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Now you are bringing in Iran?
> What about back at home? Are you morally incumbent to drive back to resolve it?

I mean... Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln ostensibly did just that, so I guess it just depends on the value you place on your own integrity.

As for me... if I discovered they had given me a few extra cents in change I probably wouldn't drive back (I probably wouldn't even discover it because I hardly ever count change). But if I realized I hadn't paid for something or that I got more than I paid for (i.e. bought a can of spray paint online and they shipped me 3) I probably would at least contact their customer service and ask if they wanted me to send the two additional cans back.

> It's also why I don't expect Home Depot to find and pay me should they shortchange me; the level of effort is too large.

Ok, what if it happened not because of a negligent clerk but a negligent programmer? You buy a non-existant product on homedepot.com that was there because of a bug and your money just goes into a home depot's pocket and the product is never shipped to you (because it doesn't exist). If home depot discovers this you would expect them to track down and refund anyone who bought the non-existent product, am I wrong? And if they discover the bug and decide to do nothing (because it's too much effort to refund everyone) and just keep the money, wouldn't that be stealing?
I wasn't arguing in favor of the current system, but against running further ahead in the race to the bottom.
Early college, pre-phones (only calling cards), Flight into Europe, told my cousin what time it was landing, to meet me at the airport station at such and such a time. I landed, walked to the train platform, waited on the bench, read a travel book while I waited. He showed up and we were on our way around Europe by train for two weeks. Looking back how did we pull that off pre-cellphones. Had my flight been delayed on the runway for hours or we just missed each other on wrong train platforms I had no way to get in touch, he wasn’t staying in the last hotel any longer…
I do that too. My phone is still on silent most of the time. It is funny the reactions you get when people aren't yet used to not getting a quick response. They are sort of outraged and questioning: "I called you, but you didn't answer??".

Also I go outside without a phone on occasion. That feels like you leave a burden behind, and you are somehow more free. The phone is that easy thing you just grab to do a quick check of something on Wikipedia, or you happen to notice a notification. It is a distraction-device, keeping you busy. And among strangers, feeling less comfortable, well you can grab your phone and start staring at it. This behavior is like with smoking. Just like the relaxed cigarette cowboy in the ads, but now you casually light up the screen and be cool.
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"That is an incredibly privileged response to something like this."

OH MY GOD. HOW DARE YOU SOLVE THE CHEAP DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS, THAT IS A HATE CRIME.

"Reasonably priced fresh food access within walking distance should be a basic right."

You hear that fascists? The goalpost is now moved so that you are violating peoples rights if they cannot walk to buy your reasonably priced fresh food, a "basic" right(!).
I lived in Iowa for a time not too far from where they were originally from, and the red delicious apples there in local orchards on old trees are probably pretty close to what they were originally like. They're smaller than the prototypical ones you find in the grocery, with a thinner skin, more mottled or striped and round in appearance, and have flavor sort of like mcintosh.

If you know what they are, you'll probably be able to identify the red delicious flavor, mostly in the skin I think. However, my guess is if you gave one to a bunch of people they probably wouldn't recognize them as red delicious apples. They might identify them as mcintosh or something like that.
> A good rewrite is just a good refactoring but with a higher chance of success
>Are you saying it's not a restart from scratch? In that case I don't call that a rewrite. Maybe a "rewrite of this or that module" which is more likely to succeed.

Not, the rewrites have ben from scratch, including from LANG-A to LANG-B.

What i mean is that the properties of a successfully refactoring/rewrite are similar. Only that with a rewrite you can go DEPPER and WIDER in what you change/improve.

For example, when I rewrite certain program that uses Access/Excel just using PostgreSQL was a massive plus, not just on speed and reliability. A refactoring probably will only go for internal cleaning but with the rewrite I slash a lot of moving parts.
McCaul Releases Addendum to Origins of Covid-19 Report
So boring content that everyone says they like, but never consume, with constant requests for donations.

So what would be the purpose? Current trusted platforms are ignored and news outlets that report on ignorant humans with wacko theories defying reality are thriving. One or more additional trusted platform will not make a difference.
I'm not saying types always model your problem properly! That's not even well specified. I'm saying that "x has type foo" is never wrong if the program typechecks properly. That's totally different, and it means that you can rely on type annotations as being correct, up-to-date documentation. You can also trust that functions are never applied to the wrong number of arguments, or the wrong types; my point is that this guarantees more, in a less expressive way, than specs.
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Even if getting the answer needs a calculator the process to get to that point is still testing the algebraic/calculus/trig/geometry skills the test is supposed to test. You can often get rid of the need for a calculator by formulating the questions carefully so the numbers are simple to work with but sometimes you can't do that easily.

You can also just accept cos(70°) as a final answer without asking students push buttons on a calculator.

For more advanced students you could teach them to calculate even weird values like 70° using a few terms of the Maclaurin series for cosine:

cos(x) = 1 - x^2/2 + x^4/24 - x^6/720 + O(x^8)

But that's all beside the point. Mathematics education should focus on understanding and applying the concepts, not using technology. The educators' rationale that "students need to learn how to use technology" doesn't really hold water when it comes to calculators. It's far easier to teach someone with a degree in mathematics how to operate a calculator, having never used one, than it is for someone totally dependent on a calculator for even basic calculations to obtain a math degree.
What low income neighborhoods need is one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_Outlet

Our local one is excellent, plus the wine deals are amazing.

It's funny how many branded items here are 1/2 the price of the local 'normal' grocery stores.

Of course, when you peek at other peoples' carts, garbage food can be strongly associated with the weight of the cart pusher (or a rough guess at the socioeconomic class), but at least they have the opportunity to eat well on the cheap.
do you believe that PBS or NPR have crossed that line in ways that for-profit, privately-owned media has not?
The derisive comparison to Alberta implies that Alberta is making a terrible mistake that somehow Texas made.
The article is talking about "monitoring" in the sense of alerting + stakeholder incident reporting. Things that reach out and tell ops staff / users that the service is having a problem.

You do want to be capturing metrics about your servers — observability into their configuration and behavior — but capturing that type of data is not precisely the same thing as "monitoring" the server. "Monitoring" usually implies having a defined acceptance threshold on the metric, and triggering some (probably human) response when the metric is in an unacceptable range.

If you don't have either a clear threshold for the metric, or a clear "thing that should happen" when the metric goes out-of-tolerance, then you aren't "monitoring" the metric per se; or at least, you shouldn't be.

As the article says:

> Here’s an example: A disk consuming 100% at 3 AM may or may not be actionable depending on its impact on service KPI. For instance, if it’s a logout service and the KPI says 99.999% availability despite a disk failure, It can wait till the morning.

If you have set up alerting for server disks being full, where that alert often doesn't translate into any problem with your running services, then that alert is a useless/noise alert, that will only serve to make you treat notifications from your alerting infrastructure with less urgency. It's the "check-engine light" of SaaS.

It's fine to have a dashboard that holds all that stuff. But it shouldn't be reaching out and telling you/users about it. You can go look at that dashboard when investigating why the service KPIs you're alerting on are down.

In your example, the appropriate service KPI to alert on would be "[service] 99th percentile end-to-end response latency." Upon receiving an alert that that number is out-of-tolerance, you'd then start to investigate your individual — or, hopefully, aggregated! — server metrics, to see what-if-anything is acting weird.
Polyamory is neutral, the ability and freedom to practice it are good.
You still have a 280W CPU, instead of 64 Core you now have 128. And if thermals permits they would like 128 x86 Core or 256 ARM Core.

Samsung just announced their work of 7xxGB of DDR5 per stick. With a future roadmap of 1TB per stick at a request of hyperscaler. Along with 400W or 500W GPU.

And when you have many new packaging technology where each die could be a 100W TDP you quickly run into all sort of thermals limits. And there are all sort of HPC and niche that wants super powerful Server.
I don’t get it. Why wouldn’t you just put them under your control? Now you have all that power.
> "hmm I'm here and waiting, and all I can do is watch paint dry" seems to have vanished.

Theres several influencers whose whole bit is centered around mixing paint, and I don't know how many channels on youtube dedicated to the sound it makes when you cut sand with a knife. So don't despair, I'm absolutely certain there is a channel out there dedicated to watching paint dry, on demand in byte size vids with tons of userengagement, for those long drives when you just want to pull the plug and watch paint dry.
Don't you think that both of these very red states are likely to have fudged the data the most out of anyone? I have seen that the numbers aren't so much worse than other places but I struggle to believe the data coming from these places.

Additionally, pandemic aside, it should be clear that their policies are rooted entirely in oligarchy and have no concern for the population or its health (short- or long-term), their racism and misogyny are reaching to very regressive places (abortion bill), and their lack of regulation regularly leads to comical failures of infrastructure.
> So boring content that everyone says they like, but never consume, with constant requests for donations.

#notallnprlisteners #notallnprstations
Journey to the Centre of the JVM
Evidence rather than opinion would be helpful. This is all opinion.
Is it so impressive when you consider that the US has a population of about 20% China's? It's just one sector, of many many.
$9 means exponentially more to me than it does to a national chain.
In much of the midwest wallmart in 90s went to the biggest cities every 40-60 miles then that led to all local non chain spartan grocery stores going under. Driving back to my parents over past few years have seen all the small towns that used to have a grocery store now have a DG to take care of at least some needs and having to drive an hour for some laundry soap. DG has spent a lot of time figuring out the 60% of what you need with almost all goods same price as walmart
hmmm, not sure, at this point I think you would be better off using what I wrote as a summary and hopping in to current events

Matt Levine’s writings on Bloomberg occasionally go into macroeconomic territory, he has a facetious and satirical approach to current events in capital markets

There are a few other sensational editorial publications about macroeconomics and credit markets, but I wouldn't recommend them for actually learning

Sadly, I think this leaves a void between dry material, and sensational disinformation sites
2010 was when affordable Android handsets flooded the market in my area. I think KIN OS simply stood no chance against what was by that time de facto mobile ecosystem for that segment. Even Windows Phone wouldn't make a dent in Android's market share until Microsoft came up with the super-cheap Lumia 520.
It's not centrist. It's pro status quo. "Things are mostly OK, and in the few cases where they're a little bit bad, we're here to tell you about them."
> Am I supposed to feel bad for olympic athletes now?

No. That would be sympathy, where you feel bad because they feel bad. But empathy, where you understand their feelings would be good. Not just for Olympic athletes, but in general.
Smartphones are simply tools. I use mine as a flashlight, notebook, calculator, camera, phone, book, and compass even without access to the internet. People would have lined up to buy an affordable device that did all of that in 1990.

The internet is also more than just mindless entertainment and social media. GPS isn’t necessary, but they do more than just find stuff they also route you around traffic accidents and locate the closest drug store on a trip. Downloading an instructional YouTube video really helps with home repair, etc.

In app purchases are toxic, but you can also just download a free chess app no gamification required.
Me too, congrats on completing that second sentence. :)
These people have zero hesitation in killing you and your family if you annoy them, they even take pleasure in it. Why would you think a 'license' would stop them?

oh noes!! a GPL license, our dastardly plot for world domination is foiled!!

Not to mention people will always work for a paycheck regardless.
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Thank you for articulating my (limited) experience. It was a very leaky abstraction. I remember thinking "If this is it, Python wins."
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Probably not intentionally, but there are likely a bunch of 0-day exploits we don’t know about.
Using SQL workarounds/hacks just makes the code harder to read and harder for the query optimizer to detect the original intention and optimize in the future.
Totally agree! I've been getting hit up by FAANG recruiters (and other companies) non-stop this year.

I live in Los Angeles where companies never did this type of interview when I last got a new job (4+ years ago) so I had to grind LeetCode for several months then didn't get the job I studied for even though I got all questions right (I was a little slow on some of them). I kind of resent it because I know my time can be much better spent (keeping up on security topics for example).

The process is so bad it makes me hope to be no longer doing software development as a employee sooner than later.
To some degrees with those two things if you do it wrong, "just adding man hours" to those endeavors can slow progress, not accelerate it
I don't understand why it has to be a choice.

The Video Game industry seems like its doing just fine without Government assistance. The Government can focus on investing in creating manufacturing hubs in the US instead.

Shortage of labor? Create a new Visa and citizenship pathway specifically for electronics engineers, while investing in US universities to expand the EE departments and scholarships related to EE.

Its all possible if the US Government wants to.
The patent portfolio for LFP could be used for free only in China since about 2003. The patents expire everywhere next year.
It doesn’t help that in much of the media and mainstream culture we admire slackers and dumbing things down. Get high, get drunk, watch dumb shows and have fun doing dumb things.

It’s less so in Asia. On the other hand we keep on shipping jobs overseas so people on the bottom keep on getting sold out for even lower prices.

People used to be able to get by as a janitor or landscapers. Janitors and landscapers have been replaced by low cost labor. We can have foreign workers and have economic viability for people who don’t go beyond high school. We still have mechanics, but not sure how long that will be an option with electrification of autos where there are diff requirements.
Ask HN: Who's hiring, paying $500k+ total compensation?
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I remember feeling that way when I got an email back in the day, because it was a pretty rare event.

These days, I feel like that when I get a physical letter that isn't sent by a machine.
The point is that Libya or even Tunisia is much closer than Sicilia (>200km away).
I haven't done much database work in recent years, but this was always one of my frustrations. I'd take predictability over max performance any day.
This is interesting, especially when contrasted to the SHARKS! exhibit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xhdL8BPvU
Or when one fails to understand what is actually available to them on the toolbox and only look for what is visible at top level.

For example, yes Lisps have a GC backed linked list, but in the case of Common Lisp, they also have arrays, stack allocation and deterministic resource management macros.
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>There's an entire genre of these kinds of books that extrapolate generalities (life throughout the Universe) from a single data point (life on Earth), but the truth is, that's not even an educated guess.

Hey, whatever sells a pop science book pounded out over a long weekend.

It's funny how sure everyone was about slowing expansion of the universe and the idea of close rocky planets/distant Jupiters, but only lucky guessers are remembered.

It could simply be that patterns for lifeforms on Earth were set so long ago that everything sort of rhymes. Veer that path at the beginning and you end up with a significantly different answer.
> without the corruption of a profit motive

That's a fantasy. The people who provide the money always call the tune, even if it's the government, even if it's donations.

A more effective system is one that does not attempt to deny human nature, but takes advantage of it.
McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class (2020)
Because if multiple consenting adults love each other and want to form amorous relationships between then, that should be ok and accepted since it hurts nobody?
Ironically the second system effect was named by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month. It is ironic because his background was heading development of a large, and ultimately successful, second system. Namely IBM's OS/360.

Moving on, Brooks correctly identified that third systems do much better than second systems. (The pattern is that the first system suffers from your general incompetence, the second system tries to over-abstract and shove too many features in there, and the third system is the first where you can strike a pragmatic balance.)

Still Mozilla/Firefox was a rewrite of Netscape, Python 3 a rewrite of Python 2, Doom a rewrite of Wolfenstein 3D, and so on.

Many companies have a history of their third version of software being significantly better, meaning that they survived the first and second systems to get there. For example the first successful version of Windows was Windows 3.1.

There is another kind of successful rewrite, which is a copycat product. For example MS Excel is a rewrite of Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Word is a rewrite of WordPerfect. And, to keep this from just being picking on Microsoft, Google's Dalvik was a rewrite of the JVM. (And then Oracle sued...)
I feel like food prices are likely lower than they should be, so I kind of view this as "the market is working"?

It's not great for consumers, but I don't think shrinking sizes is necessarily worse than raising prices. Is it that people may not notice that some find objectionable?

I think I'd rather reduce farm subsidies and raise the minimum wage, and let the market reprice accordingly, rather than try to legislate against 'shrinkflation'
I think it's more that they both have cowboys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Stampede
I just have an extension installed in both Chrome and FireFox. It takes a few more clicks than native bookmark functionality but worth it to me for the portability and the durability.
Thanks for sharing!

If you just bought cheap Walmart boots, you'd probably be spending $50 per pair, but need 2 pairs a year (maybe even more, but you're not putting a huge amount of wear and tear), call it $100/year. Over 18 years that's $1800!