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Quaternion trivia.

There was at one point a debate in physics about whether it was better to use quaternions or linear algebra for physics. With i, j, and k being the unit vectors, and the real numbers representing time. In the end, of course, linear algebra won. But we still use i, j, and k as the unit vectors. And in electrical engineering where i wound up hijacked for current, they use j as the square root of -1.
So are we all going to settle on Nix for build and system configuration? Something else? I'm so tired of dealing with teetering imperative build scripts that forget to configure half the world because those were the defaults on the first dev's machine.
It used to be "No one got fired for buying IBM." Now it's AWS. Many CTOs are very risk averse, and having someone to blame is incredibly valuable to them. My company has a large multi-region set of datacenters, but we're using AWS for a lot of new projects, despite being able to deliver similar services with better performance and cost, on-prem.

Some of the reasons are no one wants to be seen using old tech; stuck being the last COBOL dev. So there's a big incentive for developers and their managers to be using the latest tech; it looks good on the devs resume and grants them job security in the field, and it makes their managers look like they're sharp and on top of new technology.

Also, recruiting people familiar with AWS services is often easier than finding someone versed in on-prem tech. And for companies in less than desirable locations, this helps remove a staffing issue since it can all be done remotely.

And when something goes wrong on-prem, the CTO is expected by the rest of the C-suite to fix the issue. When it's a reputable 3rd party, he can absolve both himself and his team of responsibility.
This isn't reassuring at all. People also said the gov didn't have the bandwith\storage\processing to record every call. Then we found out it was also happening with our emails too
Maybe OP would be more useful if it was instead a polyfill for FF and other browsers which don't support that standard. Then people could use the text links without worrying.
Both are growing and getting wealthier. IIRC on a percentage basis the poorer countries are benefitting more, but in absolute terms the wealth countries are benefitting more (the wealthier countries have a lower percentage because they are already so wealthy)

From what I've read, most economists say that allowing more immigration between countries would improve both the lives of the people who move, and those of the destination country. I think it is worse for the country that they leave, but on net increased immigration would significantly increase global economic conditions
We have that law in California. Enforcement is lax. Sometimes it's a single piece of paper up on a wall in a hidden corner. Sometimes they don't have it at all.

But at the end of the day, it's not like you're price shopping when you're having a heart attack. You're going to the closest hospital and sorting out the cost later... which is exactly what they are counting on.
I think forced aspect ratio was very common in the era of these oldschool UI toolkits. Additionally, handling multiple classes of pixel density and input (touch vs mouse) was unheard of.
I don't think it's a bad metric (it really isn't a metric at all) but it's a bad example. It doesn't have anything to do with going out or drinking beer. I think there's a negative connotation because people interpret it as, "Less talented developers who can schmooze and socialize will get ahead". I don't think that's what this means at all. It's that writing software is a team sport and thinking that you can go it alone and that interacting with teammates isn't important is a flag right there. Your skills generally only effect yourself. If you're on a team of 10 your own personal skills are only 1/10 of the contribution. Worst case is you aren't that good but the damage is limited to 1/10th. If you've got problems interacting with people you can take out the entire team. Am I going to come in on Monday and have 5 developers at my door telling me about all the crap you pulled? Larry says you told him that you're just being honest but his code sucks. Susan says you revered her code and then made a monster commit touching nearly everything without telling anyone. Apparently you spent the entire weekend reworking the entire build system to some new system because according to you it's way better than what we are using and now no one can get any work done until they figure out what you've done nor did you get permission to even make the changes. Then to top it off insulted the entire team by implying they were too stupid to see how awesome what you have done is and they should be thanking you.

How are you going to fix this? If you were a weak developer there are things you can do to about that. Fixing a persons inability to get along with others is more difficult. So now they're in the position of firing you. You'd have to be really bad not to make it an unpleasant business and afterward it's going to take weeks to shake off the bad feelings.

As a hiring manager I'm never going be given a hard time for passing on what might have been a good candidate but I'm definitely going to hear it about hiring someone who makes their lives miserable on a daily basis.

See the problem now? That isn't a description of you but they don't know that but they've probably had experiences like that so they're simply playing the numbers at risk mitigation and when you give them reason to think that might be the way things are going to go they pass.
So when i sign up I should the phone number of my nemesis? Noted.
> I'm wondering what it will take to stop this

Single payer.
> to raise a dispute and get it settled, to decide whether Bob gets the money.

who decides?

and how?

and what are the consequences for Bob and Alice?

and what happens if Alice or Bob are not happy with the verdict?

> Alice is not available for some reason and just disappears, Bob will still get his paycheck

it's fun you don't see any problem and think of this as an acceptable solution, even if it fails in its most basic form.

You can only hire someone for a job if you have the money.

In reality many people hire someone for a job and thanks to their help they'll have the money to repay them in the future.

Money that at the beginning they do not possess.

Basically credit does not exist in your world, but you still think that it's better for the poor folks.

But what if Alice disappeared because she's dead, and Bob id the one who killed her?

do you ever stop to think about real life?

genuinely curious.

(not to sound harsh, but you just reinvented escrow accounts, in a more complex way...)
Had IBM Cloud account for a while. At some point, they started to attach a notice to a monthly $0 bill along the lines: if you card gets declined, we will fine you $25 and if you don't pay in 7 days, we will fine you further $50. Easiest account termination decision I have ever had. I guess the first email from Oracle "we are making routine changes to the T&Cs and our privacy policy" will be the end of my account.
Interestingly, if we go in the opposite direction we also loose something:

Real numbers (1-dimensional): No more algebraic closure [1]

though as you suggest we do gain a nice ordering where "nice" means "compatible with operations". BTW, you can always impose some ordering on all of these sets. It is the orderings' compatibility with arithmetic that we lose going from real numbers to complex numbers.

This can be generalized a little. Real numbers fail to be algebraically closed because some real polynomials lack real solutions, e.g. xx=-2. Complex numbers "fix" this problem since there every n degree polynomial has exactly n roots (counting multiplicity). In a sense, quaternions overdo this, e.g. xx=-2 has an infinite number of solutions (exercise for the reader). However, since quaternion multiplication is not commutative, polynomials as traditionally understood are ill-defined. For example, axx, xax and xxa are different degree two quaternion "polynomials". Ugh.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraically_closed_field
Yeah, that little bit made my jaw drop. Package manifests in a format the language doesn't have stdlib support for is insane.
If you want desperate salesmen calling and emailing you every day for months, this is your best option!
> The idiots can find each other.

Connecting the mentally ill and intellectually disabled and feeding them enraging misinformation in order to sell the maximal amount of advertising is not a business model that history is going to look kindly on.
I find chat to be essential (but I grew up on IRC), but I don't use it to supplant email/ticketing. I think there is a good balance to be struck between chat (more social than anything, tbh), a ticketing system (source of truth, via comments on issues, for most decisions/research), and email threads (official formal "I say x to you" sort of businessy things).

I think the key is getting people to use the right tools for the job. There will always be people who think chat is their hammer, to be used in all circumstances, and they are wrong.
Epic is worth almost $30b. They make the largest 3d engine and own Fortnite, a franchise worth billions on its own. They have their own game marketplace. Their legal team is squaring against Apple. They've got more resources than a tiny indy shop these days.
Most countries solve this by requiring hospitals to be non-profits and making insurance non-existent or also non-profit.
Of course, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it in the interim. My parent comment claims (through analogy) that Assange gave secret proprietary hacking tools to Manning. I don’t believe that’s remotely true.
Omicron was 0.00% of cases last week in the USA. USA is not a good case study, yet. We just don't have enough Omicron to really understand it on our shores.

Instead, I suggest to people to watch UK and South Africa instead. They drew the "short straw" so to speak, and it looks like Omicron is spreading wildly over there. (Well over 2% of cases in UK with exponential rises seen, while South Africa Omicron is already dominant)

I'm sure Omicron will be an issue here in the USA. But for now, keep an eye out on what happens with other countries, and see if we can learn from their actions. We have gotten a bit lucky and can afford to sit back and learn for an extra few weeks compared to these other countries.

EDIT: With "community spread" of Omicron, I'm sure that USA will see our share of Omicron soon. But I'm more willing to look at what the UK's health agencies say about it, rather than the CDC at the moment.
Been using it for months for a Minecraft server. Runs 10+ players with mods without much difficulty. I limited the RAM usage to 6GB though so that the Garbage Collector doesn't go nuts.
Except that Go is for command line programs and backend code; its standard library doesn't include a cross-platform GUI API for desktop applications.
Y'all are really taking this shit serious! LMAO. I think my own First Amendment rights should be revoked, actually! LOL

Jokes aside, I'm against censorship. I think information should be available to all but maybe with caveats and accountability.

BTW, I agree with the proposed remedies. But - Who's gonna bell the cat though? It ain't going to be any of y'all's Senators, CongressPeople or the Executive Branch. And we all know for damn sure that it's never going to be the Supreme Court.
I do wonder why simple products are often expensive. I think our microwave cost like $30-40 new, but it's got probably 20 buttons and a clock and the spinner and all that junk, and at the time I couldn't find any cheap options that were simple, only ones that were (like this) several times more than the cheapies. You'd think the one with nothing but a dial and no spinner (so, no motor, simpler design for the interior, no extra material cost for the glass plate, and so on) would be as cheap as it gets, but no. Microwaves don't even have the "because spying and ads offsets the price of more-complex sets" excuse that TVs do.
Of course, nobody really likes Oracle. But it is pretty cool and impressive that Ampere is able to trade blows favorably with something the size of Amazon.
I thought of Dart as a counterpoint, but if anything it's actually more proof. Dart kinda failed as a language in the browser because Google didn't really push it, and when they did it got pushback. Now that they've repurposed it for building mobile apps, it's surprisingly popular. Sure, not Go-levels of popular, but leaps and bounds more popular than if it were some scrappy OSS project. And it's in a similar camp to Go: reasonably uncontroversial (it's basically Java), large suite of libraries, backed by Google.
I agree. You can't know everything. When the 3D world moved to Quaternions I just plugged in the functions and accepted the fact that my maths wasn't good enough to really understand what was going on under the hood and I concentrated my abilities on building the rest of the engine, which was something I did understand.

Most people who drive cars have no idea how a combustion engine works, but the world doesn't completely descend into anarchy because of this.
They will always vet, synthesize, secure and edit their material. That's what makes it journalism. There's a reason Snowden went to The Guardian and not WikiLeaks.

Julian Assange is as much of a journalist as Mark Zuckerberg is.
I'd add to his argument, that the problem with software and uptime is that every time we add a layer of abstraction or library, the five 9s factor may apply.

Math.pow(.99999, 1) - One dependency.
Math.pow(.99999, 2) - Two dependencies.
...
Math.pow(.99999, N) - N dependencies.

And that assumes everyone is aiming for 99.999% uptime. Which isn't true.

There's other factors, but that's the one I'd point out.
Why not offer alternatives? Like working from home, limited crowding, wearing FFP2 masks etc. I hate jabs they make me dizzy
You assume we would be able to organize the social, political, and financial impetus to take on a task like that in a unified way that has a chance to succeed. Recent events seem to say that we are at least as likely to just fight about it until the asteroid hits.

For greatest success I think there would need to be two but probably not many more than two major efforts going on simulatneously, in much the same way that CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN were independently looking for the Higgs. If one fails for some unforseen technical reason, the other might not if they took a different approach.
No. One man's departure did not bring down Borland. Years after this guy left JBuilder was a great product that made them tons of money in the early 2000s. Java's popularity explosion (think J2EE) came years after the J++ debacle and JBuilder cashed in.

They disappeared because they weren't able to compete with the commoditization of Java IDE's (Eclipse) and Microsoft's integrated sales channel on Windows (Visual Studio). These two things killed their two biggest products.
Not true on most phones. Samsung and a lot of other manufacturers package a lot of non-removable apps and customizations to make the OS "theirs". Although I do find Google's line of phones to be relatively bloatware-free. (Although I still can't remove Google Assistant, obligatory voice-to-text, or a few other unwanted features.) Motorola's phones were also pretty good until their recent acquisition. Now they're getting just as spammy as other Android manufacturers. OnePlus is relatively good, but I can't remove Google Pay or their stupid gaming app for some reason.

Does anybody know of any other relatively bloatware-free manufacturers?
2.55 dollars/month for an extra 100GB -- you get 200GB free but they are hard to come buy because of where they are located. I ended up getting the entire free tier as expected, except for the storage which wasn't available in the region I selected.

I'm _very_ happy with the setup, and here's a silly github workflow to deploy to oracle cloud: https://github.com/matthewaveryusa/oracle_actions
>Inflation has been lower and more consistent over the last 39 years (and especially over the last 20 years) than any time in history.

The entire 19th century would take issue with that statement.

We've had about as much inflation since 1990, not including current pandemic related shenanigans, as they had in that entire century.
So, just like yours? How does this add anything?
Yes; it is. Teacher tells students something. Student is physically restricted from continuing on their life path until they memorize and repeat it as a belief, over and over again.

Critical thinking would be like:
- how can this be disproven?
- what is inconsistent about this story?
- what physical evidence would exist if this were true?
- what sources can you find that contradict this explanation?
- is [historical character] a believable person? Could this have happened with the normal people that you know today?

But this is probably not what they have in mind. It seems they want everybody to accept what is written in their textbooks, and ignore other sources. Unfortunately, nearly everything in them is objectively untrue, greatly exaggerated, or over-simplified.

How do I know this? Do I know the ‘real’ truth? I don’t, and that’s precisely why it works, but somehow every expert in every field will be the first to tell you that the textbook got it completely wrong for their discipline, and of course it was correct everywhere else. Oh and by the way, the other experts from the slightly-differentiated field are even more wrong.
You can absolutely still buy WordPerfect. It’s alive and well at Corel, updated regularly, and is something of a cult favorite in the legal field.

Lotus isn’t exactly dead. But it’s not exactly alive and well either.
I think POV-Ray was probably more impressive in 2000 than 2013, but even today I like the method of creating graphics via text rather than a GUI. That's probably because I'm a programmer rather than an artist, but it's why I still think fondly of POV-Ray even though it really has been surpassed in almost every way by Blender.
"Oracle" and "free" in the same sentence raises alarms. I've seen many years of Oracle filling their "free" offerings with horrible trap doors into massive amounts of financial obligation that are way too easy to accidentally fall through.
We're witnessing the difference between someone who faces justice head-on (Manning) and someone who spends a decade evading a court.

The justice system can determine a person's guilt or innocence, but only when they're brought before it. The enforcement system may, depending on their cost / benefit analysis, spend disproportionate resources to make that happen.
I can't imagine any shop that wouldn't just ring up your items if you answer “No thank you”.
> Prioritarianism, or the priority view, is a view within ethics and political philosophy that holds that the goodness of an outcome is a function of overall well-being across all individuals with extra weight given to worse-off individuals. Prioritarianism resembles utilitarianism.

From Wikipedia, just for context...
What I find inspiring about the Boston massacre is that founding father, John Adams, defended the British soldiers involved in it and doing so did not prevent him from becoming president in the future. The values of the electorate were quite a bit different in those days and really are knowing about and emulating the better parts.
Wait, are you saying Java performs worse if you give it more memory to work with?
When I say local I'm thinking like, you can have a sign on the sidewalk for your business or you can have a sign in front of your store or something. I wasn't clear on that - my bad.

I so far haven't seen any benefit to me personally from targeted advertising. A lot of companies take information about me and my activities without a true way to consent and then use that to send me ads or try and find ways to make me addicted to their products. If they got rid of targeted ads I think there'd be 0 detriment to my own life and lots of benefits. Certainly open to other arguments though.

> on the other I'm not sure how you make a product, service or SMB known without it and I doubt most of my friends' product, service or SMB would exist without online targeted advertising for finding customers

Yea personally I wouldn't care at all. It's like if you made a business that depended on selling nicotine or selling cigarette filters and then we banned cigarettes. I'm not saying we should or shouldn't here, just that if as a society we decided X was bad and shouldn't be sold, then people who sell products related to X I mean we shouldn't keep something bad around just for that reason.

> IMO the solution is more akin to giving more privacy rights and options than an outright ban, granted I have no clue if that is enforceable or how to implement.

I think this can work on the web or Internet technologies, but I'm also concerned about things like billboards, or the newspaper ad section that even when I call and ask them to stop I still get tossed into my yard or on the sidewalk. I don't want to see the billboard yet I'm forced to. I don't want people to throw newspaper ads on my front yard but I'm forced to. At least with the web though I can just turn on ad blockers and use technology to fight it. I can't do anything about the newspaper stuff. I fantasize about saving them for a year or something and then giving them back. It pisses me off because these things end up all over the street and get washed into and clog up sewer drains too.
I'm actually in the market for a decent guitar I'll have to try one out. The original hard edge was a little annoying but my main issue is more with how far to the right the guitar sits compared to a Strat, this looks like it might sit the same.
Yeah, this makes sense. People have economic and political power. It's easier to use the economic power to buy up all the land, but if you don't have that money, collectively you can use the political power to enforce beyond your boundaries. And all you need is 50%+1, with current turnout dropping that to 33%+1. Not bad altogether.
It's a trap send no reply.
Copied it into Applications and purged out the application data and it seems fine now - thanks!

It is a self-hosted install, using default dovecot on Alpine 3.14 in docker, which looks to be 2.3.15-r0. I've not had any issues with other mail clients. It appears to be that ID line which is causing the error, but nothing helpful is being captured in Dovecot sadly. SMTP works fine.
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Most of those issues sound like management/process issues, not technical issues. Our staff can't provision AWS instances without extensive review...
What about all the IoT stuff out in the field that can't be easily upgraded?
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis
Agreed. And there is really no opinion on earth more mundane than "Well, I wouldn't spend my money on it".
Oh my god. Oracle having my address and credit card number is a nightmare scenario.
Can't we extrapolate the rate of new strains from the existing cold coronaviruses which circulated widely?
He is probably thinking about the context of the 1980s, when a large amount of 3 byte waste (the 1 byte null char is a form of 'waste' itself) might have been a problem back then.
Block storage is $0.0425 / GB / month with ”balanced” I/O performance level whatever that means, file storage is $0.30 / GB / month.

Block volumes are attached to a specific virtual machine which views that thing as a local disk.

File storage is deployed on the virtual network, that thing is visible to all VMs in the network as an NFS server.
Created a tool to bulk DMs users on Twitter
Man this is exactly the kind of dystopian bullshit I would expect from Oracle.
Not sure if it’s fair to compare a raise announcement to layoffs. Raise is good news and doesn’t need to be handled as carefully as a 10% workforce layoff