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It depends very much what your tech stack looks like, but I use Git, CircleCI and Octopus Deploy to Azure for my stack. It's cheap in terms of maintenance and because I know them all like the back of my hand it's quick and easy for me to set up.

As for rollback, I don't really use rollback. I have a roll-forward strategy. My DB deployments are migrations and so long as there's no data-loss caused by a migration (my migrations are always backwards compatible with the previous version) there's no need to roll back. Azure brings point-in-time restore which can be triggered if necessary.

I think the key is like with anything. There's a learning curve on your toolset. Once you've overcome that hurdle and you know to set up automation for everything from the outset. You build your pipeline shell. You never do anything manually. If you need infrastructure of any form, it's always code-first, included in source control and done the right way. Never do anything manually and rely on your automation to carry you. It seems labour intensive up front, but once you're there, it's sustainable.

It takes discipline not to cut corners. The minute you start to cut corners and get lazy is the path leading to your doom.
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Well generally when all else fails you want to talk more to local people. The ones that can help with the basics like food, shelter, water, meds, etc.

Family radios (FRS) are as easy to use as the old school walky talkies. They are also cheap, pairs are sold in the $30-$100 range. Sprinkle a few of those around the neighbors.

Sure a 2M HT isn't as user friendly, but a local ham can talk to the neighbors (in person or FRS) and then coordinate the other local people over 2M (often repeaters are on solar+battery). Said ham might even participate in emergency nets and have contacts inside various emergency organizations. Could likely figure out when water trucks are stopping by, food deliveries, expected projections for returning power, even help get prescription meds delivered.

Sure if it's bad enough HF might be needed. But even 2M + FRS can be a huge help to an impacted community.
This still feels to "tech exogenous to the economy" for me. Society changed faster when we had fuller employment, as automation gets more investment when workers are scares, expensive, and unruly. Crazy population growth in the 19th century would prop up aggregate demand even when there wasn't that much individual consumption going on (by modern standards).

To avoid stagnation, I see 3 options:

- Raise labor costs by collective decision

- Reduce working hours per person by collective decision

- Do more fiscal policy to boost demand (and avoid cooking ourselves)

Ideally, some of each. Otherwise, no one will need us programmers: labor is too damn cheap, especially once the climate refuges start pouring in.
The part about the telepathic doggies was a downward slide anyway.
I dont think so. I think all the issues I listed are modern inventions that hack the human brain in ways that never existed in nature. The problems are more shallow than we think, technology with a profit driven motive finds ways to appeal to the human brain that are bad. Essentially what was scarce was highly appealing, and technology makes it plentiful, turning people into zombies. The problems are more shallow, strip them away and you are left with biology, which full well can function.
Edit: before you downvote this, read it? I'm not an anti-vax nutcase.

They didn't trust the public with their actual thinking at any point during Covid. The guidance was initially "don't wear a mask, it will make it worse because you'll infect yourself with your hand" to "we'll just lock down for 3 weeks and then back to normal" to "we have to flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming hospitals" to the current policy of basically 0 covid tolerance.

Why would they initially tell us to not wear masks? The generous answer is that they were afraid that a run on masks would make them unavailable to medical professionals who as far as we knew at that point needed them to survive. The uncharitable answer is that the people giving advice are imbeciles who hadn't even read the national plan to respond to respiratory pandemics.

The most ridiculous part of our COVID response, at least where I am in the USA, is that we have a very detailed national plan that tells policy makers exactly how to respond to such an event. It was made following SARS (another coronavirus), and it is very good, and you can even read it online! It was completely ignored of course.

(You can find an up to date version here, originally published in 2011: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/covid-pandemic-plan.pdf )

My daughter's school just went back to 100% at-home via zoom because 'too many children had positive covid tests'. How many had positive tests? What is the threshold or flow-chart for this decision defining what 'too many' means? Was this decision made with guidance or following guidelines given by public health experts operating under the umbrella of a national (or state, or county, or even school district) strategy? Hah! As if anyone would answer any of these questions! The answer is that 'too many' cases of covid means they close the schools 'for awhile'. The part that concerns me isn't just the lack of transparency, it is that behind the lack of transparency there is nothing there, it's just a non expert going with their gut or responding to pressure from hysterical parents.

If we want to 'trust science' that starts with 'consulting scientists'!
For reference: 1 MJ = 0.277778 kWh.

Not trying to knock the progress made or anything like that, I just needed the conversion to a more familiar unit in order to appreciate what sort of scale they're talking about.
There haven’t been successful attempts to design an experiment that could prove or disprove this. It would (interestingly) require that one was able to step outside of our 4D-space-time box (which humans probably can’t do).
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Sorry, it's actually now 29.5 years away.

Also this article isn't even about a tokamak so...
yah, this (or something similar) is the most straightforward solution. the whole point of heroku is to abstract away devops for solo/small dev groups and make deployments “one-click”. it’s unclear why that option was explicitly ruled out here.
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I always get mesmerized how authN and authZ differ from each other as they generally thought together. Good job with the use case, looks something promising
She's a German physicist who has made a name for herself, I think, arguing that mathematical beauty should not be a factor when constructing solutions to problems in theoretical physics.

I think construing her video as a "debunking" does it a disservice, for what it's worth. It's a call for journalists and laypeople to be cautious when interpreting lab results. She doesn't "dunk on" fusion power or say that it's not worth investigating.
Yep MicroG is the route I'm going on Pixel3a I just bought. You don't need to sign into any Google services to use them. For now I'm just using maps. I found a nice Reddit article on de-googling even more as well. If you install OpenGapps you might as well forget it-

https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/clg2ca/how_to_de...
From the first glance it's not clear how is it different from heroku and what exact pain points are you trying to solve
Wow Algebraic Effects are a totally new thing i never seen mentionned so far
I always thought that async /await was the best known way to handle resumable computation

Totally blew my mind
I agree. This is like when someone says "don't do work you enjoy, just have hobbies".

That works for some people, but I prefer to spend my 40 hours doing work I enjoy with people I enjoy being around.
It all happened a while ago. Google shut down the Map Maker program four years ago.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/google-temporarily-s...
Nor tons of individuals' wallets.
I wonder if it is some sort of variation on a double pendulum problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_pendulum

Where the system is very chaotic and incredibly hard to model, so it appears to be random.

Perhaps this is a complicated multi star system that contains a pulsar and the complex orbits are creating these seemingly random flashes of light.
If I got the idea right from this article, a developer without proper qualifications and experience should not go for an unreasonably high salary, but instead look for a great team leader who will increase their market value.
What is the right font size in web design?
This is 7 months old; why post now?
Thanks for posting. It's a terrible shame society has torn itself apart before we could learn the (to some) obvious lesson, but at least maybe this will inform policy in the future...

That or governments are now more terrified of people losing their minds and so feel they should be even more controlling in their fear response as a knee jerk reaction....

Either way, in the UK we failed to save about 67% of those who could have been saved through bad practice and even worse policy...
this uses inertial confinement rather than magnetic confinement.
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You have the right to not get the vaccine, but you do not have the right to put other people at risk. Private companies can and will employ/fire anyone for any reason. That's one of our freedoms (in the US), the freedom of not having to work with as**oles that want to put others at risk. True freedom if you ask me.
About simulation: we do have simulators of brains (to some extent). The main example is the simulation of the C. Elegans. One such simulator is on GitHub at https://github.com/Flowx08/Celegans-simulation

The problem is, well before tackling the human brain - with functional units, wiring, evolutionary rewiring¹, modules, multiform glias and mysteries in general etc. - that of transparency, i.e. already in the C. Elegans you can see complex behaviour in the studied system, but the hard part, that of understanding why and how that structure presents that behaviour, is unachieved. It is still a "black box" like some ANNs. We know the structure of the C. Elegans since 1985, but we still do not know well "why it works, why it works that way": the "scientific problem" of understanding the "natural phenomenon" we found, in order to export that understanding, is still pending.

So: we have simple brains described, they are simulated, and to just look at them will not make you much wiser until you really manage to "crack the code". There is not really an «Hello World» yet. It does not mean your doctoral efforts could not achieve it though!

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¹ Evolutionary rewiring: the human nervous system is also made by "afterthought" increases which overlapped on pre-existing structures "patching" them, instead of "correcting, reprogramming" them - so one will find a system that may show to be a masterpiece of cleverness but not a masterpiece of planning. In other words, the human brain is something relatively messy, not a clean blueprint.
What is the goal of NIF? I've read repeatedly that fusion power isn't their end goal but rather to study inertial confinement. That's fine but why study inertial confinement if not to generate power? I've always been very confused about their goal. I'm a total layman when it comes to this stuff so there's some nuance I'm not understanding. Appreciate any clarification anyone can give.
Radio astronomy revolutionizing our understanding of non-solar system planets?
As almost everything that is written now, almost-post-pandemic, the survival bias isn't disregard.

When images come from China welding building's doors, everybody shouted. When government in Brazil said to skip the Carnival to avoid the covid from tourists, lots complained.

Now, looking back, is easy to say that one specific opinion was the best and would be perfect, had it been followed. Just remember those million other opinions that were terrible and be thankful that the worst ones weren't followed.
If a friend wrote what you just did, to what I did, what would you tell them?
Thanks for sharing - that is too bad. Is there nothing in the way-back machine? Or maybe somebody has a local copy?
I lead a team of 3. We use render.com and have a handful of bare metal servers for CPU-intensive background jobs. The bare metal servers are auto-patched Ubuntu servers. It’s pretty much 0 maintenance. The server setup is automated via a single provisioning bash script. Render.com is quite nice, if a bit limited in its options vs Heroku. Highly recommended.
I think this is an example of the X-Y problem :)

OP wants more socialization - I think it's good to think outside the box a bit, especially for us programmers who tend to let programming and work absorb their lives.
excessive conspicuous consumption

Energy is a proxy for accomplishment and development. Humanity's #1 goal should be to maximize energy use per capita while minimizing energy use per activity, such that every human is doing as many desirable activities as possible.

Gaming at 1kW for an hour costs 30 cents or less in electricity. As others have mentioned indirectly, going for a Sunday drive to see the changing leaves uses more energy. A space heater uses more power.
Curious what people thing is the reason this post is being downvoted (while also having decent responses in the comments.)

On the surface, that would seem to indicate it is a polarizing topic.
It frustrates me that our org chooses to hide a lot of the FAQs behind the help desk. The higher ups think this is like "white glove service", but in practice, it's so much slower for anyone who has the slightest idea about the what they're looking for, and because everyone has to go through the desk, they're sometimes overwhelmed. That leads to way more escalations than there otherwise would be (which leads to the non-higher ups having to focus more on answering tickets and less on what they're paid to do).
SIDE-ISSUE ALERT!

The article ends with the statement "The author declares no competing interests". I think this is very poor phrasing, as it's ambiguous: does it mean "The author has not declared any competing interests", or "The author has positively declared that there are no competing interests"?

(To be clear, I am not for a moment suggesting any hidden interests on the part of the author, and I think his point is both correct and important. It's only the wording that I dislike.)
This is a result of America’s and California’s larger ills, especially extreme housing unaffordability (California) and lack of an adequate social safety net (America). Of course these symptoms are lessened or absent in countries that have addressed the core issues—the same is true in other areas besides public transportation. It’s not a BART thing, it’s a society thing.
I started coding in the mid 90's and have been there, to different degrees, several times. It usually is because I'm in a rut, using the same languages and technologies in the same domain. Another new way to not shoot yourself in the foot with Javascript... So, mix it up and find something challenging that you find personally interesting:

- learn a language or technology that you've always wanted to, but never had a good "reason" to

- change your abstraction: if you are a javascripter learn C/C++ or assembly. If you are a VHDL guru, go learn some Python, Ruby, Elixir, or Javascript.

- Take one of the "how does that work?" questions that have been inside your brain since you first used a computer and get about figuring it out. The dang things are fascinating at every level, from transistors to gates, to operating systems, to compilers/interpreters, to micro-services *AND* it is all documented and available on the interwebs.

- learn more about your tools. There is nothing that makes me feel efficient and productive like when I'm jamming out code, making edits about as fast as I can think of them, floating from tool to tool in a smooth cycle of iterative development. Most of that is just patterns of keyboard shortcuts.

- program away the boring parts. If you have "boring" tasks, see if you can program or automate them away. The programming should be less boring than the task you are automating and you will have your first minion.
Yes, the term seems to come from simulated annealing (AI) [1] which is named based on the metallurgical annealing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
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Science direct article doesn't really align with what we know about oil production. For instance, why would oil sands production decline? These are major installations where the majority of the cost is upfront. They aren't going to need to build new upgraders in the next 30 years to keep it rolling.
It's been a few years since the release of the GTX 1650 but it's still a pretty serviceable card. Cheap, too.
The article is intriguing, but is the objective of the mathematicians of more than theoretical value?

It seems to me that proving DNNs to be equivalent to SVM kernels won't improve them appreciably -- they won't become more accurate or precise, not faster, nor more economical. More importantly, the achilles heel of DNNs won't be fixed -- their inability to explain their reasoning or annotate their inner workings to enable tuning or repair.

Replacing black box linear algebra with black box math does not seem like much of a step forward.
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Ignoring whether anti-monarchy is a western idea or not, monarchy has quite a lot of deficiencies.

Japan itself I would argue has highlighted said deficiencies. Emperor Taishō had various neurological problems. His son Emperor Shōwa (AKA Hirohito) seem alright physically but just wasn’t that good a statesman, in the eyes of some like the British who did not see him as malicious (https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2017/07/758307910564-hiro...) anyway, in that he couldn’t rein in the military and the rest is history.

It’s the luck of the drawn if you have a good leader and if you end up with a bad one it is nigh impossible to replace him without major social upheaval.
>_money and capitalism, which is inherently democratic by design in that many decisions contribute to the overall direction, rather than a single decision maker_

That's an anti historical view. If there's one thing capitalism is definitely not, it's "democratic by design". South America 60s-90s, Europe 1930s etc.

Also absurd to just assume it will win "just because". Even fukuyama gave up on this idea after his "end of history" theory completely flopped.
Yes, I have it zoomed in 3x to make it much easier to read. But it does handle zooming well and the browser remembers the setting, so it doesn't cause any problems for me.
Of course not, but vaccinated people are not spreading it or getting it at the same rates, nor are they filling up ICUs and hospital beds at the same rates. That's the problem. Unvaccinated people are a minority of the population taking up the majority of hospital space which has lead to procedures and care being cancelled for others . It's only when the healthcare systems stop being at risk of derailed can we actually move past this.
You still need big ass lasers or particle accelerators for ICF too, these tend to be quite energy intensive too.
Doctors of Osteopathy (DO) can be thought of Chiropractors with an MD - but that would be selling them a bit short IMNSHO.

https://osteopathic.org/what-is-osteopathic-medicine/what-is...

They are the most effective family physicians I have ever had. I go out of my way to find them.
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there are plenty of resources available to read up on smart contracts that can be had, you don't have to help anybody really.
I have this friend who recently founded a start-up with two other guys. But he basically is the only one doing any DevOps, so we could say he is a one-man show regarding the technology side of things. Two weeks ago we talked about how he is developing his product and he told me he will go full FaaS as much as possible, because it lets him forget about the whole Ops side of things and focus in real product development (what will ultimately bring revenue to the company). I am a big fan of playing as much sysadmin as possible for my own developments, and I like the CI/CD mentality associated with microservices and containers. All I am saying is that that conversation with that guy really opened my eyes to the fact that maybe in some scenarios (specially at the birth of a company) going full serverless might improve the time to market of your product. I am in no way saying that serverless also has a ton of disadvantages, e. g. vendor lock in.
TOC and Index method

If I have to test on a topic I know sort of intuitively but look thing up each time I do it because I do it infrequently I do the follow to have all the details current.

I take a trusted source of information on the topic and paste the text into a word processor that can build table of contents and Indexes.
Step 1 I use the Multilevel TOC heading feature and create a heading for each paragraph of the document. Splitting long paragraph into pieces. The act of having to write headings per paragraph means you have pay attention to the core meaning of it. (I use a 5 or 6 level deep Toc)

Step 2. Create an Index at the end of the document and use the semi automated Key word tagger to mark all occurrence of an expression. It should given you a 1 level index entry with many page numbers. Go to each entry and add a 2 level index tag descriptor until all the page numbers have 2 level entries.

By the time you are done you will have visited this document from many angles and repeatably read the information and have a well integrated understanding of it.
If the document has procedural steps to follow when you tag one of those sections decide if you know how to do that or repeat the process for practice.
This is actually somewhat surprising given that Hawaii was one of the first states to get surveyed directly by Apple. Is it a recent address? And have you tried reporting it? My personal experience is Apple is pretty responsive to (all) Maps reports.
OpenStreetMaps attribution is visible in the UI; look at the bottom of the screen when you're selecting the mapping overlay.
Starlink isn't available to everyone.

Starlink has a maximum density of customers which is pretty low.

Starlink is not long range, you need a set of dishes and internet uplink in the same geographic area that you are in.

Starlink costs $100 a month, leaving a substantial community withotu service.

Amateur radio has no monthly cost, no maximum density, and no maximum range.