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> I would not question their credentials and reliability over a word

In more or less informal discussions, I agree.
From my POV it's not about a singular word though, it's about the context: The author labelled the (entire) code base of Kubernetes as "shit":

>[...] forking a large code base, especially one as shit as Kubernetes, and still getting community support can be daunting without some sort of titanic change in the market.

It's not that it's not "nice" language, it's about the statement.
It could very well be that the code base of Kubernetes is in a bad state, but with this wording and without any references, it doesn't come off as neutral or particularly reasonable.
But the initial question was how it differs from public cloud. This is not a difference. You can define your kubernetes or your terraform and have whichever brand of logical isolation you prefer
> The UK didn't even have the worst public opinion of the EU in Europe on average.

The UK is the only country where significant chunks of the elites kept explicitly advocating for (and are now putting in practice) a future outside the bloc. I'm Italian, and with all the usual complaints about this or that policy, Italian elites have never seriously considered backtracking on the project - because they all realize that the European nation-state is dead meat in the age of continent-sized superpowers. Of course they'll bitch and moan that they can't currency-inflate their way out of economic crisis anymore, but that is it; once Eurozone institutions are tweaked to allow for more fiscal transfers across the Union, as it's slowly happening, there won't be any real reason to leave.

Same basically goes for French elites - with the last humiliation in Mali a painful reminder of their actual standing in this brave new world. The only country with a potential future outside the bloc is Germany, but they benefit from it so much in practice that it's never going to happen.

> how can a supranational institution taking over national government function be truly democratic if you don't even have a standard language

This is really a non-issue, EU institutions employ an army of translators and everything is available in any chosen lingo. The working lingua franca are effectively two, French and English. Any decently-educated European is bilingual, these days, to a decent level.

It's more about insularity of the intellectual and political classes in this or that country. Probably because of the overabundance of cultural production coming from the US, the UK outside London is extremely insular. Pretty much any continental elite-person will consume The Economist and the Financial Times in addition to their local press; whereas the UK intellighentsia hardly every touches any continental press.

> f your partner desperately wants to live in Europe and you desperately want to live in the USA

When the alternative is being overrun by Russian tanks and American F15, yes, the Atlantic island will have to do. We will all bitch and moan, sure, but we'll get on it.
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> The assumption in this argument is that consumers are able to observe and quantify the harm of tracking more effectively than regulators could create laws against data collection.

Not necessarily, because creating laws isn't enough to regulate. You also need to enforce such regulation, and that's where the challenge lies. The argument assumes that in the long run consumers are more effective at rationalizing their choices than the government is able to appropriately enforce regulation.

Alternatively, it assumes the cumulative harm created by the disconnect between current customer behavior and rationalized customer behavior (i.e. prior to their rationalizing the status quo) is less than the cumulative harm caused by inefficient regulation, including the defector's problem mentioned earlier but also other negative externalities such as encouraging corruption / fraud (which itself requires further enforcement)
Thank you for making SingleFile, it's been an absolute lifesaver in a project I'm working on. I was having a lot of trouble trying to manually save pages with puppeteer but the singlefile CLI worked perfectly, even with added extensions. (To get extensions to work I had to add --browser-headless=false --browser-args ["--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform", "--ozone-platform=headless", "--disable-extensions-except=/path/to/extension", "--load-extension=/path/to/extension"] )
This behaviour goes back since mobile phones exist, back in the Series 30 days, there was the possibility to update the firmaware using the developer SDK (if at all) and even then there would be one update, tops.
If the ship is always docked, it has less appeal, I'd love to live in one that keeps moving between ports, even if it never goes much further.

In that case, power is an issue. We'd need a powerplant that's green (because cruise ships are anything but - at best carbon neutral). The only reasonable choice I see would be small nuclear plants and that's something that hasn't been attempted with passengers since the NS Savannah. If that is solved, then I'd love to move to one.
First of all, a very tiny proportion of people are middle class while they are students or young professionals.

Secondly, nobody here that I have seen are suggesting that it's a "human rights violation", but there is also a huge difference between people making the choice of living in a more central location or a higher standard flat and sharing a bathroom with a few people vs. establishing sharing bathrooms with strangers as an acceptable standard to impose on people who lack a choice.
Every company that hires three junior developers today will need one senior developer in a year or two. It's great to be a developer today, even better, if you are a senior dev.
I'd pay $5-ish per month for social media if it came with no ads or data harvesting - just a more privately scoped version of Facebook with some of the useful bits like event scheduling and discussion groups. Of course the problem is getting non-technical people to value their attention and privacy at more than $5/month in order to catalyse the network effects.
> When you make an appointment for something you need to have done you cannot control the time you are going to be given for the appointment...

I can. I'm not sure why you can't. Maybe because you're not in Sweden? If it's not an emergency, you have a choice of times. If it's an emergency, you can just go now. The only difficult case is with rare specialists which have a first-come-first-serve queue system, but you can still either let them know when you're available or just wait longer. It's trivial and free to reschedule.

> you cannot choose to be diagnosed by a private doctor instead of accepting the time given by the subsidized service, and so on, moving out is not possible because you can't pay to move your stuff

I've never needed a private doctor for anything, but this was never a problem for the private dentist or optometrist that I use. It's pretty affordable and flexible here, even for the poorest. If you really cant't afford it and could prove that, the kommun ("county") would just give you money to cover it anyway, including your moving expensive if you need to move for some reason.

> Poverty traps you in ways you will only understand once you experience it.

Grew up poor in the US and am currently in the second to lowest income bracket here due to disability.

Maybe you just aren't aware of how much better things can be.
> Economic progress was actually far better under the gold standard.

Would love for you to point me in the direction of the supporting evidence.

Millions were lifted out of poverty in the 19th century, whereas billions have been lifted out in the 20th and 21st centuries on the back of enormous credit expansion.

I'm not arguing the fiat currency and credit cannot be incredibly dangerous...they can be. But it's absurd to think that money supply should be fixed to the arbitrary quantity of a random element that we can dig out of the ground.
> Political ones have failed

In what sense has the current monetary system failed in your opinion? The gold standard certainly failed, that's why it was abandoned by every single country in the world, but the current monetary system seems to be doing just fine.
In 1996 some crazy folks produced a very dark, yet extremely funny, satirical mockumentary about Austria's culture in the style of western documentaries about Africa, from the perspective of a rather serious all-african documentation movie crew:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109689/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

As a european, i found that one hillarious! They reversed all the cliché things, and express a lot of wonder about bizarrely presented austrian culture.
True, and the point that people are often weirdly bad at deliberately improving, or weirdly unmotivated to practice deliberate improvement.
Gene therapy is the game-changer which will enable us to eventually cure cancer. I've been proposing that government stop all investment in refining non-gene therapies, such as radiation and chemotherapy, and to plow everything we have into gene-therapy.

Cancer is essentially a genetic disease and we can solve it by repairing the faulty genes, just as with Tay Disease.
keep in mind, accounting is a broad field. I dont see accountants being replaced. There are three main sections of accountants:

Audit, Tax, and Corporate.

Corporate is the cushiest and most likely to be automated. Auditing is much like consulting and require human conversations and complex analysis. Maybe one day with sophisticated AI, but not any time soon. Tax constantly changes and need accountants to understand and translate to the programmers on a continual basis, and there will always be adept accountants with better interpretations for $$$ hire. Could they be automated? sure, the easiest way would be to have the govt automatically file, but they wont because the industry doesn't want that.
I wish people were content at thinking that they know better.
Right now they try to coerce others to act like they do in many parts of the world.
In machine learning 95% accuracy is not very useful. It means the algorithm will be wrong 1 out of 20 times. So every 20th word in speech recognition will be incorrect, your medical diagnosis will be wrong for every 20th person, your face will not unlock your phone every 20th time, every 20th person will not be allowed to log into a web site. There are some machine learning applications where 95% is good enough or even great such as web search engines, but for many important applications it is nowhere near good enough and you need something more like 99.9% or better to be actually useful. Think about how often the algorithm can be allowed to make a mistake. If it's never, then don't use machine learning. If it's 1 in a million you need 99.9999% accuracy.
95% looks good in machine learning papers in computer science, but in the real world 95% often means dismal failure. Think of an autonomous killer robot, is mistakenly killing 1 out of 20 people ok? For a self driving car is harming the driver or car (or pedestrian/dog/child/other car) mistakenly even 1 out of 1000 (99.9%) times ok? I think not.
One measure of what accuracy you need is how well people do the same task. If you can do better than people most of the time, maybe the algorithm is useful, though you also have to compare exactly how the algorithm fails to the way people fail. If people fail by choosing a fender bender and the algorithm fails by killing someone, the algorithm has to work better than people do.
You should make a leaderboard where you can see everyone else's words and scores!
What are the tools you like to use in JetBrains products?
My parents, younger sister and all grandparents have glasses.

I used to stare at the sun when I was young (I know, dumb), and I don't need them yet (late 30s).
Any of you guys mind sharing your experiences and use cases for Mathematica? I have yet to see someone using it in the wild.
why is this slider important? You’ve picked something very arbitrary here
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Why would you ever put a hyper focused distributed system in a centralized architecture?

You're choosing a sledge hammer for a screw.

This is a database that can work when you're offline. Your central server has nothing to do with this and is entirely incapable of even working.
This is very cool! I no longer work on Rails on daily basis, but would have loved to have this.

I built something similar called `pg-osc` / `pg-online-schema-change` for PostgreSQL workloads. It does zero downtime migrations using triggers and shadow table.

Github: https://github.com/shayonj/pg-osc.

Blog: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2022/47/pg-osc-zero-downtime-sch...

Also love that this is written in Ruby :). Going to check it out on some side projects.
I think it's pretty clear that the point is to detract from normal expected functionality.
> It's the developer giving an analysis of the cost and benefit of a refactoring (it will take X time, but will save Y work in the future).

I think I just fundamentally disagree that this is the managers job. He tells me what needs doing, and I get that done as soon as possible within a given block of time (mostly sprints, so two weeks). They should be able to trust me to refactor as necessary within that block.
I'm pretty skeptical of their ability to build a functioning social network, purely from a technical perspective. It's a complicated problem to solve at any meaningful degree of scale.

With that said I think some people here might be too quick to dismiss the market opportunity a new social network could take advantage of.

You'll frequently see messages here about how terrible Reddit has gotten, in part because of heavy-handed moderation.

A new social media that says, "we're not removing anything unless it's clearly illegal or we get a court order to do so" is a reasonable pitch in my mind.

Again, I doubt this particular app will succeed but I also wouldn't be surprised if the demand was real.
I can tell you what it does for me:
Full disk on your VM? Nope. Storage is abstracted away. Your server will not fill up anymore. Only one service might break which might heal itself.

Is your VM/node broken? It will heal itself because you throw it away and the new VM/node is fixed.

It enforces the abstraction of Service and VM. You will not install normal software on that VM just because you can. You don't need to give access to a VM to a developer who then needs root access and has dependencies and doesn't update the VM.

You no longer have dependencies to your VM because you can't have dependencies on your VM OS.

Abstracting it away from your VM also streamlines things like logfiles. You no longer need to collect all logfiles from VMs because you do it for your services and for your services, you only do it once (if even, log to stdout and be done with it)
But isn't GTM easily foiled by blocking the domain in NoScript?
I think it's because trust in CNN is evaporating.
Correct. Sweden's strategy during the first 3 waves was largely a failure and human tragedy with way too many people ending up dead or in severe conditions in hospitals, until vaccines arrived. But for some reason, most Swedes are unable or unwilling to acknowledge this level of suffering that was brought onto the population (particularly onto older people and other vulnerable groups) and how the public was systematically mislead about the virus by the official channels, instead focusing on the more speculative suffering that they believe was avoided by abstaining from harder restrictions.
I'll +1 the quality of the workout with Supernatural. I was a heavy XBox fitness user and loved the workouts available, along with the use of the Kinect to gameify and make sure I wasn't cheating. Supernatural offers the same thing to me. Workouts are intense, hard, and fun somehow. It took a little work to make sure I was timing things right and making the right motion for my moves to count, but the result is fun. To make it even better, I connect bluetooth audio to my home theater AVR and enjoy a much better music experience to get pumped up.
There is a big and meaningful difference between being able to freeze bank accounts at scale without violence and only with the cooperation of a centralized finance institution, versus having to physically torture each account owner to get what they want one by one. A government would have to be substantially more evil and use vastly more resources to do the later. And there is a second order chilling effect in the former, where even if a government does not seize asserts, the threat of it will make citizens think about their words.
This has nothing to do with inflation or deflation, which are very specific concepts.
I use Todoist and have beeen happy with it. You can even do a kanban board.
Buying an iPhone 6s was an excellent if lucky choice, the luck was that the original SE was based on it so the support guarantees of the SE carries the 6s with it. With Apples usual 5 years there'll probably be another 1.5 years of support since the orignal SE was discontinued. (After that I suspect that a bunch of other devices will be discontinued quickly again)
Oh cool, I'm at similar level in AoE2.

I've found that if you consistently make vills & army you can compete pretty easily at this level. For the most part I play random civ, don't use hotkeys, and don't use build orders and it hasn't been too rough.

Lately I've been playing more teamgames and spending more time watching streamers play (shout out to survivalist!).
The iPhone doesn't even let you turn off its version of Google Location Services (unless you don't want to get your location at all), so after that one-time setup, you ended up with a better phone.
What rules do you have in place about meeting other people in your community or seeing them multiple times? Is your partner not concerned that you might fall in love with someone else?
social media where you can only post pixel art images. That way if you want to say something, you gotta click it out.
The articles you cited could do a better job putting the real numbers front and center and present the real, and anticipated (if Bitcoin takes off) ecological impact on the planet. The coindesk article in particular cites really alarming claims about energy usage but doesn't do any real math to disprove it, and only vaguely hints at possible mitigating arguments. Appeals to emotion, citing ideal visions of Satoshi and using "domestic tumble dryers" (newsweek) as comparisons for energy usage further weaken the point these articles should be making.
Stupid question: what you're describing looks very similar to NMR (using RF to shape ensembles of magnetic spins, often shifting them around the bloch sphere).
…and once they grow up?
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I’ve been in a non-monogamous relationship for an extremely long time, and ‘there are tools’ or ‘read this book’ are both very simplistic attitudes about the challenges.
Horizontal scaling of systems is not a way that kubernetes or containerization benefits over the cloud. Resource utilization on those horizontally scaled workers can be, however.
My wife is Chinese. My father is Chilean. I added a specific section in my comment saying the USA needs to remove its policies too.

Thus, why would you comment as such? Why would you assume that I support visas and restrictions, when I have CLEARLY expressed the EXACT OPPOSITE opinion?
Young people need to work a lot more hours to pay rent now and whether it is because sharing places is less popular or not, there are far less places to rent for groups. There are now far more 1 or 2 bedroom apartments and many larger houses have been divided. Practice spaces and studio spaces are also much, much more difficult to come by. In city after city, what used to be dirt cheap warehouses are now pricey condos and fancy apartments.
A developer with an incredible track record and decades of experience.
> mostly unusable currency

I suppose that's why it has grown in price in spite of its supply slowly increasing. Because it's unusable! (sarcasm)

> "problem" being solved

In essence, it takes scarcity to make scarcity. So, to get digital scarcity, you have to fork over scarce resources.

But I agree with you that the computing cost is excessive, and the reward function was not well calibrated.

On the other hand, the rate of the explosion in price could not have been foreseen.
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Hostels in Scandinavia at least, while they may well be in good condition, make up a vanishingly small proportion of accommodation because what they provide is well below the expected standard for most people even for short term stays.
>Have you looked into proof of stake

PoS is like fusion power in that it will be here soon but unlike fusion power those working PoS don't actually want it to be used it seems to me.
I don't think countries that are ruled with communism ended up as a dictatorship because of the ruling class. Maybe it was inevitable.

What makes me say that? Because the concept of complex systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system) gave me a new approach to think about different economic and social organizations.

Economy (and society) is a complex system and it is impossible to model perfectly (at least for now). So any approach that attempts to have everything under control will (eventually) fail. Or you may need to use force to mold the reality to your hypothetical system.

Capitalism may not be the best system there is, but it certainly aligns with a complex systems point of view.
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Good to know re the name, I typed it out a couple of times and wondered if I was just doing something stupid. I really wasn't trying to formulate an attack on this style, if someone or some organization uses it and it works then more power to them. I was really just trying to understand a bit better, but it's possible that is something that I can only really get by experience.

So I find APL, J, K and friends quite fascinating (and J is on my list to try) but I haven't seen much hostility to them. People understandably get a bit intimidated by how different it is but they usually still seem curious. The real hostility is reserved for Whitney C. In this case I don't think it's like - if you'll forgive me for abusing that human language metaphor a bit - an English speaker learning Russian, more like

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I can understand why their instinct is to recoil in horror and think "I already know a more standard English, I'm currently learning Russian and Japanese ... I have little patience for trying out this alternate form of English". It's obviously an exaggerated/contrived example, but this is genuinely how that C code appears to an outsider at first blush (or at least it did to me and a couple of my friends).

That said your replies have piqued my interest, I'm gonna have to properly dig through that ngn/k repo some day. If I turn into a Whitney C guy then I'm holding you responsible :D