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you are utterly missing a business dynamic here in America and elsewhere.. Companies that originate in, with strong-ties to, established finance, literally push skill down the pay stack, not up. What does that mean? If a certain engineering skill is rare, it will cost more money to pay someone, and harder to find. Therefore, commoditize and automate where you can, via cloud accounts and "best practices", outsource to another company where you can, and promote internally for ruthless cost-cutting, firing and aggressive contract manipulations. This is not extreme, this is normal and daily for decades.

The imaginary skilled professional you are describing clearly originates in the mind of an engineering worker.. a person gains skill through experience and is promoted. This is opposite of what management builds over time.. Management specifically and exactly destroys this career path because it costs them more money. As long as you can commoditize and outsource, you drive costs down, not up.

Meanwhile, it is "eternal September" in the job world, with streams of 20-somethings lining up to get into the markets. Add lower cost engineers, for example in Eastern Europe, South East Asia and South Asia. Rinse and repeat.
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> Not arguing with you, just genuinely interested on how long you would advocate for mask mandates? Would you be willing to accept mask mandates in perpetuity?

This is the problem, isn't it? For how long will these mandates be in place for? Right now, it's clear that they won't end until populations start revolting.
Could you post a link to this guide? My handwriting while not horrible could use some improvement, and is not helped by the fact that I am left handed.
Central banks try to keep inflation at 2% by controlling local wage inflation. However markets are globalized so price of imported goods are energy price shipping plus foreign wage inflation. Thus local central banks cannot control foreign wage inflation and thus inflation.

Local inflation is also exported through export prices but that currency exchange rate can control to some extent.
Even if a media tries to make a guess as to what you view as relevant they might not get it right and the internet will go banans and claim that the site is suppressing relevant stories.

Relevant can better judged in hindsight. I’d try to find an outlet which publish stories once a week, or less. That filters out the less important stories.
The fed may find themselves transitory at some point.
Eternal September, web edition. Or maybe I joined late when it was already fucked? Near 2000 we had to deal with all kinds of shenanigans, browsers having no standards, outright freezing when you did some thing with your webpage, obnoxious banners, popups, popunders, a lot of games on the web already had micro-transactions in the form of high price SMSs (which silently subscribed you to things, only for you to find out later in your monthly bill). When was it better, in the BBS era? Except not, because I watched a documentary and even then, people complained about the same thing. Older internet had nice things and shit things and the same can be said about the modern internet, except now I can install a proper ad blocker.
I know the common refrain with this inflation is that it's temporary due to COVID, but when I talk to suppliers and customers I'm finding that everyone's costs are skyrocketing this year (and last, as well).

I have no illusions that companies will immediately lower their prices the moment their input costs start dropping, not after weathering decades of pressure from buyers to race to the bottom. They are going to cling to these gains for as long as possible, which is going to influence downstream prices for years to come.

More importantly, the inflation is showing up in gas and highly sensitive related costs like transportation. But businesses are currently in the process of baking those costs into current and future B2B contracts, which are being negotiated now. We are just entering the period where all of those renegotiated higher-cost contracts are going to start showing up in final product values.

In my humble opinion, I expect to see CPI start reflecting cost increases throughout the economy over the next 12-18 months.
Yes good points. If a specialist background is required for election, you get some degree of technocracy into it.
The theory: government sets the prices because it controls the supply of patients

The practice: you pay for a news article about a grandma unable to get healthcare. The government reacts by ensuring that all healthcare is paid for - with no cap to cost. After all, every life is sacred.

COVID-19 response showed us.

> My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable.

> We will not put a dollar figure on human life.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nygovcuomo/status/124247702908329...
Even in gaming having multiple identities is a bonus, or even if you have the same identity having radically different customisation per game is important. I actually find it weird playing games if they actually bother to use my steam profile picture.
Spanish Flu did evolve to become more mild. All modern seasonal flu variants are descended from it.
Damn Y, always coming in and ruining everything. I'm sick of it!
But the amount of technical debt created by always using the leadt effort solution can be huge.
there was a plot the other day of the "Temperature Anomaly (rel to 1980)" over Europe in the morning: the adjusted scale was going from -30 to +30 °C.

i know climate change has the effect of "shifting and widening gaussians", still an anomalous temperature differential of 60 Celsius was a bit of a shock.
This is another problem of the modal Western approach. Few people have any knowledge of mitigating strategies or medications because we've moved so aggressively to eradicate discussion of those things.
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Is there a more practical test for this than trusting what the person answering says? Like the aphantasia equivalent of one of those colorblind pictures where different people see different numbers.

I struggle to determine if I can visualize imagery or not. I don't trust my initial answers and would prefer something that is less dependent on my own assessment. Would something like a (lack of) aptitude for manipulating unfolded 3D shapes or something work for this, perhaps? Or the ability to plan a route based on the shortest map distance? Because I can do that..
Tape also has some inherent disadvantages. Perhaps surprisingly, the lack of near-instantaneous seek to the data you want isn't one of them. The larger issue at scale is that it's not disk. It's a separate kind of device, with its own power and (often very stringent) environmental requirements, and its own software. Also big silos aren't cheap, both because of inherent cost and for lack of significant competition. Hyperscalers hate that type of heterogeneity, so they'll only go down that road if they feel they have no other choice. Yes, media are cheap, but the extra operational complexity can obliterate that advantage.

A lot of this doesn't apply as you go smaller, but also the drive cost starts to dominate (can't be amortized over many cheap tapes). There's a pretty narrow band where tape is likely to have a real advantage over super-high-capacity disks.
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I like write on paper. I have written journals for 14 years, which now fill one section of my bookshelves.

This year I switched from fountain pens and clairfontaine notbook to E-ink tablet, Supernote A5x.

the main purpose is to keep the record in digital formats, And so far I am satisfied. The OCR sucks, though. I hope Supernote may adopt the GPT-3.
Yeah, I did not notice it was not a new post (although it was new, and a good read, for me). For some reason, it jumped at me as new in my RSS reader. Thanks to whichever mod added the tag! :)
What are you talking about? You make revenue, you disclose the revenue, you file taxes. Doesn't matter if you do it as a private person or as an LLC.

You can incorporate to reduce liability easily, it does not cost a lot of money in most jurisdictions.
> effective training and credentialing

By the time you're done creating the perfect "Information Security Certification" test everything will have changed. Even the most nebulous of security certifications (CISSP; which has a super generic test that doesn't cover much in the way of "practical security") still requires 5 years of experience before you can even take it.

It's just as bad as the JavaScript ecosystem. Maybe even worse, actually.

Information security is an ultra fast moving target. The only way for companies to effectively manage it is to hire people who constantly fuck around (with technology) and are always learning (the limits of) new things. It's incredibly hard to hire (and retain) people like that.

The "safest bet" for someone who really wants to be a great InfoSec professional is to get really good at Linux systems administration then start learning how to break into things. Because once you've broken into a system you need to know how to create/execute payloads. Otherwise you're going to get stuck on the first step every single time: Finding the vulnerability. You need to be able to exploit one host and then use that one to break into another system (pivot).

Learning Windows systems administration isn't as useful IMHO because there's fewer systems and they're all the same for the most part (monoculture). You can pick up everything you need to know about exploiting Windows in a short time and then exploit it limitlessly (haha) later. Whereas Linux sysadmin skills are applicable to a very wide array of systems from embedded stuff all the way to supercomputers.

Also, if you're going to get into hardware hacking or making physical devices that help you test the security of things Windows skills are basically useless. Nobody actually loads Windows 10/11 on to something like a Raspberry Pi in order to place a physical back door somewhere (or interface with SCADA systems, air conditioners, etc).
By the time you hear of an impending national disaster (maybe a pandemic), you can take no further steps to prepare because it's already happening. IMO, being able to prepare and brace yourself for coming change or disruption is a key benefit to consuming news.
An inexpensive bit of consumer tech. was able to accomplish something that years of human teachers could not.
Don't all viruses become more mild over time? Even Ebola gets much less lethal towards the end of an outbreak as it evolves to preserve its habitat. Small pox is a possible counter ecample it seems like it was pretty lethal for millennia.
> It's a miracle that the human race has survived this long

It's not a miracle or anything close to that level of implied bafflement (devoid of being able to explain it rationally). We're excellent survivors overall, and a lot more than that. We're very skilled at resource utilization, we're relatively talented at conceptual thinking, we're competent tool builders on a planet ripe for it, we possess the ability to plan far ahead and understand consequences numerous steps out, we have memory capabilities that are quite effective across most of our lifetimes, most of our species is not particularly violent and is generally good natured & friendly (only a very small fraction of the population will ever commit serious acts of violence), we function quite well together in groups/tribes/cities/nations (compounded, shared outcomes), and so on. It's not particularly complicated, despite the doomsayers that will never stop existing amongst us (their mentality says more about them than it does the human race).
> "Systemic issues in SA causes more money to be lost than sending money to Uber Eats... thus the parent's point of not supporting Uber Eats is moot"?

Fair enough, the point about not supporting Uber Eats is great. I boycott Amazon for example for similar reasons. I'm just a bit tired of hearing how awful the west is while any problems that the west creates for South Africa is negligible compared to the problems that South Africans create for themselves.

But yeah sure, fuck Uber eats, where I live (in the west) we don't even have Uber never-mind Uber eats. But again we have legislation that prevent them from operating here, put in place by politicians, who were voted for by the populace, same as in South Africa. So you know, the root cause remains the root cause.

South Africans en masse can claim they don't want Uber eats to operate there, but of course they would never stop voting en masse for shitty politicians either that keep screwing them over and that allow Uber eats to operate there.

But I guess if you are the kind of person who thinks lynching a Pakistanis and Nigerians will fix something, then probably it also seems like a good idea to boycott Uber eats while voting for politicians who allow Uber eats to operate.
I'm the original poster. So Microfrontends are basically splitting up a frontend into individually deployable parts much like microservices. We've decided to do this because of the number and size of our teams working on our frontend.

For a little more on microfrontend this is a good description on the idea:
https://micro-frontends.org/

As for the debate, we have a monorepo/microfrontend now and it is quite a bit of work to maintain it and certain parts of it are starting to show the lack of resources put into it. We can't deploy easily individually, our tests are very slow, and crucially our organization thinks there is significant risk in a deployment so they have set a very complicated and long QA process for us to get deployments to production.

Realistically I think it is an organizational issue and I've been leaning towards multirepo due to the restricted resources and it would be easier to put some of this work on the teams making the individual parts themselves.
I have a need to store a few hundred TB of data, and tape is extremely expensive for this, since it has a $5k+ upfront cost.

So I just buy external $200 USB hard drives.

There is a market for something lower latency, higher capacity, but pay as you go (no upfront cost).

Frankly I wouldn't mind some sort of giant disk drive, vinyl record size, if that makes sense and is lower cost/TB.
"Elder millennial" checking in. I'd not have any Internet service at home, including on cell phones, if not for a few things that require it—even if I didn't work from home, my spouse's job (teacher) requires home Internet these day (even pre-pandemic), and it's practically required for kids in k-12 school now, too.

If not for external pressure to have it, I'd not find it worth ~$1,000/yr for home Internet and ~$400/yr for my cell phone's Internet service. That's a hell of a lot of entertainment money to put toward something else, and that's before you pay for anything on top of it (say, streaming services). In fact, it'd almost be worth paying that much to get my wasted Internet time back (he writes, on HN).

In my teens I couldn't wait to jack straight in to the 'net. Now? Screw it. I'd rather live entirely in meatspace. I think the whole thing's been, overall, a mistake that I wish we could obliterate.
> How do you reconcile this with the human race existing for so long?

For a disease to make us go extinct it would have to be highly transmissible and have a fatality rate of close to 100%. Anything less than that, and evolution will produce a generation of humans that are resistant to (or otherwise able to protect themselves from) the disease, and from there the population will replenish itself. The great plague had a fatality rate of 30% and it didn't even come close to threatening our existence as a specie. (In fact, the resulting redistribution of wealth arguably contributed to the advent of the renaissance.)
It’s less awful than the “hey guys look at the thing I just learned!” blog posts that are so embarrassing to read.
I remember there was some analysis done on the SSD of an old early model Surface Pro showing that with age the SSD would become slower at _reading_ data that had not been modified recently. EDIT: It was this story https://mspoweruser.com/samsung-releases-firmware-update-for...

The fact that the SSD controller has to do anything at all to read data that was stored only a year ago is a hint that data retention on a SSD requires some (powered) effort.
The issue is that at the average height of the astronaut the rotation speed at their head would be half of that at their feet given the 4-5m modules we can launch.

I don’t know what is the maximum difference that would be tolerable but it’s not 2x for sure.

So to get it down to single digit % you are looking at 200M+ or so in diameter.

If it’s just for sleeping and liquid pooling at the back won’t pose a health risk then if they are lying down the diameter can be much lower but you are still probably looking at 15-20M which might be possible with inflatable modules I think 3.5-4X expansion would be quite possible with the existing inflatable modules we have.
Thank you. That’s so kind.
>but not always

Nonetheless, in your example it did. At extreme cost, though that was already understood when you said Spanish Flu.
I excluded Minio because that's not branded as a CNCF project but that doesn't make the comparison less invalid: if you're building an S3 replacement, you will need to spend a lot of money up front hiring people, buying hardware, and building an equivalent service. That's a significant 7+ figure commitment just to get to the point of saying that you have an equivalent service.

If you buy storage by the petabyte or use a large enough amount of network egress, you can definitely make that money back but it's a major commitment.
But would you also engage in these behaviors if you couldn't go online and A) project action onto an "army" that neither exists or has occurred; and B) gain social prestige by allying with a dominant narrative?

The question isn't intended to be rude, or suggesting your motives are tarnished. Just a query into the extent online projection (and presumptions about it) affect our choices. Note also that I am distinguishing between your stated choices and the choices themselves.
Terrible predictor?

"While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where–in the holy names of Education and Progress–important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued."
disgusting romance. meaningless, useless and empty
he, journalists really should step up their statistics game.
Wearing a mask in a supermarket does not "stop the world economy". Americans are borderline insane with the mask mandate
They don't fit in existing bays.

But even if we define a new standard of (say) a hundred 12" platters in 12" high cases, the fixed infrastructure (r/w heads, arms, case, board) does not scale as well as tape.
Gathering news/article links & source links into sagas? Perfect. Love that idea.

Would it be user-submitted links & tag based?

My imagination takes me to something like: the overall #covid-19 saga, plus the sub-sagas: "#covid-19 #delta", "#covid-19 #omicron"

Super curious what your approach will look like!
When you bring in a new technology or capacity to on-premise, you would want to maximize the bang for the buck which means that you want to review your roadmaps to see who else could benefit from the new technology or capaciy. For Cloud services, this is not really required. Also, there is a level of trust with the Big Three meaning that we can trust that they will be able to manage SQL,Cassandra etc with ease; this IT departmens do not have the manpower bandwidth to keep on adding new servers or services. Hence some of reveiws are not really required.
Three protestors had guns all of which were in peoples vehicles or 'on capitol grounds'.

Were any proven to be brought INTO the capitol?

WOW SUCH INSURRECTION

What you're doing is literally the definition of sensationalism.

You're overinflating statistically insignificant details to create an inaccurate narrative to promote your political agenda.
I use it from time to time for work. It lacks some of Mathematica’s typographic flair (can’t ctrl-^ to get a superscript box or / to get a fraction) but IIRC has better undo support on desktop and satisfactory performance as long as your output expressions don’t get too big. The web layout engine chokes pretty badly for medium-to-large expressions, although there is an automatic transition to pre-rendered images at a certain level of complexity.

I use it when I want an industrial-grade CAS for some nasty integral or when I want to do something LISPy.
> According to who? The Chinese govt?

All of the sterilization / birth control claims are sourced to Chinese government data. That's the best data available.

Given the large economic investment in Xinjiang (which is part of China's attempt to decrease dissent) and the very visible improvements in living standards there, it makes sense that life expectancy is increasing.

> There is no basis for your claim that the forced sterilization/abortions of the Uyghur people occurs at similar rates within the Chinese majority

Up until a few years ago, forced sterilization / abortion was something that basically only the Han majority was subject to. The Uyghurs were exempted from the 1-child policy, just like most ethnic minorities.

Over the last few years, China has loosened the policy, so families can now have 3 children, but it has started applying it to ethnic minorities as well.

> There is no basis for your claim [...] that it is merely an enforcement of the three child policy.

No basis? There's no basis for believing otherwise. If you pay attention to the reporting, the horror stories are mostly about people who have had more children than the policy allows. You can very legitimately oppose China's 3-child policy, but calling it "genocide" is obvious hyperbole.

"Genocide" is an extremely serious accusation. It means an attempt to physically annihilate a people. It evokes images of death camps and crematoria. Yet you're now arguing about whether or not the Uyghurs might be subject to harsher enforcement of the 3-child policy or not. That's not genocide. The word should not become a cheap rhetorical tool.
The only scene missing from John Carpenter's "They Live" is the one where the aliens and their collaborators talk about how great the terraforming is progressing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia#Research
Not really all movement. Seems to be more when it has some resistance, like pressing keys on a keyboard (although not always) or trying to hold something tight, or like I said before closing a ziploc bag.

If I move the joint of my middle finger especially tighter and looser in the air it feels and sometimes sounds like a small pop each time it gets tighter though.

That finger does seem to be the worst one for discomfort and mild pain, in fact.
It's not news. You can read the trials yourself from months (year?) ago and know this. Important, yes, but not news.
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