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Better marketting can and probably should include honest implications of a product's limitations.
> But they don't. Nobody does. They don't just get the timelines wrong, they get the tasks and milestones wrong - which makes sense, because the people asking for the estimates don't actually know what the goals are, usually even after the software is delivered.

I definitely agree that the people asking don't actually know what the goals are. They usually have a very fuzzy picture there.

But I've always found the estimation and planning process to be hugely valuable for revealing the questions that reveal to THEM that they don't know all those requirements yet. And then we have a discussion about them, and we get better specs as a result, and then go on from there... which is way better than when we don't discover those gaps until we are writing the code for it!
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AMD has their own equivalent: https://developer.amd.com/amd-aocl/

I'm not sure it's a sin for hardware manufacturers to support their products? In the days of yore, we even expected it of them.
Individuals have the right, legally, to grow up to two cannabis plants...

I believe that's a misconception. There were a few loopholes, fixed by a recent law (three or four year ago IIRC) that nuked cannabis clubs.

I'd say it's mostly safe to grow one of those auto-flowering seeds in your balcony, providing you use some translucid plastic, but telling the police "I have the right to grow two plants" seems like a weak defense.
"we pioneered the west" --- ouch. I guess "pioneer" is one way to say "rape and pillage".
> in my experience, kids have a clear and obvious advantage compared to adults

Their advantage is that they have almost unlimited time.

Consider how long it takes for a child to speak their first word and, then, to actually speak in well-formed sentences: Several months, even years, of complete immersion and 24/7 exposure to native speakers.

Now compare this to an adult attending a language class for the first time. Chances are, by the end of that class, they will be able to say their first words or even sentences, will understand these words' & sentences' meaning and in which contexts to apply them. Adults are orders of magnitude faster at learning new languages because they already know most of the concepts a new language's words and grammatical structures can refer to. (We all inhabit the same planet, after all.)

The only problem is: Learning all the intricacies of a language, of its grammar and vocabulary, of its melody and accent takes time and lots of continued exposure to native speakers. Adults usually don't (want to) spend that time – whether that's a conscious decision or an unconscious one.
While I wouldn't judge someone not knowing anything about layer 1 or 2, knowing something about MTUs, traffic congestion, routing is something that should be taught at any basic level of CS school. Not caring if it's served over http2? Why the hell would you? Write your software to take advantage of the platform it's on, and the stack beneath it. The simple fact of using http2 might change your organisation from one fat file served from a CDN, into many that load in parallel and quicker. By not caring about this, you just... waste it all to make yet another shitty-performing webapp. In the same way, I don't ask you to know the TCP protocol by heart, but knowing just basics means you can open up wireshark and debug things.

Once again: if you don't know your stack, you're just wasting performance everywhere, and you're just a code plumber.
> and especially not the trade secrets of how the entire blades are grown from single crystals

Wait, what? Are you telling me that jet turbine blades are one single crystal instead of having the usual crystal structure in the metal?
I'll never understand how people can respect academia. It's a thoroughly shitty environment for people who at best got gaslighted into not valuing their time. The only reason the hard sciences are more credible than the soft sciences or the humanities is because the hard sciences are forced to tackle reality in a manner where it can tell them they're wrong without room for simply inventing a new critical framework and attacking the topic instead of the question.
He's called the Monopoly Man as far as I know. Also, I second your remarks; these guys made great businesses... by investing a sliver of their money in smart managers and execs. They certainly couldn't have done it all themselves, not even half of it, so why do they get like 90 percent or more of the profits and upside? Why shouldn't Joe Dirt from bumfuck get double or even triple what they make as a packer? He's the one doing all the work that makes packages move, when it comes down to it.
He's entitled to more than your average amazon employee, warehouse worker, and probably any other employee: YEAH sure. But I do not agree on paying such a high premium for simply being a decision maker. I'm merely making an argument that it's hard to objectively determine how much more one employee is entitled to the corporations stock pie than another based on merit. Amazon and it's 800,000 employee base built Amazon into the >$1T behemoth it became due simply to the fact one man can't do it alone. A lot of those employees may not have been able to make the important decisions that Jeff Bezos was able to, but they instead contributed blood and sweat. I'm willing to bet even if Jeff Bezos is a super employee, one thousand times more productive and smarter, than the next best employee he still couldn't amass 207 billion himself. By that metric he is overcompensated and others are under.
You die without selling them. Your heirs inherit the stocks at current market value: your capital gain liabilities are not inherited. They sell some stocks to repay the loans. Your gains are never taxed.
> At least with medallions, there were caps to prevent overcapacity

That's a really interesting way of describing an artificial monopoly specifically designed to increase earnings for a specific group of rent-seeking, wealthy medallion owners.

It's sort of like describing the De Beers corporation as ensuring the world is not littered with relatively-abundant diamonds. I suppose it might be true, but it certainly is not the point of the arrangement.
Ditto.

Granted, I have to assume that borg-sre, etc. etc. are doing a lot of the necessary basic work for us, but as far as the final experience goes?

95% of cases could be better solved by a traditional approach. NixOps maybe.
> we're definitely not alone and I have seen many indian and other south asian friends do the same.

Thank you for considering the struggles of others while you yourself face it. I know a self made individual from Nepal like you in U.S. working in IT with green card and might be able to guide you. Contact me if you're looking for such help.

It's hard to visualize the digital divide in education induced due to the pandemic by someone who has easy access to compute, Internet and uninterrupted power supply.

[Trigger warning: Suicides]

Even middle class families in India spend more than 40% of their earnings on their children's education, So when the pandemic made education online, E-education startups with questionable practices became unicorns, their founders billionaires while children from marginalized, underrepresented communities quit their education forever in-favor of labor work.

There were numerous cases of children committing suicides because they couldn't afford a phone or because they broke the only phone shared with their siblings for education.

The hardware problem is not just because of accessibility, But also because of the lack of repairability. Many people came forward to donate their old phones, But it was often useless. Perhaps if OLPC had been successful things might have turned out differently, Maybe there's still a chance to build a OLPC using latest hardware like RPi 400. Then we need to solve the networking, Perhaps improving upon LoRAWAN could enable real time text messaging; I've been tracking this problem[1] on my platform since the start of the pandemic.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/149-remote-education-for-underp...
How I solved MySQL to Redis caching with Go
Near forget, about GitHub Copilot, which is trained on users code without GitHub users permission.
If you want to believe the bullshit against mRNA vaccines and won't recommend them, at least don't spread the FUD and ideally recommend the adenovirus-based ones like J&J, AstraZeneca or Sputnik.

Or if you want to be extra luddite (or like me, it was the only thing I could reasonably get) you can recommend Coronavac from Chinese lab Sinovac or Covaxin from Indian lab Bharat Biotech, which are as old-school as they come since they're using the deactivated SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Just for info, after you enter Romania via Arad you have another 350km of highway, then a 170km break (mountains, bad traffic) and another 100km before Bucharest. 600km that you can drive in 4.5 hours on highway takes over 8 hours. If you enter via Oradea, it takes even longer. 15 km in Bucharest at rush hour takes 2 hours. If you want to come, you are welcome, there are some nice places.
They used "highly arousing negative film clips and pictures" to stimulate, so since it's negative clips under that kind of stimuli coffee would be worse.
I found it really fluctuates based on the team members. We definitely had 3x 4x differences in productivity between the worst and best on the team. Our estimates had to be good as it determined the size of the sales deal. Most everyone on the team was there for years, so we knew each other well. We could give a solid estimate but with a new team member is more challenging.
Epidemiology is all about the statistics of infection and transmission.

Being vaccinated greatly reduces the probability you will get infected, and if you do become infected, it greatly reduces the viral load and thus your ability to infect others.
That is fascism. Everybody deserves the same rights, no matter what they think. If you think she is promoting a speech of hate, go to the court and try prove it.
As a percentage of net worth, this is like me donating $200. He can afford to give away $100M every week forever on compounding interest alone. When I'm a billionaire the space suits will be purple.
The recipients seem like earnest people who have done a lot of good, and the money will supercharge what they do.

Personally, I think that if I had a really good plan for $100m I could probably raise it because there is a highly competitive sellers market for things that you can put that much money into and create value from it. I just don't have that plan. :)

There are a zillion holes to throw money down, but something that can sustain its value and grow? Bezos' decision was probably the same as a regular investment "team, market, product" call: there's a real problem that a lot of people have, and here is a long list of people who want to solve it but nobody has a complete solution yet, and if I had to choose the top ones to get exposure to - to make a difference on this problem, these two guys are the best ones I can find to figure out what the solution is, so I'm in for $100m apiece. Same game as any angel or startup investor, he's just playing at the three-comma table.

I genuinely believe the path to that table starts by challenging ourselves to think bigger, which means doubling down when it's the hardest, and testing assumptions when it's easy. It's not sufficient, but it is the necessary condition.

Think of a problem that people with effectively infinite resources would invest in solving and start working on it. To them $100m is a rounding error, what they don't see are credible plans or track records for making the change they would invest in. Jones and Andres had it. The money isn't a prize, it's an investment and a bet. I wish them luck.
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Hardware people can't do software.

Tesla is more of a software company than any other car maker, that's why they'll win.
I wonder if we have any other medical tech currently in use that was only ever tested on animals but happened to receive an emergency use authorization on humans.
Completely naive view of the situation, or you are just too young.

You don't need be 500k in debt to get started for uber as you needed to get a yellow cab medallion

Once you made that decsion (to mortgage you house to get a yellow cab medallion), you are bound to that job as a serf....
Modern day serfdom, that's what the yellow cab medallion system became to the large cities.

the only way out, was bankruptcy, or hope another person will pay just as much for that medallion. Often local mafiosi types were entangled with the system, and you had to deal with them as well.

Please, lets not glorify the pervious system, as it was much worse.

We can work and make this new system better, and force the large corps to provide more (benefits wise), but returning to the old medallion system is two steps back.
> who, today, can write or optimize assembly by hand? How about understand the OS internals? How about write a compiler? How about write a library for their fav language? How about actually troubleshoot a misbehaving *nix process?

Any one of the undergraduates who take the systems sequence at my University should be able to do all of this. At least the ones who earn an A!
While people discuss a lot about it, in the end 1 indexing doesn't really matter. I think it comes from fortran/matlab.
Did we have fully reusable rockets during the Cold War? Even though it's suborbital, Blue Origin's re-use is still a pretty impressive achievement.

Spaceplanes are also interesting tech. Maybe not the best choice for earth but could prove useful on other planets with different atmospheres.
Lol, thanks Pat. I keep telling the team that we won't allow acronyms. That feature is 100% on the list. Currently they are allowed, however future revisions might not allow acronyms, or might force you to define them. Certainly keep your eyes peeled for this new *feature*.
Jython would also have issues with the many c libraries that python code relies on today.
disclaimer: I don't mean this to come across as arrogant or anything (I'm just ignorant).

I'm totally self-taught and have never worked a programming job (only programmed for fun). Do professional SWEs not actually understand or have the capability to do these things? I've hacked on hobby operating systems, written assembly, worked on a toy compiler and written libraries... I just kind of assumed that was all par for the course
my sense as well
It's too late, my muscle memory is firmly embedded. I still find myself going to where "Add/Remove Programs" in the old control panel but Windows changed it to "Programs and Features" decades ago.
I do this. I’d much rather have AWS needing to call me to negotiate / collect than having $15k go through my CC as a legit authorized charge.
Clothes pins is I think the word you're looking for.
Kubernetes removes the complexity of keeping a process (service) available.

There’s a lot to unpack in that sentence, which is to say there’s a lot of complexity it removes.

Agree it does add as well.

I’m not convinced k8s is a net increase in complexity after everything is accounted for. Authentication, authorization, availability, monitoring, logging, deployment tooling, auto scaling, abstracting the underlying infrastructure, etc…
What skin do you have in the game?

My father drove a taxi before Uber/Lyft and that shit was way more exploitative. He was paid shit ($600/week was considered good), didn't get any flexibility (once you're on the clock, you're on the clock), he didn't get to choose his hours (they would assign times and fares by seniority, he mostly worked from the evening well into the night), he had to drive the company's disgusting cars that were constantly falling apart (which were also assigned by seniority and then he had to clean them, before and after his driving, usually because the previous driver left the car trashed), he had no recourse for shit customers that either wouldn't pay or would trash the car, and the taxi company gave zero shits about any of this because they had their medallions and that's all that mattered.

It was the worst job he ever had to subject himself to and this is a man that grew up in the Soviet Union (where he actually drove taxis part time to make extra money).

I'm sure it was nice if you were a taxi driver that happened to acquire your own medallion, got to work for yourself, providing dog shit service, and for rates of your choosing since the competition was artificially constrained. But that is a minority of the taxi drivers out there.
Which is a product of the design of government in the country, so no: it doesn't get to be ignored when comparing the reality of COVID relief in the US compared to other countries.
well it does make sense in the case where Mr X "donates" to the X Foundation, chaired by X. Then, X has saved 50k and still has the same amount of funds at their disposal to distribute to cronies/use as marketing.
> I get confused why so much new jargon had to be introduced.

Consider the source of the project for your answer (mainly, but not entirely, bored engineers who are too arrogant to think anybody has solved their problem before).

> It also has all the hallmarks of a high-churn product where you need to piece together your solution from a variety of lower-quality information sources (tutorials, QA sites) rather than a single source of foolproof documentation.

This describes 99% of open source libraries used.The documentation looks good because auto doc tools produce a prolific amount of boilerplate documentation. In reality the result is documentation that's very shallow, and often just a re-statement of the APIs. The actual usage documentation of these projects is generally terrible, with few exceptions.
if i was at the beach and found one of those "artefact" there is no way I would they they are important or old.

Can someone explain how to easily know if what you are looking at is important or not.
Strongly recommend ditching the wireless requirement (during long periods they will be plugged in anyway) and checking out a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770 80 Ohm.

These are the most comfortable headphones I’ve used by far, and have excellent sound. They are a standard in studios because they are comfortable, sound great, isolate well and are quite rugged as well.

They are also much less expensive than most “audiophile” headphones.
It's like fashion. When is skeuomorphism coming back?
Sure, there is configuration that goes into using your cloud provider's "infrastructure primatives". My point is that Kubernetes is often using those anyway, and if you don't understand them you're unprepared to respond in the case that your cloud provider has an issue.

In terms of the effort to deploy something new, for my organization it's low. We have a Terraform module creates the infrastructure, glues the pieces together, tags stuff, makes sure everything is configured uniformly. You specify some basic parameters for your deployment and you're off to the races.

We don't need to add yet more complexity with a Kubernetes-specific cost tracking software, AWS does it for us automatically. We don't have to care about how pods are sized and how those pods might or might not fit on nodes. Autoscaling gives us consistently sized EC2 instances that, in my experience, have never run into issues because we have a bad neighbor. Most importantly of all, I don't have upgrade anxiety because there are a ton of services stacked on one Kubernetes cluster which may suffer issues if an upgrade does not go well.
NASA is still doing the hard/interesting stuff, but now that there is a market that can more cheaply/rapidly work on creating the rockets/vehicles to get payloads where they need to go they can focus more on the actual missions.

Likewise, NASA has always chosen "buy" over "build" where applicable (like contracting out spacesuit construction to major textile manufacturers). If they'd done everything in-house, that means fewer resources where it matters. Public-private partnerships make NASA more effective, not less.
>How do they think differently than you?

Answering this to the fullest extent may or may not get this account banned. Since I intend on keeping it, let's just say my views differ on almost all currently controversial social issues and some but not all economical ones.

>Where are you based?

Rural Hungary. Contrary what you may be thinking right now, I'm not an Orbán voter.

>My guess is you want to live in an unpolluted environment where the land/water doesn't make you sick, eat food that doesn't kill you, if you want/have kids to know they will have the chance of a good life and good education, have a government free from corruption, know that your legal system treats everyone as fair and equally as possible as a goal, have fair labor practices, and generally be treated with respect. etc...

Indeed. I just do not think the EU helped any of these issues on a level that requires greater coordination than a nation state can provide. To give you some examples, They failed to grow a spine and stand up to the US in any way. Big Tech,espionage,military and the general economic grip the US has are great examples of this.

Another structural problem I have is the endless bureaucracy that corrupts the whole machine from top to bottom. The other day I attempted to interpret a directive amendment I have read conflicting news about and I gave up halfway through because the whole thing is so verbose and unintelligble (+ riddled with basic logical problems) I just gave up. I'm not a law expert by any means(though I can interpret Hungarian law mostly fine on my own) but if a person like me can't parse the drivel they spew endlessly, how could the average citizen meaningfully engage with the process? I think we need less complexity in the chain of command not more.

Lastly, they are so damn far away. How are we supposed to drag EU bureaucrats out to the streets when they become lamppost positive? This might be a minor thing but I can't imagine this very "safe" distance between us the people and them is healthy for democracy.
Yes the corruption makes it difficult to do much, but the War on Drugs has been going on for more than 50 years.

It's quite obvious that another 50 years will not do any difference, but the proposed bill just might.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs
I can claim electric cars will beat out hydrogen cars in the long run. I don't have to build an electric car to back up this assertion. I can look at the fundamental factors at hand and project out based on theoretical maximums.

I can also claim humans will have longer lifespans in the future. I don't need to develop a life extending drug before I can hold that assertion.

Kubernetes is complex. Society used to still work on simpler systems before we added layers of complexity. There are dozens of layers of abstraction above the level of transistors, it is not a stretch to think that there is a more elegant abstraction yet designed without having to "prove" themselves to zozobot234.
Python 3.7.4 when 3.10 is just around the block.
Honestly, the non-k8s cloud software is also getting excellent. When I have a new app that I can't containerize (network proxies mostly) I can modify my standard terraform pretty quickly and get multi-AZ, customized AMIs, per-app user-data.sh, restart on failures, etc. with private certs and our suite of required IPS daemons, etc. It's way better than pre-cloud things. K8s seems also good for larger scale and where you have a bunch of PD teams wanting to deploy stuff with people that can generate all the YAML/annotations etc. If your deploy #s scale with the number of people that can do it, then k8s works awesomely. If you have just 1 person doing a bunch of stuff, simpler things can let that 1 person manage and create a lot of compute in the cloud.