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My personal experience is that Elixir, which runs on the Erlang VM, is great for web applications.

https://elixir-lang.org/
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All the companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day, Part 1
Further, there's a meta-interpreter included in the standard library:

https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_eval.html

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/erl...

It's not lisp levels of concise, but the language was not designed for that.
While true, it is somewhat tangential to what I'm talking about.

The Futurama theme was not pitch compensated when it was stretched, perhaps as it's from 1999.
A great leap forward if you will.
Or Pascal. Wirth's most popular languages

It has a unique combination of features that I cannot find in any other languages

Unfortunately there is a disturbing lack of quality libraries. I have to write everything myself. Really everything. A few days ago I wrote my own string to int conversion.
I found this to be an accurate write up, though my experience has been Elixir, which inherits all of the traits of Erlang (to my knowledge), most notably the BEAM / OTP.

Side note: That's a really cool graphic that looks to be Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams with telephones? Where'd that come from?
I wouldn't call that the "wrong direction."

What you are suggesting is applying the same logic to App stores that they're applying to payments. That's more likely, not less, if this legislation goes through in SK and gets copied by other countries. So, same direction.

FWIW, I think payments are an easier place to make progress. It's hard to imagine an alternative app store taking off in response to a single countries' laws. Even if it did, a diverse app store market kind of negates the app store concept entirely. At that point, you may as well return to the old ways.

Alternative payment options will be immediately utilized by devs. The market can support lots of them, and prices will quickly respond to competition. If users and devs have choice, market prices will be nowhere near 30%. I'd be surprised if it's >10% for long.
The logic is pretty clear to me.

- Unvaccinated people transmit the virus at a higher rate.

- Transmission leads to more illness.

- More illness leads to overcrowded hospitals and worse outcomes for everyone needing care.

Therefore a “personal choice” can lead to public concerns, making this a public health issue, and actually same could be said for your argument about overeating. Heart disease is a major public health concern, which is why some jurisdictions banned sugary drinks in children’s school lunches.
You're making the judge sound like an abusive spouse. Must be treated with respect!

Respect is earned, regardless of statute.

The judge could have simply asked the defendant to fix his screen name and moved on, and he would have had my respect for the professionalism. Instead, respect has been lost.
I agree with this 100%. No one has ever said, "Gee, I love Slack but it's HTML/JS/CSS so it's a no for me." The bottom line is users don't care. You can make every bit as good a UI in Electron. And you do have the computing power to do it.
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0449.html

Now we just have to wait until people leave walled gardens like Slack and Discord and start using the Internet standard for IM.
Sound reasonable, and I see additional payment systems as improvement mostly.

But I have concerns about additional stores, not about entropy and all the multistore problem from a UX perspective, but as a privacy threat.
I like the current Apple politics "we are a hardware company, not another user data selling platform," and they do great things in that way.

But what happens, if Facebook move their apps to their store without any restrictions on privacy?
So they can do anything they want, and not only they. If now App Store got strict rules about privacy, what will happen in that situation?

It's not so unbelievable that Facebook will try to get back their "data profit" from Apple users.
I mean it kind of seems ridiculous to think we could have radioactive material fissioning at our house or in our car. My neighbor barely takes out their trash.

If that is thanks to the Green Movement, then let me thank the Green Movement.
What would have happened if Microsoft had put some clause in volume licenses that said "you can use a system unlicensed for up to 30 days before paying for a license".

Then engineering can spin up loads of instances to test stuff and scale fast with minimal hassle, and it'll be the purchasing team playing catchup later, no longer in the decisionmaking path.
I took a mook Erlang class and after that, I couldn’t really get into elixir.
Erlang just felt a lot more expressive
I'd love an iPhone that runs Android tbh
You forgot a critical part of bill names - there has to be a terribly forced backronym made out of it.
This gets more interesting the further you read. It's richer than many Pixar history articles, which are typically pretty good. The invention of the alpha channel. Layers. Good stuff.
It's been around for some time. Not sure how long, but I don't remember it ever not being there.
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I encourage everyone to get vaccinated if they can, but vaccinated people can still spread the virus to your son.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
You're not wrong, but here's what I do because I think it's worth doing:

1. I keep a separate Windows machine for games. I never liked playing games and doing personal stuff on my workstations anyway.

2. For my workstations, I buy older refurbished towers, upgrade the RAM and SSD and everything just works. I've actually had more hardware issues on my Macs, with incompatible mice and keyboards, never on Linux. Example of one of my workstations - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FBSW5G6

Luckily for web/mobile dev, I don't need a dedicated GPU but my old Acer E5-575 laptop has a dedicated nVidia card and Manjaro has no problem running on that. There was one small flag that I had to enable to stop screen tearing.

3. I hardly had to learn anything new since I'm a minimalist and most of my software carried over. Thunderbird is there. VS Code is there. Instead of Paint.net I use a fork called Pinta, (but it is slightly lower quality than Paint.net but luckily again as a full stack guy, I don't have to do much with it). Plenty of options to edit doc/docx like Libre office, Google docs or Office 365... but this is not something I really ever have to do. The only thing I've never done on Linux really is video editing, but that was never great on Windows either - the best video editing experience I've had was on my iPad.

4. I've been using Linux since around RedHat 3 or 4 and I didn't switch to a Linux desktop until about 3 years ago, because I've always had problems keeping a Linux desktop running... until I switched to a rolling release. With Manjaro, I have had zero issues getting all the most recent software versions that I want. In the past, with Ubuntu, I'd have to add so many third party repos that eventually an update from one of them would make my machine unbootable. Never happened once with Manjaro. One time an update broke some fonts, but I downgraded the package and locked it from receiving updates until the problem was fixed.

Honestly, I have to do non-trivial setup for any desktop OS that I run because I'm a picky minimalist.

Anyway, the best part of switching to a Linux desktop for me was the speed and ease of using things like Docker and all the other CLI stuff that I normally do on my servers. Doing things with Node.js/npm/yarn is super fast compared to Windows. There is no split-brain between my development environment and the server because it's the same OS.
I read Rugby as Ruby and chortled a bit.
If businesses simply acquiesce to employee demands unions would not be necessary. However and instead, the moment organized employees submit their demands, they are met with resistance so both sides have to engage mono a mono until the entirely unnecessary conflict is resolved.
I think they are claiming it is hypocritical for a government to set its own tax rate while not allowing companies to set tax rates for developers on their platform.

This is pretty much the same argument as someone saying "Why is the government allowed to put people in prison, but when I lock someone up in my basement I'm apparently the bad guy?!"
40" diagonal seems a bit extreme.

I think my 27" 4k display is perfect. My dad has slightly worse eyes and prefers his 32" 4k display, which I find noticably grainier but perfectly serviceable.
PocketGear was 40%, fwiw
It's been slow like this (and with lots of user complaints!) since always!

Perhaps you guys should borrow some of those Microsoft research phd folks to improve terminal performance[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99dKzubvpKE
Like most things, it depends what your web application is doing. I've been working in Erlang professionally nearly 6 years, and I'm not super convinced it's great for building web apps. If you want to utilize the Erlang VM, many people have found Elixir/Phoenix to be super helpful in building their web apps. I encourage you to check that out if it piques your interest.
At this point, I'll take malware over monopoly. There's a lot at stake here.

That said, I think it's unlikely to get as bad as W95.
Calling docker battle tested is an extremely long stretch. It has several security issues[0], many of which are ignored by upstream as "working as intended".

[0]: https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/
> You might find a higher percentage of mixed Democrat/Republican relationships 50 years ago (maybe), but if that number has dropped, that's also an improvement.... It means that society is becoming more supportive of people trying to escape their tribal affiliations.

Fewer cross-political-party marriages mean that we're becoming more supportive of people trying to escape their tribal affiliations? Not if you count Red/Blue as one of the tribal affiliations, it doesn't...
> Switzerland is one of the oldest political regimes in Europe.

The age of their regime has nothing to do with their history of practicing direct democracy, that happened well after the founding of the US.

> This kind of rhetoric tends to come from elitist thinkers that would want a guarantee of power over people because they think they are right and somehow destined to have it.

On the contrary, I'm just defending the wisdom of the existing constitutional republic framework that we have currently. There's obvious value in constitutional safeguards against the whims of the mob, while still giving the citizenry a say in the long-term direction of the state.
I know about Elixir, I played a bit with Phoenix. I was asking about Erlang specifically.
What a neat resource. Thanks for sharing!
I am curious about what a "Diversity Network Association" from the article is. Does anybody have a definition for that?
Only tangentially related to this post, but does anyone know what sort of algorithm I would use to create pen plots from photos, something like this?

https://twitter.com/PhotoPuck/status/1412540641066749953

The basic algorithm is some sort of halftoning I guess, but I'm impressed by the way the lines follow the contours of the objects in the scene, they're not just random squiggles trying to reach a certain darkness. So if there's an object with obviously vertical lines, it'll be drawn by the plotter using vertical lines as well. How might I achieve something similar?
well, for sure there are many axis to over engineering. I would say that a system that exceeds some specification is "over engineered" while on that is below the spec is "under engineered". At least I think that's the common use of the term.

I guess "expensive" might fall under costs, so something that was targeting a cost of $1000 but the design costs a million dollars to make is certainly over engineered.

I'd consider load ratings of an elevator to be similar. We mandate those are over-engineered by some margin. But if the load rating of an elevator is 1 ton and you designed an elevator to be able to carry 100 ton then it's certainly over-engineered by more than the safety requirements...
Can’t Be Normal: The Tech Industry After a Year of Burnout
"The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long... And you, you, Roy, have used oh so many write-cycles."
The Raspberry Pi is a learning platform, first and foremost. This is actually a great learning project for someone to understand what goes into a Linux system.

> If I were developing an embedded project, I don't know about you, but I would suggest focusing on the project itself might be a nice idea, not wasting time on things like a custom OS

Using an off the shelf distribution is ideal your goal is rapid prototyping, but most real-world embedded projects end up requiring custom distributions sooner or later. Distributions tailored to interactive use tend not to be so great for distributing and upgrading predictable firmware. You really want all of your devices in a known state, not a random mix of package versions depending on when they last ran ‘apt-get upgrade’, for example.

In production-grade products, the OS is often built with tools like Buildroot or OpenEmbedded (Yocto), not from scratch. However, doing a tutorial like this once is a good learning exercise.
In the Tim Cook era they are now (or are now transitioning into) a services company. Steve would have murdered anyone who proposed putting a 90 day Apple TV+ upsell in Settings on a new phone. Out the airlock. Instantly.

They’re moving to selling subscriptions and data is critical to that.

Strict rules would actually give them a huge edge over their other services competitors on platform and if they could couch it in anti-trust, that would be quite a coup.
Oh, rank and file matter… 360s are based on that.
very nicely arguued.
Here's a similar story about eliminating Argentine ants from Santa Cruz Island (near Los Angeles, California):

http://www.californiaislands.net/argentine-ants

The page was last updated in 2016. I'm not sure of the current status of the project.
>Sending large data structures to other processes always means serialization penalties, even if those processes run on the same CPU

the trade off is that every thread has its own gc arena that can be freely and quickly cleaned, and even better, often simply dropped entirely when the thread ends

there's never a stop the world moment, only the specific greenthread that's used up all its space.

OTP setup for managing processes in a standard way is also a big boon to developing in the language.

if you need to mangle some giant datastructure concurrently, sure, erlang is likely to not be what you need. but if you're just trying to toss out a cluster of interconnected nodes that can handle tons of concurrency and your interprocess messages are largely queries to threads dedicated to managing some resource or lump of data, it's a great setup.
I have a different take after a childhood of repressed emotions and some years of therapy. Emotions come and go, and they aren't what make a person, they are just something that happens.

How we notice and react to our emotions is a choice. Having emotions is not a choice.
This is a common development for men as we get older. I could write something similar.

I'd like to think I'm maturing and becoming wise.

But I suspect it's really the falling testosterone levels that come with age...
One thing that's often not discussed is the time required to understand the pros and cons of another language.

If you don't know it well enough, choosing it over something else is a big RISK.

The investment required to learning enough to make a decision is often not considered. That's why consultants exist.
Yes, it's a tradeoff. The upside is now you can put the object on the stack without invoking memory allocators.
How is a house purchase not adversarial? For every extra $1K the buyer does or doesn’t pay, $950-ish goes to or comes out of the seller’s pocket.
I wonder how much the FAANG companies spend on regulatory induced regional variation of their systems and how it is managed.
That site is black on white¹, and has no other colors, images, fancy borders, nor any other obvious “design”—and yet it is remarkably pleasant to look at, even beautiful. The site sells the authors’ ideas; they obviously know something. (Plus no doorslams, cookie warnings, or other annoyances. And an RSS feed.)

[1] Really very dark grey on very light grey.
> Notably, corporations themselves are also experiencing a reduction in internal science funding. The proportion of corporate funding allocated toward the research side of industrial R&D dropped from 28% in 1985 to 20% in 2015. The same review of scientific publications found that the rate of papers being published by corporations dropped significantly between 1980 and 2010, indicating that it is most cost-effective for companies to rely on existing data as opposed to producing new data.

This is disingenuous, primarily because it applies data that is effectively outdated and no longer applicable. I'd say the exact opposite is true in fact. It's the companies investing the most in R&D that are also the most successful, both in terms of financial and overall societal contribution.
It will break from
time to time. But so does Docker Desktop.
Neither Docker nor Podman are suitable for mission critical stuff. Their market is entirely dev machines and devs can fix in on their own.
I buy 15in Laptops specifically for the 10 key num pad. I type on my keyboard all day offset with no issues.
Self-awareness is how I look at it. And it is finally taking hold with age :)

I can better manage my emotions by simply being able to recognize them almost from an outsider’s perspective. My inner monologue switches to 3rd person

“Yeah you’re feeling super irritable right now, you better go chill out somewhere before you say something you don’t mean and then create a whole big thing for no reason”

Younger me would have started some shit and created unnecessary problems
I don't find him funny those days to be honest, a lot of his stuff years ago seems pretty dated.
Why, how often do you change tags after you've built a container and for what reason if so?
We wouldn’t have a climate change problem today if the public wasn’t tricked into fearing nuclear power.
`gap` is available on Flexbox in most browsers since earlier this year.
Uhh I understand that good Linux support is valuable, but the price premium for that is just too high.

For the base variant(5500u, 8gb, 240gb):

Pangolin - 1200$

Lenovo Ideapad 3 15 - 430$[1]

For a higher-end variant(5700u, 16gb, 500gb):

Pangolin - 1542$

HP 15z - 640$[2]

I admit these are the absolute cheapest ones I could find(using noteb.com), but even the more premium laptops like Thinkpads are way cheaper(and AFAIK they also provide very good Linux support).

[1]: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-Ideapad-3-15-15-6-AMD-Ryze...

[2]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-laptop-15z-ef2000-touch...
> Or the UK, which has a larger economy than South Korea

Wait for the Brexit dust to settle and IndyRef2 to happen.
USDS is better seen as a consulting service than a contracted software development shop. Ownership of the systems remains with the agencies they work with. They help to modernize and refine ideas and systems, they don’t do the long term development work (including long term maintenance) themselves.
So, everyone who claims to have invented a perpetual motion machine that produces free energy just gets published, because to do otherwise is "gatekeeping" and "not science"? No, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and simply submitting such claims without evidence and then whining about being censored isn't science.
The consilience project is more rooted in systems theory than technocapitalism. Daniel's interests overlap strongly with the rationalist types (existential/civilisational risk, primarily) but his approach is not the economics-centric form that they take.
>And you plainly don't have two businesses

I read his comment as meaning WRT the work required to market to and acquire the two distinct customer constituents (buyers and sellers).

It's not two full businesses, but I think he has a point in that context. Actually, it's even harder than that: there's the whole chicken-and-egg thing that adds an additional timing factor to the customer acquisition effort.
Yes, and it's more than just politics. In any marriage, someone will be more conservative, and someone will be more liberal. But also, someone will be more fiscally conservative, and someone more willing/eager to spend. Someone will be more of a morning person, and the other more of a night owl. Someone will be more extroverted and social, and the other more of an introvert. Someone will be more athletic and outdoorsy, and the other more of a couch potato.

Those differences exist. They're going to hit your relationship, because they hit every relationship. Can the two of you deal with them (all of them) in a reasonable and healthy manner, or not?
I use windows on it. Only my game server runs Linux because I expose it to the internet.
Yup.

In the end, wide vs tall makes less of a difference than total size in inches and total number of pixels.

Take your preferred 4:3 and add horizontal pixels under 16:9, or your preferred 16:9 and add vertical pixeks under 4:3, on either case you can fit more on the screen.
> The truth is there is such thing as a knack for music, but it doesn't really make all that much of a difference in the end, after practice.

The people you are comparing, though, are mostly people with at least a moderate 'knack' for music; those without it are unlikely ever to make it into the 'after practice' category, because it will be too frustrating and unrewarding to continue for the long haul.

> If anything, the real "gift" is simply enjoying to make music. When you have that, improving isn't hard because it's fun, and you can do it in whatever aspect you please.

I don't think this is necessarily very distinct from talent. Skills that come relatively naturally to us are usually more fun to practice than skills we can only make slow, halting, unimpressive progress at.
I'd assume civilian reactors wouldn't have constraints nuclear submarine usage imposes, and perhaps could be engineered to be safe?

Seems strange to bet against ingenuity.
Yes and no. The real answer (with an Erlang bias) is to look at Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView.

Here's a neat demo. No JavaScript required.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI
Right, I work to keep my identity small and to be adaptable. Making things "always about you" is seeing the world through that identity tainted lens and positioning the world as if you are the center. I instead try to be observational and LARP into any situation as if I'm in an improv show.
Plenty embedded projects developed today don't use them (and functional desktop and server distros without them are around), "nearly as essential as the kernel" is really overstating it.
Mailbox/retention policies can be tweaked, as well as mail flow ones by your administrator. With that said, depending on the combination of other antimalware/antispam apps that your company uses and Microsoft being quite pushy about their antispam for some reason, even that may not be a perfect solution.