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Since I'm reading a lot of angry comments here, let me add a bit of thinking behind how these things happen without taking a side. Been designing for companies (probably just 10% branding, mostly UI/UX) for more than a decade.

Rebrands always get a ton of negative press, but almost always the reason why companies try to do so is not what it seems from the outside.

For example, when Dropbox did their big rebranding (sure they kept the name, but I can remember reading the same comments when it happened) I happen to know that their reasoning is not what many people would think of.

Dropbox hit a growth plateau. The growth they had gotten from the engineering community where it started was slowing down.

They decided to reposition and rebrand their company to a new more creative community. This seems to have had some help in continuing the growth curve.

Many of these rebrands get a ton of negative comments, but you have to remember that the rebrand is not meant for you as an existing user/customer/fan/etc. it's meant to help reach a new audience. To push growth. Tap into new markets, please a board and show that you're moving forward to some exciting destination at the horizon.

When looking at rebrands, try to think of the business decision behind the scenes as to why these might have happened.
I've tried it with Go and it's impressive. However, as you said, having to check generated code is tedious. I feel like I can trust Copilot's code less than what a colleague would produce. So then my coding sessions become code review sessions. I don't want most of my coding to be like that.
I am partial to Ellery Queen. Especially the earlier novels, which often have an explicit announcement at the point in the book when you have received all the clues necessary to solve the case.
> Someone will be left holding the empty bag at the end.

I fail to see how this is different than any speculative asset?
X-rite for example sells color test cards, verified color PNGs and color measurement meters. You can use those to make sure the color matches up from paper to scanned file to screen. The opposite direction is more difficult, because most screens can display colors that you can't print with CMYK.
idk, many large companies report about 70% of their security issues are due to memory unsafety. reducing your security bugs by a factor of 3 sounds pretty compelling to me...
Gunpowder has largely superseded these kinds of weapons.
your code probably isn't worth attacking
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I agree with you, but I see that as an omission in the article that they treat sRGB like RGB when one is logarithmic and the other is linear gamma.
> he issue is how do you know which site is the source of the information. In other words, the technical bit is easy but determining what to do with that is hard.

I interviewed with a 3 or so person company that did just that I think.

That was over a decade ago.
This isn’t about racism or xenophobia. This about collectively applying pressure on China, and, more importantly, standing by your ideals. We don’t conduct business with corrupt organizations, and by definition any Chinese company is an organization that is tightly tied to one of worst, scariest regimes that the world ever saw.

And remember - it’s never “just business”, not unless you’re a completely corrupt psychopath.
This is a visually beautiful page. The first image, the font, the color scheme. Nothing is too original, but it has character and it serves the meaning carried by the text.
> Inspector Dupin

His name is C. Auguste Dupin, and he is not an inspector, nor is he ever called that. Sloppy research of this type makes everything else in the article rather suspect.
That's definitely true for women around the world (including in China).

But while "silencing" is happening throughout the world for victims of sexual crimes (and we should work to stop this), what's happening to Peng is probably unrelated to the type of crime, but rather about who the perpetrator was (a highly-ranked CCP official).

She'd likely see the same fate if she talked about witnessing him do any other crime: it's most telling that not even World-known public figures like Peng can be considered safe from such intimidation.
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Talking about the distinction between tax evasion and tax avoidance was when I really understood the power of controlling language, and why the ruling classes strive for getting their kids educated since the dawn of time.
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Thanks I hate it. I would stress so much. I cant imagine doing that.
It's easier to get your will if your opposition legitimates their rule by "god wills that I am the king" and you are the final authority on what god wills. I think that situation has changed a bit since the last time the papacy has won a conflict.
"No live streams" is a little broad. LiveATC specifically was targeted by Ofcom. GlobalTuners and dozens of other sites have UK ATC broadcasts, they just can't advertise them publicly.
I guess Wikipedia kind of got their rampant deletionism under control while Stack Exchange did not?
Wouldn't the data they gather include artifacts of improper usage and ultimately feed into their conclusion on whether mandates work?
Is this real? This reads like spam or some other kind of nonsense...
Speculating wildly, I'm wondering if part of it is a fundamental conflict in what the church is for. Is it a museum (what the State wants) or an "indoctrination center" (what the Church wants).

From the Churches point of view, if no one leaves thinking "maybe Catholicism is for me after all" then on some level they're not doing their job right. I guess that explains the focus on Chinese tourists since that is a huge untapped 'market' I'm sure they would love to break into. Having "multiple offerings" makes it easier to A/B tests different types of marketing and tailor the sales pitch to the audience. At the end of the day the Catholic church has always been business and their primary goal is to convert as many 'customers' as possible, and church architecture as always been a reflection of that mission.
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I don't see the chinesse people raising against CCP for this. Not even if the olympics are cancelled.

It's well-known that CCP leaders are untouchable in China just like Kim is untouchable in NK.

On the other hand if you look a bit to our politics, how affected was Trump by the rape/harrasment accusations? Certainly a big part of population would still vote for him even if the rape would be recorded.
I don't defend China or CCP but we should put things in perspective.

The most disturbing issue in China I believe is the censorship and persecution of the victims.
It's easy to see how this advice applies to a SaaS company, but what about a more capital-intensive startup? Like a startup with an innovation in manufacturing, energy, telecoms, how do they have leverage when approaching investors, especially at the beginning? Are patents the main way or are there others? What metrics can they show if they're working on a proof-of-concept and don't yet have customers?

I don't doubt that the advice still applies but I'm having a hard time understanding how. Are there illustrative examples of startups that did this well?
It's all original content then?
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Meanwhile my home state continues to quibble about mask mandates in federal court.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/12/01/gov-abb...

I see legal arguments but no evidence from any party on this matter.
I used to like Ubiquiti a lot, but nowadays i prefer to use other brands which are even easier to implement and manage. For the clients that still want to use Ubiquiti i try and implement a Debian 11 VM with the Ubiquiti software on it.
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> The background on our side is that we did do quite a lot of profiling and investigation of the current evaluator - last year, informally, over video chats and IRC. We have a bunch of logs and various perf measurements spread out over some machines but right now the knowledge lives in our heads, mostly because at the time we did not expect this to spawn a serious project.

It's good to hear that you did do some profiling, even if the results are not public! Of course I would not expect the details in the initial announcement, but I would have expected a mention of this work. At least I have a much higher confidence in the success of this project now than just after reading the announcement.

Switching between the proper implementation of high-level concepts is a staple of untyped (and sometimes typed) runtimes, so in this context the changeset makes more sense than simply "replacing an array-backed implementation with an std::vector-backed implementation" as described, thanks for the explanation!

I'm also not putting any blame on Nix --- the fact that the performance of the evaluator is such an issue is in a way a testament to its success. Unfortunately large, long-lived systems do require active care to enforce proper boundaries between subsystems, and it's a shame if it has got to a point where it's no longer possible to reinstate that separation.
I think the premise is solid, the overhead of scheduling a chat/call can be daunting for Jnr devs, where as being in the room they would be totally fine/encouraged to reach out and ask questions.

I think the implementation is going to put a lot of people off. I've seen a few attempts at something similar, but ultimately people want their privacy in their home.
That's totally going to have an impact.
first of all, i agree. it sucks. it wiped out my business, i have asthma and it feels like i can't breath wearing a mask. i live in washington state. my advice is don't move to washington state if you don't like covid-19 extraness.

you would not like it here. we still have a 5-10 person limit at many stores. basically tons of places look like people are waiting in line for a rock concert. as much as i love the mountains and the coffee i am thinking about moving to a less over the top state.

it's rough, hang in there and maybe try and move to another state if it keeps clawing at your mental health.
Obviously the cloud vendors will try hard to foist lock-in on customers, and savvy customers should be trying hard to avoid those proprietary high level services

But what percentage of cloud programmers are wise to this? The individual programmers make the decisions that cause lock in

Cloud vendors know how locked in you are when you negotiate discounts, but by that time the key decisions are long past
> I have no idea how that porting speed would translate to a larger project

IME it doesn't.

I'm not at liberty to discuss all that much detail, but I what I can say is: This was a mixture of C and C++ -> Scala. This was pretty ancient code which used goto fairly liberally, etc. so it would often require quite a lot of control flow rewriting -- that take a looooong time. I'd be lucky to get through a single moderately complex multiply nested loop per day. (Scala may be a bit of an outlier here because it doesn't offer a c-like for loop, nor does it offer a "native" break statement.)
Most programs aren't fizzbuzz. This is basically hand optimizing a microbenchmark. While i'm sure compilers can always be better i'm not sure this particular example generalizes.
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Once, I was working on an intranet web tool generating .odt documents for the user to print.

It worked perfectly, except on one machine, where the document could be downloaded but LibreOffice raised an error when opening it.

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Wow. Perhaps I should be embarrassed, but I mentally filled in "30 GB/s" instead of 3 GB/s. I thought Rust was mostly neck and neck with C. I see now why a lot of fellows responded in a defensive way.

What's it doing to be so much slower? That's shocking. I may not enjoy Rust, but I do respect its ability to approach C++ performance.
Not really? The original title is careful to say "citing court order", not "per court order" etc.

If anything, I think your title is more editorialized, since Google is clearly doing this for legal reasons, not exactly "voluntarily".
Unfortunately, availability of money for an speculative work results in emergence of entire industry of scammers, whose only competence is getting grants to do that speculative work. For example, various European Union programmes are overtaken by such people.

Also, this is the reason why VCs, after funding a startup, generallly prefer to be breathing down the CEO's neck (instead of a hands-off approach) - they know that the temptation do just burn through someone else's money while doing a half-assed attempt is too strong for many. In other words, people in general are took weak morally for your idea to produce good results.
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This is my exact problem with it. I only follow comic book artists, friends, and local businesses. Yet my reels are full of semi nude women gyrating to music. I don't want that there.
That has to be one of the most uplifting things I've seen in a long time!

The common answer to the world's problems these days is more along the way of "just have an idea, then fund it, then sell it and then I'll be happy for you if it solves my problems first".

Civilization is a group endeavor, so called Democracy even more so.
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A bear leaving its cage and charging at you? What's your defense? Yelling 'BLM'?
> Mackenzies money is essentially her bank account,

Isnt that "money" in Amazon stock, just like Buffett and Gates whose "money" is in stocks of various companies.
I think one thing that articles like this miss is that not all cloud services run, themselves, in VMs. For example, most of Google's don't. While virtualization has improved a lot, it wouldn't be possible to replicate many of Google's cloud offerings with competitive performance and cost on Google's Compute Engine. Cloud Storage, BigQuery, serverless (Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions), Spanner, Bigtable, and Firestore all come to mind.

One big challenge for cloud workloads is multi-tenancy. If you want to run arbitrary untrusted code on the cloud, your only option is something like gVisor (which isn't exactly a compromise-free solution). Nested virtualization is not secure and will likely even preform worse.
No modern day church comes close to that

That is just not true. There are plenty of great modern day churches if you go looking for them, they're just not tourist attractions.
As someone who's been at the receiving end of "applying pressure" (sanctions and bombing), it effectively did nothing to harm those in power, but instead only made innocent people suffer even more.

"Ideals" are not a constant, and each and everyone has their own. There are values we should strive to protect, but disenfranchising whole nation for the minority (not that long ago, USA had a minority government when it comes to popular vote) is exactly the wrong thing to do. There were plenty of businesses that didn't want to work with Trump-supporting companies throughout the world, but none of them went and said we shouldn't work with anyone from the USA.
Last I checked, Chrome offers a build in deminifier.
> your code probably isn't worth attacking

Maybe, maybe not. What bar do you set for "this product is worth attacking"? Because the product owners and the product users definitely thought that their product was valuable[1].

[1]The products in question were 1) Payment acquirer and processor, and 2) Munitions control software.
I like the idea. Making remote junior hires feel comfortable inteerupting and asking stupid questions is something I think about a lot, and that sense of connectedness is a key part of it. We're experimenting with Cosmos Video, defaulting to video on and mic off, but always being visible to others is a bit daunting. Blurred video might help.
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The "single neck to wring" doesn't really exist unless you're a Salesforce / Atlassian / ServiceNow sized customer. Below a certain size, good luck getting support from AWS beyond "read the docs". The thing is, most of the time your outages are because you screwed up. "Shared responsibility" means that unless AWS actually loses a whole region for the day, or S3 actually loses your data forever, it is still "your fault". Because you didn't balance across AZs, take backups, test backup recovery, understand point-in-time recovery or egress charges etc. As the article says, CTOs don't change cloud providers. I've been on the hook for DR exercises where the same stack is running on the same cloud and they've failed because engineers make crazy number of invisible hard-coded design choices. Once you build your product on AWS, you're pretty much stuck there. K8s offers kinda-of an escape hatch, because it's possible to build your SaaS on EKS in such a way that it could be migrated to AKS or GKE, but it's still a ton of work for the plumbers. So the reason that AWS has this proliferation of ready-made services (and there are tons of them - try sitting an AWS professional certification) is that you'll generally use them in favour of deploying your own FOSS thing (even if it's "just a helm chart away"). Because running a database cluster (for example) is never as simple as just deploying it. Once your engineers decide to use Cognito, Lambda, Kinesis, Aurora instead of doing a DIY, you're locked in. Hell, it would even cost a fortune to simply download the data to close your account (because AWS Snowball doesn't have an egress option where they'll drive a few PB of your data to your data center in a semi-truck)
The second one (written by me) is actually JIT-compiled assembly. So little of the runtime is spent in the C code that -O0 vs -O3 makes no difference at all; and even if you wrote the glue code in Python it would not be much slower than the C code.

Also the third entry is not the one in Rust. It's just that the Rust entry came later and thus was not included in the plot. The third entry is https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/215236/56694; it is also C.

> displace the C implementation in Rust or any other language besides C/C++/ASM

This is not a language contest, it's an algorithmic contest: that is, it's the best algorithm that wins, not the best compiler. The top entry, converted into C or Rust by mostly menial work, would probably be only a few % slower and would displace the C implementation.
> writing the HTML, CSS, and JS by hand.

plus careful image scale, quality and progressive display. Often images appear to be print quality. You need to know about the difference of web and print, however.
I’ve finally worked out that people who want something from me, like my company or my software or my expertise, will say whatever they have to say to get a deal - but once the deal is done they just do whatever the hell they want, regardless of what they said. It’s the opposite of what I expect. I can’t deal with it.

The people who do this are smart, confident and charismatic. It is clearly a negotiating strategy. But in reality, the only thing that matters is who controls the flow of money. If they control the money then it doesn’t matter what they said, they can do what they damn well please. They know this up front, and they count on it.

Despite these setbacks I’ve done alright for myself, but honestly, I’m really bummed out about how useless I am when it comes to judging people and creating businesses where I’m free to actually do my best work.

Anyway, I don’t know if that helps you, but you asked and honestly it has helped me a bit to vent even if it’s all in the abstract.
Depending on your faith this would seem to be the most unsurprising story ever! Is this news?