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The employer's cost for my health insurance is largely irrelevant to me, the employee. There is zero reason that if my employer's cost was zero, that those dollars would be passed along to me unless the employment market forced them to.
Thanks. $528 for 30 meter TB3 compared to $35 for 30 meter OM4 and a pair of $10 10G SFP+ modules (and the same OM4 will carry 25GbE just fine). Seems like it's not really cost effective.
> nuclear provides a type of base power that cannot be easily or cost efficiently accomplished by renewable technologies

I'm pro nuclear, but the numbers I'm seeing say this statement isn't true. The UK is currently building a new nuclear power station, being called the most expensive nuclear power station in the world by the media. It has a strike price (guarantee wholesale rate) of £90/MWh[0], where as offshore wind has a strike price of £40/MWh[1], and will probably get cheaper.

I understand this isn't the whole picture, as wind energy isn't a constant supply, but the UK is well placed to transition to a smart grid to adjust a large amount of demand dynamically (a lot of homes have electric heating which was designed to be switched on remotely 'off peak' [2]).

I wouldn't say the UK is against nuclear, and this plant is being built by the French multinational EDF - they have some experience building and running nuclear power stations. So why is it so expensive? Where are all these cheap nuclear power stations?

[0] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_Strike_price_deal_for_...

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-low-uk-offshore-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_7
That document you downloaded that is critical of the party will land you and your family in jail. Enjoy your iPhone.

Seriously, folks, we shouldn't celebrate Apple's death grip over their platform. It's dangerous for all of us. The more of you that use it, the more it creates a sort of "anti-herd immunity" towards totalitarian control.

Apple talks "privacy", but jfc they're nothing of the sort. Apple gives zero shits about your privacy. They're staking more ground against Facebook and Google, trying to take their beachheads. You're just a pawn in the game for long term control.

Apple cares just as much for your privacy as they do your "freedom" to run your own (un-taxed) software or repair your devices (for cheaper).

And after Tim Cook is replaced with a new regime, you'll be powerless to stop the further erosion of your liberties. It'll be too late.

Stop. Using. Apple.
Bars already check licenses before serving alcohol.

Schools already check vaccination status for other diseases during enrollment.

Workplaces already check immigration status for all employees.

There will always be non-compliance; there are always a few bars that don't check IDs or accept obvious fakes. But most won't risk losing their liquor licenses.

There are a lot of "what if"s in the world, and in public policy in particular. What if no one pays their taxes? What if a state legislature overrides the popular vote of their electorate in a Presidential election? What if the President orders a nuclear first strike and the military doesn't follow the order?

While all of these questions are interesting, for the most part we can get by without having any answers to them. Why borrow trouble worrying about something that may never happen?

What if workplaces mandate vaccines, what if schools, if bars and ballparks and theaters, and we still don't reach the 90-95% thresholds needed to contain the more virulent viruses?

Well, something else will happen. Maybe we give up. Maybe we try other coercions. Maybe the combination of vaccination rates and post-infection immunity will be high enough that the entire question is moot.
I think the problem is this can only work once before you set off a ton of system gaming.
I'm curious how you do allocation partitioning based on type for C. You can certainly segregate on size, but that still allows confusions across types that are the same size–plumbing type metadata should require compiler support.
That's a bit dramatic, no? The proposal is wear masks and get a needle in your sholder, we aren't putting people in concentration camps here.

I see it as on par with indoor smoking bans and seatbelts. You are giving up a relatively small degree of freedom in order to stop a highly contagious, highly mutable virus; and yes, to protect people who aren't you.
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That would require management to be a lot more critical of metrics presented to them than I have ever seen.
But that only happened after the Supreme Court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional.
The sulabha sutras are from 550BC and these discoveries are over 1000 years older.

Pythagorean triplets have been discovered in Babylon in this time period before, but only as a list of triplets.

Here we see its use in land surveys i.e. being applied in the marketplace.

Another aspect of the sulabha sutra is that the statement can be interpreted as being applied only to isosceles right angle triangles. If this is true, the sutras don't really state the Pythagoras theorem because the isosceles 45 degree hypotenuse case is trivial.

From geographical constraints it is unlikely Pythagoras obtained it from India. Pythagoras is however known to have stated multiple times that the greatest center of learning is in Egypt (Alexandria??) and one must travel there. So one possible transmission route is Babylon->Egypt->Greece. But all of this is wild speculation.
I'm fairly sure the ToS says Apple can do whatever it wants whenever it wants as long as it isn't blatantly illegal. Recall when they decided everyone needed a Bono album on their phone without consent.
> and they want to check if any of the hashes are the same as hashes of child porn?

... without any technical guarantee or auditability that any of the hashes they're alerting on are actually of child porn.

How much would you bet against law enforcement to abuse their ability to use this, and add hashes to find out who's got anti government memes or police committing murder images on their phones?

And that's just in "there land of the free", how much worst will the abuse of this be in countries who, say, bonesaw journalists to pieces while they are alive?
And please don't add confusion to muddy the water when otherwise simple solutions exist.
LOL, reminded me of my own case. I had the fewest issues closed and longest time to close owned issues. But my boss knew the reasons and was very understanding that I was acting as escalation point for the team. It was the upper management, who was lead by a bean counter CEO, couldn't understand why I was still around with such low productivity. Saving grace was my boss and sales people who kept hearing good things about me from customers.
Kudos for being a hands-on part of the solution instead of a hand-wringing theoretician.

But if the only response to “how can things be done better” is “send more money”, anyone who has been on the funding side of things will just move on.

Not “half-a*ing” things doubtless has a lot of components. If you are as successful in your shelter as you say, you have a bunch of proven best practices that can be implemented by other shelters and those who certify them. What are those? How can a funder support the implementation of even one of those specific ideas? That will bring out the wallet faster than a blank check appeal. (Are there even certification and rating programs in this space?)
static const char StringLiteral[] = "hello world";

std::vector<char> Derp;

Derp.resize(sizeof StringLiteral);

memcpy(Derp.data(), StringLiteral, sizeof StringLiteral);
At a company I used to work the manager of our next money cow project promoted the 2-4 people who committed features the fastest. They were "10 times as fast" as the others and therefore it made sense for him to give them the title of "architects" and give them veto power.

Turns out they spewed out the most ugly, over-engineered and unmaintainable code that all the others had to fix/maintain/understand their mess.
The federal government had no problem with slavery. It was clearly enshrined in the Constitution.
Psychologists don't have custodial powers.
This is great. I try to have an objective discussion about whether or not Christine's critique is fair, get no response, and am downvoted by who I assume are V lang fanboys. Not improving my impression of the language.

It's important to sort out these lies (and apologize for them if they were, in fact, lies) because no company will use a product they can't trust to do what it says. Though it's all at V lang's own peril I suppose.
>Treat your phones as an enemy. Use real computers with VPN and software like Little Snitch when online.

I'm assuming your "real computer" is a mac (since little snitch is mac only). What makes you think apple won't do the same for macos? Also, while you have greater control with a "real computer", you also have less privacy from the apps themselves, since they're unsandboxed and have full access to your system.
I would be interested in reading some detail of the "wall of separation" of church and state being something that the Supreme Court made up. It seems quite self evident from the text of the First Amendment. And the quote seems to come directly from Jefferson?
> By accepting a lack of herd immunity

That's the reality. This is endemic and is grouped with the collection of other infections that are going to be around a lot longer than HN (eg latent Tuberculosis infections in around 20% of the global pop).
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If you're treating your phone as hostile why would you skip gaming apps but use banking ones? That seems backwards if you're assuming your mobile is the weak point.
Not sure of where you are from, but I am in the US and in state that had a whole lot of cases. I live in a metropolitan area with several million people. I know personally, maybe 20 people who have had it. One of the 20 was hospitalized from it. Personally I know zero people that have died from it, and only know a 2-3 acquaintances who have lost loved ones. All of those lost were well into their 80s.

So it’s not unusual that in a rural area…folks may not see Covid as the threat that others do. I viewed it as a threat enough to get vaccinated as soon as I was able, but out of an abundance of caution…not fear.
> fifty odd tables all linked to each other in a way that must surely be designed to invoke Cthulhu.

Please, add a warn that this make people spit the coffee
In 1982 Apple was having programmers report lines of code. Bill Atkinson refactored Quickdraw and put down a negative number, -2000 lines of code. Then they stopped asking him to fill out the form. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
How would the clock work for that? wouldn't want part of the "die" to fall out of sync because someone stopped to grab a meal or fight an crazed boomrat.
there are free domain registration and/or hosting providers?

free as in....what's the catch?
I'm honestly surprised DUI laws are not brought up more as an analogy when discussing mask mandates and other public health measures.

An argument for driving drunk that sounds a lot like more than a few no-mask and no-vax arguments; "I drive drunk all the time and have never hurt anyone; I will probably never kill anyone. If you can't accept the risk of driving on the roads with me then stay home!".

And also, in both cases of course it's the potential harm to others that tends to make the laws acceptable. In the case of SCOTUS, it's settled that the government can take EXTREME measures in the name of public health.. Likely far beyond anything we have had to deal with so far.

But the courts acceptance (which is the source of truth of what is legal) is contextual. So the slippery slope arguments are off base IMHO because something upheld in the context of the pandemic could be struck down outside the pandemic..

We live by rule of law and it's a glorious thing. As much as I enjoy being cynical, getting together to agree on rules we wouldn't otherwise hold ourselves to(game theory?) is an amazing thing.
My employer went this route. Gamified all the developers' output. I quit on the spot and I was not alone.

We will see how it turns out but I still believe that gamifying everything is a bad idea. There's no way to align the incentives with company profits using stupid metrics.
The labor market isn’t tight when it comes to software. The overseas talent is incredible abroad and easy to work with once you have the experience.

As someone who works with multiple teams overseas (Belarus and Ukraine), I have certainly not experienced any issue replacing key team members here in the USA with members abroad. Yeah, sometimes I have to wake up at weird hours, but we get things done.

This approach has been so successful, that lately we only hire architect level engineers in the USA. For all other roles we prefer to hire abroad through specific consulting firms.
This from the same policy makers who proclaim Voter ID laws to be racist.

This is ID to eat food.
Wut? Like tidal-locked orbit of the Moon, doesn’t a planet eventually get rotational-locked over eons?

If so, doesn’t that imply that Earth rotation is getting slower as time progresses?

what did i miss? Earth’s orbit is spinning faster now than back then?
You use a different interface than malloc/free and ask the programmer to pass in a class tag. https://github.com/backtrace-labs/slitter/blob/7afb9781fd25b...
This is the most common professional deformation I've seen among security professionals. Plenty of them are great at saying this and that is dumb, but precious few actually have anything to offer on how to do things properly. Insofar as "security" is possible at all, it's going to be by construction.
Wait, what. I’m more shocked at the part at the end about Mississippi not ratifying the abolition of slavery until 2013.
They must have changed it recently. That's good to hear.
> it requires a relatively high level of maturity and experience to be used effectively on nontrivial projects.

Other languages scale smoothly from beginner to expert. So I guess that your assertion shows that Lisp is a less useful language?

Experienced programmers using non-Lisp languages are successful every day. Your OS/mobile phone/browser/… is the result of their work. So I guess other languages are better for experienced developers as well?

In other words, the real world evidence seems to suggest that Lisp is not good for beginners and not good for experienced developers.
I know employers can see your internal "private" communications, but it is also illegal, at least in most Western countries, to actively watch and spy on your employees. Would they have some recourse if it was say the US?
Your symptoms are / were your own but this advice is biased, unhelpful at best and harmful at worst.

For many people SSRIs, SNRIs and other mental health medications are a life changing and at times life saving tool. Advising people not to take prescribed medication is potentially very dangerous.
Which'd be fine if we had one global government with world wide jurisdiction. Or technology choices from companies which couldn't be pressured by governments outside your personal regulation jurisdiction.

I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for those regulations to become law in, say, Chine or Turkey or Saudi Arabia. I'd bet even Israel won't pass them, surely NSO have enough political lobbying swing (and probably also suitable blackmail material on sitting politicians).
What accounts for "drastic reduction in operational cost" in using vanilla kubernates vs ec2? (Is it elb/alb data throughput?)
Indeed, a lot of astronomers use them that way.
Well, drop a 50 lbs dumbbell on your car from 2nd floor and see what happens. Now if that thing falls on someone's kid running in the neighborhood...
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It's not only the "VM" experiments but generally the very basic approach to persistence that's kept Redis from being an actual database and has most users (hopefully) only using it as a cache.

Around the same period as this blog post antirez had also announced that he had written a B-Tree that could be potentially used to store Redis data. The code is still up: https://github.com/antirez/otree – needless to say serious storage engines like LevelDB or RocksDB are more than a single 1,000-line C file, while this looked more like a weekend project.

The persistence model that has stayed in Redis is also a pretty basic approach: fork + dump all memory to a single file. Write every command to a file and compact it by doing the same fork + scan/flush. None of this is efficient, and with a tens of GB of cache you get long pauses during fork() as the page table gets copied to the child process (yes just the table, not the memory pages themselves).

All this to say that his advice on disk I/O is to be taken in the context of his own experience in this domain.
Creating a square tool required some sort of rule or trick: the 3-4-5 rule, your solution, or blind luck. Creating a level meant easily deducing a straight line from the surface of a liquid, which became known as a "spirit level". The 3-4-5 rule was also easy to use with tools such as calipers, protractors, and lengths of cord. Also, from the standpoint of working in enclosed spaces, the 3-4-5 rule takes about half the width of your solution.
You're a panoply of bullshit. I have an immunocompromised kid, and just because he's at risk for all these other viruses that we worry about on a daily basis, doesn't mean you shouldn't help lower that chance just a bit by getting a stupid vaccine at your stupid pharmacy.
Because a significant portion of Facebook’s value comes from the people who use and post to it. If that can be disrupted in even a small way, then the whole thing comes crashing down.
> it was the upper management, who was lead by a bean counter CEO, couldn't understand why I was still around with such low productivity.

Career red flag right here.
I work at a company where code activity is reviewed from time to time by individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with the breadth of activity an Engineer does.

Curiously, it's desirable to both have many PRs and few revisions - but also large ambiguous and difficult PRs. Obviously this can thus be gamed.
> Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards

The top users of these pieces of software have all been canned, since they obviously were doing no real work.
> “In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room,” he said. “In China, you could fill multiple football fields.”

Then perhaps Apple needs to start training some tooling engineers?

Companies like Apple outsourced everything and killed domestic manufacturing in the pursuit of a couple pennies are now complaining that domestic manufacturing is dead?

I'm currently listening to the world's tiniest violin.

"Tech" companies like IBM used to own such prosaic things as low radioactivity lead mines in order maintain access to the resources required.

Vertical integration got sacrificed to the financial gods in favor of Always Late Inventory(tm). And, now, everybody is finding that it's really hard to reverse.

Suck it up and do it yourself, or bend over for China, Tim.
Why do you think the federal government is going to make smarter decisions than the average state government? I don't want to roll the dice on the feds making the right call every time. When the government makes a bad call I want the option of leaving and going somewhere less dumb. That's not an option if the dumbassery comes from Washington. It was federal overreach that made DOMA possible in the first place, as well as marijuana prohibition.
It’s the way to go …
This reminds me some people who open Jira tickets for every tiny things, then have fixes for these tickets.
The problem with any metric is that old quote about “when a metric becomes a measurement it’s useless.” How do you recognize someone who commits the same “amount” of code but which is consistently shitty and has to be reworked later from someone who commits a lesser “amount” but guides the project overall to a better place? Or someone who is spinning gears all the time: compiling code, spinning up VMs, in meetings all the time, and yet whose absence would be unnoticed?

Even a system of assigning a certain number of tasks. Sounds reasonable enough, right? But in my experience if you need X tasks per Y, the tasks will soon begin to conform to the metric. “Oh I need 8 gold doubloons this week, let me assign all of those to fixing the white space in this file.”
This looks like the inverse of "everyone needs to come back to the office so that we know you are working".

I doubt this will go well since if it keeps happening unproductive people will become the best at gaming the system.

But at the same time, there has to be a better way than being observed by a boss in a physical office. I don't want to commute just because people on my team who were unproductive in the office are now just as unproductive at home and not seeing their face daily makes it hard to tell if they took another job and just haven't told anyone.
Almost like China might not be the most forth coming with their numbers?

I mean Laos seemed to be doing really well last year but they weren’t testing much so not many cases! Success!
I lived in sendai for 3 years, and I have lived in Seoul currently for 5 years. Sendai Station has a giant underground bicycle parking, the likes of which I've never seen in Korea.

There are cars in Japan, of course. Families own one because it's convenient, of course. Also there are more cars in Japan than Korea, mostly because more people can afford it. But I'm quite sure that, at comparable income levels, Koreans own more cars per capita.

Korea has a very car-centric infrastructure, and people own massive cars, and drive recklessly, because the roads allow you to and people are used to it. Children are taught to never cross the road if they see a car, no matter if they have the right to cross or not.

I'm not saying Japan is a car-free country, of course. But car culture and car safety is a lot more reasonable.
> I would guess that awareness of the Tuskegee Experiment and black history more generally is greater among those with higher education than those with lower education. If this guess is right, then knowledge of historical racist medical abuses is actually strongly correlated with getting the vaccine.

This correlation appears meaningless in light of the previous paragraph.

> As with the population in general and every other racial group, black vaccination rates climb in lockstep with educational attainment.

Unless the education/vaccination curve has a different shape, then it would seem that the correlation is unrelated to awareness of the Tuskegee Experiment. The conclusion seems to acknowledge that the two are not causally linked. But then why include the correlation from the first quote above?
Not the right logic here. Check your idea more seriously.
Mac os is just an example.