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A mealy texture usually means that apple is old and was not recently picked. Some varieties, like the red delicious of this article were bred to not get mealy as they age but at a cost. There is nothing specific about organic that would make the apples mealy but if they were varieties not bred for long life or if they were slow sellers due to price, you might get a high percentage of mealy apples.
Hi everyone,

I'm a Co-Founder of Vantage. Today we are launching "The Cloud Cost Handbook" which can be found at https://handbook.vantage.sh/ - a set of guides and best practices related to cloud costs for developers, engineering leaders and finance counterparts. We're hoping to distill complex cloud cost terms and concepts into a set of "plain english" guides that anyone can access.

From speaking with our customers and community we've found that cloud cost knowledge is typically "tribal knowledge" held by a few key people at an organization but not well known amongst broader community of developers.

We're still early and we're looking for contributions and support (feel free to give the repo a star!) to build this up over time - please let us know what you think!
In defense of parent though it does not say “can” or “will” convert. News and views should have reflected that so it’s really not the fault of the original paper authors.
It's amazing how much of modern computing infrastructure was inspired by printers. Richard Stallman's almost entire life's work comes to mind.
The DDR had about half the income per capita as West Germany. South Korea is currently at about 24x the per capita income of the north.

It would be a huge challenge to unify those two economies and it would surely take decades. South Korea developed itself from the 1960s onwards, so I would guess that unification would take that kind of time frame (50-60 years - if they could pull off another such miracle).
Refreshing to see someone else realize this, the metaverse will arrive when WASM/WebGPU/WebXR is the dominant way of delivering immersive websites. Our startup is working on providing this support for exporting to the web for Unity and Unreal engines, so virtual worlds can reside inside the. browser.
Honestly, what's missing is a GUI builder for Postgres that non-programmers can use.

Others have mentioned Filemaker and Access, and I think that's exactly right - non-programmers can understand datatypes, that's not the issue. The issue is a UI they can use and (more importantly) iterate on themselves.

One of the major strengths of spreadsheets is "touchability" - your stuff is right there. Psql is the opposite - nothing is visible without the right incantation, and non-programmers can't do much about that.
In continuation passing style, a compiler technique, exceptions show up quite naturally as a second continuation.
The whole thing is called "Double barrelled continuation passing style".
I believe exceptions are equivalent to a limited form of continuations called escape continuations where control flow can only go upwards (which is the stack unwinding). Note that this is also true of break and continue, actually, both of which can be implemented with either exceptions or escape continuations.
1) We are not developing for Windows yet, just Mac. Small startup, we have to focus our strengths. And we are slightly more bullish on macOS than Windows.

2) Perhaps you missed that we are in beta. You are opting-in your email in exchange for being invited to become a beta tester. You do not need to do that. And if you do, we are going to use your email only to send you the invite.

And the reason why there are so many questions in the form is that we want to deter as many people as we can, and get only the most determined beta testers. If somebody finds a 10 question form intimidating, their value to us as an active, contributing beta tester is likely to be small.

When we are out of beta you will be able to download the browser without submitting anything, and enjoy a zero-telemetry browser out of the box. Makes sense?
This isn’t surprising. 3 years is about the length of time it takes most humans to become bored with monogamous relationships. There is a very high rate of breakups and divorces in non arranged relationships by the 4th year.
> We need a spreadsheet format that's more conducive to the professional programmer workflow.

CSV or TSV, pick your flavor.
I wonder if Woz is still rockin his?
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>Really hope that's not just a "UI" feature, and those passwords really are encrypted.

It's definitely a ui feature. If you want to extract the password all you have to do is visit the login page, open the developer console, and type $("input[type=password]").value
Cash is just means to provide liquidity when trading assets for assets. When someone sells stocks it's almost always to quickly spend it on something else.

I am not rich but quite well off. What has recent policy of pumping cash as loans and handouts done to me? My assets (mainly stocks) skyrocketed. My less fortunate friends complaining that prices of everyday items has gone up? I haven't noticed, I can buy more fresh produce or housing or electronics with my Google or Amazon stock that I could have before the pandemics and way way more than a few years ago.

It seems to me you're confusing money with wealth. Money doesn't matter, assets do. It's just convenient to price assets in money as long as the currency is stable. If you give everyone a house you solve a huge problem. If you give everyone a freshly printed million dollars you don't solve anything. Rich people still live in big houses and own companies. It will just be a temporary inconvenience to find some way to trade. No one is buying anything of value with that million.
How about "YC S21 Launch"?
The entire history of governance and prosecution is bad faith arguments.

They only need the thinnest veneer of legality in order to abuse their power.
What if? I'm assuming it's just a matter of time. 0 or as close to zero to make little difference
So a VPN will allow me to send money anywhere I choose? To accept payments without the risk of a third party arbitrarily shutting me down? To send donations to WikiLeaks while the US government forces payment processors and banks to abandon them?

No, of course not.
Yes we do! We serve life science labs from industry and academia including diagnostics, biotherapeutics and CROs.
His gratuitous use of "25 cent words" is the most singular annoying and off-putting aspect of Snowden. It's extreme with him, which to me indicates a hugely inflated ego -- many more would listen to him if he would not try to sound so damn professorial.
But for most of the world, the cost calculus doesn't work out, because inkjet printers are shitty and break down, and use up their super-expensive color cartridges to print B&W prints. (And laser printers don't work well in humid climates, so good luck using a color laser.)

It's the same reason that in most of the world, you don't see people using those shaving razors with disposable razor-blade cartridges. They're too expensive over time, compared to a straight-razor / safety razor that can be sharpened.

If you only ever need to print, say, five photos in your entire life, it's fine if each one takes a three-hour round-trip walk to town and the equivalent of a day's wages. That'll still be lower TCO than printing every B&W text report you ever need to print on a color inkjet, and so needing to feed it a new yellow cartridge every few months just so it can keep putting microdots on the paper.
I'd say that the cryptography and computer science field as a whole have tremendously benefitted from cryptocurrency indirectly. It has led to numerous new cryptographic protocols that are being used outside of blockchain. POW is an effective tool being used by websites to fight DDOS attacks and spam. Zero knowledge proofs that were originally designed for Proof of stake are being used for credit cards. Internet security is being reworked from scratch to address the many security issues that blockchain has uncovered.

It's been hugely beneficial for science from a theoretical and academic POV. Just like space exploration has no obvious benefits but fertilizes the field of engineering with new technology, cryptocurrency is currently doing the same to Computer Science.

And E-waste is a huge problem in general, it's not specific to bitcoin. Online gaming with powerful GPUs has zero benefit to society and also generates lots of useless energy consumption and e-waste. Why don't we brick all of the playstations instead of a whole financial ecosystem?
I use the Granny Smith for cooking but not as an eating apple. They have a good texture and tartness for pies and apple sauce but they are not what i would want to eat raw.
With a reserve currency like the USD the bust only happens in the USA while the boom happens outside of it.
You're not really making an independent measurement here. You see developers "stagnating" and moving on; how do you know that's not caused by lack of pay increases and other things you're doing (letting people pick new projects, for example, to keep them interested)? Maybe if you did "go out of your way to retain employees" you'd have employees who end up making your business even more successful during their longer tenure.
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I'm reticent to get into this because it involves value judgments about what's "useful". Are in-game skin purchases useful? Not really. Should we prevent then from being sold because they don't match your definition of usefulness?

To my thinking, provably fair casino games are a useful innovation that sprang from cryptocurrency. Decentralized poker is another. If you find the entire global gaming industry useless, then I guess those are also useless innovations. Again, that's a value judgment.

I don't think it's fair to conflate the people/businesses trying to profit from the crypto speculation craze, pyramid shemes or shitcoins, with e.g. businesses that want to accept crypto to avoid paying a % of their income to Visa. Yet that's what this law would do.
What came first, the chicken or the egg in your scenario? Did they stop doing great work because the rewards didn't match? Or did you stop matching because they stopped doing great work?

Always hard to tell.
Chinas ambitions and culture go back further than the PRC. Their goals have nothing to do whITU communism.

People really don't seem to get this. The communism red herring is just the same red herring it was with the USSR.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20083309

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230286771_7
What's your teaching philosophy? (Computer Science Teachers)
Germany is one example where a long-term infrastructure investment strategy makes a lot of sense as the infrastructure is crumbling: https://www.dw.com/en/german-infrastructure-begging-for-over.... Not all could be spent in a short time as you mention, but for economic recovery, long-term funding is probably better anyways.

To close the pension gap, Germany could also buy ETFs on borrowed money, or borrow to create a national investment fund, but that would be much too eccentric for an extremely risk-averse country.
> What does "modest scale" mean? Some people have to have all dependency updates reviewed and have some level of independent security team monitoring dependency changes.

Who? Seems totally intractable to me.
Activision didn’t ruin Blizzard. Blizzard ruined themselves by giving up control of their destiny to another. Such things affect the way you think, to be not independent.
> A smaller population living well is economically indistinguishable, in the aggregate, from a large one living poorly

I'm sceptical of this claim. Young people and old people are biologically different, in the aggregate. Obvious differences in physical capabilities aside, arguably even more impactful for the future of a given nation are their psychological differences; i.e. innovation and risk-taking invariably comes more from the younger generations.

Perhaps if you're only considering dollars being circulated in a domestic economy, an abundance of wealthy old folks can potentially offset the lack of youthful societal members. But the developmental direction such a demographic structure pushes its society is unlikely to be good for sustaining itself in the long run.
> I'd give them all the babies in the world if they offered to take them off my hands after they were born

Assuming you have not already done so, perhaps becoming a surrogate or donating sperm would be an option for you? While it's not exactly handing a baby to the state, there are many couples who would be interested in raising children but are not biologically capable.

At least of the parents I know, I am skeptical that simply offering to take additional children off their hands would incentivize them to continue giving birth to more children.

> a woman would be paid a hefty sum to bear a child to term

In the US the market has determined that sum to be $25,000 on average.[1] I don't know whether you would consider that hefty, but it's at least an order of magnitude lower than what it would take to incentivize me to bear a child.

[1] https://surrogate.com/surrogates/becoming-a-surrogate/being-...
That's not a good analogy. I don't agree with OP but the potential "customer" for /r/jailbait comes from a way bigger pool than the potential 0-day buyer. OPs point is that the people looking to buy this things will not mind jumping through hoops.
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Yield from comes to mind.
> I say it's "stupidly" easy because all you need to do is hire new people

Don't forget turnover rates, too! The games industry especially has turnover rates that would be astounding in some other industries. Crunch culture and youth culture (both direct co-factors in the issues Activision are being accused of) leads to a games industry that is perpetually stuck "young". The median age of a developer in games has pretty much always been close to 25. (We're getting very close to the point where the median age of developer at a videogame company is younger than Diablo 2.)

It's easy to believe that videogame companies especially have short memories and cultures that lack maturity when they are perpetually stuck in an elongated sort of adolescence by mostly only retaining developers that can put up with crunch and lack of work/life balance in the name of "passion" (who by nature of those challenges are almost always going to be younger and more naive).
If the NSA is ahead on discovering exploits shouldn't they want a ban on selling exploits, so others have a harder time catching up, and it's less likely that any of the exploits that they've discovered in-house get "burned" by being used by someone else?
Automation isn't at the point where you can get economic and productivity growth with a declining population. Maybe in the future this will be true, but it's not true now. Even highly automated economies will see contraction and tax base decreases. The current solution, ala the Bank of Japan, is to run huge deficits, and they are on the cutting edge of what an aging population looks like.
If you use a PIN w/ the TPM then the attack goes from "read bits off a bus" to "pull apart the TPM", which dramatically raises the bar. (That's not to say that it wouldn't be possible to add a hardware "implant" to record the bitstream from the TPM and put the unit back into service so that the user can unlock it.)
+1 to this

Launch-time Diablo 3 actively felt bad to play. It had about 20 hours of fun Diablo content, and then it turned into this horrible experience that was half: inspecting the dozens of crap items in your bag looking for something someone might buy on the AH/looking for items to buy on the AH, and the other half was trying to play a "Bullet Hell" style game using click-to-move

Since then, they've completely cleaned up their act. Diablo 3 today is a lot like Diablo 2 in that you can just keep enjoying the core Diablo gameplay as long as you want
> Bitcoin is a technology that improves individual freedoms. No institution can prevent you from holding or transferring bitcoin.

This is a common sales pitch but it's relying on the listener not thinking about the problem. Any government can prevent you from using Bitcoin by blocking your transactions: every transaction requires a network exchange and the same infrastructure which is used for things like the Great Firewall can trivially stop that as well.

More importantly, however, that's a hypothetical situation for most people here. The realistic threats to think about stem from the difference between you being able to _make_ a transaction and not have any consequences for doing so. Bitcoin requires you to publish a full log of your transactions for your government to see — if you don't report transactions, skip paying taxes, or conduct a transfer with someone on a blacklist, they can use the public ledger as a signed confession.

Every transaction you make can be used to deanonymize you, and that sharply limits the use of Bitcoin because there's no demand for random numbers — only real things you can do with them, which require physical presences which governments control. If your goal is to transfer money and flee the country, never coming back and writing off any friends or family left behind, Bitcoin might help. If your usage is anything else, you're just counting down until you or someone you interact with has their data compromised.

Now, maybe you've also heard the marketing claims about mixers. Think about that a bit more carefully and you'll also realize the problems which make those unsafe in practice: beyond the expense, you're trusting the mixer operator not to be compromised, simply having any transaction linked to one is evidence that you're doing something illegal, and you have to worry about other users of the service using it for crimes which are serious enough to get more investigation than you personally are worth and proving that you were not knowingly helping those people.

If you were running the secret police somewhere, one of the best things you could do would be set up Bitcoin exchange and mixer services and promote them in your country so you'd have people giving you signed evidence of things you probably weren't even aware of.
Honestly, this is great. So many applications do this poorly if at all and COVID has not helped the situation. I do wonder about compliance across state/national lines.
WoW subscriptions alone pull about 760m per year still. They are an extremely valuable IP holding company if that.

They could easily spend tens of millions completely retooling leadership and eventually anyone toxic, and it would be worth every penny.
Hi, cool project!

Have you considered how you intend to provide accessibility on top of this model of interaction? I have some thoughts for possibilities involving HRTF audio for blind users, but the deafblind experience is going to be ... tricky.
Of course you'll need to do similar work to expose the semantics of one of these experiences to search engines, so for once I am not just begging for accessibility merely for us poor blind folk.

I'm curious as to how you internally represent the scenes, and what sorts of research you've done into precursor technologies such as VRML.

If you have questions or would like some ideas of where to get started with accessibility, feel free to reach out! My email is in my profile.
I'm guessing you're trying to equate

try{
foo()
}catch(Exception e){
bar(e)
}

void foo() {
throw new exception();
}

with

(bar (call/cc foo))

(defun foo (cont)
(cont (make-exception))

However, this ignores most details of the problem. In fact, (re-entrant) continuations and exceptions can't be mixed in the same language: Common Lisp has not adopted `call/cc` for one because it's impossible or at least much harder to implement `unwind-protect` (`finally`) in the presence of `call/cc` [0].

The major difference is that continuations allow you to do this:

(defparam *global*)
(defparam *shadow-list* (list))
(defun foo (cont)
(setf *global* cont))
(with-open-file (f "~/file.log")
(loop
for line = (read-line stream nil 'eof)
until (eq line 'eof)
collect (cons line (call/cc foo)))

(*global* *shadow-list*)
(*global* *shadow-list*) ;; what is the state of the file here? what if there was an exception reading from the file?

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/1Ggl_BUi3Yg/m/V...
I appreciate the discussion here.

The reason why the GitHub organization was created BEFORE anything else was because of a tweet.
I originally tweeted that I created the organization, and wanted to see if people were interested in using it (regardless of ownership).
It unexpectedly blew up, and with encouragement from replies/DMs, I decided to add least plant a flag.

> WHO

This needs to be better clarified, I agree. This is a small section on this: https://github.com/rust-cloud-native/core#owners-and-members

> WHAT

This could be clearer as well. Perhaps, this section should indicate that we want to be a blank canvas or sandbox for issue/discussion filers to determine course: https://github.com/rust-cloud-native/core#what-are-the-goals...
Thinking about dropping to 0 is a useful thought experiment, but everything in the article applies to a sufficuently small positive value.

On a practical matter, a sudden drop in the value of bitcoin could make it literally impossible to by, as the resulting drop in hash power could mean that no new block is ever mined, so the bitcoin transaction giving you ownership is never proccessed.
Snowden is specifically talking about how this prohibition will deter security researchers from working for this "companies". Having been in the field a while back, I agree with him. Most people won't jump the extra hoop you need to jump to work for an illegal industry if they can make bank without breaking bad.
Actually this is still better than options no? Paying capital gains in exercising options at some illiquid valuation is somethng I just can't see the justification behind. If the asset is paper money shouldnt the taxes also be paper money?
She did say -

“At that time, in situ “applications” like bookstores, post offices, and auctions had a service gap: location dependence. You had to be at the place. That limited access to folks with time & transportation. It limited access even for wealthy, well-connected college kids.”

Essentially saying in this case everyone was marginalized. Though I guess you’re right in that might diminish the point because the “data-driven” approach could be used to target these large groups of “marginalized” people.
Count me as a Snowden skeptic. The guy is completely full of himself, and rarely if ever has anything truly insightful to say. I have a friend in the Navy who worked with him at the NSA facility on Oahu when he made the leaks, and we've talked about this extensively. It's not like he was some lone wolf who happened to get ahold of some unique information. They were all dealing with it, and they all took an oath to protect the United States and defend its' secrets.

He's a traitor, plain and simple. But he parlayed that treachery into a highly lucrative position, where he occasionally comments and gets paid to speak on some obvious points about whatever is in the news, and is now seen as some kind of guru when he never really did anything of note. He's not a computer scientist. He's not a security expert. He's a cause célèbre for certain factions of people who would like to see the US knocked down a peg.