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I had worked remotely for clients such as Disney, Macromedia, STARZ, Obeo, Pearson, Ultrashock, etc. My communications were exclusively emails, sometimes punctuated with scheduled IMs. Skype did helped when it came out.

The Timezone difference was indeed a blessing for me.

I adopted and used checklist and/or bullet communication with most of my emails. I worked when my clients were sleeping on the other side of the world; when they woke up my emails will be asking questions and answering/update from the previous work. When I woke up and ready to work, I have the details/feedbacks from the clients.

It did came with its limitations and was harder in the beginning. Besides many lessons learnt, one of the best and most effective was communicate, communicate, and over-communicate.
No one is mandating that you be vaccinated in Canada. They're just saying don't go to restaurants or bars or other places if you aren't since you're more likely to spread the disease.
What is a vim emulator?
Completely unsurprising of course, but still the second-scariest thing I've read this morning and actually for quite a while.

The scariest is sophisticated, well-informed and higly intelligent HN commenters in this thread who seem to be bubbling over with unbridled enthusiasm.
You're right that there is a distinction between event sourcing within a service and events as coupling between services. But as someone who architected a service that used event sourcing internally and did not use event streaming, I feel the author's points still stand. I also currently work on a very complex application built on event sourcing principles, and again, the same challenges are present.

The reality is that event sourcing brings a lot of challenges that have to be grappled with. It's a great paradigm, but it's not easier than in-place mutation. At least, not without a bunch of tooling.
Nice writeup - thank you!
OK, well, to begin this discussion then, we either agree that Intel/AMD CPU's (and other x86 CPU's) -- are basically RISC CPU cores with microcoded instructions above the RISC core layer -- or we don't...

If we don't agree -- then I can submit link after link, URL after URL, text excerpt after text excerpt -- to prove to you that this is the case with Intel/AMD CPU's (and pretty much most other commercial CPU's that use large instruction sets) since the 1980's.

Anytime a CPU is microcoded in any way -- that's a good indication that there's a RISC core in there -- at a level below the microcode dispatch mechanism...

Why?

Because there are so many reasons to architect a CPU like that! It makes a huge amount of sense!

Why put tons of extra gates on a CPU to implement a super-large instruction set, many of which won't be used in most applications -- when the CPU design can be simplified and streamlined by use of a RISC core -- and microcode on top of that layer?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-h...

But you see, while most of the x86 Instruction Set is documented -- (I say most, because we always seem to be discovering new x86 instructions!) -- most of the x86 microcode -- the code which implements those x86 instructions -- has not historically been documented by Intel...

In other words, it's a gray area, black box, a "dragon"...

If someone wants to understand their computer, from the smallest transistor to the largest OS/Compiler/Application -- then they'd certainly seek an understanding of the microcode as well.

Historically Intel/AMD have not been forthcoming, not transparent, in their disclosure of Microcode, thus trying to gain an understanding into this aspect of computational hardware -- is left to independent researchers, such as the Microcode Research Team, above.

That's not good -- because in an ideal world, it would be transparent -- as transparent as any other piece of Open Source software...

Thus, my proposal to remedy the problem via an Open-Source equivalent.

Have I answered your question?
Totally agree, I’ve met with people in person after hanging around and chatting with my sub community, they know what I think through my tweets and I know what they think. We share resources etc. it’s wonderful. It’s harder to join different communities where you want to say different things. I hate following people that are all over the place. Twitter works well to create a community around a cause or topic. But it’s hard as a generalist to say multiple things and think diversely.
Think of the scenarios where Wi-Fi performance suffers. A sports stadium or music concert with thousands or tens of thousands of people. You make a phone call over Wi-Fi and the other person complains "you're breaking up." A convention floor with hundreds of booths. An auditorium with hundreds of people with an open laptop.

LTE and 5G have much more consistent latency, and can provide true quality of service mechanisms. Wi-Fi has 802.11e that moves VoIP packets to the front of a series of queues but this is only a probabilistic process not a guaranteed time slot every 20ms. Of course licensed channels are an important part of this carrier grade experience and Wi-Fi on a low duty cycle 5GHz channel is often good enough.
In the US, the process IS the punishment.
Seattle is not Washington State. I invite you to visit the Methow Valley. I will buy you a beer.
I switch jobs every 2-3 years, historically. Not because I inherently want to, but because that has historically been when I'm ready for a new challenge. But when I start interviewing, it's with a lot of intent to move, if the situation is right.
Reddit is and will change more over time. Today I get “posts you may like” on my home feed which are basically rehashed horrible takes from /r/politics on a different subreddit.
Possibly, I think more so if there are many of us specs.

Having said that intelligence and curiosity go hand in hand, hard to imagine them not being somewhat interested in the specs.
Always thought this was the great success and great failing of silicon valley - we're always working on stuff I think my mom would never ever use or understand - but that's okay, it's not meant for that generation in most cases.
It does not support all vims features.
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This was really interesting to read. It seems almost like a kind of magic to be able to reduce your program to a small replication.

I suppose if you can get to an AST then you are pruning trees/leaves which seems more within reach, but it still seems magical.
... and use it to photograph a "close ad" button.
Thank you for the video, we use Spot Ocean for something similar and were looking at possibility replacing it with managed node groups or Karpenter now.

I was a bit confused about what was actually released today though. This TC article [1] says it was announced today at re:invent.

The AWS blog post [2] doesn’t say released but that it’s ready for production now. I also found youtube videos from last spring and Archive.org has snapshots from the summer, but this is really the first I’ve heard of Karpenter.

Was it fully released today with the repo made public or has it been sort of out there but not really promoted heavily until today?

1. https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/30/aws-launches-karpenter-an-...

2. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-karpenter-an-op...
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It is faster than the old one because they used their experience to improve it. I'm not sure why that is hard to understand.
I just googled Methow Valley. Breathtaking. I'll take your offer.
Lol should’ve quadruple vaxxed.
> I do not believe this to be so and it runs counter to what I would logically expect.

The only counterexample I can think of is elite private schools, which do cost more than public universities, but I think that it’s safe to assume that Yale provides rather different kind of service than University of Kansas. But, if you think that government-ran enterprises in US are cheaper than for-profit ones, I’m eager to hear some examples.

This pattern is also logically expected: for profit companies are incentivized to keep costs low, while government ones much less so. It’s not like citizen can easily choose to change the government they are signed up with for a cheaper, better run one.

> At any rate, prison companies do things like write prisoner quotas into contracts, with penalties if the quota is not met

Sure, because otherwise they’d never commit to run the prison in the first place. Starting and maintaining prison operation is expensive, so if government does not commit to buying some level of service, you’re risking a lot of money.

Imagine an alternative scheme, where government agrees to buy 1000 prisoner-years worth of capacity, and then is free to send as many prisoners as it wants between 0 and 1000. There is no prisoner quota, prison company is paid exactly the same amount regardless of whether it houses 100 or 1000 inmates. Would that arrangement be more acceptable to you?
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You don't think that getting one variant of COVID-19 gives you stronger immunity to other variants? Has that been the case for any variants so far?
My suburban place came with a wood pellet burning fireplace for (mostly) a single room. My partner staying warm by running that costs about half the price of natural gas heating the whole place. Would be interested in ways to calculate emissions based on how many lbs/kgs of wood pellets vs. therms of nat. gas.
I used to enjoy reddit so much but it’s honestly the worst place on the internet today. Every major sub is infested with politics, bias mods and toxic comments.

I wouldn’t be surprised if reddit is heavily influenced by bot activity. If you were a foreign influence who wanted to convey a certain narrative, then reddit would be the de-facto place for that.

1. Upvote and downvote system, where downvoted squelch bad takes, is perfect for narrative forming.
2. The demographic for reddit are young minds who most likely have a position on a certain topic because they’ve been told to from a place like reddit.
People report even more clear cut events regarding food products than your example, even. You know, like rat parts. Sometimes they may be hoaxes or urban legends. Not necessarily all the time.

I've seen odd things first hand with processed food from the grocery store. I've bought sealed packages of food that were all dried out and stale. Or that looked fine but gave me...indigestion. The weirdest thing I've seen recently were some mints where some of them randomly were solid chocolate, no filling. Oh, and a frozen dessert had a sealed cardboard box, but the plastic covering inside was open.

How does that sort of variation happen? I'd imagine that the better your process is, and the less variation you have, the larger proportion of your failures will be "unknown unknowns" that are just weird.

I acknowledge the conclusion that the interview process is f-ed up could well be correct.
I am a bit on the fence with Vaccine mandates, I wish they weren't necessary.

But I get the key reason for them, which you have missed, is it isn't really about the health choices of the person getting vaccinated.

If your vaccination status affected no-one but yourself then I would be strongly against any vaccine mandate.
If you are unvaccinated you are more likely to get infected, that is your risk. But, if you do get infected then you are MUCH more likely to pass the virus onto other people, including cancer patients etc who cannot be vaccinated. You are also likely to clog up the hospital system for an extended time, causing everyone else to receive a poor standard of care as the healthcare system strains.

This is the issue. Someone's decision to not get vaccinated has severe impacts on other people. Its NOT just about them, and if they say it is just about them then they are being incredibly selfish.
Reminds me of this episode of Star Trek TNG

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient_humanoid

The speech seemed very sad in a way.
> do you think taxpayers would prefer to pay more for prisons just so that companies running private prison don’t make a profit?

I think they'd prefer to pay more for prisons that prioritize reducing recidivism over increasing profits. And that is logic that I apply to construction projects, if it was demonstrated that private construction companies were making a profit by building structures that collapsed more often and killed people, ultimately increasing the costs of infrastructure by forcing us to constantly rebuild failing bridges, then I would have a problem with that.

That being said, the debate of private/public prisons really misses a fundamental point of how prisons work in America: public prisons are also regularly exploitative, and they also funnel resources/money into private companies and personal/pet projects; resources that would be better spent reducing recidivism rates. Even when private companies are not involved, the State itself has found out that it can exploit prisoners for cheap labor, taxes/fees, federal funding, better census data, and just general political ends.

It is inaccurate to frame prison reform as a debate about public vs private prisons, when in reality prison reform is a debate about how even the State prioritizes prisoners as resources over encouraging their rehabilitation. The State often does this to the benefit of private companies and often with permission from a society with regressive and/or uninformed views about the purposes of prison and how our prison system currently functions.

In both cases, public and private, reducing costs to the taxpayer means reducing recidivism rates. It is always a costly burden on the taxpayer to imprison someone; it doesn't matter where you put them, all prisons are costly. When we look at profits (both private and State profits), we need to ask if it's good for the incentives of the taxpayer and the incentives of the State/companies to be so misaligned. It is undesirable for either a private company or the State to benefit from someone being in prison when both the taxpayer's wallet and society in general would rather benefit from keeping them out of prison.
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I’m not sure your explanation is sound. Studies have shown doctors/nurses get sick (pre-Covid) at more or less the same rate as the rest of the population, despite increased exposure to circulating colds and flus. Explanations ranged from “they get vaccinated more” to “background exposure to very low payloads primes the immune system and keeps them healthier.”
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You normally would, but this is just predation on through traffic. It's not like you're going through the middle of main street, these may be off to the side of town with several exits but close enough for the city to dictate speed limits.
Not really, because 1) the court of law operates according to, well, the law, which is itself far from perfect - many things that are offenses probably shouldn't be, and many others should probably not mandate prison terms; and 2) none of those people you've mentioned get much if any say on how prisons are actually run.

In any case, when US locks up more of its population in relative terms than any other country in the world, I think the assumption that things are basically broken here should be the default - the onus is on those supporting the status quo to explain why US is special.

The better way to deal with contraband is electronic readers, just to give one obvious example.
A blunt, clumsy move, that will do nothing to slow the takeover of education, that has already progressed from merely implicit discrimination [1] to official, explicit discrimination [2].

[1] 82 percent admitted that they would be at least a little bit prejudiced against a conservative [job] candidate [..] Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. - https://theweek.com/articles/441474/how-academias-liberal-bi...

[2] Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...
Major service providers do not maintain SMS history beyond 24 hours, let alone 1-7 years (last time I worked a case that is). They’re transparent about it as well. Look up the LE liaison contacts on their sites and they’ll clearly list what is available or not available. That’s why it’s crucial to get the actual devices themselves. Reason: the infrastructure to manage SMS content for every customer for 7 years with zero business justification/use case is phenomenal. They’d spend most of their time responding to civil and criminal subpoenas/warrants. That would be a feat the NSA would be proud of. Been there and done that a 100 times. (This also aligns with certain VPN providers refusing to keep logs. It’s a cost that provides zero returns, so they cut it as a business decision, not because they’re trying to stick it to the man.
You would think if other advanced life existed in abundance that many of them were civilizations that started billions of years ago. If they still can't reach us - that probably means that civilizations self-destruct at a certain point or stuck in an area to be eaten by the stars there. That would likely be our fate too if it turns out moving from solar system to solar system is extremely hard.
> That is not a scientific observation at all

I said it would be a good case study, which would be an element of research trying to establish the effectiveness of the vaccine. Obviously what I presented here is not science, and I didn't claim it was. Science is one tool of many that we can use to observe reality and try to draw conclusions about it. It's not the only tool, and you shouldn't discount one tool for not being another tool.

> your perfectly round numbers are completely made up

Good on you to insist on a source, I forgot to provide it. My perfectly round number are approximations of these data, they are not "made up": https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/gibraltar/

5 deaths in Dec 2020 up to 94 deaths ~100 deaths. Cases were ~1000 in December 2020 and went up to ~4000 in February, an increase of ~3000 cases. Infections leveled off and started increasing in June from ~4000 to exactly 7248 today, an increase of ~3000 cases. During this outbreak, exactly 4 people have died.

> The disease hit elderly people particularly hard. Among those that survived the first wave of covid, people built up natural immunity.

Maybe. Or maybe the vaccine is doing in the wild exactly what scientists found it did in their vaccine trials? Occam's razor would say to go with the vaccine as the explanation due to it requiring fewer assumptions (we know everyone is vaccinated, we don't know what proportion of that population has built up immunity by contracting Covid naturally).
> I am confident that the people giving out so called “Herman Cain Awards” for COVID will be judged as harshly as we judge those who called HIV the gay plague.

I’m not so sure. If there were a safe, free and widely available vaccine for HIV and gay men were going out of their way to shout about not taking it then I think the situation may have been comparable.
> The only counterexample I can think of is elite private schools, which do cost more than public universities, but I think that it’s safe to assume that Yale provides rather different kind of service than University of Kansas. But, if you think that government-ran enterprises in US are cheaper than for-profit ones, I’m eager to hear some examples.

Medicare is a blindingly obvious one. Trains. The postal service. Can you actually cite a real example of the private alternative saving money, especially one that didn't involve drastically cutting services?

I also don't think it's "safe to assume" that Yale does much different from the University of Kansas except let you go to school with the kind of people who attend Yale.

> This pattern is also logically expected: for profit companies are incentivized to keep costs low, while government ones much less so. It’s not like citizen can easily choose to change the government they are signed up with for a cheaper, better run one.

No, that is not logically expected, because the entire concept of "profit" is collecting extra money on top of the cost to actually render the service.

> Imagine an alternative scheme, where government agrees to buy 1000 prisoner-years worth of capacity, and then is free to send as many prisoners as it wants between 0 and 1000. There is no prisoner quota, prison company is paid exactly the same amount regardless of whether it houses 100 or 1000 inmates. Would that arrangement be more acceptable to you?

That doesn't really solve the problem; your incentive is still to get there to be so many inmates that there's no choice but to fund a new facility.
> This internet thing is just a fad anyway.

It’s uncharted land for all of us - Angela Merkel 2016, translated.
I just don't get articles like this. Whatever content there is - interview, biography and essay about his work - is blown into a thousand pieces and smeared across 10 pages. How is this enjoyable to anyone?
How do they taste?
We don't have the capability to turn off a single gene in all living cells in a body. We have some applications of gene therapy, but they're very specific to the disease they're treating
> ridiculous

I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

Baro altimeters don’t tell you your height above the ground (or other obstruction). A digital terrain model is only as good as your navigation source, and GPS has well known failure modes.

> do these airplane systems have no clue about filtering?

Do you have no clue how much it costs to retrofit a filter on a commercial airplane?

It’s not that adding a filter is technically challenging. It’s that it wasn’t previously a requirement, and leaving it out saved weight (and every gram adds up when you’re building an airplane). If you added every ‘nice to have’, the airplane couldn’t lift its own weight.

Now that radar altimeters exist without high Q filters, retrofitting them costs money. You’ll need to have the filter approved by the manufacturer (because you are normally required to follow their installation guidance) and the FAA. Neither of them are going to help you for free.
We flipped a coin, and it ended up being heads (just us), meh... Nothing more to it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404.pdf I believe the TLDR of that is, if you monte carlo the drake equation, and account for the uncertainty of the error margins, you don't really end up with much of a paradox.
Because jobs look more for directly relevant formal education and work experience than being smart and hard working.
The Wind Rises was supposed to be his last feature film.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-09-01/hayao-miyaz...
Growth hormone? It's just not without risks.
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It goes further than this. Most people know about Airbnb creep cams. Everyone cares about it when asked. And yet they are still a huge problem because they are so easy to hide.