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> It seems like the pipeline will be put into use once this business with Russia is over.

Imo, which is without any particular info of the industry: It will probably be put to use, however perhaps not to it's full capacity. Germany has high energy prices, which there is no indication of going down in the forseable future. So it seems particularly unlikely it would not be used at all. Germany is trying to reduce it's dependency on russian gas (for example via LNG). But Germany opting out of coal and nuclear fission power - energy prices won't, imo, go down.

You say "once this business with Russia is over". Current events from my German perspective imply they won't be over no matter what outcome... things just change going forward.

If Germany remains on the no nuclear front then France will build more nuclear power on the boarder that Germany will buy at a premium. Dependency on russian gas will go down no matter what, the next winter might be financially tough though. In that regard "selling" the nord stream pipeline via insolvency now or later at declining usage - it's valuation I can only guess at.

From a non-financial position the pipeline gives certain power as long as Germany has a dependency on russian gas -> it's worth might be different to Russia than just viewed economically.

In another post I mentioned that this article says "considers" insolvency. Therefore it might just be political message for now or a leak of something companies with financial difficulties are legally required to do... so all this is honestly just a thought experiment.
I think it's better to align your viewpoints towards the side of overwhelming global scientific consensus than a podcast host who chose to 'treat' a virus with horse dewormer
Apple has demonstrated that is possible to run x86 software in another architecture without any major loss of computing power. This has opened the possibilities not only for ARM-based designs, but for RISC-V and others as well. I believe that architectures like x86 and ARM will be a thing of the past in the next few years as companies move to produce chips that suits their needs instead of paying royalties to Intel or ARM.
It is a strong incentive for the US to sell and ship LNG to the EU.
Not only that, but even the idea itself has become weaponized. Corporations seem to be pushing the agenda that if consumers could <X> then our problems will be solved, where X is {recycle, reuse, reduce, sort the trash, eat less meat, use less plastic, be smarter, be more efficient, breed more selectively, vote, drive less, bike more, take transit, read food labels, get educated, etc.}

And this is completely to distract from the reality that only large scale policy is going to have meaningful effect on our climate outcomes. Product and technology leaders like Tesla can help catalyze change, but without meaningful market policy and adjustment in which there will definitely be losers and winners it is all for naught. And the losers are fighting with every weapon at their disposal to prevent being displaced from the status quo, including brainwashing people into believing that if they sort their plastic waste then something will magically happen to help the world.

Individual actions do matter, but not very much, and not usually in the way that people think it does. Individual actions only matter because they affect the future of what policy gets emphasized in governmental decisions.
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There can be a deluge of facts that are each individually true and are still misleading, or that are collectively meant to bring you to a specific conclusion. In that sense, it doesn't matter if everyone is lying, because your personal philosophy isn't built on whether a fact is ruled true or false by some fact-checker (hey, it's materially true, but we "debunked" it), but rather on how those facts and the reactions of those around you affect your life.
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It's not the being kidnapped by terrorists part, it's that companies ask people to do all kinds of stuff that falls into legal gray areas, which provides them a buffer if something goes wrong.

I think we need to redefine how we think about contracting to protect contractors and reduce the amount of power companies currently have over them. Thinking about sending a contractor to negotiate with a terrorist should scare the pants off of companies.
I don't see any alternative, people will not accept lower living standards, except possibly minor inconveniences. There may not be a single magic pill but there are multiple technologies in concert that can be utilized to slow this down and possibly stablize things (e.g. there are multiple alternative energy sources)
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How many of these people “deeply concerned” with climate change are living it in their lifestyle? Very few in my experience. They don’t invest in solar panels for their home, geothermal HVAC, severely curtail their lifetime travel habits, etc. they might buy a prius or a tesla, but a dubiously “green” car is right in line with their actual commitment to the environment.
> Look, RIPE have been neutral in every conflict so far in their lifetime

This is the first significant conflict during the existence of RIPE.
But it does. x86 is hell to decode in parallel, because it's variable length (and in a complex way), so Intel can't build CPUs that keep a wide pipeline fed with instructions efficiently like Apple can, with the 8-wide decoder in the M1. That's one of the things that makes the M1 special, and how it gets away with lower clocks and power consumption than competing x86 designs.
I don't agree with most of the advice in this article but rather than complain let me suggest an alternative.

As a line manager, with software engineers reporting directly to you, you should be able to use your personal judgment to understand the productivity of your software engineers. Don't measure it with acronyms, with metrics like the number of commits, or by paying attention to how many hours a week people are working. Pay attention to whether people get things done, and are they getting big important things done, or only little nice-but-not-critical things. Make sure you communicate enough so that individual software engineers understand how you think and what you prioritize.

As a manager-of-managers, it is going to be very difficult for you to measure developer productivity. It's tempting to look at metrics like the number of code reviews a developer does. But these can at most be a sanity check, not the core metric to go for.

Instead, you can measure productivity of teams. Is the team getting things done, and are they big important things, or only little nice-but-not-critical things? Sometimes, a line manager will insist that everyone on their team is performing excellently, and yet you observe the team overall is not achieving very much. Probably one of the two of you is incorrect, and you should dig in to figure that out. The opposite also happens, where a manager states that everything is a disaster, but you observe that the team has actually delivered a lot.

The other thing you can do is to teach your line managers how to judge individual productivity. There's no silver bullet, it's just a natural outcome of having conversations about who is productive and who is not and how to tell and what to do about it, so be sure to have enough of those conversations.

None of this is easy to quantify, but the hard truth is, there is no natural mapping from numbers to developer productivity and it is usually a bad idea to try to quantify productivity. You are much better off using human language and intelligent thinking to evaluate productivity, rather than reductionist metrics.
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The marks with special codes are being left on Google Maps to mark the places to hit with bombs and missiles.
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> If stakers start acting bad

This is the whole point of slashing/rewards in PoS. They have no reason to act bad, as if they do, the network itself loses value, so anything they can have gained, will result in losing it. It's a equilibrium where you can't gain anything by destroying the network.
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And to me its a sign of not understanding and/or not valuing what an extra decade and a half of experience brings to the table. Paying that cofounder more based on their stage in life is a requisite to acquiring that experience.

They're both bearing the same risk, it's just quantified differently for two people in two different life situations.
You can certainly argue that's because of other design choices (optimizing for high IPC at low clocks by trading off space/etc) but it's certainly not just because of their manufacturing process. Both the A15/M2 architecture and AMD Zen4 will be on TSMC N5P this year, it's pretty doubtful that AMD will be able to catch Apple in IPC or perf/watt imo.

And AMD is currently the more "low clock/high IPC" of the two major x86 vendors, so they're the easiest comparison, Intel is really clock-focused still (see: today's Anandtech review comparing AMD 6000/Zen3+ against Alder Lake Mobile and note the power scaling numbers).

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17276/amd-ryzen-9-6900hs-remb...

Anyway Jim Keller's "I'm sure x86 isn't dead yet" aside, it seems undeniable that tweaking the instruction set to enable deeper reorder and scale the frontend wider should have performance benefits. Saying out-of-order depth doesn't matter is like saying that code density doesn't matter, or speculation depth doesn't matter. These are things that can be simulated, or measured on real-world code, I don't have numbers at-hand but it seems self-evident that there are metrics that those tweaks should improve on.

It doesn't mean x86 is at the end of the line, but if you told me that a 50-year legacy ISA (even if it's been cleaned up a lot over the last 30) had maybe a 10-20% performance, perf/watt, or area/watt benefit due to "intentional design" (aka tuning to the task) and the knowledge of hindsight - I have no reason to doubt that as being facially untrue.

10-20% is still "competitive", so Keller isn't wrong, but it also still puts x86 at a disadvantage in the long term. That's a generation of memory (Zen3+ got 12% moving to DDR5) or most of an architectural generation or maybe a half-node step that x86 would have to stay ahead to maintain parity (not just competitiveness).
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Who is "they"? IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and it has been called that since it was founded in 1988.
Can you prove that tokens are sufficiently distributed? It is trivial for a large staker to masquerade as many individuals.

Can you ensure that no small group will ever one take take the a controlling stake, either by time and patience or by violent force, coercing or killing other stakers?

And yes, it would cause people to lose confidence, which is why this kind of attack probably won't happen unless Ethereum or some other PoS system achieves a much greater level of global dominance where it has become too big to fail.
Where has the ability to press the ‘/‘ key for instant search gone?????
<marquee> is fairly solidly deprecated. If I just wanted an auto-scrolling set of images, I can conjure that up with some CSS animations.
x86_64 is much harder to implement though.

The superiority of the ecosystem is debatable. I guess you mostly have proprietary software in mind? (including Microsoft Windows). That will improve with time.
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So you’re saying that all Russian people should just die horrible death trying to go unarmed against National Guard (the force that exists specifically to beat up and torture protestors)...

...or just be shot trying to illegally cross the border.

You’re literally suggesting some sort of self-genocide of 150 million nation.
Of all the sort of needless website redesigns I've seen, this one is actually pretty decent. Having gone through this sort of thing a few times myself, I want to give kudos to those who worked on this.

In case they are reading this, here's what I liked and what I think can be approved upon:

LIKED:

- Besides the interactive examples, it looks like you stuck to using standard web fonts instead of loading some bullspit Typekit or Google Font Loader thing. Thumbs up!

- Thanks for dark mode!

- Overall the design is minimalistic. Thanks for not trying to impress everyone with "modern" design or l33t JavaScript skillz.

- Thanks for keeping MDN alive!

THINGS THAT CAN BE IMPROVED:

- The branding is less distinctive than it was before. It's definitely not bad, but the bold monospace "MDN" was more distinctive and made me feel like I wasn't on some rando site. (In fact, that logo still is visible at the footer of the page.)

- I'm not the biggest fan of the 3-column layout. Again, it's not bad, but I think I could totally do without the right-hand column and give the main content more horizontal space. Remember that your site is for developers, and I think most developers are fairly pragmatic about how much content they want to see on-screen at a time.

- The left-hand column is a bit weird. I'm not sure how much of a benefit the scrollbar provides and it also seems to jump when you get to the bottom of the page, which is distracting.

- As others have mentioned, the compatibility table seems nerfed. Definitely don't get rid of it, but I think making it more useful would have gotten more people a positive view of the new page design. If that feature provided a little more info so that I only resorted to caniuse.com 1/3 of the time as opposed to 2/3 of the time, that'd be a good win.

- Remove the hover effects for the top menu items in favor of revealing details on hover/click. Hover is the devil even on desktop; I hate it when I casually drag my cursor from the URL bar down to the page and suddenly some page element appears and covers up what I'm trying to look at.
Re: Eppo - they're similar in setup but Growthbook is open source with an optional cloud SaaS offering. Eppo is currently cloud SaaS only AFAIK.

Re: Optimizely - Optimizely is a walled garden, you need to push all of your metrics as events to Optimizely from your apps for any experiment analyses. Eppo and GrowthBook both connect to your data warehouse and support any metrics you can design in query form using your existing warehouse.
> The report also references for the first time “historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism”

Unfortunately these are not scientists. This just one example, but they are ideologues and activists first who wear science as a skin and bully scientists into submission. We saw how disastrous this was for Covid response with how science was treated as religion ("Believe Science"). The first thing we must do is eject the ideologues and re-establish the scientific method and rigor if we are to have any chance of actually solving climate change.
Even if we wanted to, how would you even go about curbing consumption for the same of curbing consumption? People would lose it.
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> But vague accusations of government doing something bad are okay?

The government's past and current push to ban encryption (or similar efforts) aren't "vague".

>Yes I am simply claiming that the current state of affairs is bad because google/mozilla/apple can go rogue and do bad things. I'm not claiming they necessarily are. But history teaches us that great power brings corruption, they aren't so much different from Microsoft some decades ago.

You have to trust the browser makers regardless. If you want to prevent browser makers from going rogue (eg. sending your browsing data directly to them), you'd need far more comprehensive regulation than this. The only thing this does is force your browser to trust additional set of entities. In that respect, this legislation is quite pointless, because we haven't seen browser makers unfairly exclude upstart CAs. I suppose the regulation might be worth keeping around just in case, but I'm not really convinced of the cost/benefit. As I see it the benefit is that if browser makers decide to go rogue and exclude new CAs, this will allow EU and/or member states to issue their own certificates. The downside is that EU and/or member states can issue TLS certificates to MITM connections. Am I missing anything?
The original angular worked perfectly for me, but that's because I loaded the source code onto my tablet and read the entire thing top to bottom over a few evenings in a pub beer garden with a cigarette and a pint to keep me company.

Newer frameworks are absolutely better for anybody who isn't sufficiently batshit enough to do that, but much though I enjoy react + mobx (especially react + mobx-state-tree) I've never got to the "I have the core source code in my head and can mentally dry run it as a desk check type operation when debugging" stage with them like I did with early angular so - with the level of jank inherent in its scope nonsense entirely acknowledged - I still occasionally miss it even so.

(this is mostly me being nostalgic, I think, the newer stuff is absolutely better but that was a fun few evenings and for its era damn but I could make that thing sing)
I too remember when AMD and Intel simply gave up on filing any new patents in the early 2000s
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I recently had a potential employer tell me they didn't use open source software because they can afford the expensive stuff.

It's really hard to argue with what amounts to vanity. I didn't take the job.
Read what he (Pielke) actually said and backs up with citations. The character-attack-as-argument defense just makes you look unintelligent.
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