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It was never intended as a stand-alone language for large projects, rather as a glue and prototyping language. All the tacked-on "static typing" won't change this. I think it would be best if Python was used according to its strengths and not as a 'unicorn' language.
Python's multiprocessing module forces you to serialize all your data, or use ctypes. This means it's either going to be slow, or it's like writing code in a hybrid of Pythonic and C-style code. Which of course goes against the idea of using the simplest tool for the job.
Just trying again is absolutely fine.

Our main concern was whether we needed to increase the size to 26 to account for the loss of keys. After doing the math, a 25 digit random string has a ~5% chance of containing one of 150 three or four character inappropriate substrings. That 5% loss isn't that big of a deal. But we had to figure out the math as part of due diligence before shipping.
Out of curiosity, what problems does Haskell's compiler(s) (I think it's really just GHC these days?) face that OCaml's doesn't?
Do other renewables have the same capacity as new nuclear? I had thought this was a sticking point.
how about getting rid of GIL?
It's been a long time since I used Chrome on Windows — do you know if Chrome's fullscreen mode leverages exclusive fullscreen/fse/fullscreen optimizations[0]?

I'm pretty sure that's what most games use to bypass the forced DWM vsync. For example, when I used Dolphin on one of those cheap 60hz IPS LCD monitors with no internal scaler, I always preferred the lower latency + tearing in exclusive fullscreen compared to the laggy + smooth windowed mode. There was honestly such a stark difference between the two that I found the game to be unplayable in DWM's windowed vsync mode.

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-scr...

edit: to answer my own question, it looks like Chrome does not use exclusive fullscreen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28784108
It's a way to end a statement that you feel so strongly about that you're indicating to others no amount of arguing or talking with change your opinion on it. Your mind's made up and you believe in that statement so strongly that you believe it to be unequivocally universally true.
On your last note, I felt Heinlein tripped on something similar while writing Time enough for love[0]. I haven't read Island, I'll put it on my list.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love
> But Netflix has always been the odd-duck in FAANG.

Yeah, mostly cos they make no money ;)
Also, typing in python has a "kluge" feel about it. It's like most things in python: it works nicely on toy examples, but is rather frail on the edges (if you're not convinced try to define the json type). I also think they chose the wrong strategy (type inference would have been way better)

To use a metaphor: Python is the duplo of programming languages.
I always found this remarkable until someone pointed out in a book or article somewhere that the same is somewhat true in English for water. We have countless words for water depending on context -- river, ocean, sea, rain, reservoir, stream, brook, mist, wave, deluge, downpour, ice, snow, h20, cloud, fog, dew, hail, brine, precipitation, pond, lake, waterfall, condensation, canal, bay, channel, inlet, gulf, ford, snowflake, pool, waterspout, iceberg, lagoon, flume, spring, estuary, irrigation -- technically all of these refer to the same substance, just in different forms and places. It's the same in the Inuit language.
The popularization of 401(k) plans (as well as 529 college savings plans, etc) got Main Street on the same page as Wall Street. My parents couldn't have cared less if the stock market tanked. Dad's retirement was a traditional pension, and their savings was in a money market account. Now if the stock market tanks, I watch my retirement account and the kid's college savings plan tank with it.

Now that so many of us are participating in the stock market (in one way or another), we're more likely to support policies that Wall Street tells us will keep the market booming. Wall Street won by winning over Main Street.
I'm not terribly familiar with the options for typing, mostly because I'm salty that Python rolled out annotations without a clear plan for how they'd be useful*. Aside from Cython, does typing provide any mechanism to improve performance, or is it only there for static analysis? Worse yet, is it being used to do dynamic analysis that slows the whole thing even further?

* specifically, this happened long after the tragically many-ways-to-do-it of packaging systems and virtual environments, which survive to this day.
As long as Twitter and Reddit go down for good as well. But my guess is some other companies like Google would rush to fill the void and we'd end up with similar social media. All those people are just going to move to another platform.
I'd be fine with this, but the problem is that the rich, who are utilizing these loopholes, are the same people not paying their employees a fair share so that they COULD support themselves and their future better.

The wealth gap is freaking massive and growing. How are low and middle class people supposed to support themselves when they can't even get fair wages to support themselves and plan for retirement?
> How much oil is needed to produce a single electric vehicle?

And wood energy was used to jumpstart the fossil fuel energy age. There was a transition period before fossil fuel energy became the dominant way to extract more fossil fuels. Now wood for energy is economically negligible in advanced economies.
Terrible presentation format. Exceedingly annoying on mobile.
I don't find retarded freaks scary. Just annoying as hell.
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After 19 years on Firefox I moved to Edge in August. While I always kicked the tires on Chrome and other browsers over the years, I never felt compelled to switch until now. I'm still on Edge and while it's a work in progress, I'm pretty happy with it. It just took a while to get everything setup how I like it. While ads definitely help keep me away, I left because the keyword shortcuts for search engines claim to work in settings, but don't actually work. Moving from DDG with it's !bang support to another search engine and replacing bangs with browser shortcuts meant moving to an omnibar. If I'm doing that, I may as well get the advantages of Blink/V8.

And it's my longheld belief that most people should use native browsers, as they have natural technical advantages on a platform. Now I'm in alignment on my own hardware. I use Safari on iOS and Edge on Windows. I do keep Edge installed on iOS for the send to device functionality, which doesn't work too well right now. More evidence that Edge seems to be a WIP but it's definitely got a bright future.
The answer to whether you should trust media is the same as the answer to "Are media allowed to lie without repercussions?"
Let's look at games consoles. The way the console manufacturer makes money is by operating a store and providing access to the platform to games publishers, they generally make a loss on the device. It would break the industry to demand that they must allow alternative app stores on their consoles, as those third party app stores would be parasitizing the work the console developer did designing, manufacturing, developing the OS and services, etc and subsidising the devices.

Nintendo is unique in that they actually make some small amount of money on their devices. Does that mean they should be required to allow alternative stores on the Switch?

Apple make a lot of money on their devices, but they still did all the work developing the product, maintaining the OS, supporting the ongoing costs of device services like iMessage and location services that they don't charge for. The App Store arguably provides recurring revenue to offset those costs, which alternate stores would not help support.

Is it really fair to require manufacturers to allow third party app stores to free ride on all the work they've done?Maybe there is an argument that if a manufacturer makes enough money on the device they should allow third party app stores, but how much is it? At what point does it become ok to bar the device manufacturer from maintaining an exclusive app store?
All nuclear incidents together caused less than 1% of yearly deaths from coal.
The problem is that the operating costs are very high for nuclear (insurance alone is huge). Financially you're better off shutting down nuclear and putting the money into renewables.
I thought this until I tried an app with IAP and wanted a refund when it didn't work for me. The developer told me they had no way to issue one on their side since I went through IAP. Apple support gave me the runaround before eventually saying they don't do refunds, even when I showed emails from the developer saying they supported refunding me. Apple is not pro-consumer.

IAP is convenient, but I don't think Apple is truly motivated by the customer as much as they are charging a tax.
Either one, it wasn't explained how the protocol can be used to do any color depth higher than 8 bit.

Also the PNG format is extremely common and supports 32-bit color, so if you don't support that then you cannot accurately display PNG images, or any other RGBA format. Without this you're about 25 years out of date.
While it's not an inherent property of defined benefit pensions, they also tended to be structured in a way that tended to primarily benefit long tenure in an organization--US military being one of the most obvious traditional examples.

Switch jobs every few years? You probably weren't going to collect much in the way of a pension.

I'm not sure how much the switch has been about "corporate interests." As people became more mobile (for good reasons and bad), the idea of your retirement savings being tied up with a specific (usually large) company became less attractive to employees as well.
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Also capital (aka delayed consumption) creates value, under specific circumstances.
If they wanted to specifically get rid of loopholes, they would scrap The whole employer requirement of 401k and let anyone contribute to an IRA up to the same limits for everyone.

But, of course, politicians want to let big businesses maintain their competitive advantage by making 401k have higher limits than IRAs.

> I never saw this outrage on trillions spent on endless wars, since that benefits rich people.

Tons of people have been outraged by the war, but it was politically unpopular across all income classes to be against the war in early 2000s.
First, the Dutch government position is that forcing apps to have Apple's payment system is anti-competitive... not that developers must include multiple payment systems. The customer isn't getting more choice here, the app maker is getting more choice. Companies like PopEyes, who really want you to enter your credit card, will be getting the choice.

Second, IAP is separate from Apple Pay. If you do payments through another payment ecosystem... Apple still gets a cut. Nobody gets to dodge a price premium. If you want to talk about price premium, we should really be talking about the IAP.

Third, you are getting more risk here. When you use Apple Pay, the vendor knows almost nothing about you. We're talking about the likes of Target and PopEyes (who really wants your credit card info) vs Apple, who retains very little financial information [1]. How many apps have you paid for? How many businesses do you transact with? That's a lot of Targets.

And fourth, I am concerned about whether Apple will be able to compel developers to have easy recurring payment cancellation in one place. Whether it's a business or a government doing this, being able to easily monitor and cancel recurring payments is a big consumer win. Where is the consumer choice for this?

Finally, the marketplace is about the negotiation of leverage. You talk about customers choosing vendors... my family members aren't going to win in negotiations with any company. The choice will be Walmart's way or the highway. Where is the consumer choice to have Apple negotiate with Walmart on your behalf?

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027
Do you have the opposite experience? A language used by FAANG that doesn’t have performance issues at their scale. They seem to invest a lot in JavaScript which is not what I’d call a performant language and as you’ve said Python.

I’ve used Python for more scripting type tasks and creating basic APIs to get specific jobs done. I’m very weary to go “all in” on Python for an app based on all the feedback about performance.

All that being said I’ve never heard someone say we used X language and it scaled remarkably without issues. I’ve noticed lots of companies eventually go to Java once they get big but nobody really likes to brag about Java apps.
I personally don't understand why, as a whistleblower, she should also be proposing policies. "Hey there's something wrong" and "Here's how you fix it" seem like they should be very distinct in these cases where someone could easily use their leverage as a "high profile" whistleblower to push a particular political agenda.
> Why would anyone pay to advertise in Economist when they can advertise to "people interested in economics, earning over 150k, last thought about cigarettes three weeks ago" etc.

Isn't the economist subscription-based?

Regardless, I'll bite: Isn't an important reason because someone wants to signal to the world that "everyone knows" their company is a sexy, category-defining beast?

E.g., there are Coca Cola machines that span both physical space (can be found in any region of the country) and time (everything from a machine built yesterday to half a century ago). When a human notices this their long-term memory probably goes, "Oh, Coca Cola has been and must still be one of the most important soft drinks," and-- just guessing here-- that increases the probability that their impulsive choice is for Coke in cases where thirst is involved.

If someone asked the question, "Why would Coca Cola want their soft drink ad in a rickety old gas station in an area of Northern Georgia that's still associated with the movie Deliverance?" they'd be confusing cause and effect.

Same logic applies here. I'd assume that advertising in [old media's digital presence] is an effect of an ad campaign that seeks to deliver an image of said ubuiquity.
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Anecdotal but a fair number of devs I know would be fine with those names, not FB. Facebook is both evil and trivial by reputation. You can do unimportant work that makes the world worse there, so why not compromise and work for some firm that's evil but important, or good but trivial?

They'd use the interview for practice and free food.

Having said that, I'm not sure you can really tell in the stats that FB needs to pay more for similar talent?

Not sure how MIT comes into it though, isn't that a university?
Hi An! I'm just a regular SpaceHey user, not someone with a tech background, but this explanation is much clearer than the disclaimer that comes up. Maybe word it like how you've explained it here instead of with tech/legal terms? Like it could say something with personality or sass, like: You're still on SpaceHey, but everyone is free to add elements from other sites (such as YouTube/ Spotify/...) so don't be surprised if you see content from a 3rd party. If you want to see the full privacy policy, click here, or if you want to see the whitelist of websites, click here.

I mean maybe not exactly that, but fake like you're talking to someone without a tech background. Maybe even show it to a friend or family member that doesn't so you can see if they actually understand what you mean and there's no confusion.
[Meta] Looks like the article is from 2018, perhaps it would help to reflect that in the title?

Another really cool Pudding project was the "How bad is your Spotify?" [0]

[0] https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), curtailments of solar generation have increased in the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) region. In 2020, CAISO curtailed 1.5 million MWh of utility-scale solar, or 5% of its utility-scale solar production.

In other words the grid was unable to accept 5% of all solar power produced in 2020. https://solarenergytea.com/2021/09/08/solar-power-curtailmen...
I think what the link is saying is that, people are inherently biased, and to try to pretend otherwise is "potentially harmful," because you still inject your own views in biases into a topic, while pretending that you don't.

It's a nice quote to pull out of context though.
You may be right but I’m convinced most problems don’t need to scale.
Ideally yes. But being a lazy developer, I go to ORMs for most projects, so it doesn't really matter. However, I do regularly update and use PostgreSQL as the database of choice.
I share your perspective about a ~2016 inflection point, but the cracks were showing even earlier. I remember in ~2014 things like the Michael Brown shooting coverage across the board parroted activists' talking points which were invariably and conclusively disproven by the evidence (MB wasn't shot in the back as he ran away, etc). This isn't a wider commentary on BLM, although I think BLM coverage provides a really interesting perspective on media coverage. This is all to say that the phenomenon isn't fully explained by Trump, although I think the phenomenon really accelerated as a result of Trump (I'm not positing a causal relationship, if I had to speculate I'd guess it's an intense feedback loop).
Thank you!! This is great! I found some more examples as a result:

Github (2021): https://github.com/terror/paragon/blob/master/examples/sort....
Github (2012!): https://github.com/ragnraok/VisualSort/blob/master/sortalg.p...
If one is gonna develop on a SBC, he can utilize proper GNU/Unix tools not trimmed-down equivalents from busybox/toybox. In fact, I fail to see a use-case for these tools in embedded space whether on SBCs or not.
speed. Ocaml compiler is probably as fast as Go one
It feels like America is running out of everything
Announcing closed mindedness.... not something I would ever want to do but I can see how its helpful in letting people know not to waste their time. Is there a reverse of this? As in, I have an opinion but am open to hearing others and their rational
A long time ago I tried to categorize wealth mechanisms like this. There are tons of concepts, depending on how high or low you are generalizing.

For instance, providing something only the wealthy have to the masses (private drivers, smartphones, etc)

I found on the highest level everything could technically be boiled down to "paying money for a product or service to remove uncertainty".
(Buying a hamburger so you don't have to make it yourself, insurance, everything)
Apparently the NYT grew by 400% during Trump's presidency. They fully took advantage of the opportunity.
multicore ocaml won't change adoption of the language in any significant way
On Firefox, if you have an unbelievably large number of entries in your History, Bookmarks, and/or Downloads (your Firefox "Library" — chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml), you could theoretically become limited by insert/update performance in Firefox's embedded sqlite, I believe.
This doesnt make sense. Which is it? Everyone blindly hating FB? Or just old media?
Yes, I meant beautifully formatted e-books and printed books.
I'm not talking middle percentages above, especially when you factor in that you are classified as somehow wealthy and don't get breaks for college expenses, retirement savings, etc.
From https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/money-laundering/overview.htm...

> The estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year is 2 - 5% of global GDP, or $800 billion - $2 trillion in current US dollars. Due to the clandestine nature of money-laundering, it is however difficult to estimate the total amount of money that goes through the laundering cycle.

From Treasury via ABA Banking Journal (https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2015/06/treasury-u-s-money-la... and https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/2018NMLRA_12-18.p...):

> The United States continues to estimate that domestic financial crime, excluding tax evasion,
generates approximately $300 billion of proceeds for potential laundering, based on the sources
and analysis cited in the 2015 NMLRA. Criminal prosecutions and law enforcement investigations indicate that most of the money earned from crime in the United States stays in the
United States, but also that the United States is an attractive destination for illicit funds generated
abroad.
Everything has performance issues but Python is at least one, if not two, orders of magnitude off of compiled languages like C++, Rust, and Go (despite Go having a garbage collector). They have various usability tradeoffs but once you get things working, at least you're not spending 10x as many cycles to do the same work as another language would need.

(Java probably is also fine; I've less personal experience there so I can't say).
Agreed. Just to add to this we’ve seen reshards on live datasets that are over 10 petabytes in size.
Any chance this could work on Android?
You might think it was a mistake for various reasons, but this isn't one of them. If it wasn't for UEFI it would have been coded for BIOS/MBR. The article literally mentions this.
It only takes so long and costs so much because of the over regulation and red tape.

Nuclear is a backup power for when renewables fail. The wind doesn't always blow, the sun doesn't always shine.
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Well, hot testing has started on reactor 3 at Vogtle in Georgia. I wasn't sure if the plant would ever be finished, but it seems like it is actually on track to start operating next year.

https://www.power-eng.com/nuclear/overcoming-delays-hot-func...
How much of that success depends on having such a large audience already using the platform?
> If their product (the app store) is genuinely better for users & companies - it should be able to out compete other products

I don't think this is true. If there were multiple stores, then the one that is best for companies would win, not the on that is best for end-users. Users don't get a say in which store an app is published in.
I thought this way until I realized I personally value portability over simplicity of signup. Most apps I use often I use on my phone and laptop. When I had an iPhone, I ran most subscriptions through IAP. As soon as I wanted to try Android, moving everything over was nearly impossible.

For most services I now sign up directly through a developer. I also find for services I subscribe to developers provide WAY better customer support than Apple.
As a middle class person, you can’t pay someone else a middle class living to fetch your groceries. Or clean your house, or drive you to the airport, or any of those things. You can only buy a service like this because the price that will get someone else to do it is small to you.

It’s a large scale trend. As an economy gets more productive, a would-be servant’s alternatives get better, and we wind up doing more of our own chores. Generally a healthy sign.
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> PG doesn't have a way to tell it how to organize data on disk so there is no good way around this (CLUSTER doesn't count, it's unusable in most use cases).

Aren't tablespaces (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/manage-ag-tablespaces.htm...) supposed to help with that?

Haven't used them, I'm honestly curious
People ask for Snowdens take on everything too. I think it's just that as a whistle-blower they're somewhat of a verified good guy who also has domain expertise.