of exception. These things seem to be plenty durable enough to last several years. I think there's not as much difference in hardware and software as you'd like to think.

If you want to make definitive statements, then I have to ask for your data.

Some basic searching I've done unearthed a paper[1] in the
Journal of Industrial Ecology[2] that concludes that economic lifespan (how long a phone is actually used and thus depreciation rates) is only marginally effected by the functional durability (including hardware and software quality). Instead, they suggest that lifespan is more effected by brand equity and related intangibles. People choose to use certain products longer regardless of whether other products have similar functional qualities.

Thinking further on what could cause intangible factors to have such a large impact on the secondary market and depreciation, I can't help but wonder if each brand is attracting different kinds of people with commensurately different attitudes towards their smartphones. That certainly could drive a difference in behavior, and could even be a self-reinforcing trend where the users more likely to retain their products longer are drawn to the brand with the users who are more likely to retain their products longer.

This would mean that the S5's and S6's I've been talking about aren't the exception to the trend. Their users are the exception. That's something I'd be happy to accept. There definitely is a difference in behavior between iphone and android users.

P.S. it's worth noting that the paper itself was seeking to determine if repairability would significantly increase the economic lifespan of smartphones. That's why they were looking at what factors caused people to use their phones for longer or shorter periods of time.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jiec.12806

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Industrial_Ecology
Are there any resources that catalog historical methods of passive cooling? Many of these methods are space efficient but not cost efficient, and many areas of the developing world (where these issues have the greatest impact) have all the space in the world and very limited access to funds.
It's a much higher bar to ratify a constitutional amendment than to sue Google.
> I thought Bitcoin was more a store of value (e.g. analogous to gold) than a currency similar to physical cash?

Physical cash is money, and serves the functions of money (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#Functions)

Bitcoin does the same.

In the nascent crypto world, different areas are using this new money in different ways: The US currently tends to store of value. Other areas (Venezuela, El Salvador) are tending toward medium of exchange.

In any case: OP's reversibility-of-transactions is a financial services function, not a "money" function.
In a better-than-consumer setup you will have multiple chillers. Most will just stay on, with one going on-off to handle the variable bit of the load. Starting and stopping electric motors is less efficient tha just keeping them running as much as possible.
Hmm I have no issues with it on my Pixel 5.
You sound confused; I'm the author of the article, not the subject.
Doesn’t that sort of increase your own value to the organization though as well? It would vary based on the situation but it seems like this could sort of work to your advantage if you’re the only person who can reasonably work on something critical (and others can’t be bothered to learn)