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> A government that goes after the little guys and gives big cos a pass is illegitimate.

A government that governs without consent of the governed is illegitimate. A government that governs inconsistently is not necessarily illegitimate. The legitimacy of a government is not determined by any particular small-large business axis. Viewing the world through that axis is not helpful in this case.

And while we're at it, just because your government is unfair doesn't make it illegitimate. There are plenty of state governments[1] that were, and are incredibly unfair in their enforcement of their laws, but when they aren't actively stealing elections, I wouldn't call them illegitimate.

[1] For a crystal-clear example, the south under Jim Crow. Unfair laws, unfair enforcement of laws, but I'd be hard-pressed to argue that many of those governments did not have the consent of most of who they governed.
GitLab our iteration value https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration is meant to address exactly this problem
I agree that we largely have capitalism + globalization to thank for across the board wealth increase (or where wealth hasn't increased, the price of commodities has decreased) over the last century. However, state-run welfare programs, social safety nets, automation, etc. also play some role.
I like moving into a shared space for a group conversation, yes.

But mainly, I want an office with a door that closes. I want my own keyboard, which I have selected for its ergonomic properties. I want my own mouse, again, selected for its ergonomic properties. I want my own chair, which I have selected and adjusted for its ergonomic properties. I want to put pictures of my kids on the walls. I want to leave physical notes to myself. And have reference books nearby. I want a plant.

I do not want a soul-less hotel-style "business workstation." And I especially don't want one in an open floor plan with everyone talking over everyone else.

Get it through your thick, stupid skulls.
Apple have added proprietary extensions to their cores that aren't available to anyone else.
That is true.

But before I learned programming beyond BASIC, I took a course in solid state physics which went from semiconductors to transistors to nand gates to flip flops to adders.

Which made me very comfortable in understanding how CPUs worked. Not that I could design something with a billion transistors in it, but at the bottom it's still flip flops and adders.
One of the basic principles of toxicology is "the dose makes the poison".

From an OSHA perspective, "toxic" means (amongst other things) a mean-lethal-dose (LD50) of up to 500 mg per kilogram of bodyweight when ingested orally in lab rats.

There's all kind of stuff that doesn't meet the standard of toxic that you still wouldn't want to eat.
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The Romans used lead acetate as a sweetener[0], but the exact compounds used in lead paint are different. It doesn't seem that those are sweet.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate

[1] https://healthyindoors.com/2018/11/lead-paint-sweet-aint/
The nasa image[1] of employees with the scale model provides a better sense.

[1] https://www.astronomie.nl/upload/750x498/images/Telescopen/J...
SLS isn’t the currently-in-development spacecraft that utilizes hundreds of ceramic tiles to aerobrake through the atmosphere. SLS is basically a modern Saturn V. A complete departure from the Shuttle, with the exception of-re-using the SRB design. On paper a very conservative choice.

Starship looks a lot like Shuttle 2.0 to me. Except the landing is somehow even more terrifying.

As far as I can tell the idea with Starship is to design a vehicle that can survive losing a few tiles because that’s inevitable.
If Google charges Apple-level prices, surely it's reasonable for customers to expect Apple-level support.
> Is it possible to really learn how programming concepts work, though? Modern optimizing compiler are pretty amazing and just seeing the assembly output may make a concept harder to grasp.

They usually have debugging options that let you read the internal steps (SIL, LLVM, GIMPLE, etc). That can be easier to understand than full asm, but also, the asm can't hide anything from you unless it's obfusticated.
For people who don't like seclists formatting.

https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=164313339424946&w=2
> Then from time-to-time you branch off to do something more high-risk to add to your promo doc.

I agree, that's exactly what I wrote.
When I had Covid in December, I briefly lost my sense of smell and taste (only for a few days, thankfully). I decided I would see if the Switch cartridges tasted as bad as I remembered - purely in the interests of science, of course.

I couldn't taste it at first, but then the wave of toxic unpleasantness slowly built up, even after I had moved the cartridge away from my tongue. It was different than I remembered it being, but then again it had been a few years since I tried it (probably spurred by this same headline). Really horrible. Good to know that this bitterant it still is a deterrent if you have anosmia!
> I was unaware that the ISS was a spacecraft.

I can't really help that, but here is a nice page from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-...

"The International Space Station is a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth."

> Im also unaware that the ISS is able to reach L2 or really any orbit other than LEO roughly 400km in altitude.

You can tow it wherever you want, provided you attach a suitable propulsion device. That's also how it stays in that orbit, every now and then they boost it back up to offset the orbital decay.

Also: in space assembly could take place in orbit and then when the device is complete it can be sent off to L2. The problem with such a scheme is when things break down after the transit to L2.
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The effects described are pretty much precisely what MDMA feels like. Weird.
As Scott Galloway put it, Call of Duty alone generates $55M a day, as if it were a door-busting Marvel movie opening weekend, all the time.
You get the sense that this architect has not talked to very many of the people who would be spending a third of their life in the space he envisions. I'd take a grey cube farm over this any day of the week.
Love what you're doing. I've built a fairly sizable cloud based POS with postgres on the backend. In doing so I've written thousands of lines of sql and stored procedures over the last 3 years. You've managed to tackle almost all the stuff I've been bitching about in sql.

any plans to implement a full stored procedure language?

how well does it integrate with calls to postgres functions?
I posit that this depends entirely on the social hierarchy of the country in question. The more egalitarian the society the more the eradication of poverty is possible. Unfortunately for the majority of countries this is highly unlikely, and while the end of poverty is possible, I highly doubt that will ever happen.
Thank you for these kind words!
Google fermented in a garage at first, right?
One of the main requirements of TypeScript is that the compiler has to work in a browser. The monaco editor is the prince jewel of TypeScript applications.

So the only possibility I see is a webassembly alternative.
Why does adding types result in any more coupling than what exists already?

If your client and server both treat field "temperature" as a string for protocol version 1, and then the client upgrades to protocol version 2 and temperature is now a float, the server has to be modified anyway, type system or no type system, because otherwise it'll break.

If anything, the type system helps to expose the fact that the client and server now disagree about the type of a field, which is helpful.
I have a not so fond memory camping out in Walmart for my Wii. I think we could just stay inside since it was 24hrs and they were selling them right at midnight.

I got home, turned on the Wii, and was asked to insert a startup disc. I searched that box at least 20 times trying to find the disc with no luck.

I was a heavy user of GameSpot's forums at the time and asked about this disc. Literally everyone thought I was trolling. Nobody believed me until I uploaded photos of my TV.

Eventually my dad called Nintendo and they shipped out a new one ASAP but my 16 year old self was so pissed given all the hype going into it. Days waiting with a useless Wii staring back at me.

Startup Disc: https://lostmediawiki.com/Wii_Startup_Disc_(found_software_d...
How important are these security updates to your average user? If they're meant to prevent hypothetical targeted attacks, I honestly wouldn't be too worried about them. Plenty of people continue to use their Android phone despite not receiving security updates, yet I haven't heard anyone having a issue with this.
According to another comment, the bittering agent is in the sticker, so presumably you could remove the sticker before consuming your switch cartridge.
Thanks for this reply. I agree with a lot of it, especially:

> Video games are an art form unique from literature and film because you can interact with the world.

This is the starting point for the entire analysis. I haven't heard much about Halt and Catch Fire, I'll have to take a look at it.

> In real life, trying out a couple of single-player video games recommended by different people I've met have deepened my friendship with them, surprisingly more than what I thought.

Right? Part of the answer to Why We Play, as sappy as it sounds, is the friends we make along the way.
No, and we're nowhere near post-scarcity.

We're able to foresee the end of some forms of scarcity, like basic food insecurity, but there's still no reasonable expectation that the economy becomes post scarcity in any way shape or form within the next 100 years.
Wow. What a fantastic post! I had question about the following passage:

>"As you can see, the CPU performs many activities in parallel for one microinstruction, which increases the computer's performance."

Would this microcode also be considered one of the first forms of ILP(instruction level parallelism) then?
Since I've taken cars apart and put them back together, that has been very helpful to me in improving my driving skills. I also know when a problem with the car is just an annoyance and when I have to get it fixed. I can often know what to do to get the beast home again, without having to call a toe truck.
It is. I can't find the study now, but I believe it was the IIHS who found that speed differentials are the primary concern when it comes to highway accidents. The risk of an accident skyrockets when the speed difference between traffic goes over 15mph.
I'm honestly surprised Jeff Atwood's excellent blog post about this hasn't been linked. [0]

From his article: "It's effectively impossible to go dark if you're practicing any form of agile software development."

There are a lot of psychological reasons to "go dark", but very few (if any) solid business reasons.

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/dont-go-dark/
We are all living vicariously through the good news of the James Webb space telescope successes. Some much needed good news that is based on the innovative push that humanity has. The good side of our human condition.
You just had the shower idea for Skynet..
Thanks for sharing, I can't believe I hadn't come across this already.
I'd add that it's extremely disingenuous to hide the fact that high vaccination rates are the sole reason why the same disease spreading like wildfire is not leaving a trail of dead bodies stacked high on it's wake.
I don't doubt you're right. The last three decades have been a "worker's market" for those of us lucky enough to have stumbled into a trade that Corporate desperately needed the services of.

I am doubly fortunate to be ending my career in this field. I have no idea what the future holds for those still in the field. It may well become a narrow path you need to hew to.
If you like shapes and colors of charts, you may like the mobile game "The Firm"
In some parts of the world, for some income brackets, yes. But for ordinary mortals, no.
I agree with the overall arguments and conclusion, but I wonder if we need a better way of measuring poverty than some overly-adjusted "dollar per day in income" value. Like, how many calories per day in food is your family getting? Do you have consistent shelter? Do you have access to basic medical care? Are you safe from physical threats? Can you pay an unexpected bill? Do you have a social structure in place around you? Are you free from symptoms of depression? I imagine there would be significant variance in the answer to these questions over just "how much money do you make".

Ultimately all this is what matters to people when talking about having a decent life. Charts like the one in the article will convince people that capitalist systems are working around the world, but that's because they are tracking metrics of capitalism in the first place rather than quality of life.
I mentioned this elsewhere in the thread, so at the risk of repeating myself, how does The Martian not qualify as Sci-Fi, hard Sci-Fi at that? Sure the majority of the tech exists today but not all of it (habs, the ships themselves, etc) and certainly not all of the tech has actually been built or tested.

So it's set in the future, it's about scientists and science, it's about a big idea (even more so when it was written) - sending human's to Mars, and it's fiction. Honestly I don't understand how that can't be Sci-Fi through and through. Is it because the tech isn't vastly advanced over what we have now? Because 30 years ago smart phones were Sci-Fi, in 1870 submarines were Sci-Fi, in 1634 the moon and it's relationship with the Earth (Kepler's Somnium) was Sci-Fi. If those qualify I'm not sure how The Martian fails to.

Again not offended at this, just really curious how people draw that conclusion.
there's no classical software development engineering so depending where you were trained (web startup vs. software company vs. deep in the bowls of a huge corporation etc.) you could have very different ideas of normal - see eg: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Have the summer off, you don't have to "hustle" every single day.

You seem to be trying to over-optimise your time and talk about wanting to change things, there is a good chance you'll get burnt out and there is more to life than writing code and solving problems. I have no idea about you other than the context of your post so I may be completely wrong though.
> You need to compensate Qualcomm for a pile of lost sales from people not getting new phones.

Why would people continue to buy phones with Qualcomm chips? The fact that my 4th gen iPad still works and my mom uses it to watch youtube and browse internet is one of the top 3 reasons I would pay a bit extra for Apple devices.
The FFI interface looks very neatly designed. Here's how the SQLite module is implemented using it: https://deno.land/x/sqlite3@0.3.0/src/ffi.ts
I would imagine there should be plenty of other fields just like it then.
> the perils of not-so-bright

Fortunately, my parents defined me out of that category.
Systemd can be used in a docker container only when lot of system services are masked. See my old CentOS 6 with systemd in docker container project as example: https://github.com/vlisivka/docker-centos7-systemd-unpriv
What is the particular appeal of an island? I love islands myself, don't get me wrong. But why not widen your search to a somewhat remote -- assuming that's part of island appeal -- warm coastal areas?

Do you plan on actually going in the water, or is it more about the warm weather?

These following suggestions are
1) not islands, but do have channel islands national park or Catalina within 1 hour boat and

2) do not have the warm water of Hawaii or Puerto Rico.

Santa Barbara/Central California coast is nice. Expensive in SB proper. Carpinteria is kind of a hidden gem.

Further south, Dana point/San Juan/San Clemente is also nice. Warmer water and very nice beaches as well, and closer to San Diego which has a lot going on.

Spitballing, there's also the US virgin islands. I've spent the vast majority of my time in that area sailing in the British virgin islands, but the whole area is beautiful. There's not much going on there, but it's built up enough for tourists.

Edit-- the other consideration I'd throw out there, based on the experiences of friends and colleagues. Why constrain yourself to one place? Your situation is different than most people I've heard of given the family and US territory situation, but 3 months is a good chunk of time.
I should clarify this behavior is mostly at larger companies... and although it's my anecdotal piece, it is what I've consistently seen at different companies and what my friends tell me they've experienced at other large companies. I've also worked at smaller places and this behavior was not as prevalent since everyone knows everyone on the dev team.

Also, at larger companies your manager tends to reorg. I've gone through 5 managers in a single year before. And with them goes all the goodwill you built up during that time. New manager comes in, and it basically resets your 'perception' factor. The old manager might tell the new manager that some people are good, but you have to get lucky to get the new manager to care, because they haven't seen the results with their own eyes yet. That small time window is when it's ripe for someone to swoop in and claim ownerships of projects, while smooching up to the new manager. That's what happened with the senior dev I saw, but he had aces up his sleeves. What an epic showdown.

Yea, I should leave probably, but it's just one burning ship to another. That's our fundamental reality.
Please read the comment chain, I don't live in the US nor have the USD dollar as the currency of my country.

> The "50%" figure is just completely made up, and you know it - inflation right now is pretty bad, but saying USD lost 50% of its value is just completely and utterly wrong.

I am talking about the Argentine Peso not the US dollar. And this just makes my point stronger. If you think 6% (USD inflation right now) is pretty bad just imagine holding a currency with >50% inflation every year.

> ...again, this is just blatantly untrue on every level. You can use almost any bank and they will convert it for you.

What are you talking about? Not every place has a free market like in the US.

In Argentina the banks only sell you at most 200USD dollars per month and only if you meet very specific requirements. And that's what capital controls mean. The banks are not allowed to sell foreign currencies.
It’s incredible how wording can be confusing to different readers.

The HN title of this post is currently “the end of poverty has just begun” which made me think “just” = “recently”. So I thought the article would be about something that has indicated that the rate of poverty reduction has increased.

The URL says “history-of-poverty-has-just-begun” which made me think this is an article about historiography of poverty and how it’s not been cataloged well.

The article title says “The history of the end of poverty has just begun” which just completely confuses me.

The article subheading says “ The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.” which to me is a much more accurate summary of the article. Mainly that most of the world still lives on less than $30 a day. But some parts of the world have been uplifted from poverty recently.

My point I think is that, to me, a better post title would be something like “Poverty is only now starting to decline”
Right I guess I assumed 'wiping android' meant starting over: erasing the eMMC via TRIM and flashing a new bootloader/repartitioning/etc. via BROM USB mode or something like that.

I guess OP might have meant just 'factory reset'. Which is not really 'wiping the android' at all.
I can’t imagine anyone on my dev team or the others at my company being able to spend multiple weeks consecutively on vaguely defined unplanned work. We collaboratively make a plan with product management covering many weeks of work (PI planning) with some date commitments on milestones we expect to achieve. Anyone spending a more than a few days on unplanned work risks making us need to revise the plan that we all made together, so we don’t want to do that because the opportunity cost is obvious.
Where's Jersey Island? Is it anywhere near the island of Jersey by any chance?
If there is an Apple store nearby, being able to walk in with a broken phone and walk out a half hour later with a new/replacement phone is more valuable than people realize.

I was an Android user back in the Nexus days, and had something similar happen to my Nexus 7 tablet. It worked fine, updated Android, became unusable. I read they finally addressed it later, but I had already moved on.
They could probably just write this in code, and save a lot of time.
"Know" vs "willing to write", esp. OSS for making someone else rich

Nowadays, probably something like python then rust/go, just for community, and especially aligned on apache arrow. OSS async python / HTTP, with arrow dataplane support (fast,typed,standardized), is part of our bar for whether we consider a data proj as a core dep nowadays. A surprising amount of ETL startups are YOLO json for the dataplane, so we've intentionally stayed away due to reliability+perf heart pains. But maybe you can fake it till you make it that way too, and then hire staff to clean it up 2 years later :)
Standing next to a shuttle is a humbling experience. On TV it looks like, well, a plane, but in person, it's just massive. The exit hatch (I assume), the one you would expect an astronaut to exit while fully equipped and layered, looks like the size of a bottle opening.
It seems to fade with age/handling. Brand new cartridges taste really bad. My several year old ones taste fine.
I knew this would come up!

Fair enough but they are very much the exception and their impact on the wider ecosystem is minimal. In general Arm’s controls on this happening are much stronger than for RISC-V.
I didn't know that. thats very impressive.
Wait before you see the implementation of tasks on the google side. If I add a nextcloud tasklist to IOS. Siri can add tasks to it, ez pz. On a google phone there is no way to add tasks to nextcloud tasklists with voice commands. Not so OK google.
NileRed is a national treasure !
> There are apparently whole books written about C pointers.

Spend 30 minutes teaching him assembly, and the pointer problem will vanish.
If you're using alcohol for cleaning 70% concentrations are better as they actually kill and lyse pathogens at that concentration, while 99% will just desiccate them, allowing for reactivation when in a moist environment.
I'm surprised to see no one comment on Zig. It seems like the bun.sh developers are making some bold changes with such a low-level language.
Whaaa? Nope, not how that works.

You can't run afoul of antitrust laws without being a monopoly. It's why Apple can make it so safari is the only browser available on the Iphone whereas microsoft lost a bunch of money (particularly in the EU) for installing IE by default on everyone's computer.

Android phones are nowhere near antitrust territory, specifically from google. Before they'd run any risks they'd need to actually outsell someone like samsung or apple.

Just because you are rich and potentially a monopoly in one market, doesn't mean you are in all markets.
Drinking this medical disinfectant denaturated alcohol has become a meme in Romania, where very poor people drink it because it's so cheap - $1.5 for 1L of 70% ABV (almost twice Vodka strength which is about 40% ABV).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZuHPjJtgs&t=1825s
I'm aware of the selling point I was asking specifically about the extension API.