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The medium is the message.

The message of the Web isn't looking so great, all around, I'd say.
Stripe is company that boots people off due to their political positions[0]. I would be very careful while doing business with them. A few bad news reports and you are gone[1].

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/10/stripe-reportedly-joins-th...

[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/laura-loomer-gets-banned-from-paym...
Well thank the heavens that some billionaire found a way to grow their pockets by cleaning up the other billionairs' trash. What could we have ever done without them?
I was writing a manifesto but haven't gotten finished because my practice has been changing so rapidly (e.g. I talked about all kinds of problems that I used to have but felt like I had to fix them instead of complain about them publicly)

There are 48 of them on the wall opposite my workstation

https://gen5.info/$/XQ*42RXF-TLY:$B.8/

there is a placard which links to that URL. Those are 8 inch squares and it covers 30% or so of the wall so it has a major effect on radiative transfer in the room. I had to replace many of the images with less bright images because the effect was uncomfortable and unsuitable for a video conferencing background.
Most of those people don't actually know they had COVID. They make up stories that "they've already had it". Remember that vaccinated still get COVID, those numbers include them.
A common pattern in a function is to prepare/obtain several resources that seem disparate, and then use them together in some way. With common Go code patterns, you get lots of error "handling" (exception propagation done manually, most of the time) for the resource acquisition that you need to read through before you actually get to understanding what those resources are used for.

And until you understand what the resources are needed for, you can't actually understand if the error handling is correct.

Not to mention, to get around this, the first skill everyone reading Go code internalizes is ignoring any block that starts with `if err != nil {` that isn't more than 1-2 lines long.

In contrast, when reading Java/Python/C#/CL, exception handlers are very rare, so you actually pay attention when you see one.
> If I want to talk to an engineer, I place a phone call. If I want to order a dozen of a part, I go to Digikey. If I want a datasheet, it's online.

I notice you didn't list Broadcom... And bullshit can you call an engineer. Submit a support case through some online portal maybe. Zero chance they are giving you a direct line to their engineers.
Maybe read a bit about Graviton? AllIntel/AMD instances in AWS has Graviton processors to handle network/disk IO unless its a very old instance type, large amounts of AWS own services run on it as well.
somebody's gotta be the control group in all of this, I'll take one for the team, in the name of Science
You claimed " your transactions are private until the court authorizes the police obtain them on the basis of probable cause."

It's not really interesting re-hashing an outright lie from someone who knows better.
> Is it as good at amplifying goodwill towards friends and neighbors as it is at amplifying negative sentiments?

Probably, but because of salience asymmetry, we don't realise it. Like the good stuff is often more local as you say, and more distributed, while the bad stuff makes the news.
I saw the same comment on a different thread today, so I decided to have a sceptical look at the summary and analysis link. From that link:

> Here is the pro-vaccine argument: “It isn’t the absolute number of deaths that should be compared as there are 20 times MORE people vaccinated over age 50 (where most deaths occur) than unvaccinated. The UK has a 95% vaccination rate for people over 50. The rate of deaths is much, much lower in the vaccinated population. The rate of death is the number who have died in a population (vaccinated or unvaccinated) relative to the size of the population, usually expressed as number per 100,000 people. With 20,000,000 vaccinated people over 50, the death rate is 3.2 (per 100,000 people), but for the 1,000,000 UNvaccinated people, the death rate is 32 (per 100,000 people) — ten times higher. In other words, the vaccine is 90% effective against death, consistent with what was found in the original clinical trials.” Of course, the chart also shows that people who are UNvaccinated are twice as likely to need overnight hospitalization than vaccinated people (4,033 vs 2,204), and thus this is one of the strongest justifications/reasons to get vaccinated.

I'm glad what appears to be an anti-vax article was actually showing both sides.
We've only had them for historical reasons. If any of the big manufacturers had the option to invent a "personal computer" now, I'm 100% sure running arbitrary code wouldn't make it to the feature list.
The following article has a detailed explanation of why the analogy with dog breeds is not a good one:

https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...
Actually that idea is intuitively easy to understand once you consider how large Siberia is. It's hard to imagine humans could extinguish any species there, even one that's so hard to miss.

But if course, we don't really know how Mammoths lived, how far they travelled, where and when they bred, etc.

Maybe all humans had to do was wait on some river crossings in a specific time of the year because some instincts told the Mammoths to traverse that route every year before mating season. Or maybe we didn't extinguish Mammoths and they died from some contagion (why should that only happen to humans?).
You are right, I didn’t express myself correctly.

I meant that the vast majority of Britons (and of Westerns) believe that immigration has a negative effect on wages, which is a false credence. They haven’t all voted for the Conservative party, but the notion that these people have been gaslighted or ignored by the elite (which includes the parliament and the government) is patently absurd, given who ruled the country and what happened in the past 10 years.
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I hate how unlabeled these graphs are.

EDIT: I am glad to see the summary here acknowledges and points out that it may have been intentional to obscure the labeling of these graphs as a method to avoid inflaming the media. If that is the case I think that's a bit short sighted on the part of the authors of the paper but it makes sense.
I’m not sure what else you would call someone with such a skewed risk assessment that they think taking a vaccine that has proven to be incredibly safe and effective, provided free of charge, isn’t worth their time.

Research has not yet shown how long you are protected from getting COVID-19 again after you recover from COVID-19. We have a much better idea with the vaccines.

Even more, studies suggest that unvaccinated people who already had COVID-19 are more than 2 times as likely than fully vaccinated people to get COVID-19 again.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

There is NO reason to not be vaccinated at this point if you can be.
Trillions is definitely hyperbolic. Estimates I've read is ~100 billion or so humans to ever exist.
Great hard sci-fi manga series using this concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
Put the logic and profit motive of a slot machine in everyone's pocket. What could go wrong?
I don’t think the problem people have is this observation. It’s verifiably true. It’s just not super relevant to the point at hand.
There is room for variation in consistency. Like McDonald's abroad is not the same in every country. The menu in India is primarily chicken-based. Muslim countries don't even carry a bacon option. The order of importance also varies by region. McDonald's in France has consistently been the best fast food I've ever had. Me and my 20-something coworkers would regularly go while older, upper-management would make fun of us and head over to pricier brasseries for lunch. The complained about the service while we were in and out in 10mins.

Burger King left France as an abject failure 20 years and re-arrived a few years. What changed? Different marketing and leadership. Trying less to be an American company abroad and more of French fast food company that happens to be American.
I think that's an interesting approach although I'm not convinced that's sufficient. Is addictive content less addictive without a visible metric? It removes one potentially harmful aspect but teen girls will still see feeds full of beautiful models living in LA mega mansions.
> Pox parties only worked because the parents and grandparents were already immune. Instead you're creating your own little super-spreader event that will move through whoever they come in contact with

I'm not suggesting we do it willy nilly. This summer could have been a great opportunity to organize camps with immune adults overseeing such events.

412 people under 18 in the US died from COVID, whereas non-covid pnumonia is 924 (both in spite of measures to control respiratory viruses). It's pretty clear that the benefit of such parties on older people would outweigh the cost to the kids, especially when you factor in the exploding teen suicide rate attributable in part to the lockdowns affecting social lives.[1]

[0] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...

[1] https://fee.org/articles/cdc-reports-51-increase-in-suicide-...
Like the Deng Xiaoping quote goes "Some areas and some people can get rich first, lead and help other regions and people, and gradually achieve common prosperity."
wouldn't be surprised its probably a mistranslation of the real quote.

But Lenin talks about using capitalism to increase the productive powers of a nation and use the generated surplus values to help the people get cheap healthcare, infrastructure and a better common prosperity. Instead of seeing the capitalist stash away in a bank account not being trickled down to general public.
Has anyone quantified how serious, if serious this issue is?
That's what we had to do. We now define our "enums" as a `const` object: `export const Example = { First: "first", Second: "second", ... } as const;` and then define the type immediately following: `export type Example = (typeof Example)[keyof typeof Example];` which lets us change the const object without having to also change the type.

The only downside so far is that `[Example.First, Example.Second].includes(user.example)` no longer works because the array's type is narrowed to the tuple `("first", "second")` instead of an array of Examples `Example[]` without casting: `([Example.First, Example.Second] as Example[]).includes(user.example)` or worse `[Example.First, Example.Second].includes(user.example as any)`. Because this is an extremely common pattern for us, we've taken to using the lodash function `includes` which is typed differently but performs the exact same check under the hood.
I haven't changed my mind on Bitcoin. Ever since I learned about this scarce digital good with an automated central bank inflation policy that cannot be manipulated by any politician, company or government, I was on the bus.

Now that we are in inflationary times with seemingly no limits to the fiscal stimulus and endless money printing, Bitcoin is more relevant than ever.

I would love to understand how those who are anti-Bitcoin think about inflation and stimulus and the debasement of the fiat money supply.
There are Python ports of ggplot (e.g. plotnine (https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine)), but agreed, Python is behind here. I'm not the best at data viz, but I can usually piece together a way to make ggplot do what I want it to do without that much trouble or looking at documentation.

Matplotlib, though ... that's a harder beast to internalize. I know it's possible to make high-quality matplotlib plots, but it's much harder for me. Like pandas, it's a library that I don't want to denigrate because I know people put lots of effort into it, but I can't lie -- I'm not a fan.
I’ve been eyeing Graviton for our server work loads. On paper it’s price competitive.
I fully agree, I think we could get bigger wins scaling up artificial meats than many other solutions we're spending money on, like hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or nuclear fusion. While those great technologies will be amazing in the future, we're overlooking what we can do now in the hopes of a big win later.
Wait how many companies are actually using R in the wild?

Depends on your definition. While not very often 'deployed' in 'production'. I know lots places in all kinds of industries where people reach for R as soon as they have to look at some new data.
That's very cool, thank you so much.
If you permanently reduce immigration, including deporting unauthorised migrants, you can achieve both of those things.

Given the cost of land and building, we should consider Western nations 'full' and only allow immigration 'swaps' from other highly developed countries.
> "The desire to travel far away and start a new currency will become a powerful driver of human expansion into space."

I don't know if this is satire or not, but it reads like satire and is hilarious.
IMO, it has been mainly a price game between AND and Intel for quite some time
Sounds like you're that rare beast, a persuadable swing voter :)
An incentive appears to exist to wait for collisions every once in a while so that there's more junk at different levels to clean up, and to prove the need for cleaning up junk.
The difference is a turn in the tide of public opinion. The real battle, the one for the hearts and minds, has been won. Talk to almost any Chinese national who hasn't had a ton of international exposure, like a fresh international student. They either don't care about what the CCP is doing or they fully agree with the justifications.
This is the problem with all social networks, instagram is just the most popular.

Imagine working overtime for months, saving money, paying for a hotel room at some seaside vacation place, travel in a shitty plane and in a shitty buy to that location, be tired, sleep the first of the three nights there on a shitty bed, eat shitty breakfast, go to the shitty with sewer flowing into the water 100m away...

...and then you take out your camera, pull in your stomach hard, pose in a way that hides body imperfections, hold in your hand a really shitty cocktail, that you paid half your days spending budget for, be carfeul to frame in a way, that the sewer is not visible, and click...

...you now have a perfect photo of someone enjoying their perfect vacation on the beach, drinking a good looking cocktail, enjoying themselves. Maybe even more than one, so you can post them even after you've gone back home.

And what do the viewers who of course follow hundreds of people see? A bunch of happy people, enojing their lives, while they "slave away" at their shitty jobs.

No wonder people get depressed.
with regards to misinterpretation of israeli data, it's more like miscalculation of israeli data:

1) his calculated efficiency for different age groups is up to 40%+ higher compared to numbers that released by israeli ministry of health in official presentations. when asked about it, he said that he doesn't know how they calculate it and this is his numbers

2) his calculations from the beginning included people that got booster shot. Kinda hard to base statistics about efficiency of two doses when you get inside it data about people who got three
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>Can't wait for first WTO lawsuits to hit CCP.

I can't wait for the world hunger to end
Since Go 1.13 wrapping errors is part of the standard library [1]. You could use the "runtime" package to annotate errors with information about the calling context, but IMHO that's not a good idea. I think stack traces should be reserved for unexpected errors, and that is already well covered by the "panic" mechanism. Potentially expected errors that can be handled or returned to the user should simply provide enough information to know what went wrong without forcing the user to go through the code.

1: https://go.dev/blog/go1.13-errors
> That's not a "side effect"[1] at all.

Yes, like I said. Point is, in my imperative OOP code, I'm relatively seldom worried about actual side effects, and more worried about introducing bugs due to me not fully grasping all the interactions of the code I'm changing.

Did someone somewhere make an assumption about how this code works (sums all numbers), and am I breaking that assumption when I'm making this change (summing every other number)?
Sounds like Ageism to me.
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As a former freelancer, the max I could ever do was 2 concurrent part time projects. It's a mess when fires start in two places at once.

Also you're implying that being a junior means half the work. Sometimes juniors just get menial tasks that take as long as a senior to do, but don't need the same level of skill.
> as a society we need to prove that we are smarter than these companies ...

I agree that this is a test of our society.

> ... and are capable of discipline and self-control

These organizations have enormous resources dedicated to exploiting our frailties and overcoming an individual's discipline and self-control. One option is to continue to expect every man, woman, and child to fight this battle alone in their own head every day.

But we'd probably achieve better results more efficiently by organizing ourselves as well. Then we can combat it collectively as a community and a society like we have done for other human frailties. This would mean things like education, societal pressure, and regulation.
At the speeds those things whiz by, what sort of materials are there that can withstand impacts and not create more debris? Or do they try to do it via relative speeds and say let them hit the "paddle" at 50mph? And in that case, might it not be more effective to have hunting "nets" to collect the objects?
I definitely agree with the general mantra that C++ is special, and bullheadedness about doing things differently.

But I do also know from experience that walking the line of evolving language features in a compiler taking into consideration prior legacy decisions is extremely difficult.

I think more than it being a pissing contest, I interpret there are practical considerations the C++ Standards Committee is considering in terms of performance, ease of implementation, and interaction with legacy features.
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> I'd argue that R is much more flexible than Python syntactically. There's a reason that every attempt at recreating dplyr in Python ends in a bit of a mess (IMO) -- Python just doesn't allow the sort of metaprogramming you'd require for a really nice port. Something as simple as a general pipe operator can't be defined in Python, to say nothing of how dplyr scopes column names within verbs.

Well that's just lazy evaluation of function arguments, which can't be done in Python. But if take a look at the Python data model, it does seem super, super flexible. You'll still need strings for column names in any dplyr port though, because of the function argument issue.

Like, both Python/R derive from the CLOS approach (Art of the Metaobject Protocol), but R retains a lot more of the lispy goodness (but Python's implementation is easier to use).
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> Meanwhile local politicians and boomers support NIMBYism and oppose all housing developments

This is the problem - artificially constrained supply. Fix this and the lower prices will follow. Fix other things and you’ll just create further distortions and frustrations later on
Oh for sure. Seems to widely known that the more choices you have, the less happy you become.
Under the hood, for this to work there's an implicit cast to boolean, even though at the time it was invented C doesn't have a formal boolean type.

So, (almost?) every expression in C has an implied boolean value, and the implied boolean value of pointers is false if they're NULL or true otherwise.

A better design is to have a boolean type, and require that the if condition tests only actual booleans, but this requires a substantial eco-system wide commitment, if you just insist on actual booleans you make programming needlessly tiresome and programmers say this language is bad because I have to write so much boilerplate for no gain. You need to actually provide the rest of the language features that make this pain worth it.

That commitment seems relatively affordable in 2021, but it was probably too big an ask when C was invented and by the time C was standardised it's too late. Likewise for C++.
I forgot about that part!
I have scripts to do two things:

1. Use rsync to backup everything to a Synology NAS every day

2. Backup from the NAS to tarsnap (cloud service with cheap, encrypted backups) every few weeks.

Theres only a few important
ideas and a whole lot of ways to accomplish them:

1. Backup frequency and retention policies. I forgot the term for this, but you want something that prioritizes more frequent backups for nearer term data. For example, see the Apple Time Machine backup policy:

"hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month until the volume runs out of space"

2. Don't micro optimize decisions like which hard drive is most reliable. It's a waste of time and ultimately any drive can fail, the filesystem on that drive can fail etc. Instead, use backups. RAID gives you disk-level redundancy, and an extra backup on the cloud will almost never fail because they have pros making sure of that.

3. A backup you haven't tested restoring from is NOT a backup.
I agree in principle, but it's pretty obvious that this would be bad for their profit margins and as a consequence wouldn't happen.

After all, making your consumers buy the more expensive versions of your product just because they need one of its features is a sound business decision.

Otherwise people will use the cheaper and lower end versions if they only need these features - like i'm currently using 200GEs for my homelab servers, because i do not require any additional functionality that the low power 2018 chip doesn't provide.
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Maybe they just assume that anyone on Mullvad isn't in the UK?
I’m just not sure what to think about practices surrounding these chargebacks any more. When I was working at a company where they were a thing, I don’t think we ever lost one. Does the whole thing just depend on who you are friends with? Or does anyone actually look at the proof you send?
Can we please not react to this article by immediately blaming teenage girls? You have an article that shows one of the most powerful corporations in the world exploiting teenagers to boost revenues and lying about it in testimony before congress. That's the story.
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