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You are assuming that you are on the right side of this.

If you can't at least understand why people are opposed to the lockdown of course you think "boots on the neck" is a justified response.

Most people luckily do know the nuances and do understand the consequences of lockdown taken to the extreme of what we see in Australia.

That's why as I said we should probably just agree to disagree, I am not convinced about your justification for coercion no matter what semantic and rhetorical games you throw at it.
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In high school there was a kid who got all A except one B. First I thought they must be very happy. Then I thought again....
Kind of tangential, but the instruction set design of the Itanium was very good. I wish it had more success.
>that's very reasonable.

If you look at current prices, and think that they can only rise, that's very reasonable. Otherwise, that equity can be wiped out pretty quickly.

I suppose what I find strange is killing it on an investment (turning 400k into 1.5M) then turning around and reinvesting in the same inflated asset-class. Hence my comment regarding buying a more expensive home AND dumping money into it.
> and barring any black swan event such as the dot-com bubble bursting

Stuff like that is the point of the sentence you're replying to. And how can you be so confident about the salary growth over whole careers in software? If you laid 30 year careers end-to-end, the entire industry of software has had enough time for about 2.
I didn't really agree with anything in this article and to be honest it feels like the whole thing was written just to be contrarian.

Its definition of "debt" is too strict. Sure if you take on a mortage or a bank loan, then principle, interest and term will be well defined and enforced. What about when you borrow twenty bucks from your friend or they help you move?

Arguing that technical debt is not technical because it has a broader impact doesn't really seem very important. Calling it "technical" because it originates in a technical part of the company and while building out tech makes perfect sense to me. The fact it can have a broader impact doesn't seem very important when naming it.
I think it depends on who is using it. Oracle have a history of changing license after they reach some critical mass of adoption. In my opinion it may be a good idea to run it past your legal department and keep an eye on their license. One might assume that Linux is GPL but the devil is in the details which Oracle sometimes tinkers with depending on included software. This may be a non issue, but a risk I would keep an eye on regardless. For personal/hobby use it probably doesn't matter.
I can well imagining HP milking existing HP-UX customers for all they're worth, but I'm finding it hard to justify spending much $$$ to develop it. So I would expect HPE to provide security patches and nothing more.
Seems the Oracle PR department found HN :)
It isn't a tax dodge, it's a simple matter of Amazon's international retail business still growing quickly and so needs a lot of capital. Happy to look at any evidence otherwise.
Not when using an OOP language like JavaScript, you are by definition using OOP constructs exposed as language fundamental types.
It's not really a great memory if you were working for one or more of them -- and I was.
I have used restic for quite a while. Once in a while, I test that I can restore my backups. That's an important step that lots of people miss.

I had a client that asked me to setup their system. I setup the system, they got a tape drive and I had them rotate tapes daily. There was a cronjob to tar everything to tapes.

It was great until their hard drive failed and I found I had a typo where it was only backing up the current folder, not the whole drive. Needless to say, they found a new IT provider and I learned an important lesson. If you haven't tested your backups, you have no backups.
Slate has a bunch of people that are making PR's, which is why there are 80+ open PR's right now. There's evidently been 403 distinct contributors to Slate. I don't know how to see on GitHub, but I remember a Slate developer saying Ian had delegated something like 10+ people as having commit rights for Slate (I'm not one of them). The introductory documentation that Ian wrote for Slate is also really useful and a pleasure to read, and when you need more deeply technical documentation the source code serves that purpose well. Thanks regarding the encouragement regarding cocalc+Slate; I need to get back to that part of Cocalc soon!
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There is an overenthusiastic, uncritical way of looking at it, but there is a cynical way of looking at it, too.

I realize now that I'm older that I'm a creep I'm a weirdo (I'm not a creep) and it is because I had a ton of undiagnosed neurodivergent behaviors that I didn't really figure out how to handle (or even have diagnosed) until I was in my 30s.

Would I ask for my disorders? Would I want them on anyone? Hell no. It sucks, I've felt out of place more than once, not noticed obvious social clues more than once, and not wanted to exist for days on end more than once. I'm not going to throw a party over it and when people pat me on the back it annoys me. We're all fucked up, some more than others, and some more aware of it than others.

However, I don't know about you, but to function in my mid 30s I'm pretty aware of my mental state. I know that I can be really, really wrong. Nobody has to tell that to me. I know how this machine runs and how it breaks down. I also know that a lot of people never ever figure that out because they don't have to.

I think the part of this "divergence" that is absolutely, absolutely critical is the ability to see the world from different perspectives. We're slowly understanding the importance of that as a society through notions such as representation, but the way some people will look at you when you admit you are in one of these categories - you know we still have along ways to go. But be proud of yourself, things will continue to improve and most importantly, you've got a lot of wisdom you can share if you wish.
Not sure what you mean by asking "how", but on the floor usually atop an area rug or mat and head pillow.

Often when I sleep on something soft and significantly deformable like a mattress my neck and/or back are messed up the next day. Never happens on the floor.
It will take a multi-pronged effort to fix because there are several different pressures. The rate of immigration in Canada has been increased, and will increase again, without any intervention to fix housing regulations and incentivize rate of creating new structures.

Since the demand is growing faster than the supply, you can both a) curb the demand, by lowering the ludicrous immigration rate, b) fix regulations and impose other restrictions on foreign ownership. And if you refuse to do 'a', then you have to double-down on 'b'.
So I do wonder where the equilibrium is between inflation and raising interest rates. That is, inflation gets to a point where homes double in dollar value over a few years but interest rates go much higher creating a situation where anyone with an existing, low rate mortgage is making pretty easy payments (due to inflation and therefore wage inflation) but the real value of their house hasn't really gone up in value due to that same inflation.

Would end up with a win-win situation for existing and future home buyers as opposed to a situation where rates go up but inflation does not which would crust millions of existing home owners and probably lead to regime change, making it political unviable.

Orchestrating this is the difficult part as it couldn't happen over night. But rather as inflation begins to take hold and we see increases in wages, interest rates rise slowly enough to let the housing market avoid collapse.
You’re right. I tend to make mistakes typing on mobile.
Are you biased in interviews? Yup
I think GCP is a very different beast from the rest of Google and that its approach to business has essentially nothing to do with the rest of Google's. I'd also argue that GCP is different from Google Workspace (Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, etc.) is different from AdWords which in turn is different from anything Google offers direct to consumer. These businesses have different models and need to make different sorts of guarantees.

Khan Academy has been using Google App Engine since 2009 or '10. Since then, the App Engine APIs have changed dramatically (in a way that should make them more supportable going forward) and Python 2 has been supplanted by Python 3. Python 2 reached its official end of life on January 1, 2020. Despite that, we're still running Python 2 App Engine in production while we move to Go[1] and GCP is still supporting our use. (Note _most_ traffic to Khan Academy today is hitting our Go code and not Python 2.)

So, our experience with GCP and their long-term support of offerings has been good and we use quite a few of their services, but I don't think this has anything to do with their ability to fix the product-killing reputation elsewhere in the org.

[1]: https://blog.khanacademy.org/go-services-one-goliath-project...
Crazy roll pitch yaw angle plots from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/ou1w7e/emergency_pro...

Tweet from the Flight Director also makes it sound like the ISS thrusters had a very hard time trying to counteract this: https://twitter.com/Explorer_Flight/status/14209893355209236...
What the hell: boom, bang, kaboom, ahoy, yippee ki yay.
Reference link has more details:
“ Results Higher levels of all immune markers were correlated with a reduced risk of symptomatic infection. Vaccine efficacy of 80% against primary symptomatic COVID-19 was achieved with an antibody level of 40923 (95% CI: 16748, 125017) and 63383 (95% CI: 16903, not computed (NC)) for anti-spike and anti-RBD, and 185 (95% CI: NC, NC) and 247 (95% CI: 101, NC) for pseudo- and live-neutralisation assays respectively. Antibody responses did not correlate with overall protection against asymptomatic infection.”
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.21258528v...

Does anyone know which units these use and how to convert to AU/mL?
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Safari's inability to ship working features is what's saving the web? Actually I had not heard that one before.
It's given as 7/36 (19.4%) in the supplementary material https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072/suppl_f... I guess 3 people didn't respond to the survey 6 weeks later?
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It does have to be paid off. A business's technical division can, and inevitably will, become insolvent due to the accumulation of that debt. I take it you've never worked at a company which, after a fast & high-complexity period of startup-development, has had its development grind to a near-halt? Where it takes weeks to make a one line change? This is the analogous equivalent of insolvency for tech debt.
That's a good point. Even as someone who calls my language American and refers myself a USian in conversation, I do think I'd have trouble calling the language I speak USian—but, as you point out, calling it American is painting with a very broad brush indeed. Maybe "USian English" is clearest.
Biased -- "bias" is a noun
Whatever makes you happy to face the hard realities of this world.

Beware, with great power comes great responsibility.
To me it doesn't make much sense for a fine to be based on money a company might make in the future.
>and will likely sell their new house for far more than $1.5m when they sell again in another dozen years.

Why do you assume this to be the case? It has been the story of the last 20 years or so, sure. But it could be a complete aberration in the historical timeline of real estate, which for many decades had real rates of return around 1% annually. Houses were not investments.

It's wild that people now assume it's "normal" that you buy a house a triple your money in a decade.
What happened to the founder and their involvement?
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I usually use Push-To-Talk mode on most video calls when I can. I'm not perfect about it, but I do manage to mute probably 90% of throat-clearing noises or 75% of my typing.
It's confirmation that the vaccines work the way we expect them to work. Also, this may help identify people that need a (or more) booster shots, or people that should be more careful even though they were vaccinated. Also it provides an explanation for people getting Covid after vaccination (breakthrough Covid as they call it here). Now you can say to people that scream: "Look they got vaccinated and still got Covid!" what likely happened and why that doesn't mean the vaccine is not doing what is should, in the population.

For example the people without (or lower concentrations of) antibodies may share certain traits/attributes (like recently undergoing chemotherapy I read in this thread somewhere), if we know that, we can avoid vaccinating these people too early (and thus needlessly) after treatment and we know we should protect them in another way.

It may all seem obvious, but I can tell you (as somewhat of a scientist myself), that any of these things could easily have been found to be not true and we'd have had to deal with that. Biology is complex, if we would have had to change models of how we think the vaccine works, that could have real world implication for how we deal with (partially) vaccinated populations for example.

I wonder if one's reaction to the vaccine is a measure for the magnitude of one's immune reaction and related to the effectiveness of the vaccine. I for one slept for 14 hrs after my first shot and spend another half day in bed feeling like I had the flu after the second. I'd like to thing I'm well protected now, but who knows. Only studies like this one can prove such hypotheses.
Re: #3. My workflow is a bunch of small, focused commits:

git add -p
git commit -m '...'

And then if some commits need to be "grouped" i.e. squashed/reordered:

git rebase -i origin/master

Mark relevant commits for squashing. No loss in "story telling" (lol) because squashing retains commit messages.

Simple as that.
Delta is getting a crazy amount of press but for some reason most articles don’t show any of the articles stats. For instance rather than show cases or deaths, they show “percent of cases that are delta.” Here is the CDC chart showing cases and deaths by group.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographicsoverti...

Cases are increasing but even case increase is a tiny blip compared to winter. Cases have always been a poor metric to judge the pandemic as it doesn’t indicate the severity of the infection. Filter the graph by deaths and we can see COVID deaths have still yet to increase even a tiny amount from their already extremely low levels after vaccinations become mainstream. Yes there is a lag time between death and cases but that lag time is only two weeks.
tl;dr:

Silver: "Shit... I was so close to Gold."
Bronze: "Damn, I medaled!"
It's not the only way I work, but I often sit this way, yes.

Especially for the first half of my day while drinking coffee etc.
Was it a spike protein test? If you want to test the response to anything but a inactivated vaccine you have to test for antibodies to a provided component. No vaccine used in the US has anything but spike.
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Itanium was disappointing from the day one. Itanium never matched the performance of RISC or CISC competitors (POWER, SPARC, x86).

HP replaced Alpha with Itanium but that was a costly mistake.
IIRC the options were i40e and i40en, the latter resulting in daily crashes, so i40e it was :)
For small stuff like this, print it out and put it in a safe deposit box.
Really cool session with the Maintainers. Interesting to here the Maintainers thought on the reason behind Docz
I'm still puzzled why Itanium didn't go any further. A precursor of the ARM revolution. And Intel just wrongly killed the project.
Individuals aren’t averages and past performance is not a guarantee of future returns.

There are a huge number of folks making high 6-figures or low 7-figures over the last decade due to tech stock growth. An entire generation of programmers has no idea what a buyers market for talent looks like. SAVE.
JPEG is quite old by now. The reason I shoot RAW is mostly to adjust contrast, saturation, white balance and recover some highlight and shadow details.

If there where some lossy image format that recorded the image in YUV (or some similar color space) and recorded information beyond the black and white point to be able to recover some details and additionally supported some standardized transforms that could be adjusted on top of the base image I think the need for RAW would diminish. Such transforms would be to set the white point, black point, gamma curve, saturation, white balance. If the standard transform data could be edited in an image editing program, the lossy YUV data would not need to be rewritten causing an image degradation.
You can discriminate and persecute introverts and misanthropes with no legal and few societal restraints.

Claims to neurodiversity are in some sense a play (in some cases somewhat cynically) to take on some protections afforded to disabilities and minorities.
So genetics DO matter when it comes to vaccines.
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I read this the other day and concluded that "psydiversity" is yet another academic wading in to tell people struggling for their rights that they're doing it wrong.

The idea of the immutable self is definitely fiction, but it is a useful fiction which we use to prevent people trying to "cure" autism so we can instead be accepting and humane. It shifts the onus of change onto society instead of the individual, and ties in neatly with the social model of disability by doing so.

By tacitly attacking the idea of the immutable self, the author opens the door to "cures" for autism, homosexuality, and a variety of other things which we're currently forced to accept.

It may be the case that all that is solid melts into air but academics like this one accelerate that process instead of slowing it.
I put the turning point around the 486-DX2, when Intel decided to push clock multipliers as a marketing tactic, instead of putting effort into increasing overall performance via higher actual system bus speeds.

Since then their genius has been bent to PR and the sabotage of competition, rather than the pursuit of improvement. Its really amazing how long they've kept the skin suit patched together.
Who says it's a moral stance? You can just be grossed out by the thought of sitting on the skin of a dead animal.
He runs two full-height racks only for himself?

That's some heck of an environmental impact.
That is an incredibly overwrought explanation that even more of an argument against the analogy.

Much like a joke, if you have to go to great lengths to explain an analogy, it is a bad analogy.

Tech debt is just a bad analogy, with a bit of use because friction is less understandable (but more accurate) to many financial and business people.
'Email' seems to be a trigger word for a lot of people, but I never see Slack or IM mentioned in these discussions. Slack is just as disruptive in my experience.

I long for the days when email was the only medium of electronic communication. Now it's email, Slack, Basecamp, Teams, Jira and Zoom.
Yeah, probably, still though, I bought mine for probably about $150 USD, all Japanese made with natural Kapok and Soba inside, I've had them for about 7 years, washing the covers of course.

So well made.
That's minix3, but it could be that Multics implements USB support even before minix3 does ;)
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Isn't that more or less a given with anything that can evolve over time?
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Can't you just use @apply to make a single uniform style that utilizes all those classes?

That's my understanding at least, like if you want to make a button, instead of have the same 10+ classes posted everywhere you make a new class with @apply and keep the styles uniform.

Then in the future if you need to change one of the core utilities it's also easily updated to all you the @apply classes you make.

Am I misunderstanding the purpose? I've only used tailwind twice.
I've been using btrfs and btrbk for a few months now and really enjoy it. I love that snapshots are easy to make, and btrbk is a fairly simple way to schedule taking snapshots and transferring them to another machine, as well as set up a retention strategy. I agree with the author that simpler is better -- if I lose data/delete a file I want back, it's as simple as mounting the snapshot and grabbing what I need.
> Black men and women are imprisoned at higher rates compared to all other age groups

Aha, then they're just misreading that sentence then. It obviously means black men and black women as a whole are imprisoned at higher rates.
No but it does make sense to fine them based on how big their operations are
The suit seems to have been filed in 2011, and HP said:

"The Itanium product line was highly profitable for HP, generating over $2 billion in annual profits in 2010"

And, also "84 percent of Itanium servers ran
Oracle’s database software."

So, even though Itanium was pretty well dead for new sales to new customers 2010, they were still selling enough of them to make $2B in profit (not revenue) the year prior. That is, sales to customers that were sort of stuck on Itanium/HP-UX, and not yet ready to switch to something else.

Certainly, an EOL announcement for Oracle on Itanium would have kicked some Itanium-Locked-In customers into action faster than they would have otherwise.

I'm not sure how to translate $2B/year profit on Itanium hardware into lost sales due to the Oracle announcement. But, $3B doesn't sound outrageous in relative terms. Sounds like 1.5 years of H/W sales ending earlier than projected due to the stark message in Oracle's EOL announcement.
Will it be ported to wayland?
Doesn't need pollinating.. does that mean it wasn't?
I did not see any mention of the type of sports they analysed. I think it makes a big difference, e.g. winning silver in a tournament type competition like basketball means you lost your last game, whereas winning bronze means you won your last game. On the other hand a 100 meter dash is 8 people racing all at the same time, so winning silver does not feel like losing gold as much to me. You still beat out the bronze medalist in direct competition.

edit: but of course, it's also common that there are two big names in a competition, so winning silver in that case means you lost gold.
Great idea to send us on a paid page of your own product.

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I think it is realistic to say that having neurodiversity kicking around the genepool is evolutionarily beneficial. Social animals probably benefit from have a stable set of neurodiverse outliers showing up in the population. This is only more true as we invented oral history and civilization. We can mitigate the disadvantage and leverage the benefits of rarer perspectives.

I'd argue high intelligence alone is a neurodiversity, we just don't pathologize it. It has plenty of undesirable side effects too.

We also have situations where 3+ sigma outliers in brain function don't see any benefits at all and need constant support to survive in our environment (natural and societal).

So, no autism isn't the next stage of evolution, but having somebody with 2 sigma deviation from normal cognition existing and contributing to society is probably more of a good thing than a bad one.
There are few things as satisfying than watching Oracle lose court cases.
I'm saying regulation is likely to be ineffective if it doesn't hurt stock prices.
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