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I have been using Google Photos for the past 9 years with no problems. Last year I decided to try out OneDrive, if any of you are using OneDrive, please leave a backup somewhere else or, at least, don't use the selective sync feature, which only syncs some files and folders locally. I used to use the selective sync, then
I toggled it by accident, OneDrive created all the folders and was downloading the files when I decided to interrupt it and turn on the selective sync again. A few months laters, I found out that this little incident made OneDrive assume that my newly created empty folders were the right thing to backup and I've lost a decade of photos.
Yes, I know it's 100% my fault, I should've known better than to trust microsoft with anything. And let's be clear, when I say trust, I don't mean that I blindly trust Google either, I just trust them to be competent.
With all the Apple I clones and the like, I am wondering why I have not come across a hardware Pong clone — using original TTL logic (not a modern microcontroller or FPGA).
“US hospitalizations are at an all time high,”

How do you know that? My question, really, is how do you know what you know and are not being misled? (A la WMD to use an easy, universally understood, example?)

“2000 people are still dying every day,”

No, they’re not. According to the CDC (why do I trust them?) its currently 500/day [1]. It hasn't been > 2000 since September in the midst of the Delta spike. But even before I looked at the CDC I doubted your claim because:

- The vast majority of adult Americans are vaccinated. (>70%?). Its far greater in the vulnerable population.

- Of the unvaxxed, a great number of them are already recovered (or dead)

- You agree, this leaves a significantly reduced pool of people for the Grim Reaper to harvest.

Therefore, 2000 dead/day in January 2022 would have been far far worse than the all time high of 25 000/ week (>3000/day) we reached in Jan last year because the normalizing population was much higher then.

For your figure to be correct then, omicron would have to be, not just more contagious (it is), but a spectacularly more deadly variant than Delta instead of being relatively benign.

“and it feels like everybody is just okay with that now. What happened?”

We’re not OK with it, we’ve made peace and learned to live with something that has become endemic and will never go away.

2 years of pandemic implies 1/40th of an average lifespan. Thats not insignificant. But it gets worse

2 years is 66% of my toddler’s life. A toddler that doesnt know what a peer’s smile is since she’s masked all day.

2 years is 33% of my first grader’s life. Who luckily avoided any long term school closures, but goes crazy whenever there’s a two week “virtual learning” session.

What happened is, therefore, that peoples lives cannot be put on hold indefinitely. There are worse fates than death [2]. We have the tools and knowledge to deal with COVID and we want to return to normal.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

[2] ironically, a person who doesn't understand that doesn't have much to live for.
I've tried that. Introduced an "enterprise license" that costs a lot more and told people they needed to get the enterprise license if they want me to fill their stupid questionaire.

Not a single company took me up on my offer. After hearing I would charge extra for the questionaire, they always just bought the standard license and filling the questionaire suddenly wasn't required any more.
While Ireland does have a capital that contains a higher proportion of the population than is normal for other European countries you are still overstating how rural the rest of the country is
I'm not an economist but the examples with tobacco and premier league wages struck me too as extremely bad. Supply/demand curves are an abstraction and for that abstraction to be remotely useful, you need to assume all else is being equal. You can't just take decades of data, with massive change in culture and health consciousness, and declare "Supply/demand curves are wrong because tobacco price fell, while consumption also fell! The economists lied to us when they told us price is the only thing that drives consumption!"

Well, bullshit, no economist ever claimed that.

And the rising salaries of the premier league plays are not a big mystery. If all clubs can fire the worst 50% of their players, their salary budget is increased. If that happens in a company like McDonalds, you can can just keep paying the rest the same or even less because everyone can flip burgers. Premier league clubs can't just pocket the "saved" money, they still need the absolute top players to win and if you don't pay your talent the most you can afford, some other club will.
This has nothing to do with the failings of supply/demand curves. If anything it's a prime example of them working exactly as expected.
So does calling out sexism and being socially conscious in general. It still has to be done.
> I think C++ gets unnecessary hate , every language has its quirks, you just avoid the bad stuff and stick with the good bits.

C++ is the single most complex programming language ever devised. I don't think it deserves hate per se, but it there is no other language as hard to learn, as hard to write safe code for, and as hard to read.

Even your example of type inference is actually very hard to learn. If I do `auto x = 7;` will x be const or not? If I have `const int &y = 7; auto x = y;` will x be const int? int? const int&? What if it's a pointer, or volatile instead?
Sure the death “rate” is lower per infection but in absolute numbers, we’re creeping towards the peak again. Kinda of sad people are thinking 3-4000 people dying per day is acceptable and an excuse that everything is ok. That’s one 9/11 event per day in terms of death.
Cool. Can you say the same for my elderly relatives that would like to spend time around our child? I’m not as worried about the child as I’m worried about him spreading it to someone who won’t be spared.
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> Why is it weird that people should spend time preparing for ask for a new job? I mean, ask an orchestra musician how much time they put into preparing for auditions, or how much time many degreed professionals put into passing a certification (e.g. the bar exam or medical boards).

It's weird because the preparation is often the thing we're not doing in our day to day.

I'd also go as far as saying if you need to cram crazy hours shortly beforehand to pass any exam or test then you're not really qualified to pass. If you were qualified you wouldn't have to do this because you'd already comfortably know the answers. I get wanting to casually review the finer details which is fine, but if you're in "oh crap, it's Tuesday and the test is in 3 days, time to drop my life and cram 10 hours a day to prepare" mode, maybe you're not ready?

I also think you can't compare software development to musicians or sports. I do play the guitar and there's a massive amount of muscle memory involved. I've gone a few years without playing in the past but within a few minutes of picking it up somehow my brain can resume where it left off and my hands just move to the right places almost on their own.

The same can be said for sports, there's a lot of practice and warming up to burn in muscle memory and literally get your physical body in an optimal state. Also the stuff you're practicing is directly applied to what you're "really" doing in your professional day to day.
I just recovered from Omicron and I was vaccinated. I am not sure what your grandparents are going to tell me. That I should get another shot of the vaccine that did not prevent the disease?
Oops. submitted the wrong link and it doesn't seem like I can edit the url https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...
Yes, in a lot of the US. I know so few people who do not drive kids to school that the outliers are remarkable.
I’m worried about him spreading it to immuno-compromised relatives.
I believe leaders also have an incentive to muddy waters because wage shortages are causing hospital capacity to fall, but it is easier for them to claim COVID. It would be nice if we were able to see the change in how many nurse/technician hours were available over the past few years.
Let's stop going on the internet and showing off stupid decisions first, shall we?
The claims I made are not solely about China: they're true about very many other developing countries as well. See, for example, India.

That said, I would dispute the claim that China's economic system is distinctly non-neoliberal. In fact, most of the key elements of China's economic reform were about bringing it closer to neoliberalism rather than taking it further away.
It's also a relic of a time when maintaining a house was a lot of work and reasonably analogous to a full time job. That is when chicken soup involved plucking and preparing a chicken instead of buying stuff from the store and throwing it in a instapot.
Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years
What are those? EMTALA seems like it would cover hospitalization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...
Mandatory prenups that have to be approved by a judge along with the marriage license.

Mandatory coursework on what divorce looks like.

Affirmative renewal of the marriage every 7 years.

Marriage is nothing more than an implied legal contract, whose terms are set upon dissolution, and a lawyer would be disbarred for advising their client to enter into such agreements.
I spent a good chunk of last year in a developing country that locked down.

The economic consequences are still being recognized. Drive around the prime tourist areas and all the storefronts are empty. Factory workers are going back to their small towns and waiting it out, so factories can’t find workers. Western companies are canceling orders, etc.

They are learning you can’t turn chunks of the economy on/off. Every change of rules mean investors and customers eventually just “sit and wait it out”. Plus the cost of restarting factories, bringing tourism back, etc isn’t small, so when countries go back and forth the smart move is to just sit back and wait.
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They were trained to be good little consumers and they are doing a splendid job.
It feels more like auditions for tech involved being assigned a random instrument, even though you've been playing flute for ten years and they are hiring because they need a flautist.
> F# might be preferable

For getting something live quick: yes.

But the learning experience of writing some pure-FP code is destroyed by "just throw an exception" and "use “?” and “!!” operators to tell the compiler that the type is correct"
They are also reticent because so much money flows from Federal Govt.
I have never heard that quote from James before. Are you sure about the JVM? The JVM was quite controversial back then, Java first had to prove that you could make a performant virtual machine.

But Guy Steele claimed "We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
Some people just have black-white thinking. See also "vaccines are not working" and lots of other nonsense.
A large part of the mask compliance IMO was due to having consistent mandates and messaging around masking, so it's tied into the overall approach to restrictions.

Canada being sparse is a bit misleading. While yes, it's a very large country with relatively few people, 90+% of people live within 150 km of the US border, and the population density in major population centres (Toronto / Vancouver / Montreal) is comparable to US metro areas.

Vaccination rates you're correct, but the lower impact of COVID was observed pre-vaccination as well.

General health is a good point though, I'm sure it's a factor - I don't know if it explains such a large difference in death rate though.
> Preaching "floods don't exist!" to the exhausted people who are watching the river subside after slinging sandbags for three days.

Alternatively, many who were caught in the flood washed up safely on the shores, returned back to town to see people ripping down their houses to build barriers against the flood that they thought was the end of the world.
I live on a small lake in New Hampshire. Have some respect for ice safety, but it can be quite safe. 6 inches of ice is more than enough.

I ride a Rokon motorcycle with studded tires on our lake.

Golf sounds like fun.
In my experience proving common-law relationship is tricky because it’s very undefined, and you may think you meet the requirements but the documents authorities will demand (because they do, they don’t just take your word for it) aren’t something most couples think of setting up until the time/need comes. Much easier to just show a marriage certificate.
Pastures are the future. There's a reason the US Midwest had such great soil — it's not simply a confluence of rivers & luck. The buffalo did their thing, and the grasses they fed on were fed in turn by them. Replacing corn and soy with ruminants will replenish the soil, provide excellent protein for people, and get rid of the cheap, food-like things made from corn, soy, and their chemically-coaxed out byproducts. It's not too late. (A nice effect of this would be the likely (it'll take a while) replenishment of the Ogallala Aquifer.)
That's how I hire and run software development projects. I hire with this management style in mind. Hiring people who can't work this way raises the risk that person will not work out for other reasons. There are big companies throughout tech that over-control their developers and other key workers. I don't know how they arrived at the theory that they can get more work, more reliably, out of coders by "managing" them with over-formalized project management styles.

There is some aspects of process, like creating adequate test code and root cause analysis, that needs to be formalized. But apart from the it makes no sense for coders in a first tier tech company to be managed by bureaucratic methods like SAFe. I recently recruited a very high achieving engineer out of an organization that I would not have thought would be so bureaucratic.
The whole commercial system is so full of perverse incentives. It is absolutely horrible what we do to your planet but there is so much momentum behind this. Someone near me loves to throw things away. I kid you not. Mountains of disposables, perfectly good stuff gets replaced just to get something new. And let's not get started about the amount of food that goes into the waste bin even though there is nothing wrong with it other than that an expiry sticker says it is now one day over time.

Personal status report: articles of clothing bought in the last year: 0. Articles of clothing bought in the last three years: still 0. And I don't think I'll be buying any for the next year either and then likely I'll buy some underwear and socks.

But for my kids (who are growing quite rapidly) it is a completely different story and I suspect that that is one factor that pushes up that average.
Last time I tried LineageOS it only came with whatever Google blobs were necessary for the phone to function, e.g. Fi stuff for Pixel/Nexus models, and that sounded like it was optional if an owner wanted to use a different carrier.

I think the bigger weakness on the security front is the blobby nature of the kernel and firmware for the properietary parts of the SoC. It's certainly better than running out-of-date official Android releases though.
Death by Covid is somehow more important than other causes of death?
Pin versions and it works forever in Elm too.

It's not a really point in favour or against Elm, and the dep specification is good enough to tackle it.

And "having no new versions" is not considered a good thing in my book.
Why is no-fault divorce better? If you detonate the marriage, you should get much less.
That you should be glad that your vaccination made you an order of magnitude less likely to have a severe case? Polio didn’t kill most people either.
You've hit the nail on the head. If all these externalized cost were actually included in the price of the product it would raise the price massively and no one would accept today's low-quality ware anymore.

Maybe?
Yet it didn't have any of the dynamic nature of Objective-C which made the attempt to replace Objective-C in OS X with Java a failure.
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> Also, who says I'm a "he"?

Assuming you're saying this as a way to effectively double the pool of people your throwaway comes from, adding a bit to the entropy. Adding more writing style sample, and on another topic, probably does more to identify you than the extra bit of entropy reduced.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chilly+open&rlz=1C1MSNA_enUS...
Thanks! This, minus the free food, reminds me of the previous few jobs I've had :-) -- in fact I haven't experienced the finger pointing look-after-oneself-only culture (and seems never will happen).

What you wrote gives/reinforces nice ideas about how to build an ok workplace, thanks :-)
IBM has had this argument internally for eons.

When i was there, two decades ago, people were making presentations internally saying the same thing - "without affordable volume machines that random people can buy and use to develop, this ecosystem will fail"

Then, like now, there were even organizations/companies people thought might eventually take care of doing this that weren't IBM (Spoiler alert: They didn't)

Given that it has been at least two decades, i'm not sure whether that makes the doomsayers wrong or right.

But I am sure of one thing: IBM didn't care to do it then, and doesn't seem likely to start caring to do it now
“ Over the next decade, give or take a few years, every single person on earth has a date with this virus. We will all be exposed, and the virus might replicate in some of our respiratory mucosa.”

Exposed, not infected, though even if they did say infected, a 10 year timespan is better than a 2 year timespan.
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Except that some economists did predict the global financial crisis based on their models. The thing that marked them out was that they were all heterodox economists. Largely the predictions were based on a solid understanding of the financial system, something mainstream economics completely ignores.
https://voxeu.org/article/no-one-saw-coming-or-did-they
>No one cares until it affects them.

While many don't care until it affects them, that is not even close to universally true.

I was surprised at the number of people who didn't care, and it seems to be about 50%, but characterizing everyone that way is incredibly unfair to all the people who worked tirelessly to try to convince people to get the vaccine.
There’s a massive difference between COVID and those diseases, though, in terms of impact (death, crippling, etc) on the young and healthy. COVID isn’t all peaches and cream, but it’s not smallpox. The response to smallpox warrants a different level of severity than COVID.
I’ve decided to give up drinking after I caught Covid over the Christmas break… sort of a “complete recommitment” to my health. Add to that, hangovers have gotten fairly brutal north of 30.

The ultimate life hack I’ve found for when you feel like a beer is Lagunitas Hoppy Refresher. They’re super tasty, zero alcohol, zero sugar, zero carbs. It’s basically seltzer flavored with hops and man is it delicious and nicely carbonated. A little over $5 for a 4-pack. Thank me later!

Runner up is Heineken 0.0, surprisingly good.

And for another healthy way to alter consciousness - weed edibles are where it’s at.
> It is not the compiler's job to second guess the programmer and generate the code that it believes the programmer meant to write.

Not if the compiler is run at some (hopefully available) "absolute vanilla", translate-this-code-literally-into-machine-language-and-do-absolutely-nothing-else settings, no. But if you add some optimise-this or optimise-that or optimise-everything switch? Then second-guessing the programmer and generating the code it believes the programmer meant to write (if only they knew all these nifty optimisation techniques) is exactly the compiler's job.

And isn't that the subject under discussion here; Undefined Behaviour and compiler optimisation?

> "Ignoring the situation completely" means ignoring the fact that this is UB and just carrying on.

Q: How?

A: In an undefined way. (Right, since this is "Undefined Behaviour"?)

So... Whatever the heck happens, happens. It's, like, not defined. If you want it defined (as "Do exactly what I wrote anyway!"), then don't be so hung up on the Undefined Behaviour bit; just switch off all the optimisation bits in stead.
I like Qt. However, integration into a Gnome+Wayland environment is still buggy. For example, in my new Fedora install, Qt apps using the Wayland backend lack window borders.
Blast from the past. The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education.
I see, sorry to hear that. It's better in Europe though here too the number of parent chauffeurs has definitely increased. I thought the school bus is still the US way but that's probably then just movies keeping up that appearance.
Sure that's great. But the real advantage is ending up with a repo full of pure-FP code that you can improve/refactor with confidence, right?

Strict compilers make sure my repo only contains code over a certain level of quality. Elm is strict. Code produced in Elm is usually of stellar quality, even by beginners; and if not it's very easy to shape it up later on.
Understandable. Although vaccinations have proven only partially effective at preventing you getting covid so even if he was vaccinated you wouldn’t be in a much better position in that regard.
Affluence is having things. The real affluent don't work at all.

The clothing can't both be unwanted and outcompete local manufacturers.
There's a presumption here that checked access would cost some nr of nanoseconds per access, but this often isn't the case since predicted, not-taken branches tend to have 0 cycle latency in recent CPUs.
Great article, I'm bookmarking it so I can point to it if and when required ;p
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starship is nowhere near ready to launch, and their Boca chica facility is now halted due to epa regulations
The evolutionary pressures that can lead to some diseases becoming less lethal and more transmissible over time are actually well researched and modelled, and has happened many times.
That this could happen with Covid has been quietly mentioned in scientific publications over the last 2 years
Have you considered that you may have had more mild Omicron due to being vaccinated? It is true that breakthrough infections exist, especially in something as transmissable as Omicron. However, the point has also been made that being vaccinated helps prevent more serious illness[1] which in turn can help prevent hospitals from collapsing under the weight of the severely ill.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/effective...