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Your question is essentially whataboutism. Both things can be wrong. We can care about this instance without diluting the conversation talking about something else that is also bad.
The NES did compete against the Genesis. Different technology generations, but they overlapped in the market for more than half of the NES's active lifespan, from 1989 through 1994. There were plenty of comparisons between early Genesis games and later NES games.
Define "a lot".

We colocate about 20 servers and on the average month, no one spends any time managing them. At all.
What I find hilarious is it was suggested instead of the test, a mathematics course in undergrad. Which I'm sure way more future teachers couldn't complete if they couldn't pass this basic test.
Absolutely agree it's a problem. If anything that it's so easily worked around by those causing genuine problems also makes it less justified.
I wonder. Standards might have changed for the younger population, necessary flirting skills in person are no longer maintained as widely as they used to. Generally, things that are challenging tend to be taken over by technology.

It is not that different from how people forgot to orient themselves in a city without navigational apps. Or how they no longer know how to, say, make butter (unlike in 1900).
Poor language skills would mean that a person would perform poorly at explaining all subjects. I don't understand the connection you made to STEM.
> type 2 fun

Great comment, and this phrase is going in my pocket.

> write-only memory

Could this be The Secret(tm) to transmuting base lead into gold? Rewriting the very memories that make up one's life.
If I remember right, the Saturn shipped shortly before the PlayStation, but it was more expensive ($400USD vs $300USD) and shipped in a manner that annoyed most retailers (it was initially exclusive to KB Toys, I believe). The article also didn't go into the add-ons released for the Genesis/Master System (the Sega32X and SegaCD among them), and how Sega's attempts at keeping the G/MS alive instead wore out many console owners.
Different cultural upbringings have different perspectives. These perspectives get backed into the tools that we create. When one culture dominates tool creation, its their cultural perspective that the world sees things through when they use that tool. When we have less people from less varied cultures building tools, we miss out on important perspectives and different ways of looking at or solving a problem.
The genesis was available in stores concurrently with the NES, and once it was released the master system didn't get much shelf space at stores anymore. The genesis has nearly around 2 years lead on the SNES if I remember correctly. The NES and Genesis definitely competed.

(source: I remember the store displays)
There's no evidence that "it" is working in the first place, though.
I think you're missing something from the cynical view, which is that basically everybody has to lock down their subjects' deposits at the same time to avoid capital flight while they're overhauling the system - for example a "coordinated bank holiday...and coordinated delinking from major currencies". It's an opportunity for executives to learn exactly who to call and what types of actions they might be expected to take in a major banking crisis, whatever the trigger.
Yeah, the only question is whether Alec knows that or not. He doesn't seem very clued in about gun safety and has said some very odd things to the press, which is also horribly inadvisable from a legal perspective.

I wonder what he'll do if he ends up having to take the stand in a civil trial.
Because the end of the email (wrongly in most cases) demanded a response by law and implied they were open to legal action, which caused a bunch of people to hire lawyers to check into their liability.
"Physical analogues of all the basic logic functions (AND, OR, NAND, XOR, NOR, NOT) should all be constructable."

Trivially so. Electronic circuits are not intrinsically digital, nor are integrated chip components. They are intrinsically analog. We get digital behavior out of them by building and driving them in a certain way. The cost/benefits tradeoff on using these components digitally is so nice for us that we do it so often that we can forget this fact, but it is a fact. There are a number of chips that have analog components and behaviors in them; you can find a lot of them in sound synthesis, for instance, especially older ones like the SID chip ("The chip combines analogue and digital circuitry, that cannot be emulated with 100% fidelity even today." https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SID ).

gorgoiler, you are speaking as if you consider analog computing a subset of what digital computing can do, but it's actually the other way around. Digital computing is a subset of analog computing where we deliberately construct a digital computer out of what are still analog parts. Anything a digital computer can do, an analog computer can do, because it can simply function digitally for that portion but then incorporate other analog components. And as is often the case, when you really get down to it the line gets fuzzy... is the Commodore 64 an "analog" computer just because it had an analog part used in a particular set of ways? I think most people would say no... but it certainly wasn't 100% digital.

As I mentioned in another comment, I kinda think the video does a disservice by going too deeply into "analogical" vs. "analog". They've separated in meaning now. The people he shows at the end doing modern analog computers are, as far as I know, building things that look a lot more like a modern computer, except the requirement that all the components be driven by a clock signal and that all voltages stabilize before the next clock is loosened and they permit other analog behaviors of electronics to come in, allowing for programmable analog computers. They're not building things out of cogs with direct and obvious connections to underlying processes... modern digital computers are far better for those sorts of things.
AWS or Google or any other reputable cloud provider are still far more better options then your local backup. Only way I see you losing your data is account getting locked.
Structure of a dating discussion: vilify anyone that doesn't pretend its awesome
I'm still peeved at what happened to my company around ~2006 or so which resulted in the exact same situation in the article.

In my case: Company A submits a driver with a feature in their driver that basically triples performance for our class of device. It was implemented in a horrific, unreadable way. Companies B and C (mine) each independently re-implement that feature in a less crazy, far more readable and maintainable way. Company B gets their driver accepted with this feature (I think it was part of the initial submission). We get ours NACKed and are told to implement it for the entire kernel. This would be fine, I suppose, if companies A and B were also required to remove the feature and help implement it, but they weren't.

This might not have been such a big deal if we had been a big company. However, we had 1 dev (me) doing drivers and support for Linux, Solaris, OSX, FreeBSD, ESX, etc. So in the short term, management directed that we have customers ignore the driver in the kernel and use the one from our website so we didn't have to stop development on other OSes to implement this feature for our competition. This feature was eventually implemented in a generic way (with my help), but for several kernel releases the driver on our website outperformed the in-kernel driver by a factor of 3 or more.

FWIW, FreeBSD had no problem with the feature, and another driver author eventually ported it out of my driver into a general layer where it still exists to this day, and is used by almost every driver in the OS.
I got the email and I nearly had a panic attack. The email wasn’t completely generic: it referred to my specific site. It also read an awful lot as if it was coming from someone who would be looking for the slightest mistake in my response so that they could sue me. Similar things happen[1]. And finally, it lied and said I was compelled to respond, quoting a law that said no such thing (and which wouldn’t apply to my zero-revenue personal project website anyway).

The stress wasn’t from the email. It’s that it gave every indication that I was being contacted by a legal troll, and that I might have to defend my hobby project in a courtroom. I couldn’t afford the costs of doing that, even if I ultimately won, and the idea of “well, there goes the college fund because of a stupid lawsuit on my hobby” was awful.

[1] https://tucson.com/business/group-barred-from-filing-disabil...
Yup, misunderstanding of basic math strikes again. I thought it's a joke when I first seen an argument like "X race does worse at Y therefore Y is racist". Then I thought it's some kind of running joke. Then I've noticed some people are serious about it so I assumed they got fooled by the running joke. Apparently it's no longer a joke and it's used to dictate policies.

Pretty scary situation. The dumb are winning with the dumbest of arguments and now you can't even test for it to prevent it :)
We're talking about the level of math that you need to calculate a percentage, or to average a handful of numbers.
I'll try to be brief because there are lots of reasons why I changed my mind:

1) I actually think I understand it now (I could still be wrong) because I studied it.

2) I had a very annoying use case sending money to a company in China and after having a terrible time with AliPay and getting nowhere, when I tried using crypto (not BTC) it was a breeze.

3) The way our financial system is setup has bothered me since 2000 and as a Finance professional one of the biggest problems our clients have is inflation, not CPI or RPI, but the growth of the M2 money supply. I've spent a long time thinking of solutions and the problems with fractional reserve banking and fiat currency. I've seen how money rots in real terms over decades sitting in cash (frankly due to poor investment decisions) and I'm certain that there needs to be a better way to store value in real terms. BTC is a likely contender for an intergenerational store of value. It's obviously not gold... but it could be as useful. Since the market cap of gold is ~10T, I think BTC could at least reach that level of utility.

I have other reasons but I rather not write an essay.
> I've never worked anywhere with Amazon's budget so why are they not handling this?

Perhaps we are going to discover how AWS produces such lofty margins by way of their next RCA publication.
> Offline/alt-cloud backups are probably a lot cheaper than you think, and will win you points during any audit.

With the caveat that you're going to have to implement all your access controls, monitoring and compliance mechanisms on those alternate backups. No point winning points during an audit for having backups outside AWS if you lose even more points for "backups weren't properly secured against unauthorized access".

And you're regularly restoring from those alternate backups as well to check their integrity, right?
Prostitution?
I prefer 3:2 ratio. Apparently it's the closest to human field of view.
This makes a lot of sense. In my tinkering with what a radically clarified form of programming would look like, I've come to believe that any such effort would have to be built around a database at its core. Personally, I think graph databases are a more intuitive fit for how we think about objects and their relationships to each other, but relational dbs are pretty close too.
100%. I met an AWS architect who told me his story of learning to code. He was a cab driver who took a software executive home one night and on the drive asked the guy what he did. He said he ran software teams/products and the taxi driver got some advice on how to move industries. The executive said check out a coding bootcamp. The taxi driver did, saw the cost, and decided he would learn on his own. He basically pulled the listed skills that the bootcamp taught and found free courses that focused on each of those.

He did it all via self learning. Obviously this individual was special and most people wouldnt be able to teach themselves how to code entirely on their own but these types of courses exist and will continue to exist as a free or low cost option for those people. Then there are the rest of us who have 15 paid courses that we will never start :)
Its quite possible the french version of the exam was a badly translated version of the English. I have no idea if this one was, but I've heard that is the case for some professional orders' license exams in Ontario and Québec. Translation to the alternate language is done because its mandatory but it is not done well.
> that is an edge case which Google would need to figure out

How do you figure out legality of having a document from the document? Unless it's child porn, where it's implicit, this simply isn't computable.
"We are talking about banning automatic weapons in America recently"

I haven't heard that at all. Do you have a source?
Does every company publicly announce their disaster recovery exercises? If you read the article, they didn't come out of the simulation saying that they needed to hire more cybersecurity people or upgrade their firewalls; they came out of it saying that they need tighter policy response between banks and governments of 10 different countries and the IMF.
The issue here was not primarily about deception. It seems mainly to be that (a) at least one recipient interpreted their mail as a legal threat, and (b) it was a mass-mailing. Spend a minute thinking through the implications if that were true, and you get a firestorm.

I suspect visibility plays a role in the comparison you're making; out of sight, out of mind and all that. But much more importantly, someone sending you what you think is a legal threat is a lot more salient.
It's not intended to be whataboutism (sorry about that, I edited this in to clarify) -- I agree that the deception was wrong. But there seems to be something about this particular event that is riling people up, and that's what I am getting at. I am not trying to whatabout, to be super clear.
I appreciate the intent of those who wish to maintain high standards and keep the kids well educated, but there is no point in having this argument without the bigger context of the failures of how education is administered.

We've well proven that in just about anything, it's extremely rare that you get improvement in large bureaucratic systems by making things harder on the people on the bottom, without also providing means and resources to make things better.

I've seen no good reason to think that standardized testing is something that improves this situation, especially as opposed to more localism and autonomy, better funding, etc.
That can be remedied by sinking the passing requirements to "just sit there and sign your name on the attendance list". Hey, no disparate impact, fully constitutional.
If you've ever tried using the Xbox Game Pass for PC, I think them offering it in itself will move users away to other stores and platforms. Not only are download speeds abysmal, but it frequently takes forever to even start a small update. Oh, and no option in the GUI to backup your games. You can only change your home computer 3 times. Reinstall your computer a few times and you will no longer be able to use offline play for a full year and you'll have to wait days to reinstall your games.
It really does not matter. It does matter, whether math instruction is good.
It might, I had never thought about it. It doesn't make much sense as in "doesn't imply 'I don't care about this'", but then again, very few of these examples do!
Your analogy isn't accurate, Poles in Britain still have EU passports so can move around as they wish.

It looks like a fair number of people applied for settled status in the UK just in case they wanted to use it to work part of the year here.

Brexit is bad but it is worse for native British people than those with EU passports.
"If we collectively prohibited all countries worldwide from producing weapons like tanks, rocket launchers, etc...

There would be no need for any country to own or acquire similar defences."

That's only true if there's trust and enforcement.
How is she able to shop a bag of groceries? I am wondering how someone can live a normal life with not knowing almost any math at all. My grandmother, born in 1910 and skipping most school because of WW1, was a housewife in a time when even not knowing to read and write was not a problem, but in 2021 this is no longer possible.
As long as this doesn't get blamed on the consumption of the balls of some heavily endangered micro ape that only lives in the nuclear wasteland near Fukushima...
Not that most apps even give good release notes. If we did have them you could expect:

“Thanks for being human. This update changes your DNA and may contain bug fixes and performance improvements. Keep on humaning!”
Societies that embrace this in full will be outcompeted by the ones that avoid this trap.
Skype for Business was incredible next to Teams. Lightweight client (even though it was WPF), developer SDK that actually provided basic chat functionality, notifications that didn't automatically get lost in the scrum. I miss it a lot.

The server infrastructure was a bit of a shitshow, if you ever had to maintain an on-premise deployment, and it must have been a complete clusterfuck to run the Skype for Business Online SAAS service they were offering. So I can understand why they did away with it, but I'm still very irritated that this many years into Teams, it's such an unfinished mess...
Ruby on Rails is one of, if not the most efficient framework, coined as the “one-dev framework” by its creator.

It is mature, battle tested, and has a great ecosystem.

Ruby is a pleasure to use.
Agreed. I'd say that happens to most podcasts or YT channels once professionalism, agendas and routine over excitement kicks in.
Maybe instead of ad hominem attacks you should develop an argument. Cheers.
Fair point regarding the golden goose. My point is there is more motivation to keep things as-is then to continue to adapt. Why is that? Because all the key decision-makers can just get up and leave when revenue starts to deteriorate. The good ones always do, because they are in it for more than a paycheck to support their mortgages.

Give birth and do not possess-Tao Te Ching, 10
Good points. Will you agree that businesses die due to unprofitability? And what causes unprofitability in a firm? One might answer a whole slew of reasons, such as profit erosions, but it is mostly due to lack of innovation; at least at the rate in which business cycles naturally move external to the business firm. It is the decaying rate of sales growth, then, which seems tautological, but what underlies the inability for firms such as IBM to continue to grow?

I recognize it takes four years for McDonalds to add a new product to their global supply chain. That is a symptom of scale which the administration therein attempts to streamline. In the likes of $KO, I would wager there is less complexity in the internal administration of manufacturing a beverage which has not changed in recipe in a century, and which takes nearly the same amount of time to launch diet coke. The good manufacturing practices, in other words, have not changed nor do they need to as KO continues to grow in market share globally for beverages.

Meanwhile, business computing has simply exploded since 2010 yet IBM's revenue has shrunk ~30%. Are you to suggest it is not the personnel that are responsible for its tepid business development in response to a market which moves fast and breaks things? That maybe the preservation of the internal cohesiveness of the organization as intrinsically valuable kills companies in the presence of new market environments which the organization is motivated to be responsive at the risk of termination? I advise reading The Innovator's Dilemma to corroborate my assumption.
“Auto” here being short for automatic, so “automatic pilot.”

I understand your explanation of the term with regards to airplanes, but not everybody understands that. Even if the term ‘autopilot’ is technically correct, it might be better to just call it driver assist for now.

I’m not laying the blame on Tesla for these sorts of accidents though. Regardless of the name, I think Tesla makes it explicitly clear how the function should be used.

I do think there is some friction here between Tesla’s branding and marketing goals, and the long and complex road to safe autonomous driving.
>I think you missed the part where I said this was not moral or virtuous. Don't go looking for virtue. You won't find it.

That's like, your opinion, man. There are plenty of businesses that run with integrity as a necessary motivation to sustain their future profitability. This ends up causing a more virtuous society where people do not need to tolerate evil in order to survive.

I don't buy into your argument for "effectively improving the world", i.e. one can keep a clear conscience and do extraordinarily well in life, metabolically speaking. And that's the point: the goal in life is not measured by temporal goods. But that's like my opinion, man.
Apparently not, because the EU doesn't seem to be up for enforcing them.
Thanks, that was the point I thought would be obvious for HN crowd.

Also unprotected IoT devices provide ways to protect the attackers.
This came up on HN a few days ago with a similarly hyperbolic editorialized headline. Google has always restricted objectionable content from being shared on Drive, Docs, or wherever the platform has sharing features. Google is, obviously, not going to act as a free static hosting service for your malware and porn.

What's new is that customers with paid accounts are going to be notified when their content has been restricted from sharing. Before this change it was silent from the user's perspective.
The question was written by another teacher, one that failed English?
> Try do anything in Spain/France/Germany/China/Russia/etc without knowing the language (or only knowing it basically) & it's like you're playing Russian roulette with people being rude.

I've experienced this in France, but in Germany the language may as well have been English. I worked for a German software company for a bit and English was spoken by everyone in their office in Bavaria. People in the region spoke English regularly as well. In Berlin I definitely heard more English than German on the street.
Good point. I hope the legal tradeoffs will eventually lead towards a better life for all, rather than a uniformly bad life for all.

For this, at least some discrimination is needed.
for a more complete solution, check out Bash On Balls, a Rails clone written in bash:

https://github.com/jneen/balls
Yeah that’s why I just stay out of it all together. If it’s really going to be world changing I can hop on when it’s mainstream.

Don’t need to be an early adopter of everything.
Have you contacted them to see how things are going?

Maybe a cheery note asking how the team is doing, sent right in the middle of an outage.

Passive aggressive? As hell. Cathartic? Damn skippy.
Cheering for this dark horse quite a bit; especially given that Windows 7/10 was essentially KDE, and apparently 11 is basically GNOME, can we go head and put the Microsoft Windows Desktop the burial it deserves?
Are you living in an English speaking country and using English all the time?

What you are describing sounds like how I felt for my first three months in England. I stopped feeling this way when I started thinking entirely in English and actually became fluent. It was quite nice because it also marked the end of my daily headaches in the evening. I had no idea about how physically painful immersion would be before moving there.
I have never read Art of the Deal, but that idea is a lot older than that book.

I mean, even Scotty from Star Trek verifiably beat Trump's ghost writer to the punch on that wisdom by years and it was already an ancient idea before that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw