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This. Which isn't to say that technical knowledge doesn't matter, it truly does. But, the primary problem in the industry right now is that the majority of finished code generated by professionals goes unused. The amount of waste is staggering. Working on the right thing is way more than a 10x multiplier.
All of Chinese economic activity is subservient to the state, including companies like ByteDance. The information they gather goes back to the state. This is not “yellow peril”, this is “Sino peril” if you must call it something scary sounding. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with national security and ideology.
Black mold is a massive issue in Florida.
There's actually two different schools of linguistics: prescriptive ("language is this") and descriptive ("language is used like this"). A dictionary can be written in one or the other, or some mixture of the two. To say that all dictionaries are purely descriptive is incorrect.
We are running Grafana and Prometheus on a single t3.xlarge instance with 150GB gp3 EBS.

Excluding traffic, it costs ~ $100 USD per month.

We are doing 10 second scrapes and currently have roughly 141k active time series.
In Grafana Cloud it would cost...

15000 metrics for free.
126000/1000 * $8 = $882

Now here's the real kicker.. the pricing Grafana puts on their website are assuming 60 second scrape interval (1 data point/minute or DPM).
If you are doing 6 DPM, that's $8 * 6 per 1000 time series!

So final bill.. drum rolls

126000/1000 * $8 * 6 = $6048

Yes. That's a 60x.

Now, sure, we don't get the scale, the backups, the SLA.. but we can live without it. And when Prometheus will start acting slowly, we will just bump it to t3.2xl, or spend some time and filter out some of the noisy metrics we might have around.

Btw, if you try to find any information about what is a "time series" or a "metric" on the Grafana's pricing page, good luck.

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/metrics-control-usage...
Functions are abstractions in time; data structures are abstractions in space. For example, the same abstraction looks like binary search when drscribed as a function and it looks like a binary tree when described as a data structure. What binary search looks like by itself is unthinkable to us because anything we can think about has to be projected to space or time.

Edit. If the vertical axis is time and the horizontal plane is space, then the floating something in the middle is the 'abstraction', its shadow on the plane below is its data structure and its projection onto the vertical axis is its function. The need to compress everything into the 1-dimensional time is what creates those for-loops and ifs. The art of finding the right data structure is the art of finding the right angle at which the 'abstraction' drops a good descriptive shadow.
We have courts and the ability to appeal to courts when bureaucracies make mistakes.
I didn't know that Raspberry Pi had phonemes built in. I actually recorded the phonemes from my own voice. Is there somewhere I can download smaller phonemes? One of my long-term goals is to create a text to speech system that can concatenate the phonemes as base64 and can create a small mp3 with intelligible speech.
I think you mean lead. It was commonly used as a sweetener in Ancient Rome and causes pretty irreversible neural damage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate
Anywhere it would have been useful to "rename a pointer", it would be more useful to wrap it in a type that defines exactly the operations intended, and none that are not.

If users have to call release_fluor(), your abstraction has failed to earn its keep.
> Not sure how big the market is, but...

Probably, good enough for a Wordpress plugin.
I prefer the moral clarity of playing "dirty" (but legally) compared to pretending to be nice but doing shady shit like conspiring to depress SWE salaries in emails with strict retention policies
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> A sample of 20 APIs yielded nearly a 50/50 split.

Is it still a 50/50 split today? I suspect ISO 8601 has grown to become the standard.
He hadn't already?
The above is why I won't try this. Thanks for posting, avoiding.
Any hidden pricing page anywhere?
You're correct, I did mean the 1040ez and was unaware of it's discontinuation.
Facebook is using the same firm to malign Roblox with the same strategy.
> "Why are sperm quality readings dropping in people that aren't obese?" Because the whole population is shifting right and is fatter within their BMI bin.

I can't make sense of this statistically. Bins are just arbitrary cutoffs on a distribution. It's not like people know where the lines of bins are and crowd up against the edge, throwing off the median inside. People shifting "within" a "bin" doesn't change much. Instead, people shift bins. Some bins have more people, some bins have fewer people.

I think obesity is a huge factor, maybe 80%. But I don't know why you feel so strongly that every other explanation is completely false.
you're mistaking the mempool with tx history unless you believe they're essentially the same? Issue there if so is the mempool isn't consistent from node-to-node so can't call it a tx history.

It's more like pending TXs which end up landing in a certain order that's possibly different once confirmed (which current banks do with checking/debit TXs and isn't a criminal offense).
Take out a loan and buy property.

Don't be a serf.

If you can't afford to buy a property, burn the system down.
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>Basically the point is that many people find meaning and purpose in their jobs, if you remove the "purpose" (getting dressed, going out, meeting other people, sharing work experiences with them) it simply becomes a tedious activity to them that fulfills none of their needs.

If the only purpose you have in a job is to put on uncomfortable clothes and socialize I think we can go ahead and eliminate that job.
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Ouch. My sympathies.

Until recently I worked for a Linux vendor. Many of my colleagues were quite keen on the New MS. "But Liam," they'd tell me, "MS has changed. They say so! Look: 'MS <3 FOSS.' It's right there! They're our valued partners!"

I pointed out now-forgotten misdeeds.

They said it was OK: they had a _contract_. It had _guarantees_ in it.

I do not own any shares in that company.
Figuring out a fair and effective set of laws/regulations to control how these companies run their app stores seems way too hard and unrealistic.

The easier and more effective solution is to simply force them to allow alternative app stores (without suppressing competition, like Google currently does). A free market tends to correct itself in the long term, so that should solve the majority of problems plaguing the mobile software industry today.
Traffic + downvotes. A blog may have downvotes but not the human traffic to utilize them
Interestingly, this paper is the tombstone for TF1 and TF in general (read the text). My main comment is that as a person who supported TPUs, systems like this were always making it hard for regular researchers and product teams to make forward progress, because too much eng resources were assigned to whatever crazy idea Jeff had that month.
Eventually yes, but we aren't working on it right now.
Ya the startup I work at did some crazy shit in the founder days or so I’ve heard from the seniors. Competitive intelligence they called it.

We have had malicious litigation too and now I’m ramping up on security (cybersecurity or corposec as I call it, not network) because knowing our competitors I think it’s not a case of if there is a hostile op against us, but when.
None of this is a problem because everyone will own their own home.
They would happily pay that amount if they could continue business as usual. Add a couple of zeros and you might get their attention.
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>> I never even considered there might be a different perception for 'WFH' which were in-person jobs that turned remote.

True, I was not talking about true remote job in truly remote company - if there are no possibility for in personal meeting than the power dynamic changes and the play ground is leveled for all players.
There are alt stores on Android though, it just seemingly doesn’t matter. The root problem is that consumers don’t care about this problem and voted with their wallets for the current situation. That’s not necessarily surprising: most people didn’t care that their clothes/shoes were made by suffering child laborers, so a few relatively comfortable devs having to essentially find a new job is barely going to register.

I think that forcing human recourse _is_ the solution. This problem is much bigger than just the “App store duopoly” axe. A law that required the ability to perform all account actions/appeals/etc realtime with another human (phone, chat, etc) would’ve also minimized the need for the recent unsubscription laws as well since the hassle would’ve been much less in the first place. These are the kind of foundational human-centric business laws we need instead of the reactionary hyper-focused ones that don’t address root problems and usually just wind up further cementing incumbents.
Most of these AWS alternatives seem to be based on OpenStack, and there are many hosters around the world who offer the AWS services most people use. EC2+S3+EBS+load balancing is all most businesses probably need. Add some mid-2000s style hosted databases and you're probably set up. Truthfully, most businesses don't even need all that, but modern development practices tend not to care too much about efficiency.

All you really need to start competing with AWS is a data center and a shiny dashboard. They already had the data center for their own use, so extending it to provide IT services is quite a logical next step.

Granted, STACKIT isn't as complete an offering like Open Telekom Cloud, but it's close enough to matter.
Maybe protect against lawsuits from a chip patch slowdown after architectural migations are necessary, because of inherent design speed optimization safety flaws?
> If I'm to vote for "change", I should be prepared to deal with the unholy mess. It doesn't matter that I don't see it, it's out there somewhere.

Yes. This is the old point about the Serenity 'prayer': grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. Or, as soldiers say more succinctly, "Pick your battles".

I've slowly internalised this over the years. It also applies on a micro-level: when reviewing someone else's work, if something that isn't critical actually gets the job done, just go with it, unless there is an actual problem with an obvious solution that you can suggest. Don't complain just because something is done differently to how you would do it.

The point about Unknown Unknowns is also totally relevant. And cans-of-worms. You really must be very confident you are right before opening them.
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I can't speak for the developing works.

In the US at least, where these companies are headquartered, every example you gave has an alternative that doesn't require an app.

There might be an argument for more regulation, but calling apps utilities most definitely is not one.
As far as I can tell the lombok is certainly less used than say 5 years ago.

Java records can help somewhat but as others point out, theay are not compatible with JPA, sometimes you get real value from Lomboks @Builder etc.

On the other hand if you combine lombok and JPA entities you can easily shoot yourself in the foot (autogenerated hashcode and equals can cause issues in some cases)
I think you’re referring to his book Working. Tacking on a recommendation for it both for the subject at hand, as well as it just being an engaging look at daily life in the early 70s (which really feels like a different world in so many ways) told through engaging oral history.
Yes, and now everything is on the cloud so you don't even own your files anymore.
If you have never taken these medication you have never known what it is like to try to stop them. Heroin could be considered a life saving medicine in the same vein.

Prozac artificially increases serotonin as as a result your serotonin receptor density changes. So trying to stop the drug, not only do you end up with all these horrible side effect, but your depression will be much worse until your receptor density normalizes again.

There is a biological marker for the need of insulin. There is no such thing when it comes to prozac.

Keep trying people.
"8 people are working on R2Devops!" but none have names or facial features ? https://r2devops.io/team

sorry for mean feedback, but is weird after seeing "transparency" as top value!
I was going to ask what the migration path was from Cortex to Mimir, but I see you've documented that at https://grafana.com/docs/mimir/latest/migration-guide/migrat... . Thanks for the work you've done to make this easy.
And many people lack listening skills and don't retain all the details of a watercolor conversation.
I do feel it's my responsibility to think of the side-effects of what I do and the consequences that bear on others.

But as a sibling to you say, maybe I therefore self-select away from those kind of companies, and those not thinking or caring about those things end up taking those jobs.
> I've tried to rile my team up to go into the office once in awhile for whiteboarding sessions/collaboration but they're simply not interested.

If your team is shipping and hitting deadlines then they realize that all this extra socialization stuff is useless cruft and rightly are rejecting it.
I don't know if it's still true, but pre-pandemic I used to have occasional contact with legislative types, and they regularly told me that physical letters carry more weight than phone calls, and email was a distant third.

Pretty much, the amount of effort you put into your communication is a reflection of how important the issue is, and how important it is to you.

Which kind of goes hand-in-hand with lobbyists. Companies don't pay them millions of dollars to send emails or rant on web forums.
I work remotely. I rent an office. It's only about 3.5 miles from my house, so my commute via car or bike is rather short. I don't have a space at my house where I can do my job effectively at home. Renovating my house to make such a space would incur costs which would exceed a few years of rent at the office. So from a risk reduction and net-present-value point of view, renting the office is cost effective.

If I end up renting the office for a decade, then it won't end up cost effective. But I've never stayed at any job for that long before so I assume my job situation will change in a few years.

If my job changes such that I am required to report to a physical office which is not the one I currently rent, I can cancel my lease (with 3 months notice). This provides me with good flexibility and minimizes my risk, my upfront costs, and any need to remodel my home.

Having an office where other people are around also gets me to socialize for a small part of the day.
Why do you think I wrote that?
It's probably something they're not really aware of. My company does something kinda similar. We're an aggregator of sorts. We have all sorts of quality and safety rules and we de-list things all the time for violations. As long as we aggregate 95% of what's out there, our users are happy, so we don't have massive incentive to spend lots of time manually working with rule violators, especially when a good chunk of them are actually scammers manipulating the system and harming our users.
( https://youtu.be/zprSxCMlECA )
That's not true, Facebook did not spread misinformation because Facebook decides what misinformation is
I work until 16 and here in Spain you still have sun and plenty stuff to do. I live in the colder part so I it's pretty confortable.

Un Madrid I guess I'll visit my friend, some museums and stuff and go eat and drink out with people.
For a sec there I thought the Turing test was passed...
There is nothing ironic about a language that provides unlimited power, including the ability to restrict the power of things built with it. That is the whole point of language design. At least, languages meant for professionals.

Many languages have strictly limited power, in order to keep non-professionals from getting into trouble.
Then why can't they share a wework type office nearby their home instead of companies trying to utilize and manage all than space in the center of a city.
Ah yes, the capitalist greed of Big Vegetable and Big Abortion. We forget who's _really_ pulling the strings.
Sure, but I feel like that's trying to argue semantics without really changing the nature of the problem.

If the 'single thing' is really a whole compendium of integrated skills, then you can't easily teach it to people the same way that you can teach them regular expressions or parser combinators.

This sort of nebulous skill that very productive people have is also especially hard to transfer. You can spend a week taking math lessons from Terrence Tao and seeing how he works, but you will still not be Terrence Tao at the end of the week, no matter how many interesting mathematical tools and methods you learn.

My point is that there is No Silver Bullet that will consistently turn your 10 hour days in 1 hour day, or if there is one I have never seen it, and evidently no company has found one. Otherwise all of their employees would follow the same method and become 10x programmers. This has not happened.

It helps to learn popular patterns and algorithms, but I don't think learning more patterns will achieve the kind of order of magnitude improvement you're looking for.
I've been blogging in some form or another since the late 90s, but consistently on the same blog for going on 15 years.

Like many here, I turned off commenting years ago. My motivation had less to do with spam. (I'm on WordPress and it does a pretty good job with that.) It had more to do with the conversations moving from my site to the social web. Folks wanted to talk about stuff where they already were, rather than centralizing that conversation on individual blogs.

(As an aside, I rarely participated in those comment threads on my blog. I always saw them as a place for others to talk about a post. I'd already had my chance to say my piece. So the comments had less value to me, personally, but seemed to have value to the folks reading my blog. All to say that I wasn't really driving engagement with the comments. I was just letting them do what they were doing.)

I tried a few of those "commenting" solutions that attempted to pull the social channels into the blog itself, but they never seemed to recreate that 2005-2010 dynamic of active and engaging conversations occurring on a single post.

It's also worth noting that, in my experience, a big motivator for many platforms had to do with driving pageviews. And once commenting stopped doing that, folks seemed to lose interest in continuing to offer that functionality.
2045: "The DOJ algorithm has mistakenly declared me a felon. I've been trying to appeal to a human judge, while serving time in prison, but have been getting only automated responses so far."
So even if that's true, every other big tech company supports left wingers and left-wing causes.
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You're way too over-focused on tech trivia in your list

The biggest force multipliers what a friend described to me as a young teenager as "be an and" - don't just be a programmer, be a programmer and a lawyer

Don't just be a welder, be a welder and a baker

Don't just be an engineer, be an engineer and a writer

Etc

You may have heard Scott Adams call it a "talent stack"

Same concept

Be exposed to as many ideas as possible (both good and bad), so that you can draw metaphors and connections between them - and know when you're seeing yet another example of a bad idea, so you don't waste more time than necessary moving to a good idea
Compared to the non-average American public that might have an educated opinion about any given topic
In a D + T cycle it is easy to multiply hard neutrons to breed more T from Li.

If you've got an excess of T you can let some decay. Today we produce He3 using expired T from nuclear weapons. On a scalable basis we'd be either liquefying the T or compressing it to store it as gas, either way you'd have to remove the radioactive decay heat.
That seems like the same problem we have hear just now you get the headache of the courts on top of the decision, how many people avoid court now for much more impactful and legitimate situations simply because they can't afford the time and money?

What we want isn't review of automated decisions, what we want is openness, transperancy and clarity in the process. The problem people have isn't so much the appeals process it is the opaqueness and seeming arbitrary nature of the whole thing.
Have you tried using a Linux desktop? I personally find that it doesn't have all the negative things you mention.
> assonance

I very much hope you chose that word intentionally.
There's nothing wrong with having fun playing a game. Do I think it's wise to make a game your one big thing? Probably not. But when it comes down to it, few of us will have any lasting effect on the world, and your personal happiness has value, too.
Oh wow this is pretty amazing.
It's true that there aren't so many developer accounts, but there was a thread on here not long ago that discussed how someone's life was turned upside down by getting locked out of a cloud account without recourse. Not even the account being hacked, just being unable to access it.

I would imagine any broad-based regulation around recourse for account locks is likely to start with the individual B2C user due to how many more of them there are (essentially everyone, even if you only count Apple and Google - legislation would of course cover every provider).

The bigger issue is that I don't even know where or how you would start with this. Ironically, there's a certain amount of comfort in knowing that your data is behind an unresponsive brick wall these days as it makes it harder/impossible for someone to socially engineer their way in. The downsides to that are many and varied, and what the post references.
I'm not seeing a comparison to Thanos
The perfect example for how bloated, inefficient, and wasteful the bureaucracies of higher education can become.

How did $40m of fraudulent spending go unchecked for literally years? It seems to be that even at the largest private sector organizations this kind of malfeasance would have been caught much sooner.
> Google should not have the power to decide who you are and are not allowed to hire.

Especially not retroactively.

"Your former employee broke the rules at their next job, so you're banned" is just bizarre.
> Excluding traffic, it costs ~ $100 USD per month

I don't doubt that that's affordable, or cost competitive to AWS, but thats' about as cheap as you can do it, _and_ that's not including traffic. It's pretty much impossible to half that bill.
> De-googling and de-duopoling is the answer to these situations. At the end of the day you can't force Google or Apple to have your products on their shop.

Eh, just de-googling is probably enough. This isn't really a walled garden problem, this is mostly a Google problem. Apple can do stupid things, for sure, but you can reach a human there. And they definitely don't have the same Google algorithmic "scorched earth" account banning style.
Yeah, when he argues that a marble sculpture is "dishonest" it started to look like he was grasping for outlandish examples to make a point.

I generally eschew videos like this anyway — fall into the “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” category.

I prefer not to expound on and on about what is good design and what makes it good design. I know it when I see it.